Honorable Mark S. Coven First Justice Quincy District Court Dennis Ryan Parkway Quincy, MA 02169 2/13/2007 Dear First Justice Coven:

I am in receipt of your letter dated February 9, 2007 regarding the hearing of the abuse prevention order taken out against me. Thank you for your notice.

There are a few issues that have occurred since this complaint was filed that you should have notice about, as this information is in the dockets, numbers 06RO0158 and 0159.

First of all: I have applied twice for Motions for Reconsideration.

• The first motion was refused. I was heard by Judge Orfanello at about noon on the day of hearing, and received a denial in the next day’s mail in Westfield, MA, 120 miles away. I have stated before that I do not believe the facts of my motion were considered, not the motion fully understood…maybe not even read. It was large, and deals with the manipulation of my daughter by my ex-spouse, and falsified evidence and since-contradicted witness accounts, and trial delays, as I am pending trial on an assault that never occurred, and released on my recognizance and perfect record as a law abiding citizen. (That trial is in Hingham court.) Judge Orfanello continually yelled at me at every appearance, invalidated well written materials, and frankly ,I did not have a chance to review and defend against NINE pages of contrived affidavit authored by a vengeful ex-spouse and co-opted daughter. Read them yourself.

• My second Motion for Reconsideration was received by the court after a letter from the Office of the Attorney General was circulated among those in a few places where I have vehemently protested my treatment and the inability of the court system to see what is happening. When I appeared in front of Judge Orfanello, I was greeted with the same dignified warmth and respect received from other Judges during my multiple appearances, such as Judge Brownell. Judge Orfanello did not even read my motion, but politely and kindly asked, “What day would you like to come in?”

Next, the appearance made on the motion for reconsideration was accompanied by the fact that I had filed a very well documented and professionally guided assault charge against my ex spouse, complete with advised picture of my injuries, and my account of the circumstances after being advised to do so by the Cohasset Police. Both parties appeared, the opposing party with Counsel Stephen Salon. We were informed that “Judge Orfanello’s Aunt had passed away” and she would not be in. The day was continued without parties being offered the services of another Judge. I believe this is contrary to Mass Laws, but I will certainly accept correction. Attorney Salon stated that he wanted to group my Motion for Reconsideration with the assault charge, and for some reason this was accepted and stands as the only documentation of the day. I learned this when I requested the docket notes to be read to me. I later presented another motion to Judge Orfanello to get the whole mess turned over to the Probate Court, as the Judge there had 4 years of experience with the case parties and also

results of an impounded GAL report that clearly states the mental issues that have effected my ex-spouse, that she has used to torture both of my children. (I have gained custody of my son.) As she was reviewing the case file, I was asked by Judge Orfanello why the Motion for Reconsideration was delayed. I reminded Judge Orfanello that her Aunt had passed away on that day, and was summarily denied the motion to move the case to the Probate Court. I am guilty in front of her no matter what the circumstances, and there has been no way to save my daughter. I can’t even access her for professional help as has been decided was OK per motion approved by the Probate Court. I am sealed away from my daughter. She is sealed away from professional guidance by a mother who’s documented to be in denial of her own psychological issues. Who is the court punishing and protecting? I am asking you to look into the fact that I would like to press the assault charge on my ex-

spouse, Lynne Sheridan, on the day that we appear for the extension hearing, as was summarily decided and indicated on the notes.

The documentation was in the files, last they were reviewed, and I am also forwarding this correspondence to the District Attorney’s Office for their assistance and to be assigned a counselor to assist me with the charges. What is not there will be medical notes and testimony of the Psychiatric professional who oversaw the issue as reported in the affidavit.

Last of all, I had asked for a tape copy of one of the hearings at your court. After receiving

similar tapes from Norfolk Probate and Hingham District courts within 30 days, I thought my application to your court was ignored. FIVE months after my application I received a note stating the tape was available. This is not acceptable to me, and if you would be so kind as to imagine me taking one of your children away from you, and maintaining that for five months after your protests, before assistance, I will then ask you if this is acceptable to you, the $50 cost not withstanding.

I am very disappointed with some of the issues I’ve encountered with the court system, and

your court has been the toughest to deal with. The fact that my ex-spouse has a longstanding court clerk in the family who has great familiarity with many court systems and functions is even more distressing. I am asking for your oversight, and at the very least, your understanding that you can place burden after burden on me, an innocent person who will be found so in the end. The actions of your court at the hands of a documented (MMPI) liar, documented perjurer, and deeply embittered soul, are destroying an 18 year old woman.

Yesterday I attended a hearing on such issues with Honorable Sean Dunphy of the Probate

Courts. He was receptive to the input of many. We can do all of this better, Sir, and I hope and pray my words hit home for you and the Honorable Mary Orfanello. You’re killing my daughter, and I’ve yet to lay an angry hand on her in her life.

Please advise me of your intentions regarding this letter as soon as convenient. Thank You. Sincerely Yours, Mark Bell

cc: Governor Patrick, Attorney General’s Office, Honorable Sean Dunphy, Quincy DA’s Office.

Honorable Mark S. Coven, First Justice

Quincy District Court

Dennis Ryan Parkway

Quincy, MA 02169

3/12/2007

Dear Judge Coven:

This letter will cover a great deal of ground and I ask your patience in its review. As with

other correspondence, I believe it best to be sent to other government agencies as well as to you. This

is not in doubt of your abilities to rectify what I, and many lawyers and observers, see as a flawed

system, but to have all of my communication open. This system needs change.

First off, I would like to thank you for the privilege of accessing the court. While you did not

respond to my letter dated 2-13-07, I was told in no uncertain terms at a restraining order renewal

hearing that I truly believe it had been received, per the claim of Judge Orfanello that I criticized her.

That is where I will start my claims and recall of the horror of my recent hearing.

I do not believe the hearing was conducted in good faith, nor with equality to both parties. I

was discriminated against many times, and again, Lynne Sheridan and Kelsey Bell were allowed to

perjure themselves without question, while the truths I told regarding incidents, all of them

regrettable, and from years back, that I am free to admit and discuss, were questioned, analyzed, and

magnified. All of this occurred as I was surrounded by two uniformed court officers, one holding her

hands out in a manner as if she was ready to pounce on me and guard any movements I made, the

other towering over my left side. Please allow me to refer to this as being virtually shackled, as my

only movements were to arrange paperwork substantiating my claims of perjury, and the lying of the

RO Plaintiffs as data from a NINE page affidavit, and whatever the Judge picked out of it, to query

me with. One may call this the need for an “extemporaneous defense” even the most skilled lawyer

would see as tremendous challenge, especially under the conditions of me being shackled and

threatened by guards as I tried to overcome this intimidation.

In sequence of events:

The day before the hearing, March 8, 2007, I called the DA’s Office and was told the address

I had sent the same correspondence sent to you was sent to an address that no longer exists. So much

for the update of addresses on the internet. This letter will follow a different path.

