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The Facts Update:Testimony A page 162 line 16 to page 163 line 17 provides information concerning Rule: 608.2. Page 164 line 20 to page 165 line 1 concerns Judicial Notice. Deputy District Attorney Steve C. Gibbon is no longer a member of the Oregon State Bar. Steve C. Gibbon graduated at the University of Utah in 2000. Mr. Gibbon choose to relocate to Oregon and become a member of the Oregon State Bar. Mr.Gibbon was appointed a Deputy District Attorney and assigned to District Attorney Paul Burgetts office in coquille, Oregon. In 2001 SCINT hired Mr. Gibbon as a Special Narcotics Prosecutor and supplied him with an office at their headquarters in Coos Bay, Oregon. Mr.Gibbon was listed as inactive by the Oregon State Bar soon after the last case February 13, 2002. Mr. Gibbon then relocated back to Utah and was admitted to the Utah State Bar on September 29, 2003. Law enforcement in Coos County, Oregon endangered the lives of school children, when they issued money to one of their agents for a commercial drivers license in a sting operation. Apparently, the South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team did not know their agent was Bi-Polar or that she had a well documented history of drug and alcohol abuse. See School Bus Driver at Hoax blogs. It was no secret here in Coos County that S.C.I.N.T. was in desperate need of the Edward Byrne Grant. See: Edward Byrne Grant Letter in reference material and Edward Bryne at Hoax Blogs. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles in 2002, they were not notified of Ms. Mavers mental illness as is required by her psychiatrist, and as a result she received her commercial drivers license without the proper evaluation. Ms. Mavers psychiatrist did not testify at any of the trials. Judge Hugh C. Downer declares Ms. Maver is "Not Credible" he also states: "Ms.Mavers memory is selective or she simply distorts matters". In our letter to the Oregon State Bar disciplinary counsel dated November 5, 2005. We point out that we were misled and learned that the credibility of ms. Maver would not be allowed in our appeals. George A. Riemer is now with the California State Bar. We have requested assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union and are being considered ! Jake's appeal, April 11,2008 was again postponed by the State of Oregon. After six years, the state is still playing for time in their effort to cover up the injustice that occured in Coos County, Oregon. All new website coming soon. We will follow the case to show how the state handles it's dirty laundry. |
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Part TwoAccording to the Oregon State Bar, Steven Gibbons was a Deputy District Attorney just out of law school and assigned to District Attorney Paul Burgetts office in Coquille, Oregon. Mr.Gibbon was appointed a Special Narcotics Prosecutor and assigned an office at SCINT headquarters in Coos Bay, Oregon.Several attorneys mentioned that the special narcotics prosecutors office made some mistakes during the Maver trials. One mistake was to leave the SCINT Team Expenditure Receipt Forms in the Discovery information. > SEE: Motion for Continuence, SCINT Forms 1+2, Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Special Prosecutor. The Scint Forms show how the confidential informant made money during the sting operation. Several attorneys were informed that the SCINT Forms were not admissible, one attorney believing that to be the case, left the forms in someones case file. Apparently, one attorney did not get the message, Mark Hendershott used several of the SCINT Forms in the defense of his client. Unlike the first trial, this was a twelve person jury trial. Mr. Hendershott used the SCINT Forms showing motel room, dated 5-8-01 and CDL fee, dated 11-13-00. Sergeant Smartt had trouble remembering just what the CDL stood for and Mr. Hendershott had to press the issue. Sergeant Smartt finally did admit that the CDL stood for Commercial Drivers License and at that moment the tape recorder broke and the trial went to recess. Mr. Hendershott makes reference to the fact that she was married to Mike Lavender. Ms. Maver replies she never took the name and Judge Gillespie states, she never took the name move on. Mr. Lavender was a convicted felon who served 10 years for attempted murder and once escaped from the Coos County jail. >SEE: SCINT Forms 1, Main Name Index and Balance of $108.00 (Judge Gillespie) The sting operation was code named operation hound dog and several SCINT Forms clearly show a suspect as hound dog. This person was not arrested with the 24 people in the press release and was in fact arrested days later by DEA agents. In Ms. Mavers first divorce (1992) she makes reference to this individual and it is clear that she had her own reasons (real or imagined) for seeing this person arrested. One attorney Mr. Dials, points out that Ms. Maver had a problem with his clients mother, for testifying in the same divorce, that the father was the better parent. Mr. Dials client was found not guilty. The suspect hound dog was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison. >SEE: Testimony C and Testimony B Part ThreeThe Public Defenders Office had to withdraw from these cases due to the fact that they had previously represented Barbara Ann Maver and had obtained confidential information that could be used to impeach the credibility of the states witness.One attorney Jeremiah J. Scannell stated he would have to withdraw because he had previously represented Barbara Ann Maver, aka, Barbara Ann Villers, the confidential informant in her divorce and am in possession of confidential information that can be used to impeach the credibility of the confidential informant. He also gives the case no. of the divorce. >See: Withdrawl x3 In Coos County Ms. Maver testified she took no medication for her mental illness during the sting operation because she is in control of her illness. In federal court she testified she took medication now and then. Sgt. Smartt testified he did not know she was Bi-Polar until the sting operation was over and the trials started. SCINT forms show Ms. Maver signed her name with a left slant, a right slant, and sometimes straight up and down. Many of the forms reveal she also had trouble signing her name on the line, and on one form signed her name three times. >See: transcripts B and SCINT Forms 1+2 SCINT forms also reveal that Ms. Maver received: $40.00 for motel room, a queen bed and frame, comforter [blue] pillow [pink] and sheet set [1]. $100.00 rent for new apartment/ CDL fee, $181.92 for utilities, $100.00 fuel for move [u-haul], $331.00 rent and deposit, $880.00 1st months rent and deposit, $200.00 rent for May, $ 100.00 no reason given, >See: SCINT Forms 1+2 One attorney William D. Dials whose client was found not guilty, filed a Motion for In Camera inspection of Ms. Mavers records with the Department of Human Resources for evidence of Ms. Mavers drug use, criminal activity, aberrant behavior and or psychological examinations. He also asked for the D.H.S. Child Protection Service records and to review the records of the Coos Bay-North Bend Housing Authority and the North Bend Bus Co. He also states that the confidential informant sought to entrap his client and that Ms. Maver was under investigation by the North Bend Bus Co. and the Coos Bay-North Bend Housing Authority for drug use during the sting operation when SCINT intervened on her behalf. See: >Exhibt A Part FourIn testimony A, William D. Dials points out that it is against the law to conduct drug transactions in homes where children are present.He ask Judge Gillespie to make Judicial Notice based on the fact that the confidential informant admitted to breaking the law. The body wire was excluded, however sergeant Smartt testifies they were parked near these transactions to record the conversations.These same people were charged with endangering the welfare of a minor and threatened to have their children removed from the homes if they did not accept the plea offer . In SCINT forms 1, is the transfer of a 1994 pick-up truck to Barbara Villers received by Barbara Maver and the document is signed by Kathy Smartt, Sergeant Smartts wife. Ms. Smartt transfered to the Department of Human Services on or about the time sergeant Smartt was transfered back to patrol. According to rumor it was the DHS who threatened to remove the children if they did not accept the plea offer. Of the 24 people arrested in the sting operation, six went to trial and none of these were charged with child endangerment. The first three were found guilty, the fourth defended by Sharon K. Mitchell was found not guilty (a one day trial) and the fifth defended by William D. Dials (a two day trial) was also found not guilty. The sixth and last case to go to trial in Coos County, was defended by Jesse Coggins and his client was found guilty. The states Deputy District Attorney and Special Narcotics Prosecutor Steve C Gibbon represented the state in all six cases. Federal trials began following the last case in Coos County and it is doubtful these trials would have occured had the last trial also been a not guilty verdict. Mr. Coggins worked in the same building (a two story house) as Sharon K. Mitchell and her office was in fact just downstairs from his. |
Last Updated: 07-19-2008
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On August 15 2001, the South Coast Interagency Narcotics Team conducted a sting operation that made front page headlines in the World Newspaper Coos Bay,Oregon.