How about this? A JW.org press release is already witten and ready to go. It will say how they never lost a case, and that they begged the Judge for more time because they did not want the Lawyer/brothers to miss the memorial. The satanic judge threw the book at them for obeying Christ's command to " keep doing this in remembrance of me." Satan hates freedom of religion, and Candace Conti made the whole thing up. Do you see how dubs are persecuted?! The end is soon...
Memorial Time March 26 After Sundown Same Date As Deadline For Appeal Child Molestation Case Agianst Watchtower Corporation (Synchonicity)
by frankiespeakin 47 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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The Searcher
Thanks Frankiespeakin!
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Godsendconspirator
I wondered if any Jdubs have ever been asked how they know that the memorial will land on the dates they do? It's not like they check their sources.
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frankiespeakin
This does not look like a very good day for the GB "beware of the ides of March" + 11.
http://heraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/x1254881066/Priests-conviction-is-a-first-will-more-follow
Priest's conviction is a first, will more follow?
Anonymous Associated Press Sun Jun 24, 2012, 08:30 AM EDT
NEW YORK — A decade after the clergy sex-abuse crisis erupted, the first Roman Catholic church official has been criminally convicted for failing to alert parishes or police about known predators.
Advocates for children said the verdict Friday against Monsignor William Lynn sends a critical message that diocesan officials who supervise priests must report offenders or face prosecution.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/07/local/la-me-church-files-20130108
Judge orders archdiocese to restore names in abuse files
The public's right to know how the church handled molestation allegations outweighs officials' privacy rights, court rules.
January 07, 2013 | By Harriet Ryan and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
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Satanus
Very interesting.
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frankiespeakin
I think the Governing Body needs to keep this in mind for they might have a paper trail leading to them and criminal prosecution that falls within the statues of limitations.
http://heraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/x1254881066/Priests-conviction-is-a-first-will-more-follow
Q: Why is it so difficult to successfully prosecute bishops and other church leaders who mishandled abuse claims?
A: Most of the abuse cases that have come to light in recent years involve allegations of wrongdoing from decades ago — far beyond the statutes of limitation for criminal charges and often for civil lawsuits. Since 2002, when the scandal broke wide open with one case in the Archdiocese of Boston, a few prosecutors have struck deals with local dioceses to avoid indictment, and eight grand juries have investigated how local dioceses responded to abuse claims. All the grand jury reports found evidence that church officials consistently protected accused clergy more than children. However, only one such report found enough evidence within time limits to prosecute a diocesan official: the Philadelphia grand jury investigation last year that led to Lynn's conviction.
Q: Haven't several states extended the statutes of limitation in response to the abuse scandal?
A: Some states have changed their laws to give victims several more years to file civil lawsuits. Three states — California, Delaware and Hawaii — also opened a one-time window of at least a year for accusers to sue the people who allegedly abused them as children. However, criminal statutes of limitation are a different story. Even if lawmakers extend the time limits now for a criminal prosecution, it wouldn't apply to old crimes. In California, legislators tried to retroactively waive the criminal statute of limitations for child molestation. The U.S. Supreme Court later threw the law out.
Q: Does Lynn's conviction have any impact at all beyond Philadelphia?
A: Yes. Timothy Lytton, a legal scholar and author of "Holding Bishops Accountable," on how civil lawsuits over clergy abuse helped create pressure to reform, said the verdict is a warning to any church official wavering about keeping his pledge to report child sex-abuse claims to civil authorities and remove offenders from church work. Since the child protection policy was enacted in 2002, some cases have been made public of bishops who have kept accused priests in churches. Later this year in Missouri, Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph is scheduled to be tried on misdemeanor failure to report suspected child abuse in the case of pornographic photos of children found on a priest's laptop. Bishops insist that Finn's case is isolated and "It's one thing to threaten the financial viability of an institution," Lytton said of the massive civil settlements dioceses have paid in abuse cases, "but it's another thing to threaten to send to jail the people who run it."
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frankiespeakin
So the present measures implemented by the Governing Body may leave them open to criminal investigation I would think since they have not taken the strong stand that the Catholic Church has.
I'm thinking this might be a "smoking gun that turns into a mushroom cloud" for the Governing Body.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/lytton1108.htm
HOLDING BISHOPS ACCOUNTABLE: HOW LAWSUITS HELPED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONFRONT CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE, by Timothy D. Lytton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 304pp. Hardcover. $35.00/£22.95/€24.50. ISBN: 9780674028104.
Reviewed by John C. Blakeman, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Email: John.Blakeman [at] uwsp.edu.
Although academic book reviews do not normally start with a discussion of the book jacket of the work under review, with Timothy D. Lytton’s new book, HOLDING BISHOPS ACCOUNTABLE, the cover is indicative of the content. On the jacket is a photograph of Cardinal Bernard Law, former Catholic Archbishop of Boston, departing a news conference during the 2002 annual meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Conference is one of the main policymaking arms of the American Catholic Church, and in this instance it was the primary institution responsible for formulating the American church’s response to the rising tide of lawsuits brought by victims of sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests. By 2002, as Lytton’s account makes clear, the church’s institutional failure to deal with clergy abuse was becoming abundantly clear. In the photo, Cardinal Law is holding a sheaf papers and folders as if he is on his way to court, and he is somewhat hunched over, with a very stern, glaring look on his face. His right fist is clenched. He looks as if he has just been grilled by the press about something especially unpleasant, and he is very angry about it. He looks embattled.
