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Oh the games the courtrooms play.
In my article, Please ponder this plea from Pleas, I offered you the first tale from Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh. Lucian details the continual history of his encounters with false arrests stemming from a failed attempt to convict him on an original charge. This is a tale I personally know too well. Unfortunately, the continuing story also details courtroom tricks and harassment techniques that I have also personally experienced and documented others experiences.
Lucian has given me permission to re-post his most recent blog detailing his current situation with the Central Kentucky legal system. Here is Lucian's current struggle:
There must be something in the water at the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government.
I had a court appearance last Thursday. This time before presiding Circuit Judge Ernesto Scorsone regarding the instance where I was that 6'4" light-skinned black dude with gold teeth, green eyes and hair who tried to kidnap some pregnant chick in the middle of the Downtown Lexington Transit Center in broad daylight, but managed to avoid every single one of the sixteen cameras comprising their multimillion dollar, state of the art security system.
You heard me...Somebody remind me to add shapeshifting ninja to my resume. Here's a refresher for you amnesiacs. (Attached video)
So I'm standing in front of Scorsone with my two public defenders, Chris Tracy and Chad Butcher.
My previous attorney, David Zorin and I parted ways for reasons we most certainly won't agree upon. He thinks we parted ways because I couldn't afford his tab. And I think we parted ways because I was better off with the public defenders.
Incidentally, I got drunk with him a couple of weeks ago and he expressed some interest in pursuing another civil suit against the City of Lexington for ruining my life the last five years. I indulged the conversation because he's good company - plus, he was buying the drinks, so what the hell - but I'm pretty sure I'm better off seeking competent representation elsewhere.
Anyway, we're standing before the judge; me and my two guys, but the specially assigned prosecutor from Nicholasville, Robert Gullete Jr., otherwise known as plain old Bobby Gullette, is nowhere to be found, which isn't, actually, unusual. I used to think it bizarre that he could just elect not to appear like he was skipping first period, but have since come to expect his absences because he's only attended maybe two appointments since I got charged with this nonsense last December and it's starting to get under my skin because every time he doesn't show, Scorsone just shrugs and schedules another appointment for me as if I have nothing better to do with my time than brighten the courtroom with my pretty face.
Where in the hell did my speedy trial run off to?
Follow the rest of the story at: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/another-close-encounter-of-the-judicial-kind-by-pleas-lucian-kavanaughOh the games the courtrooms play.
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I wrote an article in July titled, 'Does Glen Rahan Doneghy's life matter?'. In that article I discussed local prosecutorial racism, propaganda in favor of police, prosecutorial misconduct and police corruption as some of the reasons Doneghy may not get a fair trial. Recent events in the case have made that article just shy of prophetic. The case involves a driver that struck a police officer who was tragically killed.
Lexington detective David Richards testified to the grand jury and at an earlier preliminary hearing providing false information. He falsely claimed that a witness at the scene claimed that Doneghy's vehicle was the only one on the street at the time. He also claimed that this witness saw Doneghy's vehicle deviate from it's course of travel and then struck officer Durman.
Doneghy's attorneys, Kate Dunn, Sally Wasielewski, and Gayle Slaughter attempted to talk to any witnesses to prepare their case. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney, Lori Boling, falsely claimed that there were no witnesses, thus, denying them their right to interview the witness. I've personally seen this type of mis-direction and prosecutorial misconduct time and time again in my own cases.
The witness, Ronnie Hood, however claims that while sitting on his porch his bushes obstructed his view. Mr. Hood claims that he did not know about the accident until after he heard a loud noise. Additionally, Mr. Hood's home is several doors down the street from where the accident took place.
Our founding fathers understood a number of things about criminal accusations. It’s difficult if not impossible to prove a negative. It’s better to free a guilty man than to punish an innocent one. Government cannot be trusted or supported if it doesn’t respect the rights of the accused. Finally, they gave us a Constitution to protect our rights and provide confidence to the court system.
Because it is nearly impossible to prove a negative the accused is never required to prove his innocence. To do so would require the accused to prove he did not do something. The burden of proof rests with the prosecution who must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Commonwealth Attorney, Ray Larson, states on his website and on WLAP radio and internet sites that he believes 99% of accused are guilty. This guilty until proven innocent mindset has permeated our criminal justice system all the way down to the beat cops. It is because of this that prosecutors hide witnesses and evidence and overzealous police officers lie to grand juries. They believe that the accused is guilty anyway so what does it hurt to lie or hide evidence if it speeds up the process of conviction. What we wind up with are thousands of falsely accused being imprisoned by a system gone awry.
Ray Larson also makes no secret of his personal feelings about minority criminals on his website or in his lengthy rants on the radio. While portraying white collar criminals as tragic situations of wrong decisions he resorts to name calling and slander when referring to cases involving working class crime and especially minorities. White collar criminals are wished a better future after learning a minor lesson, usually without jail time. However, Larson tends to claim that minorities fit into the once a 'thug' always a 'thug' category and they will always re-offend, he states.
