Wednesday, October 25, 2017

ANOTHER CRIME AGAINST DEMOCRACY IN FLORIDA -- Another Political "Fix" By State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA? -- Will He Drop Misdemeanor Battery Case Against St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN's Campaign Manager For Assaulting Candidate Rose Bailey?

Two prosecutors met with Rose and Mark Bailey October 24, 2017, telling them they're dropping the case against LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA, the criminal defendant who allegedly shoved candidate Rosetta Bailey at a polling place on Election Day.

Millionaire business owner LEONARD TRINCA is the friend, neighbor and campaign manager for St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN.

It was State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA (Florida Bar No. 89745) who supposedly "investigated"  the Michelle O'Connell shooting case for five months, then abruptly recused himself.

Chief Deputy Assistant State's Attorney CHRISTOPHER SCOTT FERREBEE (Florida Bar No.  15996) and Assistant State's Attorney VALERIY AVENESOV (Florida Bar No. 118070) kept Rose Bailey and husband Mark Bailey waiting for 30 minutes yesterday, then abruptly announced they were planning to drop the case.

Controversial four-county State's Attorney LARIZZA is a hick hack.

LARIZZA never prosecutes any influential Republicans, never investigates white collar crime and corruption, and is the current President of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association for the next two years -- he refuses to read, follow or distribute the National Prosecution Standards of the National District Attorneys Association.

I asked LARIZZA to reverse the decision and prosecute the case personally.  UPDATE: No response.   So I've now asked him to recuse himself and request the Governor to appoint a special prosecutor. He did not respond.  But Rosetta Bailey is pursuing justice -- see her letter to LARIZZA, below  And I've written LARIZZA, with copies to the FBI, FDLE and Florida Supreme Court Inspector General, about his case-fixing.

As Winston Churchill said, "Never, never, never give up.

Read my letters to LARIZZA (below) and my prior coverage of the TRINCA case.

Seventh Circuit State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA (Florida Bar No. 89745) with his corrupt buddy, St. Johns County High Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR,


CHRISTOPHER SCOTT FERREBEE (Florida Bar No. 15996)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: larizzar
Sent: Sat, Oct 28, 2017 5:38 pm
Subject: Re: CASE-FIXING, SEXISM AND INCIVILITY IN ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE? -- State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca, 17000559MMMA -- St. Augustine Beach Mayor O'Brien's Campaign Manager Allegedly Assaulted Candidate Rosetta Bailey and State Attorney Larizza Won't Prosecute

Dear Mr. Larizza:
1. You never contacted Ms. Rosetta Bailey, the alleged victim of LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA's (St. Augustine Beach Mayor Richard O'Brien's campaign manager) and  his alleged Election Day (November 8, 2016) battery at the St. Augustine Beach City Hall polling place.  Why did you refuse to meet with or speak with Ms. Bailey?2. Instead, our Clerk of Court's online records reflect that our Seventh Circuit State's Attorney office yesterday (October 27, 2017) filed a Nolle Prosequi, dismissing this case without trial or plea bargain.  Why?3. You ignored Ms. Bailey's request (below) to meet with you -- you neither met with the crime victim nor shared that Nolle Prosequi document with her.  Why?  4. That document cannot yet be viewed on the Clerk's website, but I have requested that it be disclosed.
5. Please explain yourself.  
6. Please apologize to Ms. Bailey and to her husband for your staff's behavior.  See below.
7. Please explain your refusal to follow NDAA's National Prosecution Standards.
8. You have the right to remain silent, but I wish you wouldn't.
9. Please call me to discuss this case and sexism, misogyny and corruption.
10. The appearance of favoritism, prejudice and case-fixing here in St. Johns County is indefensible, and must be ended at once.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: larizzar <larizzar@sao7.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 27, 2017 12:55 pm
Subject: SEXISM AND INCIVILITY IN ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA STATE'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE? -- State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca, 17000559MMMA -- St. Augustine Beach Mayor O'Brien's Campaign Manager Allegedly Assaulted Candidate Rosetta Bailey and State Attorney Larizza Won't Prosecute

