Esquivel forfeits ignorance plea

APS School Board President, defendant Marty Esquivel is scheduled for deposition this week.  He has cancelled before, it would not surprise me if he does again; any day he doesn't lose, he wins.

The leadership of the APS, Esquivel; Supt Winston Brooks, Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta, Chief of Police Steve Tellez and Records Custodian Rigo Chavez really, really don't want to be deposed; under oath and on the record.

If it would do them any good, I'm sure they would all like to pretend "ignorance" in their several violations of my civil rights.  That particular defense is denied to them all.

"Ignorance of the law does not excuse" or
"ignorance of the law excuses no one" wikilink

"... is a public policy holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content; that is, persons have presumed knowledge of the law"

... in particular if the person happens to be a lawyer well studied, experienced, and practiced in the very law he violated.

The one thing that the self proclaimed First Amendment Law  expert, Marty Esquivel cannot do, is to claim his violations of my civil rights was inadvertent.

Which makes the the violations deliberate.

In the disgracefully biased report, link, on the multi count federal lawsuit against Esquivel et al, his cronies at the Journal reported,

Esquivel "... an attorney specializing in First Amendment issues, said he is confident the board has not unfairly limited MacQuigg’s free speech rights.'

Former School Board Member David Robbins, in sworn testimony during his deposition, disagreed.  When asked if he thought I had been treated fairly with regard to being banned for life from school board meetings, he agreed that I had not.

The only people who still think at this point that Esquivel might be innocent, are those who have yet to review the evidence.



On deck for deposition this week; Monica Armenta.  She will be pretending among other things, that she didn't know it is against the law to maliciously slander and libel someone.




photos Mark Bralley