I then called and spoke to Mr. Boone in the Clerk’s Office regarding the RO hearing, and the

fact that I wished to bring an assault charge filed, way back when, against Ms. Sheridan, to the

hearing the next day. I was told it was placed in the docket.

It should be understood at this point that part of the “agreement” made, as referred in

previous correspondence, was that the assault charge would be heard on the same day as the “Motion

for Reconsideration” hearing. Perhaps a technical point, but this WAS a reconsideration hearing.

This was my reasoning for asking that the assault charge be placed in the docket. Both parties had

notice of the hearing. (Appendix 1)

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The day of the hearing, March 9, I went in to the Victims Assistance Office, informed them

of the hearing that day, and the fact that I had been threatened with charges of “assault with intent to

murder” charges, if I pressed my charges, by Attorney Stephen Salon, representing the parties. I

signed in on a sheet of paper, and the person assisting me commented on how upset I looked about

the incident related. I was then informed that until there was a Magistrate’s Hearing, the office would

not be involved. So be it. I understand.

In court, Judge Orfanello gained the attention of both parties, myself being one, and Kelsey

Bell, my daughter, my ex-spouse Lynne Sheridan, and a Victims Assistance person present, the

other. She commented that the order of our business included the RO and assault charge material,

and asked that we be patient so she could clear some other cases away. It was immediately and

politely agreed by all of us to do as she requested.

The hearing was called after a few cases were heard. After we approached Judge Orfanello’s

bench, she informed us that since I had complained about her, perhaps not her exact words, she was

“recusing herself” from the case. (That she DID say.) How one minute’s request for more time turned

into a matter of total reversal may be a matter of behind-the-scenes communications, which should

not be a shielded process. (Appendix 1,2) After she left the bench, I asked the Clerk sitting at the

Clerk’s desk if she would be kind enough to thank the Judge for me for her past service and

sensitivity. I was rudely told “No, I will not do that,” without even a courtesy of eye contact.

I overheard that the case would be brought to another courtroom. With their Victims

Assistance person, the Plaintiff’s were directly involved in these discussions, but nobody from the

court related the least bit of information to me. I sat in the general waiting area in the courtrooms

lobby. At one point I observed the Plaintiff’s going into a courtroom that turned out to be Judge

O’Day’s. I assumed that this may be where the hearing was, and despite restraining order protocol,

and facing the possibility of defaulting if I was not present if called in a case, my only choice was to

be acting on my own. I was certainly unequally treated. (Appendix 3)

Judge O’Day heard more than once case while we waited. His mannerisms were kind and

assuring to some pretty hard cases, one being a drug addicted 21 year-old female who was given

advice and counseling on her life path, as well as advice to maintain a program of treatment, along

with the disposition of her case of stealing money from her mother.

When my/our case was called, all parties were instructed to stand by the bench. We were

sworn in. This position did not afford me the ability to reference any materials, so I placed them on a

table nearby so I could access them. One needs to understand, again, that I have been victimized by

NINE pages of affidavit, falsely and one-sidedly filled out against the protocol of the court as written

at the top of the pages filled out, (Appendix 4) and I am faced with being blindsided by any question

a Judge would see as relevant. I carried and possessed documents to substantiate all my arguments.

The Plaintiffs produced not a single page of material with any substantiation of any claims

they made. (Appendix 5) As I stood in position I needed to step a few steps to my right and arrange

my materials so I could rapidly respond to the “darts” of perjury being thrown about and issues

brought forward.

Having been shackled, guards following my every move, the reaction of any observer seeing

this, Judge included, must have been stunning, as even the chain-shackled prisoners had only one

guard near them…2 for me?. The heroin addict who stole from her mother had no guards around her.

At one point, as the smaller guard was reacting to my moving right and left to access my

materials, I told her that there was no need for that. “I can’t talk to you,” she said. The other guard

spoke to me about how jittery I was. The Judge commented on the interruption. (Appendix 6)

The Plaintiffs were asked to speak about their claims, which amounted to Lynne Sheridan,

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only, stating that emotionally charged letters had been sent to her lawyer and she felt that, as such, I

was a threat to her. I will simply state that her ongoing numerous instances of contempt of court, her

lying, her lying to the children, her alienation of my daughter, her false affidavits, and more is the

reason for any of my reaction. Frustration? Yes…(Appendix 7)

Judge O’Day turned to me and asked if I had any “questions.” To the moment of the writing

of this document, I have no understanding of what sort of “questions” I could have. So I asked. “Can

I cross examine them?” (Of course not, I knew.) I asked what sort of questions could I have.

At that point the Judge engaged in a demeaning, intimidating and embarrassing dress-down

of me, in front of my daughter, and open court, asking what my education was, what level I had

attained, ALL IRRELEVANT! (Appendix 8) As he sat looking at what should have been a 12-page

(by his count) written analysis of the close-to 40 point of objection written for the previous hearings

in the docket, he could have certainly assessed my intelligence and literacy. However, I believe that

this document was missing from the docket. I gave him another copy after referring to it and he not

apparently having it. He asked for it…was it not there? (Appendix 9)

So, after seeing a heroin addict that robbed her mother receive kind, gentle and supportive

treatment by a Judge, my 18 year old daughter is reinforced by the court in her alienation-produced

hatred of her father by seeing and hearing this Judge castigate me for not being to answer a question

that really had no answer, nor protocol. (In all of my appearances and observations in court, I am not

aware of any “question period,” nor do I believe the Judge asked any other person he saw in the time

they appeared if they had any “questions” after the opposing party stated their case.)

I then stated to the Judge I did have a question for him. I asked, “How does it feel to be lied

to?” He stated he would not answer that, and I commented back that it was “rhetorical,” anyway.

I produced many documents that the Judge reviewed. One was a copy of a letter written by

Lynne’s Sheridan’s “resigned” former lawyer Michael Podolski, a fine man and remarkable lawyer.

The letter stated that information he had been given indicated that Lynne Sheridan could not make

contact with me because of the conditions of her restraining order. I asked that she produce her order,

that she is to carry with her at all times according to language that really IS a part of such orders.

That request was ignored. Information about the alienation of my daughter, the hate she has learned

to have against her father…all words into the empty air. (Appendix 10)

Lynne Sheridan stated that she “needed” to gain a no-trespassing order against me, and this

was not questioned by the Judge. This is perjury under the oath she took minutes before, as there was

no cause for action that caused her “need,” unless her “need,” and laws behind “needs” are defined

by the psychology of anyone who can pick up a phone and call a police station. Need without “need”

is harassment the court simply does not see. (Appendix 11)

On the other hand, a situation that occurred years before, under the strains of a breaking

marriage and more of Ms. Sheridan’s lying, baiting and creating situations of antagonism through her

manipulation of the children, was carefully concentrated on by the Judge, with my being left to admit

to the regrettable situation as it was, not lie about its conditions. What she does is of no consequence,

and the path of destruction created by what she does/lies about is invisible. (Appendix 4)

There is no question in my mind that in every hearing where a NINE-page affidavit can

somehow be interpreted by a non-social work professional, given the pen of Justice, and asked to

perform a social work agenda process, legally called “immediate danger,” is going to create a

situation that no defense can deter. Unless each item in the written affidavit argument is given the

same attention as each item in the written affidavit, there is no true analysis. Judge O’Day did not ask

a single question of the Plaintiffs regarding any of their testimony despite my itemized challenges.

