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From: inFormer@informer.org (Rev Dennis Erlich)
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Subject: Re: San Diego District Attorney - another tool of the scienokult
Date: 10 Dec 1998 17:27:35 PST
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cerberus@medusa.com (Cerberus):

[posted & mailed]
>
>Hiya Dennis,

   Hey pup.

>URESA urea all over the place, huh?  

   No comprende, signor.

>I tried to download the statute
>you cited, but the web site doesn't seem to be working.  

   Try this site: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

>I don't get it -- are you behind in the court-ordered payments?  If
>not, why are they messing with you?

   Punitive value.  Having a kid while being poor.  Social engineering
Henry Ford would have been proud of.

>Good letter.  Nevertheless, Dennis got the following response:
>>The response from Rosie at the DA's office was [paraphrased], "If you
>>don't like it, take us to court."
>
>Brother.  I assume the obvious solution -- hiring a lawyer -- is out
>of the question.  

   I don't have the money to hire a lawyer.  That's the point.  I
would have to borrow the money to defend my rights.  I'm not going to
do that.  Nor am I going to borrow the money to dispense with this
disgustingly exploited debt the San Diego Court has said I owe.

>However, you might query the folks at MoFo whether
>there is some kind of Legal Aid establishment who would be willing to
>dicker with the DA for you.

   There isn't.  But thanks for playing.

>The other solution, tiresome as it seems, is to go up the line.  Ask
>to speak to Rosie's boss.  

   Got a call back from Herself.  Her name is Jean.  She explained
that I have had lots of time to deal with this.  And if I don't like
it to file a Notice of Motion, and take the DA's office to court.

>Then speak to the boss of that boss until
>you get some satisfaction or -- and more likely -- you run out of
>bosses.

   The next boss up from here is a judge.

>Don't harp too loudly on the unfairness of it all or try to re-hash
>the court case -- they don't care.  

   Put that in capitol letters.

>Emphasize that you are and have
>been cooperating with debt collection efforts to the best of your
>ability, that you are and will continue to be a cooperative obligor,
>and that revoking your driver's license is counter-productive if the
>goal is to get the debt paid off.

   I did.

>I would CC all correspondence to the judge who has supervision of your
>support case 

   No such apparatus is at work in San Diego County.

>along with a cover letter explaining how you are being
>prevented by this action from earning enough of a living to make the
>payments ordered by the court.  Be sure to CC your ex-wife's attorney
>on any communication with the court -- judges won't read _ex parte_
>stuff.

   Judges don't read case folders in Family Court in San Diego County,
at all!  

>>Would I be waiving my Miranda rights to do so?  Anybody?
>
>Huh?  Miranda rights apply to criminal proceedings.  Am I missing
>something here?

   Filing against a District Attorney is what?  Civil?  Give me a
break.

>>Until I can pay off the $58K of interest and $20+K of principle from
>>when rOSA was hiding my child from me, I am effectively in debtor's
>>prison, in my parsonage. 
>
>This is just stupid.  If I hadn't had dealings with Child Support
>Enforcement people before, I wouldn't have believed they could do such
>a counterproductive thing.  Unfortunately, they can, and they do --
>child support enforcement is a place personnel department at the DA's
>office sends people too dumb to prosecute and too nasty to fire
>outright.

   Ouch.

>>   As long as I can afford to maintain a roof over my ministry.
>
><sigh>  Sorry.  Barring help from Legal Aid, that's all I can think of
> -- pester the hell out of Rosie's bosses.  

   It should have worked.  But it didn't.

>Really appreciate your contribution to the newsgroup, Dennis.  Wish I
>could be more help.  Feel free to e-mail any questions to me, and I
>will do my bumbling best to answer them.

   I'll try to keep the newsgroup apprised of the major events of my
life.  As if it's pertinent.

>Cerberus

   Thanks, pooch.

>"If the law supposes that," said Mr Bumble... "the law is a ass -- a
>idiot."
>                Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
>                Oliver Twist

   Heh.  I'll survive as a pedestrian.  People have made their way
through the world on foot for sometime.

   I imagine I can get the hang of it.  

   Be well,
   Dennis