Formal complaint to Judicial Conduct Commissioner regarding possible conspiracy to pervert the course of justice:

The corruption within the Wairarapa Police starts at the top.

 

 

 

Wairarapa Police have quite a history of perverting the course of justice, and of colluding and conspiring with Court staff and some local lawyers in order to facilitate those activities more effectively.  The link between Police and Court staff has been a matter for public concern since Police prosecutor Garry Wilson and Court deputy Registrar Liz Harpleton cheated on their respective spouses and shacked up together.

Latest matters involving Court staff and Police apparently lying to a District Court Judge in order to secure a lenient sentence for a recidivist violent offender have resulted in a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Commissioner, with another in the pipeline.

Here's the latest complaint, submitted this morning, regarding the apparent deliberate deception of Judge Barbara Morris by Police prosecutors and other Police officers and Court staff who were in the Courtroom at the time, who were all aware of the offender's recent criminal history, and in particular, his violent attack on a vulnerable and defenceless woman right in the Courthouse itself not six months prior to the crimes reported in the paper:

"URGENT - serious miscarriage of justice - Formal Complaint

To the Judicial Conduct Commissioner - judicialconduct@jcc.govt.nz:

This is a formal complaint regarding the conduct of District Court Judge Barbara Morris.  I was one of several people who requested a copy of, or at the very least, access to, the decision of Judge Barbara Morris which was reported by the local 'news' media at this link:  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11373104&ref=rss

Initially the Court Registrar, Ms Lauri Blyth-Carter refused to pass the request on to Judge Morris for months, until we wrote to the Area Manager for Courts.  That correspondence is attached.

Public confidence in the Courts has been seriously undermined by the blatant contempt contained in this response and we insist that Judge Barbara Morris be called to account and forced to provide the decision and her reasons for the decision in order to protect the impartiality and integrity of the judicial system.

This request is URGENT because the recidivist violent offender has been released as a direct result of the Judge's negligence - or the deliberate deception of the Judge by Court staff - and has been perpetrating further violence since that release, and because of disturbing factors such as the fact that the offender cut off his home detention monitoring device, breaching the conditions of the sentence imposed by Judge Morris, and committed further offences as a direct result of her giving him home detention when he wasn't entitled to it.

There are at least two related complaints regarding these matters and these complaints will be submitted as soon as possible, in the meantime please initiate an investigation into the refusal to provide this decision without further delay because public safety has been put at risk as a direct result of releasing a recidivist violent offender who was also known by Police to be suspected by investigators of committing two arsons during the same period of time, both against the victim of the assault at the Court, and related to the victim of the other offences he was convicted of.

[name withheld]

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Some of the emails with the Court Manager are copied below in the interests of justice and transparency:

from:    [name withheld]
to:    Richard Williams <Richard.Williams@justice.govt.nz>
date:    1 July 2015 at 13:01
subject:    URGENT - Refusal of Court Registrar to pass on request to Judge for copy of decision

Dear Mr Williams

I wrote to the Court in January requesting a copy of the decision of Judge Barbara Morris which was reported in the Wairarapa Times Age on 12 December 2014 at this link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11373104&ref=rss

The Registrar is refusing to pass this request on to Judge Barbara Morris.

I wrote to you in JANUARY complaining about the refusal of the Registrar to pass on this request!  I told you that the reason for the refusal was that the Court staff were witnessed lying to Judge Morris regarding the prior convictions of the offender, telling the Judge that he had no convictions for violence since 2011 when a number of Police and Court staff knew that was a lie and that Peacock had been convicted just a few months prior for assaulting a woman in the actual Masterton Courthouse!  Witnesses in the Court swear that Police and Peacock's lawyer deliberately lied to Judge Morris - telling her that he had no convictions for violent offences since 2011 while the Court staff all knew perfectly well that Peacock had punched a woman in the face and chased her inside the Courthouse with his fists raised and further assaulting her inside the Courthouse only a few months previously - which is evidenced by the report at this link:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11240701

The Registrar has refused to pass on this request to Judge Morris - the Registrar claims that I haven't identified the file to her satisfaction - this is completely unacceptable!!!  This offender has been released - apparently because Police and lawyers lied to a Judge!

If the request had been passed on to Judge Morris as requested at the time the request was made we have no doubt whatsoever that the Judge would have ordered the Registrar to identify the file and we INSIST that you order the Registrar to pass on all my emails to the Court regarding this matter IMMEDIATELY!

Furthermore I have heard absolutely NOTHING from Louis Pedro - to whom other correspondence was requested including requests for access to my Court files - this is absolutely unacceptable and I intend to initiate action against the Court unless these matters are dealt with IMMEDIATELY!!!

[name withheld]

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from:    Williams, Richard <Richard.Williams@justice.govt.nz>
to:    [name withheld]
date:    1 July 2015 at 17:09
subject:    RE: URGENT - Refusal of Court Registrar to pass on request to Judge for copy of decision

Dear [name withheld], thanks you for your email.

I am advised that your request was referred to the Judge who has decided not to act or respond to it. As this is a judicial decision it is not appropriate for me to comment further.

[ . . . ]

regards

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We await the response of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner with interest.