The RICO case against members and associates of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Columbia, South Carolina is Orwellian. The post-arrest, pretrial trap the prosecution built and baited for the lead defendant in the Case, Daniel Eugene “Diamond Dan” Bifield, proves that. O’Brien (first name redacted for reasons of state security) would have been proud.
Dan Bifield, who was the principal target of simultaneous federal investigations in North and South Carolina, pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy on January 3. He confessed his guilt, in his own words, to “help Lisa.” Bifield, who maintains he was entrapped and lied about, explained why he agreed to plead guilty.
What Dan Bifield Thought
“I’m taking a plea deal,” he wrote. “I’m not doing this for myself. I’m doing it for my wife Lisa.”
“They have offered my wife 14 years to plead guilty and if she goes to trial and gets found guilty they’ll ask for the 20 years. Her lawyer, family and friends are telling her to take the deal and not go to trial. Lisa is so afraid and worried about not seeing or being with her 14-year-old daughter! I feel so bad for her and I am so worried about her. Being the man I am and her husband I have no choice but to help her.
“So I am pleading guilty to conspiracy to RICO and I will receive 20 years. They will drop all charges against my wife except for one gun charge which she will plead guilty to and be sentenced to five years. But, she should be home in about three years or maybe less if the judge decides! I really didn’t like the deal because I wanted her to go home with no more time or very little time. But this is a one time deal only and they gave me a week to decide. It’s more like extortion than a plea deal!
“I told the lawyers I wanted to see and talk to my wife before I did anything so they set up a visit for us on Thursday (December 27, 2012). My lawyers were there, the prosecutors, my wife and her lawyer. I asked everybody to leave the room so I could talk to Lisa. They left one person to watch us.
“I asked Lisa what she wanted to do. She said ‘Please take the deal so I can go home to my daughter again.’ She said, ‘I am so scared to go to trial and that we’ll lose!’ She said, ‘I’ll always love you and when I come home I’ll come see you and take care of you.’
“So I kissed her and I signed the plea agreement.”
Justice In Hell
Lisa Bifield, Dan Bifield’s wife, had already helped herself. She made a secret deal with the inquisitors supervising the case last July. The deal, simply stated was, “Take him, not me. I promise I’ll give you anything you want.”
Dan Bifield found out last Friday. Friends described him as “surprised.” Reliable sources have said his lawyers were also surprised.
The prosecutors – starting with United States Attorney William N. Nettles – whose jobs are to seek justice and truth on behalf of all the people and who are all officially presumed to be truthful in the course of their duties, turn out to be a cabal of lying sons of bitches. An informed source said that it is easy to underestimate “to what extent Lisa, her attorney, and the Feds went to hide her deal and that she was cooperating They all lied to Dan and his attorneys to pressure Dan to plea. He thought he was helping Lisa and her deal was already made. They all lied to Dan and his attorney’s to get him to plead.”
Another source said that Mrs. Bifield may be as immoral as a federal prosecutor. “I think she flipped because she cares about only one person…herself.” Whatever her motivations are, her cooperation was essential to the production of a superseding indictment last September.
There are strong indications that three other defendants in the case may also be cooperating with prosecutors. It is at least possible that these defendants are also victims of prosecutorial psychopathy. They may or may not have been blackmailed or duped into testifying. Whatever they do or don’t say, they did not make the case.
The case against Dan and Lisa Bifield and 18 other defendants was made by a small cadre of five informants who were paid to find what prosecutors wanted them to find. The names of all five are still officially secret. They are all identified in legally obtained documents as Confidential Human Sources. Their names, and a taste of official statements about their parts in the investigation follow.
CHS-1
The investigation began with a tip from Confidential Human Source Number 1. CHS-1 was Rodger ‘Screwy’ Totherow, the manager of a Rock Hill, South Carolina nightclub.
“CHS-1 stated “in December 2009 he sold an ‘8-ball’ of cocaine to Bifield. CHS-1 began working as a confidential source for the FBI in October 2010 and continued cooperating until he was deactivated as a source in December 2010.”
“CHS-1’s primary motivation was financial gain. However, CHS-1 first began working as a source to receive law enforcement assistance with gun and drug charges. CHS-1 confirmed Bifield’s leadership….”
CHS-2
“CHS-2 (Marty ‘Cowboy’ Deloach) began working as a confidential source for the FBI in March 2011. CHS-2’s primary motivations have been financial gain and the betterment of the community.”
