Incredibly, if you thought this story could not get worse, it just took a turn that would make a wired jaw drop. Now enters District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez who is adding his name to the already long list of El Paso Public Officials working overtime and committing illegal acts to cover for Esparza and his friends. Sanches is refusing to follow a lawful order in the Ocegeuda case.
For those of you who are new readers please see the blog before this one to get a fuller picture of the background. In short, District Attorney Jaime Esparza has a friend named Alberto Ocegueda (the brother of his personal secretary Amy Ocegueda Lujan whom he pays $84,000 year to and who goes to Mexico City on "business" for the El Paso taxpayer). Mr. Ocegueda was a coach at Lujan Chavez school where a six year old girl accused him of molesting her (please see documents on the face of my website, including the arrest affidavit which will give you the gruesome facts). Illegally, DA Esparza handpicked his friend Chris Bradley to be the special prosecutor of Ocegueda. Bradley in turn dumped the case and never even took it before a grand jury. Ocegueda was a free man. (nice to have friends in power) Esparza's other good friend attorney Joe Spencer (whose sister works for Esparza) then filed a petition to expunge Ocegueda's arrest. That petition contained falsehoods. Judge Angie Barill of the 346th signed the order of expunction eventhough it contained falsehoods and Ocegueda's arrest records evaporated from law enforcement systems across the state. According to the law, Ocegueda could not even have filed his petition for expunction for another THIRTY-TWO years. This was nothing short of the illegal destruction of public records. Channel 7 reporter Ashlie Hardway who had been hoping publicly that her husband would get a job as a police officer at the El Paso Police department did a story in the middle of early voting (I was running for DA against Esparza) and accused me of violating this illegal expunction order by dissimenating poor Mr. Ocegueda's arrest records (which I had obtained through an open records request through the SO prior to the illegal expunction). Later when questioned why she didn't report on the illegality of the order in the first place, she said it was "irrelevant to her story." Hardway also failed to appear in court on a prior ocassion about this false story of hers even though she was court ordered to do so and and personally signed for the order. Hardway is very scared of something.
On August 13, 2008 Judge Pendergrass from Del Rio, Texas came to El Paso to consider whether or not Ocegueda's expunction should be reversed (Stuart Leeds had filed pleadings asking for this to be done). Judge Pendergrass ordered that the petition for expunction filed by Joe Spencer on behalf of Ocegueda was a "legal malady" and that it could not have even been filed for 32 years. He ordered the expunction reversed and that the District Clerk send out Ocegueda's arrest records to be put back into the public file.
Unbelievably, yesterday, El Paso District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez an suspect in the FBI corruption probe (he is being investigated for bypassing his own case assignment system and making sure that certain special attorneys get their cases set in friendly courts) told me that he had recieved Judge Pendergrass' WRITTEN order ordering him to send out Ocegueda's records to law enforcement and that HE WAS PERSONALLY and ABSOLUTELY REFUSING TO FILE Judge Pendergrass' ORDER AND HE FURTHERMORE WAS REFUSING TO GIVE ME A COPY OF THE WRITTEN ORDER.
The District Clerk is an elected official whose job it is is to maintain the court files by filing all documents and following judge's orders. The District Clerk cannot pick and choose what orders and motions he will file and what orders he will not file and follow. If an inmate at the jail files a motion on a dirty napkin, the clerk MUST file it. It is unheard of, unthinkable, unreal and very dangerous to see that Gilbert Sanchez is refusing to file an order from a duly designated and presiding district court judge because he feels like it and wants to protect his friends. The District Clerk of El Paso County has personally taken my case off the desk of the regular expunction clerk and has it on his desk and openly states that he is refusing to FILE the judge's order and to follow its instructions and is refusing to give me, an ATTORNEY of record on the case, a copy of my own order on my own case that I helped draft for the judge's signature. One of his pathetic reasons for doing this is "because someone may want to appeal." Does Sanchez hold every file that someone may want to appeal? And you can't appeal an order that hasn't been filed anyway because you can't SEE it. Sanchez is a liar and a crook to the highest degree. Also keep in mind that as of yesterday there were no orders ordering him not to file the order and no stays or injunctions preventing from doing his job. This was of his own volition.
