PEOPLE vs. SAVA tells us that INFRACTIONS are NOT CRIMES. And here’s the
hyphen on that case… a little later on in the same paragraph you’re going to see this…
Now, anybody who knows about statutory construction and knows what judges and, you
know, what the prime directive for judicial officer is, knows that, that the court HAS TO
DETERMINE LEGISLATIVE INTENT.
And in PEOPLE vs. SAVA the court tells us what the LEGISLATURE INTENDED.
Wasn’t that nice of them? Of course!
Now, the other one is AUTO EQUITY SALES vs. SUPERIOR COURT…
Why is that an important court case?
Because it addresses the DOCTRINE of STARE DECISIS.
The DOCTRINE of STARE DECISIS is pecking order. All the folks in the military will
understand this concept. No traffic court commissioner or pro temp outranks the
Supreme Court or an Appellate Court.
So if the Supreme Court rules a certain way no pro temp, no commissioner, no trial judge
can rule contrary to a holding or a decision by the Supreme Court or a court of Superior
jurisdiction. That’s what you’re going to see in AUTO EQUITY SALES vs. SUPERIOR
COURT. That’s a precedent setting case and it hamstrings a judicial officer. So if you’ve
ever gone into court and you file paper, I don’t know if you do that, but one of things that,
you know, Richard [McDonald] taught and instructed and something I would do to this
day is PREPARE and FILE a lot of JUDICIAL NOTICES.
One of the JUDICIAL NOTICES I would file would be PEOPLE vs. SAVA.
The court HAS TO TAKE JUDICIAL NOTICE of PEOPLE vs. SAVA.
I would also file a JUDICIAL NOTICE regarding AUTO EQUITY SALES vs.
SUPERIOR COURT because they have to take… they CAN’T DEVIATE from it once
it’s in THE RECORD. That’s BANG – you GOT ‘EM. If they do, you got them on
APPEAL, hopefully.
So, in any event, umm… yeah AUTO EQUITY SALES is very powerful for
hamstringing the judicial officer.
Umm… okay… I deviated from Richard, Richard’s TACTICS umm… beginning with
my very first case. And the reason I did that was because I was, I was talking with him
and also my other mentor law coach a guy named Steve Jones… and at the time we all
knew that INFRACTIONS weren’t crimes.
Now when it comes to a DEMURRER uh… a DEMURRER is… when you translate
word DEMURRER in street terms it means, “Yeah, So? So what? Okay, “So what?”
“Okay, what else you got?” Okay, that’s a DEMURRER.
And I subsequently, after all these years of study, uh… have… there’s one court case…
you see the judges do NOT believe you can use a MOTION TO QUASH in a criminal
action. You see the majority of MOTIONS TO QUASH are only done in civil actions
and it only has to do with QUASHING the SUMMONS, you know, it’s MOTION TO
QUASH SERVICE OF SUMMONS. They’ll say something was defective about the
SERVICE OF SUMMONS.
Well, I have a court case that tells me that uh… no, you can use a MOTION TO QUASH
in a criminal action. Well, they DON’T want to tell me that umm… a traffic trial is civil,
they’re NEVER going to tell you that. But, that’s what it really is. Because it’s
technically a BREACH OF CONTRACT ACTION for 99% of all the reasons people are
stopped. Burned out tail light, expired tag, no plate, umm… overly tinted windows, you
know, fuzzy… two big fuzzy dies, not wearing a seatbelt, talking on a cell phone, five,
ten miles over the speed limit those AREN’T CRIMES okay.
Now in California you probably remember this, uh… when you were, you know, working
with Richard [McDonald] uh… you were probably made aware that the Californian
INFRACTION was based on the New York model.
And they had the INFRACTION in 1933. Well, California didn’t get around to codifying
it into law until 1968, but California chose, they left out a part from the New York model.
Now, in INFRACTION in New York is NOT a CRIME. So you don’t go to court to
resolve a traffic issue. If there’s anybody on the call from New York please correct me if
I’m mistaken or if I’m wrong. But, you don’t go to a courtroom you go to an office
because it’s an ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING.
Well, California chose to leave the ADMINISTRATIVE part out of it. And so those of us
who get uh… get a NOTICE TO APPEAR with an INFRACTION on it we go to a
courtroom, not an office building. So here’s what they did. They uh… they’re taking a
BREACH OF CONTRACT case which is technically a civil action but they’re rectifying
or attempting to remedy it within a criminal environment… a criminal trial environment.