CHS-3
“In March 2011 CHS-3 (Joseph Dilulio) was interviewed. CHS-3 knows Bifield and other HAs….”
“CHS-3 advised that Dan Bifield, Bruce Long and Jason Fogle were selling what CHS-3 believed was stolen property (gold) to him during the previous two or three months.”
“CHS-3 borrowed $10,000 through Bifield and Long. Bifield demanded that CHS-3 pay $500 in interest every week.”
“CHS-3 advised that Bifield would meet various people at CHS-3’s store and pass out envelopes with money in them. Bifield told CHS-3 that he was sellin ‘8-balls.’
“During a January 5, 2012 meeting, CHS-3 arranged to buy 8 ounces of “clear” (which Agent Mahoney explained is code for methamphetamine) for $16,000.”
“…in a recorded meeting, CHS-3 paid Oiler $36,000 in advance for a kilogram of cocaine.”
CHS-4
“In April 2011 CHS-4, (Anthony Lang acting with his girlfriend Brandy Mitchum) began working as a confidential source for the FBI and continued until May 2011.”
“CHS-4’s primary motivation has been financial gain, however he first began working as a source to receive law enforcement assistance with state larceny charges.”
“CHS-4 was made aware that he would be required to testify when he purchased contraband under the direction of agents.”
“CHS-4’s girlfriend told Bifield that CHS-4 has stolen electronics from cars in Rock Hill.”
“Bifield told CHS-4 that he wanted him to steal electronics for him. Bifield said he would pay CHS-4 with stolen jewelry.”
“CHS-4 said Bifield asked him about transporting a big load of meth.”
“CHS-4, provided information that Kerry Chitwood of the Southern Gentlemen purchased cocaine from someone named Carlos. Although CHS-4 did not know Carlos’s last name, he did know that Carlos owned a business named Hi-Tech Stucco and that Carlos’s workers delivered cocaine while driving Hi-Tech Stucco work trucks. CHS-4 also revealed that Carlos’s employees had transported methamphetamine in a Hi-Tech Stucco work truck to Chitwood at the Southern Gentlemen clubhouse.”
“The information provided by CHS-4 supported probable Cause.”
“CHS-4 was not an anonymous tipster but an individual identified by officers as a potential trial witness. CHS-4 provided information about Kerry Chitwood despite his fear of motorcycle gangs. The willingness of CHS-4 to provide this information and potentially serve as a witness also supports the credibility of his statements; when CHS-4 does testify at trial, his identity will be revealed to the defendants. It is less likely that an informant will provide false information about individuals whom the informant fears when the informant knows that his identity may have to be disclosed to those individuals.”
“Materials concerning this individual shall be produced by the Government to defense counsel five (5) business days prior to the individual being called as a witness in the trial of this matter.”
January 29th, 2013 at 5:28 pm
Its amazing the lives people will ruin just to save their own asses. I would like to say thanks for screwing up my families lives so you could make some money and have a get out of jail free card. I hope you rot in hell!!!!
January 29th, 2013 at 6:31 pm
This… Is fucked up on so many levels. Rebel thank’s for the info. Fyi the “source” I have said they will email you any info they get as they hear it. I am so pissed right now… Dan,all I can say is i’m sorry,brother. I’m here for you.
The only good rat is fish bait,
Caretaker
January 29th, 2013 at 7:57 pm
This whole thing stinks of entrapment to no end,
and should be simple for any jury to see.
FTF FTP FTG
ACAB
SYL81
January 29th, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Another man raped by a woman!
ALL SNITCHES MUST DIE.
uncle don
January 29th, 2013 at 8:31 pm
The subjects of this story should have had the foresight to have remained vegetarians. Obviously, they can’t handle their beef.
Long May You Ride (to those that deserve to),
Paladin
January 29th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
Entrapment, or “sting”perations are perfectly legal and commonly used by all the alphabet-soup gang.
Or so says the Prostitutor in my case, and as confirmed by my attorneys.
Fucking scum.
FTF/FTP
TOSIAR
5 to 1
SYLO
January 29th, 2013 at 9:09 pm
Fucking women…. I feel sorry for anyone betrayed by someone they love and sacrifice for, especially when the sacrifice is a great as Dan’s.
