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Carolyn Barnes is a victim of a much larger problem in America society. The blind, unquestioning belief in authority. She is being held on no evidence, pre convicted in the minds of law enforcement and a corrupt judiciary. The following blog is in the public domain for all to understand what has happened, to encourage you to take action, and let the Apparatchiks responsible know that the people will not allow this to happen anymore.

Was 68 Year Old Kathleen Gittel Ever on Carolyn Barnes Property?

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File June 18, 2011


More information has come to light in the case of Carolyn Barnes. Barnes surrendered herself for arrest on June 11, 2010 and she was charged with Aggravated Assault on a public servant, she allegedly shot at a census worker, Kathleen Gittel, on June 8, 2010, in order to run Gittel off her property.


Of course, according to witnesses, Carolyn Barnes was not on her own property on that afternoon, and this reporter believes that neither was Kathleen Gittel. So what happened?


The first thing that happened on that fateful afternoon of June 8, was, Gittel, by and through her census supervisor, Harold Poppa, called in a 911 call at 5:08 p.m.. When she claims she was shot at, Gittel admits she had a cell phone on her person. Gittel made a CIRT report at 4:45 p.,m. which calls for a police report number, ergo, the call to police. Gittel, in her report states the incident happened at 4:10 p.m. and on the 911 call states around 4:00 p.m.. Carolyn Barnes was not in Leander at that time, so we know it couldn’t have possibly been Carolyn who shot at Ms. Gittel.


It has been believed by some, all along, that Gittel fabricated the story about being shot at. However, new information has come to light. It is believed that Ms. Gittel is an avid bird watcher, and it is believed she was bird watching on the San Gabriel River that day. Certainly she was not enumerating a census at 33 Indian Trail, as her report states. There is no house at 33 Indian Trail, therefore no occupants. It is believed by all but the Williamson County Sheriff’s and District Attorney’s offices that Gittel was not at 419 Indian Trail, Barnes’ address. If she was, there is no record that she was dispatched to that address, so she would have been trespassing, had she been there.


However, after much investigation and brain racking, it has been discovered that there is a dirt road on the east side of the railroad tracks that form the east boundary of Barnes’ property, which is on the west of the tracks. This dirt road parallels both the railroad tracks and Barnes’ property. If one keeps going on that dirt track, they would stumble onto the High Gabriel West subdivision which is south and east of Barnes’ property. There is a couple, man and woman, who live in that area who, for years, have shot at people whom they perceive to be on or near their property.


This reporter has obtained statements of many people, including Carolyn Barnes herself, and Barnes’ children, who have had shots fired at them. Neighbors report that the couple have caused nothing but trouble since they moved there, and since they moved in, many terroristic threats and letters have been received by subdivision residents. It was reported that when the Williamson County Sheriff’s department has been called to report said threats and shootings, the Sheriff’s deputies would not take the reports. It was described to this reporter that the man in the couple is a “good old boy redneck”, and therefore supported by the police. However, the sheriff’s office is aware of his propensity to shoot at strangers.


It was reported that this couple is especially vigilant of “their particular spot” on the river. That they have run many people off the river, which is public domain, and even filed charges on one poor man who was searching for his dog. It was reported that man was arrested, charged with criminal trespass, put through the rigors of criminal charges and as a result lost his job before it could be established that the San Gabriel River is public domain and can be freely accessed. No man owns the river and can keep others off, but this couple has done their best through the years.


The woman in the couple is about 5’4”, has dark hair that is usually worn in a low ponytail, and is between 135 and 150 pounds according to witnesses. The exact description that Gittel gave of her attacker.


Where would we be if, on June 8, 2010, when the 911 call came into the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, if the responding officer, Deputy Hernandez, would have simply put Kathleen Gittel in her cruiser and taken her to the area of the alleged shooting? Deputy Hernandez had knowledge that the place, 33 Indian Trail was not a house, but, instead, an open field. Wouldn’t it have been simpler to take Ms. Gittel to the scene and have her reenact it? Instead, while driving up and down Indian Trail trying to find a rundown house with a crazy woman nearby, the deputies were directed by Mike Scheffler, DPS trooper to Carolyn’s house at 419. On the radio call tape at 7:12:35, Scheffler breaks into the Williamson County radio frequency, and says, “6320 to 13”. “1330, (unintelligible). Scheffler, “Are you going down Indian Trail?” “10-4” Scheffler: “When you get down at the end of that dirt road, and cross that bridge, that’s Carolyn Barnes place.” Response: “10-4, that explains it.” Scheffler, “Yaup.”


