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John Eric Armstrong - Ellis County Texas Corruption Victim - Part 9 of 9

Imagine knocking on the door of a friend and being met by your co-worker saying she's going to murder you.  That's what happened to John Eric Armstrong.  The young porn star is the sister of one of the high-ranking Ellis County Sheriff's Officers.  So, they set him up.  He never did a thing, but he's in solitary at the Ellis County Jail.  Stephanie Lauren Kersh is out having a big time.  John Eric Armstrong has never been convicted or charged with a crime before -- not even now.  It's an incredible story - Part 9 of 9...

This is John Eric Armstrong - Ellis County Texas Corruption Victim - Part 9 of 9 Parts -- His story in his words:

Included Documents


The Complaint

1. The content of the language on the complaint does not contain probable cause for any crime.  The language is not from the 7th of July 2019; it is from the 9th of June when Stephanie Lauren Kersh pulled a gun on me and threatened to kill me.  The 9th is when the video recordings were made which contain a confession of an assault by Lauren Kersh and a conspiracy by the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office to arrest the victim of her crime to obstruct justice on Lauren Kersh’s behalf.  Shane Thompson used language from July 9th to make the video evidence appear to belong to a crime committed by me which would justify the withholding of the video evidence.
 

Patrick Wilson	Ann Montgomery

Reclassification Letter

1.   The Ellis County District Attorney's Office reclassified their case as a misdemeanor, ending litigation for stalking permanently.

2.   The District Attorney changed the date of offense from the 7th of July to the 10th of June so they could justify withholding the video evidence by giving it the appearance of belonging to a crime committed by me.

 

Norma Chambers Ellis County Grand Jury Foreperson

The Purported Indictment

The Purported Indictment is a false statement.  It is portions of the false police reports copied onto the indictment.  It has its own file number, and it belongs to nothing (no arrest, no official complaint, no affidavit of probable cause).  The indictment is a false document, and it holds no authority to take me to trial.  No arrest + no official complaint + no affidavit of probable cause = no indictment (fraud).

 
The Dismissal Paperwork

The dismissal paperwork is major evidence of fraud.  On the dismissal paperwork itself, the Ellis County District Attorney tried to make it look like the Purported Indictment belonged to the original charge by claiming they refiled the original charge as the indictment and transferred the bond over to the indictment.  They can’t refile a charge that’s being dismissed, and they can’t transfer a bond from one charge to another or from one charge to an indictment flapping in the wind.  Judge Cindy Ermatinger has admitted this in court transcripts (6/30/2020.)

 

Judge Cindy Ermatinger

Bond Conditions

Judge Cindy Ermatinger set bond conditions on nothing.  All that exists is a Purported Indictment flapping in the wind.  No arrest + no official complaint + no affidavit of probable cause = no indictment and no bond conditions (fraud).

 
Order to Re-Arrest

Judge Cindy Ermatinger ordered her deputy court clerk to issue a warrant for my re-arrest on their original charge (there’s not one) because I violated the judge’s bond conditions that Judge Cindy Ermatinger set on nothing.  No arrest + no official complaint + no affidavit of probable cause = no original charge (fraud).

 
Warrant (DCW 8002)

DCW 8002 is a false Ellis County District Court warrant arresting me for their false Purported Indictment.  This warrant is saying the original charge is their Purported Indictment.  This warrant is to arrest for their Purported Indictment that belongs to nothing.  No arrest + no official complaint + no affidavit of probable cause = no charge, no indictment, no bond conditions, and no warrant (fraud).

 
Please view the following files pertaining to my case (public records):

Court transcripts from 6/30/2020 – 45576 CR.  Judge Cindy Ermatinger sets bond conditions on nothing (no complaint, no affidavit of probable cause, nothing).  She lies about the Ellis County District Attorney following due process.

All records pertaining to Cause No. 103654 CCL.  This is the second false arrest made on their false Emergency Protective Order.  I have not been allowed to see any of these documents.

The employment file for Stephanie Lauren Kersh.  This file should verify employment dates, if the gun she used was Ellis County-issued, police officer certification, and the reason why she wasn’t allowed to return to work.

