Trial of Paul Pat Morse: Justice Served?

On September 2nd of this year District Court Judge Sharon DeVries failed in her responsibility to uphold the United States Constitution. Judge DeVries had an obligation under Article 6 of the United States Constitution to uphold international law, also known as the Supreme Law of the Land.
My case of disorderly conduct was argued before Judge DeVries as one of competing harms. Where a person is permitted (New Hampshire Law: RSA 627:3) to break a law if doing so prevents a greater harm. The charge of disorderly conduct arose out of my lying down in Market Square in Portsmouth on April 11th of this year. That action was done in an attempt to stop our government from killing innocent Iraqi civilians and from using Depleted Uranium Munitions, both of which are immoral and illegal and are considered war crimes.
Judge DeVries made a grave error in refusing to consider international law which she is bound to uphold. She dismissed my arguments as irrelevant to the case. She refused to let an expert witness, Dr. Daniel Bishop, testify about the use and effects of Depleted Uranium. She refused to have a brief, composed by the National Lawyers Guild, entered into evidence. A brief outlining the legal authority under which I acted. In turning a blind eye to the evidence presented and to the law governing this case Judge DeVries opened herself up to being charged with complicity in war crimes. Using the United States¹ signing of international agreements in the United Nations, The Nuremberg Tribunals, and the World Court, I did indeed present Judge DeVries with a Citizen¹s Complaint charging her with Complicity in War Crimes.
The judge found me guilty as charged and, because I refused to pay the fine, she sentenced me to 12 days in Rockingham County House of Corrections. I offered to perform community service as an alternative to incarceration. But DeVries would have none of that. The jail sentence stood.
At this point I have to ask the question, how does it benefit the community to lock me up for 12 days at a cost to the taxpayer of over $1000.00 to pay off a $240 fine? I had even offered to put energy into the community by performing community service to pay off the fine. If Judge DeVries had accepted my offer of community service the community would certainly have benefited. As it turned out taxpayers were raked over the coals and punished along with me.
Is Judge Sharon DeVries a vindictive and irresponsible judge because she imposes jail sentences instead of community service? She has been charged with Complicity in War Crimes. Is she a war criminal who ignores international laws? According to the math, is she wasteful of the taxpayers¹ money? Does she show a lack of concern and compassion for people? Is she narrow minded and ignorant? Is Sharon DeVries the type of person we want sitting in judgement of our citizens or should she be removed from the bench?
If my case had been the only one I had witnessed Judge DeVries at work on I wouldn¹t have much of a perspective. As it is though, I watched her at work on a number of cases and this is what I observed. She is a person who seems at first to want to do the right thing. Yet she consistently falls short.
For example I saw her work on the case of a young man who had been drinking and driving. She told him if he attended a program that she would not fine him. He said that he would rather pay the fine. Where would he get the money, Judge DeVries wanted to know? He didn¹t have a job. The money would come from his mother. The judge gave it her ok. To me, that was a very bad choice by the judge. She actually acted as an enabler. She let the man get off without attending the program and let his mother pay the fine. It cost him nothing.
Another example was a woman arrested for driving with her license expired. She had apparently forgotten to renew it. Instead of just telling the woman to go renew her license the judge fined her $80. What¹s the point? Why should that woman get penalized for a memory lapse? These are typical cases that came before Judge DeVries and the usual outcomes. There remains the question of whether there is justice in the courtroom of Judge Sharon DeVries.

Paul Pat Morse is as free as a bird and writing madly in Barrington NH before winter sets in.

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