Doneghy is a poor black man and officer Durman was a middle-class father and husband and member of local mega-church, Southland Christian Church. He was also caucasian. Believe it or not, in 2010 going on 2011, that still matters in Kentucky. Very rarely, 10 times in the last 25 years, has someone been prosecuted for vehicular homicide in Fayette County. However, this case involved a police officer and a black man with a criminal record lacking the money for Johnny Cochran.
Read the rest of the article at the link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/lexington-detective-lies-to-grand-jury-case-regarding-police-officer-s-deathI wrote an article in July titled, 'Does Glen Rahan Doneghy's life... more
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Our country would be better off today with people of 'special needs' in political positions than the choices we have today. Special Olympians have all of the qualities that original politicians, then called Statesman possessed. I realize some of you won't take this article seriously and will consider that maybe I'm writing this as satire. However, as I prepared to write the article, I realized that it was entirely true. You see I have 30 years of experience to base my opinion on.
I have a little brother named Brandon. Well, he's not so little, he's 30 years old and an imposing, strong 210 pounds. However, he'll always be my little brother. Brandon has defied odds all of his life, has been close to death and has even legally died three times. Brandon has Down syndrome. When Brandon was born he needed a full blood transplant. The hospital administration formed a panel and brought my mother into a room. There she was told that Brandon was a 'Mongoloid' and wouldn't have a life worth living. The solution? The hospital would give him morphine so he wouldn't be in pain and then would stop feeding him.
Challenges continued throughout his life. The school system didn't want to bother to teach him to read and write. He now reads for hours a day and remembers everything he reads. He opens novels and political books and copies them word for word, inserting his name for the hero in the story, in notebooks. He's not only capable of taking care of himself but he's constantly helping out others and looks out for my mother when other family members are not around. I have tried to be a good brother but must admit that he's better at it than I.
It is through him that I have met hundreds of Special Olympians throughout Kentucky. Whether it's basketball, softball, bowling, winter sports or track and field I began to notice the similarities to my brother. Some of the players around the state will only see me at the regional tournament once a year. Yet, somehow, they still remember my name and details about me. Here's a list of the qualities that are exaggerated among those with 'special needs' or disabilities that our politicians could learn from.
1. Special Olympians never hold back their emotions. When they're excited they show it. When they're happy they show it. When they're sad, that's right, they show it. Best of all, they never let you forget that they love you and care about your well being.
2. Special Olympians understand struggle. They fight and compete but not to win. No, they just want to be brave in the effort, to give it an honest try.
3. Special Olympians would give you the shirt off of their back. Believe me, I've had to hand them back many times. They would never take anything from you without giving you something in return, even if all they have to give is a hug and an "I love you".
4. Special Olympians play fair. The Special Olympics organization emphasizes fairness and sportsmanship. Special Olympians take this to a level that would put the Red, the Blue and the Tea to shame.
5. Special Olympians don't read teleprompters. They don't need to. They tell you exactly what's on their mind.
Follow along at the following link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/10-reasons-why-you-should-vote-for-a-special-olympianOur country would be better off today with people of 'special needs' in... more
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I decided to include the full story here to clarify some confusion by readers. Please go to my link on Examiner and click follow to get future updates.
Marc Anthony Laquinn Buchanan, 27, was arrested Wednesday after testing positive for marijuana use, according to court records.
Buchanan was out on bond after being arrested in 2009. Buchanan's grandmother had posted the $50,000 property bond.
Buchanan is awaiting trial on charges of attempted murder, first-degree assault, fleeing and evading police, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, possession of a controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence. These charges stem from an incident where Buchanan is accused of shooting and causing "serious physical injury" to Officer Nicholas Whitcomb during a footchase.
The Commonwealth Attorney's Office wants Judge Ishmael to revoke his bond. This would most likely lead to the loss of Buchanan's grandmother's home. Judge Ishmael has refused to do this and, I believe, rightly so.
Mr. Buchanan stands accused but is presumed innocent until proven guilty. I don't know all of the details of the case, however, bonds are set to make sure the accused show up for their court date. I believe the bond was appropriate and efficient. The comments left after the article posted on Kentucky.com tend to disagree. http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/23/1447397/lexington-man-charged-in-officers.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&qwxq=7993217#Comments_Container
The issue at hand is the positive test for marijuana. Should a grandmother's home be taken because Buchanan tested positive for marijuana while awaiting pre-trial?
I could argue for days about mis-information regarding marijuana. However, I'll just point out that the last thing marijuana would do is make Buchanan violent or dangerous. I'll leave it up to the comments section to debate the pros and cons of marijuana and whether or not it should be legalized.
