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Sue Me Again, You Evil Liar

Posted on | August 13, 2014 | 70 Comments

“Brett Kimberlin is a pedophile,” Ali A. Akbar said Tuesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court, as he concluded his argument for dismissing the notorious bomber’s $1 million Maryland defamation lawsuit, Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. Forty-five minutes later, Judge Eric Johnson issued his ruling, finding in favor of the defendants: bloggers Aaron Walker and John Hoge, Akbar and me.

The two-day trial concluded without the defendants ever having to put on the case for our innocence. Kimberlin presented his case — calling all four defendants as witnesses, presenting examples of our writing and even putting his own 15-year-old daughter on the witness stand to testify she was never molested by her 59-year-old father. When the plaintiff rested his case, the defense moved for dismissal.

Attorney and free-speech advocate Ken White writes at Popehat:

After the close of Kimberlin’s day of “evidence,” the judge granted a motion for a directed verdict against him. Under Maryland law, that means the judge necessary found “a total failure of legally sufficient evidence to prove” Kimberlin’s remaining defamation claim. The judge didn’t just find Kimberlin’s evidence unpersuasive; he effectively found it irrelevant. . . .
Furthermore, even though the court ruled that Kimberlin could testify on his own behalf (despite a statute suggesting that people convicted of perjury may not), Kimberlin did not testify. Perhaps he was concerned about how testifying would expose him to a cross-examination that would lovingly recount his history of lawlessness, sociopathy, and crazed litigiousness. Perhaps he recognized the risk of a new perjury charge. Perhaps he realized that he would look ridiculous questioning himself. Perhaps he never planned to, and the purpose of this was always mere harassment. . . .
This result bodes well for Kimberlin’s remaining ludicrous and vexatious claims in federal court against a wide variety of people and institutions. The federal court will see the result and, no doubt, view Kimberlin with even more skepticism. The state ruling may have legal effect in the federal case — let’s let Brett Kimberlin discover why and how. And, most importantly, the trial shows that for all his braggadocio about having filed a hundred suits, Brett Kimberlin is too nutty and disorganized to do even a half-assed job in court. If only one could litigate by drug dealing, perjuring, and blowing the leg off innocent bystanders, he would have been an elite courtroom attorney.

Judge Johnson’s ruling Monday to let Kimberlin testify despite his 1973 perjury conviction (see chapter 7, pp. 46-50, of Kimberlin’s 1996 authorized biography, Citizen K) was the divine green light for Ali Akbar’s decision to go pro se, representing himself at the trial. Our highly competent attorney, F. Patrick Ostronic, had represented us pro bono since Kimberlin filed his meritless and vexatious suit nearly a year ago. Ostronic’s handling of pre-trial motions was as extraordinarily skillful as Kimberlin’s was inept. For example, Ostronic successfully argued that several of the allegations that Kimberlin made in his lawsuit — conspiracy, stalking, harassment, yadda, yadda, yadda — simply were not recognized as causes for civil claims under Maryland law. Stalking and harassment are crimes, not torts, and by suing us for these claims, Kimberlin was effectively attempting to appoint himself as prosecuting attorney, a role the infamous felon clearly covets for himself.

Any student of Christian theology knows that Satan is always the accuser, torturing us with the guilt of our sins, dishonestly attempting to convince us that our wickedness places us beyond the help of God’s grace. At the Day of Judgment, confronted by the infinite righteousness of God, we shall be unable to save ourselves from eternal destruction, except to claim the blood of Jesus as having atoned for our sins. Thus, to become a Christian requires first that we acknowledge what wretched sinners we are — “total human depravity,” in Calvinist doctrine, “sinners in the hands of an angry God,” as Jonathan Edwards so memorably phrased it — utterly helpless to deserve salvation by our own merit, and completely dependent on God’s mercy.

Jesus taught his disciples to pray that God’s will may be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” and there are times when divine providence is made so apparent by signs and wonders that the faithful may see the earthly path that God shows. So there was a lot of prayer Monday night, and it was as if God himself was telling Ali to go pro se. When Ali announced this decision in the courtroom, Judge Johnson called him, Ostronic and Kimberlin to the bench where, in a conference, the judge urged Ali to reconsider, and Kimberlin (himself proceeding as his own attorney) actually tried to argue that Ali shouldn’t be allowed to represent himself.

Bingo.

This is what poker players call a “tell.” Kimberlin’s haphazard and arguably unethical methods as a pro se plaintiff have been a weapon in his nearly four-year lawfare campaign against his critics, dating back to October 2010, when he sued Seth Allen and threatened to sue Patrick “Patterico” Frey and Mandy Nagy, writing in an e-mail to Patterico:

“I have filed over a hundred lawsuits and another
one will be no sweat for me. On the other hand,
it will cost you a lot of time and money . . .”

Judges don’t want to do anything prejudicial to a pro se litigant, which might allow him to appeal on the basis of perceived unfairness. In effect, this means that judges have seemed at times to bend over backward on Kimberlin’s behalf, cutting him breaks that a professional lawyer could never expect to get. No matter how dishonest and unethical he may be, as a pro se litigant, Kimberlin never has to worry about being disbarred. In some sense, then, a professional attorney is at a disadvantage against Kimberlin, who not only acquired vast experience as a “jailhouse lawyer” during his 17 years in federal prison, but is also absolutely shameless in the deceitful methods he employs while pursuing vexatious lawsuits to harass, discredit or intimidate his critics.

