Contra Costa Bar Association and Arson

by: Pete Bennett | Date 12/16/2016

 

In 2001 offices of Donald Gene Moats targeted for Arson just a few weeks after 9/11 but the reason I hired Moats occurred when the Contra Costa Bar Association refused to provide an attorney.  When I sued Southern Pacific in 1987 I couldn't find local counsel.  In 1989 a witness in that case was murdered which was shared with Concord City Mark Coon in April 2012 by Oct. 2015 he committed suicide.  

My allegations pull in arson, car bombs, explosions, assault and murder into a larger Fraud of The Court should written up as "Conspiracy of the Court, Bar, District Attorney and Law Enforcement" where no police report is currently not a crime hence if they won't write up the report you'll never get it.  

 

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BayLegal’s CCC Homeless Youth Project
This project provides free civil legal advocacy to youth who must seek safe shelter on their own, outside of their families’ homes. Many of these youth have been abused physically, sexually and emotionally, and many have endured hunger, cold and chaos. By providing civil advocacy for these youth, and utilizing existing laws to build a youth-centered and transformational foster care system, BayLegal and its partners in the Homeless Youth Project aim to build a comprehensive safety net for youth and move towards the day when no youth begins adulthood in homelessness.

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Contra Costa High School Law & Justice Academies
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