Cop again eyed for misconduct
A familiar face appeared at a police hearing yesterday to answer more allegations of misconduct.
Ottawa police Const. Daniel Bargh has not yet entered a plea to a charge of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act. He is accused of associating with someone known to mix with members of organized crime groups.
The charge has not been proven in a tribunal.
The prosecution filed a notice of increased penalty if Bargh is found guilty.
Hearing officer Gregory Connolley adjourned the matter for a teleconference May 8 to set new dates.
Bargh has a history of appearing as an accused at various police tribunals.
Earlier this year, he was fined five days' pay for receiving a 12-hour driving suspension at a RIDE program.
Last year, Bargh was fined for an off-duty incident at an Elgin St. bar, and in 2007 he was fined after being found guilty of roughing up a drunk homeless man.
He also faces several disciplinary charges in a separate matter connected to his alleged use of police databases. That hearing is scheduled for May 12.
Last week, when Bargh pleaded guilty to mishandling a traffic investigation, a different adjudicator told him to "get things under control because you're not heading in the right direction."
JON.WILLING@SUNMEDIA.CA
(So... How many more chance does he get? And this is only the stuff he's be caught for- what about everything else he has committed that has more than likely just ontinued to go unreported. Is he really there to serve and protect? I wouldn't want my kids coming acorss a guy like this- not in their personal lives or in any other capacity. And dirty cops are like roaches; where you find 1 there are 100's! They need to be shaking down this guys buddies on the force, his partner(s)... they never act alone! This disgusts me and makes me feel ashamed!)-W
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The corruption in American courts is truly shocking!
I am an advocate currently fighting to uphold the principles of due process in a most disturbing case concerning the rape, battery and near killing of woman left with a broken neck and permanently disabled.
Barbara Bracci, a hard-working New York State corrections officer claimed she was brutally attacked by her work supervisor, Captain William E. Peek. Bracci had made tape recordings she alleged were of her remorseful attacker confessing to his crimes. The NY State Dept. of Corrections (DOC) took the tapes from her.
The case went to the Division of Human Rights (SDHR). Bracci wanted her original tapes played in open court. DOC refused to give the tapes back to her and gave them instead, to the presiding administrative law judge (ALJ) who refused to let the court hear them.
The ALJ then weighed the tapes unlawfully in secret (ex parte, in camera) and ruled they were ‘unreliable.’ So the case was dismissed. Bracci protested that her due process rights were denied and she was granted an Article 78 special proceeding.
The case went before the Appellate Division, Third Department. Inexplicably, the tapes somehow became 'lost' and SDHR refused to give a verified answer in response to Bracci’s serious charges of corruption. So Bracci having proof her tapes were now destroyed and the opposing party declining to defend their actions, duly filed for summary judgment.
However, the Appellate justices bizarrely dismissed the claim on May 14, 2009 upholding the lower court’s judgment. But nowhere in the Appellate decision does the term, ‘Article 78’ even appear.
Shockingly, the higher court had not only condoned the weighing of evidence in secret and then its destruction, it had unlawfully removed Bracci's status as an Article 78 litigant.
Even a layperson looking at the court’s website under ‘Bracci-v-State Division of Human Rights’ (Case no: 506150) can see that this raped, abused and permanently scarred woman was cheated of her most basic rights to due process rights.
http://decisions.courts.state.ny.us/ad3/Decisions/2009/506150.pdf
Now we shall see if the Court of Appeals will be as fair and just on Bracci as they were in the above case. Courts must be compelled to respect every citizen's constitutional rights to a fair hearing.
You see, I’m British and I grew up with a worldview of American as an honorable civilization. Like most people in the English-speaking world I was greatly influenced by Hollywood movies. I confess to have learned that reality of what American Justice is quite different from what I saw in films. Forget the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States, that Bill of Rights nonsense and the Constitution. The practice of law is very different. American Justice is a fiction told in Hollywood. In real life corruption is the methodology of the courtrooms.
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