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At one point in my defense I asked the Judge if he had ever heard of the MMPI test.

He stated he had not.

Especially in a situation where a party submits NINE pages of affidavits, and there is a year

gone by with no issues of harm, just the ”fears” of a claimant, and the price of this is a lifetime tattoo

for the “offender,” and such test data is available, its use should be mandatory. I will state here that

any Judge that has not heard of a test described as in Appendix 12 should not be allowed cases that

involved processes that use the test, such as custody cases, including the use of restraining orders for

forced custody, as can be presumed when a mother and daughter “shop” for a pair of orders in a court

most well known for “giving them out like candy,” as is being stated more and more in legal circles.

Tapes of the hearing were ordered, and an unreasonable amount of time to receive them, as

has been the case in the past, will not be tolerated unless specific reasons can be cited for such

delays. I would appreciate the cooperation of the court in this regard.

I am not absent of knowing self-evaluation is also a product of these tapes, but they will also

serve to document more of the unfairness of the hearing that will be reviewed by at least one

professional familiar with the situation, MMPI testing, and reputation of “candy-like” RO policies.

The Judge recessed for a period of time estimated to be about 20 minutes.

Restraining orders are not convenient. They are lifetime incarceration.

On a recent business trip return from Canada, I was asked to go into a separate room while

going through Customs. Once in there I waited for a long 5-10 minutes. An Officer approached me

after this time and said to me: “You have a restraining order against you.” His time had been spent

investigating me and gaining other pertinent information before I would be allowed out of custody. “I

see it all the time….just make sure you get your lawyer to clear it up once it’s expired or it stays in

the system,” he told me. He only knows me for who the court has branded me.

But I digress……

Judge O’Day returned. He asked Kelsey about language on her restraining order stating the

location of her former schooling, Cohasset High School, and amended the order to include her

present school. At that point his next statement was unneeded, as he said he was continuing the

order. No explanation, no advice was given me, as was given to the heroin addict who robbed from

her mother. No suggestions, not even a word about what could be done over the next year to make

this go away, was spoken. The candy was given to the Plaintiffs…both of them.

I was ordered to leave the courtroom by the larger of the two court officers. I asked that the

Judge be given a piece pf paper that explained what the MMPI is. (Appendix 12) He raised his

voice and told me if I didn’t leave the room I would be charged with contempt, and “no,” he would

not give anything to the Judge. We went outside into the lobby, and in his large voice, having

imprisoned me “to wait for the paperwork,” I was ordered to “sit on the bench, right there,” as lobby

observers reacted to the imprisonment, and me, the prisoner.

I guess the message is, shut up. But that’s abusive. Is the court abusive? What was my crime?

What I saw was that lying in court is fine. My daughter sure knows that. I even stated in court

(again) how she fabricated evidence and lied on a police report. Who cares? My statement that when

she was 17 she lied, when she’s 18 she lied, guess what’s going to happen when she’s 19? With an

abusive liar for a mother, this young woman needs her father. Does the court know? Care?

I guess another message is that all of the social workers and street people who hear about the

proceedings, the social workers and psychiatrists who I have consulted over the years about living

with an abusive pathological liar, are moot compared to the judgment of a Court Judge, as Honorable

as he is, who has never heard of an MMPI, a 50-year old test that Federal courts have affirmed the as

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a scientifically valid and accepted procedure for personality assessment. (Appendix 12)

I mean no disrespect to these hard working people when I criticize the system. I TRULY

BELIEVE IT IS THE SYSTEM. The court failed to uphold the system when there is the potential for

human misery. A parent alienated from a daughter, or a daughter alienated from a parent, is this

misery, and volumes of data will substantiate this.

Judge O’Day probably slept better than I did Friday night. His job is to make sure people,

presumably women and men, are properly separated through restraining order laws. He did his job,

and I lost another year of time being able to even speak to my daughter to reconcile this damaged

relationship, all caused by my taking her car key out of her hand. She, as witnesses also describe, was

upset, and in my perception as a parent and many-times-honored safety professional, was too upset

to drive. It was her mother, 20 miles away, who called “911,” not my daughter or any witnesses.

I truly believe this Judge would not know an abuse case that is a bit different than one typical

for the court if it were three feet in front of him, next to her abusive mother. He does drug stuff…he

mused freely and easily about that. What kind of mother alienates her daughter from her father?

What causes a daughter to hate her father? Immaterial to this court on that day. It was over his head.

As I stated in court, during my session with Judge O’Day, I went to see Judge Paula Carey at

the Probate Court to file a contempt against Lynne Sheridan, who, more than a dozen times, has

disobeyed court orders. I have been sanctioned at the Probate Court to present any motions before

her before having them docketed. I did, and it was immediately docketed, as others have been, time

after time after time after time.

If I did not fight to free my daughter from her abusive mother, who is from an abusive family,

(who has a court clerk in it) who was abused by his estranged family, I would be more guilty of

abuse than any court could say. For what cause or price would you let your child be taken from you?

When a District Attorney tells me that “Restraining Orders are given out like candy” I can

only idealize a situation where the same person may state that the courts give them out and alter

people’s lives for “just cause,” which should and could include the intervention of a social worker

when needed, to assist a Judge in the interpretation of psychological issues. What’s a week or two

before an RO is continued for a year? For me, proper intervention, or the allowance of the case to be

brought to the Probate Court who had a 3-4 year history of all the people involved, WITH a GAL

report, would have been beneficial. I was refused that motion by Judge Orfanello. (“It’s MY case,”

she stated.) Is that one in the docket? I believe it may not be. I believe Judge Orfanello did not

docket it. (I hope I’m wrong.)

Nonetheless, I will be using more valuable court time to unravel a tangled web the court

seems to refuse to see.

Without the enforcement of perjury or other applicable laws, there is no “just” system. Truth

and Justice. Truth first, right? Anything short of that is abuse, and we all know, the first step in

stopping abuse is to stop taking it. There is no asterisk on the reading material I have reviewed that

states the court, the Judges, or the State is exempt from that rule.

This was obviously a very troubled situation and the Judge added more battering to it.

Outside of my own trauma, likely to the delight of my ex-spouse, my daughter was again traumatized

seeing her father ripped up by the entire situation.

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There is a phenomenon called “Vicarious trauma.” Yesterday I saw some of this in Judge

O’Day when he compassionately addressed the heroin addict, and added how “he knows about drug

users…” He was in his element, and handled the situation in admirable fashion. He was not in his

element in my case, and that is not his fault, nor is it Judge Orfanello’s.

