He also handed down "multiple illegal sentences," then took no steps, again, to correct it under the law, until his conduct was exposed on Killercop.com.
Matz also presided over the 2005 trial of Sen. Clinton's campaign
finance director David Rosen who was acquitted of filing false
financial reports of the fund-raiser. At the outset, before any evidence
had been presented Matz declared, "This isn't a trial about Senator
Clinton." The senator, he said, "has no stake in this trial as a party
or a principal" and is "not in the loop in any direct way, and that's something the jury will be told." On October 2, 2007 judge Matz was confronted with a Hilary 'smoking-gun' video. October 6th, 2007, Judge Matz is accused of Ethics Violations under a cloud of suspicion and allegations of trial fixing. September 11, 2009, Judge A. Howard Matz named as a co-Defendant with known mob affiliates, for aiding and abetting them in committing serious copyright fraud and other RICO violations (Case No. CV 09-1771-PHX-JAT).Judge A. Howard Matz simply stated that it was only BJ Davis’ “opinion” as to whether there was actually mafia involvement. Quotes by Matz during the pretrial and trial/post trial of killercop.
Special Agent Kenneth McGuire created a Power-point presentation and digitized Sutcliffe's personal identifying information (his signature)
and allowed it to be transmitted on the Internet. Sutcliffe claims this
is a violation of the same law he was charged under by the F.B.I., as
well as a violation of California Penal Code 530.5(d)(2). Sutcliffe has called for the arrest of the agent in his book, Myth America: A Global Double Crossing.
Sutcliffe's appeal was being heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: District of Alaska District of Arizona Central District of California Eastern District of California Northern District of California Southern District of California District of Hawaii... Sutcliffe appealed his conviction by Debra Wong Yang in case number: CA 04-50189 One of numerous issues raised was judge Matz's ruling that Sutcliffe had to proceed through the federal trial without the assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Six Amendment, a part of the Bill of Rights. He also refused to inform Sutcliffe of the nature of the crime as guaranteed by the Six Amendment.
Another issue raised was judge Matz's decision to deny Sutcliffe the right to subpoena Debra Wong Yang in his trial to establish the connection to killercop.com. A subpoena is a command to appear at a certain time and place to give testimony upon a certain matter issue...
Debra Wong Yang's Reply Brief to Sutcliffe's Brief can be read here.
Sutcliffe's Reply Brief to Debra Wong Yang's Reply can be read here.
The
Ninth Circuit allowed Sutcliffe's appeal counsel, appointed through the Federal Public Defenders office to "quit" after a FALSE CONFESSION and FRAUD ON THE COURT.
Sutcliffe objected here. Sutcliffe stated the conflict with the Federal Public Defender's office and asked that the next counsel appointed NOT be appointed through the Federal Public Defender's office.
It
appears that to avoid having to rule on the conflict, Alex Kozinski ruled on
the case on October 11, 2007, before rulingon Sutcliffe's objection regarding the conflict with the Federal Public Defenders office.
The
decision of the case by the Ninth Circuit can be read here.
SUTCLIFFE: " I'm just letting the court know that I'm standing, and that is my way of not interrupting, not having an outburst, but I want the court to recognize that when I stand, I have an objection which I wish to make on the record. First off, I object that his motion is going in front of my motion. My motion to recuse him for ineffective assistance of counsel predates his. I'd like to be heard first. First in line, first served."
A copy of the oral argument can be heard here. Pretrial briefs and transcripts and other case files located here.
In the attempt to have additional issues unanswered and not reheard Alex Kozinski held a hearing of one, in violation of the law and summarily denied the rehearing.
There is also a visual video bank of allegations Sutcliffe has spoken out about on the social Google owned website youtube, dealing with the censorship and allegations against his speech on killercop.com.
Local police departments in two
different parts of the country contacted their local branch F.B.I.
offices, whom then contacted the H.Q. of the Los Angeles, F.B.I office, twice, within a two week period, and made accusations of International Trafficking in Arms (ITAR), amongst others crimes such as Internet Threats, Interstate Extortion, and the big M, Murder, all within a time frame of less then 30 days.
Look, you know you have to look, there! ABOVE!! It's "a person, on the left," and "the person of another," on the right. Do you understand? No? Still Baffled? Click image below for the answer to the question, "What is a person and what is the difference between a person and the person of another?"
