Dr Linda L. Shelton

For those who want to know who I am and why I walk the walk and stand up to injustice: I have been arrested 25 times beginning in 2002 for my whistle blowing activities. I have represented myself and won the first 15 cases. I have been charged with both felonies and misdemeanors as follows:

1. Trespass to real property, class B misdemeanor, possible sentence up to 6 months, $1000 personal recognizance bond - I was unlawfully ordered off of Advocate Christ Hospital property by a CEO without any authority to do so. I refused to listen to her. Advocate Health and Hospital Corporation didn't like my outspoken statements against unnecessary and or dangerous vaccines, my criticism of their violation of laws pertaining to taking protective custody of children, my written testimony against their building a new hospital in Orland Park because they discriminate against minorities, my complaints that they violate the not for profit hospital law by failing to provide mental health care to persons on Medicaid, etc. I was found not guilty by jury trial representing myself. Carol Schneider, the CEO and Dr. Daniel Girzadas Jr an ER physician and son of the president of the board committed perjury on the stand and the Cook County State's Attorney Richard Divine is refusing to prosecute them for perjury.

2. Two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, class 3 felony, possible sentence 2-5 years, $10,000 bail requiring 10% down to get out - I was accused of attacking an officer at the security entrance of the Fifth Municipal District Circuit Court of Cook County courthouse. I believe this had to do with the retaliation for making waves in the first case about collusion between corrupt county officials and Advocate Health and Hospital Corporation. This is corporate corruption that should be investigated. The deputies said I walked in without any disability and not using a cane and refused to participate with security procedures and then swung at a deputy and hit her causing her to bleed on her arm. The ER report said she had a 2 X 3 mm superficial abrasion on her arm. I impeached them on the stand by introducing into evidence the prisoner inventory sheet where they had written "cane" as the first entry. The C[r]ook County States Attorney Richard Divine is refusing to prosecute them for perjury.

What happened is that I have major disabilities including S/P C3-C7 laminoplasty (neurosurgery of spine - they break all the bones in the neck and reconstruct them because a congenital defect was crushing my cord as my discs started to degenerate with my increasing age)and a herniated lumbar disc with neurological sequelae including partial paralysis and partial sensory loss of the right side (partial hemiparesis) and difficulty with balance, lung disease (a severe form of asthma resulting from an environmental accident at the business next to mine which caused exposure to high level of gasoline fumes which overcame me and caused extreme sensitivity of airways- I have been taken by ambulance to the hospital about 40 times in the last 6 years), a neurocardiovascular disorder where I have abnormal neurovasuclar and cardiovascular reflexes causing me to faint profoundly and go into a cardiac arrest for up to 60 seconds when standing still, when overheated, when ill with fever or gastointestinal problem or when I miss medication. The last time this happened, May 2007, I woke up on the floor of the State Office building in Chicago with the State Police performing mouth to mouth resuscitation on me.

I walked into the courthouse with a cane and C[r]ook County Sheriff Deputies Doran and Caliendo refused to assist me with putting my heavy briefcase (which was on a luggage cart) up on the table to be scanned. If I left and didn't go to court, an arrest warrant would have been issued. I told them they were violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in failing to assist me and they got mad. I decided to walk through the gate without my bag and ask the judge to order them to bring it up. They pushed me back out through the security gate and said I had to leave while laughing because they knew I had a court hearing and an arrest warrant would be issued. I then figured in or out I would be arrested so I grabbed my luggage cart with briefcase in one hand,along with my house keys that I had put in the basket for scanning, and cane in the other and walked through the gate. Deputy Doran stepped in front of me so I would bump her. She then pushed me and I lost my balance and my flailing arm hit her gently. I believe my keys may have caused this tiny minor abrasion. I was arrested and charged with two counts of felony aggravated battery to a peace officer and sent to Cook County Jail for two days until I could get someone to post the $1,000 bond. They illegally added a charge of violation of bail on first case and added another bail of $7500. (Statutorily, they can't do this in misdemeanors - they can only send to judge for vioation of bail, not actually charge one with this unless the base charge is a felony).I had to post $750 on this one too. I had a trial on Aug 25, 2005 and was found not guilty by the judge on my motion for summary finding of not guilty at the end of the prosecution case. I didn't even have to put up a defense. I represented myself. Prior to the trial they reduced the charges to misdemeanor battery and offered a 3rd plea bargain of a sentence of supervision terminated instanter if I plead quilty to a class C misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. This meant that the case would be dismissed immediately after I plead guilty. I refuse to plead guilty to something I didn't do. I rejected that offer.

3. An ordinance violation of trespass, max sentence is a fine, $75 personal recognizance bail - I was at the courthouse filing a motion on case one and the Assistant Chief Sheriff Lyons, whom I had made complaints about his corruption had previously yelled at me and said I could not come in the courthouse except to go to the courtroom. Since I represented myself and he had NO authority to say or order this, I went to file motions as pro se counsel. I was then arrested. The case was dismissed by the city prosecutor who unofficially said to me he did not want to be party to corruption.