Judge Ishmael made the right decision by weighing the issues and making a calm, level-headed ruling. Buchanan knew the rules of his release, yes. Testing positive for marijuana was a violation of his release. However, did the marijuana make Buchanan dangerous or more likely to evade prosecution? No. Would justice be served by taking away the home of his grandmother? No. Would the judge be causing more pain, grief and heartache for the grandmother, family and friends of Buchanan by doing this? Yes.
I tend to be critical of the Lexington courtrooms and the legal community due to past and present experience. Today, I praise Judge Ishmael for realizing that sometimes rules and laws are not written in stone. Justice is best served with a touch of wisdom.
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Ironically I had changed my company name in ads to American Dream Talent Mangagement when I crossed criminal elements in the police force. So, you could say my American Dream was destroyed.
VI: An American Dream Destroyed
In 1986 I was twenty-one years old, a college student, with a part-time job at Zondervan Family Bookstore in the Fayette Mall in Lexington, Kentucky. On 05-22-86 there was an article in the Lexington Herald-Leader written by Don Edwards about Musical Messengers and its owner, Lynn Richardson. Shortly after reading the article I started to supplement my income at the Family Bookstore by doing singing telegrams for Musical Messengers. I was the kissing bandit.
In January 1989 Lynn Richardson offered to sell Musical Messengers to me and my girlfriend, Denise Pate. Denise and I started to make payments to Lynn and in l991 she handed over the costumes, client list and routine descriptions and moved to Florida.
On 08-14-91 Articles of Incorporation were filed for Playful Entertainment Network, Inc. and on 02-17-92 the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Business Monday announced the opening of its office at 3101 Richmond Road, Suite 313 and noted that Playful Entertainment, like its predecessor, Musical Messengers, offered a number of services: bartenders, clowns,. dancers, magicians, costume characters, singing telegrams, dance-o-grams, and strip-o-grams, as well as party planning for birthday and bachelor parties, etc. On 02-21-92 Senator Mitch McConnell sent a letter congratulating me on the opening of this business.
We were a legitimate business and we never at any time offered to anyone or provided to anyone any illegal service. From the very beginning I was determined that the public would know that we did not provide call-girl or call-boy services. In fact, because we wanted to ensure the legality of all of our offered services, my attorney Gary Matthews completed and on 10-02-91 had delivered to me a report on the legalities of the strip-o-gram part of the business, specifically, on the rules governing strip-o-grams in public places.
Playful Entertainment and its successor company Dream Team Management flourished and within a few years our clients included: Anita Madden, Joe Namath, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, Rex Chapman, Bill Curry, Special Olympics of KY., Somerset School System, Estil County School System, Lexington Public Schools, Fayette County Sheriff's Dept., Lexington Police, Fraternal Order of Police, DEA, White Hall State Shrine, Spindletop Hall, Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington Parks and Recreation, Maury Povich, Jenny Jones, HBO, Ricki Lake, Toyota Manufacturing, St. Elizabeth Anne Seton Church, Kentucky Utilities, Immanuel Baptist, Central Baptist Hospital, Brand Consulting, Geddes Pools and Fencing, Webb Brothers, Tom Gentry, Payson Stud, and Calumet Farms.
In 1993, however, evil reared its ugly head. Christopher Hignite and his company collided with corrupt officers of the law. In May of that year and again in January of 1994, Detective George Doyle of the Lexington Police Vice Squad suggested to Christopher Hignite that people who offer to provide strippers for money were perceived or known to be people who provide prostitutes. When Hignite told Doyle that he was not one of those people, that he ran and would continue to run a legal business, Doyle questioned his wisdom. On the one hand, if he continued to operate legally, the police would pursue him as if he were operating illegally. On the other hand, if he would begin to provide the services of prostitutes and pay Doyle and his associates protection money, he and they would flourish indefinitely. Hignite refused to play Doyle’s game. [Today, Doyle and his partners are, as I understand it, the owners of Lexington limousine service, Gold Shield Limousines.]
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Let's continue along where we left off and piece together a tale of corruption, murder and organized crime.
II: Michelle Brizendine
It is true that I ran into Michelle on two subsequent occasions, once in 1995 at a tanning salon and once in 1996 at a bar, the Looney Tunes Saloon. On the first of these occasions, at the salon, Michelle was visibly pregnant and when I commented on this, she hastened to inform me that the child she was carrying was conceived by her with a man she was planning to marry, that the child was not mine, and that I should give it no further thought. On the second occasion, at the Looney Tunes Saloon, Michelle had given birth to her child. She said that she and the child were living with the child’s father, that she intended to marry him, and that she was moving to Indiana
I now know that Madison Brizendene was born to Michelle Brizendine on April 24, 1996. I do not know who Madison’s birth certificate names as her father. I do now know that, sometime in 1996, Michelle Brizendine gave my name as the child’s father in order to get a medical card.
