Discovery - What Is Required - Grand Jury Secret - Matt Hart In The Lee County Case Of Mike Hubbard

Rickey Stokes

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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Apr 21 2016 8:10 PM

LEE COUNTY:    The law and courtroom is a fun mystery to me as is politics. Since age 15 I have been involved in the political world, law enforcement world and courtroom world. And I love the mystery and the “game”.

My passion though, and why I stay in drama, is when those in power abuse that power and take advantage of the people. And often times, the persons in the system forget they are dealing with people’s lives and families.

And most people can not, strength and financially, stand up to those in power. They have unlimited money, resources and power to alter or change someone’s life. And often times that power is abused.

I have been looking at the activities in Lee County Alabama, the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, and the case involving Mike Hubbard, Speaker of the House for the State of Alabama.

At the beginning, let me say, I do not know the evidence. And just because a prosecutor or law enforcement officer brings a case, that in no way means they are guilty of an offense.

MATT HART, The Prosecutor

We have heard a lot about Matt Hart, the Attorney General Prosecutor. And I have studied him and his tactics.

He is a former federal prosecutor. In fact, he indicted former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, when he was a Federal Prosecutor. He was working in the Birmingham Federal Prosceutor’s Office. Those cases got thrown out and Siegelman was later indicted in Montgomery Federal Court by another prosecutor and convicted.

Hart has attended seminars in South Carolina. Those seminars were led by prosecutors which convicted former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Those cases were ultimately thrown out because of prosecutorial misconduct.

But Hart’s mode of operation… he has a long and extensive Grand Jury. A fact in Lee County. He brings many witnesses in questioning them extensively in Grand Jury.

You see, Grand Jury is a secret event. All discussed in Grand Jury can not be disclosed. Well, except by the prosecutor.

A witness can not have their lawyer in the Grand Jury. There is no Judge, there is no attorney on the other side. Only the prosecutor.

They can ask leading questions, and get you in a box in a hurry. And your testimony is sworn under the penalties of perjury.

Hart is going to have done his homework on you before a person testifies. He will know your deep dark secrets. And if you wiggle on the questions, Hart will drop those deep dark secrets on you in order to scare and intimidate you. And when he does, you are like putty in his hands.

And then he indicts a couple along the way in order to scare others. As he did in the Lee County and Houston County Grand Juries. And both cases, Barry Moore and Bobby Snellgrove, the cases were lost by the Attorney General Office.

But, what Hart has locked the witnesses to is testimony. All 130 something people on his witness list, I bet 130 of them Hart already has their sworn testimony in Grand Jury.

Guess what? Hart is the only one who knows what they have said. He does not have to give to the defense team copies of the testimony. He does not have to disclose to them the testimony. And it is a criminal offense for that person to discuss that Grand Jury testimony with anyone. A felony offense.

So Matt Hart has tried his case before a Grand Jury. He knows what will be said. And he has gained the reputation of being hard to deal with and hard to handle. Ruthless.

Below are the laws on Grand Jury. Also scanned is the rules of discovery, what information a prosecutor is required to give to a defendant.

As you can see, a prosecutor is not required to give a lot of things to a person who is on trial.

And you can bet, Matt Hart has only given what he absolutely has to.

 

CODE OF ALABAMA 12-16-215   ALABAMA GRAND JURY SECRECY LAW

No past or present grand juror, past or present grand jury witness or grand jury reporter or stenographer shall willfully at any time directly or indirectly, conditionally or unconditionally, by any means whatever, reveal, disclose or divulge or attempt or endeavor to reveal, disclose or divulge or cause to be revealed, disclosed or divulged, any knowledge or information pertaining to any grand juror's questions, considerations, debates, deliberations, opinions or votes on any case, evidence, or other matter taken within or occurring before any grand jury of this state. Nor shall any person at any time, directly or indirectly, conditionally or unconditionally by any means whatever, corruptly or with intent to influence a grand juror or other person authorized by law to attend a grand jury, or by threat of harm to person or property, or by force applied to person or property, or by threatening letter or communication, or by offer of reward, remuneration, gift, benefit or thing of value of whatever nature or kind, obtain or endeavor to obtain, any information pertaining to, or any knowledge of any grand juror's questions, considerations, debates, deliberations, opinions or votes on any case, evidence or other matter taken or transpiring within or before any grand jury of this state. - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/12/16/8/2/12-16-215#sthash.R0PrrWk7.dpuf

CODE OF ALABAMA 12-16-216

No past or present grand juror, past or present grand jury witness or grand jury reporter or stenographer shall willfully at any time, directly or indirectly, conditionally or unconditionally, by any means whatever, reveal, disclose or divulge or endeavor to reveal, disclose or divulge or cause to be revealed, disclosed or divulged, any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any physical evidence presented to any grand jury of this state or any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any question propounded to any person within or before any grand jury or any comment made by any person in response thereto or any other evidence, testimony or conversation occurring or taken therein. Nor shall any person at any time directly or indirectly, conditionally or unconditionally, by any means whatever, corruptly or with intent to influence a grand juror or other person authorized by law to attend a grand jury, or by threats of harm to person or property, or by force applied to person or property or by threatening letter or communication, or by offer of reward, remuneration, gift, benefit or thing of value of whatever nature and kind, obtain or endeavor to obtain any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any physical evidence presented to any grand jury of this state, or any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any question propounded to any person within or before any grand jury, or any knowledge of the form, nature or content of any answer or comment made by any person in response thereto, or any other evidence, testimony, or conversation occurring or taken therein. Provided however, the State of Alabama shall not be precluded from using the testimony of a grand jury witness to impeach that witness's testimony in the trial of a criminal case, nor shall the State of Alabama be precluded from using grand jury testimony to prosecute a perjury warrant or indictment, nor shall the State of Alabama be precluded from using grand jury testimony in any manner otherwise permitted by law. Further, provided however, that grand jury evidence and testimony may be presented to grand juries of other circuits and jurisdictions upon the issuance of a proper grand jury subpoena.(Acts 1979, No. 79-457, p. 745, §3.) - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/12/16/8/2/12-16-216#sthash.UGShbk3s.dpuf

CODE OF ALABAMA 12-16-222   RIGHT TO COUNSEL

No provision of this division shall be construed to deny a witness or criminal defendant the right to confer with or be represented by counsel concerning his appearance within or testimony before a duly empaneled grand jury, provided however, nothing contained in this section shall be construed so as to permit or authorize such persons to be accompanied by counsel within a grand jury. - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/12/16/8/2/12-16-222#sthash.ozHxCxhY.dpuf

CODE OF ALABAMA 12 -16-225  PENALTIES

Any person violating the provisions of Sections 12-16-215 through 12-16-218 of this division, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years, or fined not more than $5,000.00, or both. - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/12/16/8/2/12-16-225#sthas

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