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Lindstedt v. City of Columbia

Appeal No. 55536, Missouri Court of Appeals

Appellant's Brief

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                          No. 55536
                ____________________________
                              
                           IN THE
                              
                  MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS
                              
                      WESTERN DISTRICT
                    ____________________
                              
            MARTIN LINDSTEDT  -- Appellant/Defendant

                             VS.
                              
            CITY OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI -- Appellee/Plaintiff
                   ______________________
                              
                      APPELLANT’S BRIEF
                              
                         W.D. #55536
                   Case # MU0197-055121MR
              Alleged First Degree Trespassing
                _____________________________
                              
                     Martin Lindstedt
                     338 Rabbit Track Road
                     Granby, Missouri 64844
                     (417) 472-6901
                              
                              

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 Before The Missouri Court of  Appeals -- Western District,
                  in Kansas City, Missouri.
                              
Martin Lindstedt              )
      Appellant/Defendant     )
                              )  W.D. #55536
 vs.                          )  Case # MU0197-055121MR
                              )  Alleged First Degree Trespassing
City of Columbia, Missouri    )
      Appellee/Plaintiff      )

                              
                      APPELLANT’S BRIEF
                              
COMES NOW the Appellant/Defendant, Martin Lindstedt, to present 

his Appellant’s Brief in favor of this Missouri Court of Appeal 

granting him an acquittal or a new trial.

                              
                  Jurisdictional Statement

   This action before the Missouri Court of Appeals comes about as 

a result of Appellant’s timely filed Notice of Appeal after 

sentencing on Feb. 19, 1998 and trial Judge Bryson’s allowing 

Appellant to file this appeal in forma pauperis on March 2, 1998.


                     Statements of Fact

   Appellant after several years of feuding with the Missouri 

Libertarian Party (MoLP), was "invited" to attend an illegal 

expulsion meeting at the Heidelburg Restaurant on April 20, 1997.  

Appellant is a duly elected MoLP party officer from the 32d 

Senatorial District and Newton County, and thus is a public official.  

Appellant was/is suing the MoLP for civil rights violations.  

Appellant borrowed a videocassette recorder and proposed recording 

this criminal activity to aid his lawsuits.  The MoLP leadership, not 

wanting to provide more evidence, had their friend, a manager of the 

Heidelburg Restaurant, threaten Appellant with a false trespassing 

charge if Appellant refused to stop videotaping this public meeting.  

The manager of the Heidelburg then had the Columbia 


Appellant’s Brief                         1           Martin Lindstedt,
Lindstedt vs. City of Columbia, Missouri             338 Rabbit Track Road
Re: WD 55536, Case # MU0197-055121MR                  Granby, Missouri 64844




Police Department arrest Appellant for ‘trespassing’ and during 

Appellant’s stay at the police department voted to expel Appellant 

from the MoLP.

   Appellant later found out that this manager lost his job of 20+ 

years, probably as a result of his conduct on April 20, 1997.

   Prosecutor McKenzie, unable to get the owner of the Heidelburg to 

file charges, forged the original general complaint and information.  

Subsequently, through a trial in both the City of Columbia municipal 

court and Boone County circuit court, Prosecutor McKenzie never 

presented an information whatsoever because his forgery and alteration 

of the official record would come out.  Appellant was never arraigned 

because there never was an "information" presented.  Therefore, with 

no information and no arraignment, no court had any jurisdiction to 

try Appellant.

   After all manner of collusion between Prosecutor McKenzie and 

Judge Bryson, on January 15, 1998, Appellant was convicted by a jury 

after a ten-hour trial of a Class B misdemeanor of violating a City 

of Columbia Ordinance for Trespassing, notwithstanding that Appellant, 

as a public official was invited to attend for an illegal expulsion 

of himself from the Missouri Libertarian Party (MoLP).

   Appellant/Defendant before sentencing on Feb. 19, 1998 filed 

several timely motions showing why the jury verdict should be set 

aside and Appellant/Defendant either acquitted or a new trial granted.  

Judge Bryson refused to rule on any of the points raised in these 

motions, which Defendant read into the official record, merely 

overruling them altogether.

   Appellant will not waste further paper and resources documenting 

all the reasons why this Appellate Court should grant Appellant relief 

when these motions are listed in Appellant’s Appendix in the back.  

This Appellate Court should be able to see for itself these trial 

court file-stamped Motions and Exhibits and grant Appellant his relief.

