From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office:
The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office, has received funding for a Victims’ Rights Week outreach activity to be held during Victims’ Rights Week April 10-16, 2011, from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during 2011 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The week of April 10 – 16, 2011, is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), which was first designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This annual observance seeks to increase public awareness of, and knowledge among crime victims and survivors about the wide range of rights and services available to people who have been victimized by crime. The theme for 2011 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Reshaping the Future, Honoring the Past.”
According to Joseph Cassilly, State’s Attorney for Harford County, his office is hosting an “Open Forum Panel Discussion” to be held on April 13, 2011, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at the Edgewood Senior Center, 1000 Gateway Drive, Edgewood, MD 21040, to give crime victims a chance to be heard by representatives of the criminal justice system. The panel will be comprised of the State’s Attorney for Harford County, representatives from the Maryland Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, the Maryland Division of Parole and Probation, the Maryland State Police, and a victim of crime. Each panel member will provide an introduction and describe their role in the system and the services they provide. In coordination with this year’s Theme, “Reshaping the Future, Honoring the Past”, the floor will be open to speakers to voice their concerns, make suggestions, offer praise, remember a loved one, and/or ask questions .
For additional information about 2011 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities or about victims’ rights and services in Harford County, please contact Terry Sullivan, Victim/Witness Coordinator, Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office, at 410-638-3500 or visit our Web site at www.harfordcountymd.gov/statesattorney or information about national efforts to promote 2011 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, please visit the Office for Victims of Crime Web site at http://www.ovc.gov.
ToTheSAOffice says
Christopher Tabone of the Harford County State’s Attorney Office has been using his influence to obtain lighter sentences for members of his own family involving criminal convictions in his jurisdiction. Anthony Michael Tabone, the relative referred to herein, has escaped justice on at least 4 occassions with the aid of Christopher Tabone’s influence on prosecutors in both Harford County and Baltimore County. The Harford County incidents involve multiple assault charges with the victims being women involving Domestic Violence. Anthony Tabone, has been arrested at least five times and has spent a total of 6 months in jail for all these offenses. This is not acceptable. We cannot allow sentences to be influenced by the corrupt State’s Attorney Office in Harford County any longer. This problem seems to have merit in Harford County especially since the county is known for defining its own aristocratic guidelines involving members of the court, police and anyone related to them. This is why Judge Mimi Cooper has escaped justice for her multiple DWI’s yet received no conviction for her crimes, yet you or I would have received jailtime. All the people of Harford County want is equal justice. If I commit a crime, I do the time. Why can’t Harford’s Elite just follow the same rules that apply to the common everyday citizen. This is just one more illegal action committed by Christopher Tabone, Harford County’s Corrupt Assitant State’s Attorney.
ToTheSAOffice says
Christopher Tabone of the Harford County State’s Attorney Office has been illegally wiretapping cellular phone conversations of criminal suspects. He and members of his raid team have been installing CellSpy software on criminal suspects cellular phones without a warrant. Tabone and his raid team then use information gathered from this illegal activity to get warrants claiming that the information they received was gathered by a confidential informant. The software also allows Mr. Tabone to receive duplicate text messages in real time of messages received by the suspects cellular phone. This is just another felonius act committed by the Harford County State’s Attorney Office and Christopher Tabone. Joseph Cassilly recently tried to charge an innocent man with false wiretapping charges involving a motorcyclist, maybe Mr. Cassilly should look into his own office to find the wiretapping charges he wishes to prosecute!
ToTheSAOffice says
Christopher Tabone of the Harford County State’s Attorney Office has lied to and/or gave misleading testamony to grand juries to obtain indictments in err. Tabone rearranged phone conversations and text messages to obtain an indictment in December of 2009 against a defendant that Tabone’s raid team did not get cooperation from. This is why no member of the Harford County State’s Attorney Office should be involved in the actual raid of a defendants home. Tabone’s misdeeds caused an illegal conviction due to the defendant not being able to receive bail and taking a deal to save his business from bankruptcy. Tabone has absolutely no regard for the law he has sworn to uphold and seems to have the approval of Joseph Cassilly and the Judges of the Harford County Circuit Court.
ToTheSAOffice says
Christopher Tabone of the Harford County State’s Attorney Office has been disguising himself as a police officer when he accompanies the Harford County Sheriff’s Department and Narcotics Task Force on Drug Raids. Should this be legal. He is obviously impersonating a Police Officer while on these raids and that is a felony in itself. When the State’s Attorney Office has members of its office directly involved in arrests and raids wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest as the State’s Attorney Office is the only buffer between the police and the public in determining if a crime is being committed and whether or not the police have followed proper procedures with the arrest. This could also lead Mr. Tabone into a situation where he may cover up evidence or fabricate evidence in order to protect members of the police force of his raid team.
pbmfer says
So when are we, the african american community of harford county, going to be protected from members of your office. Its obvious that your office commits more crimes than you prosecute. We want to know why you are allowing Christopher Tabone to continue his career of racial prosecution? Is this approved by you, Mr. Cassilly?