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Ruined by Oakland County Justice Industrial Complex (courts, law enforcement and the prosecutor's office), victim pleas for help

July 14, 2025

 

In my May 31 story, I told of the effort to get Michigan courts to make court video recordings available to the public. At a Senate hearing on a bill to do that, witnesses talked of the "shenanigans" of Oakland County judges and attorneys. Senator Ruth Johnson, a committee member, said that while serving as Oakland County clerk, she compared her notes on videos viewed in the court library with transcripts and found that transcripts were not accurate.

 

The man who called my attention to that September 17, 2020 hearing says he suffered a series of abuses by Oakland County’s courts, law enforcement agencies and prosecutor’s office and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that left him impoverished and in poor health. The following is a cover letter he uses when sending out his pleas for help.

 
  To Whom It May Concern:

I need some very badly needed help regarding the many egregious violations of my civil, constitutional, and human rights? More than fifteen years and one month of my life have already been ruined by my government’s retaliatory actions and there is no end in sight. Unless I get this matter justly resolved, I will never, ever again be able live a normal life

To get convicted of an imagined crime, I went through a process, though not yet found hanging from a tree that can only be called a lynching. Also, it appears that this entire matter may have been set off by either the prosecutor’s office or the police releasing to a private citizen restricted but frivolous and then misconstrued police information about me obtained from Canada. I also may have been and continue being discriminated against because I am an immigrant.

I had two unrelated instances of false claims made by two well-connected angry vindictive women, both going through divorces, resulting in two baseless Ex-Parte Personal Protection Orders (PPO). The first PPO was issued to a neighbor, who was only a neighbor, with who I didn’t have, nor want to have a relationship with. She is who I believe misconstrued the restricted police information.

For the first PPO, the judge wouldn’t terminate it, with the only reason given was that according to him I was gregarious. That PPO also led to me getting evicted even though the woman moved elsewhere. In attempting to terminate the second PPO, the judge, a judge for hire, while being tried, made me stand outside the courtroom, didn’t allow me to speak or present evidence.

Law enforcement refused to verify claims made against me. No attempt was made to interview me before completing their reports. Some even refused to talk to me when I visited their offices. If I had access to competent, non-dirty law enforcement; this entire matter wouldn’t have happened. Other instances of police misconduct include twice when I called 911, they came to assist the well-connected perpetrator, my former landlord, including helping him steal my personal belongings.

Thus, I began asking for badly needed highly legitimate help from and making many complaints to and about Oakland County’s courts, police departments, and the prosecutor’s office, what I now call the Oakland County Justice Industrial Complex (OCJIC).

Instead of helping me, an unauthorized judge acting outside of his jurisdiction issued another baseless Ex-Parte PPO. It was granted to a retired police officer who helped the second woman get her PPO. He claimed to be lifelong friends with the woman’s ex-husband who was alleged to be closely tied to the judge. His only real claim couldn’t have been anything more than getting in trouble with his wife when she found out that he was up to no good. He did not know me and had no relationship with me. At the termination hearing I wasn’t allowed to present exculpatory evidence. The PPO was then used to charge me with felony aggravated stalking. I was accused of sending him an e-mail that was not even shown to exist, much less that I sent it.

Five of the six attorneys I paid to represent me with their deliberately injurious representation, essentially represented the prosecution/opposition, not me, their client. The judge rendered the other attorney impotent. I was also forced to pay for the injurious representation given by three court appointed attorneys.

To discredit me and my complaints, the OCJIC took inordinate measures trying to find me not guilty by reason of insanity. I did not want an insanity defense. With less than 50% of the required testing, not having the required medical records, and by baselessly portraying factual information as a delusion, I was declared incompetent to stand for trial (IST). To get what is called restored to competency, I was interned at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry (CFP). Four days after being admitted, the forensic psychiatrist made it quite clear that I was not IST and was soon released.

Next, I filed the still unanswered complaints against the evaluating psychologist and the CFP. Only because of the complaints, with no testing whatsoever, I was again declared IST. Next, I was interned for ten weeks, subjected to sleep deprivation and without even an attempted diagnosis, much less a need, I had to take a dangerous psychiatric medication. That was only done to cover up for being wrongly found IST the first time or to retaliate. Also, I was never treated for the matters that supposedly made me IST but was declared restored to competency. How do you explain that?

The district court judge bound me over for trial without evidence that should’ve been readily available, the e-mail that resulted in the criminal charge. Twice, that same judge ruled against me using evidence that a minimally competent non-dirty judge should’ve well known was fraudulent, at best invalid, the reports from the CFP.

The circuit court judge denied me discovery, and my attorney was not even allowed to complete his oral arguments including one for a motion disqualifying Oakland County’s Courts and Prosecutor’s Office from the case. Besides the many complaints I was making about the OCJIC, nine months before the criminal charge, I also had a relevant public interaction with the judge’s husband, my representative on the Oakland County Commission, and sent him many e-mails.

