Fireworks in Connecticut

Paul Boyne tells me there was great drama in his last court hearing.

Paul Boyne remains in jail- now nearly a year- for writing mean blog posts about judges on his blog, thefamilycourtcircus.com.

Paul told me that prosecutors offered him ten years in jail for suggesting that the world would be a better place if corrupt judges were eliminated.

Here, again, is the three-part interview I did with him in jail.

In the most recent update, Paul read off a police report from 2017 which showed that at the time the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was investigating me.

He received this police report in the discovery process.

Paul read the pertinent parts because I couldn’t get a copy, even though his attorneys insisted it was publicly available.

Neither of Paul’s attorneys- Jen Buyske and Alice Powers of the Kirschbaum Law Group- would give me a copy.

Watertown Police Department had yet to execute a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request when I wrote the article. Since, his attorneys have remained quiet, while there’s an update from Watertown.

The writing is tiny so here is the pertinent portion.

This letter is to inform you of the status of your request. Please be advised that a thorough record review has been conducted using the criteria you provided. The results of that records review are that there are no records located which are responsive to your Freedom of Information Request. 

No further response will be provided, and our file has been closed.

the report number I had is no. 1700009722

After receiving that email, I checked with Paul to make sure we had the right police report number. He said we did.

It seems that Watertown and his attorneys are desperate to keep me from getting this police report.

At Paul’s last hearing, prosecutors and his attorneys were less concerned with his freedom or how his first amendment rights were being violated.

Instead, Paul told me that prosecutors chewed out his attorneys because Paul shared details of the report with me. Here is part of an email he sent from prison in the McDougall Correctional Facility on July 15, 2024.

Prosecutor is all mad that you know that I know that FBI thinks you are a bad bad boy for harassing people about family court, you being on SA Lisa Tutty's hit list!!!

Evidently, I am supposed to recognize the non existent gag order preventing me from discussing things contained in a massive pile of paper, copies of blog posts, representing the gestapo investigation into free speech .... I mean stalking!

Of course, there are no charges coming out of Watertown so I don't understand the discovery of what from 2017, given the stalking crime only covers 10/21 to 4/24.

Paul was not under a gag order, and defendants share evidence with media from discovery all the time.

{Want to know more, the full story about this police report is behind the paywall here.}

In other updates on his case, his federal habeas corpus petition was denied. The judge argued that his state case must run its course first. Here is part of the decision.

On the state side, a judge has ruled that the case should move forward to a jury trial. Here is part of a story in the Hartford Courant.

Update: in my haste, I sent the original FOIA request to Waterbury Police Department, not Watertown, however, I have since sent a follow up request to Watertown, and here is their response.

Mr. Volpe,

This report is not releasable.  It is an uncorroborated allegation, involving juveniles and the case is closed.

My original point holds. Someone is desperate to keep me from this report.