MEDINA ASS PROSECUTOR TAUNTS AND GOADS A CHAINED AND SHACKLED DEFENDANT, ANOTHER OFFICIAL POLICY OF CORRUPT MEDINA PROSECUTOR DINO HOEMAN, ONE OF MEDINA COUNTY'S LEADING JAGOFFS !

REASON #4 TO NOT HOLD THIS TRIAL, OR ANY OTHER TRIAL, IN MEDINA COUNTY.

C.        The Medina County Assistant Prosecutors Will Not Be On Hand at The Cuyahoga County Courthouse to Badger and Intimidate Witnesses in the Case at Bar.        

In Mr. Hartman’s prior trials, held at the Medina County Courthouse, Medina County Assistant Prosecutors engaged in the practice of badgering and intimidating witnesses.  Evidence is to be found in the trial transcript.

The following is taken from Scott Salisbury’s direct examination of Melissa Hartman’s wife who was compelled to testify after asserting her spousal competency privilege:

WITNESS:            Sir, I’m feeling a little badgered right now.

COURT:               I understand.  Do you understand the question?  He just wants to know whether you read it [statement] or not.  If you didn’t read it, it’s okay; if you did, it’s fine.

WITNESS:            Just like out there, when we had this whole thing.  He’s trying to make me feel like I’m lying about everything.

COURT:               He’s just asking if you read your statement or not.

WITNESS:            I feel very intimidated by this gentleman.

COURT:               Here’s what we’re going to do.  We are just going to have one question at a time.  Okay?

                              Mr. Salisbury, your next question, please.

BY SALISBURY

Q.                          I don’t know whether the Jury heard that.  What did you just say to the Judge?

A.                          That was between me and the Judge.

COURT:               That’s fine.  Mr. Salisbury, your next question.

Q.                          Did you just say you feel like you’re lying about everything?  Is that what - - I couldn’t hear you.

A.                          You make it seem like I lie about everything, just like you told me outside, when you badgered me out there before we came in the courtroom. 

Q.                          What did I say to you?

A.                          “Are you going to lie or are you going to tell the truth?”

Q.                          That’s badgering?

A.                          The way you said it.  You know how you were, you intimidated me and scared me out there.               [Emphasis added.]

(Melissa Hartman, Trial I, Tr. at 74-75).

Similarly, Assistant County Prosecutor Scott Salisbury repeatedly taunted and goaded Mr. Hartman (who was handcuffed and shackled) without permission and outside the presence of his attorney.  Moreover, Salisbury shouted at the undersigned to “Shut up” when she instructed Salisbury to cease taunting Mr. Hartman in her presence, which he did in violation of the Canons of Ethics. See Reply to State’s Opposition to Dismiss, Exhibit Two at p. 5, § F, November 8, 2009 letter from the undersigned to Scott Salisbury.  See also 1/04/2010 Defendant’s Post-Hearing Rebuttal Memorandum, With Exhibits, at pp. 15-16.

Similarly, Sheriff’s deputies taunted defense witness Steven Hartman as he waited to offer testimony at Mr. Hartman’s first trial.

As a precautionary measure at Mr. Hartman’s second trial, the undersigned required Inspector Hartman, her investigator, to remain outside the courtroom to prevent further witness intimidation by the Medina County Prosecutor’s Office and Medina County Sheriff’s deputies, thus depriving the undersigned of his assistance in the courtroom at trial.