Records pertaining to Ellis County Sheriff’s Office case number 19-07535.  This is the first false arrest.

Records pertaining to DA #01-17095.  This is the Ellis County District Attorney’s file for the first false arrest.

Records pertaining to DA #01-17206.  This is the Ellis County District Attorney’s file for the Purported Indictment.

Records pertaining to Cause No. 1911870 CR.  Cause number belonging to the first false arrest.

Records pertaining to Ellis County Cause No. 45576CR.  Cause number for the Purported Indictment.

Please view all Ellis County emails pertaining to John Armstrong.

Please view all Ellis County emails pertaining to Stephanie Lauren Kersh.

Barbara Cochran and Dale Cochran

UPDATE April 7, 2021

I have received a document in the mail which sheds more light on what Ellis County (Ellis County Sheriff’s Office and Ellis County District Attorney’s Office) did.  This document is available on their court website, and I’ve included it with this letter.  I only recently saw this document (March 2021) because I am in jail, and my only help is coming from my mother, Barbara Cochran.  While my mother is wonderful, she is not the most tech-savvy person, and the Internet and computers are difficult for her.  This is why they have thrown me in jail.  Ellis County needed to stop me from getting help.  If I wasn’t in jail, my original letter and this update would be a single letter, and it would have been completed around August – September of last year.  The only thing that has kept me from the truth is a lack of information, from being trapped in jail.  I believe this update also helps to clear up some things from the original letter.

Everything revolves around Ellis County trying to withhold the evidence of their crimes against me.  The evidence I am talking about is the video recordings taken on June 9, 2019 and the reports that were written on the next day, June 10, 2019.  So, they keep charging me with crimes on the 9th/10th of June 2019 to try to justify withholding the evidence by claiming the evidence belonged to a crime committed by me.  No criminal action was taken against me on the 9th (only a criminal trespass warning).  While this evidence isn’t against me, it is evidence of Kersh’s repeated confessions about pulling a gun on me and threatening to kill me (assault).  It is also evidence against the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office for not arresting a woman who continuously confesses to an assault with a deadly weapon.  They had a duty to arrest Kersh.  It is evidence of a conspiracy to cover up Lauren Kersh’s crime (obstruction of justice).

Ellis County (the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office and the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office) had to make the video evidence belong to a crime committed by me so I wouldn’t be able to obtain copies through public records.  This is why every charge before 6/30/2021 reverts back to the 9th/10th of June 2019.  No other charge will do.  For example, if they arrested me on July 7, 2019 for criminal trespassing, it would appear on paper that they had probable cause as I was issued a criminal trespass warning on June 9, 2019.  So, the paperwork would look right, however, this date (July 7th) wouldn’t allow them to withhold the evidence from the 9th of June.  So, they could only use the 9th/10th of June because they needed to withhold the video evidence of their crimes.  After I posted their evidence on YouTube (6/30/2020) that they tried to withhold, they didn’t have to worry about the 9th/10th anymore.  Every action against me after 6/30/2020 is about stopping me from getting help (using the Ellis County Jail as their personal dungeon).

 
What They were Supposed to Do

I think the easiest way to understand this is for me to explain the one and only way they could take me to trial (due process) followed by what they actually did, which is a confusing mess that amounts to fraud on top of fraud on top of fraud.  Like I’ve stated in my original letter, they couldn’t follow due process in the first place, because I hadn’t done anything.

They charged me with stalking (a felony).  Then they took their case to the Ellis County Grand Jury who rejected the stalking charge.  The Ellis County District Attorney then reclassified the case as criminal trespassing (misdemeanor B), which ended litigation for stalking permanently.  The only way they could take the same evidence back to the Ellis County Grand Jury and gain an indictment for stalking was if new evidence was gained for stalking.  For new evidence of stalking to exist, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office would have to arrest and charge me a second time with a new charge of stalking on new evidence.  They didn’t do this.  The Ellis County District Attorney’s Office couldn’t get the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office to help them out by making a second false arrest for “The 14-page letter” that I mailed to Lauren Kersh.  The Ellis County Sheriff’s Office wanted to charge me, but they sent “The 14-page letter” up the chain of command all the way to Ellis County Sheriff (Chuck Edge), but not even the slightest amount of probable cause could be found in “The 14-page letter.”

So, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office left the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office high and dry.  So, to follow due process, they had to dismiss the original charge and file a second charge of stalking and gain an indictment on it, but they didn’t.

 

What They Actually Did

They had to make the videos appear to be part of a criminal investigation against me.

They arrested me on 7/7/2019 for stalking but used language from 6/9/2019 when Lauren Kersh pulled a gun on me to make it appear as if the video evidence and reports belonged to a crime that I committed.

I went ahead and requested the evidence in August 2019, to which the Ellis County District Attorney responded by requesting an opinion from the Texas Attorney General’s Office on whether he had to release the video evidence to me.  The Ellis County District Attorney had a problem.  Even though he used language from the 9th of June, their arresting officer (Shane Thompson) wasn’t involved until July of 2019, and Shane Thompson can’t make an arrest and report on another officer’s behalf.  They had Shane Thompson go back into the report and make an entry stating that he was involved since June 10, 2019.  This late entry is proven by the report itself being marked with an *1 next to the title signifying the entry was made after the case was closed sometime after July 9, 2019.

Additionally, the Ellis County District Attorney changed the date of offense on their paperwork as well from July 7, 2019, when Shane Thompson wrote his complaint for arrest, to June 10, 2019, when the reports were written pertaining to the videos from June 9, 2019.

On October 3, 2019, the Ellis County Grand Jury rejected the stalking charge, and the Ellis County District Attorney “reclassified” the case as criminal trespassing, ending litigation for stalking permanently.  They have left this charge open, and they haven’t touched it since.

This is the only charge that belongs to an arrest.  It is the only charge Ellis County submitted to the State via CR43 (fingerprints).  On the reclassification letter, the Ellis County District Attorney changes the date of the offense from July 7, 2019 to June 10, 2019 to give the appearance of the video recordings belonging to a crime.

On October 29, 2019, the Texas Attorney General’s Office ruled that the evidence doesn’t pertain to an investigation -- meaning that even with their date changes (fraud), they didn’t fool the Texas Attorney General’s Office.  The Texas Attorney General’s Office ruled that they could withhold the evidence until it was submitted to the Ellis County Grand Jury, but after that, it had to be released.  When this ruling arrived, the Ellis County Grand Jury had already rejected the charge, and the Ellis County District Attorney reclassified it as criminal trespassing on October 3, 2019.  This meant the Ellis County District Attorney had to give me the evidence (videos and reports).

On October 30, 2019, only one day after the Texas Attorney General’s Office ruling that the Ellis County District Attorney had to give me the videos I requested, the Ellis County District Attorney filed a second “phantom” charge of criminal trespassing.  When I call this a “phantom charge,” I mean that it’s not real.  This charge does not belong to an arrest, official complaint, or affidavit of probable cause by a police officer, meaning it has no authority.  It’s not real (phantom).

The Ellis County District Attorney filed a complaint against me for criminal trespassing with an offense date of June 9, 2019 listing a person named Johnny Reece as the complainant stating that he has good reason to believe that I criminally trespassed at Lauren Kersh’s house.  I don’t know who Johnny Reece is, but I’m trying to find out.  Again, the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office had to have a criminal charge against me for June 9/10, 2019 to withhold the video evidence of their crimes by claiming the videos belonged to a crime committed by me.  So, my guess is that Johnny Reece is a friend of someone in the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office or the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office who was willing to lie under oath.  Whatever the case may be, Johnny Reece’s statement was not good enough for the police as I was never arrested/charged.

The courts are now trying to make this second charge of criminal trespassing appear as if it is the first charge of stalking that they reclassified as criminal trespassing by grouping all of the paperwork together on their website.  The following proves why that is not true and these are two separate charges.  Both charges have their own case number.  The original charge has case number DA #01-17095, and the second charge has case number DA #01-17170.  The second charge was given a cause number (1911870) to separate it from the original charge.  A cause number is a unique number given by the court clerk to separate one case from another.  If this second charge were a part of the first charge, a cause number would not have been given.  The offense dates are different.  The offense date for the first charge is June 10, 2019, while the offense date for the second charge is June 9, 2019.  The dates filed are different as well.  The first charge was filed in July while the second charge was filed on November 1, 2019.

