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This pictorial depicts Josephine County, Oregon District
Attorney
Stephen Campbell (left) with the man he defended in a public forum,
Ex-Durham County, North Carolina DA Mike Nifong (right).
DA
Campbell – Ex-DA Nifong
Willfully Wasting
Taxpayers’ Dollars
By Edward
Snook
Investigative Reporter
Josephine
County, OR
- On October 6, 2006 Josephine County District Attorney Stephen Campbell
filed false charges ranging from Reckless Driving to Assault In The
Fourth Degree against Stanley Strange, Glen Seybold and Louie Pombo.
The
three motorcyclists were out on a Sunday afternoon enjoying their ride
when they were, according to eye witnesses, harassed by one Eric Hill
who was driving his Mercedes with two friends (read "To
Hate Bikers!").
After
being tailgated for nearly three miles, Strange and Seybold pulled off
of Highway 199 across from McGrew's Restaurant and Lounge in O'Brien,
Oregon. Pombo had fallen behind and was no longer with Strange and Seybold.
Hill stopped in the middle of his lane, backing up traffic. An extremely
upset Strange got off his motorcycle and approached the driver's side
of Hill's vehicle shaking his finger at Hill and asking him, "what
the hell do you think you are doing?" Hill's window was wide open
as Strange continued shaking his finger and demanding an answer. At
this juncture Hill hit his electric window button trapping Strange's
arm. According to eye witnesses, Hill then accelerated and drug Strange
approximately 15-20 feet, before Strange was able to pull his arm free.
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Stan Strange’s arm injury after being rolled
up in car window.
Strange
immediately crossed 199 to McGrew's to seek assistance and call 911.
A patron helped Stan clean up his bleeding and damaged arm and a call
was placed to 911 by an employee. The three bikers had waited over an
hour for the Oregon State Police (OSP) to show up before they left and
went to Strange's home.
When
Strange arrived at his home he opened a beer and took two pain killers.
Just as Strange opened his second beer OSP Trooper Joshua Quick arrived
at his door. Strange gave Quick his statement and Quick left. At about
this same time Hill was stopped by California Highway Patrolman (CHP)
Ryan Stonebraker. Hill and his friends had just enough time to contrive
a well versed story – a story that was completely the opposite
of three separate eye witnesses.
OSP
Lies – The Conspiracy Begins
Originally
Strange was named the victim, however, Trooper Quick and Stonebraker
quickly jumped to the conclusion that Hill was a victim without even
attempting to speak with any eye witnesses. Quick then drafted a police
report that contained obvious exaggerations and lies.
In
the days following this incident Strange made up flyers which he posted
around the Illinois Valley seeking witnesses and he even placed an ad
in the local newspaper. Three eye witnesses were located and all three
signed affidavits stating what they had witnessed. Neither the OSP nor
DA Stephen Campbell did any investigation whatsoever other than speaking
with a "drama" oriented Eric Hill and his friends.
After
being indicted, Strange retained attorney Matthew Galli of Grants Pass.
Seeing that Galli wasn't doing anything except extracting money from
him, Strange got in touch with the US~Observer and we agreed to do an
investigation. After thoroughly investigating every aspect of this case
it was clear that the three bikers had done nothing wrong and were facing
false criminal charges.
At
this point I made an appointment with DA Stephen Campbell and took the
eye witness affidavits to him, thinking he would investigate and drop
his false charges. Campbell didn't pay much attention to them as he
explained that "these types of cases need to go to court."
I soon realized that I was witnessing a brain-dead and arrogant attorney
who had long been without any conscious or sense of right or wrong.
I left his office knowing that I must expose this dangerous individual.
I
immediately started promoting a protest and published my first article
on this corrupt DA. The protest was a success as the sidewalk in front
of the Josephine County Courthouse was filled with protestors carrying
signs stating, "Corrupt DA Campbell Must Go" and "DA
Campbell Files False Charges" – Campbell's picture was on
all the protest signs.
