Ellis Curry IV of 3004 River Grove Drive Tampa, FL 33610 (813) 238-5371
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torture case against Steven Lorenzo is arguing that the prosecution
was illegitimate because the government is "notorious worldwide for
subduing, torturing and killing people on a large and systematic
scale."
The lawyer, Ellis Rexwood Curry IV, is a Libertarian who has advocated
for lawyers to carry guns in court, has a Web site on which he rails
against government power and has "adults only" pages dedicated to
swastika and flag fetishism.
Curry was appointed by the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals to represent Lorenzo, who is serving 200 years in federal
prison on nine charges of drug-facilitated crimes of violence and one
charge of conspiring with Scott Schweickert, who is serving 40 years
in federal prison for one charge of conspiracy and one charge of a
drug-facilitated crime of violence.
Lorenzo, 49, was convicted of slipping the date-rape drug GHB into
drinks of nine men and then sexually torturing them at his Seminole
Heights home. Two of the men died.
Schweickert, 43, was convicted of conspiring with Lorenzo to drug and
torture the two who were killed in December 2003. Michael Wachholtz
and Jason Galehouse were both 26 when they died.
A federal appeals panel is scheduled to hear arguments in the Lorenzo
and Schweickert cases on Monday and Tuesday.
Although Schweickert's appeal brief focuses on evidence issues and
other traditional legal arguments, Lorenzo's attorney dedicates a
section to subjects such as "the government's betrayal of liberty."
The lawyer, Curry, was an unsuccessful Libertarian Party candidate for
the state Legislature in 2002.
The Swastikas And Stripes
Curry's Web site, rexcurry .net, prominently displays a body-building
picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and gives what appears to be a Social
Security number, but calls it a "socialist slave number." There is a
picture of an American flag with swastikas in place of stars.
Curry's Lorenzo brief touches on issues advanced on his Web site,
including a description of the history of the Pledge of Allegiance and
what he described as the original "stiff-arm salute" children were
required to give.
The only requirement for a lawyer to qualify for court appointment is
that they be members in good standing of a state Bar, said Stacy
Kennon, who helps coordinate the 11th Circuit's program for lawyer
appointments, known as CJA, for the Criminal Justice Act, the law
governing the court's authority to appoint counsel.
"In our court, each judge makes his or her own CJA appointments using
their own personal lists of names of counsel who may be interested in
appellate CJA appointments," Kennon said in an e-mail.
Circuit Judge Charles Wilson appointed Curry to represent Lorenzo,
according to Karen Redmond, spokeswoman for the courts. Wilson was not
available for comment late Friday afternoon.
Redmond said attorneys appointed when Curry was appointed in the
Lorenzo case are paid either $94 or $100 an hour by the court, up to a
preset maximum. That figure was unavailable for the Lorenzo case on
Friday. Redmond said judges also monitor fees and can cut them if they
deem that necessary.
Advancing the argument that the Commerce Clause of the U.S.
Constitution has been stretched too far to give federal courts
jurisdiction in cases it doesn't belong, Curry talks in the brief
about "horrid federal socialism" and the "USA's present growing police
state."
"I have represented many people charged with murder (unlike here), but
I have never represented anyone as sadistic, torture-loving and
murderous as government and government officials," he writes.
"Governments make the worst homicidal maniac seem angelic in
comparison."
'Some Pretty Far Out Stuff'
Curry declined to talk to a reporter on the telephone, but said in an
e-mail exchange that he plans in his argument to the court to quote
from the book "The Prosecution of President George W. Bush for Murder"
by the former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.
In response to a description of his brief as "unconventional," Curry
wrote, "Thank you for your praise."
Legal experts who were shown Curry's brief said his arguments are
unlikely to hold sway before the appeals court.
"That's some pretty far out stuff," said St. Petersburg lawyer Frank
Louderback, who was not involved in the Lorenzo case.
"The appeals court will be hard-pressed to find a cogent, rational
argument contained within this brief that would indicate that Mr.
Lorenzo had effective assistance of counsel at the appellate level,"
said Charles Rose, professor at Stetson Law School. "This brief reads
as a political diatribe and not a cogent argument on issues of
sentencing or reasons to overturn the case."
Told by e-mail about the comments by legal experts about his brief,
Curry responded, "You can write that I have challenged them to a
public debate of their claims and that the next step is to select a
time and place for doing so, if they think they are up to it."