Because I couldn’t get a fair trial, I reluctantly accepted a misdemeanor stalking plea deal leaving my personal and professional reputations destroyed. I was stonewalled when trying to appeal my conviction. I am now in the process of preparing documentation for consideration by the Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) of the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office.

The Probation Department, with full knowledge by the trial judge, interfered with my court ordered attempts at seeking and maintaining employment and treated me abusively. Also, they both tried portraying me, an Electrical Engineer, as an intellectually challenged, uneducated individual incapable of professional employment.

A stunning development may easily make holding accountable the individuals who by engaging in deliberate medical malpractice fraudulently stated I was IST. Unwittingly, the now former Deputy Director of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, (MDHHS), the CFP’s parent organization, in a 25-page letter intended to dispute my misconduct allegations, instead fully corroborated them. She also gave me much additional information which I was unaware of further supporting my claims. However, nothing has been done to hold the wrongdoers accountable or to compensate me for all the harm that I continue to endure.

In June 2018, my making inquiries about the CFP matter and about an abuse complaint sent to MDHHS’ Adult Protective Services the afore mentioned Deputy Director, led to MDHHS terminating my Food Stamp and Medicaid benefits. Her 25-page letter was filled with baseless attacks against my personal and professional reputations and was meant to embarrass and/or intimidate me. She stooped so low that she even fabricated a story about me having erectile dysfunction. Something that had no relevance whatsoever. In March 2022, without notice, MDHHS terminated my Medicaid coverage leaving me without medication needed to control my diabetes. In December 2022, again my food stamp benefit was terminated. Last January, after years of complaining, I was finally given access to the MDHHS website needed to apply for medical benefits.

Since nothing has been done to resolve the matter, can MDHHS be held accountable for dereliction of duty? The MDHHS Director, Inspector General and many others on the Executive Staff have multiple times been apprised of this matter, including Ms. Zeller’s admission of misconduct. MDHHS’ Division of Victim services also ignored my pleas for help. I brought this matter up during the Q & A portion of a public forum hosted by MDHHS at Eastern Michigan University. That resulted in me being escorted off the campus by campus security.

The US DOJ and US Attorney’s office ignored my pleas for help. The AG also would not help me.

Despite being an Electrical Engineer, I’m basically, if not deliberately, kept from having any job. My estimated loss of income is $1,500,000.00. Very unusually, I lost engineering jobs at Ford and GM. Also unusually, I lost an auto parts sales job. Several days after getting a pizza delivery job, my car was stolen in the middle of the day from my backyard parking spot. Until I began receiving Social Security in 2019, I was fully supported by my retired, now deceased sister from Canada. If it wasn’t for that, I would’ve become homeless in 2012.

The stress I am forced to endure has ruined my physical and emotional well-being. When this matter began evolving, I weighed about 175 lbs., was a healthy, worry free, content person. Since then, I have gained about 85 lbs., am on 10 prescription medications for diabetes, insomnia, hypertension, a cardiac issue, lost all but two of my teeth, am a nervous wreck and have become a heavy smoker, about two packs per day. I am also being monitored for an aortic aneurism.

The above and much more are detailed in the two enclosed preliminary drafts. Revised documents, checked for completeness and accuracy, detailing any new developments and additional details should be completed in about one or two months for submission to the CIU. I’m only presenting the enclosed for you to get a general idea of matters and as a preview of the finished documents. If you plan on doing a detailed review of the enclosed, I suggest waiting for the revised versions. Please let me know your intentions in that regard.

The first document is titled "XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX'S COMPLAINT AGAINST OAKLAND COUNTY MICHIGAN". The entire matter is detailed there. Its structure is explained on page 2 of the section titled "READ ME FIRST".

The second document, taken from the aforementioned one, is titled "XXXXXX XXXXXXXX’s Experiences With The Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry". That document is solely related to the CFP portion of the matter so that it can be used as a stand-alone complaint.

Exhibits for both of complaints, 474 of them are on two CD affixed to the inside back covers of the two documents. There should be no loss in continuity without referencing them.

[Documents and exhibits mentioned above will be provided upon request to Gino.Martin5@outlook.com.]

I’ve met with as many as four dozen attorneys. Some alluded to it; one specifically said that despite having a good case that any attorney helping me would get too much backlash from prosecutors and judges. He suggested hiring an out of state attorney or one from Lansing or from the western part of the state. That may also explain the deliberately injurious representation given by my defense attorneys.

If you cannot risk hurting your career by helping me, if you are honest about that, I will understand and not hold it against you. I am fully aware of the corrupt nature of Michigan’s very inappropriately called justice system. Then a referral to someone else who could help me would be very much appreciated. Since this matter stems from false accusations made by women, someone who considers himself a men’s rights advocate may be most suitable.

Thank you very much for your consideration of this most important and urgent matter. Any help that you can give me regarding this most important and urgent will be most sincerely appreciated.

 

The author of the above has asked that his name be withheld, but he may be reached at Gino.Martin5@outlook.com.

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