Ray Rzeplinski is an investor in guns from the proceeds of Ray’s Plumbing, a business ruined by his prosecution in a case alleging he is a felon in possession of firearms. The state convinced a jury to find him guilty in a case putting into view a 1,270-year prison term. (Photo David Tulis)
My accurate and critical reporting of courts and police has generated an enemy in district attorney Coty Wamp. She sued me July 22 in a motion in the State of Tennessee vs. Ray Rzeplinski criminal trial just as it started.
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Next day, I fired back with “Objection to motion to censor, demand for sanctions” (6pp) in a case I styled State of Tennessee ex rel David Jonathan Tulis, relator, v. Coty Wamp, respondent.
Judge Amanda Dunn, in a two-page order, denied Miss Wamp’s petition and held “in abeyance” my demand for ethical breach punishment. The DA’s five-page argument against my covering the trial is facially unconstitutional. State and federal law protect press liberties and openness of the courts.
The Wamp attack is childishly conceived, from an irritable public servant who does not deserve office. My clawback in Judge Dunn’s court under Rule 8 will reduce the joy Miss Wamp feels at having convinced a jury Friday to join her in an unjust cause and convict Mr. Rzeplinski.
➤ My coverage of the Rzeplinski trial took all week, and I committed to a true report of every vital detail so that injustice will not be able to operate in the dark. Here is the story telling of Miss Wamp’s foul victory over due process.
➤ In my suit against the department of revenue for its shakedown of motor vehicle owners, a hangup.
Support me because I fight for you
Former chief justice Roger Page, left, and his fellow justices are violating state law with secret conclaves called the Tennessee Judicial Conferences for judges and DAs. I am suing him personally for having me falsely imprisoned and arrested, and am demanding the secrecy be thrown down. I am also suing that city of Franklin be the starting point for statewide reform to halt illegal “redcoat warrants.” The Tulis v. Orange case is on appeal in the 6th circuit in Cincinnati. (Photo AOC)
I told administrative judge Brad Buchanan I cannot proceed until I obtain a transcript, and I cannot obtain a transcript without first raising the money. The Jennifer Lanfair deposition tab is $291. Commissioner David Gerregano filed for summary judgment in a motion regurgitating his sketchy defense of the “Eye of Sauron” surveillance tower scorching the traveling and motoring landscape of Tennessee.
Travis McDonough, federal judge
➤ I have a week to satisfy a demand from federal judge Travis R. McDonough, chief judge of the U.S. district court in Chattanooga. He orders me to amend my complaint against five predatory lender parties so that he might obtain subject matter jurisdiction. After hours of study, I secured the legal substance to satisfy his request, that being citation to the federal racketeering law, or RICO.
Job hunt
➤ I consider myself a rich man, wealthy in books, living in a house owned by my wife, Jeannette, no debts, old cars that run and good health. My poverty is in lack of wages. I’m shooting to get two days a week at a downtown criminal defense law practice run by a friendly senior attorney who’s “not in it for the money,” but for mercy upon the poor. Today I will be visiting a lawyer who says he “could use [my] help.” No paralegal openings have come my way since I began looking in January. It may be because I am a public figure, and have a highly unusual CV. Put in an application at UTC to teach writing with library privileges being a perk.
Thank you for your support. My work in journalism and litigation is a mercy ministry and one of combat against evildoers using corporations and government offices to injure the weak and poor, orphans and widows, aliens and strangers.
