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Supplement To Amended Motion To Intervene in 'Tyrone West' Case
Supplement To Amended Motion To Intervene in 'Tyrone West' Case
William C. Bond
Pro Se Litigation
P.O. Box 4823
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
443.970.2887
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May 2, 2016
The Hon. Ellen Lipton Hollander via: Hand Delivery
U.S. District Judge
C/o Clerk of the Court
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Baltimore Division
101 West Lombard Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
RE: Civil Action No.: 14-02627-ELH
Dear Judge Hollander:
1 ask that you treat this letter as a supplement to my amended motion to intervene.l
I write to you over great concern about newly learned events in the above-titled case.
1. On April 14, 2016, the Office of the State's Attorney for Baltimore City formally declined to
reopen the 'Tyrone West' case, citing no new evidence or information.2 Their announcement
speaks for itself.3
2. No doubt the First Amendment exists. That said, one proceeds at one's peril with any judge
when - once litigation is commenced - one goes outside of the law. Further, there is nothing in
this circuit to stop a judge from gaining a valid negative opinion of court participants derived
from their conduct either directly in court or from collateral events.
This case clearly presents such issues, such as why would the 'West family' protest outside the
City State's Attorney's Office every week for more than two years screaming all sorts of false
Please see: Docket no.: 59.
2 Please see: Exhibit no.: I, which may also be viewed here:
http://www .stattorney. org/media-centerlpress-releases/977 -statement -on -tyrone- west-case
3 The court should note that this announcement came exactly one day after movant's
intervention in this case.
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rhetoric about justice, when clearly, in this court, the justice they pine for is being entertained.
And as we have said before, normally, counsel is willing & able to advise court participants that
such behavior reflects negatively upon them.
But, I doubt this court knows how far these matters have gone. While our amended motion to
intervene discussed the video of actual intimidation & threats against Baltimore City State's
Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby, it was only after my intervention in this case that other issues came
to light. For example, it now appears that protesters have been going to State's Attorney Marilyn
J. Mosby's home and scaring her young children.4 This conduct is simply outrageous.5
3. On April 30, 2016, The Baltimore Sun published a news story titled "Report: Heart
condition didn't cause Tyrone West's death in custody" by Juliet Linderman of the
Associated Press.6
This purported news story masquerading as a press release for the 'Tyrone West family' breaks
so many rules of journalism it boggles the mind.7 Here are a few examples:
a) The title ofthe story is false. There is no 'report' stating Tyrone West's heart
condition did not cause his death. The news story's cited document is nothing but a
fictional revision of the plaintiffs' "expert witness" averment, which simply stated the
required tort lawsuit 'magic words' in just two (2) short pages of fluffery8 so as to legally
disagree with the eleven (II) page official autopsy report of the State of Maryland's
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.9
b) The story's lead photo also gives a false impression and reinforces exactly why the
relief requested in the amended motion to intervene should be granted: The picture
4 Please see: Exhibit no. 2 at page 2, which can also be viewed here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mary
land/baltimore-city /bs-md-ci -mosby -protesters-clash20l604l4-story.html
5 It also clearly shows the continued escalation of events, and that the plaintiffs in this
matter do not understand the difference between public & private lives.
6 Please see: Exhibit no.: 3, which can also be viewed here:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/marvland/bs-md-custody-death-20l60430-story.html
7 Please see: The Society of Professional Journalists, Code of Ethics, at this lillie
https://www.spj.org/ethics.asp
8 Movant has made up this apt word. Hopefully, it will become the new 'scintilla' and
make it into Bryan A. Garner's next book.
9 One really wonders how far the plaintiffs had to search in order to find anyone who
would support their position when they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find an 'expert'
from a small hospital in the smallest county in New Jersey who basically advertises 'say
anything' services for large sums of money on his personal web site, which can be viewed here:
http://www.drbillmanion.com/
movant therefore asks this court to take the next step, to hold a public hearing, and to put reporter
Linderman, and others, upon the stand.13 If plaintiffs' counsel was indeed behind this story and
went to overt efforts to hide their involvement, they should then be referred for disbarment
proceedings for unethically attempting to coerce & influence a court in a pending case.
In closing: We renew the relief requested in our amended motion to intervene. We also now ask
the court to take three (3) additional new steps, two of which are based upon its inherent power.
See, United States v. Shaffer Equip. Co., II F3d 450 (4th Cir. 1993):
(I) We ask that the court investigate to determine whether plaintiffs' attorneys were unethically
involved in the fabrication of the subject news story, which both falsely portrays and seeks to
influence this action, and, if so, refer the attorneys to the court's disciplinary and admissions
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committee.
