Shaun Webb's Blog, page 3
December 27, 2014
A New Direction
As you may or may not have noticed, I am eliminating all political and argumentative posts from my blog. From now on it will be about my books, other writers and everything reading based.
It’s time to move forward and let go of the past. The past is NOT what defines me, and it will reflect in this blog from now on.
Thank you for reading and support your indie authors!!
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December 10, 2014
Lost Youth: A True Story Synopsis
Early synopsis:
Lost Youth Synopsis 12/10/14
#1 Amazon bestselling Author Shaun Webb���s sixth full-length work, and second true crime study, Lost Youth: A True Story, delves into a fateful October 1981 night in Waterford, Michigan that rocked a quiet family���s peace and shook an entire community to its deepest emotional depth.
Colette Molyneaux, 13, a cute, healthy and happy teenager, paid the ultimate price in a criminal���s horrible thirst for blood.�� Nancy Molyneaux, Colette���s mother, also suffered enormously, enduring the violent act of rape on top of losing a dear daughter.
Who was responsible for these monstrous crimes?�� Why did such a bright light and friendly young lady have to be extinguished so brutally?�� More to the point; what factors could have possibly contributed to the awful situation?
In his search for the truth, Shaun digs into the police investigation, forensic science and interviews with the people who were closest to Colette along with others involved in the tragic case.
Emotionally wrenching and infuriatingly sad, Lost Youth: A True Story seeks answers which are elusive in nature.�� The story will soften the hardest heart and challenge one���s deepest logic.
You are the jury.�� Study all of the facts and see if you can come up with the answer that resists disclosure.�� The surprises this case exposes will perplex you like nothing you���ve ever heard or read.
Colette speaks with us from the spiritual world; can we take just a moment to listen?
Filed under: true crime Tagged: author, Colette, Lost Youth, Molyneaux, new, shaun, true crime, webb
Lost Youth; A True Story
Early synopsis:
Lost Youth Synopsis 12/10/14
#1 Amazon bestselling Author Shaun Webb���s sixth full-length work, and second true crime study, Lost Youth; A True Story, delves into a fateful October 1981 night in Waterford, Michigan that rocked a quiet family���s peace and shook an entire community to its deepest emotional depth.
Colette Molyneaux, 13, a cute, healthy and happy teenager, paid the ultimate price in a criminal���s horrible thirst for blood.�� Nancy Molyneaux, Colette���s mother, also suffered enormously, enduring the violent act of rape on top of losing a dear daughter.
Who was responsible for these monstrous crimes?�� Why did such a bright light and friendly young lady have to be extinguished so brutally?�� More to the point; what factors could have possibly contributed to the awful situation?
In his search for the truth, Shaun digs into the police investigation, forensic science and interviews with the people who were closest to Colette along with others involved in the tragic case.
Emotionally wrenching and infuriatingly sad, Lost Youth; A True Story seeks answers which are elusive in nature.�� The story will soften the hardest heart and challenge one���s deepest logic.
You are the jury.�� Study all of the facts and see if you can come up with the answer that resists disclosure.�� The surprises this case exposes will perplex you like nothing you���ve ever heard or read.
Colette speaks with us from the spiritual world; can we take just a moment to listen?
Filed under: true crime Tagged: author, Colette, Lost Youth, Molyneaux, new, shaun, true crime, webb
November 19, 2014
Gorcyca must pay 1 million
Pay up Gorcyca!! You ruined many lives, and cost many people their dignity and self-esteem. I don’t feel one ounce of sorrow for your self/inflicted wounds. Eat it and like it.
Oakland Co. tells ex-prosecutor: We won���t cover costs
BY JOHN WISELY AND L.L BRASIER DETROIT FREE PRESS
Former Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca is personally liable for a $1-million judgment against him earlier this month in a defamation lawsuit filed by a couple he unsuccessfully prosecuted.
Oakland County paid lawyers more than $660,000 to defend Gorcyca and two of his former assistants charged with defamation and violating the constitutional rights of the Wendrow family of West Bloomfield in a 2007 rape prosecution that was ultimately dropped for lack of evidence.
The county informed Gorcyca in a letter obtained by the Free Press this week that it wouldn���t cover any judgment against him.
