By Michael Volpe
Paul Boyne has now been languishing in prison – first in Virginia and now in Connecticut – for over fifteen months.
His right to a speedy trial – eight months from the arrest in Connecticut – has come and gone, and no one in the judiciary cares.
At this point, the only people following this case who think he has committed a crime are found in the Connecticut judiciary and in some Connecticut media.
Unfortunately for Paul, the only ones who matter are those in the first category.
As first broken on The Frank Report, Paul Boyne was arrested in Virginia and extradited to Connecticut in 2023 for the mysterious charge of “cyberstalking.”
The charges related to his writings on thefamilycourtcircus.com. Paul has not even confirmed he solely writes on the blog, and as shown by recent search warrants, the State of Connecticut isn’t itself sure it can prove he does.
The logo of the Family Court Circus, at http://www.familycourtcircus.com
A recent search warrant filed by Connecticut State Police Detective Samantha McCord stated in part (mentioning me), “Within the recorded phone interview of Paul Boyne does not deny Volpe identifying Boyne with thefamilycourtcircus.com.”
If Connecticut can’t even prove he authored the blog posts it claims are illegal, the First Amendment be damned – then why has he been in jail, in maximum security no less – for over a year?
That’s a question I posed to State Police Detective McCord, the CT prosecutor Jack Doyle, and Boyne’s court appointed attorneys, Jennifer Buyske and Alice Powers of the Kirschbaum Law Group, and none answered it.
Paul is in jail for writing mean blog posts, and while many conservatives profess their commitment to the First Amendment, his case has received scant media coverage.
Locally in Connecticut, the only one to cover it is Ed Mahoney of the Hartford Courant.
Mahoney is a member of the semi secret Connecticut Judicial Media Committee, a collection of judges and media folks in Connecticut who get together to talk about things. What things? No one outside the committee is sure, however, numerous court victims who I have spoken with over the years believe this committee is responsible for pushing the narratives that court critics are “disgruntled”, “crazy” and “conspiracy theorists.”
Mahoney has called Boyne all three; he likes to call him “a notorious blogger.”
Writing on Divorce in Connecticut, Catharine Sloper, a pseudonym, noted:
“Is he a “notorious blogger”; as Edmund H. Mahony describes him? I don’t think so. If I ever mentioned him to the man on the street–and I just did to one of the librarians at the library I’m typing this article in–I’m likely to get a puzzled look, and the word “Who?”; Paul is only notorious to corrupt family court players. As I say, if you are innocent, you have nothing to fear from Paul because he won’t mention you.”
In an email to me later, Sloper further stated:
“I think it is also important to note that Paul is being prosecuted not just for saying mean things but for exposing the corruption of family court and articulating very cogent criticisms of damaging and ineffective family court processes all of which the judicial system is unable to tolerate.”
That’s the heart of the matter. Paul’s blog is anti-Semitic, reprehensible, but not illegal.
The judges aren’t actually upset about the anti-Semitism or even that their home addresses are listed. They have acknowledged that no one has actually come to their homes to threaten them due to the blog. They are upset because Paul’s blog has exposed their judicial malfeasance, and now they need to shut him up.
They are using the other issues as a red herring.
He often writes “Jewdicial.”
He previously referred to Judge Thomas Moukawsher this way,:
“The now-famous Blog spotlights jewdicial abuse of Michael Reich of Avon, Connecticut, a target of the state paedo ring, toy of the evil family court, now denied summer vacation on the Cape by retarded jewdicial miscreant Judge Thomas Moukawsher, who fucks over childhood to generate shekels for his demonic foot soldiers, preying on family bank for legal fees. The Jewish ideology of childhood rape and familial destruction plays large on the Reich family, a sexually deviant father, an abused mother and a psychologically destroyed son. Oivey, another state sponsored rape of childhood, a story that will not end well.”
Thomas G. Moukawsher is a former Connecticut Superior Court judge, who has spent nearly forty years studying, making, and administering law.
Reprehensible, but not illegal.
He has previously released the home addresses of judges, all a matter of public record and not illegal.
He also suggests that certain judges, like Moukawsher, are so bad that the world would be better off if they were dead, like with a bullet in their head.
Here is part of a blog which was listed in the arrest warrant.
This too is not illegal, as long as the judge is objective.
To say something not covered by the First Amendment, the writer must, among other specific carve outs, make a true threat.
A comment made in jest, or one no reasonable person could think is threatening, does not count.
In fact, the case which set this precedent is evidence of Paul’s innocence: Watts vs. United States.
In that case, an eighteen year old at a rally stated, “If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man, I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.”
The Supreme Court, in overturning his conviction, noted that “a threat must be distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech.”
The court continued that political debate can at times be characterized by “vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
That’s what Paul was doing, and everyone knows it.
Paul asked the trial judge, Peter Brown, to throw the case out on First Amendment grounds.
Brown punted, stating:
“One interpretation of the blog posts is that they are a general, hypothetical, and hyperbolic expression of an opinion, particularly one pertaining to matters of public concern,” Brown wrote. “The threat was not directly communicated to anyone as it appeared on a blog post which none of the (judges) state was sent to them by the defendant. The defendant’s statements are not specific as
to place or time, and do not communicate any intent on behalf of the defendant to act on his statements. There has been no physical manifestation of the alleged threats since the inception of the defendant’s blog.
“On the other hand, the fact that the defendant lists the addresses of, and makes/models/license plate numbers of vehicles driven by the affiants, combined with his description of the manner in which they might be harmed may suggest that the defendant’s language constituted a true threat.”
Brown said the question would be left to the jury, except that most judges like to argue that the jury is only a trier of facts, not of the law, but in this instanceinterpreting the First Amendment.
