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But pursuing the matter in criminal court carries other risks — the burden of proof is higher, and an acquittal would instantly galvanize the tax-avoidance movement, which already enjoys boundless exposure on the Internet. The IRS has been successful in pursuing criminal cases against the movement's followers.
Last year, for example, a New Hampshire tax protester vowed to die fighting rather than be apprehended following criminal conviction on several tax charges. Several people were arrested trying to help Ed Brown and his wife avoid capture, and almost all of them were from other states. Brown and his wife were taken peacefully, but only after agents tricked the couple into surrendering.
But there are exceptions. In , FedEx pilot and tax protester Vernice Kuglin was acquitted because the jury found she sincerely believed she didn't have to pay taxes. Kuglin's assets were seized, and the government got its tax money. Despite that, her case is held by some protesters as proof that the IRS is a sham, and citizens really don't have to pay taxes.
Cohen, the former IRS commissioner, said trials like Snipes' are important to discourage potential tax scofflaws from defying the government. Senators are attorneys, all considered obligated more to campaign contributors than constituents in general. The decisions eliminate even outspoken criticisms across party lines, for loyalty to Brothers-at-the-Bar exceeds loyalty to law. IV; 1st, 14th Amend. It shows the need for judges to be recognized as a class not above criticism but welcoming public scrutiny for wholesomeness and respect it produces.
It merits recognition as a class action productive of enduring guidelines, for minimal time of public view. He maintains his plea should be applauded for intent, if not for content. He corrects now a part, having heard another "W.
Hodges" has the larger property on the same lake! He asks this Court to hold that the case has merit. As a lay person striving for reasonable guidelines and working within the system, he felt so strongly the need to enlarge nomination confirmation time, that he paid to docket and to make service, but he could not afford appeal costs.
To go on, he filed motions and affidavits in both lower courts only to have pauperis proceedings denied. As a rich person could. He asks this Court to protect his 14th-Amendment rights to due process and equal protection rights, seemingly granted or denied below. Jim owned an elaborate used variety store in downtown Tampa and advertised as the "Poor Man's Friend.
He took off all the dead voters who kept re-electing the 'courthouse gang' and registered all comers. An Annapolis graduate who was in many Naval engagements including suffering kamikaze attacks at Okinawa. He died of leukemia June 2, Jim Fair counted for ten. That was long before skyscrapers made their appearance downtown. I happened to be in the Golden-Collum Memorial Federal Building on business with my case, and noticed rare activity in the Ocala Division courthouse, which is usually empty, except for staff.
Theodore Thomas Thornell, Jr. Free on bail for two and a half years after being sentenced to prison on federal tax charges, Wesley Snipes was issued another edict Friday that could soon close the walls in around him. Snipes' appeal for a new trial and motion to interview the jurors who sealed his fate were denied. Senior U. District Judge William Terrell Hodges also revoked Snipes' bail and ordered the actor to surrender to federal officials to begin serving his sentence.
Can federal juror's comment in deliberations be used to show voir-dire dishonesty? The plaintiff in the case is a South Dakota man who lost his leg when a truck passed him and clipped the motorcycle he was riding, according to the cert petition PDF.
The jury found for the truck driver. The juror, who was elected foreperson, said a suit against her daughter would have "ruined her life," another juror reported after the trial. During voir dire, the woman had said she could be impartial. At issue is whether statements made during deliberations are admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence. Rule b generally bars testimony about deliberations in an inquiry about the validity of a verdict, but includes three exceptions. Two of them are at issue in the case.
Second, testimony is allowed about any outside influence brought to bear on any juror. The lower courts disagreed, and also found that none of the exceptions allowed admission of the evidence.
The case is Warger v. Sotomayor, J. Dec 9, Rule b was at issue in the Wesley Snipes income tax trial , see United States v. Subject: I was on his jury, maybe I can help. I served on the jury in Ocala that found him guilty on 3 counts of failing to file taxes. It was a deal that had to be made because of certain jurors that had already presumed he was guilty before the trail [sic] started and we only found this out in the last few days of deliberation.
