VA Attorney General office responds to evidence of former news reporter Brian Hill’s actual innocence

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Source: https://justiceforuswgo.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/va-attorney-general-office-responds-to-evidence-of-former-news-reporter-brian-hills-actual-innocence/

 by Laurie Azgard Last month Brian had filed the “letter to the chief of police” of  Martinsville, VA on federal court record. I received an email with the  Carilion Clinic medical records showing further evidence of Brian  suffering under carbon monoxide gas back in 2018. So I had decided to  report all of that to the Attorney General [AG] of Virginia, showing  them the evidence of Brian’s actual innocence and requesting that they  give him a writ of actual innocence. Brian had worked under USWGO  alternative news before he was set up in 2012. I read the letter and checked the tracking numbers and discovered  that it was signed for on the date/time of “2:52 pm on August 7, 2019”.  That means that the police chief of Martinsville Police had received the  evidence and makes the evidence valid under the federal court system. It is clear that Brian is legally innocent of his charge of indecent  exposure and that the carbon monoxide makes him morally innocent under  common law. Here is the response from the office of AG: 

Dear Ms. Azgard.
Our office is in receipt of your email regarding Commonwealth vs. Brian David Hill, CR19-0009-00.For  your awareness, the Office of the Attorney General functions as the law  firm for state government and cannot, by statute, provide legal advice  to private individuals. The Office advises state officials and  represents the numerous state agencies and departments, as well as  renders opinions at the request of officials so authorized to do so by  the Code of Virginia. As such, we are unable to render private legal  advice or otherwise assist citizens in legal matters or pending criminal  or civil matters.That being said, the appropriate office to  submit the information that you have provided would be to the Office of  the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Martinsville, which is  handling the prosecution of the case you listed in your email.  Our  office has forwarded a copy of your original correspondence and a copy  of this response to the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney.To  the extent you are seeking a writ of actual innocence based upon  non-biological evidence on behalf of Mr. Hill, the process for seeking  such a writ is governed by Va. Code §§ 19.2-327.10 – 19.2-327.14.  It is  available to a person who was found guilty of a felony upon a plea of  not guilty, or a person who was adjudicated delinquent, upon a plea of  not guilty, by a circuit court of an offense that would be a felony if  committed by an adult.  A petition for a writ of actual innocence based  upon non-biological evidence must be filed in the Court of Appeals of  Virginia.  You may request a copy of the application packet from the  Court of Appeals of Virginia.  The instructions and petition are  available online at http://www.courts.state.va.us/courts/cav/forms/petition_for_writ_packet.pdf. Sincerely,  Alphonso Simon, Jr. Director of Actual Innocence and Capital Litigation Office of the Attorney General 202 North 9th Street Richmond, Virginia 23219 (804) 786-8192 Office ASimonJr@oag.state.va.us http://www.ag.virginia.gov  —–Original Message—–
From: [REDACTED] [REDACTED]  
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2019 7:46 PM
To: Fishel, Samuel; Schweiker, Richard; RRitenour@oag.state.va.us; Human_Rights; Martin, Anndelynn “Andi” T.
Subject: Actual innocence of Brian David Hill – Proof – Case NO. CR19-0009-00
Importance: High
Case NO. CR19-0009-00 – MARTINSVILLE CIRCUIT COURT
Mark R. Herring,
I  have information that Brian David Hill is actually innocent of his  charge in case no. CR19-0009-00, MARTINSVILLE CIRCUIT COURT. The  following evidence shall be submitted to your office from what I had  received from Brian’s family and things publicly filed on  PACER/COURTLISTENER and you should consider filing a motion for the writ  of actual innocence for him or request that the Commonwealth’s Attorney  consider dismissing Brian’s case as per his legal innocence, his actual  innocence.
I am a concerned person who wants to make sure that  justice is served for an innocent man on the autism spectrum, many kids  have autism spectrum disorder but that does not make them criminals and  neither should they be treated as such. Even the Governor has recognized  autism and the need to help those with ASD.
The evidence that proves the innocence of Brian are as follows:
1. Brian has exhibited carbon monoxide poisoning at the time of the alleged activity on September 21, 2018.
2.  Brian has filed evidence with Martinsville Police and had filed a copy  of such letter and attachments on federal court record.
3. Brian is  legally innocent of his charge according to the obscenity requirement as  mandated by case laws including one case in Richmond.
[1.]
Please save all documents and images locally in case of censorship by the blog host! https://justiceforuswgo.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/carilion-clinic-medical-records-yellow-marked.pdf
https://justiceforuswgo.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/high-red-blood-cell-count.jpg
Emailed  to me from Brian’s mother [REDACTED]. I posted them on my blog but then  his family wanted certain information taken off of my blog which I  complied, but I still think you should see the medical document and red  blood cell count image. All credit goes to [REDACTED] for the image and  Carilion Clinic for the medical record.
Brian had abnormally high  red blood cell count on July 31, 2018, which can be triggered by chronic  exposure to carbon monoxide gas.
Carbon monoxide can cause  hallucinations, abnormal behavior, psychosis, mental confusion, and  impulsive behavior. It is a gas type substance that can impair the  proper functioning of the brain and can lead to memory loss or even  death. So for Brian to have behaved the way he had behaved, never  exhibited such behaviors before, it would show that something was wrong  with Brian on September 21, 2018. Brian wasn’t acting like a criminal,  he was medically suffering from a chemical or substance or gas (known as  the silent killer).
[2.]
Federal court records show that a  letter was mailed to Police Chief G. E. Cassady, and USPS records show  delivery to Chief Cassady a few days ago. Martinsville police appears to  have those records and the federal court has a copy thereto.
https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction?tRef=fullpage&tLc=4&text28777=&tLabels=7017-2680-0000-5750-9122%2C9590-9402-3527-7275-7497-41%2C