January 29th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
Unfortunately, the US supreme court has limited the entrapment defense so that questioning and attacking the conduct of the government agents cannot succeed if the government can indicate a predisposition to commit a crime.
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1620&context=facpubs&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dentrapment%2520supreme%2520court%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D7%26sqi%3D2%26ved%3D0CGEQFjAG%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fscholarship.law.wm.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1620%2526context%253Dfacpubs%26ei%3Dia0IUe_gBpLe8wT6soDQCQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNE8NZn-5tmuuhwhd4MGMGw6repOeQ#search=%22entrapment%20supreme%20court%22
January 29th, 2013 at 11:54 pm
So, she got him to sign a deal knowing that she was already off the hook? He’s willing to give up his life and freedom for her and she burnt him. I’m fucking floored. Worthless. If she’s willing to fuck someone over who would die for her than she would burn her own blood to save her ass. No loyalty. If you can’t handle jail go be a fucking Girl Scout.
January 29th, 2013 at 11:57 pm
One last thing, a rat is a rat, male or female. There’s no good reason for opening your cocksucker and working with the cops, NO MATTER WHAT!
January 30th, 2013 at 12:28 am
Oh….the times….they are….a….changin’
January 30th, 2013 at 6:40 am
And, like I was sayin’, rats should get hit as they cross the road by loaded cement trucks and left to fill in the cracks. Those who defend rats are just as useless and as steamy a pile of fresh dog shit as the rat themself.
January 30th, 2013 at 6:45 am
There is no fucking excuse for a rat.The old saying don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.This apears to be where a bunch of posers tried to play bad ass.When the shit hit the fan it was every man and woman for there selves.What sucks about shit like this is how many lives get fucked up.Once the alphabet army gets going they get into a feeding frenzy.There is no end to there pit bull attitude until all involved are totally fucked.I have no dog in this fight other than hate to see inocent people getting fucked by no good rat bastards.Good luck to the few that aren’t rats.Too many people getting screwed every day by fucking rats.
Hose-a 1%er Pagan’s M.C. Retired F.T.F.
January 30th, 2013 at 6:49 am
Rebel thanks for all of the updates.Keep up the good work and thanks for providing a place too vent.
Hose-a 1%er Pagan’s M.C. Retired F.T.F.
January 30th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Wow, Dan’s reaction of being “suprised” has to be the understatement of the decade. At least I know my reaction would have been much more over the top. There are no words to say how deep that cuts a person. Fuck the alphabet soup, their lies and those that choose to lie in the same bed with them.
Rebel, thanks for the updates and having the stones to put info out there and tell it like it is.
January 30th, 2013 at 9:17 am
I’ve been reading up more on the entrapment defense, and a term I’ve encountered a few times is “shocks the conscience of justice.” It may be that this case does just that from a legal perspective as well as from the common sense perspective, as it obviously does. Yeah, I’m playing armchair lawyer, but I’m probably better at it than the average government paid public defender or small town fixer (IMHO).
As I understand it, if the defense in a case presents evidence of government manipulation (entrapment) of a crime (which should be allowed, according to every case I’ve read and is known as “the objective standard”), the persecution will try to prove that the defendant(s) were predisposed to commit the crime (“the subjective standard”, where the persecution gets to try to read the defendants’ minds). Unfortunately, the subjective standard is the one that the courts favor, and this judge will likely instruct the jury to give it greater weight. But the jury is human, and might find that their conscience is shocked by the conduct of the government. The persecution might have done itself more harm than good, when it manipulated Dan Bifield into a guilty plea on behalf of his wife, who had already switched sides (I’d think that anybody with a conscience should reject any set of circumstances where person A is held hostage so that person B will plead guilty, especially when person A has been turned and is just pretending to be a hostage. Its kinda like when some young woman pretends to be kidnapped so that her loving parents will pay the ransom.)
South Carolina juries are notoriously pro-law enforcement. But South Carolinians have become increasingly anti-federal government also. The remaining defendants might just have a chance if their lawyers give it their best (another long shot) to put the government on trial. If the lawyers work it into their arguments that the whole case is an orchestration by the same federal agency that gave them Operation Fast and Furious, the jury might direct anger towards the government.
