Anna Nicole Smith, The Investigation

[mom4kittys]

Thread Number Two

Thread Number One

[shywolf]

in my opinion...i think everyone(especially Howard) left Anna Nicole because they knew the time was near and they figured it was wiser to not be there when she was found dead. (boat guy's wife finds her not looking rite)This way they dont look involved. I still think she went thru hell and NEVER got better. I think it was a slow dnhill death.
I have to say from what i have read, I believe Howard had his hands in Daniel's death also. To what degree, well i have no clue.
I just hope something is done to get that innocent child away from him.
Is Howard the ONLY one with smart council? So far he has gotten away with letting Anna die, interfering with the inquest into how Daniel died AND postponing the announce of the DNA results. What else has he got up his sleeves?

[Arizona Carolyn]

This so fits everything we know about ANS and what she was going through and the prescriptions she was taking:

Finally, sleep is your best friend during withdrawals, BUT you will find it next to impossible to sleep. I recommend taking 25-50 mg of Dyphenhydramine (Benadryl), but NOTHING ELSE! You don’t want to exchange one craving today with another craving in two months, once you are beginning to see the other side of the tunnel. (IMPORTANT: Benadryl SHOULD NEVER BE ingested in amounts greater than 50 mg every 4-6 hours, and no more than 8 pills per 24 hours, because of severe respiratory concerns. Muscle relaxants can assist (for many reasons), but again—be reasonable; DRINK lots of WATER; ensure that you get your electrolytes (banana a day

[TexKat]

The inquest judge is letting Stern's lawyer go to the Supreme Court of the Bahamas to argue that the hearing should be permanently blocked.

It appears that the inquest judge does not carry that much weight in the scheme of things any way. Sort of like a middle man.

[windchime]

On the issue of boycott, I forgot to mention the election coming up in May. It doesn't bode well for the politicians if the people continue to turn their disgust toward HKS and his governmental enablers.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did you send that entire article to Greta? I would love for her to discuss this with Doctor Baden.

[sodpoodle]

"""This is scary"""

And a 20 year-old young man WAS scared. He went so far as to contact a private investigator based on his fear.

Those of us on this thread have speculated various scenarios and articulated opinions 'after the facts'. All done in the comfort and security of our homes. We are all probably older than Daniel and we are not personally affected.

Can you imagine the terror and disbelief Daniel was experiencing with what he knew and didn't know?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is their supreme court elected or appointed for like like our's?

[Southerngl]

And Rosie's latest rant.... the planes hit the towers but the government blew up bldg. 7 because steel doesn't melt.

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Rosie's mind has melted. Yeah, Rosie, the steel just comes out of the ground in all these nifty shapes. Like swords, cutlery, and big ole giant buildings. Keep on talking Rosie, statements like this will have the half intellegent people realizing she is just plain stupid.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yes, since most his life it was he and his mother, and you see when he was a young boy, leaving the court in Texas holding ANS's arm protectively on one side and Ron Rale on the other side and HKS trailing behind like the puppy dog he was..... then what happens, Stern aces him out of his mothers life and becomes the guy on the arm Daniel used to protectively take.

[uncitizen]

Can you imagine the terror and disbelief Daniel was experiencing with what he knew and didn't know?

I wonder if he was threatening Anna that he'd hurt Daniel if she didn't "behave".

[Jane Austen]

This is not even a trial! IMHO, for Howard K. Stern to go to this extreme to block the hearing into Daniel's death reveals that it was foul play and that Howard has something terrible to hide. Why else bother? An innocent person would have wanted the hearing to be over with and would want justice for Daniel. Not HKS.

I have a difficult time believing that Howard (who was not married to ANS) can block the determination of paternity. He might delay it. But to hide it when there are bound to be leaks? With the development of DNA, this makes no sense. His frantic efforts to hide paternity should be red flags to any honest investigator.

[TexKat]

Damien Gomez is the son of the archbishop - nephew of Mag. Roger Gomez.

Former PLP Senator Damian Gomez (Journal file photo)

Gomez Declines Judge Appointment

Slamming the government’s response to the controversial declaration last November by Justice John Lyons that the judiciary in The Bahamas is not independent, former PLP Senator Damian Gomez has written to the governor general expressing a change of heart about becoming a Supreme Court judge.

"While I am grateful for having been considered for the appointment to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and so appointed, personal considerations of conscience compel me to desist from swearing the judicial oath in the circumstances…," Mr. Gomez said in his letter, which stated he was resigning from the Supreme Court of the Bahamas.

He also wrote, "The executive branch of government continues to publicly posture itself as the panacea for the impediment now faced by the higher judiciary. This state of affairs is most inappropriate to our avowed system of government."