(2) Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby appears to be the continued victim of
extreme harassment and threats from the plaintiffs, and their surrogates, in this case. As stated in
exhibit number two, SA Mosby is in a very difficult political position. This court's inherent
power can also be used to protect a public official unable to fully protect herself, and whose
interests are clearly subject to & collateral to this action.15 Therefore, the court can and should
use that power sua sponte to protect SA Mosby & her young children by ordering art injunction
against any demonstrations/ protesting/ harassment, etc., within a designated area around SA
Mosby's home for as long as she holds public office. 16 In the alternative, the court should hold a
separate hearing upon that matter. 17
Finally, (3) the court should also resolve in their final opinion on this matter, as it is so contested
in Baltimore City at this very moment in time, that there is a clear and assumed risk, and
voluntary waiver ofliability, should any criminal arrestee not comply with reasonable police
procedures: 18 Certainly, a few judicial words about the common activist fantasy that provoked
There is no such thing as a federal reporter's privilege.
Please see: Local Rule 705.
15 Ms. Mosby's position is far different from that of USA Rod J. Rosenstein, who is a
presidential appointee, and thus not reliant directly upon the common man's opinion.
16 Any injunction should have the teeth of federal enforcement by the Federal Protective
Service ofDHS.
17 We state again that, while we are no friend or political proponent of Ms. Mosby or her
greater policies, both her important office must be respected and for any mother & her young
children to suffer the direct insult that they have in their own home for such a long time is a total
& gross violation of a basic civil right.
18 It must be said that both the 'West family' & their "expert witness" invent, both in court
filings and in the press, Mr. West's moral & physical fitness qualifications. First, neither address
that he was a physical drug addict, nor that he constantly committed moral turpitude by selling
drugs to & intoxicating his friends, fellow race members, and/or his greater community. Nor is
there any mention of the 'concerned family' ever doing anything whatsoever to get Mr. West off
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violent encounters with the police should be conducted as ballets would also be poignant.
"Whenever physical force is employed in police-citizen
encounters, there is always a risk of serious injury and, potentially,
death. The law authorizes police officers to use only that force
necessary to overcome resistance, defend themselves and others,
and affect a lawful arrest. The IRB finds that the officers did not
employ force beyond that which was necessary and reasonable to
subdue an unusually strong and well-muscled suspect who was
resisting a lawful arrest. The officers involved used less-than-lethal
weapons and defensive tactics to attempt to control, restrain, and
arrest Mr. West.,,19
Thank you very much again for your consideration.
I hope this letter finds you to continue to be well.
Very truly & respectfully yours,
William C. Bond
cc: The below parties were all served this filing via email this day,
A. Dwight Pettit
Allan B. Rabineau
Latoya Andrea Francis-Williams
Michael L. Marshall
Chaz Romeo Ball
of drugs, to stop selling drugs, to get out of the revolving prison door, or to doing anything else
to get his life in order as an alleged' 44-year-old-grandfather.'
Importantly, there is zero evidence that Mr. West was in top, or even good, physical
condition, such as, for example, the type of condition any high-level tennis player, basketball
player, recreational boxer or MMA fighter, and/or active-duty National Guard officer would
have to maintain, both aerobically & anaerobically, to be able to last a 3-minute round of combat
with the police in 100 degree heat, let alone the several rounds of same any highly trained athlete
would be used to, and which Mr. West voluntarily entertained with the police.
In sum, while Mr. West was the same height & weight of NFL legend Ray Lewis,
there the similarities ended; as he was most likely 30-40 pounds overweight and grossly out of
shape from an aerobic standard. And clearly, Mr. West's cocaine addiction did not improve his
circumstances.
19Please see: Docket no.: 55-10 at page 41.
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Thomas Faulk
Ashley Elaina McFarland
Dorrell Antone Brooks
Kristen Elissa Hitchner
The Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office - Statement on Tyrone West case
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City
Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has left early dUring consecutive public appearances
protestors. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore
by
Sun video)
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altimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby rocketed to national fame last year when she
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charged six city officers in the death of Freddie Gray - a move that won her a reputation
tough-on-police
as a
reformer.
shouted down by protesters criticizing her handling of some cases and what they say is a lack of
transparency.
She further angered activists this week when she announced that her office wouldn't reopen the ease
of Tyrone West, the Baltimore man who died in police eustody after a traffie stop in
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mary
2013.
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Mosby, who took office in January 2015, defended her actions in an interview with The Baltimore
Sun.
"I think we've been very transparent
and
applying justice fairly and equally to everybody," she said. She said she is prohibited from discussing
decisions in pending cases.
She added a request for protesters:
before
clearing them.
A group of activists, who say Mosby embraced their support when she ran for the job in 2014, say she
now needs to be more open to discussing decisions around cases.
"She very tightly controls what community response she receives," Christopher Comeau, 28, said
outside a forum on public safety Wednesday night.
"It's difficult to live up to the expectations and the hopes that she built up in this city - when she
stood on those steps [ofthe War Memorial to announce charges in the Gray case] and said that
justice will be served - when she doesn't make herself available to unfiltered criticism."
The protesters have focused on the prosecution of Keith Davis Jr., a 24-year-old man who was shot by
police in Northwest Baltimore last June after he allegedly robbed a hack driver. He has maintained
his innocence, and supporters were encouraged when ajury rejected all but one ofthe 21 charges he
faced.
Still, that one conviction, on a firearms charge, carries a mandatory five years in prison, and he has
since been charged in a killing that occurred the day he was shot.
