"WHEN THE PEOPLE FEAR THE POLITICIANS IT IS CALLED TYRANNY. WHEN THE POLITICIANS FEAR THE PEOPLE IT IS CALLED FREEDOM."       THOMAS JEFFERSON

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DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROBERT SAND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN OFFICE ANY LONGER. HE'S BROUGHT SHAME UPON THE VERMONT JUDICIAL SYSTEM, HIS OFFICE AND HIMSELF. HE'S LOST THE ABILITY TO BE FAIR ON ANYONE IN ANY CASE BROUGHT BY HIM. HE'S SHOWN NO REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS. NO REMORSE FOR THE PAIN AND ANGUISH HIS DELIBERATE MISHANDLING OF THIS CASE HAS BROUGHT TO MANY LIVES. HE REFUSES TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS ACTIONS. INSTEAD, IN ANOTHER ACT OF SHAME AND COWARDICE, HE PUTS THE BLAME ON THE GRAND JURY FOR LETTING BOLASKI OFF OF THE CHARGE OF MURDER! SAND USED THESE PEOPLE, MISLED THEM, GAVE THEM FALSE INFORMATION, MANIPULATED THEIR DECISION AND IS NOW HUMILIATING THEM SAYING THEY ARE TO BLAME, NOT HIM. THEY MADE THE DECISION, THEY MADE THE MISTAKE, THEY WERE WRONG!

 NO, THEY WERE NOT WRONG. THEY WENT BY WHAT EVIDENCE WAS PRESENTED TO THEM. THEY WENT IN THE DIRECTION THEY WERE LED. IF THE PROPER EVIDENCE WAS PRESENTED TO THEM THERE IS NO DOUBT THEY WOULD HAVE COME BACK WITH AN INDICTMENT. ROBERT SAND CONTROLLED THEM. HE LIED TO THEM, WITHHELD EVIDENCE FROM THEM, ALLOWED PERJURED TESTIMONY, INACCURACIES, AT ONE POINT EVEN OFFERING TO “STEP OUT” WITH THE DEFENDANT AS IF THEY WERE GOOD BUDDIES. THERE WAS NO NEW EVIDENCE SHOWN AT THIS TRIAL THAT WAS NOT KNOWN TO HIM BACK IN THE GRAND JURY!

HE KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING THAT UCCI CONFESSED TO SEEING KYLE SHOOT, CHASE, THEN SHOOT VINNIE AGAIN. IT IS ON VIDEO, ON TAPE, IN POLICE STATEMENTS AND IN SWORN STATEMENTS! HE KNEW, FROM THE BEGINNING, THAT THEY DID NOT STOP AT THE HOUSE TO GET THE RIFLE FOR BLANCHARD. HE KNEW THAT VINNIE DID NOT RUN FULL SPEED AT KYLE OR COREY AFTER BEING SHOT. THIS STORY WAS TOLD IN THE GRAND JURY BY ALL OF KYLE'S WITNESSES AND EMPHASIZED BY SAND. YET THIS WAS NOT BROUGHT OUT BY THE DEFENSE OR IN ANY OF THEIR TESTIMONY AT THE TRIAL.

SAND KNEW THAT COREY BOLASKI HAD TOLD THE POLICE, “KYLE, JERRY AND THAT TIM GUY WERE THE INSTIGATORS OF THE WHOLE THING!” HE KNEW A MULTITUDE OF THINGS THAT HE DELIBERATELY WITHHELD FROM THE GRAND JURY. EVIDENCE HE HAD FROM THE BEGINNING! HE KNEW THAT HE WAS USING THESE JURORS FOR HIS OWN SELFISH NEEDS. IF I WAS A JUROR, KNOWING WHAT SAND PRESENTED AND WHAT IS THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE NOW KNOWN, I WOULD BE ENRAGED!  THEY WERE DUPED BY THIS SO CALLED LEADER OF JUDICIAL IMPORTANCE.

 THIS WAS A SHAMEFUL ACT PERPETRATED ON THE CITIZENS OF VERMONT WHO TRUSTED HIM TO BE HONEST AND UPFRONT WITH THE EVIDENCE SO THEY COULD MAKE THE BEST DECISION BASED ON THE TRUE FACTS. BUT HE DIDN'T DO THAT. HE MANIPULATED THEM FOR HIS OWN AGENDA. THE JURORS NO DOUBT THOUGHT THEY WERE PART OF A FAIR JUDICIAL PROCESS LED BY A SUPPOSEDLY TRUSTED OFFICIAL, A DISTRICT ATTORNEY! NOT AN ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY BUT THE HEAD OFFICIAL. OF WHOM THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO DOUBT AS TO THE VERACITY OF HIS PROCESS OF JUSTICE.  INSTEAD THEY ARE NOW HIS SCAPEGOATS. HE HAS OFFERED THEM UP AS HIS SACRIFICIAL LAMBS AND HE'S THEIR JUDAS!