The effects of Vicarious trauma (Appendix 13) can shade individuals in manners in which

they will incorrectly react to circumstances based on continual exposure to the trauma of others. I

believe that the court has an inability to see an abusive mother, or an alienated child. Her repetitive

crying in front of the court was also her way of dealing with issues throughout the marriage

whenever issues were presented that she needed to face. In court, such emotion easily appears as

trauma. The mother, in fact, did not address issues throughout the marriage while the husband

repeatedly tried to engage the marital couple in professionally advised regimens to treat the mother,

the marital relationship, and the family relationship. Now it’s the courts.

Ms. Sheridan’s psychology is as such that once the marriage was over, and after years of

notice of this failure and being begged to get into counseling or marital counseling by Mark Bell,

Mark Bell moved his life on. At that time she decided to engage in marital therapy. One aspect of

this therapy was discussed in front of Judge O’Day, as another in the long series of Mark Bell being

given rules to follow, spoken by Ms. Sheridan, Mark Bell following them, and Ms. Sheridan

contradicting her own words and behaving in a manner contrary to her own spoken logic. In the story

of “the camera” related in court, her violations were in front of the children, and using the children in

a totally inappropriate manner to damage the father in their eyes, just like in court.

The question of the legal issue of “condonation” can also brought forward, as not a single

claim of abuse by either party against each other occurred since the divorce.

Before the divorce there was no claim by either party to acquire a restraining order.

During it, two lawyers never sought one.

But now, as I live 120 miles away, claims that restraint is needed, based on some sort of

“immediate danger,” as well as numerous defaults in the divorce agreement, just reveals that Ms.

Sheridan refuses to move on. I can’t get away from her and her abuse of me, and my children.

As consequence to this, and the severity of the life altering criminal claims brought forth

against me, those I cannot walk into court and defend “like candy,” my only recourse is to stop her

actions with the professionally guided data I obtained as a result of the guidance of therapists and

professionals consulted by me for years. For Quincy, and other courts. More court time.

Do you see the cycle? I’m not the one who needs to be stopped, but the penalties will keep

coming. Therefore, it will never stop until I simply permit this abuse to occur to me.

Ms. Sheridan’s constant perjury has fed this storm of manipulating the courts in her own

interest. I am furious at the court’s inability to perform in the midst of what is now, multiple claims,

and the only people being “abused” are me and my children.

The system is being abused by Ms. Sheridan, with a court clerk in her family. As stated to the

Judge, if he’s involved, why? If not, why not? His God-Daughter hates her father, as the clerk seems

to hate his own estranged father/family….Is that normal to the court? Is it all about politics?

I have re-filed my assault charge against Lynne Sheridan in your court. It is complete with

pictures, medical report, and there is testimony from a professional witness who will describe what I

have all along. I have stated that I have been threatened and intimidated into not filing it earlier.

After my filing, if there are any subsequent filings, such as that I expect, they are not legally sought

after relief maneuvers, but revenge and counter-argument. An aggrieved person has a lot of freedom

to perform in the legal forum. When I asked an Attorney I consult with regarding various issues, I

told him of the threat of pressing a charge on me for “assault with intent to murder” that was made to

me. He stated that only a DA can bring such charges. Seems like intimidation to me. What stops her?

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Me giving up my daughter? Well, that didn’t last year, as it all continues, and the court didn’t see it

again this year.

Judge Coven, it’s your job, and that of the courts, and employees, to know about Parental

Alienation, Vicarious Trauma, Perjury, and manipulation of the courts for purposes the court is not

meant for. The last thing a court should be doing is taking anything stated to it for “truth” while

ignoring obvious psychological issues in a very apparent family crisis. I have had NO history of

violence in my life that I did not address “by the book.” I have never been arrested, nor have had

even a squabble of any note in 52 years that gained any “official” attention. After an extremely

contentious divorce from an embittered, angry, selfish and manipulative person whose family has

received court guidance and favors from a family court clerk for decades, as needed, now is no

different, except an ignorant system, played like a fiddle, tortures me and my yet-to-understand

daughter while catering to an embittered person. This person is still actively working to destroy every

relationship in a once hopeful family, and has me in three courts chasing the seeds of her lies. Why

not? You see her cry and figure it’s my fault and getting rid of me will change it. Hasn’t the past year

showed the court anything? Seems to me any active parent not trying to alienate their child would be

fighting for them to have both parents in their lives. I know her “fight’ for this is not in the docket.

You’re doing it for her.

I have provided for my family greatly, she has not…she only tags on. Hers, a family with

property in Boca Raton, FL; Williamstown, MA; New Seabury, MA; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Sharon,

MA; Cohasset, MA, and probably more, pulls, steals and lies from me and my family’s heritage. My

family gave all of what they had through me, from me to the children. What a contrast!

Is it the court clerk that’s running the show? Seems to me when a Judge cannot even state

reason for allowing an order, and people are running around in the background making decisions and

keeping the other party uninformed, something is going on. The negative reactions from court

employees also are strange. It seems to me, in the court you are touted for having, children would not

be abused by parents, but it happened right in front of you. It’s the situation, not me, that’s gone

awry. But you all have been only hammering me. Look what you’re helping destroy by being

manipulated into an irreconcilable child custody battle. That’s all this is, all by Ms. Sheridan.

Now that I have related the heart of my frustration, I would like to close this letter starting

with the fact that I will not stand for any more.

Worst of all, the alienation sinks deeper, and the court is greasing the skids to do this while

isolating me from my daughter, who will catch up someday. How long did it take for you to

understand your parents? This will come back to haunt her in later years, something else the court

should be aware of. This constitutes damages, future damages, and I’m losing patience, as a “Truth

and Justice” process is either political, simply ignorant of its role, or both.

I would like to ask that you respond to this letter in 5 days with one of a few responses:

1) You’ll review it and get back to me. (Sorry it’s so long.)

2) You don’t care and would like me to go through the process of filing Motions for

Reconsideration and use the same process we went through before.

3) No response, in which case I believe it best to use the knowledge that I, many

professionals, and every single observer that has experienced the use of lies and perjury,

to simply take this to the Commonwealth as the failure it is, and seek immediate

sanctions, reforms, and consideration of all parties involved, like your court people,

aligned with the injustices that I have outlined above, and effect so many more people.

I do not mean to be at all threatening, but I’m in a corner with court actions, not mine,

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destroying and denying protection to my daughter from the person whose really abusing her.

As stated to the Governor, I’m not putting out lip service here. I’m willing to help. I’m not

willing to so simply lose my daughter, however, so Judge O’Day can sleep better at night and the

court can brag about its record of domestic violence prevention when it has obviously so erred, and is

aiding in the forced alienation of my daughter. Your court has Judges deficient in knowledge of

textbook evaluation techniques and protocols that have existed for the last 50 years of the court’s

existence. The other Judge, more experienced with the case, seemingly picked up her marbles and

went home after being “criticized,”…as I believe she stated before her exit.

Last of all, please accept these last statements.

You are wrong sometimes. We all are. I know I’m wrong sometimes, and have been, and

corrected as best I know how with all the guidance I can get. I have done this enthusiastically and

voluntarily. (Appendix 15) If I cannot be forgiven for my errors, why should you and your people?

