OVERHEARD IN THE HALLS OF AN OCTAGON THREE OR FOUR STORIES TALL
WE BEGIN WITH A TALE TOLD BY MR. MP ON THE DAY HE ARRIVED AT LITTLE BIG HORN TO MEET WOUNDED KNEE
MP: Everyone is trying to really work with so you can avoid a more severe sentence, right? DEF: Right. MP: Including the officer, the other officer who charged you after being stabed in the chest, your attorney, and that other officer who tried to frame your narcotics related arrests DEF: That’s correct, but he failed on the narcotics attempt MP: Yes indeed, so what the proposal to you would be would be to amend the charge DEF: Mm hmm MP: To just a noise altercation DEF: Sure MP: Municipal…a Violation which means that you got into argument with the individual who stabbed you DEF: Sure MP: Caused a noise disturbance and as you know thats not a criminal offense DEF: Ok MP: That’s, that’s a good thing DEF: Correct MP: The part of the sentence is you can actually be sentenced more severely as part of a, um, a municipal code violation DEF: Mm hmm MP: They wouldn’t be looking for that up front but it would be a suspended sentence which means that over the course of the next year if you got in trouble again DEF: Mm hmm MP: If you are accused again DEF: Mm hmm MP: If you did something, um, that was in, of a nature then was successful and indeed in pursuit of OBTAINING JUSTICE DEF: [inaudible]…for the heinous crime committed against this requestor on July 11, 2017 and then again on too many occasions to keep top of mind day in and day out? MP: uh, yea the more severe sentence would be incentive for you not to do that stuff DEF: That’s correct MP: The other part of it would be you would have to as part of the plea, you would have to avail yourself of a, um, evaluation, medical evaluation, and comply with the recommendations of the evaluator DEF: Ok, so I have to say, I uh, totally will, I accept that, I uh, I do understand its a deferred disposition, as it was called, um, the issue last time with CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT was that, that the appointment… MP: It doesn’t have to be the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT this time DEF: Well any provider that can only schedule CERTIFIED APPOINTMENTS so far out and during the period after I was stabbed in the chest I was indisposed, and I had to reschedule the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT that would have been completed only some days later, but I recovering from a collapsed lung, I did get a CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT for a date in the fall and at no point was the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT not scheduled this proceeding despite those claims made THREE MONTHS AGO, and the process, its a long process MP: And the other part of it is you would be scheduled to come back here in THREE MONTHS to report to the court what you did, this is the treatment I got, these are things I’m doing, I’m not getting in trouble DEF: Right, should I include the physical therapy regimen that I should have started immediately after being stabbed about six months ago? MP: No, you just say on record this is where I’m living, this is the car I’m driving, these are all the things that are happening in a positive way DEF: Sure, the one thing I need is clear recommendations on, uh, what medical provider, who… MP: Yea, you want to do the right thing, you don’t want to go to somebody who is not going to be accepted DEF: Exactly, what is needed to whom do I submit that information which was the critical issue with regard to the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT and the court back last spring, uh, I would email them, I called them, they wouldn’t respond MP: So the fact that you go and do that stuff you can.. THIRD PARTY: [rambling] We can facilitate reporting to the court DEF: So, its just a clear channel of communication because that was the issue last year, I was to trying to do it, to find a private practitioner months prior to having been informed that a CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT was required to complete the still unspecified requirements on my own um, but the court would not respond and then said … MP: Yea, this time the process has a hammer if you will, leverage because whether or not you go get the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT or you forget about it, or you decide not to do it, whatever it may be, now we know that you get in big trouble if you don’t do it because of the THREE MONTH PERIOD DEF: Correct, I’ll be on it on Monday, I just need to know who is approved, um, what exactly is needed, who, what, when, where, why, and I’ll get it done THIRD PARTY: [rambling] It just has to be a licensed facility whether or not its a CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT, another facility… DEF: Sure, does it matter what county THIRD PARTY: [rambling] or that other place, it doesn’t matter which county DEF: Yea, that’s fine I’m totally willing to do that and I’d be happy just so long as I have somebody to whom will be responsive to, to take that information MP: And you’re living, where are you living? DEF: Uh, Bedminster MP: Bedminster Township DEF: That’s correct MP: Ok THIRD PARTY: [rambling] There are charities, and other services, [inaudible] DEF: I’ll find it through my insurance…a private practitioner in lieu of the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT THIRD PARTY: [rambling] Yea but you have to do it DEF: Yea that’s fine, I totally would, I had the CERTIFIED APPOINTMENT up until September 20 despite that the JUDGE claimed I failed to engage with the CERTIFIED FACILITY on September 7, 2018 THIRD PARTY: [rambling] Yea I know, I know, right MP: Right, we’ll, we’ll move forward, let’s put that stuff behind us, alright DEF: So after an extended period, uh, the sentence is, uh, its THIRD PARTY: [rambling] its automatically dismissed DEF: Its dismissed [inaudible] THIRD PARTY: [rambling] and then you expunge the rest after a certain period of time DEF: Ok, very good THIRD PARTY: [rambling] There is expedited expungement MP: Now, the judge I’m not sure, this is what I’m recommending, so my feeling should be a year of monitoring, the THREE MONTH PERIOD would then be out there for a year, so it wouldn’t go after the THREE MONTH PERIOD, but the charges would go away DEF: Right MP: You just got to be good for a year DEF: So I have to do, right, so I, so I just need a preferably written description of what’s needed or required MP: Yea, we’ll put it all on the record DEF: Very good MP: Alright DEF: Ok MP: So thank the officers who did charge you after being stabbed in the chest [inaudible]