Police say ballistics matched a gun found on Davis to the one used kill 22-year-old Pimlico Race
Track security guard Kevin Jones. Davis' supporters question the evidence.
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Some activists, encouraged by Mosby's decision to bring charges in Gray's death, have urged her to
reopen controversial deaths in police custody that occurred before she took office.
City Councilman Warren Branch, who chairs the council's public safety committee, called on Mosby
last year to give a fresh look at three high-profile cases - including the death of West.
West, 44, died in July
2013
officers, and the medical examiner's office ruled that he died because he had a heart condition that
was exacerbated by the struggle and the summer heat. West's family says officers beat him to death.
An independent
panel determined that the officers did not use excessive force, but it found that they
did not follow basic policies and made tactical errors that "potentially aggravated the situation."
Mosby said this week that a review by her office turned up nothing "that would contradict the
conclusion ofthe prior administration."
"I have no intention to reopen that case," she said. She said she would revisit the case if new evidence
arose.
West's sister, Tawanda Jones, who has been protesting his death every Wednesday for three years,
said she is working to find such evidence.
"I want to see what she'll do," Jones said.
The activist group Baltimore Bloc slammed the decision: "It was the family of #TyroneWest that got
[former State's Attorney Gregg] Bernstein out of office (& @MarilynMosbyEsq
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Mosby showed the crowd a video that walked through the accomplishments
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highlighting high-profile convictions and her community programs. Then she spent about 40 minutes
discussing her priorities as state's attorney before inviting questions from the audience.
Abdul Salaam, a Northeast Baltimore man who was awarded $70,000 by a civil jury recently over
claims that he was assaulted by police in 2013, asked Mosby what she was doing to hold officers with
repeat misconduct complaints accountable.
Mosby appeared to make an oblique reference to the charges against the officers in the Gray case.
"I think what we're attempting to do - 1 think the message has been sent," she said. "And 1 still get
the backlash."
Davis' fiancee then stood up and referred to Mosby's remarks about reforming the criminal justice
system.
"You're talking about the community issues, but you're a part of the problem," Kelly Holsey said.
"You're holding these men ... under charges and evidence that you don't have, anticipating
that they
say they have been calling, writing and visiting the state's attorney's office to speak
about this investigation. What are we left to believe, and how are we
place."
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5/1/2016
Mosby faced criticism from the other side when the police union said prosecutors
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had officers
videotaped refusing to answer questions after the shooting of the father and son at Greenmount
and
North avenues.
In the past, the union's longtime attorney said, a discussion between prosecutors and his office was
enough when an officer decided against speaking to investigators.
In a biting statement, the union said Mosby and her "underlings ... continually flaunt what they
believe to be their prowess, despite the fact that time and time again the incompetency
of their
and appreciate the emotional impact that something like this could have on a
family," Mosby said. But, she said, "the individual has been convicted, and is now charged with
murder."
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Report: Heart condition didn't cause Tyrone West's death in custody - Baltimore Sun
News I Maryland
T<iW3nda Jones. sisler of Tyrone West (second from left). who died while
protest the death of FreddIe Gray who was In police custody
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Report: Heart condition didn't cause Tyrone West's death in custody - Baltimore Sun
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An autopsy revealed no serious injuries or signs of asphyxia, and the officers were not charged in
West's death. The department's
Independent
temperatures."
But the West family, including West's sister, Tawanda Jones, has held weekly demonstrations
for a renewed investigation into his death. As part of a multimillion-dollar
calling
officers from the city and Morgan State University, her attorney, D\\~ght Pettit, hired Dr. William
Manion to conduct an independent
forensic investigation.
Manion, the chief of pathology at Memorial Hospital of Salem County in New Jersey, is a designated
forensic pathologist and medical examiner in that state. His report, submitted to the court in
November, concludes that West suffocated, contradicting
condition.
"I do not believe that the cardiac conduction system abnormality made any significant contribution
to
Mr. West's death," Manion wrote. "There is no evidence of cardiac disease, fainting or sickness due to
any cardiac conduction system abnormality prior to his death."
Manion wrote in a two-page preliminary report that "the main cause of death is the fact that he was
restrained in such a way that he was unable to breathe." Manion called it positional asphyxia.
Although the report was filed in November, Jones said she was made awarc of it last week, shortly
after State's Attorney ~larilYTl,\10,1" declined to reopen the case. Mosby said in a written statement
that she couldn't reopen the case because "there has been no new evidence or additional
information."
But Jones hopes the report \\~ll sway the city's top prosecutor to reconsider. She wants Mosby to sign
off on a request to exhume West's body and conduct an independent
autopsy.
"When I spoke to our state's attorney, she said even though she couldn't do anything now, she said if
anything new develops she'll be more than happy to sit down with my family, and that gave me hope,"
,Jones said. "This is definitely new information, and something needs to be done."
Rochelle Ritchie, a spokeswoman
T.J. Smith, a spokesman for the Police Department, said he could not comment on pending litigation.
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