Dear Mr. Larizza:
1. I am mystified by the manner in which your subordinates mishandled this misdemeanor battery case, where the St. Augustine Beach Mayor's campaign manager shoved his election opponent at the City Hall polling place on Election Day (November 8, 2016).  . See below.
2. If you have any sense of decency, sir, you will agree today to meet with Ms. Rosetta Bailey, who wrote you earlier.  See Ms. Rosetta Bailey's letter, and my e-mails, below.    
3. How would you feel if it were your mother (or your wife or your daughter or your sister) who was shoved by Defendant LEONARD TRINICA at her polling place on Election Day?   
4. How would you feel if your prosecutors behaved toward one of them as they did to Ms. Bailey -- 
A. Refusing to meet with her before her deposition, inexplicably rejecting her reasonable request? 
B. Forbidding her to tape her own deposition, agreeing with defense counsel, unsupported by any legal authority?
C. Making only one (1) objection during her entire deposition and adopting a passive attitude?
D. Keeping her in the dark about the status of her case? 
E. Dropping (of "fixing") the case as a result of straining to find "reasonable doubt" based on: (a) misreading of one deposition, and (b) three (3) unreliable inadmissible hearsay affidavits from three (3) rival politicians (provided by the zealous defense attorneys for the defendant millionaire businessman campaign manager, neighbor and friend of St. Augustine Beach Mayor Richard Burtt O'Brien)?
4. Our St. Johns County law enforcement is all too often sexist and misogynist, as was exemplified by your office's mishandling of the September 2, 2010 shooting death of Michelle O'Connell in the home of St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Banks, with his service weapon, a case that will always live in infamy and remains a stench in the nostrils of our Nation (thanks to dogged investigative reporting by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich and The New York Times).  See, e.g.:
5. Enough.  Early next week, before the November 3, 2017 docket call before Judge Christine, will you please meet with Ms. Rosetta Bailey, the crime victim you were elected and sworn to protect?
___ Yes
___ No
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Rosetta V. Bailey <rvbailey@aol.com>
To: easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>; larizzar <larizzar@sao7.org>
Sent: Fri, Oct 27, 2017 11:48 am
Subject: Re: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca, 17000559MMMA -- St. Augustine Beach Mayor O'Brien's Campaign Manager Allegedly Assaulted Candidate Rosetta Bailey and State Attorney Larizza Won't Prosecute

Mr. Larizzar, 
I would appreciate a meeting to discuss this matter that involved my physical encounter with Leonard Patrick Trinca on election day 11/8/2016 
Thank you for consideration. 

Rosetta Bailey
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: larizzar
Sent: Thu, Oct 26, 2017 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca, 17000559MMMA -- St. Augustine Beach Mayor O'Brien's Campaign Manager Allegedly Assaulted Candidate Rosetta Bailey and State Attorney Larizza Won't Prosecute

Dear Mr. Larizza:
1. May I suggest that you kindly recuse yourself?  
2. Will you please ask Florida Governor Richard Scott to appoint a special prosecutor for this case, involving battery of a woman political candidate at a polling place by her opponent's campaign manager?  
3. That would help solve the problems created by your St. Augustine staff.
4. Please call me for an interview to discuss our State's Attorney office's behavior toward the battery victim, St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate Ms. Rosetta Bailey.Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998

 -----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com
To: larizzar <larizzar@sao7.org>
Sent: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 3:05 pm
Subject: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca, 17000559MMMA -- St. Augustine Beach Mayor O'Brien's Campaign Manager Allegedly Assaulted Candidate Rosetta Bailey and State Attorney Larizza Won't Prosecute

Dear Mr. Larizza:
1.Why does our Florida Seventh Circuit State's Attorney office say it is dropping charges against criminal Defendant Leonard Patrick Trinca, after apparently failing to consult the St. Augustine Beach Police Department? (See SABPD e-mail, below).
2. Criminal Defendant Leonard Patrick Trinca, who was St. Augustine Beach Mayor Richard Burtt O'Brien's campaign manager, allegedly assaulted Ms. Rosetta Bailey, who was Mayor O'Brien's opponent, on Election Day (November 8, 2016) at the St. Augustine Beach City Hall polling place.  SABPD brought charges. Yet your office is not even obtaining a plea bargain.  Why?

