Manglona allows injured probationer to get off-island medical treatment
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- Published on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 00:00
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U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has allowed an injured probationer to undergo spine surgery in the Philippines.
She granted the request to travel submitted by the U.S. Probation Office on behalf of Lawrence M. Fleming, a Saipan mayor’s office staff member.On July 24, 2012, the federal probation office was informed by Fleming that he had been injured in a work-related accident the week prior and was admitted to the Commonwealth Health Center due to spine injury.
Fleming was cutting tree branches when the bucket truck carrying him broke. He landed on a one-story government building.
Fleming will undergo surgery at the Asian Hospital in Metro Manila on Aug. 10, 2012. He is expected to depart the commonwealth today, according to court records.
His return date is Sept. 3, 2012.
On Jan. 6, 2003, then-Chief Judge Alex R. Munson sentenced Fleming to 88 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of methamphetamine. He was also placed on probation for four years.
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The reason is they use the ~ $100K+ annual profit from selling the Commonwealth Code (in hardbound and CD-ROM versions) to subsidize publication of the Commonwealth Reports (NMI Supreme Court opinions) and NMI Admin. Code, both of which are money losers. The Legislature “doesn't have” the money to appropriate this to the judiciary.
The LRC is very aggressive in enforcing their copyright, even sending cease and desist letters to the Department of Finance ordering them to take down copies of tax laws and regulations from their website! Lexis Nexis, the company that produced the books for LRC asserted LRC’s copyright. See generally Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service Company, 499 U.S. 340, 357, (1991), available at scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1195336269698056315.
There are CNMI ethics laws, such as the misdemeanors with which our AG is charged, imposing a 10-year bar on government employment. There are also restrictions on police officers. Cops have their own unique protection, though. If dismissed from the force based solely on criminal charges, and those charges are later dismissed (as happens so often here with witness availability issues after several years), the bad cop not only gets reinstated but also back pay for all those years he was not on the force while awaiting trial, often due to continuances by his own lawyer. Delay is a criminal defendant's friend. Mike Dotts and others are effective at exploiting these provisions for rogue cops.
Guarantee he'll be landing more back flips than the U.S. Men's Olympic Gymnastics Team.