The Civil Summons which would not be served to me until April 26, 2007 was signed on November 11, 1997. In November 1997 I was living in Lexington on Snow Road. I was not difficult to find. However, as I now know, Michelle Brizendine and her daughter Madison had left the state: on October 31, 2007 Michelle told my mother and my brother that she lived in Indiana “from the end of 1997 until the end of 2001”. I now know that, after Michelle and her then husband (whoever he was) divorced, Michelle, Madison, and Michelle’s younger daughter returned to Lexington. By that time, however, by December 2001, I had left Kentucky. I did not move back to Lexington until November 2004 when my mother’s circumstances and a desire to help her in caring for my brother Brandon brought me back to share her home. I did not know in 1997, in 2001, or in 2004, in fact, I did not know until April 26, 2007 that it was claimed by anyone that I was a father. Only today, November 6, 2007, have I been able to extract from the County Attorney the date that is written on his scrap of paper; it is now claimed, with no evidence whatsoever on the document itself, that an attempt was made to serve me with the Civil Summons 17 July 2000 (see below p.11 ). Finally, my mother will swear that no one at any time prior to April 26, 2007 made any attempt to contact me through her concerning either Michelle or Madison Brizendine.
III: The DNA Tests
The DNA tests were done on June 28, 2007. The report was stamped by the lab on July 6, 2007. Presumably Byron Ockerman received them shortly thereafter. However, he did not forward them to my attorney until October 1, 2007, and it was at this late date, with this short notice that he informed her of his intention to seek the Summary Judgement which Ms. Scott rightly called “devastating”.
If these DNA tests are accepted, then I am the father of Madison Brizendine. However, if I am the father of Madison Brizendine, then I have every right to be furious that I was not informed of that fact prior to or at the time of her birth. Not only would I have had an opportunity to spend some time with her and be of some influence on her in her most formative years, but also I would have been afforded the chance to put the child on my insurance, hence eliminating the need for a medical card in the first place.
In 1995 and again in 1996 Michelle Brizendine told me that another man was the father of her child, and by the end of 1997 she had left the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and moved with her man and her daughter to Indiana where she raised the child as his.
On June 28, 2007, in the presence of the DNA nurse Michelle told me that she had never asked for and had never received child support for Madison, that, even now she was not asking for it. Michelle said that she had been surprised when she received a copy of the summons to me dated November 11, 2007. She couldn't understand why she was even being asked to take a DNA test. She had never requested any of this. She wanted to raise Madison on her own.
When I told Michelle what I believed the County Attorney was intent on achieving, she told me not to worry because they couldn't ask for what they hadn’t paid her..
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Prepared for Ky. State Representative Stan Lee
By Christopher Hignite
November 6, 2007
corrected, with emmendations and additions
November 28, 2007
I: Introduction
On April 26, 2007 Lt. Keith Stevens of the Lexington-Fayette County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the home of my mother, Jane Hignite, with whom I live. My mother was there as was my youngest sibling, Brandon, a 27 year old man who was born with Downs Syndrome. Lt. Stevens told my mother that he had a summons to serve me in a child custody case. The County Attorney’s Office had been looking for me for quite a while, he said. Now that they had caught up with me I was in big trouble. To my brother Brandon, Lt. Stevens said “What do you think of your brother now. You are an uncle and he didn’t even tell you. We’re going to put him in jail for a long time.” My mother told Lt. Stevens that I was at work delivering pizzas and that he would find me downtown at my place of employment, A Slice of Chicago.
Lt. Stevens left his business card with my mother. He then came to Slice of Chicago, marched into the back of the building where the pizzas are made and loudly demanded to know where I was, stating again for all to hear that Chris Hignite was in a lot of trouble. Stevens was told by the owner of Slice that I was on a delivery and that he, Stevens, could wait outside for me to return. When I did return, Stevens handed me a copy of a Civil Summons issued for me on November 11, 1997 and signed by Robert M. True and Amy Fowler, a Summons to appear in the case of Michelle Brizendine and her daughter, Madison. Later I would learn that this Civil Summons had been occasioned by a Court Complaint pursuing child support issued on November 4, 1997, and signed by Fayette County. Margaret Kannensohn and her assistants Byron L. Ockerman, Christopher E. Hutchison, R. Barry Minton.
On April 27, 2007 I called family court attorney Jenny Scott and on May 1, 2007 my mother and I met with her. Ms. Scott had already collected copies of papers from the County Attorney’s office, and after some discussion of the case, I signed a contract with her, for an initial fee of $750, to represent my interests in the upcoming case. I pointed out to Ms. Scott that, in the upper right corner of the original of the copy with which I had been served someone, at some time, had written by hand ‘07-17-06’. Ms. Scott noted with interest that the section entitled ‘Proof of Service’ had not been filled in or signed by either Stevens or myself, thus making the document appear as if it had never been served at all. “But,” she said, “I do not want to make a deal out of it”.