3. Your office failed to prepare the victim for her deposition, rejecting her request for a meeting. Why?

4. Your office assigned an inexperienced attorney who lacks empathy. Why?

5. He told the victim to "tear up" the paperwork on the November 3 docket call and not to attend a public hearing.  Why?
6. He relied on inadmissible unreliable affidavit hearsay from Mayor O'Brien, ex-Mayor Andrea Samuels, et ux in refusing to do its job.  Why?
7. Your office has sent a threatening message debasing our political process, empowering connected bullies like Leonard Patrick Trinca to throw their weight around and harass, intimidate, and terrorize our political candidates at polling places.  Why?
8. Please call me for an interview.  I left a message for you yesterday morning with the receptionist in your St. Augustine office (after your staff treated Mr. & Mrs. Bailey with disdain and disrespect, after making them wait for 30 minutes.)  
9. Please show cause to County Court Judge Alexander Christine for your desuetude of law enforcement in this case at the November 3, 2017 docket call, in open court, with time for Ms. Bailey to be heard. 
10. Kindly consider reversing your St. Augustine office staff's repeated errors and prosecute this case personally.
11. The stain of corruption in St. Johns County is indefensible, and must be ended at once.  The whole world is watching us as a result of the Michelle O'Connell case.  See, e.g.:
12. From this day forward, will you please agree to comply with the National Prosecution Standards adopted by the National District Attorneys Association?
___ Yes
___ No
13. You've repeatedly stated in e-mails to me that you don't have a copy and won't follow NDAA's National Prosecution Standards.  Why?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Kathi Harrell <harrellkm@sabpd.org>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 11:54 am
Subject: RE: Request No. 2017-601: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca

After a reasonable review, the St. Augustine Beach Police department has found no records responsive to your request.
Kathi M. Harrell
Administrative Lieutenant
St. Augustine Beach Police Department
2300 A1A South
St. Augustine Beach, Fl 32080
904-471-3600 Fax 904-471-0737
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LEGAL NOTIFICATION: Florida Sunshine Statutes entail very broad public records
requirements (F. S. 119). As required by law, all e-mails to and from the St. Augustine Beach Police Department are subject to public record. Your e-mail
communications, including your e-mail address may be disclosed to the public and media at any time. If you have received this communication in error, do not
distribute it. Please notify the sender immediately by electronic mail and delete.
 From: Robert Hardwick 
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:41 PM
To: Kathi Harrell <harrellkm@sabpd.org>
Cc: Thomas Ashlock <ashlocktl@sabpd.org>
Subject: FW: Request No. 2017-601: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca
From: Ed Slavin [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:10 PM
To: Robert Hardwick <hardwickra@sabpd.org>
Cc: rvbailey@aol.com; thomasfreynolds@yahoo.com; waltbog@nytimes.com
Subject: Request No. 2017-601: State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca
Dear Chief Hardwick:
Please send me any documents on any SABPD contacts with the Seventh Circuit State's Attorney office on its questionable decision to drop the case of State of Florida v. Leonard Patrick Trinca (assault on City Commission candidate Rosetta Bailey on Election  Day, November 8, 2016 at St. Augustine Beach City Hall.  Were you consulted?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,







Saturday, October 14, 2017


No way to treat a lady, or a crime victim -- Mayor RICHARD O'BRIEN's campaign manager, LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA faces trial on assaulting candidate Rosetta Bailey





Jury selection begins November 13, 2017 before Judge Alexander Christine in St. Johns County Courthouse for an Election Day hate crime.  What was it?