We thought we were making the right deal because we did not think he would go to jail for not filing taxes. There were 3 on the jury that felt this way and told us he was guilty before they even heard the first piece of evidence going against what the judge had said. If I can be of any help feel free to call me at The second message read I read an article pertaining to the trial.
I also was on the jury for his case. Thank you, Copies of the unredacted messages were presented at the hearing as Exhibits 2 and 3. The judgment of commitment will be enforced. According to the study by Citizens for Tax Justice , all but two of the companies received federal tax rebates last year.
And almost all paid exceedingly low effective tax rates over five years. There was nothing illegal or improper about what these companies did. They were merely taking advantage of major corporate tax loopholes and provisions long part of the fabric of the U. Its American tax bill? In fact, G. That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now preparing their own returns, but low taxes are nothing new for G.
The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the Internal Revenue Service for years, resulting in a far lower rate than at most multinational companies. Its extraordinary success is based on an aggressive strategy that mixes fierce lobbying for tax breaks and innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore. The team includes former officials not just from the Treasury, but also from the I.
Tax Increases? Wood, Contributor February 19, As a visionary billionaire, when Mr. Zuckerberg speaks, people listen. Paying no taxes to the IRS and even to revenue starved California? Is this legal, you might ask? The Florida Bar is an administrative agency of the Supreme Court and is not subject to federal or state income tax. Rural electric cooperatives RECs were created with government assistance in the mids as part of a campaign to bring electricity to rural areas in an effort to improve economic output and quality of living.
This note will argue that, in light of the changes that RECs have undergone and the environment in which they now operate, their tax-exempt status is no longer warranted and in fact works against REC member interests. This note will then explore the impact of taxing RECs as regular cooperatives, which are subject to taxation under Subchapter T of the Internal Revenue Code. Wesley Snipes railroaded into prison Alan Bock's Blog December 4, You wouldn't know it from the mainstream media coverage, but it looks, as I had sort of intuited without knowing much, as if actor Wesley Snipes is getting a raw deal in his tax case against the IRS.
I hadn't followed the case all that closely, but in fact he was acquitted on the serious charge of tax evasion and convicted only on misdemeanor failure to file in a timely fashion. Yet the judge is throwing him in the slammer for three years, much more than would normally be warranted for a misdemeanor. Apparently his real crime is contempt of government, and judges paid with tax money extracted by force from innocent victims like to remind us that from the perspective of the government's system, that is a crime far more serious than anything you might do to a mere fellow citizen.
It's nice to see the the Libertarian Party is taking his side. He doesn't seem to have many friends in this matter. Given that Turbo Tim Geithner filed fraudulent returns, you can see just how selective the enforcement is.
This is hardly unprecedented. Years ago I got to know tax resister Irwin Schiff fairly well and listened to his theories. I became convinced that the income tax really is, according to statute, voluntary, and that Irwin, perhaps the closest student of the tax code of anyone I ever met, had broken no actual law by not sending in his pound of flesh.
But he served several terms in prison. When it comes to taxes, the system loves to make examples so as to keep the sheeple in line. Read more here. Wesley Snipes cites Klan fear in Ocala trial venue. Actor Wesley Snipes wants his upcoming tax-evasion trial moved out of a federal courtroom in Ocala, calling the community a "hotbed" for Ku Klux Klan activity.
In a motion filed earlier this week, Snipes asked that his case be heard in a more diverse area, such as his hometown of Orlando or in New York City, where he lived from October to April The black actor's defense team called Ocala the "most racially discriminatory venue available.
His attorneys maintain that the majority of people in Ocala are good-hearted and fair -- but said they fear that pockets of racism will taint the jury pool. George Hunnewell as members of the Klan. Hunnewell had been demoted from corporal in for five write-ups for conduct, attitude, performance and timeless, Isaacs said. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented an investigative summary from an FBI source to Isaacs on Wednesday, stating the officers were associated with a "subversive organization.
