{"id":243,"date":"2019-03-22T01:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T01:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2019-10-03T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T21:03:01","slug":"citation-54540","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/citation-54540\/","title":{"rendered":"Citations 54540\/54541"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fined $750 for a house I don&#8217;t own<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial-775x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252\" width=\"350\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial-775x1024.png 775w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial-768x1015.png 768w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial-1200x1586.png 1200w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial.png 1716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dismissal Request prior to hearing (click for higher resolution)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is hard to see the actions of the city during <a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Municipal-complaint-3.png\">citation 54540<\/a> as anything other than municipal harassment. The citation called me into court to answer for ordinance violations allegedly occurring at 2454 Delmar. This sounds reasonable on the surface, except for the fact that <em>I did not own Delmar, <\/em>which any search of Madison county records would of revealed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I notified the city of this fact through a <a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Dismissal-request-Prior-to-trial.png\">statement<\/a> sent via certified mail prior to my hearing, however, as I heard no response I had to submit my statement and explain this fact in person. I asserted that Granite city should reissue the citation to the <em>actual owner of the property<\/em> listed on public record. However, this evidently was not enough for Granite city, as I had to go to court not just a <a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/April-9-rescheduled-hearing-1.png\">second time<\/a>, but a<a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/May-7th-hearing.png\"> third time<\/a> as well to explain the exact same facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my third court appearance,  frustrated that I had to take the time to answer not once but thrice for code violations at a house I did not own; I submitted the following written <a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials.png\">statement<\/a>. Note: This statement was also mailed to Granite city Mayor Ed Hagnauer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials-745x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267\" width=\"426\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials-745x1024.png 745w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials-768x1056.png 768w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials-1200x1650.png 1200w, https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/statement-of-three-trials.png 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 85vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Statement submitted at my third hearing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Granite city officials verbally dismissed the citation at the third hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Imagine my surprise when later I received a<a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Default-Judgement-1-e1553214770733.png\"> <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Default-Judgement-1-e1553214770733.png\">Default Judgment<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Default-Judgement-1-e1553214770733.png\"> <\/a>demanding $750.00 because I allegedly missed a hearing for violations at a property that <em>I did not own<\/em>. I did not receive notice of any such hearing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fined $750 for a house I don&#8217;t own It is hard to see the actions of the city during citation 54540 as anything other than municipal harassment. The citation called me into court to answer for ordinance violations allegedly occurring at 2454 Delmar. This sounds reasonable on the surface, except for the fact that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/citation-54540\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citations 54540\/54541&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defendant378.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}