Declaration on police chief letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 0 police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/1/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 1 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/2/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 2 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/3/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 3 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/4/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 4 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/5/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 5 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/6/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 6 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/7/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 7 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/8/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 8 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/9/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 9 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/10/united-states-v-hill/
Exhibit 10 in attachment to police letter – https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4304407/181/11/united-states-v-hill/
[3.]
According  to his pro-se filings, Brian has proven that case law does exist that  one cannot be legally guilty of indecent exposure unless they were being  publicly obscene.
Read his pro-se filings here: https://archive.org/details/CommonwealthvHill
In  all three cases the convictions were reversed when the conduct did not  rise to being obscene, because “it does not rise to the level of  obscenity required under Code § 18.2-387, as defined in Code §  18.2-372.”
1. Kimberly F. Neice v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Record No. 1477-09-3 in the Circuit Court of Giles County
2. A. M. v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Record No. 1150-12-4 in the Circuit Court of Shenandoah County
3. Kenneth Samuel Moses v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Record No. 0985-03-3 in the Circuit Court of Richmond
One  factor is sexuality, Brian was not sexual and there doesn’t appear to  be any evidence of that. His federal court filings report, over and over  again that he never masturbated. He did report that his former counsel  Scott Albrecht said that he could argue Brian’s technical legal  innocence in his motion for substitute counsel. Because he was  influenced by carbon monoxide poisoning, he was not being shameful and  did not appear to be shameful either. When your high on a chemical,  drug, or gas, you aren’t going to have the right mindset. You could be  high enough on a drug or gas and run around naked without realizing how  wrong it is. Brian acted as though he were high on a chemical, drug, or  gas, and the police didn’t bother trying to find out what it was.
Also  it should be noted that there is over 60 nude artworks inside the  collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts [VMFA], showing the whole  nude body including genitalia. It depicts naked angels of children-age,  naked women, and naked men. Families and school groups goes to those  places. Nobody calls the police on the Museum and charges the Museum  with indecent exposure. That is because the nudity is completely legal  and protected under the U.S. Supreme Court in regards to the “Obscenity  requirement” and that the human body itself is protected under the First  Amendment. “(Sunshine Book Co. v. Summerfield, Postmaster General, 355  U.S. 372). The right to depict adults and children in innocent nude  poses has been upheld without a pause for 41 years. In case after case,  the Supreme Court and lower courts have always upheld the  constitutionality of “nudity without more,” specifically referring to  the nudist depiction as a fully constitutional form of expression.”  quoted from a [REDACTED] website while doing legal research. VMFA is  state funded and operated by the Commonwealth, so they advocate art with  nudity but not obscenity. That is why the indecent exposure statute is  not strict liability because then it would place criminal liability on  the Commonwealth of Virginia and place the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts  on criminal liability and would make Virginia a corrupt and crime  committing state with a corrupt government. Sorry no offense to VA. I  have to argue this like it is, and this is what any lawyer worth their  salt would argue before a court of appeals or trial court.
I  recommend that you contact the State’s/County’s medical examiners to ask  them about carbon monoxide gas exposure effects and if CO gas can cause  somebody to act as crazy as running down a hiking trail butt naked at  night and then making confusing statements to police when discovered. If  they concur with that viewpoint, then that will likely be brought up at  Brian’s jury trial as that is the type of trial that was mentioned on  the Circuit court online website for his case.
Brian is morally  innocent of indecent exposure and appears to be legally innocent of  indecent exposure. There is no reason to waste judicial resources that  could be going to drug offenses, violent crimes, and violent sex crimes.  Tax paying citizens in Virginia would be disgusted by your waste of  legal resources for a person who was victimized by an invisible gas. A  man influenced by carbon monoxide, at one time, to walk on a hiking  trail during the middle of the night is not a good reason for a criminal  conviction. Brian hasn’t repeated such behavior as there is no new  court records and no new arrest records which would even suggest that.  Brian’s bond conditions has not been revoked, so it appears that he has  complied with his curfew. It appears that Brian will never commit such  an act again since it was CO gas poisoning which led to such madness.
Brian’s  conviction in the General District Court should be reversed so the  appeal would not be ongoing, and his criminal charge should be dismissed  in the Martinsville Circuit Court. Brian David Hill is actually  innocent of his charge and the case should not proceed any further  unless the State wants to waste judicial resources and attempt to make  yet another wrongful conviction. This would be worthy of any innocence  project, carbon monoxide causes crazy behavior. It wastes the court’s  time, the law enforcement officer’s time having to testify over a  incident that they did not know was caused by carbon monoxide last year.  The ends of justice will be best met if Brian were given a certificate  of actual innocence and should be given a Writ of Actual Innocence.
Brian  has good friends who will stand up for him and fight for him. His  criminal charge is just pure insanity once the cause of his madness was  medically documented.
God bless you,
Laurie Azgard 

The general public will never consider that Brian was being obscene  or indecent once they read the proofs of the carbon monoxide gas  poisoning. Chronic exposure to such gas can cause issues with one’s  mental state. Will the Commonwealth attorney consider dismissing their criminal  charge against Brian? I hope they do. For the interests of justice and  for Brian’s actual innocence, his case must be dismissed. It is clear  that Brian will not get a fair trial since the Commonwealth had appeared  to have filed a notice of bringing up Brian’s prior convictions  including his only wrongful conviction in federal court because his  public defender told him to plead guilty or he’d face 20 years in  prison. He could have been found innocent of that charge too. What a  dilemma? A man innocent of both his state charge and federal conviction  but yet is being treated like crap. Will Donald Trump intervene?