Seeking Justice in a Corrupt Justice System

What do you get when you cross under-educated individuals with a corrupt justice system?.....CHAOS! As my husband awaits his next court date I am beginning to understand just how corrupt our system really is and why certain things have occured. Something is amiss at least in our community's system. My husband has not been in any trouble for over a year so why are the cops after him now when they had many opportunities in the past to nail him?
In 2004, Officer GM and Officer TM charged my husband with receiving stolen property which is a Class A misdemeanor. He was forced to pay restitution and the charge was placed on file with no finding pending two years good behavior.
However, my husband didn't remain on good behavior. On Memorial Day weekend 2005 he was driving home drunk from his brother's house. I had no idea where he was or what he was up too. I didn't hear from him until 10:30 the next morning when he called from jail. Apparently, that night about five minutes from home he was driving south in a north-bound lane and almost hit another vehicle according to police reports. The other vehicle happened to be a cruiser driven by none other than Officer GM. He fled but the officer caught up with him. The now Lt. MO and Officer GM charged him with OUI and disobeying an officer. The OUI was changed to reckless operation and disobeying was changed to disorderly conduct. He had to pay a fine, attend AA, loss of license for 2 months. He served two days in jail and 7 days on an electronic monitor. His suspension was postponed for two months because of the holiday season. The previous charge never came up. He was placed on good behavior for two years or else pay the rest of the fine and do the rest of the time.
One month after his license was reinstated he was bagged again. This time Officer GM and Officer FV nailed him for aggravated OUI on an OHRV and providing a false statement to a law enforcement officer. The aggravated part was dropped and the false statement was as dropped as long as he pled guilty to the OUI. He had to pay a fine and was ordered to AA. He lost his license for a year. He had to attend an alcohol intervention program. He was put on two-years good behavior or as always face doing the jail time and paying the rest of the fine. The previous charges of course never came up.
Later that same year in November he threatened to kill me. He was drunk. I called the cops. He took off on foot about five minutes before they got to the house. LT. MO and Officer MJ came three times that night before they were able to find him. I filed a POA. He and his brother stole my cash assistance and my urn containing my sister's remains. Her children live with my brother-in-law. When this all happened, they used the money, the urn, the children as a means to manipulate me. The police wouldn't listen. The court wouldn't listen. He got away with it. They stalked me. I couldn't pay my rent or my basic neccessities because they had my money. My case worker wouldn't listen. She actually told me to take my husband back. I caved and filed the form to have the restraining order dropped. When we went to court the judge who was female let my brother-in-law come in and sit down directly next to my husband. My brother-in-law did the majority of the talking accusing me of lying. He said I am just like his ex. He went on to explain what his ex was like. What did any of this have to do with our case? He should not have been allowed to do that. I left in tears but the restraining order was dropped. The only thing left was to talk to the state prosecutor who is now the chief of police. He agreed to change the bail conditions but only if my husband went to AA meetings first. He complied and was home shortly before Christmas. The chief told me to hang the new conditions on the refrigerator. The conditions included AA meetings, refraining from alcohol and drugs.
Around May of 2007, a couple of weeks before he was due in court for his trial, we came home one day from an outing to the mall. My youngest son and my granddaughter had stayed home with my husband. When I arrived home I found my husband on the couch rather out of it. His eyes were quite blood shot and glassy. My son was nowhere to be found. All my husband could recall was that a women came and picked him up. My husband's mood grew volatile and I began fearing for our safety. I called the cops. Officer TM and Officer FV came out. Officer FV asked if he was on probation. I tried explaining that he was out on bail but the other officer immediately cut me off and said no no no. Immediately everything was my fault like I'm the boy who cried wolf. I was asked what kind of drugs I'm on. I don't use. I was told to stop calling the cops. The male officer said I call at least once a week. That's a load. He gets me mixed up with my step-daughter I think. The other officer wanted to do something but the male officer said no not police business. I left with all of the children that night and stayed at their friend's house.
In the end, the criminal threatening charge was placed on file with no finding pending two years good behavior. The previous charges never came to play.
