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<blockquote data-quote="brandon_cox" data-source="post: 815518" data-attributes="member: 3408"><p>So, I posted above about what our good buddy Ron Bell could expect when he’s eventually sentenced in the Oro Valley Municipal Court for his six Class One misdemeanor convictions. This should be a prequel to that post because a way more interesting story may be how he got there in the first place. I’m going to take you down a small rabbit hole, but it makes for a very interesting set of events (at least to me, as a lawyer). But I’m not going to bury the lede: despite his angelic face and demeanor, COACH JOSH PASTNER IS A VERY BAD MAN.</p><p></p><p>Remember back when CJP hired a couple of lawyers and sued Ron and Jen for defamation? At the time it was a very sound legal strategy. Any somewhat normal, mildly sane person would cut his losses, apologize to Josh and make his very expensive and dangerous legal predicament go away. I’m sure Ron was offered that opportunity in the beginning. But, famously, Ron went totally insane: he orchestrated a counterclaim with a pathetic rape charge by Jen He got a small sugar high in the beginning, with a few headlines and morons like Gary Parrish giving him some oxygen.</p><p></p><p>The next step in any civil suit is discovery: you send out Interrogatories, Requests for Production of Documents, schedule the deposition of witnesses, etc. By this time CJP had put together a legal dream team, headlined by arguably the best civil lawyer in Arizona, Scott Palumbo (<a href="http://www.palumbowolfe.com/attorney-profiles/scott-i-palumbo-2/" target="_blank">http://www.palumbowolfe.com/attorney-profiles/scott-i-palumbo-2/</a>). Armed with an unlimited budget, Scotty P and his legal team of Dobermans didn’t appear to have much trouble totally destroying Ron and Jen’s risible rape counterclaim.</p><p></p><p>Most critical to this story - because the criminal charges emanated from this - the security guard Ron was counting on to commit perjury, Chris Morgan, admitted under oath during his testimony that he lied about witnessing CJP fondling Jen before a game on Nov. 22, 2016. Meegan later confessed that he wasn't working that day and was out of the state. He further admitted that he made the allegations "in exchange for an offer of a portion of an anticipated civil monetary settlement/judgment." Scotty P, to Ron’s dismay, played total hardball with Morgan: tell the truth or we’ll sue the snot out of you as well. Unlike Ron, Morgan gave it up, confessed his role in the caper and was able to walk away.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, the civil suit settled with each side dismissing their complaint. By then, the recanted testimony of Chris Morgan was huge news and it was commonly accepted that Josh had done nothing wrong and Ron was a scumbag of the highest order. Getting a judgment against Ron would have been a waste of time; he was undoubtedly judgment proof (ie had no visible assets they could collect against) and a huge civil verdict wouldn’t have been worth the paper it was printed on.( Lots of other fun stuff happened in the interim, like Ron getting extradited back to Georgia and all of his incriminating jail conversations being leaked, but that’s a conversation for another day.)</p><p></p><p>To understand the brilliance of the Josh’s hardball legal strategy, you need to understand what the Municipal Court of Oro Valley is, and isn’t. This is a typical city court: it primarily handles traffic court cases, marriage licenses, granting police warrants etc. It has one full time judge and no full-time solicitors (prosecutors). While it technically has complete misdemeanor jurisdiction it doesn’t exercise it in any meaningful way. To put it simply, this is not a court that has the capability, expertise or desire to prosecute complicated criminal cases, especially one with out of state witnesses.</p><p></p><p>Step one of the plan was getting Oro Valley to charge Ron with six Class One misdemeanors in the first place. Normally that would be nearly impossible, but when you have an extremely popular victim (CJP) and an extremely powerful and well-connected lawyer representing him, anything is possible. Let’s just say some serious strings were pulled. (It also didn’t hurt that Ron’s crimes and conduct were so despicable.)</p><p></p><p>Here’s the part that literally made me literally laugh out loud. How do you suppose the understaffed Oro Valley Solicitor’s Office was able to handle this complicated prosecution? Well, if you go to their website, the prosecutor is listed as….Scott Polumbo! Yes, CJP got his lawyer appointed as the special prosecutor for Oro Valley. Brilliant! Since Scotty P handled the civil case he knew the facts and testimony more intimately than any prosecutor ever would. Ron-Ron never stood a chance. Guilty on all charges!