A further set of facts is even more remarkable. On April 26, 2007 Lt. Keith Stevens told my mother that the County Attorney’s Office had been looking for me “for quite a while”. On June 28, 2007 The DNA nurse told me, in the presence of Michelle and Madison Brizendine, that her paperwork showed that three attempts had been made to serve the summons. [The DNA nurse stated, by the way, that she “didn't work for the city but for the testing facility”; nevertheless, her office has doors adjoining those of both the County Attorney and the Family Court Judge, and she also has access to their mutual conference room.] On May 1, 2007 my attorney, Jenny Scott also told me that three attempts had been made to serve the summons and she showed me a copy of a piece of stenographer’s notebook paper bearing three signatures and three dates. Ms. Scott noted, again with considerable interest, that she had never seen the summons attempts listed on a separate piece of paper; furthermore, that in every other case she had known the dates of attempts to serve a summons and the names of the servers were written on the back of the summons itself. “But,” she said, “I do not want to make a deal out of it”. Finally, in the last week of October, my attorney, told me that nobody now remembered the note listing three attempts to serve the Summons, but that the County Attorney’s office claims it can produce a carbon copy of a note on scrap paper of one attempt to serve it. And, yes, you guessed it, my own attorney, Jenny Scott, did not want to make a deal out of it.
Find out more at the link above:Prepared for Ky. State Representative Stan Lee
By Christopher Hignite
November 6,... more
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Sheriff Kathy Witt wants the citizens of Lexington to re-elect her this November. I will give you more than twenty reasons not to re-elect her as Sheriff. In fact, I am hoping that after examining the evidence I am about to provide you will agree that we should be arresting, not electing, Sheriff Kathy Witt for abuse of the powers entrusted to her.
Twenty attempts in roughly three weeks have been made to serve me a summons after my original summons went unserved for ten years. http://x.co/6T8V These are twenty of the many reasons I will detail that we should not re-elect Sheriff Kathy Witt. In order for you to understand what I am talking about we must go back in time for a moment.
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A colleague of mine on another news site, Alicia Bryner, found these stats regarding police corruption and prostitution. From the Alternet article by Melissa Gira Grant titled " Hypocritical legal crusade against Craigslist will not solve violence against sex trafficking victims.
http://www.alternet.org/story/148099/hypocritical_legal_crusade_against_craigslist_will_not_solve_violence_against_sex_trafficking_victims?page=1
People involved in the sex trade still face discrimination, harassment and violence from the people charged with helping them. A 2009 study of Chicago girls in the sex trade, conducted by the Young Women’s Empowerment Project, paints a stark picture of what keeps girls isolated and vulnerable. Even when girls sought out the support they needed – from drug treatment and foster care programs to hospitals and the police – they were denied help because of their involvement in the sex trade. Girls describe hospitals discriminating against them and not providing full care, being physically and sexually assaulted by foster parents, and being accused of lying by the police when they seek help after being raped. In fact, girls’ reports of abuse by police outnumbered the stories of other forms of institutional violence that girls encountered by far.
More at the link:
http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/update-human-trafficking-made-worse-by-corrupt-police-officersA colleague of mine on another news site, Alicia Bryner, found these stats regarding... more
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My previous article discussed Mike Comberger and Fantasy's escorts. We talked about how, with the help of local police, Comberger has grown his escort agency into an international, multi-state agency. I mentioned that after Mr. Comberger found out that I was investigating his agency he came looking for me. He found me at a local Thornton's gas station and then proceeded to assault me with his vehicle. I will now detail this event and my attempts to get Mr. Comberger prosecuted, or even arrested for this assault.
On the morning of 11-28-98 I was leaving the house to go out on an advertising route. When I opened the door a card fell from the door and landed on the ground. It was a card from the Division of Police, Department of Patrol and had the name Walter R. Ridener on the front. On the back of the card was a simple drawing and a street number and name, 441 Redding Rd. Strangely enough, Officer Ridener would later show up when I get assaulted. The perpetrator happens to run an escort agency from the address written on the back of the card. I continued on and began advertising by putting small ads on bulletin boards and payphones around town. I had been doing this very same thing since 1993.
When I arrived at the Thornton’s on Redding Rd. and Tates Creek, I proceeded to the phones and found that Fantasy’s Escorts had torn down my ads and replaced them with some of their own. Fantasy’s ads can be pretty blunt and do not offer legitimate or legal entertainment of any kind. I have had a longstanding fight with the escort agencies about this type of illegal competition.
I proceeded to replace Fantasy’s ads with my own when I heard from across Tates Creek Rd. somebody yelling. I looked and it was Mike Comberger, owner of Fantasy’s yelling, “I found you, I found you, you’re gonna die mxxfxx”. Mr. Comberger is in, what appears to be, a 70’s convertible Cadillac with gold trim, he has a silk shirt fully unbuttoned with three long gold chains on his neck.
Please read along at the link for documents and more:My previous article discussed Mike Comberger and Fantasy's escorts. We talked... more
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Let's continue our investigation into the murder of Deborah Wardlaw by showing how Mike Comberger, owner of Fantasy's Escorts, became a national powerhouse among prostitutes and escort agencies with a little help from the Lexington police and former Fayette County Attorney, Margaret Kannensohn.