Donald Harrison, the attorney Lorenzo hired privately to represent him
in his trial, said he agrees politically with much of what Curry says
in his brief. He added he doesn't think the Lorenzo case is the proper
venue to raise these issues.
Harrison said raising the political issues could diminish the effect
of legal arguments Curry advances later in his brief. "Was it more
harmful than helpful? Probably so," Harrison said. ""But I think his
legal arguments are right on."
Schweickert's attorney, Pedro Amador, called Curry's brief
"interesting," but he added, "I don't think it's going to be a
successful argument."
Reporter Elaine Silvestrini can be reached at (813) 259-7837 or
esilve...@tampatrib.com.
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Posted by ( 3bullies ) on 09/06/2008 at 07:27 am.
Ellis Rexwood Curry IV. He sounds whacked out enough to be hanging out
with L Ron Hoover at the Church of Appliantology. Or something like
that. He sounds like he is already on Venus and may have been slipped
GHB sometime recently. What a whack job fruit cup. Which just goes to
show you boys and girls, that if a freako like Ellis Rexwood Curry IV
can become a successful attorney, than anyone can. Flag Fetish, I mean
really?
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Posted by ( Bobbert ) on 09/06/2008 at 10:58 am.
You would think that even an evil pervert like Lorenzo would not want
to be associated with Curry.
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Posted by ( DennyPCrane ) on 09/06/2008 at 11:18 am.
3Bullies, this just goes to show you how easy it is to become a lawyer
and pass the bar. Ellis Rexwood Curry IV is as you say a wack job, a
real freak who uses obscure legal arguments to try to get cases
reversed. And these arguments he poses althouth we don't know the
whole legal brief sounds like the rantings of a mad man. It is a shame
that our courts have to listen to these rantings and when he is ruled
against he should have to pay costs for wasting the courts time. It is
no wonder that our courts are so bogged down with nonsense that they
do not have time for real arguments which are made by lawyers who are
not nuts. Great post, I just wanted to add a few more things but you
pretty much said it all. It seems that more and more lawyers are
trying to make a name for themselves, thus make more money rather than
represent clients. Look at Winters and Yonker. They stole over a
million dollars in clients fees and they have the nerve to put their
sad puses back on the TV as agressive lawyers. Yes they are agressive
enough to steal other lawyers clients.
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http://rexcurry.net/elaine-silvestrini-benito-mussolini.jpg
Upon further reflection, the initial post is hereby withdrawn and a humble
apology is extended to the noted historian Dr. Curry.
Daniel Ruth, who used to work for the Tampa Tribune Newspaper, is notorious
for Nazi style name-calling.
http://rexcurry.net/daniel-ruth-elaine-silvestrini.jpg
The Tampa Tribune fired Daniel Ruth. It happened after "Daniel Ruth
LaRouche" and "Elaine Silvestrini Mussolini" were exposed in public
debate challenges. That expose' of Ruth and Silvestrini coincided with the
time when the newspaper said: "Uh, Daniel Ruth? Start packing
your bags!"
It wasn't the first loss for Ruth. After an earlier defeat the response
against Ruth from the general public was so great that Ruth said he was
labeled a "Dork, anti-free market statist, $#%!&, Dummkopf, liberal, daffy,
dolt, stupid, dunce and, oh by the way, socialist."
There have been other layoffs and a deteriorating format for the Tampa
Tribune newspaper. The paper has already gone through several
rounds of job reductions.
On another occasion, Ruth admitted publicly that locals have labeled him
"bigot, prejudiced, hateful and ignorant" among many other
similar insults.
Daniel Ruth is a wiener of the pull-it surprise. Elaine Silvestrini worked
with him to achieve it.
Ruth refers to himself as the "Book of Ruth."
Is Daniel Ruth actually Lyndon LaRouche?
http://rexcurry.net/daniel-ruth-lyndon-larouche2.jpg
Has the mystery of Ruth's hybrid toupee / combover question been solved? See
the startling photographic evidence.
Ruth writes flippantly about torture. LaRouche La Ruth's insane clown posse
act is like something out of "Apocalypse Now" meets "A
Clockwork Orange."
Good grief, Lyndon LaRouche was not as delusional as Ruth is.
http://rexcurry.net/daniel-ruth-lyndon-larouche.jpg
Perhaps the fascistic fanaticist (Ruth) is merely a LaRouche Democrat
(LaRouche always ran in the Democratic Party). Is Ruth a DINO
(democrat in name only)?