It appears that the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office panicked when they received the Texas Attorney General’s ruling and rushed to make up a charge to justify withholding the video evidence of their crimes.

On November 7, 2019, the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office received the “14-page letter” that I mailed to Lauren Kersh and others.  It appears the Ellis County District Attorney thought it would be better to use the letter over a false statement.  Again, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office was unwilling to make a false arrest concerning the letter that I mailed.  The Ellis County Sheriff’s Office wanted to arrest me, but they couldn’t find a way to even give the appearance of having probable cause for any crime in the letter that I wrote (proven through County emails).

The Ellis County District Attorney’s Office falsified a Purported Indictment for the felony charge of stalking.  This Purported Indictment materialized out of thin air.  They cannot have an indictment without an originating arrest.  They had an original charge of stalking that was now reclassified as criminal trespassing and they had paperwork for a second charge of criminal trespassing that they can’t use for anything because it doesn’t belong to an arrest but, they did not have a charge of stalking to justify taking evidence to the Ellis County Grand Jury.  No arrest was made for stalking meaning there is no new evidence or a charge to gain an indictment for.

So, at this point, the Ellis County District Attorney had one charge of criminal trespassing that had been submitted to the State, a second charge of criminal trespassing that had not been submitted to the State (fraud), and a stand-alone Purported Indictment flapping in the wind and belonging to no arrest, complaint, or affidavit of probable cause that had not been submitted to the State (fraud).

They gave their indictment its own cause number (45576 CR) and case number to keep it separate from the other two cases.  The Ellis County District Attorney couldn’t use any of this to take me to an actual trial.  They needed me to take their plea deal to justify withholding the evidence of their crimes, which was increasing with each court date that generated more falsified documents.  They mailed me a copy of their falsified indictment with a court date (no arrest).  They tricked me into thinking I had to stand trial for a Purported Indictment that did not belong to an arrest, complaint, or affidavit of probable cause.

When I showed up at court, they knew they tricked me, and they began trying to blend the paperwork between three separate cases into one.  Their dismissal paperwork for the second “phantom charge” of criminal trespassing gives the appearance that it is the first charge by claiming that the bond belonging to the original charge that was being transferred from this second charge to their Purported Indictment.  This paperwork is claiming that their charge has been refiled as an already-indicted felony charge.  This paperwork is claiming that they have transferred a criminal charge to an indictment flapping in the wind.  I shouldn’t have to say that they can’t do this, but they can’t do this -- any of it.  The truth is that I am in jail for criminal trespassing as that is the only official charge that belongs to an actual arrest.  They did not arrest and charge me for their “phantom” indictment.  The only charge they actually arrested me for was the original stalking charge (2019) that was rejected by the Ellis County Grand Jury and “reclassified” as criminal trespassing by the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office.  I should still be out on my original bond with AAA Bail Bonds for this charge that was just left out there in limbo.

Detention Officer Latosha Bolden July 7, 2019 -- Current

Ellis County Detention Officer Latosha Bolden, who impersonated a police officer and issued an official complaint (fraud) against me, works in the area that I am housed in, in the Ellis County Jail.  Latosha Bolden should be in prison for what she did to me and not working in a jail.  Instead, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office has placed her in direct authority over her victim (me).  Nearly every day that she works, she works in my area.  Still, what is most egregious here is that the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office arrested the victim of a violent crime to cover up their friend/family/employee/agency’s involvement and that the Ellis County District Attorney has gone to the extent of falsifying a Purported Indictment that does not belong to anything (no arrest, official complaint, affidavit of probable cause) to help them cover this up.

I, John Eric Armstrong, am the victim of an assault by an Ellis County Sheriff’s Office employee.  Everything that has happened after that has been Ellis County trying to keep me quiet and me protesting Ellis County trying to keep me quiet.  Help me.

John Armstrong 

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