Monday, April 11, 2016

PART II > POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS, MISFITS & PARASITES!



(#120) 11 April 2016, Vol.3, No.7 > PART II > POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS, MISFITS & PARASITES! 

 

 The POCAHONTAS CRIER
‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2


PART II > POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS, MISFITS & PARASITES, aka, Robert P. Martin!

Perhaps the MOST UNFORTUNATE aspect of politics here in Pocahontas County is that the same ‘Scheissekopfs’ keep trying to be recycled by the voters for lack of other choices in times past!  BUT NOW it seems that the only way to obtain employment in this county – above ‘MINIMUM-WAGE’ – is to run for public office!  So now we have a vast number of SCOUNDRELS, MISFITS & PARASITES all wanting to join the upper-level of PUBLIC WELFARE RECIPIENTS by grabbing some kind of public office just to live off the taxpayers still left in this county!

And make no mistake when we say SCOUNDRELS, MISFITS & PARASITES, we follow Webster by definition:

      SCOUNDREL: To hide; a person without principles or
          moral scruples; rascal; villain, base.

      MISFIT: To fail to fit properly; a misfitting; anything that
          misfits; a person not suited to his position, status, etc.

     PARASITE: one who eats at the table of another; a person who lives at others’ expense without making any useful return; a plant or animal that lives on or within another from which it derives its sustenance.

Therefore, without further ado, we request that each reader of this non-subscription-privately-owned &
operated ‘blogspot’ make up your own mind as to anyone referenced in this series now posing as a candidate as to whether our opinions are the same or different from your opinions of the candidates that we’ve chosen to illuminate accordingly based on information that we have obtained from both private as well as public sources! 
          Therefore Vote accordingly.

QUICK SUMMARY OF ROBERT P. MARTIN, running again for County Prosecutor:

To the best of our knowledge & belief (based on court documents filed in the Eleventh Circuit Court located in Marlinton, West Virginia):

Is this the same Robert Martin that ran & lost in 2012 for the same position of County Prosecutor?

Is this the same Robert Martin that was appointed Assistant County Prosecutor in 2012 by EUGENE SIMMONS, Current County Prosecutor, AND THEN FIRED BY EUGENE SIMMONS for still undisclosed reasons?

Is this the same Robert Martin that is the ‘private legal counsel’ for the ‘Three-Stooges’ on the County Commission and paid $36,000 of taxpayers’ money to ‘advise’ the ‘Three-Stooges’?

Is this the same Robert Martin that is the ‘private legal counsel’ for the county Board of Education (BOE) and paid $36,000 of taxpayers’ money to ‘advise’ the BOE?

Is this the same Robert Martin that is living off $72,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to USURP the same Duties & Responsibilities of the Office of the County Prosecutor for both the county commission & BOE?

Is this the same Robert Martin that left Pocahontas County in a mist-of-controversy three-decades ago to blend into the ‘Charleston Tapestry’ who then went on to Belize to blend into the shadowy tapestry of the ‘THE PINK MOTEL’, a reported brothel, in that Central American country?

Is this the same Robert Martin that when ‘under-the-influence’ of alcohol threw a can of beer at a fellow attorney and had an altercation on the steps of the WVU Law School leading to the Stadium prior to a football game?  [*See article below].

Is this the same Robert Martin that was written about in the WV Legal Journal on 26 July 2006 regarding the ‘BEER-CAN- INCIDENT’ that resulted in Case Number 05M-3017, as found in  
‘The Magistrate Court of Monongalia County, West Virginia’, where Martin was charged with ‘Battery’, offense date ‘11/02/2005’, for violation of W.V. Code 61-2-9C, with a ‘Summons’ date of ‘11/03/2005’, arraignment (plea) date of ‘11/15/2005’, and dismissal date  of 21 November 2005 since ‘the victim no longer wishes to pursue charges’?   [*See article below].