And what about Elaine "Mussolini" Silvestrini? Many people forget that the
Italian cohort of German National Socialism gained power as a
socialist "journalist" among socialists and socialist newpapers in Italy.
Silvestrini Mussolini is a scary reminder.
Compared to Dr. Curry's illustrious career, Silvestrini's name is longer
than her career highlights.
On the other hand, Elaine Silvestrini has strange tastes in what she does
write about. In a recent article, Silvestrini's interests were drawn to
"adults only" web pages about swastika and flag fetishism and she was
attracted to a body-building picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and
a picture of an American flag with swastikas in place of stars. On 7-3-07,
Silvestrini wrote about a man who sells virtual sex toys, including
characters on screen that can be animated into a variety of sexual positions
(she seems to have researched that one thoroughly);
Silvestrini and Ruth have paid a lot of attention to Max Hardcore and his
sadistic pornography (and LaRuth makes childish jokes about it, of
course).
Silvestrini and Ruth promote flag fetishism by covering up the history of
the Pledge of Allegiance.
Think of the Tampa Tribune as a torture and terrorism conspiracy (as its
readers think of it; both of them). That makes Elaine Silvestrini a
co-conspirator with unreadable Ruth. After Ruth's previous loss to Dr.
Curry, the response against Ruth from the general public was so
great that Ruth said he was labeled a "Dork, anti-free market statist,
$#%&!, Dummkopf, liberal, daffy, dolt, stupid, dunce and, oh by the
way, socialist." http://rexcurry.net/elaine-silvestrini-tampa-tribune.html
Ruth's use of "socialist" is telling in that Ruth covers up for the National
Socialist German Workers Party and its deadly dogma. The
neo-nationalist Ruth has probably never written the actual name of the group
"National Socialist German Workers Party" in the Tribune
(check it yourself). Instead he uses his favorite hackneyed misleading
shorthand for the group.
On the Tribune's fascistic flag fanaticism, Ruth and Silvestrini have been
influenced by America's most notorious National Socialists,
Francis Bellamy and Edward Bellamy. Ruth's economic ignorance equals or
exceeds Edward Bellamy's. Silvestrini and Ruth add to the
public perception of their profession as "news nazis."
Ruth and Silvestrini are evasive about Francis Bellamy, Edward Bellamy and
their bigotry, xenophobia, militarism, robotic chanting for
children, and authoritarian socialism (and their influence upon German
National Socialism, its dogma, symbols and rituals). Bellamy
dogma led to segregation imposed by law, and racism taught as official
policy. The Bellamys believed that immigrants would dilute cultural
unity in the United States. And what about the zealotry, indoctrination,
propaganda and fanaticism? The Ruth/Silvestrini silence becomes
deafening about the related hate-mongering, persecution, sadism, jingoism,
violence, and even lynchings inspired by the Bellamys and
their socialist religion. Silvestrini and Ruth are a tour-de-force of
indifference.
In comparison, the symbologist Dr. Curry is known world-wide for his
discoveries including that the USA's Pledge of Allegiance (& the
military salute) was the origin of Adolf Hitler's "Nazi" salute under the
National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis).
http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
That the swastika, although an ancient symbol, was also used to represent
"S" letters joined for "socialism" under the National Socialist
German Workers Party (Nazis), similar to the alphabetical symbolism for the
SS Division, the SA, the NSV, and the VW logo (the letters
"V" and "W" joined for "Volkswagen").
http://rexcurry.net/bookchapter4a1a2a1.html
That the swastika was used by the military and by socialists in the USA and
in the USSR, before it was used by the National Socialist
German Workers Party (NSDAP).
http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
That Francis Bellamy & Edward Bellamy touted National Socialism and the
police state in the USA decades before their dogma was
exported to Germany. They influenced the NSDAP, its dogma, symbols and
rituals.
Elaine Silvestrini and Daniel Ruth were so ignorant that they did not know
that the Pledge was the origin of the German National Socialist
salute. Heck, they were so ignorant that they did not know that the early
Pledge used a stiff-armed salute. They did not know that the
stiff-arm salute developed from the military salute. They were so ignorant
that they did not even know the etymology of the term "Nazi." They
did not know that German National Socialists did not call themselves
"Nazis"; that the N-word is not in "Mein Kampf" nor in the film
"Triumph of the Will" (as two examples), yet the word "socialist" is there
in stereotypically droning socialist fashion. They did not know (until
schooled by RexCurry.net) that German National Socialists did not call their
flag symbol a "swastika" (they called it a Hakenkreuz,"hooked
cross"). They did not know that German National Socialists sometimes used
their cross symbol to represent crossed S-letters for their
"socialism."
