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POOR AMERICANS LOSE LEGAL ADVOCATE IN CA & GAIN 1 IN WASH DC
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS - 31.12.2010 05:53

**CALIFORNIA IS TOO BROKE 4 CA SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE'S HEART OF GOLD ....

IT MAY EVEN TAKE A VILLAGE OF SPECIAL MEN & WOMEN LIKE RONALD GEORGE & SONIA SOTOMAYOR TO CONTINUE THE GREAT AURA THAT AMERICA PORTRAYS TO THE REST OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD THAT TRUE JUSTICE FOR ALL ONES PEOPLE CAN AND WILL BE FOUND ON OUR CURENT & FUTURE SHORES AT ALL CO$T$....




LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS APPLAUDS THESE TWO SPECIAL AMERICANS WHO BOTH HAVE A KEEN INTEREST IN MAKING SURE OUR U.S. JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF AFFORDING ALL OUR MIDDLE~CLASS & POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION & JUST OPPORTUNITIES OF RECEIVING A FUTURE OF REAL JUSTICE ....

SPECIAL THANKS RONALD M GEORGE FOR YOUR TIRELESS DEVOTION & LOVE OF JUSTICE IN MAKING SURE JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL FOR ALL our little Americans IN OUR UNDER~FINANCED JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

CHIEF JUSTICE RONALD GEORGE MAY BE RETIRING FROM OUR CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT BUT HE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY OUR MILLIONS OF POORER AMERICANS NATION~WIDE WHO HAVE HAD ALL THEIR JUDICIAL RIGHTS TO FAIR CIVIL TRIALS (*WITH PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION supplied if poor *) BETTER PROTECTED BECAUSE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE RONALD GEORGE CHOSE TO LOVE, DEFEND, & HELP PROTECT ALL HIS FELLOW MAN IN THIS GREAT WEALTHY COUNTRY OF OUR WEALTHY ELITE'S.

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By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
December 30, 2010


Faced with the self-assigned task of writing the California Supreme Court's first ruling on gay marriage, Chief Justice Ronald M. George drafted an opinion in early 2008 with two different endings. One gave same-sex couples the right to marry. The other didn't. Then he asked the six associate justices for reaction.

George soon learned that his colleagues were split 3 to 3. His vote would decide the most burning civil rights question of the day.

George's handling of the marriage case was emblematic of his tenure as California's 27th chief justice. He was a centrist, the tie-breaker on the state high court, but also willing to put his reputation on the line and do the unpredictable.

When he steps down on midnight, Jan. 2, after four decades as a pivotal player in California law, George will leave behind a court system that is vastly different from the one he inherited. Law professors and others expect him to have an enduring legacy.

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"He was the most extraordinary leader of the Supreme Court in modern history," said Treasurer Bill Lockyer, a Democrat and former legislator and attorney general.

George, 70, took big risks as head of the California judiciary, consolidating courts and bringing them under his authority to turn the judicial branch into a single, independent force. He created self-help services for people who could not afford lawyers. He insisted that courts have interpreters for the non-English speaking. He wrote a 1996 abortion ruling that triggered a campaign to unseat him.

But the moderate Republican jurist was legally cautious, disinclined to take the law to new places. He was what one law professor called "a tinkerer." The mostly Republican, relatively conservative court he headed is widely considered one of the most influential state Supreme Courts in the country, but was not known for innovative legal thinking.

As a jurist George moved the court closer to the middle and stressed compromise. The dissent rate under George plummeted. His rulings were sound but rarely soared, scholars said.

"He brought a lot of brainpower and political savvy to the position of chief justice," said Golden Gate Law School professor Peter Keane.

Immigrant parents

George grew up in Beverly Hills, the son of a Hungarian immigrant mother and French immigrant father. He was groomed for foreign affairs, but eventually decided international diplomacy was not for him. Law school at Stanford University was a fall-back position. He wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life.

He chose to practice law in government, eschewing the vastly higher pay of the private sector. He became a deputy attorney general, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court, a trial judge in Los Angeles County, an appeals court judge and finally an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. Former Gov. Pete Wilson elevated him to chief justice in 1996.

Shortly after being elevated, the new chief justice went on the road, a state map and a yellow marker in his back pocket. He inspected the courts in all 58 counties and discovered that some were teetering.

He met a judge whose chambers was a converted broom closet. He found jurors sharing an entrance with manacled prisoners. He once had to cut a quick check to keep a courthouse from closing.

