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September 6, 2007

Mr. Thomas E. Clay III, P.S.C.462 South Fourth Street1730 Meidinger Tower

Louisville. KY 40202-3209

Dear Mr. Clay,

On Monday, July 8, 2007, we spoke on the phone concerning a long list of what Iconsider to be violations of my civil rights at the hands of officers of the court in one or theother of Fayette, Scott, and Jessamine counties in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I reportedthat, from September 9, 1994 to 5 July 2007 I have been arrested roughly thirty times andcharged with numerous misdemeanors in one or another of these three counties. I also reportedto you that of the 42 charges brought against me in connection with these arrests no less than 28have been dismissed; furthermore, that the charges for which there were convictions were all

minor traffic violations. You remarked that either I had had very good lawyers over the years orthat there is something fishy. I told you that, in my opinion, something is fishy. You responded,in effect, wheres the beef?:

HENRYS WRITING THIS SECTIONIn XXXX I formed a business ... a legitimate buiness ...My refusal to cooperate was the initial cause of charges, of harassment, blah blah and

blah ... subsequent charges can be related to those first onesI do not expect you to buy a 10-year conspiracy right off the bat . However, I believe

each case willl stand and be proven on its on. The links and connections become obvious as youmove from one to the other. For time constraints and to make it easier to follow, we will start

with the most recent. Then, if you are interest, we can go case by case going backwrds ibn time.

On December 23, 2005, while returning from Nicholasville, Kentucky, to my home inLexington, I noticed that I was being followed by a Jessamine county police vehicle. I wasdriving a 1994 Chevy Astro Conversion Van registered in the Commonwealth of Kentuckyunder the name Jane Hignite, my mother. When I stopped for a red light, the police vehiclewas directly behind me. When the light turned green and I moved forward, the police officerturned on his flahing lights. I turned on my recording equipment and pulled over. The officer[B. King, badge number 560] approached the car and said HEY CHRIS ... he knew my name.He said he had seen me weaving. Without asking my permission or given me any reason, hesearched my person. He found a pipe and a few grams of marijuana. The officer arrested mefor possession of marijunaa and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officer King put me in cuffS in the back seat of his vehicle and returned to my mothersvan. I watched as he sat in the drivers seat emptying the glove compartment and the centerconsole of all of its paperwork, including vehicle documents and personal correspndence,holding each item up to the dome light to inspect it.


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When Officer King took me to jail my van ws to be left unattended at the side of the road.I was concerned about this because, in addition to vehicle documents, the van containedChrsitmas gifts for my nieces and nephews, and several expensive pieces of camera or computerequipment [a Sony Video Camera and camera bag, a Canon 35mm camera and camera bag, aToshiba laptop (blue and gray), a large blue mag-lite (4D Cell), an External DVD writer, and

three External hard drives (80 gig, 175 gig and 500 gig.)] Officer King told me that he hadlocked up the vehicle and turned everything off, that he would keep an eye on it, and that thevehivle and its contents would be safe until members of my family could retrieve them.

When my mother and sister arrived at the scene a few hours later, in the early morning ofDecember 24, 2005, the vans doors were unlocked, one door had been left open, hence the domelight had been left on and the vehicles battery was dead. The Christmas presents, the cameras,and the computer equipment were gone, and what remained of the vehicles paperwork wasscattered about the interior and the side of the road.

My mother and sister could not restart the van. They left it and came to the jail to see if I was

getting my medicine. I was not [see TREATMENT IN JAIL]. My family posted bond for$2000 and I was released fromjail at bably 3 p,m. on the afternooon of the 24th. It was obnlythen that we all together retrieved the van from the side of road where Officer King had left it.

Roughly four days from my release.REWRITE I am about to leave the house to visit a friend when someone calls from a privatemarked number and asks my mother if I am home. She gives the phone to me and an adult malevoice tells me if I am looking for some items they can be found at Southland Christian Church onthe stairs to the main entrance. I live pretty close to there so I hop in the car and head over there.I find there a black trash bag with most of the contents that were removed from the van in it. Ibring the bag home and after checking the contents, i find everything returned except for theChristmas presents, the 500 gigabyte drive and the large blue mag-lite.ELININATE The 500 gigabyte hard drive was one of two copies of documents, information,letters and investigations that I had been working on for almost ten years. This information allpertains to a book I had been writing on police corruption in Central Kentucky and an unsolvedmurder that I believe Police Officers committed.

BOND

CHRIS IS WRITING: TREATMENT IN JAIL: ankylosing spondylitis

At the time of my first Court appearance, January 17, 2006, by and through counsel, Ifiled a motion to direct the County Attorney to furnish a copy of the video tape taken by OfficerKings vehicle camera. The hearing of the charges against me was rescheduled.