The site contains Sutcliffe's personal story about police
corruption and numerous other claims of official corruption, misconduct or otherwise illegal activity by judges. The site became notorious of its citation of an early US Supreme Court Case, U.S. -vs- John Bad Elk, which stated the acceptability of killing an officer during an attempted arrest when the arresting officer had no legal authority to
make the arrest. In conjunction with this legal citation, the website
offered a parody reward for individuals who "legally" had to kill a
police officer in the course of an attempted 'illegal' or false arrest.
The site then offered additional legal reference materials to help
readers determine what constitutes an 'illegal' arrest. The
site also named two California municipal court judges, and one superior
court judge, and claimed all three were violating California laws. The
municipal court judges named were Debra Wong Yang and Lisa Hart Cole.
Lisa Hart Cole.
Lisa Hart Cole tried Sutcliffe for the false arrest by the L.A.P.D. and there-after was exposed in 1997 by Sutcliffe on killercop.com of sitting as his judge with no Oath of Office, for over four years.
Lisa Hart Cole later swore and filed the Oath of Office after the exclusive investigation and exposure on killercop.com by Sutcliffe.
Debra Wong Yang admitted in that court that the court had no authority to seize this tape,
under the law, and returned the tape, but refused to rule on the motion
to arrest the prosecutor as a petty thief.
The site was closed down by the LAPD in 1998, in what was a somewhat controversial act which some called censorship.
In so far as no charges were brought in connection with the site, its publication or its being forcibly removed by law enforcement, the actions of the government remain questionably legal but first amendment proponents continue to
claim it is an outstanding infringement of the Constitution. Sutcliffe
authored a book called The Censorship Of Killercop.com in 2007, detailing the history of Killercop.com which details emails
sent to him from police calling him a "nigger" and saying they would
shoot him, inter alia. Sutcliffe says, "I believe that
people have a right to believe, to read, and have access to all
information, so that they can then make up their own minds what to
think. Not just what the police and state owned news want them to see and hear. If something
is a nonsense, and if something doesn't stand up, it will be shown to
be a nonsense in the spotlight of the public arena." The L.A.P.D. Training Bulletin published two years before the censorship, states: In
a society where the right of free speech and assembly is guaranteed by
the Federal and State Constitutions, it is the responsibility of police
officers to ensure the equal protection of Constitutional Rights of all
members of the public. In determining whether speech activity is
lawful, police officers must not base their decisions on their subjective, personal views of either the political affiliation or the
message of those persons exercising their right to speak.
UPDATE 2023: The attack on Steven Sutcliffe and his social media continues with more legal threats of arrest and censorship due to the LAPD releasing over 9,300 officers pictures to other websites called Watch The Watchers and Stop LAPD Spying.
The FBI claimed they never opened up ANY investigation for any of these charges related to this website.
The Arrest of the Author And Owner.
Sutcliffe
was arrested in 2002 by federal police agents for transmitting "true"
threats on the website evilgx.com. His prosecutor was U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang, a local California judge named in killercop.com and accused of breaking the law. Sutcliffe has since written a book detailing his account of the federal trial where the court denied his right to proceed with the assistance of counsel. Before Sutcliffe's arrest in 2002, NBC News released a report calling him a "gang affiliated person."
After his arrest in New Hampshire, in March 2002, the FBI claimed in court
that they believed Sutcliffe had been "threatening" police officers
since 1998, and was selling guns and other weapons on killercop.com,
based solely on information provided to them from Detectives within the
LAPD. Sutcliffe was never charged with threatening police officers, or
with selling any weapons and neither the FBI or LAPD notified the ATF, required under the law, of such charges.
The
"entire" Central District of California, Federal Public Defenders
office recused themselves and refused to represent Sutcliffe, citing an "unspoken"
conflict which they said could not talk about on any record. Sutcliffe
was forced to go to trial without the assistance of counsel after
a hand-appointed representative was removed by the judge for either incompetence or ineffective assistance of counsel. So then Judge Matz forced an attorney who was a self-proclaimed "master in psychology" and "computer expert" on Sutcliffe. Resulting in a denial of subpoenas. Or experts for the defense in the complex computer case.
Sutcliffe claims in a book
that he only wanted the attorneys to assist him in filing an Interlocutory Appeal
to challenge the jurisdiction of the claims, and each court appointed
representative kept refusing, citing fear of the judge. An interlocutory appeal, in the law of
civil procedure is an appeal of a ruling by a trial court that is made
before the trial itself has concluded. Like the right not to be tried. All attorneys refused from "fear of pissing the judge off." The judge refused to follow the law, right up to the time he gave Sutcliffe an admitted illegal sentence.