Just random thoughts. I wish the defendants and their loved ones the best.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:06 am
I would have to agree with Glenn S. on this matter, but only theoretically, theoretically, yes, the defense should be able to argue entrapment. But I think that the prosecution will just make counter arguments that the overt acts within this case were not cases of entrapment because the Confidential Human Sources just facilitated in controlled buys and exchanges of drugs, contraband, and property with the defendants. Unfortunately the judge will side with the prosecution on most accounts but will hopefully throw out some of the overt acts because of some legal or investigating irregularity. The prosecution will go on and on about motorcycle gangs, patches, orders, money, dues money, heirarchy, the colors red and white, the winged death head, and on and on. Guns, drugs, and other damning evidence will be paraded in front of the jury over and over. Countless law enforcement officers and the informants will paint a story organized crime and fighting for drug markets and territory.
The prosecution will most likely question their own informants about why they are willing and wanting to testify in order to weaken the defense’s ability to criticize the witnesses testimony.
I agree with Glenn and think that the defense’s best strategy is to go hard against the government and argue that the feds motivation is not truth and justice but rather yet another attempt to gain more convictions and that a RICO trial is an easier way to lock up multiple people at a time with less legal effort to prove someone’s guilty.
Hopefully the remaining defendants are removed enough from the guise of the feds and informants during this investigation that their only “strong” link in this case is in fact just their association. If so, some guys might walk.
If the defense team going to trial, go all out, during trial and get every little criticism and procedurial wrong doing into the transcript they will have a better chance at beating their RICO conviction in the appeals.
January 30th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Well stated Glenn S., my thoughts exactly.
This situation just keeps getting more and more tragic with lots of wicked and vile shit going down. No matter what team your on or have loyalties for no one with a once of honor can view this case as acceptable or just that the “other guys” got fucked by the feds. We being motorcyclists, Club members, citizens, taxpayors and represented via constituency by these fuckers everyone should be enraged by what is unfolding in this case.
Fuck every last one of these whale turd feds right in their scawny stump of a neck.
VFFV LVDV
Viva Los Vagos
January 30th, 2013 at 10:08 am
Dear Fuck Cops,
I am not sure how black and white this case is. I see lots of grey. I still have not seen a copy of Lisa Bifield’s plea deal. Even when I do I still do not know what some sleazoid prosecutor told her, or had his paralegal tell her. I believe the woman is honestly distraught and I suspect she has an incentive based deal. Just like a carpet salesman, she probably has to accomplish certain goals that equate to certain reductions in her potential sentence. What the government has done to the Bifields is a tragedy. There are a lot of tragedies in the case. The Bifields’ tragedy is just the easiest to point out to people.
The Confidential Human Sources are something different. I am much less sympathetic toward them. They didn’t have to do what they did. And, I happen to think that at least some of the secrecy in this case results from prosecutorial shame. Prosecutors ruined all these lives just to add a couple of lines to their resumes. I think they should be ashamed.
Rebel
January 30th, 2013 at 10:12 am
Dear Jim666,
The government has already moved to forbid the entrapment defense.
Rebel
January 30th, 2013 at 10:34 am
AVAGOVFFV said it perfectly. This is not about what color is on our back, this is about, tomorrow, the same shit can happen to us. Fucking sad state of affairs we are looking at here.
Respect.
January 30th, 2013 at 11:12 am
First many thanks to Reb on your website and especially for your expose on this Rochk Hill case and thanks to your regular postes. They are entertaing and eductional, that guy Glenn is “smarter than the average bear”. Every time I get ready to post this story takes another ugly twist. This whole entrapment debacle makes me wonder if the feds might have just overplayed their hand and possibly a human rights organization could intervene? Is there any possibility that Dan’s plea could be reversed? Thanks.
Out
January 30th, 2013 at 11:13 am
First many thanks to Reb on your website and especially for your expose on this Rochk Hill case and thanks to your regular posts. They are entertaing and eductional, that guy Glenn is “smarter than the average bear”. Every time I get ready to post this story takes another ugly twist. This whole entrapment debacle makes me wonder if the feds might have just overplayed their hand and possibly a human rights organization could intervene? Is there any possibility that Dan’s plea could be reversed? Thanks.