���As you are also aware, the basis of the lawsuit against you is defamation for statements that you allegedly made after you left Oakland County employment,��� Oakland County���s risk manager, Julie Secontine, wrote to Gorcyca in the May 2012 letter. ���As such, should the plaintiff in this matter receive any favorable judgment, Oakland County is not legally obligated to indemnify you or pay any damages rendered for your alleged actions.���
Gorcyca did not respond this week to a request for comment from the Free Press nor did Steven Potter, who defended Gorcyca and the county in the case.
Gorcyca was prosecutor in 2007 when he charged Julian Wendrow of West Bloomfield with raping his severely autistic daughter and charged Wendrow���s wife, Thal, with child abuse for failing to prevent the attacks.
The girl���s disability prevents her from speaking or writing and the allegations of rape were made through a controversial method known as facilitated communication, in which a teacher���s aide holds the girl���s arm over a keyboard to help her type responses to questions. Critics insist that the aide is the author of the typed messages, either consciously or subconsciously.
The criminal case against the Wendrows collapsed after the method was tested in court by asking the girl questions out of earshot of her facilitator. She couldn���t answer a single question correctly.
Gorcyca eventually dropped the charges but not until Julian Wendrow had served 80 days in jail and the family had been separated for months. Gorcyca left office in December 2008 after deciding not to seek re-election.
Jury awards against prosecutors are rare because governmental immunity shields most of their actions, said Peter Henning, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at Wayne State University.
���The tradition goes back to medieval England that prosecutors have absolute immunity from defamation for things they say in a courtroom,��� Henning said. ���But once you get out of that prosecutorial position, then it���s the ordinary rules of defamation. You no longer get any protection when you���re not prosecutor.���
The jury concluded that comments Gorcyca made about the case ��� stating or implying that the Wendrows were guilty of abusing their children ��� after leaving office were defamatory and awarded $250,000 to each of the four members of the Wendrow family of West Bloomfield.
The other $2 million of the judgment was issued against Gorcyca���s former chief deputy prosecutor, Deborah Carley. Jurors concluded that Carley violated the civil rights of then 13-year-old Ian Wendrow, when she sought to shore up a faltering rape case against his father.
The $3 million awarded to the Wendrows at the trial brings to $6.75 million the total paid out in the case. West Bloomfield police, Walled Lake Consolidated Schools and the Michigan Department of Human Services paid $3.75 million to settle claims brought against them in the case.
Oakland County corporation counsel Keith Lerminiaux said Oakland County is planning to file post-trial motions in the court in Ann Arbor and may appeal after those are decided.
���While we respect the jury���s decision, we do not believe that the verdicts were consistent with the evidence or applicable law,��� Lerminiaux told the Free Press in an e-mail Tuesday.
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November 10, 2014
Gorcyca should pay!
From Oakland Press. Link below
“According to Gordon, the legal fees for the former prosecutors, which amounted to more than $600,000 before this trial, have been covered by Oakland County. She did not know whether the judgment against Gorcyca will be paid by the county’s insurance policy since he was no longer a county employee when he made the disparaging statements.
At press time, Potter and Gorcyca had not responded to phone messages and emails requesting comments”
No verification if this is true but The Oakland Press is questioning if Oakland County insurance will cover Gorcyca’s jury judgment of $1,000,000. The jury gave a detailed explanation as to what Gorcyca did to warrant the judgment. Gorcyca defamed the Wendrow family to the media after he had left office. Why should the County pay?
Gorcyca’s bad karma bit him. The original federal complaint was somewhat vague on what damage had been done to the Wendrows. Certainly Gorcyca had no inclination, or anyone on the Court legal team had any inclination that the jury would focus 1/3 of the judgment on the comments Gorcyca had made after the charges had been dropped by his office.
I’m guessing Gorcyca’s arrogance and defiant manner on the witness stand heightened the jury’s attention to his transgressions against the Wendrows, especially since he had no remorse. The jury picked the worse thing he did and then set a price of which the family was entitled.
The jury was pretty conservative in it’s judgment. Andrea Dean missed the bullet almost completely. The County isn’t going to consider appealing. Gorcyca is entirely at the Oakland Court’s mercy if they are going to slip the million dollar settlement onto the insurance carrier claim. If the Oakland Press has already questioned who pays the million, they know Brian Dickerson will surely be asking questions.