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Stan Strange (right) protesting DA Campbell.
Campbell
witnessed what was taking place and instead of doing the right thing
by looking into this case and the absolute facts surrounding it, he
chose to conspire with officer Quick by doing an "in person interview"
with him. In other words Campbell had Quick escalate his already exaggerated
lies. Quick's first report was dated 8-27-06 and his second report was
dated 2-15-07. The second (written after the protest and after Campbell
had read our first article), was without question, written to help a
corrupt DA get out of the mess he had created. Campbell just hasn't
realized that it is going to have exactly the opposite effect.
In
Quick's first report he states, "I observed that he (Strange) had
a strong odor of Alcoholic beverage on his breath." Quick's second
report, written over 5 months later states, "Upon contact, Strange
is visibly intoxicated." This absolute lie is easily provable.
Strange entered McGrew's at approximately 4:30 p.m. According to Quick's
first report he was contacted at 4:45 p.m. According to witnesses, Strange
waited for the cops over an hour, which would have him at McGrew's until
at least 5:30 p.m. Witnesses at McGrew's have stated that when Strange
entered the establishment that he hadn't been drinking and that he didn't
have anything to drink during the hour he waited. Strange's home is
at least 10-15 minutes from McGrew's. In Quick's first false police
report he states, "At approximately 6:00 p.m. I contacted Mr. Strange
at his residence." This time frame would give Strange 10-15 minutes
to arrive home and either drink enough to acquire a "strong odor
of alcoholic beverage on his breath," as was stated in Quick's
first report or to become "visibly intoxicated" as was stated
in Quick's second trumped-up police report. When Strange arrived home
he spent some time showing his wife his damaged arm and explained what
had happened to him. These facts not only prove that Joshua Quick is
a dangerous liar, they completely trap Quick and DA Campbell in their
illegal conspiracy. There are numerous other lies contained in Quick's
reports, such as the statement in his second report that: "Strange
is Jovial." Strange was angry, physically damaged, and had just
gone through an extremely traumatic experience. Quick thinks we are
ignorant enough to believe his statement that Strange was "jovial…"
Without question, the numerous lies in Quick's second report completely
expose the conspiracy that Campbell and this bad cop had started.
Attorney
Malpractice?
On
September 12, 2007 the three bikers arrived at the Josephine County
Courthouse for docket call. Seybold was represented by public defender
Gary Berlant and Louie Pombo was represented by attorney Dan Simcoe.
Berlant informed his client with the other two defendants present that
they were "scheduled for trial the following Tuesday" and
“when the judge calls us we will say we're ready for trial."
I asked the attorneys if they had subpoenaed the eye witnesses yet and
they responded that they hadn't. Berlant did state that he had called
witness John Tromler and Tromler stated that he wanted nothing to do
with case. Any competent attorney would have had Tromler subpoenaed
and called to the stand as a hostile witness to testify about the facts
stated in his affidavit. Even though both attorneys have had the affidavits
of the three witnesses for months, they hadn't even made an attempt
to contact them (except the one call to Tromler) and yet they were ready
for trial – no wonder the prosecutors in Josephine County win
90-plus percent of their cases. This is not only ineffective assistance
of council, it is inexcusable…period. Two of the witnesses have
now changed their tune and have stated to this reporter that they don't
want to appear in court. Why would they be so willing to sign affidavits
and then be so fearful of appearing in court? This writer would ask
our readership to recall the lies in the police reports and then simply
use their imaginations to come up with the answer. DA Campbell will
get his own chance to answer this before this issue is over.