It’s got to start somewhere, and the truth is a good place to start. In one sense, I do not have an

obligation to straighten out the court system. But, the system has an obligation to me to see situations

for what they are, and not be manipulated by politics, emotionalism, and deficiencies that will tattoo

two generations of a family, maybe more. Blind Justice, not blind Judges, are called for here.

Look at what a professional has to say. (again, Appendix 15) Want more? I can get more

professionals to write the same, as I actively sought to deal with the agony of the marriage, and now

the divorce. I can get them like candy. I earned it, and didn’t lie at all in the process. My 15-year

history of professional guidance was needed while being married to a documented pathological liar,

who has co-opted her daughter in to being the same. And the court doesn’t have a clue. Please get

one from Appendix 15. Read Appendix 14 and see what signs are there. You will notice many

similarities in the situations there and with mine, MMPI diagnostics the same as well.

The court has made an error here, and I will not stand by, or simply go away as so many seem

to want, while witnessing damage that people such as yourself can understand. Your court is so great

in so many regards, why are you missing this by so much?

Thank you for allowing me to bring this to you. My faith lies in the fact that the system is

made up of good people who want to make differences for the better. In that, I have hope.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Bell

CC: Governor, Attorney General, Norfolk County District Attorney.

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Appendix 1

If, in fact a deal had been struck to deal with the assault charge on the day of the

reconsideration, the opposing party had sufficient notice of the reconsideration. The court may be at

fault for not insisting on hearing the case that day based on their own notes. The absence of the case

in the docket in front of Judge O’Day is suspect as behind-the-scenes maneuvering that deprived me

of the right to be heard without the courtesy of discussion. The other party was there.

Appendix 2

Why was the information previously given to Judge Orfanello not in the docket? This

specifically refers to the multi-point argument that Judge O’Day needed to be given, and later had

copied for the docket, and he gave me back the original.

Appendix 3

As Joan Rivers might say…What am I, chopped liver? I believe I have a right to court

proceedings that involve me as much as the other side. Especially in abuse cases, both parties are

victims, no matter what the disposition. It appears that the desire is for me, the defendant, to default,

as this was the court’s action.

Appendix 4

The first question asked of me in numerous questions I have faced when dealing with

accusations of abuse, or the questioning of me in any situation is usually “what was YOUR part?”

The court documents clearly state, that in filling out the affidavits, the description should note “each

person’s actions.” Ms. Sheridan’s and Kelsey Bell’s accounts are tremendously deficient of their part

in any of the issues they brought up, details not requested by the court in their absence. It does not

take NINE pages of affidavit to state “immediate danger” required to obtain a restraining order. It

takes NINE pages to create an impression in any Judge seeking quick disposition of a case, knowing

that if he/she misses any details and does not issue an RO, it might lead to a terrible situation.

In one example, I have hundreds of emails from Lynne Sheridan, who has perjured herself in

Probate Court stating she “does not do email,” under oath, and stated I needed to contact her only by

phone. More of her denials and manipulations. These emails contradict many affidavits, some of

which have been presented in Quincy Court.

Appendix 5

A statement made by Lynne Sheridan stated letters I had written her lawyer “were……”

The Judge never asked to see any letters, any proof, and why SHOULDN’T letters dealing

with the welfare of my children and her lying be emotionally laden and as mean as the majority of

lawyer letters I have received threatening me, when asking for results.

This is passive/aggressive behavior that is psychologically questionable to a great degree.

One of the first lessons in anger management is that “anger is a violation of rules.”

Passive/aggressive people are bullies (per Jay Carter, noted author/expert.) and controlling, as Ms.

Sheridan was during her failed marriage and control over her daughter and the abuse of all parties in

the family, my son especially, as she perjured herself in Probate Court with his welfare, much to his

disappointment and his hurt from her abuse.

Passive/aggressive people violate rules of others dignity, and have behaviors that typically

result in the P/A person’s alienation from friends, or injury, emotional or physical. The inability for

Ms. Sheridan to comply with numerous agreements, stipulations, contracts, promises, and rules of

perjury is such behavior. She is causing injury to my daughter and my daughter may not understand

this for years, but will suffer eventually. Her quoting the context of letters is HERESAY without

their presentation. Did she actually see any letters? Did the court?

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Appendix 6

It seems as Lynne Sheridan can cry in court as she perjures herself, but I cannot react to being

lied to, lied about, and all in a court whose first obligation is to truth and justice. Judge Orfanello

declared in her first ruling that Kelsey was obviously upset, and interpreted this as fear of her father

rather than have any sensitivity to the fact that: 1) my daughter was possibly upset at the crimes she

was co-opted into, 2) losing the companionship of her father, 3) was lying to police, the courts, and

her father, 4) being in a court in the first place. None of this was analyzed openly by a Judge. A

social worker’s or psychiatrists expertise and training is called for.

Appendix 7

The courts need to decide whether perjury is a crime. At that point the webs of lies will allow

for better judgment. Many details are verifiable, and if people cannot verify them with materials

brought to court they should have a penalty of coming in on another day. Why can “Judge Judy” do

this on TV? Why wasn’t Ms. Sheridan’s educational level queried by Judge O’Day? Why wasn’t her

stature as a therapist questioned when her daughter was not encouraged or forced to save a

relationship with her father by going to court agreed therapy? (This is another example of a useless

court stipulation that Ms. Sheridan agreed to without any intention of fulfilling.)

Appendix 8

The castigation in front of my daughter regarding my education was inexcusable. Both parties

were Pro Se that day, as were many other people. Nobody received such a diatribe, and certainly

nobody in front of their child.

I will offer to place the text of this letter in front of Judge Orfanello’s children or those of

Judge O’Day, if the context of this errant behavior this particular appendix is not entirely understood.

I will poll social workers and Psychiatrists if the court desires, and they can dress-down the Judges as

I believe any qualified professional would. Judge O’Day, an experienced Judge never hearing of the

MMPI…a 50-year court federally-approved-for-court test? Unbelievable.

What would/could it have done to my perceived character if I stated to the Judge that his

question was irrelevant? With emphasis on the legal angle, any comment about my education, job,

anything to do with character outside of the “immediate danger” question is potentially prejudicial to

any defense.

Appendix 9

Why was the docket incomplete? Why were extra copies of the original marked-affidavits

Judge Orfanello originally yelled at me that she didn’t need, then took from me with my points of

argument missing? What else is missing? Is my motion to bring the case to the Probate Court in

there? I believe I have a signed copy of it.

Appendix 10

The yellow-highlighted letter clearly indicated this information, and there was no question by

the Judge regarding this to the Plaintiffs. If, in fact, my daughter had been told she could not contact

me by Ms. Sheridan or the family court clerk, and she did not contact me because of this, it is

damage and more abuse by Ms. Sheridan and her family. Immaterial to the Judge? Apparently.