My investigations beginning in 1997 started pointing to a few major players in the Lexington area. The more I heard about Mike Comberger and Fantasy's enterprises the more I became concerned. I started investigating Mr. Comberger and relaying my findings to local churches, mayor's offices and Fayette County Attorney, Margaret Kannensohn. The churches were concerned and some of the mayor's offices contacted me and we discussed ways to regulate and eliminate human slavery by mean of prostitution and escort agencies. Margaret Kannensohn and Fayette County Police officers, however, were not only less helpful but became very defensive and threatening to me.
Find more information and links to downloads and evidence at the link above:Let's continue our investigation into the murder of Deborah Wardlaw by showing... more
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Let us love. That was the writing on the shirt of a teenager at the Fox Elipsus concert at Dink's Cafe'. I needed a vacation from all of the investigations, corruption, murder, crime and courtroom hi-jinks that I typically report on. Fox and I met online due to our mutual interest in peace and activism. When Fox put on Facebook that he would be performing in Lexington, I worked it into my schedule. I convinced my mother and my brother, Brandon, to go along and asked many others. While Fox was fun and entertaining, Dink's cafe' was accommodating and the food was good, I owe thanks to a little girl named Josie for reminding me how to live life to the fullest.
More of the story and a video at the link:
You can find Fox Elipsus at www.elipsus.net and www.youtube.com/foxelipsus.Let us love. That was the writing on the shirt of a teenager at the Fox Elipsus... more
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My last article talked about my efforts to get the officers mentioned by Deborah Wardlaw investigated for her murder. Deborah had called me days prior to her murder to tell me that certain police officers had threatened her life. I cannot tell you how much it can haunt you to have received a call like this and then to turn on your television days later to hear it come true.
Deborah's phone was being tapped during the call and the original recording had interference and her voice faded in and out. Modern technology and a wonderful program called Steinberg Clean allowed me to improve the recording substantially.
Will you listen to this recording and allow yourself to forget that Deborah owned an escort agency? You see, even worse than the crime she was guilty of is the crime the officers were committing. They were extorting her and other escort agencies for 'protection' money according to Deborah and investigations of my own.
Thank you following this ongoing account. There is more at the link. Please subscribe to me here and at Examiner.com ( http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/christopher-hignite ) as I continue to bring you information and stories you won't find anywhere else.
Christopher Hignite
Lexington Courts Examiner and
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How do you get a murder investigated when the most likely suspects are police officers? I don't know, you tell me. I tried an experiment after ten years of trying to get officers investigated for the murder of a prostitute. I decided to run for city council and use the opportunities that brings to bring attention to this unsolved murder. The day after receiving this letter Lexington Mayor, Jim Newberry, explained why the officers involved had never been investigated. His answer, "Some people live their lives and nobody really notices them. Their lives...don't matter much. Police officer's lives....they matter." I will be attaching a video of Mr. Newberry with a recording of his answer to me.
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Lexington, Ky city council : 200 E. Main St, Lexington, KY 40507 (859) 258-3010, Internal Affairs: 150 East Main Street Lexington, KY (859) 258-3625 and the Kentucky Attorney General : 310 Whittington Parkway, Suite 101. Louisville, KY 40222. Phone: (502) 429-7134. Fax: (502) 429-7129How do you get a murder investigated when the most likely suspects are police... more
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A reader questioned my claim that I had received a virus from a Facebook invitation and other claims in a recent article. I stated in the article that I would be gathering the information and posting it in an update to the article. Due to the possibility that others may question my claim I decided to post the update sooner rather than later.
The first example is a copy of the Facebook invitation that contained the virus (keylogger) from a person intimately involved with the Lexington police department. The first link is the one that contained a virus so DO NOT click on that link. I am not a computer expert and therefore I do not know if the link would continuously infect anyone who clicks on it.
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Recently I was contacted by a person who had read my articles on the kangaroo courts in Lexington, Kentucky. This person commented that Ray Larson's website proudly displays information on plea bargains and convictions but mentions nothing about those found not guilty. Solution: a Not Guilty website. I loved the idea so I immediately registered http://www.thenotguiltysite.com.
The Not Guilty Site will celebrate those who have been falsely accused of a crime and beat the odds by winning their innocence. Many people who are falsely accused of a crime must plea bargain a lighter sentence due to the extreme cost of going to court. In addition, there is always the danger of losing in court, even if the person is innocent. The rules for the prosecution to present evidence are more lenient than the rules allowing you to defend yourself. Worst of all, most prosecuting teams will fight to exclude any evidence that would point to your innocence. Sadly, prosecutors are in it for a win and not to find the truth if that would mean losing the case and exposing the city to prosecution.