At that moment all eyes focused on Carolyn Barnes. No more investigation was conducted other than searches on Carolyn’s property which revealed no shell casings, no revolver, no ammunition of any kind, no footprints, no bullet holes, nothing. Because Gittel was never there and Carolyn Barnes did not shoot at her.


There is one more point to be made here. Carolyn Barnes has long dark hair. She seldom, if ever wears it in a pony tail. Carolyn had her hair shaped and feathered before the Arnold Garza trial which ended on May 7, 2010, specifically so she could wear her hair down, unhindered. When Barnes was booked into the Williamson County jail on May 11, 2010, the deputies in booking asked her if she would please pull her hair back into a pony tail on her neck so they could get a better picture. How sweet it is!


More on the saga of Carolyn Barnes.

More on the saga of Carolyn Barnes.

You all remember Carolyn Barnes, of the “Leander Attorney shoots Census Worker”, or sometimes, “shoots at census worker” fame.


Barnes, who was originally to have a jury trial on February 28, was fast approaching a second trial setting on June 13. Of course, it would be hard to go to trail, as the prosecution has no evidence, no witnesses, no nothing, so, I know, let’s not have a trial! And, two witnesses who were with Barnes elsewhere on that date and at that time had come forward and identified themselves. What to do!


So, last week, May 19, after a 7 minute hearing, scuse me, trial, she was found to be mentally incompetent, and since it is mandatory to have a competency hearing before a jury, you’ll all agree, this had to be the fastest jury trial in history.


The judge, no oath of office Doug Shaver, ruled that Ms. Barnes is not competent to stand trial and has to go for mental evaluation until she regains her competency. This led to new headlines, “Barnes unfit to stand trial in attack”, “Leander woman accused of shooting at census worker deemed incompetent to stand trial”, and probably more which this reporter won’t bother to report.


Investigators have learned that not only was the incident on May 8, 2010 investigated by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, they were assisted in the investigation by the Austin FBI. That’s right, the FBI. The FBI agents determined Barnes to be guilty of shooting at the census worker and so assisted Williamson County with the indictment.


Barnes has never been able to stand trial and when she showed up for her jury trial she was arrested and held in jail to no bond. Judge, no oath of office, Shaver revoked her bond and threw the key to the cell away. She has been held in jail since February 28, 2011 in solitary confinement, in shackles, allowed no phone calls and no visitors.


When she was found to be incompetent, she was ordered to be moved to a West Texas Mental Health facility. On June 1, at 2:00 a.m. she was awakened for transport to Vernon, Texas. When the Williamson County Sheriff’s office released her to the custody of the mental health folks, she was given the mail which had been withheld from her, including 2 copies of a habeas corpus petition which she had laboriously hand written and sent out (postage due) to be typed up and returned to her for signature.


In order to follow the rest of the story, be aware that Kathleen Gittel the “census worker” who was allegedly confronted by Barnes when Gittel went to Barnes property to enumerate the census, states in all the reports and all the 911 calls and the census form report that she was on 33 Indian Trail. Over and over 33 Indian Trail. It should have bothered this crack investigative team consisting of the Williamson County Sheriff’s investigators in concert with FBI agents, that Barnes lives at 419 Indian Trail. On top of a hill in a deeply wooded area with no other houses around for at least a half a mile.


Could Gittel have stumbled onto Barnes property by mistake? Not only not likely, it is impossible. Did the crack investigators notice the discrepancy in the addresses? Evidently not. They must have determined, perhaps after sending the no gun, no ammo, no shell casings, no bullet holes, no evidence of any kind to the CSI labs, where even Hollywood couldn’t help them, that, what the heck, we’ll just charge her anyway, we don’t like her, after all.