Mr. Gomez resigned from the Senate in September after accepting a seat on the bench. He told The Bahama Journal at the time that he planned to take his judicial oath in early 2007.

He is also the attorney representing the Bahamas Bar Council in a lawsuit challenging the government for allegedly breaching the independence of the judiciary.

Mr. Gomez’s letter indicates that he would not become a Supreme Court judge because it is his view that the government has compromised judicial independence in The Bahamas.

The former senator repeats some of the points made by Justice Lyons in two controversial rulings in early November when he said the failure of the government to appoint a commission to review the salaries of judges had compromised the independence of the judiciary.

Mr. Gomez noted that in the year 2000, parliament enacted amendments to the Judges’ Remuneration and Pensions Act which improved the conditions of service of members of the higher judiciary by creating a contractual and statutory right to an independent triennial review of salaries and allowances.

In the year 2000, an independent commission was appointed in accordance with the Act, but unfortunately the executive and legislative branches of government interfered with the process by withholding sums that the independent commission had recommended to be paid to members of the higher judiciary, Mr. Gomez wrote to the governor general.

"To add insult to injury, in the years 2003 and 2006 the executive branch of government did not even appoint the respective triennial independent commissions in accordance with the Act. In the same period, a commission was appointed to review salaries and allowances for lawyers at the Attorney General’s office, Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrates, Registrars of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, and members of the Industrial Tribunal together with members of the higher judiciary," he added.

"There was a complete confusion of powers. The independence of the higher judiciary was further compromised. These matters have been the object of judicial notice, and as such are now a matter of public record."

Mr. Gomez said the public spectacle of this "pandemonium" and the threat to the litigation public being deprived of an independent Supreme Court and Court of Appeal enticed the Bahamas Bar Council to commence proceedings in respect of these matters on November 7.

Private litigants also sought the redress set out in Article 28 of the 1973 Constitution, he noted.

"The executive branch of government on the 10th day of November 2006 purported to arrogate to itself the remedial powers exclusively reserved for exercise by the higher judiciary and appointed a commission chaired by the Honourable Mr. Justice (Joseph) Strachan (now retired)," Mr. Gomez wrote.

"It is impossible to ascertain how this new commission’s appointment is intended to remedy the failures to appoint two commissions in accordance with the Act in 2003 and 2006. Clearly, the members of the higher judiciary have to their detriment been deprived of their constitutional, contractual and statutory right to two independent triennial reviews."

Mr. Gomez said, "It is my view that absent Article 28 remedies for members of the litigation public and the incumbents on the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, our higher judiciary will continue to suffer from the illegal appearance and reality that their conditions of service are determined at the whim and fancy of the executive branch of government contrary to the separation of powers doctrine and Article 135 of the 1973 Constitution.

"Such a resolution is apparently years away from being achieved and in any event, unlikely to be reached by the 1st day of June 2007. This is an untenable set of persistent circumstances in which to honestly swear an oath requiring my independence from the other branches of government."

Mr. Gomez said it was with "the utmost profound regret" that he was declining to accept an office that has been and continues to be at the pinnacle of his lifelong dreams and aspirations.

Early last month, Senior Justice Anita Allen addressed the very issues that had become the subject of heated debate following Justice Lyons’ rulings.

Justice Allen said in a ruling of her own that the government’s failure to appoint a commission in accordance with the law to review the salaries of judges "is egregious and a potentially serious threat to the health of judicial independence in the Bahamas", but she said she did not see how the government’s failure to follow the law would result in the fair-minded informed observer concluding that she was not independent as a judge.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Bad salaries play right into HKS hands, if he can grease the right palms he gets everything he wants over there.

[justthinkin]

I am catching up so probably already said and stated, but #1 is tourism, #2 is banking

[sodpoodle]

Jane! Jane!

You are using common sense. There is no room for such foolishness in the practice of law and concomitant justice. Why - that is an affront to our power and entitlements. We are the elite, the aristocracy. In the case before us - we have on the one hand a Texas harpy and a Kentucky farm-boy. On the other hand, we have an attorney - and exalted one. When he speaks - he should be heard above all others - for he is one of us - the elite, the psychotic and the corrupt.

All hail - long live us magnificent arseholes.

[windchime]

The tactics used today are just appalling!

HKS with his legal maneuvering is inadvertently assisting the other side in this way:

~Questions surely will be asked about why an innocent party (just a witness) would employ legal gymnastics to avoid or halt an inquiry to obtain truth.

~Delays will give the 'good guys' more time to make inquiries and do searches.

[sodpoodle]

OFF TOPIC

I hadn't notice anyone posting the capture of that crazy father and his two young children.

Found on a disabled bus in Idaho Springs, Colorado

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