 ROBERT SAND HAS DESTROYED THE INTEGRITY OF HIS OFFICE. HE BROKE THE LAW WHEN, JUST TO MENTION A FEW THINGS, HE ALLOWED AND SUBORNED PERJURED TESTIMONY, WITHHELD RELEVANT EVIDENCE IN THE CASE AND, IN ONE OF THE WORST ACTS THAT SOMEONE OF HIS DISTINCTION CAN DO, ROBERT SAND MANIPULATED THE EVIDENCE TO THE GRAND JURY TO FREE SOMEONE HE KNEW WAS A MURDERER! EVIDENCE SO OVERWHELMING THAT A JURY TOOK ONLY 3 HOURS TO REACH A VERDICT!  HE KNOWINGLY RELEASED A MURDERER BACK ONTO THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY! WHAT POSSIBLE REASON COULD HE HAVE HAD TO DO THIS? WHAT COULD HE POSSIBLY SAY IN DEFENSE OF THIS REPREHENSIBLE ACT? 

 IN 2008 WHEN SAND DROPPED THE MURDER CHARGE AGAINST BOLASKI THIS WAS HIS ANSWER:

 "EVIDENCE THAT BOLASKI MAY HAVE ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE WOULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO PROVE MURDER!"

THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE BOLASKI HAD ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE. FROM THE FIRST SHOT TO THE LAST! HOW DIFFICULT COULD IT HAVE BEEN IF THE JURY TOOK JUST 3 HOURS TO RETURN A VERDICT!? THE EVIDENCE WAS CLEAR THAT EVEN THE FIRST SHOT WAS NOT SELF DEFENSE. THIS WAS PROVEN WITHOUT A DOUBT. THE EVIDENCE THAT SAND HAD AND CHOSE TO IGNORE WAS OVERWHELMING!

 IN AN ATTEMPT TO SWAY BLAME AWAY FROM HIMSELF AND OVER TO THE JURORS SAND SAID:  “THE LOGIC IS THE CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY DID NOT BELIEVE THE CHARGE WAS APPROPRIATE! THERE WAS ENOUGH QUESTIONS THAT...IN THE STATE'S VIEW, FAIRNESS DICTATED A CITIZEN'S BODY BE ASKED TO REVIEW WHETHER THE CHARGE WAS APPROPRIATE!"

THE LOGIC IS SAND USED EVERY DIRTY TACTIC AVAILABLE TO SWAY AND MANIPULATE THE JURY  AWAY FROM THE TRUTH! FAIRNESS DICTATED THAT THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE HE HAD FROM THE BEGINNING, SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO THE JURORS SO THEY COULD MAKE A DECISION BASED ON THEIR REVIEW, NOT SANDS' MANIPULATION OF THEIR INTEGRITY! ROBERT SAND IS TO BLAME FOR LETTING A MURDERER WALK FREE, NOT THE JURORS.

 BUT EVEN THEN, SAND STILL KNEW WHAT EVIDENCE HE HAD. HE STILL KNEW  HE HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PROVE 2ND DEGREE MURDER. HE COULD STILL HAVE BROUGHT MURDER CHARGES. INSTEAD HE DROPPED ALL MURDER CHARGES!  HIS REASON TO US?

 "I WILL NOT INSULT THE JURORS!" NOT INSULT THE JURORS?? FROM THE VERY BEGINNING HE HAS INSULTED THEM AND CONTINUES TO EVEN NOW BY LAYING BLAME SQUARELY ON THEIR SHOULDERS!  HE USED THE JURORS TO BETRAY JUSTICE!

ROBERT SAND COMPROMISED HIS OFFICE, HIS INTEGRITY AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE VERMONT JUDICIAL SYSTEM OVER WHAT AMOUNTED TO A $40.00 BAG OF MARIJUANA!

 THEN WITH ANOTHER SLAP TO OUR FACE SAND HAD THE NERVE TO SAY:

“I COMMEND THE TAMBURELLO FAMILY FOR THEIR HEROIC EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF THEIR SON!”

