GO ASK ALLISON

Dear Allison Haley,

Remember me? Shortly after losing my home and belongings to wildfire, I survived stalking, vandalism, home invasion, and physical assault in Napa, but I barely made it through your special sort of justice system. My name is KP Cleaver and I have a lot of questions for you.

After our first of only two meetings in a criminal case that dragged on for years, you filed felony and misdemeanor charges against the person who smashed a stained glass window and forced her way inside my fire sanctuary home on November 22. The last time we met, you apologized profusely because an underling you would not name “made a mistake” that dismissed battery and aggravated trespass charges against my assailant. You said she’d pay for property damage, though. I said I wanted to see a transcript of the proceedings. You promised to get that to me asap.

Months later, I heard from you one last time. You again acknowledged the mistake. You signed that email “warmly,” but never did order that transcript, and I never heard from you again.

So, I learned how to order court transcripts without your help. I learned which form to use to request the “minute orders” that named the individual court reporter. Turns out, each court reporter keeps the original transcripts and each court reporter determines the price and payment options for each transcript. Turns out, I actually spoke and/or emailed with a variety of court reporters, including the one who provided the transcript of the preliminary hearing you apparently forgot to actually order and send to me.

To refresh your memory, here is the three-year DVRO that still protected my host’s wife and child at the address where Ramey showed up uninvited on Oct 10 and Oct 13, 2017:

I didn’t know Connie Ramey, I didn’t know about her string of criminal charges, and I didn’t know about the previous arrests, probations, aliases, or restraining orders she had at the time. I didn’t know that she was arrested under one name but used a different name in court.

I know now, and I just gotta ask you, Allison:

Q: Why the heck didn’t you mention any of that to me?

To refresh your memory: For criminal conduct at my Pine Street sanctuary house on Nov 22, 2017, you charged the defendant with Aggravated Trespass, Felony Vandalism, and Battery in 18CR000132, People of California v Connie Bernice Ramey aka Robison. The DVRO against her was filed in 17FL001044.

When she drove drunk from Second Street to Pine Street to unkindly ‘introduce’ herself to me on October 10, 2017, I was a FIRE VICTIM, not Connie Ramey’s rival for the affections of a man 22 years her junior. No matter how you, police, prosecutors, or public defenders spun it, I was not part of a “love triangle” gone wrong. I was there with my cat to shelter on a couch until Ramey made it too scary to stay downstairs alone. I was a fire victim and Ramey wanted me gone.

Here’s a multi-crimes court date that happened between Ramey’s first and second assault on me:

Cases CR178765, CR172825, and CR174441 were mentioned in every hearing for crimes against me. Sometimes the public defender used cutesy abbreviations for case numbers. This went on year after year after year. I eventually learned what those cases were, and Ramey could have been cooling her heels in jail awaiting trial. Instead, she remained free to wreak havoc on me.

Jury trials were scheduled and re-scheduled for years but never saw the light of day. You worked under Gary Lieberstein when Ramey was arrested and put on probation for violating a DVRO at the same address where she so un-kindly introduced her mean old self to me. I didn’t know Ramey, but you certainly did. Your signature appears on amended charges that elevated hit-and-run w/injury to assault-with-a-deadly-weapon charges against Ramey.

On another occasion, Connie Ramey was charged filing a false police report. That one was a doozy! Ramey called the cops and said her stolen credit card was used at a local hotel she’d “never been to.” She repeated the claim to the cop who visited her Second Street home. Upon investigating, lo and behold, the hotel provided security video showing Ramey using the card at a hotel desk. The hotel clerk said she was a guest. Slam-dunk, right? Not hardly.

Ramey filed a Pitchess Motion against the officer who arrested her, claiming elder abuse. The motion (one of several she’s made against NPD officers) was denied but may have had a chilling effect on future arresting officers, including Keri Sedgley.

Trial dates for the hotel caper were set and re-set for years and charges were eventually dismissed without explanation. Sound familiar, Allison?

Q: Allison, do you remember calling me back into your office after the arraignment in January 2018?

I’ll never forget that day. That’s when you apologized for a “mistake” you blamed on one of your “inexperienced” deputies. You said the “mistake” involved dismissal of battery and aggravated trespass charges for the Nov 22 incident. You were so very, very sorry. You would not name your deputy but promised to send me the court transcript. You didn’t send it. Months later, you repeated your promise to me via email. I never heard from you again.

Just wondering if you remember any of that, Allison. Dealing with your version of a justice system hurt my life more than wildfire.

Signed,

KP Cleaver

white-rabbit@go-ask-allison.com