Out
January 30th, 2013 at 11:57 am
I agree with Rebel about the amount of grey area in this case. Unfortunately from past history, the grey area seems to work against the defendants. Hypothetically speaking, $36,000 was given to HCS-1 by the feds for the purchase of a kilo of coke. On a wire tap conversation, a discussion is heard about the potential drug sale to a club member. That club member says there is no way I can get that amount and the money is returned to the feds. The INTENT of a sale was there. Also, the bit on the “robbery” and need of guns is also a problem. They could have made very legal gun sales and never knew what they were intended for, but the feds, fighting for truth, justice, and the American way, and have “no reason to lie” say in court that they made it clear the guns were to be used in a felony. Yeah, there’s a lot of grey here and the feds love to use it against the defence.
I am hoping for the best for those going the distance, but expecting the worst. Fuck those slimy fed bastards!
L&R,
warthog
FTP FTF FTW
January 30th, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Well Rebel after reading Glenn`s comment i was hoping they Dan, Dave, & the rest could mabey retract their pleas and or have a logical defense against the Government fabricated charges, {It does however hurt the others chances of fair trial if there ever was any chance}
that there are rats in the mix.That are only ratting to save their own asses from other previous charges.
This is the most Blantent use of entrapment and federal fabrication as Ive ever seen, and should be more than obvious to any jurer,lawyer,judge,shit my 3 yr old would see this,
Now im sure the judge has instructed the rats not to let the jury know they got deals to save their own sorry asses if they testifie rite ?
There is so much bullshit info, lies,and manipulation that will be dericted to the jury and so much truth that will not be allowed,
This whole act of Fabrication by the feds, and treachary by the rats is beyond discusting, Fuck all these federal dick suckers and snitches as well.
Rebel, this is way beyond fucked up.
There is no Justus in America.
AVAGO
Well said, as usual.
FTF FTP FTG
ACAB/ACAC
SYL81
January 30th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Forgot to add
Happy Birth day to Gravel Dave HAMC ROCK HELL NOMADS yesterday.
If you see this man hang tough,stay strong,you have a lot of people pulling for all of you that remain true,
L&R,Jim
January 30th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
FTF/FTP
TOSIAR
5 to 1
SYLO
January 30th, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Dear Dan L.,
The feds entrap and overcharge people. That’s just what they do. If you face a federal charge, if you are a person of average means, the best you can do is survive a very tough year as the prosecution winds down and bankruptcy. If you have the means to hire your own attorney he and the feds will eat all your money and you will wind up with a public defender. If you belong to a motorcycle club, your home will probably be wrecked and your pets killed on the day they arrest you. If your club brothers start a legal defense fund for you the feds will use that fact to allege your club is a criminal conspiracy in the superseding indictment. That’s just the reality of a federal criminal case.
This case dirtier in some aspects than other cases I have covered. I happen to think the business about using the wivers to leverage the defendants is unusual but the ATF uses women all the time. In the Rock Hill case, the feds have not overplayed their hand. This case is largely business as usual.
Amnesty International ain’t ridin’ to the rescue.
I believe that their might, maybe be some discussion about Dan Bifield withdrawing his plea. I don’t know what he is going to do. From a purely professional, journalistic standpoint I hope he does because I believe the withdrawl motion would be a doozy and very informative. From a personal standpoint I hope the defendants all get Presidential Pardons and in return I will never write about the case again.
Rebel
January 30th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
“Rebel Says:The government has already moved to forbid the entrapment defense.”
Everyone should be able to see where this is headed. No Entrapment defense, next whatever you are accused of is a crime, even if it has never been actually legislated to be a crime (example the attempt by the feds to use an unlicensed raffle as a RICO charge.)Finally the culmination of all their efforts, the fact that you are actually innocent will no longer be considered proof of innocence.
Judge: “Yes Mr. X you have done an excellent job, you have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you were in a different country and had absolutely no connection to the Federally manufactured crime that you were accused of and that was not actually commited.
However the government has spent millions of dollars manufacturing evidence and paying informants to lie about you so in the interest of “just us” it is necessary for me to find you quilty anyway and sentence you to the maximum allowable sentence as an example to anyone else attempting to prove they are innocent.”
FTF, FTP, ACAB.
When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
January 30th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Seig,
Not hijacking this thread, but when I was in-country I used to play 5to1 on my record player during those few times we were in base camp. The lifers hated that song.
For those too young to know a record player back then had a flip top with a single built in speaker and played 33 1/3 and if you had an adapter you could also play 45′s
Citizen to Vet: When were you in Vietnam? Vet: Hell I was there last night.