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My short time as an Examiner covering the court system in Lexington, Kentucky has indeed been interesting. I have a history of dealing with the courts that has given me insight that most would not otherwise have. While I plan to discuss criminals and the crimes they commit, I have used my first articles to bring to light criminal behavior in the local courts, police department and city government. This choice has proven to have attracted the attention of exactly those whom I am reporting on; the criminal element in our local government. Years of dealing with harassment, false arrests and plain incompetence in local government has prepared me for the incidents we are about to discuss.
The first attack came from a Facebook invitation from the sister of a police officer accidentally killed on duty and discussed in my article, "Does Glenn Rahan Doneghy's life matter?". When I opened the invitation my virus program alerted me to the key-logger virus and informed me that it was unable to remove the virus. I bought two more programs and used the Microsoft malicious software remover program without any luck. This attack happened while I was on my new computer purchased to produce audio and video evidence of corruption and my false arrests. I immediately disconnected my hard drives and shut this computer down.
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Bobby is seven years old, but this is not the first time he has been subjected to electroshock. It's his third time. In all, over the next year, Bobby will experience eight electroshock sessions. Placed on the examining table, he is held down by two male attendants while the physician places a solution on his temples. Bobby struggles with the two men holding him down, but his efforts are useless. He cries out and tries to pull away. One of the attendants tries to force a thick wedge of rubber into his mouth. He turns his head sharply away and cries out, "Let me go, please. I don't want to be here. Please, let me go." Bobby's physician looks irritated and she tells him, "Come on now, Bobby, try to act like a big boy and be still and relax." Bobby turns his head away from the woman and opens his mouth for the wedge that will prevent him from biting through his tongue. He begins to cry silently, his small shoulders shaking and he stiffens his body against what he knows is coming.
Mary is only five years old. She sits on a small, straight-backed chair, moving her legs back and forth, humming the same four notes over and over and over. Her head, framed in a tangled mass of golden curls, moves up and down with each note. For the first three years of her life, Mary was thought to be a mostly normal child. Then, after she began behaving oddly, she had been handed off to a foster family. Her father and
About the same time Dr. Bender was conducting her electroshock experiments, she was also widely experimenting on autistic and schizophrenic children with what she termed other "treatment endeavors." These included use of a wide array of psycho-pharmaceutical agents, several provided to her by the Sandoz Chemical Co. in Basel, Switzerland, as well as Metrazol, sub-shock insulin therapy, amphetamines and anticonvulsants. Metrazol was a trade name for pentylenetetrazol, a drug used as a circulatory and respiratory stimulant. High doses cause convulsions, as discovered in 1934 by the Hungarian-American neurologist and psychiatrist Ladislas J. Meduna.
Metrazol had been used in convulsive therapy, but was never considered to be effective, and side effects such as seizures were difficult to avoid. The medical records of several patients who were confined at Vermont State Hospital, a public mental facility, reveal that Metrazol was administered to them by CIA contractor Dr. Robert Hyde on numerous occasions in order "to address overly aggressive behavior." One of these patients, Karen Wetmore, received the drug on a number of occasions for no discernible medical reason. During the same ten-year period in which Metrazol was used by the Vermont State Hospital, patient deaths skyrocketed. In 1982, the FDA revoked its approval of Metrazol.
Here it should be noted that, during the cold war years, CIA and Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) interrogators, working as part of projects Bluebird and Artichoke, sometimes injected large amounts of Metrazol into selected enemy or Communist agents for the purposes of severely frightening other suspected agents, by forcing them to observe the procedure. The almost immediate effects of Metrazol are shocking for many to witness: subjects will shake violently, twisting and turning. They typically arch, jerk and contort their bodies and grimace in pain. With Metrazol, as with electroshock, bone fractures - including broken necks and backs - and joint dislocations are not uncommon, unless strong sedatives are administered beforehand.
A November 1936 Time mag. article seriously questioned the benefits of Metrazol, citing "irreversible shock" as a "great danger." The article described a typical Metrazol injection as such: "A patient receives no food for four or five hours. Then about five cubic centimeters of the drug [Metrazol] are injected into his veins. In about half-a-minute he coughs, casts terrified glances around the room, twitches violently, utters a horse wail, freezes into rigidity with his mouth wide open, arms and legs stiff as boards. Then he goes into convulsions. In one or two minutes the convulsions are over and he gradually passes into a coma, which lasts about an hour. After a series of shocks, his mind may be swept clean of delusions.... A patient is seldom given more than 20 injections and if no improvement is noted after ten treatments, he is usually given up as hopeless."
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Army CIC interrogators working with the CIA at prisoner of war camps and safe house locations in post-war Germany on occasion used Metrazol, morphine, heroin and LSD on incarcerated subjects. According to former CIC officer Miles Hunt, several "safe houses and holding areas outside of Frankfurt near Oberursel" - a former Nazi interrogation center taken over by the US - were operated by a "special unit run by Capt. Malcolm S. Hilty, Maj. Mose Hart and Capt. Herbert Sensenig.