Is this the same Robert Martin that was involved in a SECOND INCIDENT resulting in a ‘Criminal Complaint’, also filed in ‘The Magistrate Court of Monongalia County, West Virginia’, Case No.12M-7854, Obstructing an Officer – violating WVC § 41-3-17; whereby the complaint states that Martin appeared to the arresting State Trooper Officers as being under-the-influence of alcohol, which was admitted to by Martin?

Is this the same Robert Martin, along with a fellow associate, while blending into the ‘Charleston Tapestry’ in 1992, that represented a client in an appeal before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in which certain statements were made and interpreted by the Court to be ‘erroneous and/or unsupported’ and therefore lead to Martin’s suspension from the practice of law in the federal court system?

Is this the same Robert Martin when suspended from the practice of law in the federal court system was then charged in a ‘reciprocal disciplinary’ action by the West Virginia State Bar Association in a civil action styled, Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. Robert P. Martin, et al., Case No. 21485, in the Supreme Court of Appeals dated 24 November 1992, in which at ¶ 6, the record shows that ‘[T]he suspension order of the Fourth Circuit found that the disciplinary action was warranted against the Respondents because of alleged misstatements made in a brief and reply brief filed on behalf of their client….’ ?

*HERE IS THE ARTICLE DEALING WITH THE ‘BEER CAN INCIDENT’: 

Martin speaks out about fight

Martin
CHARLESTON - Eight months after the battery charge against him was dropped, Charleston attorney Robert Martin says he has issued an apology to everyone who deserves one.

That doesn't include the fellow lawyer he admits to assaulting.

Martin, an insurance defense attorney with Bailey and Wyant, made that clear when he spoke about the incident Monday.  In November, Michael Fisher filed a complaint with a Monongalia County magistrate stating Martin had struck him with a beer can and punched him in the head before a West Virginia University football game.

"I apologized to everyone who matters except him and (Martin's ex-wife Cheryl Simpson)," Martin said. " I'm not going to apologize to them about anything.  They deserve more than what they got ."

Martin graduated from WVU's College of Law in 1979 and since then has fought in a courtroom in every county in the state.  He admits to hitting Fisher in the chest with a nearly full beer can when he spotted him walking through the law school parking lot with Simpson.

Martin says Simpson and Fisher, who both work at Offutt, Fisher and Nord in Charleston, were having an affair and offered a copy of their reservations for a trip to Miami last August as proof.

He also says he had nearly 30 phone calls from fellow attorneys who said they spotted Simpson and Fisher acting "a little too close" at Stonewall Resort in Lewis County while he was still married to Simpson.

Fisher could not be reached for comment.

"Here they come walking up the stairs of the law school, and I threw that beer as hard as I could and hit him in the chest with him," Martin said. " Then I invited him, with some very colorful language, to come up the stairs."

When Fisher stumbled coming up the stairs, Martin said he began punching him and knocked him to the ground before some law students pulled him off.

Martin says he broke three fingers in the fight, which might sound like a drunken brawl to some.  But Martin claims he hadn't touched alcohol all day before being given the beer he hit Fisher with, and that he had only taken a sip out of it before throwing it.

"I'd been married to her for five years and there's no way in hell I could ever get her to go to a football game," Martin said. "  I went up with one of my sons. I have a house in Morgantown.  I had not a thing to drink, honest to God, before I went up to meet some friends in the law school parking lot."

After the incident, Fisher filed a complaint in Monongalia Magistrate Court. It was dropped a few days later after a meeting between the two.

Fisher's letter to Monongalia Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dimas Reyes says, " I have had a meeting with Mr. Martin in which he has assured me that he does intend to engage in any further inappropriate conduct toward me." [sic]

Martin says it wasn't as civil as that statement sounds.

"I hired a lawyer and then (Fisher) asked to meet with me because he didn't want it to happen again," Martin said. " I met with him and explained to him why he was a moron and that he hadn't given any thought to that warrant."

Martin says the reason Fisher dropped the charges was to avoid he and Simpson being called as witnesses and having the entire situation recorded.

Afterwards, Martin said his previous firm -- Campbell, Woods, Bagley, Emerson, McNeer and Herndon -- supported him, as did the state Bar.  His later relocation to Bailey and Wyant was merely coincidental.

