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Joos wants sentence vacated
By Jim Burrows
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PINEVILLE -- A hearing on a motion to vacate a sentence leveled by a
McDonald County jury against Nazarite pastor Robert Joos has been set
for late October.
Joos, 45, was incarcerated in the McDonald County Jail for 33 months
prior to being tried to a jury. He was convicted by a jury of seven
women and five men of a Class D felony of unlawful use of a weapon
and a Class A misdemeanor of resisting arrest.
Vernon County Circuit Judge David Darnold, who presided at the trial,
sentenced Joos to 33 months in jail and one year in the Department
of Corrections. The judge ordered the sentences to run concurrently,
gave Joos credit for time served and he was released.
Joos leads the Sacerdotal Order of the David, with church property
located in the Cyclone area. He also lives on that property.
He was leaving that property about 10 a.m. June 29, 1994, when he
was stopped by four officers, including highway patrol Cpl. Bobbie
Harper and Sgt. Steve Dorsey.
Harper and Dorsey said Joos resisted their arrest of him and had a
.32-caliber revolver concealed in his van.
About 9:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 1994, Cpl. Harper was shot in the
abdomen through the kitchen window of his home located northeast of
Anderson. Mr. Harper survived the shooting but died the next April
of complications during heart surgery. Many of his friends and
fellow officers believe the shooting contributed to Mr. Harper's
death.
Authorities said Harper was shot in retaliation for the arrest of
Joos.
Timothy Thomas Coombs, 39, formerly of Witts Springs, Ark., had
been on the Joos property shortly after Joos was incarcerated.
He had been confronted by law enforcement officers. Coombs said
he was an ambassador for Joos, and he was protecting the pastor's
property.
A week after the Harper shooting Coombs was charged with attempted
murder and bullets from the SKS rifle he allegedly used in the
shooting were matched to those found in Arkansas. A neighbor in
Arkansas said Coombs had been target practicing with the rifle and
had shot a horse. He is also charged with armed criminal action.
Coombs, also known as William Patterson, James Wilson and Cal
Liberty, remains at large. He is known to be armed with a
.45-calibre semiautomatic pistol.
Joos had been arrested on a eight-year-old warrant, having been
convicted in 1985 of simulating legal process, a misdemeanor. He
was
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convicted of serving a fraudulent, federal restraining order to
retired highway patrolman Merle Graham in order to prevent Graham
from arresting Tarren Wood. Wood was a Joos follower who had
been found guilty by a jury of driving while his license was
revoked.
Joos was found guilty by a jury and Judge Don Killebrew sentenced
him to six months in jail and a $400 fine.
Joos appealed the jury's conviction and in 1986 the appellate
court upheld the conviction and issued a warrant for his arrest.
He wasn't arrested until June 1994.
Throughout his incarceration and trial Joos said he lived by God's
law and the state law had no jurisdiction over him. He appealed
the jury's conviction of resisting arrest and unlawful use of a
weapon. And April 1 the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern
District, handed down its decision, affirming the conviction.
In July Joos filed a civil suit against the state, asking Judge
Darnold to set aside the conviction. He filed the motion as a
pauper, having no income and no assets.
In his handwritten motion, Joos said he had incompetent legal
advice from his public defenders at trial and at appeal. He
said he was denied a speedy trial and inadmissible testimony
was submitted to the trial jury. He said there was an illegal
search of his residence and church property shortly after his
arrest and several items were confiscated.
Joos contends the evidence against him does not support a
conviction. He says he was denied due process, denied access to
the law library and the court has no jurisdiction over him.
Cinda will represent Joos at the hearing. She is a court-appointed
public defender.
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Neosho Daily NewsNeosho Daily News -- Page 1, Tuesday Sept. 1, 1998
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Notes:1. This is close to 3 years without a trial, because the prosecution didn't have a case. Couldn't legitimately charge Joos with resisting arrest, a misdeameanor with one year maximum in jail, because no judge had signed the arrest warrant. In any case, the Highway Patrolmen didn't have the unsigned arrest warrants on their person anyway. And the Class D felony charge, unlawful use of a weapon, came about as a result of an illegal search absent any search warrant.