A FALSE COMPLIMENT, COMING FROM THE MAN WHO RAN FROM HIS RESPONSIBILITY. COWERED AT THE FIRST REAL SIGHT OF LADY JUSTICE. WHO FORCED US TO FIGHT FOR A JUSTICE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AFFORDED TO US AT THE BEGINNING! ROBERT SAND, BECAUSE OF HIS TREACHERY AND DECEIT, BROUGHT UNIMAGINABLE PAIN AND MISERY TO MY FAMILY FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS AND FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. HE HAS SHOWN NO REMORSE OR GUILT WHATSOEVER. HIS STATEMENT ON OUR "HEROIC EFFORTS" WERE INSULTING AND DEMEANING. THAT WAS HIS JOB. THE EFFORTS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HIS, NOT OURS! INSTEAD HE COWERS BEHIND THE GRAND JURY.

THIS WAS HIS PLAN FROM THE BEGINNING. HOLD A GRAND JURY, MANIPULATE THE JURY TO GET THE VERDICT HE WANTED THEN LAY BLAME ON THEM WHEN THINGS GO WRONG. ROBERT SAND COVERED UP A MURDER! ANYONE ELSE WOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT OF MURDER! BECAUSE HE IS A DISTRICT ATTORNEY IT DOES NOT GIVE HIM THE RIGHT TO DO THIS. HE IS HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD AND SHOULD BE JUDGED AS SUCH.

COMMANDER L'ESPERANCE TOLD US GRAND JURIES ARE NEVER HELD, CAPTAIN ED LEDO OF THE STATE POLICE HOMICIDE DIVISION TOLD US HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN 88 MURDER CASES AND NOT ONE HAS GONE BEFORE A GRAND JURY. DISTRICT ATTORNEY LAVOIE HAS NEVER HELD A GRAND JURY. YET SAND, WITH A MOUNTAIN OF INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE DECIDES TO HOLD A GRAND JURY AND NOT PRESENT THAT EVIDENCE!  THE QUESTION STILL LINGERS, WHY? SOONER OR LATER HE MUST ANSWER.

 ROBERT SAND HAS BETRAYED HIS OATH OF OFFICE, VIOLATED THE CODE OF ETHICS. HE HAS BROUGHT SHAME TO THE JUSTICE SYSTEM OF VERMONT AND TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE GRAND JURY PROCESS. HE HAS BROKEN EVERY RULE OF LAW THAT HE GOVERNS. YET HE REMAINS IN OFFICE. HE IS BEING ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN HIS QUEST FOR INJUSTICE. IT AMAZES ME THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO CALL FROM ANYONE IN VERMONT ASKING FOR AN OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION INTO HIS ACTIONS OR FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN. WHY? HOW FAR DOES THIS CONSPIRACY REACH?

 FOR INSTANCE, HOW DID THEY ALL KNOW WHAT STORY TO TELL IN THE GRAND JURY? HOW DID SAND RELAY TO THEM THE SCRIPTED STORY THAT THEY WOULD ALL BE QUESTIONED ON? THEY ALL KNEW WHAT FALSE STORY TO TELL AND HOW SAND WOULD BE LEADING THEM. THEY EACH KNEW EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY TO EACH LEADING QUESTION BY SAND, AND THEY ANSWERED ALMOST WORD FOR WORD! THERE WAS NO TRUTH TO THEIR TESTIMONIES. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE THAT SAND HAD. THERE HAD TO BE A CHANNEL, SOMEONE TO GO BETWEEN ROBERT SAND AND THEM AND GET THE STORIES DOWN. HOW MANY WERE INVOLVED IN THIS? AND TO WHAT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT?  

 ONE CRUCIAL FACT IS STILL VERY UPSETTING: ROBERT SAND BROKE THE VERY LAWS HE WAS SWORN TO UPHOLD! YET, NO ONE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE HAS MENTIONED ANYTHING ABOUT LOOKING INTO HIS ACTIONS. IF SAND IS WILLING TO LET A MURDERER GO FREE I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE NUMBER OF CRIMINALS HE HAS RELEASED BACK INTO SOCIETY. HOW MANY CRIMINALS ARE WALKING THE STREETS BECAUSE OF ROBERT SAND? BLANCHARD, UCCI, AND COREY BLATANTLY LIED TO THE GRAND JURY, WHICH THEY WERE  ALLOWED TO DO BY SAND.  THEY THEN HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME CLEAN AT THE TRIAL.

