Re: Dentist Imprisoned 8 Years Without Trial

From: Tony Bad (spamspamspam_at_bakedbeans.spam)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:05:55 -0500

As I read this the name rang a bell, and I had to go dig thru my desk for an
article a relative sent me years ago. (I am a pack rat) I found it, and it seems
that the author of the article you posted has only heard part of the story.

The article I have is from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and it is dated 5/18/97.
It mentions the Medicaid fraud, but also says when the FBI came to arrest him,
he had a whole car trunk full of rifles and handguns and threatened the FBI
saying "they'll never take me alive, I outrank them. God told me for every FBI
person I kill a soul will be saved". It also mentions people in the building
were worried about him as he always wore army fatigues and was rumored to be a
militia member.

This certainly paints a different picture of the guy than the article below,
which suggests his only offense was insurance related.

I have no idea what is true, but just found it interesting this name came up so
many years later!

T

"Shyster" <shyster@lawyers.com> wrote in message
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> Nearly 8 years in prison without a trial
> Phyllis Schlafly (archive)
>
>
> December 13, 2004 | Print | Send
>
>
> "I want to go to trial on Monday; I've been locked up for nearly eight
> years," declared Charles Thomas Sell. "The federal court has no evidence,
> they have no witnesses. I want my trial one week from today. I am not
> incompetent in any way, shape or form."
>
> His statements rang true to bystanders attending his hearing on Nov. 22 in
> the federal courthouse in St. Louis. Whatever happened to the right of an
> accused to have a speedy trial?
>
> Once a successful dentist in St. Louis County who treated many indigent
> patients, Sell was accused of Medicaid fraud in 1997. Although he has never
> hurt anyone, and a federal court held that he poses no danger to those
> around him, prison officials frequently placed him in solitary confinement
> for periods that totaled nearly two years.
>
> Prison officials tried to drug Sell, allegedly to make him fit for trial,
> and lower courts ruled in favor of mandatory drugging of this non-convicted,
> non-dangerous, nonviolent prisoner. The federal government fought all the
> way to the U.S. Supreme Court for the power to forcibly drug Sell and, even
> though it lost its case there, the government continued to imprison and
> prevent him from receiving proper medical care.
>
> The forced medication was designed to correct Sell's attitude toward the
> government. Sell seemed to think the government was out to get him, and the
> government wanted to drug him to get him to change his mind.
>
> Is this occurring in the United States of America?
>
> Psychiatrists were frequently employed by the Soviet Union to cover up
> atrocities and silence critics, but U.S. veterans who fought against the
> Communists in Korea and Vietnam never expected such tactics to be used by
> their own government.
>
> Earlier this year, a government psychologist declared Sell mentally fit for
> trial. Apparently, that medical opinion was unsatisfactory to Sell's
> persecutors, and to everyone's surprise that government psychologist
> reversed his diagnosis without re-examining him, and declared Sell unfit for
> trial.
>
> An independent psychiatrist then confirmed Sell's own view that he was fit
> for trial, and the court agreed and scheduled a trial for Nov. 29. But on
> Nov. 22, lawyers insisted Sell was not ready for trial and persuaded a judge
> to cancel it.
>
> The lawyers argued that Sell is not competent to stand trial because he
> insists on talking about the abuse he has suffered in prison, abuse that
> could be proved by prison videos the government is keeping secret. The
> Association of American Physicians and Surgeons filed a motion for the court
> to release these tapes, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch also intervened to
> demand their public release.
>
> But it appears that the government is doing everything it can to prevent a
> trial of Sell that would expose the record of this case.
>
> In investigative reporting worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, Carolyn Tuft of the
> St. Louis Post-Dispatch revealed on Nov. 23 some of the evidence on the
> still-secret videos. She reported that two videotapes of Sell show him being
> stripped, scalded, humiliated and brutalized in a way that sounds shockingly
> similar to the abuse of inmates by their U.S. captors at Abu Ghraib prison
> in Iraq.
>
> Is there no accountability for this type of government misconduct? Instead
> of investigating and punishing the wrongdoers, federal officials are moving
> heaven and earth to avoid a public trial that could expose the tapes and the
> fact that a man has been held in prison so long without trial.
>
> The only one in the courtroom making any sense at what should have been the
> final hearing before trial was Sell himself, who stood up to assert his
> constitutional rights. His plea was to no avail, as the judge ordered him
> shipped to North Carolina for yet another examination by a government
> psychiatrist.
>
> By now Sell knows the game all too well, and he announced in open court that
> he would not submit to another sham mental evaluation. Nevertheless, he will
> be transported cross-country to find another government psychiatrist to
> deliver the desired diagnosis to save officials from public scrutiny.
>
> We've all seen the pictures of Abu Ghraib, so why can't we see pictures of
> prisoner abuse in the federal prison at Springfield, Mo.? Congress should
> demand the immediate release of the shocking videos showing the mistreatment
> of Sell and also order a full accounting of the taxpayers' money spent by
> the government to keep a man in prison nearly eight years without trial.
>
>
>
> ©2004 Copley News Service
>
> http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20041213.shtml
>
>

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