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To: djf
Anybody can file a criminal charge against anybody else, afaik. But if the local jurisdictions don’t agree to go along with it, you would have to be ready to act as prosecutor yourself. And the odds are the court would take one look at it and toss it in the trash right quick...

Hmmm, that's interesting. I wonder if maybe what you mean is that anyone can file a criminal complaint? There might be a big difference here between "complaint" and "charges".

Either way, Corsi isn't going to get anywhere with this stuff.

24 posted on 05/24/2011 1:09:57 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

Well, first, let me state emphatically I am not an attorney.

But this is my understanding:
Anybody can go to the police and file a “criminal complaint”. They take the info, and then give it to the prosecutor, who decides if he wants to go forward with it.
If he decides to go forward, he files “criminal charges” with the court.

There are two important things:
Number one, the prosecutor, even though he is an “officer of the court” (as all attorneys are), is an independent entity. Just as the defendant is an independent entity. The theory is that the court pays no special attention to one side or the other, it is supposed to be unbiased in every way.

The other thing is the court doesn’t (at first) know anything about a case. It sees ONLY the paperwork that is in front of it. If the paperwork is proper, then the court does not have the power to ignore it. It MUST take some action.

Now there are courts of special jurisdiction and courts of general jurisdiction. It might be that if J6P wants to file criminal CHARGES against someone, he would have to go to a court of general jurisdiction.

Once again, in a sense I’m rambling on. But I know that there are times when you don’t need any kind of attorney, for instance if you ended up in the hoosegow you could yourself write a habeas corpus, hand it to the court clerk, and it’s in. They have to do something.


28 posted on 05/24/2011 1:28:02 PM PDT by djf ("Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Oscar Wilde)
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To: Longbow1969
If I report a crime and I have evidence to back it up, It might be difficult for a prosecutor to ignore me, especially if I have an audience of millions. They do lose their jobs for ignoring crimes.

Not everyone in the FBI was appointed by Harrison Bounel.

30 posted on 05/24/2011 1:53:20 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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