Armed with his findings, he lobbied for and won state approval of a vast restructuring of the judiciary. More than 200 municipal and superior courts were merged into a single trial court system, and 532 courthouses went from county to judicial-branch ownership.

George said justice should be equal from county to county. He wanted uniform policies and practices, and he figured the judiciary would have more clout in Sacramento if it spoke with one voice.

Legal analysts consider the consolidation of the courts a historic achievement. George has received national recognition and awards for his work.

"It is a much more efficient system," said Santa Clara University law professor Gerald Uelmen, an analyst of California courts. "I think he will rank up there … as one of the most effective administrators the court has ever had."

George's critics, however, saw a power grab. The Administrative Office of the Courts, which now runs the court system, rapidly grew. Some trial judges resented the loss of independence and derided the ballooning bureaucracy as wasteful. They dubbed him "King George."

A group of dissenters formed the Alliance of California Judges. The membership is confidential, but the directors claim that more than 200 of the state's 1,700 judges belong.

Their aim is to restore more autonomy to the trial courts. They were particularly incensed when George decided to close courts one day a month for almost a year rather than make other cuts.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charles Horan, one of the founding members of the group, complained that George pursued a failed model of judicial administration that "demanded centralized decision-making by an insular minority of loyalists, actively squelched dissent and greatly and unacceptably diminished the role of the trial courts and trial judges in the management of the affairs of the judiciary."

George said such complaints were inevitable. When some judges critical of the consolidation suggested the powerful, policy-making Judicial Council be filled with elected judges, rather than those selected by the chief, George declared that would be "a declaration of war."

"We really have created a judicial branch — not just in name or theory — but in reality," George said. "When I first went to Sacramento, I was asked which agency I was with and who I reported to. I said, 'You don't get it. We are a separate, co-equal branch of government.' They all get that now."

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When George stunned even his colleagues by announcing his retirement on July 14, he had in mind a successor who would keep intact the statewide system he had built. He recommended Sacramento Court of Appeal Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, saying she had the administrative and diplomatic skills and a "backbone of steel" needed to deal with dissenting judges and a cash-strapped state.

Cantil-Sakauye, who is Filipina, will be the first non-white to serve as chief justice. George said he planned to spend his retirement traveling with his wife of 44 years, Barbara, spending time with their three adult sons and two granddaughters, and rereading the "great books." He does not intend to practice law.

Priced out of system

Soon after he was named chief justice, George discovered that the middle class as well as the poor had been priced out of the legal system. People with no legal education were appearing in court alone on such vital matters as child custody, guardianship, elder abuse, domestic violence and housing disputes.

George wanted the state to provide such litigants with legal aid lawyers, but the budget crisis forced him to settle for a temporary, pilot project, which starts in January. Even then, he had to resort to political wiles — George described himself as "shameless" — to get the governor's approval.

He told Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the law would be named the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Law after Schwarzenegger's late father-in-law.

Under George's prodding, jury duty and jury instructions were revamped. He reported to jury duty four times as chief justice and changed the requirement for duty to one day or one trial a year.

Relations between the statewide judiciary and the Legislature, frayed when George became chief, warmed.

His predecessor, Malcolm M. Lucas, had infuriated legislators with a ruling that upheld term limits. Lockyer, who was then a legislator, said many of his colleagues thought Lucas "went out of his way to add gratuitous insult to the commentary."

"So Ron George had to clean up after the elephant," Lockyer said. "He restored relationships partly because he worked so hard and partly because he may be the most diplomatic human being I have met…. When I would try to provoke him, I couldn't."

George took command of cases that involved the Legislature or the governor, and when the court ruled against the other branches, he couched the losses in language designed not to give offense.

"Incredibly effective," is how state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg described George. "He is not a partisan, and he doesn't go out of his way to poke you in the eye. He is a pretty darn good country politician."

George spent long hours in Sacramento seeking legislative approval for court bills. One legislator said she decided to vote his way because she was embarrassed to see the chief justice hanging in the hallway with the lobbyists.

George created a commission to promote judicial independence. The effort to oust him for writing an opinion that overturned a parental-consent abortion law "sensitized him to the political vulnerability of judges," Uelmen said.

George's rulings favored a strong 1st Amendment and protection from discrimination for women and minorities, Uelmen said. He was considered conservative on most law-and-order issues, although two of his three final rulings were for the defense.