It was Brown’s job to determine if Paul’s words were protected.
By punting, Brown kept Paul in jail, which is the point.
Finally, in September 2024, Paul could take prison no more, and agreed to a deal that would get him out of jail immediately, with one caveat. He had to take down his blog.
The deal was scuttled by his own lawyers, who told the judge that he may be incompetent, and as such, he couldn’t accept a deal.
His so-called incompetence is as manufactured as the criminal charges against him, but it keeps him in jail.
Mahoney recently explained why his lawyers believe him to be incompetent, “Boyne’s appointed public defenders asked the court to order the competency evaluation a month ago, saying he persists in arguing to them that the case against him is being manipulated by a former associate justice of the state Supreme Court, a frequent target of his blog.”
Mahoney couldn’t bring himself to say who this judge is, but it’s former Judge Joette Katz. In 2022, she wrote in The Connecticut Law Tribune that she believed that Paul’s blog was violating the law.
Judge Joette Katz
Katz said in that editorial:
“I could provide many more examples, but suffice it to say, the blog has gone from vile, disgusting anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-Black rants to actual threats of violence and death. Hate speech and other offensive language is protected by the First Amendment, which allows groups such as Westboro Baptist Church, the KKK, and QAnon to promote hatred against otherwise protected groups.
There are, however, some limits to “Freedom of Speech.” And while I know that it’s not always easy to draw the line between a true threat and a statement that’s simply alarming because of its violent and offensive language, I feel confident in stating that the threats made in the blog cross the line and are dangerous.”
Katz does not explain in the editorial specifically how the blog violates the law; in fact, she doesn’t even identify it, though she is talking about thefamilycourtcircus.com in the editorial.
Katz has not responded to emails for comment.
This is not the only evidence Paul has developed that Katz secretly runs the prosecution.
In handwritten notes in an email stream which he got through discovery, it says, “Talk to Katz only.”
Competent attorneys would have issued a subpoena for Katz and demanded to know what was meant; competent attorneys would have issued subpoenas for everyone on the email as well.
Paul is not represented by competent attorneys, but rather, attorneys so incompetent, one could believe they are trying to tank his case.
That’s remarkable because he has also received documentation showing the bill at over $100 per hour and over 250 hours to the state. His lawyers are court appointed.
All that to throw a case, good work if you can get it, though, given the media firestorm this has now created, Alice and Jennifer, I say, “This won’t work out well for your careers.”
Because of Jen and Alice’s malfeasance, since September, the court process has stalled again.
Mahoney described what happened at a recent hearing, “Brown told Boyne there will be no further movement on his case, including resolution of his motions to reduce his bond, dismissal of the charges or suppression prosecution evidence, until the competency question is resolved.”
The result is that Paul continues to remain in jail with no end in sight; that’s the goal.
Paul recently told me that when his lawyers first brought up competency, prosecutors washed their hands of it and said it was up to
Jen and Alice to make the argument.
That recently changed, Judge Brown told prosecutors to “dig up dirt,” as Paul characterized it, at his last hearing, and everyone would come back to argue competency on Halloween.
If prosecutors and his attorneys would argue he’s not competent, then who would argue he is?
This seems rigged.
To top things off, Connecticut is not happy violating Paul’s first amendment rights. They have decided to violate mine as well. In September, Ms. McCord filed for a search warrant with my name all over it.
What was not in the warrant was any evidence that the search would lead to more evidence of a crime.
Here is part of that warrant.
That information was developed that Boyne conducted a phone interview while incarcerated. This interview was posted online on YouTube under a Subscriber named Mike Volpe (who is listed as an investigative journalist). YouTube is an online website for users to post and share videos. Affiant 1 searched the YouTube internet platform for a Paul Boyne Interview and found three videos.
The three videos appear to be partial recordings from one phone interview. The date listed for the interview was June 4, 2024 (* Premiered June 4, 2024*). The videos contain two men talking with one being recognizable, by Affiant 1, as the voice of Paul Boyne, whom Affiant 1 arrested on 10/19/23. As the video begins, a still image of Boyne stays on the screen with the audio continuing. An unidentified male (presumably Michael Volpe) is heard asking, “Alright so Paul when we left off you were explaining that the judge gave them an order to show cause and I asked that it seems like he’s ruled in your favor to some degree is, is that fair?*. A male voice that Affiant 1 identified as Paul A. Boyne is heard to reply, “Well, yeah, I mean it’s an opinion thing. The federal judge is Judge Duly, Terry Duly, um and I don’t know anything about her from, but (unintelligible] but show cause because you know I made the first amendment claim to federal court.” The videos continue to discuss State of Connecticut Prosecutor Jack Doyle’s case against Boyne and what Boyne calls an “Orwellian” relationship between the Jewish religion and the Connecticut Family Court system.
Within the recorded phone interview of Paul Boyne does not deny Volpe Identifying Boyne with thefamilycourtcircus.com, and Boyne discusses a bias against those of the Jewish faith as disclosed in this transcription:
15. For instance, the interviewer confronts Boyne with his anti-semitic writings, stating:
VOLPE: “Right. But here, here is one, hold on, let me read one. This is from July 7th, 2023. The now famous blog spotlights judicial, which always spelled J-E-W-D-1-C-t-L, abuse of Michael Reich of Avon, Connecticut a target of the state. Pedo Ring, toy of the Evil Family court now denied summer vacation on the Cape by retarded JEWicial. Again, JEW Miscreant Judge Thomas Moukawsher who fucks over childhood to generate shekels for his demonic foot soldiers playing–preying on family bank for legal fees. The Jewish ideology of childhood rape and familial destruction plays large on the Wright family. That–isn’t.