A misdemeanor criminal assault upon St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate Rosetta Bailey by LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA. But is the State's Attorney preparing to "fix" the case in favor of TRINCA, a close friend and campaign manager of St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN?

In August, TRINCA's lawyers took Ms. Bailey's deposition, as allowed in Florida criminal cases. The State's Attorney office would not meet with Ms. Bailey before her deposition. This is a badge of fraud and malpractice -- what attorney refuses to prepare a witness for deposition? Only an unqualified, brand-new, wet-behind-the-ears State's Attorney working in an office that refuses to follow or distribute the National Prosecution Standards of the National District Attorney's Association.

State's Attorney RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA's minion told former St. Augustine Beach Commission candidate Rosetta Bailey she could not tape record her own deposition, taken in August 2017 by criminal defense lawyer PATRICK CANAN, also a member of the St. Johns County School Board. This was wrong as a matter of law.

Bailey was the victim of an alleged assault by SAB Mayor RICH O'BRIEN's campaign manager, subject of a criminal case set for trial in November 2017.

"I DON'T WANT IT BEING RECORDED," said criminal defense lawyer CANAN at the beginning of the deposition.

VALERIY AVANESOV, louche lackadaisical LARIZZA's minion did not speak up.  He did not object to the double-teaming CANAN LAW duo of PATRICK CANAN and DANIEL HILBIRT both speaking.

VALERIY AVANESOV did not object to CANAN interrogating Ms. Bailey about her First Amendment protected activity, e.g., asking if there were "any particular reason" why she ran against St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN.

CANAN showed Ms. Bailey a photograph and asked about a yard sign on Ms. Bailey's property -- again, not a peep out of LARIZZA's ineffective counsel.   (It was about the First Amendment).

Ms. Bailey testified that, on Election Day at a polling place, on November 8, 2016, LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA drove up in a white Cadillac Escalade, demanding that Ms. Bialey move her lawn chair or he would run over her.  TRINCA then shoved Ms. Bailey, witnesses say.

CANAN asked whether Ms. Bailey "won the election" and she suggested a relevance objection.

Rather than act like a lawyer and voice an actual objection to protect the State's victim-witness and preserve the record, VALERIY AVANESOV,

LARIZZA's lackey said "it could go to your motive."  The lackey lacks advocacy skills and was bested by two former prosecutors, double-teaming the deposition (itself objectionable, if only VALERIY AVANESOV knew evidence or procedure rules).

VALERIY AVANESOV, LARIZZA's inexperienced ASA, made only one (1) objection in the entire deposition. Pitiful. Sad.

Ms. Bailey had the impression that VALERIY AVANESOV,LARIZZA's junior counsel (graduate of a for-profit law school on I-95 in Jacksonville) was trying to impress CANAN, perhaps in hopes of getting a job one day.

CANAN asked Ms. Bailey, "What's a constitutionalist?"

And at one stage, TRINCA's criminal defense counsel PATRICK "DUCKS" CANAN volunteered "I'm a constitutional scholar."

Watch this blog -- will this case be fixed?

Will R.J. LARIZZA recuse himself from the case of an Election Day assault upon a political candidate challenging St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICH O'BRIEN?

Will this case be bungled, fixed or dropped by inexperienced scared-rabbit Russian VALERIY AVANESOV and hick hack politician LARIZZA?

What else lies in store for LARIZZA's mishandling of this case that might favor of LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA?

What evil lies in the heart of the State's Attorney's Office for the Seventh Judicial Circuit?

What else can it do out of laziness, lucre, malice or favoritism to fellow dull Republicans who are part of the sere political machine of St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, who changed his name from "HOAR" by court order in 1994?

After attempting to dissuade Ms. Bailey from pursuing justice in her case, mirabile dictu, mutatis mutandis, VALERIY AVANESOV, elected prosecutor-prostitute RALPH JOSEPH LARIZZA's hey-boy has been promoted from putative "victim-witness coordinator" to full-fledged Assistant State's Attorney weiner.

