California Attorneys for Criminal Justice Report Thousands of African-Americans Falsely Jailed by Void Restraining Orders

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 10, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A review appearing in the October 2014 issue of the Forum, the official publication of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, reports that Conrad Baldwin's recently published book, The Void Generation: How a Generation of Void Restraining Orders Voided the Lives of a Generation, reveals with photocopies of irrefutable public documents that the Judicial Council of California mistakenly published thirteen (13) constitutionally and statutorily void restraining order forms between 1999 and 2007, then refused to publish an alternative form. With no valid forms available, the courts were compelled to issue all of their new retraining orders on void and unenforceable forms, which may have caused the false arrest and imprisonment of thousands of young African-American respondents - without a warning notice or a prior opportunity to appear and be heard.

An included April 17, 2000 Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee report reveals the Judicial Council's belated discovery that this generation of restraining order forms violated the newly enacted Senate Bill 218 (1999) by failing to warn respondents they were prohibited from "owning or possessing a firearm." This report also reveals the Judicial Council's refusal to publish an alternative form containing the required firearms prohibition notice because "attaching the warning to every restraining order might be burdensome to court clerks and individuals."

The Minutes of two general meetings held on April 28, 2000 and October 27, 2000 record the Judicial Council's unanimous and binding decisions to revise three of these restraining order forms, long after the forms were voided by the January 1, 2000 enactment of S.B. 218. And two independent research reports reveal well over 12,000 young African-American respondents may have been falsely arrested and convicted for allegedly violating firearms prohibition notices that were in fact missing for years from all of the Judicial Council's mandatory restraining order forms.

This book is an indispensable guide to one of the largest and up to now least known judicial scandals in California history. It may also be the key to exoneration and compensation for their civil damages for a whole generation of falsely arrested and imprisoned young respondents.

For more information about this eye opening new book by Conrad Baldwin, The Void Generation: How a Generation of Void Restraining Orders Voided the Lives of a Generation, contact the Media Desk at [email protected] or go to Amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/l4g2jsx to search inside the book.

About the Author:
Conrad Baldwin is a former law office manager turned legal researcher with more than twenty years experience in the selection and use of the California Judicial Council's mandatory forms.

Contact Information:
The Media Desk
415-341-6815
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