Isaacs said he plans to interview every police officer within the department and ask them about potential ties to subversive groups, which are against department policy. Every case that Borst and Hunnewell worked will now be turned over for review by the State Attorney's Office, Isaacs said. In a barbershop off the downtown square, on a porch stoop across the railroad tracks and on a sandy riverbank, Marion County residents are discussing the validity of statements made by a movie star who recently called into question the area's racial morality.
Actor Wesley Snipes, whose federal tax-fraud trial begins Monday, has argued that Ocala is not a suitable location for a black man to receive justice. His attorneys have tried, unsuccessfully, to move the trial to much larger venues such as Orlando or New York. The document also says Ocala is a "hotbed" of activity for the Ku Klux Klan. Matthew "Lincoln" Johnson, a year-old barber at the shop, isn't so quick to discount Snipes' contention.
The truth, Johnson said, is probably somewhere in the murky middle ground. Asked whether the Snipes trial has been a topic readily at hand, Johnson let out a laugh. District Judge William Terrell Hodges, in a page order, rejected Snipes' lawyers previous claims that Ocala was too racist for the black actor to get a fair trial. Hodges also denied a motion to postpone the trial, scheduled to start Jan Attorney's Office in Tampa, said Wednesday.
Snipes and co-defendants Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas Rosile are each charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud and one count of aiding and abetting the making of a false and fraudulent claim as part of an alleged tax fraud scheme.
Snipes also is charged with six counts of willfully failing to timely file federal income tax returns. Snipes' legal team sought to have the trial moved to the Southern District of New York, saying the potential jury pool was far more racially diverse than Ocala's and that Marion County was a "hotbed of Klan activity.
Hodges noted Snipes made "numerous accusations of prejudice and bigotry on the part of the residents of the Ocala [court] division. Link to Facebook. It has no full-time magistrate judge.
Its one senior district judge recently reduced his caseload by half. Some in the local legal community have privately expressed concerns about the future of the federal judicial stamp in Ocala. They point to troubling signs, such as the frequent reassignment of Ocala-based criminal and civil cases to judges who sit elsewhere within the mile-wide Middle District.
In September, Gary R. Jones — the one full-time federal magistrate judge in Ocala who handled initial appearance hearings, change of pleas and preliminary proceedings for the past 10 years — left to assume the same position in the Gainesville division of Florida's Northern District. Meantime, Senior U. District Judge William Terrell Hodges, who in recent years has experienced some health issues, has relinquished half his caseload.
Photos by Haley Stracher. Judge Hodges honored at reception. When U. District Judge William Terrell Hodges JD 58 was nominated to the federal bench in , he assumed his robes in the middle district of Florida before the age of 40, and 41 years later he holds the same job, now as a federal judge on senior status in Ocala.
A remarkably stable career one might conclude. But it was clear during a Nov. Hodges and District Judge Anthony Alaimo lodged the complaint that would result in the impeachment and removal from office of U.
District Judge Alcee Hastings, who had been acquitted by a jury of soliciting a bribe in a mob case. And he mentored decades worth of law clerks. Those clerks were present in force at the Thomas Center to praise their former boss. Scott L. Whitaker JD 76 , who clerked for Hodges from to , said Hodges took seriously his duty to dispense justice and to guard against abuse of power.
He always used to say, every time you use a little power, you lose a little power. Last year Hodges served as the Peter T.
Fay Jurist-in-Residence at UF Law speaking with students and faculty about judicial clerkships, trial advocacy and legal careers. Hodges was appointed by President Richard Nixon in He served as chief judge from to and has maintained senior status since A new law review article considers whether William H.
Rehnquist was citing his own views in when he wrote a memo as a Supreme Court law clerk supporting the decision upholding the separate-but-equal doctrine. Jackson, "but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed. Jackson was part of the unanimous opinion striking down the separate-but-equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education, and Rehnquist appeared angry with his boss in the aftermath, according to the authors of the article, Brad Snyder and John Q.
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