   Appellant also notes that this Appellate Court does not have clean 

hands in this matter.  Appellant timely ordered the transcripts and 

trial file in forma pauperis and it was up to this Appellate Court 

to make the trial court provide these official records which 


Appellant’s Brief                         2           Martin Lindstedt,
Lindstedt vs. City of Columbia, Missouri              338 Rabbit Track Road
Re: WD 55536, Case # MU0197-055121MR                  Granby, Missouri 64844




would prove Appellant’s cause.  This Appellate Court also refused to 

grant Appellant’s valid petition for writ on mandamus on April 15, 

1998 for this purpose, as you were supposed to do so.  It is past 

time that the trial court be made to provide at its own expense 

information regarding its misconduct in this matter.


               Points Relied Upon and Argument

   Appellant’s Appendix containing his filed motions and exhibits 

should substantially prove that Appellant should prevail as a matter 

of both law and justice.  There is no need to rehash the sordid 

details of the criminal collusion of Prosecutor McKenzie and Judge 

Bryson.  Together they conspired to illegally waste the public 

defender’s limited resources by railroading Defendant into a jail 

sentence, they refused to arraign Defendant because of a forged 

information, forgery and falsification of the official records, 

refusal to subpoena Defendant’s witnesses, refusal to provide 

discovery when asked, misconduct in the rules of evidence,  

improper jury instructions allowed and valid jury instructions 

forbidden, subornation of perjury of prosecution witnesses, probable 

jury tampering, and other prosecutorial and judicial misdemeanors 

not mentioned in Appellant’s Appendix of Motions and Exhibits but 

which will show up upon a look at trial transcripts.  Any one of 

these points relied upon should be enough grounds to dismiss this

case in favor of Appellant.

   Appellant will in his Reply Brief answer any lies Prosecutor 

McKenzie chooses to pose.


                     Request for Relief

   WHEREFORE, Appellant/Defendant  requests that this Missouri 

Appellate Court (1) overturn the jury conviction derived through 

fraud and criminal activity on the part of City of Columbia 

Prosecutor McKenzie and Judge Bryson acting in collusion and acquit 

Appellant/Defendant of all charges; or (2) as a second alternative 

grant Appellant/ Defendant a new trial before a different judge and 

jury, and (3) award Appellant/ 


Appellant’s Brief                         3       Martin Lindstedt,
Lindstedt vs. City of Columbia, Missouri              338 Rabbit Track Road
Re: WD 55536, Case # MU0197-055121MR                  Granby, Missouri 64844





Defendant his expenses from having had to fight this bogus complaint 

in trial court and upon appeal.  Appellant also requests any other 

relief this Missouri Appellate Court deems necessary in the pursuit 

of justice.

            __________________________________
            Martin Lindstedt, Appellant/Defendant
                        (417) 472-6901
                              

                   Certificate of Service

   A copy of the foregoing was mailed June 2, 1998 to the City of 
Columbia Prosecuting Attorney William S. McKenzie, Howard Municipal 
Building, 600 E. Broadway, Columbia, Missouri 65201.







Appellant’s Brief                         4           Martin Lindstedt,
Lindstedt vs. City of Columbia, Missouri              338 Rabbit Track Road
Re: WD 55536, Case # MU0197-055121MR                  Granby, Missouri 64844


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                ____________________________
                              
                           IN THE
                  MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS
                      WESTERN DISTRICT
                    ____________________
                              
        MARTIN LINDSTEDT  -- Appellant/Defendant
                             VS.
        CITY OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI -- Appellee/Plaintiff
                   ______________________
                              
                         W.D. #55536
                   Case # MU0197-055121MR
              Alleged First Degree Trespassing
                _____________________________
                              
                 Petitioner’s Appendix Index
                              
1.  Invitation for Appellant/Defendant to attend illegal expulsion 
    meeting of MoLP
2.  Motion for Judgment of Acquittal
3.  Motion to Set Aside or Grant New Trial Under Rule 29.13
4.  Motion For New Trial
    Exhibit A.  Original Complaint & Information of April 20, 1997
    Exhibit B.  Forged Complaint by City Prosecutor
    Exhibit C.  Motion to Subpoena Witnesses and For Disclosure by 
                Prosecutor
    Exhibit D.  Prosecutor’s List of Witnesses and Exhibits -- No 
                Information
    Exhibit J-6.  Prosecutor’s Jury Instruction #6
    Exhibit 5A.   Public Defender’s Complaint Concerning Misconduct 
                  by Judge Bryson and Prosecutor McKenzie in wasting 
                  Public Defender resources for municipal ordinance 
                  violations by seeking jail time.


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