When he took over, the court was viewed as anti-plaintiff, with business expected to win over consumers. The court is no longer so predictable.

But George was not viewed as a legal trailblazer.

"Maybe that is incompatible with being the centrist that he is," said UC Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. "At a time when our society and legal system is deeply divided, he was such a non-divisive figure."

Some scholars were dismayed by George's rulings on ballot measures. George has called for a reining in of the initiative process, which he views as increasingly controlled by moneyed special interests. But as a jurist he was more deferential.

"There are all sorts of laws I might personally view as foolish that I am bound to uphold," he said. And then, tellingly, he added: "The court can't be viewed as flouting the people's will."

Conservatives say that is what he did in the court's May 15, 2008, gay marriage ruling. He had met with each justice individually and wrestled with Perez v. Sharp, a 1948 California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a ban on interracial marriage and declared marriage a fundamental right.

"No matter which way we went," George said, "we had to cope with this law on the books."

After weeks of mulling the law and its effect on racial discrimination, George broke the tie. His decision not only gave gays the right to marry — which voters took away six months later with Proposition 8 — but also bestowed the same legal protection from discrimination the law had long given race and gender. No other state high court had afforded sexual orientation such constitutional status.

With his signature at the end of a 121-page ruling, the self-effacing jurist reputed for court administration left his most enduring stamp on the law and California history.

 maura.dolan@latimes.com
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WITH THE HEART & SOUL OF MOTHER TERESA U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR IS READY & ABLE 2 DEFEND THE GOD GIVEN RIGHTS OF ALL OUR AMERICAN POOR....

BY LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS
12/29/2010

DID THE POPE SAY MOTHER TERESA LEFT U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR IN CHARGE OF PROTECTING OUR POORER AMERICANS ???

THE POPE KNOWS ALL ABOUT U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR BEING TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL ...

THANK U LORD 4 DELIVERING OUR AMERICAN POORER CITIZENS U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR.....

THE POPE, VATICAN & WORLD~WIDE CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOULD ALL BE VERY PROUD OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR....

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS IS VERY ELATED WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR BEING SO WISE IN HIS SELECTION OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR.

WE LOVE THE ENERGY & INTEGRITY THAT THIS SPECIAL MODERN DAY U.S.SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR BRINGS INTO AMERICA'S ELITE UPPER LEVEL JUDICIAL SYSTEM..

THIS UNIQUE LADY HAS THE ABILITY TO RELATE TO little Americans LIVING AND BEING DOMINATED BY OUR ELITE'S IN THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR $$ TAKE ALL UNDER~FINANCED JUDICIAL SYSTEM...

FROM all of us little American's to OUR FAIR , JUST, INSPIRATIONAL & TRULY CARING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR,...

OUR HOPES AND DREAMS THAT THIS GREAT COUNTRY WILL BECOME EVEN GREATER UNDER YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE UPPER BOWELS OF OUR UNDER~FINANCED AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT ONLY CURRENTLY RESPECTS & RELIES ON A $$$ LEGAL DEFENSE OVER REAL JUSTICE FOR ALL THOSE TENS OF MILLIONS OF OUR POORER AMERICANS.

WITHOUT THE ADEQUATE MEANS TO AFFORD ONES OWN CIVIL,FAMILY COURT OR FEDERAL APPEAL LAWYERS, TENS OF MILLIONS OF OUR MIDDLE~CLASS & POORER AMERICANS HAVE ALL BEEN SIMPLY PUSHED TO THE SIDE OF TRUE JUSTICE BEING A MEANINGFUL OBJECTIVE IN OUR CURRENT NATIONAL AMERICAN COURT~JUDICIAL SYSTEM .....

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Sotomayor protests court's refusal of appeals

Updated 12/27/2010

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has signed four dissents over rejected appeals and was lead author on three such dissents.

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has set herself apart from colleagues with her fervent statements protesting the majority's refusal to take some appeals, particularly involving prisoners.
Each month, the justices spurn hundreds of petitions from people who have lost in lower courts, and rarely does an individual justice go public with concern about the denial. In the seven times it has happened since the annual term opened in October, Justice Sotomayor has signed four of the opinions, more than any other justice. She was the lead author on three, again more than any other justice.

She forcefully dissented when the justices refused to hear the appeal of a Louisiana prisoner who claimed he was punished for not taking his HIV medication. He said prison officials subjected him to hard labor in 100-degree heat. Writing alone, she said the inmate had a persuasive claim of cruel and unusual punishment.

