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Exclusive Video: Richard I Fine, Ph.D Reflects on His Darkest Hours After 18 Months of "Coercive Confinement"
Los Angeles, CA Two days following his unexpected release from L A Central Men's Jail On Friday September 17, 2010 Richard I. Fine described the conditions in "coercive confinement' and his eighteen month ordeal waging a legal battle for freedom from his solitary jail cell without an attorney. Full Disclosure Network® presents a ten minute video preview from a three hour exclusive interview featured on the Internet Website http://www.fulldisclosure.net.
Richard Fine who holds a Ph.D in International Law and was a former U.S . Prosecutor in Washington D. C. tells of his darkest moment during his incarceration, and the reasons why he was never tempted to give in to the illegal order of State Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe.
(Part of a three hour interview)
The full interview is to be released to Public Access Cable channels throughout California and on Community Cable channels in major cities throughout the United States a and the Internet. The Full Disclosure Network is billed as "the news behind the news", an independent public affairs cable TV show produced by Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton and Producer T J Johnston since 1992.Exclusive Video: Richard I Fine, Ph.D Reflects on His Darkest Hours After 18 Months of... more
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FullDisclosureNetwrk — April 14, 2010 — Full Disclosure Network presents a four-minute preview of hour long interview recorded in the L A County Central Men's jail with political prisoner Richard I Fine who has never been charged or conviced of a crime but has been held in solitary, "Coercive Confinement" for over a year. Dr. Fine holds a PhD in International Law and was an anti-trust attorney with the DOJ in Washington D.C. before he was ordered to jail in civil contempt of court. Listen to him describe the corruption in L A County and the Justice System is a threat to our American Democratic process and to the nation. Then he reveals his simple solution to ridding the corruption from our government.
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Lawrence John, a former career military and civilian Police Officer, has filed a Torture complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Commission regarding the unlawful imprisonment of attorney Richard I. Fine. Fine has been held in solitary "coercive confinement" with no trial, no bail, and every appeal denied since March 4, 2009 The complaint alleges that Richard I. Fine has been denied due-process and that basic human rights have been denied by the United States, the Judiciary body of the democratic government eleted therein and the State of California and the Judiciary Body of the democratic government elected. therein" Numerous violations of Articles of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are specifically cited, including "Torture" under Article 1 ,Lawrence John, a former career military and civilian Police Officer, has filed a... more
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http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/05/21/FINE_FAMILY_WEB_INTERVIEWv4.cnn
Added On May 22, 2010
Former attorney Richard Fine has been held in contempt of court after he brought lawsuits against L.A. county judges.
A 70 year old former attorney jailed 14 month and counting but not charged with any crime. Is appeal process of the Judges ruling considered retaliation or legal judicial process? In America when public can prove a judge broke the law judges simply change the law in question.http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/05/21/FINE_FAMILY_WEB_INTERVIEWv4.cnn... more
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Richard Fine is an attorney with a 40-year track record of being an advocate for taxpayers.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to consider the case of a 70-year-old taxpayer advocate from Tarzana who has languished in jail for more than a year in what he claims is retaliation for his efforts to cut the pay of Los Angeles County judges.
Attorney Richard I. Fine, 70, has been held in the Men's Central Jail for contempt of court in what is legally termed "coercive confinement" ‐ an effort by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to force him to divulge financial information.
Fine contends the jailing is revenge for his campaign to force Los Angeles County to stop paying judges an extra $57,000 per year on top of their state salaries of $179,000.
"The fact the Supreme Court is involved in any way is a big deal," said Brooklyn Law School Professor Jayne Ressler, an expert in coercive confinement cases.
"It certainly speaks volumes to the importance of this case, and it's quite intriguing."
While the main issue before the high court is whether a person can be held in coercive confinement for such a long time, Fine remains hopeful the justices will also consider the issue of judges' pay.
If Fine succeeds, potentially thousands of cases involving Los Angeles County could be thrown into question, because attorneys could claim the judges were biased in favor of a
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party in the case that was paying some of their salaries.
"That would mean we would finally after 23 years be cleaning up the California court system," Fine said in a telephone interview from his jail cell.
Fine's appeal of his confinement was rejected by the 9th Circuit Court before he appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The issue of judges' pay is currently pending in a separate case before the California Supreme Court.
Meeting in private, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to consider Fine's appeal in a conference hearing on April 23.
A Supreme Court spokesperson confirmed that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg placed the case on the calendar, but the court generally does not discuss why it chooses to take up certain cases.
The court receives about 10,000 applications and petitions a year and only considers about 80 to 90 of them.
On the verge of losing his Tarzana home to foreclosure and suffering from deteriorating health, Fine has spent more than 13 months in solitary confinement.
In the last decade, Fine has alleged in various lawsuits that the county's payments made it nearly impossible to get a fair shake in cases involving county government.
In one of those cases, Fine represented residents suing over development in Marina del Rey.
While the case was still pending, a California State Bar Court judge recommended that Fine be disbarred, accusing him of filing meritless complaints against judges.
The state Supreme Court subsequently disbarred him.
On March 4, 2009, Superior Court Judge David Yaffe ordered Fine jailed indefinitely for allegedly practicing law while being inactive and refusing to answer questions about his personal assets relating to an order to pay more than $50,000 in attorneys' fees in connection with the Marina del Rey case.
Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini said Yaffe has not released Fine "because he has not answered those questions."
In his appeal to his confinement, Fine cites the precedent of a Los Angeles newspaper reporter who was held in jail in 1972 for contempt for refusing to divulge sources relating to the Charles Manson court case.
After six weeks of confinement, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered his release while his case was being considered by the 9th Circuit. Lower courts later determined that lengthy confinements for contempt simply serve to punish the person – rather than force them to talk – and that violates legal limits on punitive sentences for contempt.
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14856670?source=most_viewedRichard Fine is an attorney with a 40-year track record of being an advocate for... more
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