The update: On Tuesday, May 31st, Carolyn’s son, Zimmer, who is holding down the fort in his mother’s absence, had to run errands in Cedar Park, a nearby town. He parked at the Cedar Park annex, which houses various Williamson County government offices, including a Sheriff’s office. As a matter of fact, this was where the crack teams met on May 8, 2010 when they hatched the plan that gave rise to the charge against Carolyn Barnes.


After running errands, Zimmer went back to the car, a black Jeep, and it wouldn’t start. Deader than a wedge. He called a friend, they still couldn’t start it and they determined that they would leave the Jeep parked at the annex until they could get it towed to another friend’s house for repairs.


Sometime after 2 a.m. (that’s important, remember, Carolyn began her transport at 2) someone, probably a deputy Sheriff, drove into the parking lot and noticed the Jeep. No one had seen it there before, it had just mysteriously appeared. The cops knew it was Carolyn’s car. Panic set in. They (the same brains who masterminded the investigation about the “census worker”) quickly determined that Carolyn Barnes had escaped in transit, made her way back to her house, rigged the Jeep with some sort of terrorist device, maybe a bomb, and left it at the annex, probably to blow it up. Who knows what happened then. Was the bomb squad called in? Did the dogs sniff the car? Was the little robot set upon the Jeep to check for who knows what? We’ll have to wait for open records to review the tapes, but, it probably was a well-populated circus.


Meanwhile, in order to ascertain how the culprit got away, the deputies, maybe even the Sheriff himself, called the transit dudes. Has Barnes escaped? No, we’re transporting her. Are you sure she hasn’t escaped? Yes. Let me talk to her. The transporters put Barnes on the phone and she was asked why her car was parked at the Cedar Park Annex. Barnes answered, “How would I know, I’ve been in solitary confinement for three months.” Satisfied that the great Houdini had not made her getaway, the deputies had the Jeep towed to the Williamson County Sheriff’s impound.


When Zimmer went to check on the Jeep and found it missing, the trail was cold and covered up. It took him a long time, a lot of phone calls and finally resorting to going door to door to the offices in the annex to see if anyone knew where the car was. When it was finally explained to him that the car had been the object of a terrorist threat, he made contact with Detective Gleeson who was greatly relieved to know that the car had crapped out on Zimmer and been left by him. Zimmer was told that he could retrieve the car from the lot at no cost to him. Nice folks these.


Isn’t it refreshing to know that Ma Barker/Mata Hara/Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde is alive and well in the minds of the obviously intelligent, rational investigators of the Keystone Kops, scuse me, Williamson County Sheriff’s office?

And don’t we all have to admit, these are some fine, sane, sensible investigators, right?

PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING CAROLYN BARNES INNOCENT WOMAN RAILROADED TO MENTAL HOSPITAL!!


PRESS RELEASE CONCERNING CAROLYN BARNES

INNOCENT WOMAN RAILROADED TO MENTAL HOSPITAL!!

On May 19, 2011, at 9:00 a.m., a bench trial was held in Williamson County jail, to ascertain whether Carolyn Barnes was mentally competent to stand trial on June 13, 2011 for the charge of Aggravated Assault, a 2nd degree felony.

The presiding judge, retired and visiting judge Doug Shaver, conferred with the Williamson County prosecution before the hearing and asked if they had written a motion to waive jury trial. The prosecution said no, the judge said he wanted the jury trial waived, and the prosecution said they would write a report for the record. Shaver said, good, better safe than sorry. Alan Schreiber, attorney for Carolyn Barnes, waived her right to jury trial.

Carolyn was brought into the courtroom by jail matrons, and immediately began demanding a jury trial, called her attorney incompetent, that he had never tried a case in Texas, not even a misdemeanor, told he was grossly incompetent, didn’t understand Texas law, and especially didn’t understand Art. 46 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

The judge and prosecutor went on as though she wasn’t there. Carolyn defended her position the entire time, and was very vocal about it. The other actors totally ignored her.

All parties agreed to waive jury trial, over the adamant objections of Barnes, who informed them she did not waive jury trial and the couldn’t do it for her, two medical expert reports were entered as exhibits, the judge ordered that Carolyn Barnes had been found mentally incompetent and was ordered to a Texas medical health facility until such time as she regained her competency.