Eventually, CIC interrogators working in Germany would be assisted in their use of interrogation drugs by several "former" Nazi scientists recruited by the CIA and US State Department as part of Project Paperclip. By early 1952, the CIC's Rough Boys would routinely use Metrazol during interrogations, as well as LSD, mescaline and conventional electroshock units.
Metrazol-like drugs are still used in interrogations today. According to reports from several former noncommissioned Army officers, who served on rendition-related security details in Turkey, Pakistan and Romania, drugs that produce effects quite similar to Metrazol are still used in 2010 by the Pentagon and CIA on enemy combatants and rendered subjects held at the many "black sites" maintained across the globe. Observed one former officer recently, "They would twist up like a pretzel, in unbelievable shapes and jerk and shake like crazy, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads."
In 2008, at the behest of US Sens. Carl Levin, Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel and in reaction to a March 2008 article in The Washington Post, the Pentagon initiated an Inspector General Report on the use of "mind-altering substances by DoD [Department of Defense] Personnel during Interrogations of Detainees and/or Prisoners Captured during the War on Terror." It is not known if the investigation has been completed. Among the more famous recent cases of the use of drugs upon prisoners concerns one-time alleged "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, who had originally been accused of wanting to set off a "dirty bomb."
The government has gone to great efforts to keep the public uninformed as regards use of drugs on prisoners. In an article by Carol Rosenberg for McClatchy News in July 2010, Rosenberg reported that, when covering the Guantanamo military commissions trials, when the question of "what psychotropic drugs were given another accused 9/11 conspirator, Ramzi bin al Shibh, the courtroom censor hits a white noise button so reporters viewing from a glass booth can't hear the names of the drugs. Under current Navy instructions for the use of human subjects in research, the undersecretary of the Navy is described as the authority in charge of research concerning "consciousness-altering drugs or mind-control techniques," while at the same time is also responsible for "inherently controversial topics" that might attract media interest or "challenge by interest groups."Bobby is seven years old, but this is not the first time he has been subjected to... more
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I make my return to writing here with some rather intriguing news of criminal harassment by the Lexington Police on several levels. My 'vacation' was not by choice but rather by cyber-attack. After my campaign bringing up implications of murder committed by Lexington Police officers and the coincidental death of an officer on the job during that time I was sent a virus. The virus and a key-logger attack were done to my computer by way of a Facebook invite by a member of the slain officer's family and the key-logger attack came straight from the Lexington Police Department forensics department. More recently, my articles here bringing attention to racism and corruption in the local court system invited more cyber-attacks. I will continue to fight against corruption in government and to bring you all of the information; the truth no matter where that leads.
Recently, I received a letter I had requested from Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh describing the police corruption and harassment he has gone through in Lexington. His story is identical to mine and others. The stories just take place with different people in different places but the patterns are the same. Lexington has a fraternity type of police force that has gotten away with too much for too long and now believes it can do as it pleases to anyone it chooses.
Please listen to this plea from Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh and do what you can to help him. Feel free to contact me with any information you might have to help his case, my past cases or the murder of Deborah Wardlaw. Confidentiality, as always, is assured.
Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh:
While it might be beyond my ability to convey a respectable version of my dilemma in this small allotment, I wish to emphasize from the onset that the affects of what has happened to me cannot be understated and that if this account is somewhat beyond the standard length, it is so for the depth of the actions taken against me by a power well beyond my capacity to contend with.
As such, I would implore that my circumstance be given attentive and thorough consideration as I am, quite literally, under the most oppressive and sweltering attack at the hands of the Lexington Police Department; an attack which I fear will not end until either I have been unjustly incarcerated, murdered or until such time as responsible parties are held accountable for a most egregious affront to liberty, justice and all things idealized by civilized humanity.
Let the facts be submitted to an impartial eye.
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Christopher Hignite
Lexington Courts Examiner
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Lexington Kentucky's Mayor, Jim Newberry, publicly stated that police officers lives matter...a lot. Other people, those that didn't make much of a difference in the world don't matter much. Lexington's Commonwealth Attorney, Ray "The D.A." Larson, calls black defendants hoodlums, gangsters, thugs and more. White criminals are referred to as people who had a temporary lapse in judgement.
Glenn Rahan Doneghy is a black man that hit a police officer, whom later died of his injuries, with his SUV. The officer, Bryan Durman was on the passenger side of a vehicle, in the road, wearing no reflective vest and without his cruiser lights on. Glenn Doneghy left the scene of the accident and was later apprehended. He is being charged with murder. Not only that...murdering a police officer...in Lexington.
Click on the link above as we discuss in detail whether or not Glenn Rahan Doneghy can get a fair trial in Lexington, KY.
Christopher Hignite
Lexington Courts Examiner
(And Monkey_Films on Current.TV)Lexington Kentucky's Mayor, Jim Newberry, publicly stated that police officers... more
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