Timothy Litton’s book is a detailed view of how litigants used tort law to sue the Roman Catholic Church in America over clergy sexual abuse of children. It adds to the literature on tort law, and law and society in general, and provides a critical, meticulous look at how tort law overtook the Catholic Church’s self-regulation of clergy misconduct and forced the church and government policymakers to confront a larger, more national problem. For Lytton, tort litigation against the church was “essential in bringing the scandal to light . . . focusing attention on the need for institutional reform, and spurring church leaders and public officials into action” (p.4). Lytton situates his analysis within the context of showing how tort litigation against “one of the largest, richest, and most powerful institutions in America” was more than just about dispute resolution between injured parties and the church. Tort cases served to bring about policy reform by enhancing “the efforts of church officials, law enforcement, and state governments to develop and enforce polices aimed at reducing clergy sexual abuse” (p.7).
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frankiespeakin
Victims raise legal questions about retired pope
By By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer– Mar 5, 2013
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Attorneys who have tried unsuccessfully for years to sue the Vatican over failures to stop clergy sex abuse are looking into whether former Pope Benedict XVI is more legally vulnerable in retirement, especially if he travels beyond the Vatican walls.
A U.S. lawyer for the Vatican argues that, like any former head of state, Benedict retains legal immunity regardless of whether he is in or out of office. But advocates for victims say immunity in this case should be tested, since modern-day courts have never before dealt with an emeritus pope.
"So much of this is unprecedented," said Pamela Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, which is pressing the International Criminal Court to investigate the Vatican's response to abusive priests as a crime against humanity. "There's nothing set in stone about it."
Benedict stepped down last week, becoming the first pontiff in six centuries to do so. Before he became head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2005, he spent more than two decades in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office that over the years gained authority to oversee abuse claims against clergy worldwide.
Still, his record on trying to end abuse stands above that of many other church officials.
Benedict spoke openly of ridding the church of "filth" and was the first pontiff to meet directly with victims, during a 2008 visit to the U.S.
He instructed the Rev. Marcial Maciel, founder of the conservative Legion of Christ religious order, who was favored by Pope John Paul II, to leave the ministry and lead a life of prayer and penance. Maciel had been accused for years of abusing young men.
Benedict also ordered bishops worldwide to craft guidelines on protecting children and keeping abusers out of the priesthood. Jeffrey Lena, a U.S. attorney for the Vatican, said that Benedict deserves "tremendous credit" for "recognizing the problem and helping to change the church's approach."
However, advocates for victims have criticized his reforms as half-steps.
As evidence, they point to the Maciel case. The pope never disclosed what the influential priest had done wrong. Only later was it confirmed that Maciel had molested seminarians and fathered at least three children. In Ireland, where church leaders had shielded guilty clerics from prosecution for decades, the Vatican during Benedict's pontificate refused or ignored repeated requests from state investigators for access to its case files.
Benedict's lengthy record dealing with the scandal before he was pope plays a part in the complaint against the church with the International Criminal Court. The court prosecutor, who can decide whether to open an inquiry, has not said whether he will act. Lena has called the effort, which was first filed in 2011, "ludicrous."
Spees said Benedict's resignation would play no role in the longshot case before the International Criminal Court. The world's only permanent war crimes tribunal, its prosecutor does not take into account traditional immunity claims.
However, she and others argue that at a minimum Benedict's resignation could help reduce resistance by prosecutors or other officials to take action against him.
Advocates point to how attitudes changed in the United States, where police and prosecutors once allowed local church officials to deal privately with priests' misconduct. After thousands of civil lawsuits revealed the scope of the abuse scandal, some American civil authorities began aggressively investigating whether Catholic leaders did enough to protect children.
And in staunchly Catholic Ireland, revelations by state investigators about abuse there led to an unprecedented dressing down of the Vatican in 2011 by Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
"They reframed the question," said Timothy Lytton, an Albany Law School professor and author of the book "Holding Bishops Accountable: How Lawsuits Helped the Catholic Church Confront Clergy Sex Abuse."
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frankiespeakin
http://www.albanylaw.edu/media/user/faculty/lytton/Framing-Clergy-Sexual-Abuse-WM-Law-Rvw.pdf
FRAMING CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE AS AN INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE: HOW TORT LITIGATION INFLUENCES MEDIA COVERAGE
Timothy D. Lytton
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ACKGROUND : T HREE L EADING C LERGY S EXUAL A BUSE C ASES ..................................................................................... 170
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XPLAINING THE I NFLUENCE OF T ORT L ITIGATION ON THE F RAMING OF C LERGY S EXUAL A BUSE ..................................... 173
A. Correspondence between the Strategic Considerations that Shape Tort Claims and the Criteria of Newsworthiness
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B. Litigation Documents as Credible News Sources
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C. Litigation as an Unfolding Drama
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frankiespeakin
10 days to go will the make a successful appeal?
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/Chapter1.pdf
If the
Notice of Appeal is late in a civil case, the
appeal must be dismissed.
The five-day extension under Code of Civil Procedure
section 1013 for service by mail does
not apply to notices
of appeal and does
not extend the time to file them.