This is breathtaking! Esparza and Spencer and Ocegueda and Judge Barill couldn't fix Mr. Ocegueda's problem by having a crooked judge (which is they way they usually do it around here) because Judge Pendergrass is honest and ordered the right thing. Esparza et. al. were going crazy over Pendergrass' honesty and this is the solution they have come up with. The solution is to keep the filth contained at the local court house and JUST REFUSE TO FILE AND FOLLOW PENDERGRASS' LAWFUL ORDER. After all Judge Pendergrass is all the way in Del Rio. In the meantime, alleged child molester, Alberto Ocegueda continues to work at the SISD around little children and his records are not available to the public or to the school district, his own employers, due to the fantastic, illegal efforts of the DA of this community and the other line of sorry characters we have seen fit to bestow with power, i.e. Judge Angie Barill and Gilbert Sanchez. Remember that when we informed Judge Barill that she had signed an illegal order of expunction she refused to correct the order by undoing it as she is mandated to do by law. She refused to correct her illegal order just as Gilbert Sanchez is refusing to file Judge Pendergrass' order. Judge Pendergrass had to come to town to do Barill's work. Who will come to do Gilbert Sanchez'? To add insult to injury, we just gave DA Esparza a raise to $172,000 A YEAR TO RAPE AND PILLAGE US. As Gilbert Sanchez was refusing to follow a lawfull order to help Esparza out, we were voting to give Esparza the raise. Both happened yesterday.
Staurt Leeds and I in less that 24 hours have filed a motion to have Gilbert Sanchez held in criminal and civil contempt of court. We have filed an open records request. We have contacted the FBI and Judge Pendergrass and I am writing this blog. We are doing everything we can to fight this but you need to know what is going on and to spread the word and to make calls to everyone including Gilbert Sanchez. The press is stupid and compromised. You think Ashlie Hardway is going to report to you any of this. We see how she thinks the law is irrelevant. Did her husband ever get that job with PD? My sources say he did. The El Paso Times isn't going to report this to you for reasons elaborated on in earlier blogs but primarily because Esparza lets them go on their DWIS and they knew I would throw the book at them the same as everyone else if I had been DA.
If this isn't a cover up at the highest levels I don't know what is. As Stuart Leeds said, this appears to be the final stages of a cover up of a reported rape of a child at the hands of the friend of the District Attorney who is the brother of his assitress. This is a true story. Stay tuned.
What follows is a an open records request I made of Gilbert Sanchez this morning.
THERESA CABALLERO
ATTORNEY AT LAW
300 E. MAIN ST., SUITE 1136
EL PASO, TEXAS 79901
915.565.3550
915.562.5250 FAX
September 4, 2008
District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez
500 E. San Antonio St. Cause Numbers: 2008-1016 2207-2768
El Paso, Texas 79901
Re: Open Records Request
Dear Mr. Sanchez:
Yesterday, attorney Stuart Leeds, your assistant Coronado and I were in your office. I requested a copy of Judge Pendergrass’ order vacating an expunction in cause number 2008-1016. While you allowed us to look at the order, you refused to give us a copy of it even though we are the attorneys of record and had in fact drafted it for the judge’s signature. You also told us that you were refusing to file Judge Pendergrass’order and to follow its instructions. I asked you on what authority you were acting and you could provide none. I asked you what orders you had preventing you from handing me an order in my own case and you said you had none. Your only answer was to say that the county attorney and assistant county attorney Joanne Bernal had instructed you to not file the order or give us a copy because someone may want to appeal. Your behavior is illegal and incredible.
How many files do you have on your desk and are refusing to file the final order because “someone may want to appeal?” How many Mr. Sanchez? How would someone appeal an order that the District Clerk himself is refusing to file? Are you giving the order to other people? Have you given the order to the County Attorney’s Office, Joe Spencer, who? And if so why?
Please provide me with a copy of any written authority you are using as a basis to not give me a copy of Judge Pendergrass’order. This would include written orders from a judge and written directives from any lawyer as well as stays, injunctions, etc.
Please provide me with a copy of any written authority you are using as a basis to not file Judge Pendergrass’ order. This would include written orders from a judge as well as written directives from any lawyer as well as copies of any stays, injunctions, etc.
I want a copy of the entire file in cause number 2007-2768 as I am an attorney of record on that case as Judge Pendergrass ordered this case be consolidated with 2008-1016.
As you know, the FBI is investigating you for court fixing. That is the FBI is investigating you for bypassing your computer case assignment system and putting certain lawyer’s cases into friendly courts. Attorney Joe Spencer has two original petitions for expunction in 2007-2768, one where the court is already affixed and one where it is handwritten in. They are both time stamped at exactly the same time. Stuart Leeds and Bobby Coronado saw the petitions and noted the same exact time on both petitions. Since you are obstructing justice and refusing to follow a lawful order by a judge (which is your mandate to do), I have no doubt you will start pulling documents from these files that incriminate you and your friends and destroy them. I want copies of both of those petitions to take to the FBI.
