3/23/2023 0 Comments Laughing at liberasThis is contrary to the standards that the courts, including Oregon’s higher courts, have used for years. This removed the subjectivity from the notion of self defense, and created a purely objective standard. None of that was admissible during my trial.īasically all evidence relating to my mindset, my own personal belief, and my assessment of the situation were inadmissible. I had also explained to the detective how I had been receiving random and anonymous death threats. While I was in custody I had explained to the detective how the mob came after me, how I tried to get away, how I was in fear, and how I eventually acted in what I believed to be self defense. Judge Ryan also ruled that my statements to the detective were inadmissible. Judge Ryan thinks the prior incident did not play into my mindset, and must have also believed that it does not impact my ability to go one-on-ten fisticuffs. Judge Ryan, believing he is a mind reader, claimed that is irrelevant with regards to the incident a year later, where I had 10+ people threatening me and accosting me. Multiple pieces of exculpatory evidence were ruled to be inadmissible, including an incident where far left “documentary” filmmaker, Skye Fitzgerald, violently body slammed me to the pavement while stealing two video cameras from me, shattering my arm and leaving me partially disabled. I was essentially denied my right to a fair trial. Before the trial I filed a motion for change of venue, based off of Molina’s own false claims said about me to media. Of course none of it is true, and there wasn’t an ounce of evidence to support her wild accusations, but it was used to not only throw me in jail on a $250,000 bond, but also influence and taint prospective jurors. Kate Molina swore things thing in front of a judge with several TV cameras and other reporters recording it. That continues today.īefore, during, and after the trial there have been multiple Constitutional rights violations committed against me.ĭeputy DA Kate Molina propagated false information about me through the media involving a completely separate matter in which she never pursued, making claims that I was threatening and harassing a black person whom I don’t even know, claiming I drove by his house with my hand in the shape of a gun pointing toward him, and saying I have ties to white supremacist groups. As the attack on me commenced, every move I made was in reaction to what other people were doing to me. At the start of this, I was just a guy standing there holding a camera, recording a public event, doing my job as a video journalist. I never thought I would ever be presenting a case to SCOTUS. The central question asked is “Did the Oregon courts err in holding that there is no Constitutional right of self-defense except for when someone like the judge would have behaved the same way under a purely “objective” “reasonable person” standard, thus excluding all evidence of defendant’s prior experiences, defendant’s state of mind at the time, and defendant’s intent in general?“ With the council of attorney Robert Barnes, my case has now officially been filed with the Supreme Court of the United States. I was the one targeted, attacked, tried to get away to avoid further altercation, and ultimately acted to defend myself against what I considered unlawful force and imminent unlawful force being used against me by a gang of masked thugs. I didn’t even fire a round, as simply drawing was enough force to get the mob to back away and leave me alone. This involved the incident where I drew my firearm in response to a gang of thugs coming after me. Michael Strickland from Laughing at Liberalsįour years ago today Judge Thomas Ryan declared me guilty of 10 felonies and 11 misdemeanors in a Multnomah County courtroom.
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