COURANT: CT probate nightmares and the "judges" (Guantanamo Treatment)

[Mort Zuckerman]

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Subject: COURANT: CT probate nightmares and the "judges" (Guantanamo
Treatment)

Date: Nov 14, 2008 3:10 AM

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ERROR in your argument: Judges are astronomically stupid, and many of
them are not
even lawyers - especially in probate - and many of the rest have never
set foot
in a Corrupticourt before being selecting for Rell's Crony Domain.

You should have attended the Judiciary Hearings in March 2006. It
really is true
that some of these "judges" have no trial experience and never even
set
foot in a Corrupticourt before being made a "judge."

This is 100% true. Go review the transcripts
http://www.actionlyme.org/VIKING_INTERVIEWS.htm

The judges are morons and do not even know the law. They do not even
know they're
required to look at the evidence entered, as is the case in duh DCF
"courts."

Connecticut is an extremely dangerous place to live, since we have no
intelligent
people here. It's just a meatgrinder, charging Uncle Sam for all the
fake prosecutions.

DCF's budget is now a billion dollars a year, up from 227 million in
1994. There
has been no equivalent nearly 400% increase in the State's population.

Use your head, if you have one. This is cannibalism.

Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org

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http://www.topix.net/forum/source/hartford-courant/TM1MSPRTBG5A0C1T5#lastPost
abc wrote:
The Probate system is one of the only state systems where there
continues to
be LOCAL control, where judges are accountable to the people of their
community.
Are there bad decisions? Of course, just like in any system. However,
to "bulldoze"
it and further beaurocratize a system that requires human compassion
and decisions
based on an understanding of the details is not the answer. The idea
of closing
courts in smaller towns that are MAKING MONEY in order to consolidate
power in the
larger courts that are LOSING MONEY (but perhaps more efficiently
process people
through, like cattle, like our superior court) also seems
counterintuitive. Wake
up Courant, and wake up people before the government institutionalizes
and takes
away more of your rights to have a voice in the decisions that affect
your lives.

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http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-probate.art.artnov13,0,3568148.story

More Probate Excess
Held In Connecticut • A Michigan woman just wants to go home

November 13, 2008

Some of the courts in Connecticut's antiquated probate court system
are out
of control. They all need reforming, now.

The latest outrage was described Tuesday in a column by The Courant's
Rick Green.
Marilyn Plank, 85, a lifelong resident of Michigan, was flown to
Connecticut by
two sisters fighting with other siblings over her assets. The fragile
woman thought
she was going to visit a granddaughter in California. She ended up in
Greenwich.
She thought she was going to a hotel, but was taken to an assisted
living facility.
Within days, Greenwich Probate Judge David Hopper appointed one of the
two daughters
as temporary "conservator of the person." Mrs. Plank lost her civil
rights
and control of her assets.

A lawyer for three other daughters insists the court has no
jurisdiction because
Mrs. Plank is not a Connecticut resident. Judge Hopper has resisted
all entreaties
to change his mind.

Mrs. Plank wants to go home. Her permanent conservator, Richard J.
Margenot, wrote
in a brief earlier this year, "Not only does the evidence support a
return
to Michigan, it is in her best interest that she do so." Meanwhile,
her assets
are being drained by the expensive care in Greenwich — about $9,000
per month —
and the high fees of numerous lawyers. "Every day spent in Connecticut
puts
Mrs. Plank deeper into financial chaos," says Mr. Margenot.

This is an outrageous injustice.

Can't somebody do something to help her? Judge Paul Knierim,
administrator of
the probate courts? Attorney General Richard Blumenthal? The Superior
Court? The
General Assembly? Anybody?

It may be a stretch, but it seems to us that Mrs. Plank is getting the
Guantanamo
treatment.