24th Request to State for Discovery (March 31, 2008)

RE: Pro se litigation.‏
From: cam huegenot (cameocares@live.com)
Sent: Mon 3/31/08 4:24 PM
To: Caballero, Tomas (ATG) (tomasc@atg.wa.gov)


At which point I would ask the court to remind you what your ethics obligations are, especially as a supposed lawyer serving the "public interest."

Regardless of what happens to me, you're fried Caballero. You won't be the first and will probably not be the last.

I am writing down my story, and people are ready to know what has happened and been happening, and when I'm finished, they will be looking at you to find out what your role in this has been.

Call in your back-up. Oh, you have already, haven't you?

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> Subject: Pro se litigation.
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:35:48 -0700
> From: TomasC@ATG.WA.GOV
> To: cameocares@live.com
>
> Ms. Garrett, here are some citations that stand for the proposition that
> a pro se litigant is held to the same standard as an attorney:
>
> "A litigant appearing pro se is bound by the same rules of procedure and
> substantive law as his or her attorney would have been had the litigant
> chosen to be represented by counsel." Patterson v. Superintendent of
> Public Instruction,76 Wash.App. 666, 887 P.2d 411 (1994) (citing In re
> Marriage of Olson, 69 Wash.App. 621, 626, 850 P.2d 527 (1993)).
>
> Pro se litigants are held to the same standards as those of an attorney.
> Batten v. Abrams, 28 Wash.App. 737, 739 n. 1, 626 P.2d 984, review
> denied , 95 Wn.2d 1033 (1981).
>
> Ms. Garrett, you have an absolute right to represent yourself in these
> proceedings or to obtain counsel of your choosing. However, if you are
> unable to retain counsel and you decide to proceed on your own, I will
> request the court advise you of what "pro se" representation entails
> including that you will be held to the same standard as an attorney.
>
> Regards, Tomas Caballero, Assistant
>
> TOMAS CABALLERO
> Assistant Attorney General
> Regional services division
> Wenatchee
> 509-664-6385 / fax 509-664-6391
> E-mail: tomasc@atg.wa.gov
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cam huegenot [mailto:cameocares@live.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 7:22 AM
> To: Caballero, Tomas (ATG)
> Subject: RE: Photos For My Son
>
>
> When I'm in town next, I'll get a book out of storage, called something
> like, "The Pro Se Litigant" or whatever. It's a Bar Association
> publication which guides judges on how to treat pro se people, with case
> citations.
>
> I am happy to receive your citations. I would like to look them up.
>
> You cannot force me to take counsel Mr. Caballero. Maybe if you had a
> formal document from a licensed psychiatrist, which said they had
> already diagnosed me as incompetent. You have nothing.
>
> You removed my son with lack of grounds and my son and I have been
> damaged as a result. You know it, and you even had CPS call me and ask
> me about dismissing this case. Why the change of heart in dismissing
> your own case? Suddenly I'm a big threat again? or you got the "judge"
> you want? You were thinking of dismissing it with Judge Hotchkiss but
> not Wise. And Wise went along with you in court, and probably doesn't
> want to upset people in Wenatchee after she and her husband had
> difficulties in Chelan and Manson. Her husband's father is a strong
> supporter of Children's Home Society which is heavily connected to CPS.
> She has several medical practicioners in her own family, which could
> make her sympathetic to doctors in town. She's a woman and women are
> harder on other women--they butt heads, especially strong willed women
> which I'm guessing, she and I both are. She and her husband have made
> donations to medical organizations in town.
>
> Want to hear about your family too?
>
> By the time you're "done" with me, you and the state are going to have
> at least 10 other cases you'll have to relitigate and reopen, because
> I'm talking to other people, and they're coming forward with their own
> crappy CPS cases, where they got railroaded WITH public defense.
>
> You voluntarily dismiss this, with certain agreements in place, you will
> have my ear. At the least, this should be removed from Wenatchee. I
> would hate to drag skeletons out of their closets in that town; they're
> a little dusty aren't they? Must be from the great weather--harder to
> clean things up when it never rains.
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> > Subject: Re: Photos For My Son
> > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:30:54 -0700
> > From: TomasC@ATG.WA.GOV
> > To: cameocares@live.com; SCNL300@dshs.wa.gov
> >
> >
> > Ms. Garrett, they are and that is why you need to retain a lawyer
> immediately or the court should appoint you a lawyer. I can send you
> citations to cases that stand for this proposition. Once again if you
> are dissatisfied with discovery you need to either file discovery or
> move to compel discovery. As I understand it Ms. Scanlon has provided
> discovery and will continue to update discovery as the case goes on.
> Regards. Tomas Caballero AAG