This emerging pattern of dissenting statements helps define a justice in her second term who is still — like newest justice Elena Kagan— fresh in the public eye.

SUPREME COURT: Seven cases show differences among justices
On the law, Sotomayor has been in the liberal mold of her predecessor, David Souter, and her approach to writing opinions on cases heard has been fact-specific and free of rhetorical flourish. That was her style as a trial judge (1992-98) and appeals court judge (1998-2009).

Yet she has stood out as one of the most demanding questioners during oral arguments. She often breaks in as a fellow justice is questioning a lawyer, although she is not alone. Antonin Scalia also has an aggressive approach.

Her tendency to protest when the justices pass up a case she believes is crucial may be another way of getting her voice heard.

Adam Abensohn, a law clerk to Sotomayor earlier in her career, said of the recent dissents, "If she has a viewpoint, she won't hesitate to assert herself. If she thinks it's a good idea to do something, she's not going to hold back simply because 'it's not the way things are done' or because she's relatively new."

Abensohn, who practices law in New York, said that although such dissenting opinions have no immediate legal consequence, they "may plant the seeds for the court to address an issue down the road. ... In a sense, Justice Sotomayor is placing her stamp on issues that may be decided years from now."

Dissents can change colleagues' minds — if not then, later. In February 2009, Scalia protested that the court repeatedly rejected appeals involving an open-ended U.S. law making it a crime for officials to deprive citizens of their right to "honest services." Dissenting alone in one of these disputes, Scalia noted lower courts disagreed on what offenses were covered and declared, "It seems ... quite irresponsible to let the current chaos prevail."

A few months later, the court took up the issue and ultimately ruled in a way that narrowed the law to bribes and kickbacks.

Sotomayor has been most vocal in criminal law cases. In the appeal from the Louisiana prisoner, she wrote that his decision to refuse medication "does not give prison officials license to exacerbate (his) condition further as a means of punishing or coercing him."

In another case, she objected when the justices declined to take a petition from an Arkansas murderer who said jurors should have heard mitigating evidence of his brutal childhood before deciding on a death sentence. She was troubled by an appeals court's decision letting officials wait to object to a claim for a new hearing until they had heard the prisoner's evidence and he had prevailed at an early stage.

Sotomayor said states should not be allowed "to manipulate federal ... proceedings to their own strategic advantage at an unacceptable cost to justice." She was joined only by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It takes four votes among the nine for the high court to take a case; it then takes five votes to resolve the case.

Jonathan Kirshbaum, a senior lawyer at the non-profit Center for Appellate Litigation in New York, which represents indigent defendants, said he has been struck by how Sotomayor, a former prosecutor, has "come out so strongly for criminal defendants."

Sotomayor declined to comment for this story.

Justice Samuel Alito, also a former prosecutor, has been a close second this term in publicly objecting when the majority declines a case. He protested in three cases and authored the opinion in two. On criminal matters, he tends to favor law enforcement.

When Sotomayor was appointed, some defendants' rights advocates, including Kirshbaum, speculated that she might take a hard line on prisoner appeals.

He said she's adopting a much different approach. "There seems to be real feeling behind these opinions," he said. "They give the criminal defendant's perspective on these issues."

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LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE PICKING UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF 2 YEARS AGO REPORTING ON THE LEGAL DRAMA THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE INDIO CALIFORNIA COURTS CONCERNING MARK BURK & FORMER MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON.

MUCH HAS TAKEN PLACE IN & OUT OF THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY COURTS CONCERNING THIS MADE FOR TV LEGAL DRAMA BETWEEN THESE 2 FORMER GOLFING LIVE IN LOVERS OF THE FAMOUS PGA WEST GOLF COMMUNITY.

CURRENTLY MR. BURK HAS JUST RECENTLY FINISHED FILMING THE GOLF CHANNELS FIRST SEASON OF TEN VARIOUS EPISODES OF THEIR NEW GOLF REALITY TV SHOW CALLED PIPE DREAM.

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS FIRST REPORTED ON THE MARK BURK ~ BEVERLY JOHNSON LEGAL CASE TAKING PLACE IN INDIO CALIFORNIA 2 YEARS AGO PRIOR ANYONE EVER DREAMING MARK BURK WOULD BE FEATURED TWO YEARS LATER IN HIS INTERNATIONAL GOLF REALITY TV SHOW.

