Hello All,
I have recently gone through this in court (Criminal case)
I told the judge I was there In Propria Persona...
He ask WHAT?
I said it again, I was there In Propria Persona...
he asked me if I was representing myself?
I said I was there in Propria Persona,
He asked me again if I was representing myself?
I said I was there in Propria Persona,
He said if I don't answer yes or no I would be held in
contempt of court and asked me again
I said I do not wish to be contemptuous, but I was
there in Propria Persona,
and he said I was in contempt, and told the bailiff to arrest me.
I asked him if it was criminal or civil? he said criminal and
I asked who the injured party was.
And He ignored me and went on to the rest of the business of the court.
Later after everyone left he took a small break and came back out and asked
who the guy in the back of the court was and my friend said he was waiting for me.
I had time (Since I was being rushed earlier) to think about the way I
should respond
he asked again, if I wanted to represent myself?
I told him I was there Representing myself in Propria Persona.
He then continued on, They (The prosecuter Public Defender, and
Judge had quite a long conversation about my competency.
They decided that I probrobly was competent and the judge went
on to ask me a half million questions about my knowledge of court procedings.
Since I really do not think it will get that far I was answering them
as honestly as possible. Most of the questions were "I don't understand
that",... and "NO, I have never heard of that."
The end result was that they scheduled another pre-trail date and a Trial
date the next pretrial is on April 19th, The Trial is in May.
I have NO IDEA (Very scared might be the better term) what docs to file next.
I have filed several
here is the link to the ones I did file if anyone would
please take a look and let me know which direction I should go in.
It sure did seem like he was going to run right over me that day, and I
know that is what their job is is to run over us, but I can do more
from outside the cell than from inside the cell, and I believe I found
the happy medium we both wanted.
My next thought is to file motion for dismissal based on lack of
jurisdiction but do not know how to phrase what?
I know everything cannot be perfect but it sure does need to be right.
Not looking for legal advise just some help here.
John