 DISTRICT ATTORNEY LAVOIE GAVE EACH OF THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THE TRUTH OR FACE CHARGES. THEN, AT THE TRIAL, AFTER BEING CAUGHT LYING ON VIDEO TAPE, RECORDINGS AND STATEMENTS. THEY BRAZINGLY ADMITTED LYING WHICH THEY CATEGORIZED AS "MISTAKES". THEY THREW IT IN THE FACE OF THE COURT, FLAUNTED IT!  THIS NOT ONLY GAVE GROUNDS FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND PERJURY IT IS ALSO GROUNDS FOR ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT OF MURDER! CHARGES WHICH MUST BE PURSUED.

 WHAT IS VERY DISTURBING IS ROBERT SAND HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE IN HIS CAPACITY AS A CRUSADER OF INJUSTICE. THE GOAL SHOULD BE TO NOT LET ANOTHER FAMILY BE SUBJECTED TO THE KIND OF SUFFERING AND INJUSTICE THAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH. THE GOAL SHOULD BE TO IMPLEMENT JUSTICE NOT AVOID IT. THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE SHOULD BE FIRST AND FOREMOST ABOVE ALL PERSONAL GAIN OR MAKE SHIFT VALUES. THE QUESTION REMAINS: WHY IS ROBERT SAND OPERATING WITH IMPUNITY?

WE MAY NEVER KNOW BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN. IN THE INTERIM SHAME AND EMBARRASSMENT  ARE ALL THAT LIE AHEAD FOR ROBERT SAND. AS LONG AS HE IS IN OFFICE HIS SHAME WILL BE VERMONT'S SHAME. THAT IS WHY ROBERT SAND MUST STEP DOWN. FOR THE GOOD OF VERMONT. FOR THE GOOD OF THE PEOPLE. BUT HE WON'T.HE IS ARROGANT AND SELF SERVING. TRULY BELIEVING THIS WILL ALL GO AWAY. IT WON'T!  

 I'VE WAITED TO SEE IF ANYTHING WOULD BE DONE ABOUT ROBERT SAND. THERE HASN'T. I SHOULD NOT EXPECT ANY DIFFERENT. ROBERT SAND MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. THE STATE HAD THE EVIDENCE IN THEIR POSSESSION FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. THIS WAS EVIDENCE THEY HAD PRODUCED. YET THEY CHOSE TO WITHHOLD IT AND LET A MURDERER WALK FREE! THE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE WAS SO CLEAR YET IT WAS HIDDEN. SAND IS BEING PROTECTED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT THE TRUTH TO COME OUT. BUT IT WILL!

 SOON I WILL START PUTTING OUT THE EVIDENCE. I WILL PUBLISH THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY AND THE INITIAL STATEMENTS TO THE POLICE OF KYLE BOLASKI  AND YOU WILL SEE WHY HE DID NOT TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE. OF COREY BOLASKI, JERRY UCCI AND TRISTAN BLANCHARD WHOSE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY AND INITIAL STATEMENTS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. YOU WILL SEE THE TESTIMONY OF HIS FRIENDS WHOSE INITIAL POLICE STATEMENTS AND GRAND JURY TESTIMONY DIFFER SO MUCH. YOU WILL SEE HOW THE GRAND JURY TESTIMONY OF EVERYONE WAS SCRIPTED. YOU WILL SEE HOW THE MAJORITY OF THE TESTIMONY THAT WAS USED TO MANIPULATE THE OUTCOME OF THE GRAND JURY WAS NOT USED IN THE TRIAL BY THE DEFENSE!  THEY COULDN'T BECAUSE THEY WERE LIES. SUBORNED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROBERT SAND.

 YOU WILL SEE HOW THEY WERE LED TO PERJURE THEIR GRAND JURY TESTIMONY BY ROBERT SAND IN FAVOR OF KYLE BOLASKI. HOW NONE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS USED TO CONVICT BOLASKI WAS USED IN THE GRAND JURY BY ROBERT SAND. YOU WILL SEE HOW THE GRAND JURY WAS MANIPULATED, DECEIVED AND USED TO FREE A MURDERER. I WILL PUBLISH E-MAILS FROM SAND OF  HIS ATTEMPTS TO DISSUADE MY EFFORTS TO REMOVE HIM. THERE IS NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID. THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY IT IS STILL BEING COVERED UP. IT IS TIME FOR THE TRUTH TO BE REVEALED. IT IS TIME FOR ROBERT SAND TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE...