COLLIER WINKS AT SALISBURY, WHO VIOLATED THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE!

           In August 2009, SALISBURY placed an undercover operative in the Medina County Jail to gather information from the Defendant, who had already been indicted, arraigned, and was known by SALISBURY to be represented by defense counsel. 

          The undercover operative, who identified himself as Chris Palm or Chris Palme, made a conscious effort to sit at the Defendant's four-place table during the three days that Palm was present in the Medina County Jail.

         Another inmate, known to the Defense Investigator and with whom the Investigator has spoken, informed the Defendant that Palm was an undercover operative/investigator who was known to the inmate in the context of the community, outside the confines of the Medina County Jail.  This individual has confirmed the same information to the Defense Investigator.

         Further, in the very words of a former Medina County assistant prosecutor with regard to placing undercover operatives in the Medina County Jail to elicit information from represented persons, “They do that all the time in Medina!”

        

         In order to verify the veracity of the inmate’s report to the Defendant, the Defense Investigator queried the dockets of the Medina and Wadsworth Municipal Courts and the Medina County Court of Common Pleas. 

        Not surprisingly, there is no record of any criminal action to be found in any of the dockets of the above-named courts of Medina County, Ohio for Chris Palm or Chris Palme. 

        Further, a corrections officer at the Medina County Jail confirmed to the Investigator that there is no official record in the Sheriff’s Department database that a Chris Palm/Palme has ever been confined in the Medina County Jail.

        Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that Chris Palm or Chris Palme is, indeed, an undercover operative placed beside the Defendant inside the Medina County Jail at the direction of SALISBURY.

         This egregious misconduct is another breach of the attorney-client privilege by SALISBURY, which rises to the level of a constitutional violation of the first magnitude.

         COLLIER was noticed of SALISBURY'S invasions of the defense camp in the form of a sworn affidavit and a declaration filed with the court. 

         However, as always, COLLIER failed to address and redress these issues, raised in the Defendant’s post-conviction motions, all to the intended benefit of the prosecutor.

           SINCE THE VIOLATION OF THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE BY THE MEDINA COUNTY APPEARS TO BE A PRACTICE OF LONG-STANDING, ACCORDING TO A FORMER ASSISTANT MEDINA COUNTY PROSECUTOR, THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THAT COLLIER IS AWARE AND APPROVES OF THIS HIGHLY UNLAWFUL PRACTICE!

           THIS IS BUT ONE MORE REASON, AMONG MANY, FOR THE NEED OF AN INDEPENDENT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MEDINA COUNTY COURTS BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

MUCH MORE TO COME ....