Will this case be fixed by State's Attorney RALPH LARIZZA a/k/a LaLIZARD?

The Florida Prosecuting Attorney's Association President for the next two years, State's Attorney R.J. LARIZZA has not responded to an e-mail request yesterday for an interview and multiple Open Records requests, first filed in August 2017.




Earlier blog story:


CEO LEN TRINCA Battered Candidate Rose Bailey: Electioneering Battery Charged Filed Against LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA

LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA, landlord, investor and CEO of several companies, includingSCHOENHUT,  manufacturer of toy pianos, is charged with battery on St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate Rose Bailey on Election Day (November 8, 2016) at City Hall in St. Augustine Beach








ROSETTA BAILEY, St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate, whom TRINCA allegedly shoved in the back with both hands on Election Day 2016 at City Hall

Seventh Circuit State's Attorney R.J. Larizza and St. Augustine Beach Police have brought misdemeanor battery charges against businessman/landlord LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA for battery upon St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate Rosetta Bailey on Election Day (November 8, 2017) during her race against St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN.

Defendant LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA's first pretrial hearing is before County Court Judge, Hon. Alexander R. Christine, Jr. on May 22, 2017 at 9 AM, Courthouse Room 355.  TRINCA has waived personal appearance.  The entire misdemeanor trial could be held without his ever going to court.   TRINCA waived arraignment, pled not guilty and sought discovery through his attorney in April 12, 2017 filings with the Clerk of Courts.

The criminal misdemeanor case is State of Florida v. LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA, Case No. 17000559MMMA, charging battery, F.S. 784.03(1)(a).

St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD O'BRIEN's avid supporter, LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA, verbally confronted and allegedly pushed Rose Bailey, pushing her with both hands in the back from behind, nearly causing her to fall.

St. Augustine Beach politics is not quite as rough and tumble as the late Mayor Richard J. Daley's Chicago, but the anger of the Establishment toward dissent is palpable.

Local landlord and corporate CEO LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA crossed the line and allegedly committed a crime, allegedly assaulting a candidate, Rose Bailey.  It was an apparent crime against our democracy.

Crimes against democracy are common in St. Johns County, where developers don't have to disclose their owners to get zoning favors, where there is no Inspector General, Ombuds or other checks and balances, where large developers have owned our Sheriff, rented our County Commissioners and City Commissioners, and perpetrated what RFK, Jr. would call "crimes against nature," including urban sprawl, clear-cutting, wetland-destroying and demolishing historic structures.  Violating Article VI, Section 5(b) of our State Constitution, Republican ROBERT THORNTON SMITH, et al. contrived to run five phony write-in candidates, closing four universal primaries, disenfranchising some 82,000 Democrats and No Party Affiliation voters from voting for Sheriff, Clerk of Courts and two of three Commission races.

The candidate battery crime against our democracy at issue in State of Florida v. LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA was particularly egregious -- in broad daylight, in front of St. Augustine Beach City Hall, in the view of witnesses campaigning that day.

This candidate-battery crime against our democracy was  by one of Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN's most outspoken supporters at the St. Augustine Beach's only voting location.

This crime against our democracy was in the context of Mayor O'BRIEN's anger at his political machine facing opposition by two candidates, Ms. Bailey running against him, and Maggie Kostka successfully running against erstwhile Mayor ANDREA SAMUELS, who lost ignominiously.

This crime against our democracy was in the context of Mayor O'Brien bringing and eventually losing a "stalking" injunction against government watchdog Thomas Reynolds, now a candidate for St. Johns County Commission seat 4 as a Democrat.

Kudos to St. Augustine Beach Police Chief Robert Hardwick, Officer Jessie Z. Lewis, State's Attorney Ralph Joseph Larizza and Assistant State's Attorney Samuel Frazer for enforcing the law.

