Has a sovereign citizen ever pled a case in a federal court? bron
beroep je niet op het soeverein zijn want dat is niet wat je bent, natural law verbind dus pak het anders aan
- there is no legal standing for claiming to be a sovereign citizen [ Standing, or locus standi, is capacity of a party to bring suit in court. Standing in State Court. A state’s statutes will determine what constitutes standing … Cornell Law School – Legal Information Institute ]
- Southern Poverty Law Center :: Sovereign citizens believe they are not under the jurisdiction of the federal government and consider themselves exempt from U.S. law. They use a variety of conspiracy theories and falsehoods to justify their beliefs and their activities, some of which are illegal and violent.
- Southern Poverty Law Center :: Criminality in the movement also remained a problem. On June 2, 2022, second in command of the American States Assembly Teri Sahm was arrested by a swat team at her Washington home after refusing to leave the property post-eviction. People’s Rights Nevada leader and sovereign citizen Josh Martinez was fitted with ankle monitors, one each from the state of Nevada and one from U.S. District Attorney’s in the federal government, which was dropped by the court to one monitor. Martinez was indicted Feb 24, 2021, for allegedly threatening the life of a law enforcement officer.
- Southern Poverty Law Center :: Georgia sovereign citizen Quinae Shamyra Stephens was arrested in Latta, South Carolina in 2021for running a fraud ring involving credit card and identity theft instructional material on the dark web was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 19 years in federal prison by a US District Court Judge. Marquet Mattox, also of Georgia, was sentenced to over 2019 years in the United States District Court Middle District of Georgia for using fake trusts to file fraudulent tax returns in an attempt to steal over $117 million from taxpayers. Notably, multiple Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Howard Berton Adams, Pauline Bauer and Bruno Jospeh Cua used sovereign citizen defenses that insofar have not worked in their favor since no judge has dropped their case based on the defendants sovereign citizen arguments.
- Southern Poverty Law Center :: KEY Moments :: The most notable moments for the sovereign citizen movement in 2022 involved legal interactions where adherents’ beliefs came head to head with the justice system. Sovereign citizen Darrell Brooks was tried and sentenced to six life sentences for his attack on a Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021. And, in December of 2022, some 50 sovereign citizens, calling themselves State Nationals responded to a call to action from the group American States Assembly, protested outside of the U.S District courthouse in Orlando, Florida, in support of Jan. 6 insurrectionist and sovereign citizen Howard Berton Adams, who was arrested after he refused to appear in court twice on charges relating to Jan 6. Adams previously wrote a letter to the trial judge he was assigned, Judge Emmett B. Sullivan on Aug. 14, claiming, “The Most High God created I, Howard Berton Adams, Jr., a sovereign man, living as the flesh and blood testifies, I am not a dead entity, I am not a ward of the state. I am not a pauper.”
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