</p><p></p><p>So now we wait. We’re flying blind on the timing for sentencing and what’s occurring in the interim. The last case activity on the Oro Valley website reads <em>8/6/2021 Memorandum Filed</em>. That could literally mean anything. What we do know is that Ronald Franklin Bell is once again in a world of hurt and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brandon_cox, post: 815518, member: 3408"] So, I posted above about what our good buddy Ron Bell could expect when he’s eventually sentenced in the Oro Valley Municipal Court for his six Class One misdemeanor convictions. This should be a prequel to that post because a way more interesting story may be how he got there in the first place. I’m going to take you down a small rabbit hole, but it makes for a very interesting set of events (at least to me, as a lawyer). But I’m not going to bury the lede: despite his angelic face and demeanor, COACH JOSH PASTNER IS A VERY BAD MAN. Remember back when CJP hired a couple of lawyers and sued Ron and Jen for defamation? At the time it was a very sound legal strategy. Any somewhat normal, mildly sane person would cut his losses, apologize to Josh and make his very expensive and dangerous legal predicament go away. I’m sure Ron was offered that opportunity in the beginning. But, famously, Ron went totally insane: he orchestrated a counterclaim with a pathetic rape charge by Jen He got a small sugar high in the beginning, with a few headlines and morons like Gary Parrish giving him some oxygen. The next step in any civil suit is discovery: you send out Interrogatories, Requests for Production of Documents, schedule the deposition of witnesses, etc. By this time CJP had put together a legal dream team, headlined by arguably the best civil lawyer in Arizona, Scott Palumbo ([URL]http://www.palumbowolfe.com/attorney-profiles/scott-i-palumbo-2/[/URL]). Armed with an unlimited budget, Scotty P and his legal team of Dobermans didn’t appear to have much trouble totally destroying Ron and Jen’s risible rape counterclaim. Most critical to this story - because the criminal charges emanated from this - the security guard Ron was counting on to commit perjury, Chris Morgan, admitted under oath during his testimony that he lied about witnessing CJP fondling Jen before a game on Nov. 22, 2016. Meegan later confessed that he wasn't working that day and was out of the state. He further admitted that he made the allegations "in exchange for an offer of a portion of an anticipated civil monetary settlement/judgment." Scotty P, to Ron’s dismay, played total hardball with Morgan: tell the truth or we’ll sue the snot out of you as well. Unlike Ron, Morgan gave it up, confessed his role in the caper and was able to walk away. Eventually, the civil suit settled with each side dismissing their complaint. By then, the recanted testimony of Chris Morgan was huge news and it was commonly accepted that Josh had done nothing wrong and Ron was a scumbag of the highest order. Getting a judgment against Ron would have been a waste of time; he was undoubtedly judgment proof (ie had no visible assets they could collect against) and a huge civil verdict wouldn’t have been worth the paper it was printed on.( Lots of other fun stuff happened in the interim, like Ron getting extradited back to Georgia and all of his incriminating jail conversations being leaked, but that’s a conversation for another day.) To understand the brilliance of the Josh’s hardball legal strategy, you need to understand what the Municipal Court of Oro Valley is, and isn’t. This is a typical city court: it primarily handles traffic court cases, marriage licenses, granting police warrants etc. It has one full time judge and no full-time solicitors (prosecutors). While it technically has complete misdemeanor jurisdiction it doesn’t exercise it in any meaningful way. To put it simply, this is not a court that has the capability, expertise or desire to prosecute complicated criminal cases, especially one with out of state witnesses. Step one of the plan was getting Oro Valley to charge Ron with six Class One misdemeanors in the first place. Normally that would be nearly impossible, but when you have an extremely popular victim (CJP) and an extremely powerful and well-connected lawyer representing him, anything is possible. Let’s just say some serious strings were pulled. (It also didn’t hurt that Ron’s crimes and conduct were so despicable.) Here’s the part that literally made me literally laugh out loud. How do you suppose the understaffed Oro Valley Solicitor’s Office was able to handle this complicated prosecution? Well, if you go to their website, the prosecutor is listed as….Scott Polumbo! Yes, CJP got his lawyer appointed as the special prosecutor for Oro Valley. Brilliant! Since Scotty P handled the civil case he knew the facts and testimony more intimately than any prosecutor ever would. Ron-Ron never stood a chance. Guilty on all charges! So now we wait. We’re flying blind on the timing for sentencing and what’s occurring in the interim. The last case activity on the Oro Valley website reads [I]8/6/2021 Memorandum Filed[/I]. That could literally mean anything. What we do know is that Ronald Franklin Bell is once again in a world of hurt and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. [/QUOTE]
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