Francesca's day in (or perhaps not) court.

Francesca Rogier What happened? They screwed me again. The trial was NOT supposed to begin on Friday. The judge had agreed to allow me to contest the charges.

Did you get a notice of another court date? The Judge might have gotten annoyed since you never did show up on time,

no court of law is going to wait for people to show up when ever they feel fit to do so.

HRM was looking for any chance to bulldoze things to start the trial I worked extremely hard on this difficult claim to challenge the warrant and the law, to get the charges dropped or stayed.

Oh sure, its the courts fault, you completely failed to follow its orders. I would not call this a difficult claim, you failed to follow the courts orders and allowed your dog to yet attack another dog.

I had a lot of very good arguments and research.

On how to keep your dog on a leash and muzzled?

But on the way to court I had an accident on the road, swerved several times back and forth into the left lane, ended up stuck hanging off the edge of the road, 12 feet above a drop, my car was held by a street sign and the tires were all up in the air. I nearly fell into the drop when I got out and I wrenched my back.

Well first of all, there is no drop on or near that road, further more we must wonder how come since your car was upside down, unless you super glued your tires on top of it, why nobody passing by called the police or even 911. Good thing that street sign was placed so close to this imaginary drop that it managed to stop the car from falling in.

And again while you were swirling across the road, nobody passing by on either side called?

A friend helped me call the courthouse and HRM; I called them twice myself - and gave them my cell number. I had to wait nearly two hours for a tow truck.

So the both of you had working cellphones but neither of you called 911 or the police for assistance while your car was laying upside down?

In the meantime the court clerk gave the judge the wrong message - she told her I would be there at 10:45 but neither of us said that at all; I only said I didn't know when and I would call to update. I didn't even know if my car was damaged.

Well that court clerk must have gone banana's, how dare this person give a judge false information!

??? Your car was laying wheels up but you did not know if it was damaged?

I got to the courthouse around 1 pm only to find that they had started the TRIAL at 10:45 and there was no turning back.

What did you expect the court to do, have a party and wait for a Francesca Rogier to finally show up?

They had also already entered evidence and heard a witness, both of which were improper and would never have been heard if the judge had let me present my case first.

This evidence would have been entered anyway, there is no way a judge would not allow it, and how do you know it was improper? since you failed to show up on time?

This is typical HRM action. I called Legal Services twice; found out later they didn't even call the prosecutor. I got an answering machine at the court clerk's office at 12:30 when I was leaving home. NObody ever called me back.

Sure the courts clerk's office is being run by answering machines, what, what, you left the house at 12.30? That was way to late don't you think? What were you doing at your house? at that time?

Things are really in bad shape now, my friends. The same damn nightmare as last time - when the judge was replaced with a new one who decided not to let me and my lawyer present our case to challenge the charges, and made me start the trial without being prepared. SAME THING this time, different way of going about it. This is hell. i really cannot say that the trial is fair.

What has not been fair is, a you not having followed court orders, not having been able to show up on time, faking a imaginary car accident, holding the court you claim treats you unfair up, accusing a court clerk of presenting false messages, claiming you destroyed city property (a sign post) without calling the police, claiming you only get answering machines even at the court house and claiming there was nobody at the road who gave you any assistance at your imaginary car accident even though your car was laying there wheels up!

I had to cross-examine witnesses totally cold, my back injured, trying desperately to remember what I prepared months ago; I was shaken from the car mishap, I had been out in the cold for nearly two hours, and I was up all night, focusing on the Charter claim.

Oh poor you, how inconsiderate of the court to not let you see a doctor, I take it you did take pictures of your car laying upside down and tried to have the judge look at them?

The only way HRM wins anything is to fight dirty. So they are fighting dirty. They even claim they haven't decided what they want to do with Brindi - until the question of guilt is decided - total nonsense! IF that were true, why did they say in 2010 and afterwards that they wanted her put down? Why don't they seize and detain every dog whose owner is charged with offences? And the verdict on the charges has NOTHING to do with whether a dog should be put down. It goes on and on, and my dear friends, I cannot take this anymore: I went to the doctor that night and he confirmed a back muscle sprain, gave me muscle relaxants and a NSAID and told me not to leave the house on the muscle relaxants. I do not know what to do, It was so unfair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, we all get that, with the answering machines and all, plus you almost going down a steep drop, your car wheels up against a sign post, nobody helping, nobody stopping, no police in sight, no 911, they must all be operating on answering machines to, no cab you could have called and so on! Indeed how unfair.