Pirate News producer John Lee is interviewed by Harry Grothjahn at WBCR 1470am in Alcoa, Tennessee. Discussion of the world-famous trials of the first person on planet Earth to be arrested for allegedly shooting a redlight/speed camera.

UPDATE 2011: All charges dismissed against Cliff Clark after having a massive stroke, but he would have won anyway
http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/10/tn-court-of-appeals-and-hallerin-hill.html

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Charges Dismissed Against Accused Shooter of Redlight Camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wIadTDcXo
http://theknoxvillejournal.com/inside/pages/news/Accused-camera-shooter.html

By John Lee
Pirate News TV
3 August 2009

KNOXVILLE, TENN. -- On Friday, Clifford Clark got a phone call from his lawyer. That is usually not a good way to start a weekend. But attorney Ron Newcomb was in a celebratory mood. It sounded more like an office party.

Newcomb declared that charges were dismissed against Clark in the redlight camera shooting case. Judge Mary Beth Liebowitz had signed the Order herself.

The jury trial had been scheduled to start on August 10th.

Some might call this a technical knockout by the defense. Others might say the United States Constitution is the law that keeps Big Brother in check. And that's exactly what Judge Liebowitz enforced in her order, along with a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Arizona v. Gant.

"Even though these charges have been dismissed, I'm still going to grieve over this situation for awhile," Clark said. "It's quite a relief to have these charges dismissed. I hope that my exoneration will be as highly publicized as my arrest."

Transcript
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/08/charges-dismissed-against-accused.html

JL: Who do you believe actually shot the camera?

CC: I think it was the police. If that camera was shot, I can only believe it was the police who shot that camera.

JL: Why do you believe that?

CC: Every time a camera is damaged, the City of Knoxville pays the camera operators reimbursment for that damage. Which means destroying those cameras is profitable for the camera company itself. Another story in Washington, D.C. had the camera operators commissioning people to steal their cameras, so they could bill back the cost to the city as the leasee who is responsible for the cost of those cameras.

JL: Did you subpoena anybody who had evidence that a police officer had shot the cameras?

CC: Absolutely. I don't want to use his name on camera. But there was a witness, actually more than one witness, that has said publicly that deputies were responsible for other redlight cameras being shot. Of course, now the trial and charges have been dismissed. So at least for the moment we're not going to hear that testimony.

JL: You did subpoena one of those witnesses?

CC: Absolutely. The subpoena was issued for a witness who has said that a deputy had shot that camera, or had shot a redlight camera.

Order of Dismissal, State v. Clifford Clark, Docket # 90252, Knox County Criminal Court
http://www.wbir.com/pdf/08032009_clifford_clark_dismissal.pdf

Mr. Clark's website:
www.CliffSpeaks.com

John Lee is a freelance investigative journalist in Knoxville, Tennessee. Hi-Res video DVD and licensing available at 865-332-5715

Trackback
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http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=94914&catid=2
http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=10837272
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/aug/03/judge-dismisses-charges-red-light-camera-shooting/

Redlight Camera Archive
http://piratenews.org/kill-robocops.html

Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press reports on the ban of Pirate News in this case
http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=10945

Truth Radio
http://truthradio.tv

Cliff Clark has now had a massive stroke, while awaiting the other bogus trials that he would also win easily, since govt can never dismiss charges against innocent people for risk of lawsuits for false arrest and malicious prosecution. Beware hypertension spike by serotonin syndrome for correct use of prescription meds:
piratenews.org/cliff-stroke-continuance-trial-date150a.jpg

TV and radio crew threatened with arrest by judge in Clifford Clark trial:
archive.org/details/PirateNewsRadioShow9-11-09
PirateNews.org

UPDATE May 2012, all charges were dismisseed and expunged against Mr Clark, after deputies testified they were wearing Metallica and ACDC t-shirts and never identified themselves as cops. Deputies testified they "ran screaming out of the house having flashbacks to Afghanistan" and that Mr Clark never actually pointed a gun at them. Once they identified themselves as police, he surrendered immediately. UTPD sought an arrest warrant based on purjured testimony, according to UTPD's star witnesses. UTPD has never before obtained an arrest warrant at a student's home for trespass on unidentified UT property by an enrolled student invited on "campus" (that covers half of downtown Knoxville, South Knoxville, West Knoxville and North Knoxville and portions of Knox County). The official "reason" Mr Clark was (allegedly and illegally) banned from campus was his website (a violation of the First Amendment), not for the unproven charge he allegedly shot a redlight camera (all charges dismissed with prejudice, costs paid by the government). Mr Clark was illegally denied a hearing in student court, for his Double Secret Probation. The redlight camera charges were dismissed after a Knox County deputy confessed to the crime of shooting a redlight camera, and KPD and Redflex destroyed all ballistic evidence and all audio evidence in this case (which would prove Mr Clark's high-powered 30-06 bullets were not the caliber recovered from inside the camera, since the 3 bullets found inside the camera housing were low powered and unable to exit the 1/8" aluminum case at 10 yards, while 30-06 bullets penetrate 5/8" steel plate at 100 yards). Mr Clark never confessed to shooting a redlight camera, police destroyed all alleged audio recordings of him allegedly confessing to shooting a redlight camera, and Mr Clark always pled Not Guilty, and his defense lawyer (former prosecutor) Ron Newcomb said Mr Clark was "innocent" (Mr Newcomb was re-employed as a prosecutor in Sevier County halfway through Mr Clark's trials and continued to represent him, winning Mr Clark's case). Mr Clark never got a redlight camera ticket, was never sued in city court for a redlight camera ticket, and never paid for a redlight camera "conviction" (actually it's impossible to be convicted of a redlight camera ticket since city court can only handle civil cases without jail sentence). During Mr Clark's trials, the Australian Redflex camera company was reportedly fired by City of Knoxville for suspected bribery and contract fraud, replaced by Lasercraft that exports most revenue to Communist China and England. Due to the stress of being falsely accused of a crime he did not commit, Mr clark suffered a massive stroke, after winning dismissal his case for not shooting a redlight camera. Medicare never pays insurance claims for any person disabled by any illness, until 2.5 years after the disability begins, so Mr Clark got no rehabilitation after his stroke, after his private insurance company cancelled his coverage as "pre-existing", and hospitals refuse to accept cash for services. After Mr Clark was completely incapacited by stroke, the State attorney general illegally continued to prosecute Mr Clark in violation of US Supreme Court order, in violation of agreed order for dismissal signed by the Knox AG and Knox County judge Mary Beth Leibowitz, while Mr Clark was unable to speak to his attorney to file an appeal, and a bogus TN Court of Appeals opinion illegally claims that incompetent defendants can be prosecuted forever, admittedly without ANY law and without ANY court order to cite for that frivolous claim by the AG. Mr Clark is a retired engineer and owner of a software design company who holds numerous patents and copyrights for his inventions. Mr Clark's former website, CliffSpeaks.com, is now registered, owned and operated by a pimp in a whorehouse in Australia, home country of Redflex redlight scameras.

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