January 30th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
Dan L Says:
January 30th, 2013 at 11:13 am
Is there any possibility that Dan’s plea could be reversed?
Dan L I know it is possable and can be withdrawn in a state case, and I hope the same goes for a federal case and that Dan does so, At which time he does if he so chooses that alone would shed light on the prosicutions deliberate hostage taking of Lisa and keeping information from the defense,
Fuck these lousy Bastard fed,s and their snitches,and judges.
There is so much bullshit, lies ,and manipulations, by the fed asswipes in this case the whole thing and all charges should be dismised.
and all federal officers snitches paid or unpaid should be charged under RICO, among countless other things,
Hopfully Dan will withdraw his plea and fight these bastards to the end,and win
In law, our tax money work`s against us.
January 30th, 2013 at 4:17 pm
@RVN69;
If not at the present time, certainly in the not too distant furture, the only affordable, and or feasible defense against a Federal indictment, will be to leave the country.
Long May You Ride (to those that deserve to),
Paladin
January 30th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
To All Asking,
It is my understanding that anyone that has entered a Plea Agreement in this can not request to withdraw it as it has already been entered. Now this is just my understanding, may not be correct. Unfortunately, if that is the case, then Diamond is screwed and that is not fair at all since in my opinion he was duped into pleading.
January 30th, 2013 at 5:12 pm
Rebel says: “This case (is) dirtier in some aspects than other cases I have covered.”
That statement is exactly what I thought after reading the story. The treachery and betrayal of the RATS in this case rivals that of the BATFAGS(BATF agents) used against the Mongols. That, along with fucking Federal political appointees with political aspirations and agendas.
Rebel, would you happen to know the name of Lisa Bifield’s attorney? With the highest regards and respect, swampy
Oh yeah, and what does that Cunt, Lynn, have to say about her RAT sister now?!?
January 30th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Dear swampy,
Respect to you, as well.
Lisa Bifield’s attorney is John Wesley Locklair III.
Rebel
January 30th, 2013 at 6:35 pm
Thanks Reb and Jim666
I am old fashioned I believe in the concept of decency that is the standard of which I judge everyone and everything; in this case the feds have brought indecency to a new high.What I don’t get is how Lisa’s public defender can withhold info from Dan and his public defender, aren’t they being tried in the same case? They should at least throw Dan a bone and let him plea the way he wants knowing what he now knows; his jackass lawyer should be replaced with a competent and uncorrupt one!
Rebs mentioning of killing dogs by cops/pigs strikes a cord with us folks here in the Denver area,seems there is an epidemic of trigger happy cowards dressed in blue; the last time it happened they were at the wrong address poor guy who lost his pet saw the whole thing and was devastated, before that two of Boulders finest called in sick and went out and shot a trophy szed bull elk right in city limits the left over hippie residents held vigils, burnt incense,sang songs,and chanted. the cops both got fired.
What Jimm666 says about the money being spent on this case is true; we’re spending millions to bust some kid selling percocet out of his own prescription? Who cares probably just going to someone who needs for a sore back and cant afford a doctor!
Thanks Out
January 30th, 2013 at 7:14 pm
@RVN69…one foot in front of the other, my man. No one here gets out alive.
I truly believe that the day is coming, and none too soon. What once we fought for is now fighting to enslave us.
For what it’s worth.
Part of the boilerplate in the plea agreements being foisted on those caught-up in the beast’s claws now are two wonderful clauses. One is that you renounce the right to withdraw your plea once it is filed, and the other is that you forfiet the right to al appeal on any grounds but new and improved evidence.
@ Rebel, I’m sure you’re way ahead of me on the news, but make sure you scope the Milwakky Journal-Sentinel today. Quite the expose of the Amerikan Terror Force and their latest clown-show that resulted in them donating an M4 carbine-fully automatic version-to the indigenous population of that city.
FTF/FTP
TOSIAR
5 to 1
SYLO
January 30th, 2013 at 7:39 pm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_11
This link explains the rules and there is a way to retract a plea BUT
(d) Withdrawing a Guilty or Nolo Contendere Plea. A defendant may withdraw a plea of guilty or nolo contendere:
(1) before the court accepts the plea, for any reason or no reason; or
(2) after the court accepts the plea, but before it imposes sentence if:
(A) the court rejects a plea agreement under 11(c)(5); or
(B) the defendant can show a fair and just reason for requesting the withdrawal.
