My Supreme Court Cases Derailed by Anthrax

My Supreme Court Cases Derailed by Anthrax

sloan@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan)	11/1/2004 9:41:29 PM
My Supreme Court Cases Derailed by Anthrax I have filed three cases in the United States Supreme Court. Today, after getting acknowledgment from the post office that the cases had been received by the court, I called the court to find out the status of the cases and to try to obtain the docket numbers. I was shocked to be told that my petitions and all other petitions had been taken off site to be inspected for Anthrax and that they will not be brought back to the court to be docketed for two or three more days. Two or Three days!!! I am trying to get action before the election tomorrow. My petitions cannot wait two or three days. I am enraged. If I had known this, I would have taken the train to Washington DC and delivered my petitions for certiorari personally. Then, there would have been no delay for Anthrax inspection. Why is there a two or three day delay for Anthrax inspection anyway? Why canft they just open the package, check it for Anthrax and deliver it back to the court an hour or two later? Is Anthrax really such a problem that all court cases have to be slowed down because of this? I demand a Congressional investigation of this. Sam Sloan



danny burstein	11/1/2004 9:52:09 PM
In <4186ad13.16298015@ca.news.verio.net> sloan@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan) writes: My Supreme Court Cases Derailed by Anthrax I was shocked to be told that my petitions and all other petitions had been taken off site to be inspected for Anthrax and that they will not be brought back to the court to be docketed for two or three more days. [ snip ] For better or worse, mail to a whole bunch of DC official locations, including Congress, is first delivered to a special post office facility where it is zapped with gamma rays to kill off any anthrax spores. And yes, this does delay delivery for a few days/weeks. Most post office personnel are aware if this, and should warn you if you're sending a package from the counter. But they're only human... -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]



sloan@ishipress.com (Sam Sloan)	11/22/2004 5:06:35 PM
Since several people have expressed interest in this, I will give you his name and address on the petition: William K. Smith Reg. No. 44684-083 P.O. Box 1000-AA FCI Cumberland Cumberland, MD 21502-1000 I did not read the petition carefully at first. He was not sentenced to only three years. He was sentenced to 262 months, with three years suprevised release on each of two counts. He was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia of felon in possession of a firearm, 18 USC 922(g). He had been arrested in Alexandria, Virginia on July 7, 2000. He claims violations of his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights. He makes no mention of the Second Amendment. His petition is better than I first concluded. His "Questions Presented" section is weak, but the rest is well done. Of course, I am going to send his petition to him and will not try to re-write and re-file it. Sam Sloan

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