The reason Joos finally came to trial is that countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, and Japan, hardly known as human-rights hotspots were coming to Amerika and doing documentaries on 'Amerika's political prisoners.' Amerika's Third-World shitholes, such as McDonald County, a haven for Mexican chicken-pluckers and white-trash law-enforcement, were becoming revealed as a dope-growing and dope-dealing cesspool of official corruption against which a deeply devout man such as Robert Joos was being prosecuted for his Identity Christian beliefs by incarceration without trial. Therefore, a quickie trial and a quickie guilty verdict was necessary.
--------------------- 2. It certainly didn't take very long for a packed pro-criminal regimeist jury to find a perceived enemy of the state such as Robert Joos guilty. I myself have been found guilty by such juries of misdeameanor offenses. The mass of people in Amerika are a rather cowardly under-bred bunch always on the side of the criminal regime because of a mixture of fear and servility. This is why I say there are no such thing as innocents.
--------------------- 3. The criminal regimeists knew that they were out of line, so they gave Joos the exact same sentence of time served, that they had offered in seven months earlier via an Alford plea.
--------------------- 4. Since we are in the realm of hearsay, I heard Joos say that Harper had an understanding, along with the coke-snorting former sheriff Lou Keeling, to kill Joos as a result of the bail-bondsman Gene Bunch's offering $10,000 to kill Joos because Joos once went out on a date with Bunch's ex-wife. Dorsey wasn't in on the deal, but went along with the false arrest without a signed warrant because Dorsey is just a typical pig -- no warrants necessary.
--------------------- 5 Since this so-called 'newspaper' is engaged in spreading rumor and speculation, I suppose it doesn't hurt to say that the popular rumor is that Harper got shot by a deputy sheriff of the McDonald County Sheriff's Department because Harper, a real dirty pig, got greedy and demanded more than his fair share of the cash flow from the Sheriff's dope-running operations.
--------------------- 6. Not being able to charge Joos for the alleged shooting, they chose instead to charge a man who was defending Joos' property when the thieving pigs went on his property without a search warrant to steal something. Being such cowards, and since 4-1 odds were not sufficient against an armed man, and having no business on the property, the cowardly pigs left. Then, after Harper gets shot by a deputy, they choose to place charges against this man for allegedly shooting him. In today's world, you can be charged on the unsupported allegations of police criminals, and Coombs is no exception. Coombs' wanted poster charges him with 'interstate flight' from not wanting to be put in jail until, like Bob Joos, a packed compliant jury can be found to rubber-stamp a pretend conviction.
--------------------- 7. An unsigned warrant, because even the Missery Southern District Kangaroo Kort of Appeals recognized that the charges were fraudulent, and feared to actually sign the warrant. In any case, when Joos was arrested, the unsigned arrest warrant was not on the persons of the corrupt highway pigs, who had no jurisdiction to be on the Joos property in any case.
--------------------- 8. Of course they upheld Joos' conviction. It was their bogus, unsigned arrest warrant which started this thing. This criminal regime kort couldn't very well reverse Joos' conviction, when they shared the guilt for his incarceration for close to three years, now could they?
--------------------- 9. It just bites this newspaper's butt to think of poor people getting to sue the criminal regime in their own criminal regime korts for free. I've heard the same bitch from other newspapers over me getting to sue gubbnmint officials in fedrule kort for free as well.
--------------------- 10. Joos has made much the same complaints about public pretenders before. They think they are Monty Haul -- "Let's make a deal! Let's take a plea bargain." This is the only thing these stupid bastards know. So much for three, four years of law skrule.
--------------------- 11. Funny, I didn't know public pretenders had any business in acting as a plaintiff's attorney in civil matters. The criminal regime korts must want Joos to only have a public pretender level of representation in their kort cases against themselves.
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