Twelve days earlier, on October 27, 2016, outside a mainland early voting polling place (Southeast Branch Public Library), Anastasia Mosquito Control Commission of St. Johns County  candidate Merrill Paul Roland was insulted, assaulted, punched, kicked, battered and spat upon by St. Johns County Republican Executive Committee Chair ERIC WEST, against whom no charges have been filed yet.   Mr. Roland was hospitalized as a result.

The criminal charges against TRINCA place in sharp repose the May 1, 2017 maudlin meanderings of Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN and Commissioner SHERMAN GARY SNODGRASS "apologizing" to City staff for not shutting down dissenters.  See St. Augustine Record editorial of May 4, 2017 and May 3, 2017 St. Augustine Record article, my commentary, and comment of First Amendment attorney Thomas Elijah Cushman, here.

Criminal defendant LEONARD PATRICK TRINCA is represented by local trial lawyer PATRICK "DUCKS" CANAN, erstwhile School Board Chairman and a putative Democrat who has hosted fundraisers for Charles Crist and other statewide candidates.  As School Board Chairman, PATRICK "DUCKS" CANAN was unhelpful and discourages about answering still-unanswered questions about school board purchasing practices.

PATRICK "DUCKS" CANAN raised eyebrows with his maudlin, emotional, malicious manner of avoiding to my questions in 2016 about possible bid-rigging activity in school construction, as evidenced by only one bid received for an Aberdeen School last year.  Read PATRICK "DUCKS" CANAN's bumptious, bigoted, bullying, threatening June 6, 2016 e-mail message here.  As William F. Buckley, Jr. once said, "Why does baloney reject the grinder?"


GOVERNOR RICHARD LYNN SCOTT last year appointed CANAN's associate, HUNTER CONRAD, 29 years old, as St. Johns Clerk of Courts, instead of the longtime career deputy; the son of a fundamentalist minister allied with Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, Boy Conrad was elected in an illegally-closed August 2016 universal primary closed because a Republican filed to run as a write-in candidate.

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Again, LARIZZA has not responded to an e-mail request yesterday for an interview and multiple Open Records requests, first filed in August 2017, including this one:


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin 
To: larizzar 
Cc: rvbailey ; pcanan ; 
Sent: Mon, Aug 28, 2017 11:03 am
Subject: Request No. 2017-519: State's Attorney R.J. Larizza's refusal to allow political hate crime victim to tape record her own deposition

Dear Mr. Larizza:
1. Please provide any documents conveying or containing any legal authority, instructions, policy, procedure, permission or reason of any kind for Valeriy Avanesov's agreeing with defense attorney PATRICK CANAN's refusal to allow St. Augustine Beach City Commission candidate Rosetta Bailey to tape record her own oral deposition on August 25, 2017 in the case of State of Florida v. Leonard Trinca, in which the campaign manager, neighbor and close friend of controversial St. Augustine Beach Mayor RICHARD BURTT O'BRIEN is charged with assault for shoving Ms. Rosetta Bailey on November 8, 2016 (Election Day) at the St. Augustine Beach City Hall (a polling place).
2. First Amendment violations are a serious matter, whether by:

A.  Mayor O'BRIEN in seeking a wrongful injunction against Rosetta Bailey campaigner Tom Reynolds, or 
B.  Mayor O'BRIEN's campaign manager in assaulting O'BRIEN's opponent, or 
C. The Seventh Circuit State's Attorney's office in aiding and abetting that assault after the fact by making the crime victim uncomfortable, refusing to allow her to tape record her own deposition, and refusing to allow her request to allow others to attend, denying her requests without law or logic.
3. Will you please direct Valeriy Avanesov and the rest of your staff, by e-mail, to cease and desist violating citizens' First Amendment rights, including the right to tape record one's own depositions?  Please send me a copy of the instruction e-mail.
4. Will you please coach and counsel Valeriy Avanesov?
5. Please call me to discuss this and other First Amendment issues and kindly schedule a meeting with Ms. Bailey.
Thank you.

With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998






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