Appendix 11

In fact there was no cause for action for Ms. Sheridan to make this phone call to obtain a “no

trespassing” order. Her statement that she had to is dubious at best, and a red-flag indicator of her

psychology/paranoia, likely because of the string of lies and abuse she commands. I was informed by

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letter from her lawyer that this order had been instituted in the middle of zero activity between

us…she just called and got it, and any “need“ to have it is of her own manifest of fear.

Appendix 12

The paper I wished to give Judge O’Day, and was ordered not to, was this information.

THE MMPI-2

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), described above, has been in use now for over 50 years. In that time, no revisions in item content or wording were made. Over the last 10 years, there have been increasing complaints that some of the items were out of date, sexist, awkward, or ambiguous. In addition, two items which contained religious content specific to Christianity were found to be offensive to other religious sectors.

According to James Butcher, one of the researchers responsible for the revision of the MMPI, the MMPI-2 is a valid revision and expansion of the original MMPI. He asserts that continuity with the previous empirical literature has been assured. The original validity and clinical scales have been kept virtually intact in the MMPI-2. According to Butcher, however, new norms based on nationally representative samples provide a sounder comparative base. Therefore, the information on the MMPI covered above is still accurate.

The MMPI has been cited in a large number of cases involving the issues of custody evaluation, limitations and termination of parental rights and adoption. Generally, the goal in custody evaluations is to establish the arrangements that are in the children's best interests. Litigation often involves acrimonious dissolution proceedings where allegations of neglect, abuse and molestation are alleged against one or both parents. MMPI-based assessment of parents is invaluable in identifying psychological and behavioral problems which often provide the basis of an order which provides or denies custody to one parent or the other.

The MMPI is the most widely used standardized test of personality and is likely the most widely cited personality assessment instrument in litigation. Federal courts have affirmed the MMPI as a scientifically valid and accepted procedure for personality assessment. Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Applied Innovations, Inc., 685 F Supp 698 (DC Minn 1987) and Applied Innovations, Inc. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, 876 F2d 626 (8th Cir 1989).

Examples of reported cases where the MMPI was admitted to support a custody evaluation include D.J. v. State Department of Human Resources, 578 So2d 1351 (Ala Civ App 1991) (the MMPI was accepted as evidence of a mother's mental state); In Re Rodrigo S., San Francisco Department of Social Services v. Joan R., 225 Cal App3d 1179, 276 Cal Rptr 183 (Cal App 1 dist 1990) (the MMPI was accepted in a father's evaluation); Gootee v. Lightner, 224 Cal App3d 587, 274 Cal Rptr 697 (Cal App 4 Dist 1990) (MMPI-based testing was appropriately used to evaluate the family in the custody dispute); and Utz v. Keinzle, 574 So2d 1288 (La App 3 Cir 1991) (the MMPI was used in a custody dispute to evaluate two sets of parents).

MMPI testing was also used to determine whether parental rights should be terminated in State ex rel. LEAS in Interest of O'Neal. 303 NW2d 414 (Iowa 1981) and to decide when parental rights should be given to potential adoptive parents in Commonwealth v. Jarboe, 464 SW2d 287 (Ky 1971).

Appendix 13

From:

Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma: Recommended Solutions for Anti-Violence Workers, 2001,

by Jan I. Richardson of the Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children in

London, Ontario for the Family Violence Prevention Unit, Health Canada, with numerous detailed

references from both US and other international sources.

“Vicarious trauma is one outcome of this work. The effects of Vicarious trauma are

cumulative and build upon memories obtained through listening to the stories of one inhumane act of

cruelty after another. This creates a permanent, subtle or marked change in the personal, political,

spiritual and professional outlook of the counselor or advocate. Vicarious trauma has a life-changing

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effect on individuals, ultimately affecting their view of the world and their relationships and

connections to families, friends and community……

…… Vicarious trauma is a clear and present danger to anti-violence workers and an

occupational hazard of the profession. The women change us forever. To honor their courage, we

must honor ourselves and commit to self-preservation, self-renewal and self-care.”

Appendix 14

Referenced report on Parental Alienation. Enclosed with this letter. (15 pages)

Appendix 15

How a professional sees this, and me.

Governor Deval Patrick

Office of the Governor

State House, Rm 360

Boston, MA 02133

3/26/2007

Dear Governor Patrick:

After reading about the relationship you had, and didn’t have, with your father, in this past

Sunday’s Globe, I am again writing to update you on the case I am SO frustrated with in the

Massachusetts Court System.

Why would the court system work to continue the tragedy in a family if there was an

alternative? My story isn’t about my having a love for music and a life where I felt I needed to make

choices between my family and my love for music. My story is about abuse that the courts are blind

to, discrimination that they are also upholding, to hundreds, if not thousands of citizens, and an 18

year old woman whose life and the formation of her future are still forming concepts that she will

live with forever; My daughter.

Attached is an affidavit I will be presenting to the Quincy Court to accompany an assault

charge I never wanted to press against my ex-spouse, but I can no longer watch as she can waltz into

court and be accompanied in her destruction of my daughter, my relationship with her, me, my son,

and certainly herself. She also destroys the court system as women who are really in trouble have to

suffer and be queried about their stories because of those who lie cheat and steal from the system.

This woman, my ex-spouse, needs to be seen as what she is, and as I am terribly sorry to have

to take this case against her to the limit of a criminal charge. I have done everything I can do with a

court system, that she freely and persistently operates contrary to, and in contempt of. My

documentation and stories are substantiated, compiled with professional help, and reveal more

serious abuse than a Judge, such as that I faced in the last hearing in Quincy, is able to understand.

I have nowhere to go if the head of the State can’t understand this. Seems by the nature of the

article about your family, a lot more pain came from the issues than pleasure. How would it have

been if your father had been restrained from seeing you by your angry mother and lies told, using the

Scituate Police Department, the Quincy Court, the Hingham Court, and also could rely on the

Probate Court to pressure your father into seeing more advantage in staying away than coming to

you. So many fathers are experiencing this, and they all are not abusers, or wrong…they just want to

be able to live and be with their children.

If you cannot see the issues in my paperwork, ALL substantiated, there’s just no reason to

have the courts, or the laws. I read about your family and felt the agony of not having a father there

when you would have liked to show him your pride. My daughter is 18, very easily accepted and

attending Tufts, and is being abused. Can you help remove the weight from her shoulders by simply

requesting that those responsible for part of State Government look at this for what it is?

Good luck to you, Sir, and to your staff.

Thank You for your time.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Bell

Honorable Mark S. Coven, First Justice Quincy District Court Dennis Ryan Parkway Quincy, MA 02169 4/4/2007 Dear Judge Coven:

I thank you again for receiving my correspondence. While it may seem as if I am quick to criticize, I also want you to know I am also as quick to

compliment. Be patient in your review of this letter. It’s coming. After simply being blown out of a Magistrates hearing by Mr. Boone last week, I complained

pretty passionately to the Clerk’s Office staff. Their response was great, and I was given time with Judge Moriarty, who, basically did the same. It’s very confusing. I’m not sure why a documented assault with medical record and photograph does not qualify as an assault as much as written and unsubstantiated one-sided fabrications and distortions, especially when the person complaining has MMPI certified issues, and association with charged drug dealers with weapons history.