So basically it is up to the Judge from what I understand. Just some FYI for the ones that are interested.
January 30th, 2013 at 7:46 pm
Maximum Respect to those going the distance,and to Diamond Dan,seems like the government didn’t like the fact he escaped them before and needs to be punished further. There’s a saying here that goes “your never more than a few yards away from a rat” and it means the rodent type,seems its becoming the two legged type as well,I wish the defendants the best of luck
January 30th, 2013 at 9:16 pm
Shit Sieg, good catch. I didn’t see that today. As a local resident I can say that the neighborhood it happened in is between the upper class neighborhood of Shorewood and the ghetto. Still its mostly hippies and students from UWM. I can say that the worst I’ve ever feared in that neighborhood is driving home from my favorite American Legion basement bar drunk. At least the Feds were away from the local AOA house and not busting them for sweeping off the flat roof. On the other hand, maybe I should stay out in western towns for awhile to keep my head low. I don’t get bothered too much out here, that’s why we moved away from the Bayview area.
January 30th, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Rebel said: “The government has already moved to forbid the entrapment defense.”
I wonder, on what grounds? A judge decides questions of law but juries decide questions of facts in US courts. While this judge does have the reputation of being an assistant US attorney in judges’ robes, she would forfeit even the illusion of neutrality by ruling in favor of the government on that one. In the cases I read last night, the rulings seemed to favor juries deciding entrapment questions and not judges. This judge will likely prosecute from the bench. In such cases, it is important to preserve all issues for appeal.
Dan L. said: “This whole entrapment debacle makes me wonder if the feds might have just overplayed their hand and possibly a human rights organization could intervene?”
In a perfect world, the human rights organizations would mobilize, the pope would demand dismissal of all charges, and (more importantly) the local and national news media would express outrage. None of these things has happened. This story (especially the love story/betrayal angle that Rebel has presented here) could and should be told to the public. It would sell newspapers, and increase ratings for any television news outlet. Both the left and right wings can find a lot to criticize about the government’s conduct in this case. You would think that this case would at least get the same attention as some celebrity’s divorce. If I were a conspiracy theorist (and I’m getting there), I’d think that the news media shouts what the government wants shouted, and ignores what the government wants ignored. Every time (to my knowledge) that the media covers a biker case, especially a motorcycle club case, it does so as the public relations and propaganda arm of the government or it ignores the story entirely.
Dan L. also asks: “What I don’t get is how Lisa’s public defender can withhold info from Dan and his public defender,…”
Realistically, Dan’s public defender might have known and kept quiet about it. Most public defenders look down on their clients and rarely really sympathize. But if Lisa’s lawyer had told Dan, or anyone else without Lisa’s permission, he could and would have been disbarred.
Jim666 said: “Happy Birth day to Gravel Dave HAMC ROCK HELL NOMADS yesterday”
Happy Birthday, Gravel Dave, and may future ones be better.
January 31st, 2013 at 1:32 am
At the moment, Rebel is the only investigative journalist that I can think of, that respects, understands, and supports, the biker/MC lifestyle.
Most, if not all of the news media (print or televised) is either too lazy, or too politically correct to do any real investigative reporting on their own behalf. It’s much less time consuming and much more cost effective to just except the Government’s endless propaganda, regarding bikers, MCs, and the alleged crimes they commit.
Unless the body of the presiding judge in this case (Currie) is posessed by the spirit of the late Judge Florence Marie Cooper, I don’t see the Government being held accountable for very much, if anything at all.
Long may You Ride (to those that deserve to),
Paladin
January 31st, 2013 at 7:22 am
Paladin,
I used to work at a newspaper many years ago, and some of the things I saw go down, as far as investigative reporting was shocking to say the least. Unless the topic is John Gotti himself, they send down an intern with a recorder, the kid is happy to get his big break, he records what the local or state representative is babbling about, if he is lucky he might get him to answer 2 or 3 general questions on how they are doing good vs evil. He brings that back to the newsroom, the editor corrects it, rewrites it, and makes the kid basically write what the editor thinks will sell, and then it gets put on press. The deadline is met, the paper is on the truck, and it is on to to the next “space filler”
If by chance they bone the story enough that they have to print a retract or an addition to the story, it gets buried on page 32 behind the local coupons. My experience working for that newspaper is a main reason I never took a job working in the media again. What you read, just because it made it to press, is a sliver of the truth, or what was released to be read. There is minimal effort put into really digging in the story, unless of course it is a blockbuster that would make papers fly off the stands. And this was all way back when I had never even thought of wearing a patch, so I was not biased to that yet.
