VOLUSIA EXPOSED

Mark Weinberg PIO – Florida Seventh Judicial Circuit

Bryan Shorstein PIO – Florida Seventh Circuit State Attorney’s Office

Laura Roth - Volusia County Clerk of Court

November 17, 2023

Reference: NOTICE OF INTENT: Media coverage of jury voir dire process in the State v. Iyanna Rollins (2022-101651-CFDL) prosecution.

Good day to all:

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

First allow us (VolusiaExposed.Com) to thank Mr. Shorstein and Mr. Weinberg for their cooperation and assistance regarding our past and pending coverage of the Kilpatrick-Fouts-White litigation.

We also acknowledge Laura Roth’s LONG standing assistance in our coverage of the local Court.

We wish to put all on notice that it is our journalistic desire to cover the pending trial of Iyanna Rollins – a young woman that we suspect is being prosecuted merely because of the local sheriff’s thin skin regarding media criticism (established and social media).

We opine that Ms. Rollins is not actually being prosecuted for any alleged criminal violations – but rather because Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood became offended regarding some social media posts resulting from the arrest of Ms. Rollins (see below linked media articles as reference).

(see the above linked article for a copy of Sheriff Chitwood’s own social media response to Ms. Rollins’ arrest)

This publication has concluded that the prosecution of Ms. Rollins is being forwarded solely to satisfy two desires of the Volusia Sheriff’s Office (VSO). First, to provide coverage for VSO Sgt. Chad Weaver’s misconduct. Second, to provide Sheriff Chitwood some retaliatory jollies regarding the above mentioned social media posts. Ms. Rollins had no involvement in these social media posts – because she was in-custody at the time of the postings. (Full Disclosure: VolusiaExposed.Com also had no involvement in those social media posts)

As evidence - that Ms. Rollins’ prosecution is NOT an honest prosecution, we offer the arrest – criminal prosecution – and plea deal of Ms. Naomi Robinson as a comparative study. (see below media link for particulars)

Ms. Robinson was also arrested by the VSO - three (3) day after Ms. Rollins. Unlike Ms. Rollins – Ms. Robinson fled and attempted to elude VSO deputies – and she even bit a deputy. Also unlike Ms. Rollins – Ms. Robinson obtained a rather sweet plea bargain – in which many charges were dropped – and the remaining charges had adjudication withheld.

As stated within an October 2023 court hearing (see below media link – court video inclusive to link) the State Attorney is not willing to even offer Ms. Rollins a plea deal. Seeking revenge – along with some soothing of the sheriff’s hurt feelings, will certainly come at great credibility expense to the State Attorney’s Office (our opinion).

THE OTHAL WALLACE VERDICT

Given the unfavorable statements by the State Attorney, the Sheriff & the Daytona Beach Police Chief regarding the recent verdict in the Othal Wallace murder prosecution – we believe it is time to explore our long held belief regarding how the Seventh Judicial Circuit assigns “jury pools” in certain prosecutions. (see attached media articles for particulars)

JURY PACKING

We have suspected for years - that the Seventh Judicial Circuit employs the illegal practice of “jury packing” (see below web link for particulars) to assist in the successful prosecution of certain targeted cases.

During our November 14, 2023 coverage of Rollins’ pre-trial hearing – we obtained video evidence that the Court routinely mandates a jury pool of forty prospective jurors per case. High profile cases would mandate a higher number of prospective jurors.

Our “jury packing” concerns center on whether these targeted cases have prospective jurors assigned that have “known” biases towards the defendants *. Example – in the pending Rollins trial – if forty prospective jurors all had family members within law enforcement employment (an over-simplification of a more complex conspiracy*) – such would present a bias jury to Ms. Rollins – regardless of which jurors were ultimately selected from the “pool” via the jury voir dire process (see below web link for particulars – voir dire process).

* in actual practice – the conspirators would use several known biases against the defendant – such as jurors having a history of crime victimization – jurors known to be supportive of the sheriff – jurors known to have biases against certain identified factors of the defendant – etc. This information can be easily gleaned from social media sites – and from other law enforcement and Internet databases.

In short – by poisoning the “jury pool” – the selected jury is poisoned against the defendant.

You may wish to “roll your eyes” in disbelief that such corruption could be on-going within the Volusia County justice system – but please take into account the following:

1. Judge Rowe has in the past – sought – and received the endorsements of both the sheriff and the state attorney in his on-going efforts to obtain a gubernatorial appointment to the 5th District Court of Appeal.

Ms. Rollins can NOT assist Judge Rowe in obtaining his appointment to the appellate court – Sheriff Chitwood and the State Attorney can AND have provided him this assistance. (see supportive web link)

2. Approximately one hundred years ago – Volusia County was considered to be the second most corrupt area in the United States of America – second only to Cook County, Illinois (Chicago). Are we destined to repeat history?

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE JURY VOIR DIRE PROCESS

Given the above – this publication opines that we have a rationale suspicion that Ms. Rollins’ pending trial will be wrought with fraud – against well established U.S. Constitutional principles.

Therefore, we place court officials on notice – given that Florida case law supports that the voir dire process is part of the public trial mandate – as memorialized within the U.S. Bill of Rights – it is our intentions to cover and report on the voir dire process within the Rollins’ prosecution – in our attempt to explore whether our “jury packing” concerns have any merit.

It is not our intention to identify any prospective OR actual jurors – rather we wish to ONLY identify any data that may tend to support our concern that the jury pool was not randomly assembled – but rather, that the jury was packed in order to deny Ms. Rollins her U.S. Constitutional right to a fair and public trial.

Upon receipt of this notification – we seek an advisement whether the Court intends to close the Rollins’ jury selection from public review.

Please use our below email address as our point of contact.

Regards,

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