Public
Official Lies to Citizens
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JoCo Commissioner Dwight Ellis
During
the recent budget hearing meeting held at the Ann Basker building in
Grants Pass, County Commissioner Dwight Ellis stood before a crowded
room and before those watching the cable television coverage of the
meeting and lied. Ellis was attempting to get more hard-earned tax dollars
for DA Campbell as he told everyone how honorable and what a wonderful
person Campbell is. This is "par for the course" with Ellis,
who is most likely the worst commissioner Josephine County has ever
elected. This writer attended the meeting and I was first at the microphone
for public comment. I informed those present that Campbell is both arrogant
and corrupt and that Ellis was lying to them. Honorable men don't attempt
to falsely prosecute the innocent.
Campbell/Nifong
Connection
About
the only difference between DA Campbell and disbarred Durham N.C. DA
Mike Nifong is that Nifong was held accountable and Campbell has not
been. Before Nifong was stripped of his license to practice law, Campbell
reportedly told Josephine County resident Paul Walter that Nifong hadn't
done anything wrong and that he supported the corrupt prosecutor. "Birds
of a feather flock together."
Nifong
was disbarred after N.C. state prosecutors investigated his actions
regarding the attempted false prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse
players. Nifong was ushered to jail on September 7, 2007 to serve a
24 hour jail sentence for withholding evidence. State prosecutors declared
the lacrosse players innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse."
DA
Campbell has mirrored Nifong's actions in this case. Campbell, with
the assistance of Quick, rushed to accuse. When presented with evidence
that vindicates Strange, Seybold and Pombo he ignored the evidence.
In fact, Campbell has had eye witness's affidavits for approximately
one year and hasn't even bothered speaking with one of them –
he placed his corrupt blinders on and is now rushing to prosecute. Campbell's
abusive actions have cost Stan Strange approximately $11,000.00 to date
in his efforts to prove himself innocent. Any prudent person must conclude
that if the Attorney General's Office in Oregon had any integrity, they
would be prosecuting Campbell, just as the State of North Carolina prosecuted
Nifong. We must also conclude that all citizens are "at risk"
when a dangerous and unethical prosecutor holds office in their community.
The
trial scheduled for 9-18-07 was once again postponed. The US~Observer
will keep you informed of the new court date and we will be sure that
the three Illinois Valley innocent defendants are well prepared for
the trial when it does occur. We will also do everything in our power
to get rid of corrupt District Attorney Stephen Campbell. Watch for
our next article on this corrupt District Attorney and for more protests
in front of the Josephine County Courthouse.
Editor's
Note: We understand that Mr. Strange has been forced to pay approximately
$11,000.00 to prove his innocence and he hasn't even had a trial yet
– how many tax dollars has District Attorney Stephen Campbell
wasted to date? How many tax dollars did Mike Nifong cost the taxpayers
in the state of North Carolina? Nifong has cost N.C. taxpayers a few
million dollars to date and with the 30-million dollar lawsuit filed
by the Duke University lacrosse players, he will cost them much more…
With over twenty-years experience handling such cases I can safely state
that Campbell has cost Josephine County, Oregon taxpayers approximately
$20,000.00 on this case alone, to date. If he continues this false prosecution
it will cost taxpayers an additional 20-30- thousand in combined costs.
Since Campbell has been with the Josephine County District Attorney's
Office the US~Observer has logged over 1-million-dollars in wasted money
on false prosecutions – and these are only the few that we have
investigated – how much more wasted tax money has occurred that
we don't know about?
Campbell
virtually stated at the last public budget meeting that he was immune
from lawsuits. This is true in Oregon, because we have a totally corrupted
Attorney General's Office, but it is not true in North Carolina. Should
we be thankful that no one is allowed to sue a District Attorney in
the State of Oregon, or should we, as Americans, demand accountability
and by doing so, start breaking down the destructive scam that our "Legal
System" has perpetrated upon each and every Oregonian?? And get
this – DA Stephen Campbell has the audacity to stand before the
public and tell them in his polished persona that he needs more money
to prosecute criminals. The lies continue and continue and continue…
Call
DA Campbell - 541-474-5200 or e-mail da@co.josephine.or.us
and let him know what you think!
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