January 31st, 2013 at 8:21 am
I did say, in a perfect world, the media would report this correctly. And the world is far less than perfect. But I do think it goes a little beyond intellectual laziness. Right now, the government wants more gun control, so every shooting, every gun accident is being reported. The “Occupy Wall St.” protests went on for weeks before the media reported on it, and when it turned out that reporting on it made the pigs look bad, they stopped. My hometown newspaper printed a huge story, above the fold on page 1, informing the public that (GASP!) parents were smoking cigarettes in their cars while waiting to pick up their kids from school. All in all, its probably best that the media is not reporting this. The feds would spin it so they they looked clever instead of underhanded and the newspapers would co-sign the bullshit.
February 1st, 2013 at 11:17 am
It’s bad when DEFENSE attorneys say their clients are talking to much. Looks like indictments will be coming down in the NE. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_22495493/berkshire-district-attorney-seeks-single-trial-triple-slaying
February 1st, 2013 at 1:35 pm
@Viking 1%er,
At 450 pages (so far), it looks like Hall’s quite the novelist. At this rate, it looks like Hall’s work of fiction will become a trilogy.
Long May You Ride (to those that deserve to),
Paladin
February 1st, 2013 at 4:44 pm
What you expect bro.your woman knew more about club business than your prospect did where we were going what we were doing who we was doing and telling it in every bar in town brothers rolling on brothers over a damn woman and now your woman and so called brothers damn they rolling on yall but its not club its personal lucky for me I TOOK IT PERSONAL and there again I TOLD YOU SO
and the woman they still talking
February 1st, 2013 at 5:43 pm
@TOLD YOU SO,
If you read the articles, there are no Brothers rolling. Just a woman, and a couple nobodys, so I dont think youve told anyone anything. But i do agree with you on one thing, a women has no business knowing club business because most women like to run their mouths and be all up in the drama.
February 1st, 2013 at 8:48 pm
@bipolar and proud:
Actually there are some witnesses that have yet to be named so I wouldn’t say no brothers are rolling.
Just because they are on the “witness list” doesn’t mean that they will testify. Also just because they aren’t on the list doesnt mean they wont testify.
February 1st, 2013 at 9:30 pm
TOLD YOU SO,
Glad to see youve resurfaced Hollywood!
February 1st, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Bipolar&Proud I’VE been a round staying away from the drama hanging out with true brothers ones I can trust them that dont rat or roll and can keep up not saying you wasn’t one I guest I just take things to personal now a days
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:11 am
@still to be seen
Im going by the articles that have been posted here. So unless you are a Brother thats going to be testifying or the prosecutor, then you wouldnt have that information, so I guess that narrows down whom you may be. Thanks for the info.
@Told you so,
Actually im not a brother. But thanks for answering everyones question of where youve been.
February 2nd, 2013 at 3:04 pm
@Paladin
No shit the Eagle took down a article reporting how he had gone to feds OFFERING to wear a wire ( its still available in the online archives though ) after a few hours of it being on the web. Everyone I know just figured it was the divide the brothers bullshit. Now with his own mouthpiece saying he is doing this shit hope everyone is covering thier asses. By the way archived article says fbi turned down his offer to wear a wire. I ain’t buying the Feds wouldn’t jump on the chance to wire the saa of ANY 1% club.
February 4th, 2013 at 2:42 pm
Putting a guy on the stand who is charged with multiple murders as any sort of credible witness (especially this guy), would probably negate any hard evidence gained through a wire. That is assuming anyone would ever even talk to this guy.
I would also imagine trying to “handle” him would be a nightmare.
Still, 450 pages of intel and debriefing has to be some sort of record, I think. FBI needs to update their files I guess………
February 4th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
who was diamond dan’s attorney ?
February 4th, 2013 at 5:56 pm
@windsaver,
Why does it matter?
February 4th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
I mean really, what does it matter who anyones lawyer is?
February 17th, 2013 at 11:19 pm
cunts dont count
March 19th, 2013 at 10:31 pm
Thank you stephanie for this great post