What’s even more surprising is that I cannot even get a protection order for myself. So, a woman who has abused both of her children, and spouse/ex-spouse with lies, and

abused the courts as well, stands indemnified as I, and my children, are further victimized. I spoke to Mr. Boone after all of it, and I think he got a pretty good picture of who I am. He’s

a wise person, and well traveled. As stated, I don’t understand what I ran into at your court. I was not as impressed with Judge O’Dea, and will remain on that position. I’m not interested in his time as a drug prosecutor, his 62 year old age, nor his 5 years on the

bench. How did I know this? That’s what he talked about in the few cases, mine included, I heard. He ignored my clear evidence, not even bothering to examine what I had in my hands in court. In fact, and I will check this on the recording, I believe he told me he was going to deny my motion for reconsideration before the hearing progressed into actually exchanging information. He seems to be unable to resists telling all who are listening about his personal characteristics. I have some problems that the court needs to address, the abuse of my children being most important, my abuse and the need for protection second. This time when I asked him if he’s heard of the MMPI, he told me he wasn’t going to answer that. I guess that’s an improvement over saying “no,” as before. The result was the same, and that result is having a seemingly ignorant Judge ignore evidence that consisted of documented statements from professionals. I have enclosed two of those statements.

1) Statement from Richard Elliot, Social Worker, with whom I voluntarily requested concentration on my anger, many years ago, the same time as Ms. Sheridan’s accusations, and,

2) Statement from Richard Martin, Social Worker of sorts, too, who is presently conducting mediation between Palestinians and Israelis in the Mid-east. He’s a champion of his craft.

Both specialists are very qualified to deal with the issues I have brought to them, and all of this is in an attempt to deal with my family issues against a person who disdains psychiatric intervention, and is documented as in denial of her psychological issues as interpreted by a federal court accepted test. Please review the letters.

Perhaps you’ll look at what Judge O’Dea did not, and what Judge Moriarty did not, and understand that I have been ignored, discriminated against, and my children still have a mother

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whose denials of psychological issues, with agreement by the court, demonstrates that your court would not know an abuser if it stood three feet in front of a Judge, and a victim stood next to her abusive mother at the same distance.

I’m not sure how you determine what goes on in sessions. I’m not even sure you listen to any. It seems as if your courthouse is very busy, maybe understaffed. For what it’s worth, I have submitted ideas to help funding of courts…again, my thought is to be part of the solution and simply not just complain. I’m not alone in my want for a better system.

It’s clearly not about the evidence your Honor. I want to end this letter with a compliment. After writing to you about the v-e-r-y long time

taken to provide me a “tape” of a hearing requested, I have requested more. I received a note recently that the first requested is available. Compared to the time of the previous request, I have received this at light speed, and this should not go without proper praise. Nice job to those who performed as they are able.

I am enclosing a check for $58.00, which is a bit higher than the amount I’ve paid in the past to have the applicable tape/CD sent to me. I’m hoping this is sufficient, and do not want any refund should it be a bit too much. Please use the funds for some person who needs copies and doesn’t have the funds to get a few or something. I’d trust Mr. Boone in a heartbeat to dispense the funds properly. Seems to me he’s probably done it already for somebody in need using his own resources.

I’m sure you’ll inform me if this is not proper, but please understand I have to drive over 200 miles to get to the courthouse and back, just to pick the tape/CD up.

Murphy’s Law would also state that, at the speed you’ve processed the first request, the second would be in the mail when I get back home, stating it, too, is awaiting pick-up. Please understand my desire to get this mailed to me.

Thank You, your honor. I’m not sure how you would understand my frustration and lapses in

the system if I did not write to you. As with previous correspondence, I am sending this to the Governor’s Office and that of the Attorney General. My reasoning for doing this is not to prod your court into anything, as much as I’d like to, but to remain open in my communication, and again, show I have nothing to hide, as I try so hard to save my daughter from a proven future of obstacles created by those thinking they are doing the right thing.

I can understand it….she may in the next 20-30 years…or may not. It’s also proven that the longer the alienation goes on, the worse it will get.

I hope you get it. Sincerely Yours, Mark Bell

Honorable Mark S. Coven, First Justice

Quincy District Court

Dennis Ryan Parkway

Quincy, MA 02169

5/15/2007

Dear Judge Coven:

Thank you again for receiving my correspondence.

I received the correspondence from the court regarding the fact my requested record of the hearing is

available for pickup, and would like to request again, that the CD be sent to me, postage funds included in the

attached check. Please use any funds over the amount of the cost for mailing the CD for somebody in need.

My compliments for using the audio system you have chosen. It’s in use in Hingham as well and is a

great means of archiving and distribution. Nice going to all involved!

I have had a great deal of time to think about the last decision reached by Judge O’Dea and still feel as

I did before, that there was no, and still is no, “immediate danger” of my being around my daughter or ex-

spouse. While the Judge may be good in his role as one to interpret laws and decide Judgment, he is a crappy

Social Worker and seems immune to evidence in many journals regarding the long term effects of Parental

Alienation. (Has he become familiar with MMPI’s yet?) There are means of my gaining reconsideration of his

call, but to protest a system that lacks the knowledge, demonstrated in practice and observation, to that very

system, is almost humorous in its futility.

My inability to press an assault charge at your court, despite proper procedures and professionally

guided documentation, as well as receive a restraining order, against a person who violates court agreements,

contracts, is exposed to people involved in drug and weapons trafficking, and is abusing my daughter, shows

discrimination. She talks and gets…I present professional documentation and am denied?

Look at your watch. Seconds tick by. The longer they do, the more entrenched my daughter’s

alienation becomes, according to “professionals” out of the scope of the decision making of your court; The

Social Workers. Maybe if a Judge or court was sued, and the sentence proposed was that those involved would

have to refrain from contact with their children for a year, or be arrested, it would sink in. Psychological abuse

is immediate (and future) danger, wouldn’t you agree? What am I going to do to my daughter…get her another

trust fund? Teach her to love? Take a key out of her hand when she’s too upset to drive? I’m guilty!

It’s up to you, not me, to deal with these issues. It’s your court and the way it runs is your business.

I’m just a citizen with rights I seem to have to endlessly fight to gain. It’s tragic. I thought it was my, and my

daughter’s court as well. We both lose, the court is numb to it, and an abusive vindictive mother/ex-spouse gets

to practice her demented psychology. I remain stunned. You should know better, it’s your job. It’s also my

daughter’s future. DA’s state that getting RO’s is like getting candy, and lawyers tell me I’m crazy for writing

you. But I got to do something. Somebody has to let my daughter know I’m trying. My son is very proud of my

efforts. He knows first hand what I’m like, and has all the freedom to make his own decisions of where he

wants to be, and to come and go as he pleases, which includes my unwavering encouragement that he maintain

his relationship with his mother. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that’s not a 2-way street.