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and was listed for sale with structural damage to repair of approx $100,000
Paragraph 4 of Administrative Complaint: On or about June 2, 2006, in the
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida,
the Respondent was adjudicated guilty of one count of 21 USC 841(a)(1) and
(b)(1)(C), Felony possession with intent to Distribute
Gamma-Hydroxybutyric Acid, also known as GHB.
Tampa 2009-01717 John Lebron (John W. Lebron), License no. SL 3098644.
Violation: guilty of having been convicted or found guilty, or
entered a plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, a crime
which directly relates to the activities of a licensed real estate
sales associate or that involves moral turpitude or fraudulent dealing, in
violation of s. 475.25(1)(f), F.S. Penalty:Revoked effective 3/10/09
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Name: JOHN WILLIAM LEBRON
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Number
2007065765
Class
Licensed Activity
Incident Date
11/26/2007
Status
Closed
Disposition
Final Order
Disposition Date
03/10/2009
Discipline
Revoke License 03/10/2009
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Name: JOHN LEBRON (Primary Name)
Main Address: 3006 RIVER GROVE DRIVE TAMPA Florida 33610
County: HILLSBOROUGH
License Mailing: 3006 RIVER GROVE DRIVE TAMPA FL 33610
County: HILLSBOROUGH
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Rank: Sales Associate
License Number: SL3098644
Status: Revoked,Inactive
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John Lebron 3006 River Grove Dr Tampa FL 33610 a convicted felon on active
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(Entered: 02/17/2009)
02/19/2009 Document # 64, Docket Text: ENDORSED ORDER directing USA to
respond to 63 MOTION for early termination of probation
for John Lebron (1) Count 1 as to John Lebron. Responses due by 3/4/2009.
(JM) (Entered: 02/19/2009)
02/27/2009 Document # 65, Docket Text: RESPONSE in opposition by USA as to
John Lebron re 63 Motion for early termination of
Probation (Entered: 02/27/2009)
03/06/2009 Document # 66, Docket Text: ORDER denying 63 Motion for early
termination as to John Lebron (1). (JM) (Entered:
03/06/2009)
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indicate that John William Lebron (John W. Lebron) was charged in three
counts (counts 1,
2, and 6) involving delivery and possession of
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). A criminal report affidavit
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ecstasy, to affiant in exchange for $6500.00 in U.S. currency." The
information indicates that Lebron pled guilty to all three counts and
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Information on the foreclosure can be found Hillsborough County Clerk of
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EZ Investments Company Profile 3006 River Grove Drive, Tampa, FL 33610
Florida Corporate Records
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03/04/2009 -- REINSTATEMENT
http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/10010261.pdf
Names Patricia Kumer ( Trisha Kumer or Patricia Danielle Kumer ) and John
Lebron
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Names Patricia Kumer ( Trisha Kumer or Patricia Danielle Kumer ) and John
Lebron
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Names Stratt-Paul Dunham, Patricia Kumer ( Trisha Kumer or Patricia Danielle
Kumer ) and John Lebron
11/30/2005 -- Florida Limited Liabilites
http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/H0275082.pdf
Names Stratt-Paul Dunham and John Lebron (John W. Lebron or John William
Lebron).
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EZ Investments Company Profile 3006 River Grove Drive, Tampa, FL 33610
www.ez-investments.com
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Tampa/ez-investments-llc-3351221.aspx
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CONTACT INFO
813 493-3323 John Lebron
JOHN (at) EZ-INVESTMENTS.COM
813 546-6234 Trisha Kumer
TRISHA (at) EZ-INVESTMENTS.COM
Paul
PAUL (at) EZ-INVESTMENTS.COM
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http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Tampa/Patricia-Kumer-p5248090.aspx
Document Number L05000114869 http://www.sunbiz.org/corichr.html
Entity name EZ INVESTMENTS, LLC http://www.sunbiz.org/corinam.html
Lebron John http://www.sunbiz.org/corioff.html
01/07/2007 -- ANNUAL REPORT http://www.sunbiz.org/pdf/10543581.pdf
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