Please note: This article is reprinted directly from MedicalKidnap.com. It is being presented here in two installments due to length. This is the 2nd and final installment. The article in its entirety can be found here: see entire story here all at once including video
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
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Reguli goes on to explain the order from DCS to remove the children was not even signed by a judge in their county. They went to a different county to get the ex parte emergency order, and even then Reguli states that the order was not even signed by the judge.
These kangaroo courts, this donkey justice system that is going on – there is not another type of litigation that goes through this.
If I have a contract case, and I want to go get a restraining order against somebody or some other business, I have to file the document with the court, and then it goes to the judge, and then the judge makes the decision.
This being able to cart your documents off by DCS workers to another county, under the claim that they’ve got some freakin emergency – it has got to stop!
Reguli goes on to explain that the rationale behind ex parte orders is to deal with emergency situations where there is no time to wait for a court to convene and hear the case. The standard is supposed to be: “There is a risk of irreparable harm before a court hearing can be held.”
But DCS workers abuse the system by using ex parte orders to immediately remove children from homes when there is no emergency.
“They’re making these ex parte orders on antonymous tips, on vague allegations that they have no substance, they’re doing no investigation.”
Concerning the case where she is being charged with criminal charges of “Facilitation of Custodial Interference and Accessory after the Fact” Reguli states:
They made allegations that mom was a drug dealer. They never showed mom was a drug dealer. And that was last August.
The kids are home with mom. And DCS dismissed their case.
I filed four different complaints with the Department of Children’s Services, showed them all the violations. They had taken these children, they had shipped them 300 miles away in foster homes in which there were needles, and bars on the windows in a culturally inappropriate setting that was totally not the setting that foster care was supposed to be.
They have been in six placements in less than a year.
They told these kids that they would never go home to their mom.
Retaliation Against Attorney for Exposing Corruption?
When asked if she thinks this criminal charge against her is retaliation, Reguli states
Absolutely. And they know in this case it is a federal “case” – it has civil rights violations, it is a civil rights lawsuit waiting to happen. And in Tennessee we have a very short statute of limitations. I already have the complaint about 80 percent drafted. This is just a distraction to steal my time..
So we’re going to make it a distraction for everybody.
When we have a preliminary hearing, I’ll get cameras in the courtroom, and we’ll video tape it.
I’m going to have my opportunity to cross examine some of these people, including the judges, the caseworkers, the police officers – we’ll get them up there and cross examine them.
Because there was never a finding that this mom was a drug dealer. And that was their whole basis for running off and snatching these kids.
Based on her phone call with the police, Reguli knew that they were charging the mom with “Custodial Interference” and charging her, as the mom’s attorney, for “facilitating a crime.”
And yet, the case had already been dismissed, and the children were already back home with the mom.
Reguli then goes on to give her perspective as to why they are so upset with her to the point of filing (bogus) criminal charges.
Here’s another reason they are mad at me. So, I record everything. I have Olympus digital recorders that plug into your computer. I carry them with me all the time. I lay them down on the desk. There is no secret. Everybody knows it.
When I go into a courtroom, I lay a recorder on the table.
When we had a hearing on February 26th, I got my recorders out on the table, we take a short break to do something, and I left my recorder on. I just left it on. I didn’t turn it off as I walked out.
I came back in, and we finish what we are doing.
When I get back to my office, I’m downloading my audios and I was trying to find something on my audio.
So I pull up my audio, and I realized what I had done by keeping it on.
Well, during the break, the DCS attorney and DCS workers were talking smack about me. Along with the court officer, the judge’s court officer who works for the sheriff department, is talking smack about me and my client. They’re sitting over there giggling and laughing it and I posted that online as well.
They are livid about that. They’re absolutely livid that they’re basically saying that the barrier to reunification is Connie Reguli.
Well, that shows you that it was personal right then.
This was a personal vendetta.
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