Sincerely,
Theresa Caballero
Cc: Margaret Leachman U.S. Attorney’s Office; David Glickler Texas Attorney General, Judge Carl Pendergrass,
For those of you who are new readers please see the blog before this one to get a fuller picture of the background. In short, District Attorney Jaime Esparza has a friend named Alberto Ocegueda (the brother of his personal secretary Amy Ocegueda Lujan whom he pays $84,000 year to and who goes to Mexico City on "business" for the El Paso taxpayer). Mr. Ocegueda was a coach at Lujan Chavez school where a six year old girl accused him of molesting her (please see documents on the face of my website, including the arrest affidavit which will give you the gruesome facts). Illegally, DA Esparza handpicked his friend Chris Bradley to be the special prosecutor of Ocegueda. Bradley in turn dumped the case and never even took it before a grand jury. Ocegueda was a free man. (nice to have friends in power) Esparza's other good friend attorney Joe Spencer (whose sister works for Esparza) then filed a petition to expunge Ocegueda's arrest. That petition contained falsehoods. Judge Angie Barill of the 346th signed the order of expunction eventhough it contained falsehoods and Ocegueda's arrest records evaporated from law enforcement systems across the state. According to the law, Ocegueda could not even have filed his petition for expunction for another THIRTY-TWO years. This was nothing short of the illegal destruction of public records. Channel 7 reporter Ashlie Hardway who had been hoping publicly that her husband would get a job as a police officer at the El Paso Police department did a story in the middle of early voting (I was running for DA against Esparza) and accused me of violating this illegal expunction order by dissimenating poor Mr. Ocegueda's arrest records (which I had obtained through an open records request through the SO prior to the illegal expunction). Later when questioned why she didn't report on the illegality of the order in the first place, she said it was "irrelevant to her story." Hardway also failed to appear in court on a prior ocassion about this false story of hers even though she was court ordered to do so and and personally signed for the order. Hardway is very scared of something.
On August 13, 2008 Judge Pendergrass from Del Rio, Texas came to El Paso to consider whether or not Ocegueda's expunction should be reversed (Stuart Leeds had filed pleadings asking for this to be done). Judge Pendergrass ordered that the petition for expunction filed by Joe Spencer on behalf of Ocegueda was a "legal malady" and that it could not have even been filed for 32 years. He ordered the expunction reversed and that the District Clerk send out Ocegueda's arrest records to be put back into the public file.
Unbelievably, yesterday, El Paso District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez an suspect in the FBI corruption probe (he is being investigated for bypassing his own case assignment system and making sure that certain special attorneys get their cases set in friendly courts) told me that he had recieved Judge Pendergrass' WRITTEN order ordering him to send out Ocegueda's records to law enforcement and that HE WAS PERSONALLY and ABSOLUTELY REFUSING TO FILE Judge Pendergrass' ORDER AND HE FURTHERMORE WAS REFUSING TO GIVE ME A COPY OF THE WRITTEN ORDER.
The District Clerk is an elected official whose job it is is to maintain the court files by filing all documents and following judge's orders. The District Clerk cannot pick and choose what orders and motions he will file and what orders he will not file and follow. If an inmate at the jail files a motion on a dirty napkin, the clerk MUST file it. It is unheard of, unthinkable, unreal and very dangerous to see that Gilbert Sanchez is refusing to file an order from a duly designated and presiding district court judge because he feels like it and wants to protect his friends. The District Clerk of El Paso County has personally taken my case off the desk of the regular expunction clerk and has it on his desk and openly states that he is refusing to FILE the judge's order and to follow its instructions and is refusing to give me, an ATTORNEY of record on the case, a copy of my own order on my own case that I helped draft for the judge's signature. One of his pathetic reasons for doing this is "because someone may want to appeal." Does Sanchez hold every file that someone may want to appeal? And you can't appeal an order that hasn't been filed anyway because you can't SEE it. Sanchez is a liar and a crook to the highest degree. Also keep in mind that as of yesterday there were no orders ordering him not to file the order and no stays or injunctions preventing from doing his job. This was of his own volition.
This is breathtaking! Esparza and Spencer and Ocegueda and Judge Barill couldn't fix Mr. Ocegueda's problem by having a crooked judge (which is they way they usually do it around here) because Judge Pendergrass is honest and ordered the right thing. Esparza et. al. were going crazy over Pendergrass' honesty and this is the solution they have come up with. The solution is to keep the filth contained at the local court house and JUST REFUSE TO FILE AND FOLLOW PENDERGRASS' LAWFUL ORDER. After all Judge Pendergrass is all the way in Del Rio. In the meantime, alleged child molester, Alberto Ocegueda continues to work at the SISD around little children and his records are not available to the public or to the school district, his own employers, due to the fantastic, illegal efforts of the DA of this community and the other line of sorry characters we have seen fit to bestow with power, i.e. Judge Angie Barill and Gilbert Sanchez. Remember that when we informed Judge Barill that she had signed an illegal order of expunction she refused to correct the order by undoing it as she is mandated to do by law. She refused to correct her illegal order just as Gilbert Sanchez is refusing to file Judge Pendergrass' order. Judge Pendergrass had to come to town to do Barill's work. Who will come to do Gilbert Sanchez'? To add insult to injury, we just gave DA Esparza a raise to $172,000 A YEAR TO RAPE AND PILLAGE US. As Gilbert Sanchez was refusing to follow a lawfull order to help Esparza out, we were voting to give Esparza the raise. Both happened yesterday.