King Solomon had the wisdom to give the baby to the mother who didn’t want to rip it in half in a tug-

of-war, and would rather see it lost than possibly tear it. What aren’t you seeing here?

At any rate, attached is the check. Thanks again for your time.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Bell

CC: Governor, Attorney General’s Office

Honorable Mark S. Coven, Presiding Justice

Quincy District Court

Dennis Ryan Parkway

Quincy, MA 02169

Fax: (617) 376-4785

6/9/2008

Dear Judge Coven:

It is my understanding that Lynne Sheridan appeared at your court to obtain a modification to

an existing 209A to allow me to go to the graduation of our son, Devon, here in Westfield.

Would you please ask the Clerk’s Office, or others, to send me the paperwork from that

proceeding for my records? I am not sure of the date of this action, however, the docket should

contain this data.

I will also need the proper form to get the tape of the proceeding. If possible, can your office

enclose this form with the other mailed correspondence?

Thank you for your assistance.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Bell

Honorable Mark S. Coven, Presiding Justice

Quincy District Court

Dennis Ryan Parkway

Quincy, MA 02169

3/3/2009

Dear Judge Coven:

Enclosed is the last letter I wrote you. At the time a 209A modification had been obtained to

facilitate my son’s parents being present at the proudest moment of his educational life.

My lawyer could not obtain this information when he called so I could attend with the rights

due to me per the modification. He was told on the Friday after the modification had been filed that

“no modification had been filed.” He was clearly lied to, and my rights violated, if not by some clerk

in your court, by the process itself.

Archie Keohane was certainly at the event, though, and Clerk Keohane has been part of many

court-related “events” as has been told to me by other lawyers. A nice man is doing very bad things.

I will not go to your court at this point. What laws you perform with are well betyond my

scope of information acquisition, and certainly beyond many in the legal profession. My rights from

the day I walked into the courtroom have been abused, such as when Judge Orfanello literally tossed

nine pages of affidavit at me and yelled at me for long-past issues that were also long-past settled.

Judge O’Dea may have learned what an MMPI test is by now, and why the lying Lynne Sheridan

operates your court as she does is beyond me. Those two judges, and the third we faced a few times

now, are simply being lied to. I’m sure Archie Keohane is pleased.

However, I’m trying so hard to extend an Olive Branch to anyone in the court system that

may care about issues, and I will again reach out to you to lead your court in a matter the enclosed

information will frame. Here are items of note.

1. Divorce agreement. ON 2-15-05 Lynne Sheridan and I signed a divorce agreement, a passage

of which, page 3, section 4 of the agreement, clearly states the issues past in the marriage are

just that; past. She is not permitted to use those previous claims and actions arising out of the

marital relationship and operated in your court contrary, and illegally, with a decree from

another court preventing those actions.

2. Her original affidavit is also attached. Few items, if any, are of the time period of her

complaint. In seeking the 209A, Judge Orfanello cited her false affidavit in her decision,

Judge O’Dea cited an event well-previous to the divorce, the one-sided account of the stress

of a breaking marriage. Restraining orders were well-invented and implemented at that time,

too. This is a woman who just seeks revenge, and is abusing your court as she did me and

both children.

3. Denied-in-testimony Contempt finding: Attached is the contempt finding she perjured herself

in court with, by denying it existed under oath in testimony to a Judge.

4. Publication of Kelsey Bell: A friend aware of my situation with Kelsey brought my attention

to a web log that Kelsey published. It was pretty easy to find. The reader can draw many

impressions from the writing, but those in Quincy Court should be particularly disturbed that

even the lies she states to appease her mother don’t make sense anymore, and they’re ALL on

paper. I’ve include that, and taken the text and inserted my point of view.

If the court cares about the welfare of my other child, my son Devon has had the three best

years of his academic life, and is on Dean’s List at Champlain College after his first semester there.

His social life and friends he has chosen are top-notch. Sometimes I believe he’s a bit too happy. It’s

too bad his sister is “divorced” from his influence as well.

I’m sure you have access to psychologists who are expert in this area. While Ms. Sheridan

may or may not be in concert with Archie Keohane, this should not matter. The court either blew it in

trying to perform its diligent work, and was fooled by Lynne Sheridan’s lies, or my inability to bring

forward a protest based on the fact that every instance of pre-divorce date issues brought before the

court on her affidavits was illegal.

A criminal contempt filing has taken place at Norfolk Probate Court, and has been requested

for upcoming scheduled trial later in March, a trial I have successfully moved for, and received a

date for. Should the filing not work out, it will be refiled, especially based on the tremendous

damages that have been part of Kelsey Bell’s life. She, unlike me, my son, and three lawyers who

have quit Ms. Sheridan’s service, still remains a pitiful soul who has been taught to hate her father,

and just has not started thinking for herself. Imagine her burdens.

It’s almost unfair that the best compliment that can be given a judge is use of the word “fair.”

It’s also bad when any citizen has to be afraid of a court. I am afraid of yours.

Intimidating guards, being yelled at by a judge who, not only was lied to numerous times, but,

as the divorce agreement states, Lynne Sheridan was operating against another MA Court decision

and her own agreement to even present her claims at Quincy Court. There was no violence that

moved her very capable lawyers, Michael Podolski and Stephen Salon, to obtain a 209A. There was

none that moved Ms. Sheridan to, previous to her ruse in your court, despite numerous discussions

we had of the abusive marriage, during the marriage. I had professionals advising me who guided me

into documenting all of it, and hence, the medical report and picture that has been presented to the

court exists after she severely assaulted me. She never agreed to counseling until after I left the

marriage, and that was folly. She has yet to release it all to that in the divorce agreement. The 6’

docket at the Norfolk court speaks volumes. Your judge ruled brutal injuries from the assault Ms.

Sheridan delivered to me were ruled “not an assault,” too. Does Archie Keohane’s sister-in-law not

know how to press an assault charge, or is lying about a 209A under false pretenses a better means of

penalty? Either way, lying/perjury is illegal. Obtaining a 209A under false pretenses is illegal.

I cannot stop this woman, or defeng against her, until somebody stops her illegal activities.

At the end of this week, you have a hearing based on affidavits that were illegally presented

to the court from a person who was not assaulted, threatened, or even approached from the date of

the divorce to today. She violates the divorce agreement by simply asking for a continuance of the

first order. Kelsey is in the same “boat,” as her assault allegation was never seen as such, and

“issues” of her interesting recall are certainly not violence the 209A was implemented for. While she

was done a favor of peace by not being ripped apart on the stand by a very good lawyer, as she would

have been, the peaceful gesture is meaningless. She still hates, likely believing she is protecting her

mother. There have been no issues.ted the agreement, as she has frequently, has, or sought to cite me

for the same. Last year the judge grimaced as Ms. Sheridan asked for a “lifetime” 209A, as even she

is affected by this. She has to be.

I need help from Administrative people to get this case within the margins. I am hoping for

your assistance. Thank you for any consideration.

Sincerely Yours,

Mark Bell