In August, we had a family reunion to go too. My husband knew who was going to be there. One individual being my ex-boyfriend. Hey, I didn't invite him. My husband didn't want to go. He stayed home with our granddaughter. While I was at the reunion my ex decides to let my neice and I practice driving his car. I drove it around the picnic tables in full view of all family members and other people who were there. I was only in the car for a minute or less.
When we got home my husband was drunk. My son tells him that I drove a car. He gets flipping mad. I'm not sure what he was mad more about. The fact that I drove or the fact that I drove HIS car. He calmed down for awhile but flipped out again. I tried calling his brother. He grabbed me and twisted my arms. My arms are sore. He grabs the phone from me. I try to email for help. I have dail-up. My boys get into it with him. He rips the phone from the wall and throws it outside. Soon he takes off. I am able to reconnect the telephone wires and get an email out to family. They call dispatch around 9:30pm and alert them that my husband twisted my arms and my phones are out. It takes the cops over an hour to get to my house. The now SGT CL asks me questions that I thought were purely insane. "Was he trying to stop you from doing anything?" I chose not to get a POA because I was hoping to save myself from all the crap I went through before. SGT CL said I would have the same protection under bail conditions. The next day LT MO and the chief arrested him on simple assault charges and obstructing the report of a crime or injury. The chief told me he'd be in touch with me in a couple of days. I ended up going to the PD myself. The bail was set at $5000. The chief said he did not intend on making any changes this time. Well two weeks went by. My neighbor's son came over one day and said he saw my husband at the corner store. That evening my brother-in-law called. He wanted to come over and pick up my huband's clothes. I agreed because we were getting along well. He picked up his things and called me back later on screaming at me accusing me of stealing my husband's jeans. I called the police the next day and reported it. I found out he got the bail dropped if he agreed to wear an alcohol monitoring anklet. He had to come to the house with the police to get his things to avoid problems after that. It didn't work. He came with LT MO. As he was leaving he turned to me and made an inappropriate comment. LT tells me over and over that it didn't fly with him and he's going to talk to the chief and see what the chief wants to do about. He also had guns and ammo which he wasn't suppose to be around. Why didn't the LT arrest him on the spot for violation of bail condtions? Why did he have to check with the chief? He never went back to jail. My brother-in-law started stalking me. I called the police and talked to the now CPL BK who said it's not police business and then he said my husband needs to come to the house to get his things. Specifially mentioned were items he already got. I freaked and the cop said you know you can't keep him from getting his stuff. At that point I said my nephew could come. I gave up and I filed my own motion to change the bail conditions so he could come home in the hopes that everyone would buzz off. My caseworker once again was telling me to take him back. Of course, so the state doesn't have to pay out welfare.
The chief agreed to allow verbal contact only. The simple assault charge was dropped and he was ordered to AA and 6 months in jail all suspended pending two years good behavior. This time around they brought up his previous charge of criminal threatening but agreed not to touch as part of the new plea bargain.
He has been clean and sober since August 5, 2007. He hasn't commited any more criminal acts since that night. About two weeks ago he received a notice from his attorney. The state prosecutor, CPL BK, is taking him back to court for a review hearing on the simple assault charge and obstructing charge. Why now are the cops after him when he's been good? We get to court and find out it's because he still owes the alcohol monitoring company around $500. The cops don't consider it good behavior even thought when asked if he's been on good behavior otherwise they answer yes. He is do back in court on December 11 unless he can pay off the guy by then. Through my research I found out that the individual who is owed the money is best friend's with the chief of police. He also is a sponsor of the chief's racing team. Further investgation shows that when my husband was put on this anklet he was only one of three individuals. It was a new system being tried. Basically my husband was a guinea pig. That is why they didn't arrest my husband when he broke his bail conditions. It would mess up their project. Instead they put me at risk. Now the cops are mad because he's not paying their buddy. My husband's attorney even came right out and said that he's giving the anklet project a bad rep. He didn't get what she meant. I get it. They needed a nice happy ending story to sell to people. They didn't get one with him.