He insists that the incident has not hurt his reputation as an attorney.

"After the thing hit the paper and it was on channel 3, I got tons of e-mails and phone calls from people saying, 'I'm sorry but way to go,'" he said. " A lot of people felt the apology was appropriate.  I'm a relatively well-known lawyer, (and) I shouldn't have done that.

"It's had no impact on me.  If I was a plaintiffs lawyer, it would've helped."

He even joked it could've been the start of a new advertising campaign.

"Some people have had some great ideas for ads," he said, "like, 'Bob Martin is proven fighter' and 'He will fight for you.'"

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Within the above article the following elements stand out as ADMISSIONS by alleged ‘law-enforcement’ candidate Robert P. Martin which goes to the issues of impropriety and the appearance of impropriety’ & ‘moral turpitude’!

·        ‘[H]e has issued an apology to everyone who deserves one’;
·       ‘[D]oesn’t include the fellow lawyer he admits assaulting;
·       He had struck Michael Fisher ‘with a beer can and punched him in the head before a West Virginia University football game’;
·       That Fisher and his ex-wife ‘deserve more than what they got’;
·       ‘[T]o hitting Fisher in the chest with a nearly full beer can when he spotted him walking through the law school parking lot with Simpson’;
·       ‘Here they come walking up the stairs of the law school, and I threw that beer as hard as I could and hit him in the chest with him…[T]hen I invited him, with some very colorful language to come up the stairs’ [sic];
·       ‘When Fisher stumbled coming up the stairs, Martin said he began punching him and knocked him to the ground before some law students pulled him off’;
·       ‘[H]e hadn’t touched alcohol all day before being given the beer he hit Fisher with, and that he had only taken a sip out of it before throwing it’;
·       ‘I hired a lawyer and then (Fisher) asked to meet with me because he didn’t want it to happen again…I met with him and explained to him why he was a moron and that he [Martin] hadn’t given any thought to that warrant;
·       ‘He insists that the incident has not hurt his reputation as an attorney;
·       “After the thing hit the paper and it was on channel 3, I got tons of e-mails and phone calls from people saying, ‘I’m sorry but way to go’;
·       It had no impact on me.  If I was a plaintiff’s lawyer, it would’ve helped’;
·       ‘He even joked it could’ve been the start of a new advertising campaign’; and,
·       “Some people have had some great ideas for ads…like, ‘Bob Martin is proven fighter’ [sic] and ‘He will fight for you.’”. 

DO THE PEOPLE OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY REALLY NEED SOMEONE LIKE MARTIN IN ‘PUBLIC OFFICE’ LIVING OFF TAXPAYERS’ MONEY RISKING ‘IMPROPRIETY AND THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY’ AND ENGAGED IN ‘MORAL TURPITUDE’?

As an attorney, aka, so-called 'Officer of the Court', Martin was able to wiggle out of being prosecuted, fined, and/or imprisoned – but do you think any rank & file Citizen would get the same leniency from even Martin himself if Martin were elected county prosecutor…or would a rank & file Citizen have ‘the book’ thrown at them?  Martin’s checkered-career shows he may have very little respect or concern for the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, the Model Code of Professional Responsibility for lawyers, or the Model Rules of Professional Conduct!

THIS TIME AROUND WE HERE AT CRIER HQ –BELIEVE THAT WE CITIZENS CAN DO BETTER SINCE WE HAVE EUGENE SIMMONS AS OUR CURRENT OPTION FOR COUNTY PROSECUTOR OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY INSTEAD OF RECYCLING SOMEONE LIKE MARTIN WITH SUCH A QUESTIONABLE CHECKERED-CAREER…and seems to enjoy living off taxpayer’s money!

LET’S JUST RE-ELECT EUGENE SIMMONS AS OUR COUNTY PROSECUTOR…AT LEAST HE IS CIVIL & ACTS LIKE A GENTLEMAN!

ONE WAY OR ANOTHER…WE ALL REAP WHAT WE HAVE SOWN…& then some!


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