TWO YEARS AGO WE RE~PUBLISHED (ON THE WEB ) MANY DIFFERENT ARTICLES WRITTEN BY THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER NEWSPAPER & PUBLISHED OUR OWN WRITTEN COMMENTARY BY LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS CONCERNING THE COPY CAT LEGAL ACCUSATIONS MADE BY MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON OF SHE'S GOT THE LOOK TV SHOW AGAINST LAW & ORDER ACTOR CHRIS NOTH & GOLF INSTRUCTOR MARK BURK.

IN OUR VERY SHORT INVESTIGATION OF THESE PAST POLICE CHARGES BEVERLY JOHNSON THREW INTO THE PUBLIC ARENA AGAINST MR. NOTH & MR. BURK WE COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE SOME VERRY SIMILAR COPY-CAT CLAIMS (MANY YEARS APART) BY BEVERLY JOHNSON AGAINST BOTH OF THESE MEN.

*** IT IS A INDIO COURT OF PUBLIC RECORDS FACT THAT BEVERLY JOHNSON & MARK BURK WERE LIVING TOGETHER FOR OVER 13 MONTHS IN THE SAME HOME AT PGA WEST WHILE MR BURK WAS UNDER A RIVERSIDE CONTY RESTRAINING ORDER THAT WAS SUPPOSE TO PREVENT ANY CONTACT OF 100 FEEET OR CLOSER WITH A SUPPOSED FRIGHTENED BEVERLY JOHNSON.

THAT BOGUS RESTRAINING ORDER FILED IN THE INDIO COURTS AGAINST MARK BURK BY BEVERLY JOHNSONS BULLY LAWYER WAS SUPPOSE TO BE USED TO PREVENT MR. BURK FROM BEING EVEN REMOTELY NEAR THIS SO CALLED FRIGHTENED WOMEN... BEVERLY JOHNSON.

NO, BEVERLY JOHNSON AND HER restraining order HIT MAN ATTORNEY PLAYED WITH MARK BURK AS IF HE WAS A BOUGHT AND PAID FOR little houseman THAT THEY KEPT ON A VERY SHORT LEASH.

THIS BEVERLY JOHNSON LAWYER WHO ACTED AS BEVERLY JOHNSON'S LEGAL GRUNT, WAS THE VERY SAME LAWYER WHO WAS UNDER PROBATION AND STILL UNDER PROBATION TODAY WITH THE CA BAR FOR PAST MISDEEDS HIMSELF.**THIS PHONEY RESTRAINING ORDER LEGAL HIT MAN ATTORNEY OF BEVERLY JOHNSON'S GOT INVOLVED IN A CAR ACCIDENT WITH A 82 YEAR ELDERLY MAN AND PUNCHED HIM OUT**

THESE TWO VERY TWISTED MINDS OF BEVERLY JOHNSON & HER ABUSIVE FORMER $$ GRUB LAWYER, WENT THROUGH 4 RESTRAINING ORDERS OVER A THREE YEAR PERIOD OF TIME WITH MARK BURK, PLAYING WITH HIM AS IF HE AND HIS LIFE WERE NOTHING MORE THAN A YO_YO.

WHATS THAT OLD ADAGE WHERE DIRTY WATER SEEKS IT'S OWN FILTHY LEVEL....

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS HAS READ FIRST HAND PAGES OUT OF BEVERLY JOHNSON'S HAND WRITTEN DIARY THAT SAY IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT HER FORMER LOVER MARK BURK WAS NEVER PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE TOWARDS BEVERLY JOHNSON. THESE HAND WRITTEN DIARY PAGES OF BEVERLY JOHNSON ARE PART OF THE COURT RECORD IN INDIO CA AND ARE DATED AFTER 2 PREVIOUS RESTRAINING ORDERS WERE ISSUED ON MR MARK BURK BY BEVERLY JOHNSON AND HER ATTORNEY.

BEVERLY JOHNSON WRITES IN HER OWN DIARY THAT MARK BURK HAS NEVER BEEN VIOLENT TOWARDS HER BUT CONTINUES TO ATTEMPT TO CONTROL HIM WITH PHONY RESTRAINING ORDERS ISSUED THROUGH THE RIVERSIDE COURTS....

STAY TUNED BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY MORE INSIDE FACTS TO COME THAT WHEN READ & UNDERSTOOD COMPLETELY WILL GIVE ANY CIVILIZED AMERICAN THE CORRECT CONCEPT ABOUT HOW A WEALTHY ELITE BEVERLY JOHNSON WHO HAS BEEN DEALING WITH HER BI~POLAR LIFE ON AND APPARENTLY MANY DAYS OFF PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS.