This story is far from over. Could Gorcyca face licensing action, if not federal criminal charges? I don’t know, but we’ll see.
Filed under: oakland county Tagged: Dave Gorcyca
November 7, 2014
Tell them how you feel!
The following are contacts for Dave Gorcyca, Deb Carly and Bill Schuette.
Let them know how you feel about the Wendrow’s winning a $4,000,000 lawsuit against the railroading former Oakland County Prosecutors.
Deb Carly currently works for AG Bill Schuette in of all things, the child welfare unit. Tell Schuette to fire Carly!
Schuette: miag@michigan.gov
Carly: carlyd@michigan.gov
Gorcyca: dgorcyca@gmhlaw.com
Let these people know that we will not stand for the awful damage that they have done to innocent people.
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November 6, 2014
The Wendrows win!
Tell Bill Schuette to fire Deb Carly!
miag@michigan.gov
The following is a short description from one of my loyal readers.
On November 6, 2014 a jury awarded the Julian Wendrow family $4,000,000 award after they filed a federal lawsuit charging the Oakland County’s Prosecutors office with gross misconduct and violation of their civil rights. The jury heard testimony from David Gorcyca, Deborah Carley and Andrea Dean.The Prosecutors refused to apologize to the family or show any remorse to the Wendrows even at the trial.
How does it taste Gorcyca, Carly and Dean? Eat that for a while.
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Andrea Dean Thinks She’s Above The Law.
Deb Carly, Andrea Dean and Dave Gorcyca. Here’s to a guilty verdict in the Wendrow railroading case and eventual dis-barment!
Originally posted on A Motion for Innocence:
DeanA candidate for the 51st District Court in Waterford Township is being sued for defamation following public remarks she allegedly made insinuating that a man many consider falsely accused of raping his then 14-year-old autistic daughter was guilty of the crime — over four years after the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges against him due to lack of evidence. Andrea Dean, who is challenging 51st District Court Judge Jodi Debbrecht in the Nov. 6 general election, allegedly made the comments at a public forum last month that “has since been rebroadcast,” the lawsuit filed yesterday, Tuesday, Oct. 16, states. A former assistant Oakland County prosecutor, Dean was asked by a reporter about her current sentiments on how she approached the case of Julian Wendrow, who spent three months in jail on the charges that he sexually assaulted his disabled daughter and that his wife, Thal, allowed the…
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October 30, 2014
Help support a writer!
Winter is setting in, which means it’s the slow time of the year for me as far as selling books is concerned. It’s also a great time to get a new book to cozy up to the fire and read!
I currently have 4 full length titles in both physical book and kindle form. Next Spring I will be releasing #5. My titles are as follows:
A Motion for Innocence- True crime and a deep look into “incarceration nation.”
Black Jacks- A creepy, fast-paced mystery. Lots of twists.
A Killer for the Queen- A mystery in the vain of Poe.
Behind the Brick-A slick government drama in the vain of Orwell.
All of these works are fun, entertaining and well done. I will keep you on the edge of your seat as you try to untangle the web of deception and suspense.
You can get theses books two ways: go to:
http://www.amazon.com/author/shaunwebb
Or, for a signed copy:
Shaunwebb66@gmail.com
The prices are extremely reasonable.
Your support is what helps me get through the cold Northern Michigan winter. I appreciate the business.
Thanks for listening and good reading!
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Help a writer!
Winter is setting in, which means it’s the slow time of the year for me as far as selling books is concerned. It’s also a great time to get a new book to cozy up to the fire and read!
I currently have 4 full length titles in both physical book and kindle form. Next Spring I will be releasing #5. My titles are as follows:
A Motion for Innocence- True crime and a deep look into “incarceration nation.”
Black Jacks- A creepy, fast-paced mystery. Lots of twists.
A Killer for the Queen- A mystery in the vain of Poe.
Behind the Brick-A slick government drama in the vain of Orwell.
All of these works are fun, entertaining and well done. I will keep you on the edge of your seat as you try to untangle the web of deception and suspense.
You can get theses books two ways: go to:
http://www.amazon.com/author/shaunwebb
Or, for a signed copy:
Shaunwebb66@gmail.com
The prices are extremely reasonable.
Your support is what helps me get through the cold Northern Michigan winter. I appreciate the business.
Thanks for listening and good reading!
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