Kent Hovind wants the property he forfeited in his criminal conviction back! He has filed a lis pendens on the property that was seized. I am not a lawyer, and had to look it up, but apparently it’s an intent to make a legal claim on some real estate. I guess you’re not supposed to do that with properties forfeited to the government in a legal process, and which are under an injunction. But the law won’t step ol’ Kent!
So the court has fired back with a threat to hold him in contempt.
Kent E. Hovind is required to appear before the Court at 8:00 a.m., on September 8, 2014, to show cause why he should not be held in criminal contempt of Court, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 401(3) and Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a). This will be a jury trial and will be held in Courtroom 5, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division, located on One North Palafox Street, Pensacola, Florida 32502.
He has an option to get a court-appointed defense lawyer. I hope he doesn’t, and instead relies on the advice of his wacky right-wing conspiracy theorist buddies, because the shenanigans are always so entertaining. Anyone remember subornation of false muster
?
I highly doubt that sending Hovind back to prison for much longer will do any good. No doubt, it will interesting to see how his son, Eric, the rest of the family and other creationists respond to when he gets out.
PZ is playing the Panda’s Thumb classics. Hovind sure is a handful.
Kent Hovind Wants Government Help/Continuance!
Filed July 28, 2014
Case No. 3:14MC53-MCR/EMT
US District Court for the Northern
District of Florida
United States of America
v.
Kent E Hovind
Motion for Continuance and Assistance of Counsel
1. Comes now Kent Hovind to petition this court for a continuance and for a Bill of Rights Amendment #6 assistance of counsel.
2. I have been in transit in the BOP for well over 2 months and do not have access to my legal files. I am due to be transferred again soon and it may take weeks or a month to get my property which contains all my legal files after I am settled in a new
location. I request 6 weeks minimum after I get my legal files to prepare.
3. This court ordered me transported to the Northern District of Florida to appear for trial on September 8, 2014 and to remain in custody pending trial. (Doc. #1 )
4. This court also ordered that I be “allow[ed] a reasonable time to prepare a defense.”
5. If I am transported to the county jail in Pensacola or some other similar facility I will still not have my legal files, copy machine or law library access and will be unable to prepare a defense from that location.
6. Under the 2007 2nd chance act I qualified for release to halfway house or home confinement 5 months ago but the BOP only granted me release to home confinement Feb., 2015: Please order the BOP to release me and my property to a halfway house or home confinement in Pensacola now so I can begin preparing my defense in this case. A third option is that I be placed at the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola pending trial.
7. I am no flight risk. I have been at minimum security camps for over 7 years where I could simply have walked away at any time .
8. I also hereby ask the court to appoint competent, zealous “assistance of counsel” as provided for in the 6th amendment to the US Constitution. I understand that this may require the BOP to provide my financial statement. This Atlanta transfer center does not have a copy machine for inmate use, does not have a working printer for inmate use and I am only allowed out for 1 hr/day and only rarely is that the time when the Counselor is available. It may take them some time to process the courts request for financial information. This is another reason for seeing a continuance. I did file paperwork with the Counselor today.
Respectfully submitted this 23rd day of July 2014
Kent Hovind #06452-017
USP Atlanta
Box 150160
Atlanta, GA 30315
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Oh gee. Him again.
Wasn’t baty banned last time for his shit, or only warned? Or neither? I don’t remember.
Baty, what was your point of said drivel from Hovind? He is up shit creek without a paddle, compass, map or GPS.
anteprepro:
I don’t recall him being banned. I do recall him being a pain in the ass though.
Hey, Kent!
Please, please, please act as your own counsel.
PLEASE.
Any competent counsel will tell him to shut the fuck up and withdraw the petition. So I suspect your wish will come true….
Seriously I think that if Kent continues to act crazy to the authorities and gets put in the slammer again, this should be a wakeup call for his family. The security of prison life may be good for Kent but it is expensive. Perhaps some other form of supervision is better for Kent and the rest of us.
I wonder if Hovind will try something like this. . .
And so on.
If any of the jury members is religious, this might scare them into rejecting a finding of guilty. Or it might piss them off with its arrogance; who knows?
What, no “Hi, my name is Kent Hovind.”?
…on construction paper, written in something other than ink, no doubt.
I’m rather puzzled by the prospect of a criminal charge here. Why isn’t it simply the case that any attempt to file a lis pendens on property forfeited to the government as part of a legal process is invalid, and has no legal effect? Maybe Crip Dyke can comment?
Would a charge of criminal contempt of court come before a jury?
Nick, a link to the the judge’s filing is found in this post.
Road trip to Pensacola in September, anyone? This’ll be a better show than anything on Broadway! Okay, except for Hedwig.
@14
So he lost a civil case where the outcome was a permanent injunction telling him that he is not allowed to place liens on the property he lost in his criminal tax avoidance case.
IANAL, but I can see why he’d be held in contempt. He probably should have tried fighting the permanent injunction first rather than just filing liens in defiance of the court order.
But then Hovind has never thought that the law applied to him, has he?
@Hank_Says #8:
Well, the motion Hovind has filed says:
So it does look very likely that he is going to act for himself (inspired by his infallible god, naturally). Or insist that some poor sod of a lawyer argues exactly as the Great Hovind believes is best.
Either way, it’ll be a laugh. Do we have anyone in Pensacola who could take 20 minutes off work that day and report on the proceedings?
I can’t wait till Kent gets out.
I just want to see the look on his face as Ray Comfort goes into his spiel. So Kent have you ever told a liar? Have you ever stolen anything? You know what you are.
Will he try to push Eric to the side and takeover Creation Today?
@ Karl Goldsmith
Your last question is the one that’s got me interested too! Can you say “schism”? Thought so.