Do you know or hear about yet another victim of the Burlington County Persecutors Office?

   He is Anthony Pasquarelli, a retired Federal Marshall working now as a private investigator. He is also a court mediator. You know, a menace-to-society type.

            Several years ago P.I. Pasquarelli had attempted to serve some legal documents upon a Mt. Holly-based attorney. The husband, after answering the door of their residence, became irate and overreacted to Mr. Pasquarelli’s process serving attempt. Mr. Pasquarelli had no wish to escalate the matter and tried to defuse the encounter by leaving.

   However, before he could get into his car, the husband pushed Anthony, causing him to fall to the ground. Mr. Pasquarelli was able to get into his car despite having injured his back in the fall and left the area. He filed a police report with the local PD and complaints against the husband were issued and served.

            As a result of the assault and fall, Mr. Pasquarelli incurred substantial medical bills and sought compensation from the accused. The suit sought damages that were well within respectable, and not exaggerated, limits.

   The accused hired a local attorney named John Sitzler to represent them against both the criminal and civil actions.

   Thus had begun Mr. Pasquarelli's entry into the corrupt legal system of Burlington County where he  was exposed to its other side, where un-lawful and dis-order were the norm. 

   Mr. Sitzler developed a dislike of Mr. Pasquarelli and acted on it on several occasions, even going so far as to making threats, and then brazenly admitting to having made them when it was brought to the court judge's attention (who did absolutely nothing), claiming that he used his "free speech right!" Furthermore, he told the Judge (while fraternizing in the court office during court break) that Mr. Pasquarelli was carrying a firearm even though he knew Pasquarelli was a licensed Investigator. This allowed for rogue police officer Ronald Sanna[DB1]  to direct Mr. Pasquarelli out to the lobby to confront Mr. Pasquarelli and question him about possessing a firearm. Mr. Pasquarelli is licensed to carry a firearm but was not so armed on this date. Even so, the officer would not relent and advised Mr. Pasquarelli that he was personally denying his right to re-enter the court room but had to relent when Mr. Pasquarelli's own attorney came to find him. As perhaps further proof of the decline of the quality of the legal environment, the trial judge would not recuse hmself and have another judge take over even though Mr. Pasquarelli had just served the judge with foreclosure notice several days prior! Thus it was of little suprise that the criminal complaints against the accused were dismissed by the judge without an explanation or basis as required. 

   In an unrelated victim-case[DB2]  Mr. Sitzler had demonstrated his “flexibility” to deviate from the law and ethics when he threw his own client “under the bus” by tricking him into pleading guilty to a criminal offense, and not a township ordinance as he had led this client to believe. In this case, Officer Sanna was again involved and alleged that the victim "chest bumped" him and then resisted arrest, causing him to have to use force.

   Without any doubt, Mr. Sitzler was abusing his attorney privileges, ethics, and his officer of the court status to harass Mr. Pasquarelli. But it got worse after Anthony filed lawyer ethics complaints against Sitzler.  Surprisingly[DB3]   they were sustained and Sitzler had to attend some remedial classes. 

   This made Sitzler Esq. so enraged that he went to his connections in the ”persecutors” office and called in a favor. He claimed that when he had deposed Anthony Pasquarelli several years ago, that Anthony listed his medications. One was issued by his family doctor for bouts of occasional anxiety on an as-needed basis. Sitzler, now years later, and right after being sanctioned due to Pasquarelli's complaints, suddenly realizes that Pasquarelli had lied on his firearms ID card and right to carry a concealed firearm application about being under the influence of narcotics? And that now it's incumbent upon him as an upstanding member of the bar and as an officer of the court to suddenly act upon his information? This is such an obvious vindictive and retaliatory step that a young teenager would see it for what it was.

   Mr. Sitzler surely had to know anxiety medication is routinely prescribed to all walks of citizens, with law enforcement and military members included. It’s common knowledge that properly prescribed medication for anxiety is taken by active law enforcement officers daily without a problem because it doesn't affect their proficiency with a firearm! 

   So too with the Prosecutor. Yet with no more proof other Sitzler's spiteful claim and lacking any investigation they sadistically target Mr. Pasquarelli and his 2nd Amendment right to continue to lawfully posses and carry a firearm. Due process and the Rule of Law hasn't been a consideration before, and they weren't this time either. 

   The Prosecutor didn't refer the matter to the NJ State police firearms unit, whose responsibility it clearly was since they processed the applications (because they knew it would be rejected and that the NJ State police wouldn't do their dirty work for them).  So they filed the action against him so that he would have to go to a weapons forfeiture hearing of their own making and before a County court that has a history of outrageous decisions. In fact, Governor Christie had to pardon a similar law abiding citizen who was illegally arrested, unlawfully prosecuted, and run through a mockery of a trial, only to be sentenced to 7 years incarceration![DB4]  

It’s a criminal violation so why no charges? No trial? Because it would have been more formal and required violating even more rights and laws, so why bother?

   As usual for Burlington County, this was not a court of law, but another Mickey- mouse sham court not controlled by the judges, but those who pull their strings, the Prosecutors Office. The prosecutors scared the heck out of Anthony's cardiologist and family doctor when they illegally obtained all his medical files via illegal subpoena power abuse. Not only was this abuse illegal, and intended to isolate Mr. Pasquarelli from his medical care providers, it was a flagrant violation of the privacy right everyone has between their care provider and themselves and is supposedly protected under the HIPA laws. This is why people are fearful of the Patriot Act. If this County Prosecutor can so brazenly and easily seize and scrutinize your medical files (and this would include psychiatric care as well), would it not be as easy for the federal government to get away with this as well?

            Since the files revealed and contained nothing that could be used against him, at the "hearing," Anthony went on the offensive. He submitted letters from both doctors that there was no reason the medication he was prescribed, which he took on an "as needed” basis, would prevent him from responsibly handling firearms. Additionally Anthony, against my own advice, took the initiative against his abusers, even though the burden of proof was on the” persecutors,” and preemptively got mentally examined for fitness to have and carry firearms and of course passed favorably. Furthermore, he even had offered to submit to the persecutor's own shrink but they didn't accept his offer!

At the hearing the judge was provided all the legal proofs from Anthony proving his mental fitness was never an issue or in doubt, and the nothing from the Prosecutors Office submitted nothing to challenge it, dispute it, or impeach it. They simply told the judge they didn't think Anthony should have firearms.

            The judge, after the proverbial wink and a nod with the “persecutor,” ignored the undisputed favorable evidence for Mr. Pasquarelli and said it was his opinion that Anthony was not mentally fit to possess ANY weapons and ordered that his firearm ID card, his right to carry ID card, and ALL his personal weapons be forfeited!

            This horrendous event contains criminal acts, civil violations, and direct violation of Mr. Pasquarelli’s 2nd Amendment right to possess and carry firearms.

   Considering that another victim, Brian Aitken, was just freed from jail after being maliciously prosecuted and unlawfully convicted for legally possessing a firearm, it is obvious that this corrupt illegal legal gang won't stop until they start going to jail themselves.