**MR. BURK HAS LONG AGO (2 years ago ) INFORMED LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS ABOUT HOW HE HAD MANY NIGHTS OF LOCKING HIMSELF IN A GUEST BEDROOM TO SLEEP ALONE WHILE BEVERLY JOHNS WAS EITHER DRINKING OR USING DRUGS FOR SELF MEDICATION.

**** SOME OF THIS JOHNSON~BURK PAST WRITTEN MATERIAL BY LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS IS FOUND WITH ANY WEB SEARCH OF THESE TITLES.

1) MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON COMMITS HARI~CARI PERJURY

2) BEVERLY JOHNSON RUNS FOR COVER BACK TO THE BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAT SHE & OJ ABANDONED ...

3) BEVERLY JOHNSON'S PUBLIC RELATIONS $$ MACHINE.

4) FORMER MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF ASSAULT !!!

5) ACTOR CHRIS NOTH & MARK BURK SLANDERED BY MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON.

6) ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWN, WHO PROTECTS MARK BURK FROM BEVERLY JOHNSON ???

7) CAN BEVERLY JOHNSON PULL AN OJ AND BUY JU$TICE IN PALM DE$ERT CA ?

8) PGA WEST SCANDAL IN PALM DESERT CA INVOLVING MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON....

9) POORER INNOCENT AMERICANS HAVE NO CHANCE IN U.S. COURTS WITHOUT LAWYERS !

10) UNFORGETTABLE PRESIDENT OBAMA GOLF APPEARANCE.

11) WE HEARD THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S GOLF GAME WILL ALSO BE FEATURED ON THE GOLF CHANNEL'S "PIPE DREAMS" GOLF TV REALITY SHOW.

12) PGA WEST SCANDAL IN PALM DESERT INVOLVING BEVERLY JOHNSON HEATS UP !

13) AMERICA HAS 2 JUDICIAL SYSTEMS,ONE FOR BEVERLY JOHNSON & ANOTHER FOR MARK BURK.

14) PGA WEST IS SHOCKED BY BEVELY JOHNSON GUN SCANDAL.

15) BEVERLY JOHNSON HAS A SECRET HISTORY OF ASSAULT.

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Golf Channel chronicles downtrodden pro Mark Burk in new series

By GolfChannel.com Team
Posted: December 7, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. – Two years ago the life of 53-year old professional golfer Mark Burk changed. The man who won tournaments all around the world and coached celebrities found himself homeless and living in abandoned construction pipes in Palm Springs, Calif., after a romantic relationship went awry.

In the new 10-part series, "Pipe Dream," Golf Channel chronicles Burk’s journey to get his life back on track, regain his golf career and restore his good name. Beginning with the series worldwide premiere on Jan. 11 at 9:30 p.m. ET, viewers will find out if Burk is able to get back in the game or if it all proves to be just a pipe dream.

(Courtesy Mark Ashman, Golf Channel)
From age 13, Burk knew he only wanted to play golf. Studying under instructors including Ben Doyle, Jim Flick, Peter Kostis, and Kip Puterbaugh, Burk played in various professional golf tournaments across the country and internationally, spending a year on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa. After playing competitively, he became a golf instructor and Hollywood consultant, teaching actors Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman how to swing a golf club for the film Swordfish.

But after years of living a charmed life, Burk became homeless in 2008. Due to a bad turn of events, including an alleged domestic violence dispute with then girlfriend, supermodel Beverly Johnson, he was left penniless and without a place to live. "Pipe Dream" documents Burk’s struggle to survive on the streets, as well as his efforts to achieve his goal of getting back on the green. Throughout the series, viewers will watch as Burk begins to pick up the pieces of his life, get a job, deal with a pending legal battle against his ex-girlfriend and attempt to make it through Champions Tour Qualifying School.

“Pipe Dream follows the story of a man whose life has been turned upside down and now struggles daily to reclaim his name and his dream. Even through all of Mark’s personal and professional struggles, it’s been his passion and respect for the game of golf that has kept him alive,” said Keith Allo, Golf Channel vice president of programming and original productions. “We are very excited to continue to bring unique and diverse programming to Golf Channel and feel that Pipe Dream will not only resonate with golf fans but with anyone, who at one time in their life, dared to dream against all odds.”

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