The Prosecutor
WONG, DEBRA YANG
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has raised questions about Yang's departure as U.S. attorney in light of the subsequent firing of seven US
Attorneys. Yang's office had opened an investigation into the
relationship between Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and a lobbyist five months before she left to join the law firm that represented Rep. Lewis.[1][2][3] Yang has denied that any pressure was put on her to resign.[4] Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is currently the
senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a senator
since 1992. ... Charles Jeremy Jerry Lewis (born
October 21, 1934), an American politician, has been a Republican member
of the United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing
the 41st District of California. ... Sutcliffe accusedDebra Wong Yang from within killercop as being corrupt. Debra Wong Yang later prosecuted Sutcliffe after being appointed as a U.S. Attorney in
the Central District of California. Sutcliffe subpoenaed her at his
trial, but the judge, Alvin Howard Matz, denied this right by saying: "[i]t
would be a huge sea change in the administration of [criminal] justice to have the
personal backgrounds of whoever happens to be U.S. Attorney at a given
time become a basis to issue subpoenas."
Despite her advocacy on behalf of media outlets making First Amendment claims, Yang seems uncomfortable with transparency.
Florida
resident Michael Ian Campbell was arrested under the same charges of 18
U.S.C. 875(c), as Sutcliffe, however Campbell ultimately pled guilty to
the charges of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. On Friday,
April 28, 2000, Campbell was sentenced to four months in prison
followed by three years of supervised release. "Both the prosecution and the defense were surprised by the severity of the sentence."See Peggy Lowe, Teen to Do Time for Online Threat, DENV. ROCKY MTN. NEWS, Apr. 29, 2000, at 4A.
For the exact same charges, Sutcliffe received 11.5 times the sentence Michael Ian Campbell received. While Sutcliffe was serving this unreasonable sentence he filed a Writ of Coram Nobis, in reply the judge admitted the sentence imposed on Sutcliffe is, and continues to be, illegal.
The government took no steps to correct it, and because Sutcliffe was
denied assistance of counsel he was unable to appeal it and was forced
to serve out the entire illegal sentence in maximum-security prison in
Lompoc USP. At Sutcliffe's sentencing hearing judge Matz
made the following statement: "The behavior that neither resulted in a
conviction nor even an arrest but that was facially unlawful, and in
any event a very chilling indication of the consideration as to how
likely it is that he would commit further crimes is that he undoubtedly
and indisputably set up this killercop.com web site." ~~Federal
District Court Judge Alvin Howard Matz, Sentencing Transcript
04.15.2004, Case# CR 02 0350-AHM.
A FACT: JUDGE MATZ CONTINUED TO HAND OUT "SUBSTANTIAL" ILLEGAL SENTENCES, WITH THE SUPPORT OF HIS FRIENDS IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT, EVEN AFTER BEING TOLD HIS BEHAVIOUR WAS ILLGAL, AS WITNESSED HERE.
Trivia.
In 1998, when he was much younger, Sutcliffe appeared on The Dating Game and won. (Apparently the female contestant, Tracy Ray, could not resist Sutcliffe's "deep voice.") The Dating Game was an ABC television show that first aired on December
20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck
Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Sutcliffe's first role, non Union, was on Untold Stories of the E.R. playing an EMT.
He got a break into show business playing an F.B.I. agent on the hit T.V. show NUMB3RS for an entire season.
After being accepted into the Screen Actors Guild, Steven Sutcliffe appeared in the movie OCEAN'S 13, playing a High Roller with George Cloony and was cast in a Craps scene with Al Pachino and Brad Pitt by acclaimed Director Steven Andrew Soderbergh. Steven is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor. A pioneer of modern independent cinema. Oceans Thirteen will be the sequel to the 2004 film Oceans 12.
In 2009, Steven Sutcliffe appeared on CSI: Las Vegas, as a maximum security prison guard in charge of keeping control of profilic serial killer Nate Haskell, played by acclaimed actor Bill Irwin.
Steven Sutcliffe has also appeared on the popular TV show, MONK.
Steven Sutcliffe also appeared on the popular TV show Criminal Minds, as a U.S. Marshal.
Steven Sutcliffe has acted as a personal stand-in for both acclaimed actors Matthew Modine and Ted Danson.
In 2016, Sutcliffe played a Doctor on the TV show Heartbeat.
Sutcliffe has also been featured on "Two and a half men," as the 'best man' at the wedding of Judith and Dr. Herb Mel-nick, played by actor Ryan Stiles.