Staurt Leeds and I in less that 24 hours have filed a motion to have Gilbert Sanchez held in criminal and civil contempt of court. We have filed an open records request. We have contacted the FBI and Judge Pendergrass and I am writing this blog. We are doing everything we can to fight this but you need to know what is going on and to spread the word and to make calls to everyone including Gilbert Sanchez. The press is stupid and compromised. You think Ashlie Hardway is going to report to you any of this. We see how she thinks the law is irrelevant. Did her husband ever get that job with PD? My sources say he did. The El Paso Times isn't going to report this to you for reasons elaborated on in earlier blogs but primarily because Esparza lets them go on their DWIS and they knew I would throw the book at them the same as everyone else if I had been DA.
If this isn't a cover up at the highest levels I don't know what is. As Stuart Leeds said, this appears to be the final stages of a cover up of a reported rape of a child at the hands of the friend of the District Attorney who is the brother of his assitress. This is a true story. Stay tuned.
What follows is a an open records request I made of Gilbert Sanchez this morning.
THERESA CABALLERO
ATTORNEY AT LAW
300 E. MAIN ST., SUITE 1136
EL PASO, TEXAS 79901
915.565.3550
915.562.5250 FAX
September 4, 2008
District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez
500 E. San Antonio St. Cause Numbers: 2008-1016 2207-2768
El Paso, Texas 79901
Re: Open Records Request
Dear Mr. Sanchez:
Yesterday, attorney Stuart Leeds, your assistant Coronado and I were in your office. I requested a copy of Judge Pendergrass’ order vacating an expunction in cause number 2008-1016. While you allowed us to look at the order, you refused to give us a copy of it even though we are the attorneys of record and had in fact drafted it for the judge’s signature. You also told us that you were refusing to file Judge Pendergrass’order and to follow its instructions. I asked you on what authority you were acting and you could provide none. I asked you what orders you had preventing you from handing me an order in my own case and you said you had none. Your only answer was to say that the county attorney and assistant county attorney Joanne Bernal had instructed you to not file the order or give us a copy because someone may want to appeal. Your behavior is illegal and incredible.
How many files do you have on your desk and are refusing to file the final order because “someone may want to appeal?” How many Mr. Sanchez? How would someone appeal an order that the District Clerk himself is refusing to file? Are you giving the order to other people? Have you given the order to the County Attorney’s Office, Joe Spencer, who? And if so why?
Please provide me with a copy of any written authority you are using as a basis to not give me a copy of Judge Pendergrass’order. This would include written orders from a judge and written directives from any lawyer as well as stays, injunctions, etc.
Please provide me with a copy of any written authority you are using as a basis to not file Judge Pendergrass’ order. This would include written orders from a judge as well as written directives from any lawyer as well as copies of any stays, injunctions, etc.
I want a copy of the entire file in cause number 2007-2768 as I am an attorney of record on that case as Judge Pendergrass ordered this case be consolidated with 2008-1016.
As you know, the FBI is investigating you for court fixing. That is the FBI is investigating you for bypassing your computer case assignment system and putting certain lawyer’s cases into friendly courts. Attorney Joe Spencer has two original petitions for expunction in 2007-2768, one where the court is already affixed and one where it is handwritten in. They are both time stamped at exactly the same time. Stuart Leeds and Bobby Coronado saw the petitions and noted the same exact time on both petitions. Since you are obstructing justice and refusing to follow a lawful order by a judge (which is your mandate to do), I have no doubt you will start pulling documents from these files that incriminate you and your friends and destroy them. I want copies of both of those petitions to take to the FBI.
Sincerely,
Theresa Caballero
Cc: Margaret Leachman U.S. Attorney’s Office; David Glickler Texas Attorney General, Judge Carl Pendergrass,
on September 5, 2008, 1:41 pm
Based on the explicit and excellent paper trail in this case, I wonder if we can't get some national exposure. I loathe people who enhance their own bank accounts with sensationalism, but you know, I think Bill O'Reilly may be intersted in a story of this magnitude.
Any suggestions?
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