Remember People vs Olivetto? Case number 03CR3725
I have spoken to people who believed that Olivetto was guilty as sin. However, Jeff Seaton brow-beat the rape victim and had investigators and others harrassing her (according to sources). The victim lost the nerve to continue and the rapists walked free because the charges got dismissed.
In a letter to the editor – Jeff Seaton was bragging about how he defended these rapists. (There were two) He described the criminal justice system as a “guantlet for defendants“.
Imagine what Jeff “288” Seaton will do to crime victims as a Judge?
Why did Arnold Zeiderman and the Amador County Republican Party endorse this guy?
People vs Vick
Jeff “288” Seaton (did you know his campaign PO Box is box 288?) – represented a defendant who molested a child. Vick had prior convictions. (288 is the Penal Code Section for Child Molestation)
However, Jeff Seaton and everyone knew Vick was guilty as sin – as did the private investigators that Seaton hired. The case was disgusting and the details would make all but the most hardened sick to their stomach. (But not Jeff Seaton)
The case was in the late 1990’s and Jeff Seaton as is his usual custom got continuances and was able to stretch the case in to about a $10,000 bill to the defendant.
Seaton also hired an expert named Tamara Wishnowski to develop questions that would devastate the little girl who was the victim.
What would Jeff “288” Seaton do as a Judge?
Why did Arnold Zeiderman and the Amador County Republican Party endorse this guy?
People VS Eisenbeis
In the case of People Vs Eisenbeis – Esienbeis beat his wife. He beat her frequently.
Jeff Seaton actually represented the wife in Family Court around the same time he was retained to defend the husband in criminal court! Where was Keith Morris when you needed him!
The latest source told me that Seaton used to stare down the former Mrs. Eisenbeis and similar to the rape victim in the Olivetto case he intimidated her.
Eisenbeis later broke her arm and finally ended up going to prison.
Would Judge Seaton glare at abuse victims? Would Judge Seaton ask psychologically devastating questions to try and scar little girls emotionally for the rest of their lives? Would Judge Seaton make his courtroom a gauntlet for rape victims?
What would Judge Seaton do if another Jennifer Minton case came to his court?
… and Arnold Zeiderman and the Amador County Republican Party endorsed this guy!
That is the great fear. As you have posted in the Ledger, Hermanson will not get a chance to have a public forum where Seaton will not be allowed to first dance around the stage at how great he was, and then attack Hermanson on fabricated issues. It will be up to us in the audience to ask the candidates topical questions, such as: As a seated judge, would you hold those who represented each side of the case presented in court to the same professional standards, and if so, what would you do as a judge if you found that either attorney was not working in the best interest of their client, or that an attorney was under the influence, or was accused of breaching client confidentiality, etc… The game may be rigged, but it isn’t over…
I’d like to see an article in the Bee about this. Many who live in the Amador bubble seem to think that what goes on here stays here and all too often it seems to be true. That’s why it’s so refreshing and encouraging to see someone out of the county take an interest.
Personally, I think Seaton should change his PO Box to 5150.
5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act or “LPS”) which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled.
Aaron, you would not believe what the Ledger has done, and they are now trying to discredit you as well. It just got serious!!
I hope that this new round of attacks will draw out more people with information about Seaton. Thank you once again for your help.