At the time of my second Court appearance, February 28, 2006, the video had not beenprovided and the hearing was again rescheduled.

At the time of my third Court appearance, April 11, 2006, the video still had not beenprovided but the County Attorney offered to recommend to the judge that I serve no no jail timeif I would plead guilty to and pay the fines for the two charges, possession of marijuana and


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possession of drug paraphernalia. Through counsel I rejected this offer. The County Attorneythen offered to drop the first charge if I would plead guilty to and pay the fine for the secondcharge; furthermore, I would be placed on a two-year supervised probabtion with madatory drugtesting. Through counsel I rejected this offer. I informed the County Attorney that it was myconviction that Officer Kings video could not show what had not happened. My vehicle had not

been weaving on the night of December 23, 2005 and Officer King had no just cause forpulling me over. It was my conviction, furthermore, that my audio recording would differ fromOfficer Kings recording and would demonstrate that Officer King had no just cause to searchmy car or my person. Once again, the hearing of the charges against me was rescheduled.

Finally, by the time of my fourth Court appearance on 9 May 2006, Officer Kingsrecordings had been provided. My attorney informed the Judge that he, the Prosecutor, and theCounty Attorney wish to merge the marijuana with the parphernalia, $125 on the parphernaliaand 30 days probated for two years and the County Attorney states that Weve agreed to norandom drug screen and no KAPS due to extenuating circumstances relating to his [my] health.The Judge asked me what would be the extenuating circumstance? and I replied I haveankylosing spondylitis. After a brief exchange of questions and answers, the Judge said Oh,

okay and Alrighty and I was free to go my way.

THE VAN STORY

NO RETURN OF BOND

At 7:28 p.m.on 5 July 2007, while returning from Nicholasville, Kentucky to my home inLexington, I was pulled over by a Jessamine County police officer [Keith Brown, badge number530] who claimed that I had been speeding. After checking my dirvers license, he told me therewas a warrant for my arrest . We waited for roughly an hour before the warrant was produced bya second officer. On the basis of this warrant the officers searched my car and discovered a fewgrams of marijuna in the cars center console. The officers arrested me for violation of probationand for possesion of marijuana.

On July 19 2007, my attorney reminded Judge Booth of the proceedings in her court on 8May 2006: wish to merge the marijuana with the parphernalia, $125 on the parphernalia and 30days probated for two years and the County Attorney states that Weve agreed to no randomdrug screen and no KAPS due to extenuating circumstances relating to his [my] health. TheJudge asked me what would be the extenuating circumstance? and I replied I haveankylosing spondylitis. After a brief exchange of questions and answers, the Judge said Oh,okay and Alrighty and I was free to go my way. A video was ordered and the hearing of thecharges against me was rescheduled.

On August 14 2007, prior to the courts even being in session, the Judge in chambersacknowledged that the reasons given for issuing the warrrant were false, that the warrant itselfwas therefore false, and that the search based on it was therefore illegal. I was just entering theCourt House when my attorney greeted me with the news that all charges had been dismissedwith, he said, the Judges apology:

since there were no reasons whatsoever to issue a warrant for my arrest for violating theconditions of my probabtion, it follows that the reasons given on that warrant must be bogus.


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On November 15, 2006, Ellen Adams, Probabtion Supervisor swore to and subscribedbefore Carolyn Cooper, Notary Public, an Affidavit stating that I had violated the conditions ofmy probation in a material way by:

Failure to report to KAP for court-ordered monitoring.Failure to cooperate in obtaining a criminal record.

Failure to provide a valid address and telephone number.Client has bever had any contact with our office and we were not able to contact him.The facts of the matter are:

The court had agreed that there would be no KAP monitoring.I had not failed to cooperate with the police in their obtaining a criminal record. Indeed,

it beggars the imagination to comprehend why my cooperation would be requisite to theirobtaining one.

I had not failed to provide a valid address and telephone number. Furthermore, theCourts own records indicate that this address and phone number were at all relevant timesclearly available to the police, to the court, and to the Probabtion Supervisor.

There was absolutely no need that I contact the Probation office and that office was

perfectly capable of contacting me had the Probation Supervisor in fact wished to do so.

MISCELLANEOUS BLAHBLAHBLAH

The bond (in the amount of) for the arrrest on December 23, 2005 was never returned tome. Therefore on August 15 I returned to the Court House in Nicholasville to retrieve my bondsfor 2000 and 200 for the July 5th arrests. I had already turned on my recording equipment when Iwas told that bond money was always mailed to the persobn who had posted the bond. Iinformed the PERSON that I was recording oour conversation and I requested a copy of myBLAHBLAHBLAH record. She ....

Mr. Clay, I am sending you herewith a copy of the complete contents of this BLAH file.

2 things; this case / the conspiracy

look forward

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