So when Ali Akbar announced he was going pro se,  Kimberlin became visibly agitated by the prospect of going up against a defendant who might be similarly uninhibited by legal niceties.

Ask yourself this: If Kimberlin had fought so hard to overcome the prohibition on testimony by convicted perjurers, why didn’t Kimberlin ever actually testify at the trial? Do you think that maybe Kimberlin feared cross-examination by the crafty Ali Akbar, who might ask questions to which Kimberlin — as both witness and lawyer — would be compelled to object, or plead the Fifth Amendment?

The verdict: The innocent defendants won, evil lost, and Brett Kimberlin has vowed to continue his litigious harassment:

The trial transcript and audio will cost more than $900 — readers are urged to go to BomberSuesBloggers.com and chip in $10 or $20 to help defray that expense — so we’ll have to wait to get the official highlights of the trial, including my own “colorful” testimony, and Ali Akbar’s masterful arguments. (Hint: Ali was a champion debater and mock trial participant in high school.) But the bottom line is this: Brett Kimberlin lost, and lost badly, because lies can never ultimately prevail in battle against the truth, nor can evil ever hope to triumph where good men have courage and trust in that great Truth that is eternal and infinite.

To God be the glory. Selah.




 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

Comments

70 Responses to “Sue Me Again, You Evil Liar”

  1. Garym
    August 14th, 2014 @ 12:15 am

    Good job to all involved!!

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  3. Wombat_socho
    August 14th, 2014 @ 12:36 am

    9/12, location TBD. See next post.

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  5. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    August 14th, 2014 @ 1:43 am

    Ali’s case–provided he did not mess up his co-defendants, he gets the call. Ali gives a pretty good (nd persuasive) explanation at Hoge’s place. Popehat in contrast also gives excellent advice folks, don’t just assume you can do this at home or in a courtroom near you. This is tight wire walking without a net.

  6. K-Bob
    August 14th, 2014 @ 5:43 am

    Wallendas. eh?. They didn’t *all* make it across. Scary stuff.

  7. K-Bob
    August 14th, 2014 @ 5:45 am

    This is a good time to hug your kids and be extra careful.

    Congrats on the win.

  8. WJJ Hoge
    August 14th, 2014 @ 6:46 am

    The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin will have to pay for transcripts for any state appeal he makes. Either Stacy, Aaron, Ali, or I will need a certified copy for an exhibit in a pleading in the federal RICO case. Once that filed, others can incorporate it by reference in their court papers.

  9. RS
    August 14th, 2014 @ 7:39 am

    I’m not licensed in Maryland, but in my jurisdiction, the court reporter certifies the transcript and will gladly provide a duplicate “original” to parties requesting it. That cost is minimal as the big money is the actual transcribing.

  10. Quartermaster
    August 14th, 2014 @ 7:51 am

    Doesn’t necessitate a change in what I said.

  11. Gunga
    August 14th, 2014 @ 8:29 am

    Congratulations to all on the victory! It says a lot about the man you are that you wrote such a subdued and measured summary. Lesser men would be tempted to spike the ball and do a verbal victory dance that would make a Dervish seem modest…and we all know that you deserved that satisfaction in this case. Far better to glorify the Lord who sustained you through this!

  12. creeper
    August 14th, 2014 @ 9:10 am

    Good to “see” you, Paul. Hope you are well.

  13. Paul H. Lemmen
    August 14th, 2014 @ 9:22 am

    Thank you! I often read but do not comment. I also do not read as much as I used to being enrolled in a Seminary degree program for a Bachelors in Theology with a concentration in Christian Social Work. This is a very good thing and is helpful in treading the road of redemption. My intent is to start a mission but I must wait until after my supervised release is over next March to prevent idiots like Schmalfeldt and Osborne from inundating my PO with false reports (as they have done this past month). She is retiring soon after my supervision ends and these fools cause her no end of paperwork with their harassment of me and their false reports.
    So I stand by, studying and moving through my studies.

  14. The Osprey
    August 14th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

    Sweet!

  15. troyriser
    August 14th, 2014 @ 2:13 pm

    It should be stressed here that Kimberlin’s goal hasn’t been to win, exactly. His goal is attrition, to bog people down–presumably to take time away from their blogs or activism. What he’s doing is not so different from the nuisance suit attack those Dem operatives in Alaska conducted against Sarah Palin. Or, for that matter, IRS harassment of Tea Party and conservative groups.

    So who, exactly, is bankrolling Kimberlin? Perpetual litigation requires enormous resources even if Kimberlin is acting as his own attorney. Just spitballing here, but what if the money funding a drug-dealing terrorist, pedophile and suspected murderer goes back to big name, influential organizations and people? A good reporter could make his or her bones on a story like that.
    Follow the money and publicize the donors. I’m guessing that would make his evil, miserable life a bit more interesting.

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  17. K-Bob
    August 14th, 2014 @ 4:40 pm

    Then his goal is the same as Barbara Streisand’s was in initiating the Streisand Effect.

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