Rebuttal To Dismissal
Your Honor,
The defense has stated that my client, Mara Hardlock, was processed due to a ‘clerical error’. What they fail to state is that my Client was criminally charged ( On her record ) and sent to jail without having the chance to speak to a lawyer or seek a bench trial.
Processing was handed off and handled by command at Bolingbroke, who took over after this error had taken place
This statement alone is an admission that corroborates the fact that my client Mara Hardlock was arraigned, convicted, and sentenced without being told her charges or making a plea and charged officially before any lawyer or judge had taken part in the case or facilitated my clients rights and sent to Bolingbroke without a chance to speak to an attorney or have a bench trial. To clarify, my client's claim was that she had been charged and sent to jail before being told her charges or speaking to a lawyer. My client had to call her own legal counsel from prison after being sent up without being told the charges or without having a chance to seek legal representation. This case is about much more than a denial of attorney. This civil case is about a breach of multiple constitutional violations. My client asserts that she was held unlawfully after her time was served, and as far as the plaintiff believes, she was forced to make a plea whilst being incarcerated inside prison in a locked room surrounded by police, being told she ‘had’ to make a plea. My client was then further unlawfully detained as she was free to leave the prison.
In summary, your honor:
If we allow the defense’s motion, we are essentially saying it is okay for law enforcement to send people to jail without a chance of legal representation or judicial oversight, and for police to demand pleas inside of jail after they have already sentenced the accused, completely overstepping the constitution and legal system.
The evidence is clear already in this case; the defense has admitted to an error being made. The prosecution asserts that this mistake and further actions taken by the BCSO against my client, charging her again for the same incident in a new report after already being sentenced without trial for the same incident, cornered her in a room and demanded a plea to be made
After she was free to leave the prison as her time was served and adding further charges is fundamentally against multiple parts of our constitution.
I would like to respectfully remind Ms. Evans that my phone number is on this docket posting, and I’d be more happy to receive any personal remarks through my cell phone at any time
