JUDGE JOHN P. CRONIN
There are some judges that in my view do cross the line.  They try to make up the law as they go along.  Those judges, in my view, do not honor their oath.
Judge M. Lane
Judge John P. Cronin is simply another judge of many to defy the laws of the land that he has sworn to uphold to deprive me of my fundamental parental rights and my constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.

On June 25, 2007, the case pertaining to my complaint for modification of my child custody orders was transferred from Manzi to Cronin.

From the time that the case was transferred, Cronin did everything in his power to sabotage my case and look the other way when I presented conclusive evidence of fraud on the court and bad faith litigation committed by my son's mother and her lawyer(s).

At the initial July 11, 2007 hearing, Cronin would not schedule a trial, but instead delayed the case further by scheduling a second pretrial conference on this matter for September 20, 2007. 

It should be noted that this case was put on an eight-month track assignment in June of 2006, which means that it was supposed to be heard AND ruled on by February of 2007.

When I proved at this hearing with the ruling itself that the Mother's attorney had committed fraud on the court with the claim that her previously-filed motion to dismiss my complaint had not been denied, Cronin rationalized away this act of fraud as a misinterpretation. 

Forced to read the ruling to him a second time to emphasize that there was nothing ambiguous about it, Cronin snapped at me and said, "Why are you reading it to me again?  I heard you the first time." 

Cronin never did respond to my motion for sanctions against the Mother's attorney for fraud on the court and for bringing the same template motions to the court that had already been heard and denied by Judge Manzi. 

On October 31, 2007, at a hearing held to respond to the Mother's production of a counterfeit restraining order and a tampered birth certificate for our son's school records, the Mother showed up to court with a new attorney. 

The new attorney handed me several untimely-served motions to be heard that day, including a motion to "continue" the trial to accommodate his vacation plans. 

Although I objected to these untimely-served motions and pointed out that the new attorney was aware of the scheduled trial date when he agreed to take the Mother on as a client, the motion was allowed and the trial date was pushed from February 5, 2008 to March 3, 2008, more than twenty months from the date that the complaint was filed and put on an eight-month track assignment.

At this same hearing, Cronin also ignored the fact that the Mother's previous attorney was legally required to appear in court with a “motion to withdraw” to withdraw from a case that had already been scheduled for trial.

Although these law-defying items were brought to Cronin's attention, my motion for reconsideration of the continuance was denied on November 26, 2007 without explanation.

When the Mother and her attorney failed to respond to my discovery requests and email notices, I filed a motion for orders to compel discovery, which was heard on January 2, 2008, and denied on February 1, 2008.

At the March 3, 2008 trial, it became clear that Cronin intended to “railroad” me.

Although I had prepared for twenty months to make an opening statement and a closing statement, I was told at the start of the trial that opening and closing statements would not be happening. 

This notice was given at 9:40 AM, which was the time that the Mother's attorney showed up to court for this 9:00 AM scheduled trial.  My objection to this due process violation was overruled.

And although I was told prior to the trial that I would be allowed to testify by making a statement, I was denied access to my notes when I took the stand.  My objection to this directive was also overruled.

Fortunately, the trial was not resolved in one day and I had that night to rewrite my notes as questions to respond to Cronin's attempts to sabotage my case.

On the second day, I notified the court that I would be completing my testimony by standing to question myself and then taking a seat to respond.

When Cronin and opposing counsel protested, I pointed out that opposing counsel was allowed to refer to his notes to question his witnesses.  I argued that if I were not allowed that same option, it would be a violation of my rights to due process and equal protection under the law.  I also pointed out that my son's fate was too important to "wing it."

Cronin grudgingly accepted this argument and allowed me to refer to my questions during my testimony without having to stand.

Although I proved conclusively with my 33 exhibits and the Mother's evasive testimony that the Mother had used our son as a pawn to play games with me, had illegally denied visitations, had interfered with phone communication between my son and I, had repeatedly committed fraud on the court, had manufactured a counterfeit restraining order to deceive our son's school to believe that there was a restraining order against me, had tampered with our son's birth certificate to enroll him in school under a false name, had failed to inform me of school and medical-related matters, had falsely claimed that our son was hospitalized in a failed attempt to get me put on supervised visits, and had defied Cronin's own orders as they pertained to the production of documents; my complaint for modification of the child custody orders was denied without any modifications, leaving me without joint legal custody and without overnight visitations with my seven year old son. 

To put this response in perspective, I ask that you open up link (2) below (Affidavit in Support of Complaint for Modification), which details the reasons why I brought this complaint before the court.

It took Cronin three months to write his 3-page Judgment, which was eleven months after the case was transferred to him and two years after the case was put on an eight-month track assignment.

In his Judgment, Cronin fraudulently claimed that he had assessed "the credibility of the witnesses" and weighed "the relevant and credible evidence" so that he could ignore my truthful and accurate evidence, which overwhelmingly justified a transfer of custody from the Mother to me.

I write "fraudulently claimed" because it was not possible for an honorable and competent court to "assess the credibility of the witnesses" based on what actually occurred at the trial and credit anything alleged by the Mother OR discredit anything alleged by me. 

With the exception of a wildly baseless claim made by opposing counsel at the conclusion of the trial, my credibility was not even challenged, while I presented exhibit after exhibit to prove that the Mother's word was NOT credible.

The trial would have been a landslide victory for me before any judge but one with an agenda to retaliate against me as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against several of his colleagues, including Cronin's Salem courthouse "buddy" (Judge Peter C. Digangi).

My response to this "travesty of justice" was to file a Motion to Amend the Judgment on June 20, 2008. 

The Motion to Amend the Judgment was filed with the expectation that it would be denied and provide me with additional documented proof that corrupt judges, like Cronin and the judges already listed as defendants in my federal court complaint, will knowingly defy the laws of the land that they have sworn to uphold if they think that they can get away with it.

As expected, my Motion to Amend the Judgment was denied on July 18, 2008, contrary to Cronin's claim that it was "allowed in part".

Cronin did not amend the judgment, he simply amended his findings to add in the fact that I had expressed a desire to resolve the matter with a ruling of 50/50 joint legal and physical custody as an acceptable compromise to sole custody to me.

It should be noted that I am as fit and devoted a father as any parent on this planet and despite the FACT that no one has ever proven otherwise, I still do not have joint legal custody or overnight "visitations" with my 7 year-old son.

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