4. Trespass to state supported land, Class A misdemeanor, $1000 personal recognizance bond, possible sentence up to 364 days in jail - I went to the office of the Illinois Attorney General, the corrupt Lisa Madigan who is unqualified to be AG and whose father is the Speaker of the Illinois House, Michael Madigan (rumored to be under mafia influence). I had to serve on her a court document on above first case in terms of an interlocutory appeal on a technical issue. Her receptionist said that the AG (the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of Illinois) does not accept any court documents! I told her she was wrong and please get her supervisor. The security staff told me to leave and I said no that failure to allow me to deliver this document was obstruction of justice. So they arrested me for trespass. The case was stricken when the arresting officer didn't show up in court and then I had it dismissed for violation of speedy trial statute so I could file a civil rights suit (you can't file it if just stricken as the courts have interpreted being stricken as not dismissed and therefore forever pending!).

5. Trespass to real property, class B misdemeanor, possible sentence 6 mo, $1000 personal recognizance bond - I was arrested when I went to Advocate Christ Hospital Attorney to serve court papers. I arrived in a severe asthma attack, gave them the papers and started treating myself with a portable nebulizer (I couldn't use inhalers as the gasoline exposure sensitized me to the propellant gas in them - I always carry with me a small portable nebulizer and two Epipens for self injection). They ordered me to leave but I couldn't. Chicago Police Officers came in, ripped the nebulizer out of my hand, arrested me and threw me into the back of a paddy wagon (I could not climb the stairs due to disability and weakness from asthma attack). They interpreted my inability to climb the stairs as being uncooperative and were very rough in lifting me in the paddy wagon and throwing against the sharp edged metal seat. I briefly lost consciousness in the wagon, fell on the floor and they took me to an ER. The case was dismissed for lack of probable cause because trespass is a crime of omission (not leaving) and you have to be able to leave. Since I was sick and couldn't leave without endangering my life and the officer admitted they grabbed the nebulizer out of my hand and I was sick, the judge dismissed the case for lack of probable cause.

6. Medicaid Vendor Fraud, class 1 felony, possible sentence 4-15 years, $100,000 bail (have spend 47 days in County Jail on this one - divided into three different occasions). I was summarily convicted of criminal contempt for telling the judge I was charged with something that is not a crime and she had no jurisdiction and then saying since she had no jurisdiction to hold me for trial for an act that is specifically allowed by federal law - the case is null and void due to the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (the charge is billing Medicaid as a physician for psychological and psychiatric services [testing and counseling] done by my statutorily qualified employees [psychologists and counselors]). See http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=106578. See also how they have abused me in jail (there is a lot more to say) http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=106967. Case is pending. Also see using the Federal Court PACER site - in the District Court Northern District of Illinois my civil rights suit against Lisa Madigan and the Judge Pantle - 06C4259 under Plaintiff names Linda Shelton and Vernon Glass. Read original complaint and my response to motion to dismiss. Case is pending.

7. Two counts of aggravated battery to a correctional officer, class 3 felony, possible sentence 2-5 years, bail $100,000. I was alleged to have rammed my wheelchair into a muscular male officer causing him to skin his shins and fall and then raising my RIGHT leg up and kicking him in the chest causing soreness. Of note: I am partially paralyzed on the right side and unable to kick my leg above my waist and I was so dehydrated from a dry hunger strike protesting the brutality and violatoin of rights in the jail that I was unable to stand. They denied me a call to an attorney, my medications - substituting inappropriate ones instead, paper and pen, access to the law library, a means of delivering any court pleadings I write to the court, etc. Also the wheelchair was broken and the jail staff notes prove I was unable to push it with force. My injuries are inconsistent with their story and consistent with my story that Sgt. Salemi came into my cell, grabbed me by the throat saying he was going to "make a case" so I wouldn't get out, stumbled against the wheelchair foot rests as he attacked me and the wheelchair moved backwards with his momentum and flipped me out of the wheelchair while pulling the wheelchair out from under me. They refused to take pictures of my injuries but a nurse fortunately documented them completely in her notes. Two inmate "witnesses" that appeared 6 mo after I was indicted said I stood up like a ninja and kicked him in the chest. One has HIV psychosis and was convicted of attempted murder and the other is a creep who was convicted of aggravated battery to a child - the long sentences can make them lie in order to get them reduced. Of note: I had four weeks prior won a mandamus action against the Cook County Sheriff for his violation of the FOIA. I had asked for the Sheriff's compliance plan with the Americans with Disabiities Act. He refused to send it to me. After I won a summary judgment and they were forced to give me a copy of the plan, they were forced in writing to admit that the Cook County Sheriff is in violation of the ADA in not having a compliance plan. I intend to file a complaint for injunction in federal court to force them to develop a plan. Their abuse of inmates and especially mecical neglect is probably why they take a body out of Cook County Jail about every other day. The trial is set for August 20, 2007 in Cook County Circuit Court Criminal Court Building at 2600 S California in Chicago, Rm 702 before Judge Kazmierski. The judge denied my motion to dismiss for lack of probable cause when I submitted my medical records proving the attack as alleged was impossible. I asked him if a person was a double amputee and charged with kicking someone wouldn't he dismiss for lack of probable cause and he said NO. He said that was "a matter for trier of the fact at trial."

There's a lot more that I will write later, on me testifying for parents wrongfully accused of child abuse, on details of my injuries due to their medical neglect and brutality, on details of the affidavits I have from 39 inmates about medical neglect and abuse at the jail, on my civil rights suits, on bogus attacks on other whistle blowers, and on the other criminal cases. I have been beaten by police, five times, bad enough to end up in hospital, my medication withheld until I stopped breathing in the jail and by the grace of God did this in the ER where they could keep me alive, and lots more.

Submitted by Shelton on Sun, 2007-07-29 03:16

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