Sovereign citizen gets 20 years in extortion case (AL)

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By William Thornton
on August 17, 2016 at 9:39 AM
updated August 17, 2016 at 9:59 AM

A man convicted of second degree extortion last month for filing false liens against banks in Anniston and Oxford has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

DeKalb County Circuit Judge Randall Cole sentenced Everett Leon Stout, 74, according to court documents filed this week. Stout got a year of credit for time already served.

Stout would not say in court whether he intended to appeal, but requested a transcript of his July trial, during which he represented himself. During that trial, Stout managed to get cited twice for contempt of court, and was later charged with perjury.

Just a week after his conviction, Stout was arrested by Oxford police for attempting to serve members of the prosecutor's team during the trial with documents pertaining to a phony lawsuit ...

http://www.al.com/news/anniston-gadsden/index.ssf/2016/08/sovereign_citizen_gets_20_year.html

[PJMcK]

1. Sounds like a real winner (n/t)

[struggle4progress]

2. Man in ‘sovereign citizen’ case sentenced to 20 years in prison

By Kirsten Fiscus, Star Staff Writer
21 hrs ago

... A jury in July found Everett Leon Stout, 74, guilty of using fictitious liens against Regions Bank in 2014 to purchase a $267,000 motorhome from Dandy R.V. in Oxford. When the liens were rejected as legal payment, Stout filed liens against every bank in Anniston and Oxford and against employees at Dandy R.V., according to testimony. The jury reached a unanimous verdict in 40 minutes.

Oxford police Chief Bill Patridge has said that Stout ascribed to the tenets of the “sovereign citizens” movement, in which adherents often file court documents based on fictitious claims and believe they are above the law. Stout denied being associated with sovereign citizens during his opening statements at the trial, in which he represented himself.

“The court determined that the defendant was due to be sentenced pursuant to the Habitual Felony Offender Act, and the state offered evidence of the defendant's prior convictions on eight felony counts in federal district court,” Dekalb County Circuit Judge Randall Cole wrote in his sentencing order ...

http://www.annistonstar.com/news/crime/man-in-sovereign-citizen-case-sentenced-to-years-in-prison/article_5d627856-6402-11e6-bc72-a3e1f987e791.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Good. Sovereign citizens are crazy though sane.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement

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4. Funny thing about screwing around with the court system like that

There are all kinds of legal professionals, including judges and district attorneys, who will fight for the integrity of the system, which is something that these sovereign nitwits are trying to tear down with their frivolous and vexatious "lawsuits."

[TheDebbieDee]

5. For $ hits n giggles you can search youtubedotcom

For videos of SovCits at traffic stops and their subsequent court appearancesm What a hoot!