The whole thing took about 8 minutes from start to finish.

The tragedy is: the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Art. 46.02, Section 4, mandates that before a criminal defendant is found mentally incompetent, there will be a JURY TRIAL. There is no exception in the rule to waive or hold a bench trial.

Those who were present in the courtroom witnessed a crime of the utmost magnitude.

Press Release - LEANDER TEXAS ATTORNEY HELD IN JAIL TO NO BAIL ON FABRICATED CHARGES.


PRESS RELEASE

LEANDER TEXAS ATTORNEY HELD IN JAIL TO NO BAIL
ON FABRICATED CHARGES.

Carolyn Barnes, a Leander, Texas attorney, sits in jail, in pain, shackled, in solitary confinement with no possibility of release. Barnes was arrested in court on February 28, 2011 and sent to the Williamson County Sheriff’s jail on the order of Judge Doug Shaver, a visiting judge from Horseshoe Bay, Texas.

On February 28, 2011, while appearing in court, Barnes elicited testimony from a witness who testified that Judge Shaver, a retired, not an active elected, judge, had no oath of office, a requirement mandated by the Texas Constitution. The witness testified that pursuant to an Open records act request, it was discovered that the last oaths of office Shaver signed were in 1999. Shaver, in retaliation, ordered that Barnes be incarcerated with no bond.

Barnes is being charged with aggravated assault on a public servant. On February 28, 2011, the prosecution struck the public servant part of the indictment and charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Barnes was initially accused of shooting five shots at a census worker with a revolver, when the census worker came to Barnes’ property to enumerate the residence. No injuries were incurred. After a search of Barnes’ home at 419 Indian Trail, Leander, Texas, on May 12, 2010, while she was held in jail, no hand gun was found.

The Williamson County prosecutor’s issued press releases on May 12, 2010, which were inflammatory and accusatory and made national news. Barnes was the butt of late night talk show hosts jokes.

Evidence in the case, dispatch tapes and incident reports for the day in question, May 8, 2010 show that the census worker, Kathleen Ann Gittel, says she was shot at by a crazy woman at 33 Indian Trail, Liberty Hill, Texas. Gittel claims to have been shot at at 4:10 p.m.. Gittel had a cell phone in her possession at the time. Gittel states that she called her supervisor, Harold Poppa and met him at an HEB store on Highway 183, where Poppa, at 5:41 p.m. placed the first 911 call for help. Gittel did not call 911 from the scene of the incident.

The reports indicate that the incident took place at 33 Indian Trail and/or the intersection of Indian Trail and River Run roads, which is in Leander, Texas. All evidence in the case lists the census worker as being sent to and being in Liberty Hill, Texas. There is on Indian Trail road in Liberty Hill, Texas.

The distance from 33 Indian Trail to 419 Indian trail is not only almost half a mile, but that half mile is remote, isolated, wooded property with a twisting, gutted, dirt road, and no less than six no trespassing signs from Barnes’ locked gate to her house. It is not a suburban location, nor one upon which one could innocently stumble.
Not only was Barnes not at her home at 4:10 p.m. on May 8, 2010, she had no reason to take umbrage at a census worker, other than as a trespasser, as she had sent her census report in a month prior to the incident.

When Williamson County Sheriff’s deputies went to Indian Trail to investigate, and could find no residence at 33 Indian Trail, Michael Sheffler, a Texas Highway Department trooper, who was monitoring the calls, signed into the calls at 7:12 p.m., as unit 6320, and asked if the deputies were going down Indian Trail. Sheffler is heard to say, “when you get down to the end of that dirt road and cross that bridge, that’s Carolyn Barnes’ place.” The deputy replies, “10-4, that explains it.”, to which Sheffler replies, “Yeap!” At that point, Carolyn Barnes was determined to be guilty of assault.

On the afternoon/evening of May 8, 2010, a meeting of Williamson County deputies and Williamson County prosecutors was held, a photo array was put together showing Barnes and 5 other women, and the photo array was taken to Gittel’s home for identification at almost midnight that evening. Testimony shows that Gittel selected Barnes from the photo array.

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