by Mr Penguin | Jun 22, 2025 |
After a thorough review of the court transcript independent and renowned lawyer Jacob Hornberger speaks out on the travesty of the prosecution of Ian Freeman
Renowned lawyer Jacob Horberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) attended the Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival this summer to present a speech on his legal analysis of the Ian Freeman case.
Ian Freeman was arrested in 2021 for the ‘crime’ of selling Bitcoin. In spite of the legal advise, few vending machines operated by him and the Shire Free Church, a complete lack of evidence connecting Ian to the supposed crimes, and more a prejudicial jury found Ian Freeman guilty on 8 counts and 4 charges. These included: Unlicensed money transmission, money laundering, conspiracy to launder, and 4 counts of tax evasion (one for each year of the federal government’s investigation).
Under cross examination the governments leading witness testified that she couldn’t confirm that Ian Freeman owed anything at all. Taxes that is.
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by Highline | May 22, 2025 |
Now normally I wouldn’t be posting private e-mails between myself and an opposing lawyer working on a case I’m working on as I don’t find that generally to be very classy — but I felt it was appropriate to post an e-mail I sent to an Assistant Grafton County Attorney this morning.
The government has unfortunately been showing Rob and I about zero respect. They are not communicating anything about anything… and I’ve been working on this since January.
This is the e-mail I sent this to Assistant Grafton County Attorney Taylor Moult.
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by Highline | Apr 17, 2025 |
On March 31st of this year I requested that Grafton County Attorney Martha Hornick legally identify Robert L. Lamontagne as a “victim” under New Hampshire’s Victim’s Bill of Rights Act for the criminal due process violations we allege he sustained during his trial. Unfortunately CA Hornick has appeared to take no action on this. No disrespect intended to her… but we’re not interested in sitting around waiting for this case to get older. We’re appealing to NH Attorney General John Formella immediately to have his Office designate Rob a legal “victim” of state agent misconduct that seems to have cost him his right to a fair trial.
If Rob went to State Prison for nearly ten years on an established practice of willful due process violations in Cheshire County — other people probably did too. That is an unacceptable disruption in controlling federal constitutional law by state authorities that have no such authority. The American public shouldn’t tolerate this. These national rules exist to protect our people uniformly throughout the land. Defense lawyers have an absolute legal right to know the credibility risks of a witness says the United States Constitution. State law in New Hampshire makes it a crime of various degrees to conceal this required federal information.
This is so serious of a breach in the public trust in my view that people with badges should be investigating this… not a blogger on FreeKeene.com.
Nonetheless, we respectfully appeal to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella to have Rob designated a “victim” of a criminal due process violations that caused him serious harm.
by Highline | Mar 17, 2025 |
It is a bit ridiculous that I have to do this… but here is my “Demand Letter” to the Keene Police demanding they comply with NH RSA 91-A. The next step is filing a formal lawsuit against the City of Keene in the Cheshire County Superior Court.
I know many of you who engage here at FreeKeene.com are skeptical of Mr. Lamontagne’s claims of innocence. I’d like to think that even if you are one who is skeptical of Rob’s claims that you would agree that the KPD should be complying with state laws regarding public records.
A thorough review of what happened in his case is only possible if we can acquire these records.
UPDATE: 178 minutes after posting this blog and e-mailing the demand letter to Assistant County Attorney Tim Donovan I received the records that were requested.
by Highline | Mar 10, 2025 |
As I wrote in the last blog I published I am presently awaiting a records request that I made to the Keene, NH Police Department on 1/21/25. That request was made in the form of a letter to the Keene Police Chief, Steve Stewart.
I received an email response from Assistant Cheshire County Attorney Tim Donovan on 1/24/25 that they were unable to locate the records I was seeking. I reiterated in an email response that same day that I was looking for all department records that pertain to Mr. Robert Lamontagne. On 1/27/25 Attorney Donovan responded that the request was being forwarded to the Keene Police Records Department for fulfilment. Oddly, Attorney Donovan also responded that they were not treating my request as a “91-A” records request.
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by Highline | Mar 4, 2025 |
As many of you know I am not a licensed “Attorney-at-Law.” I am, however, a former law enforcement officer with some legal experience who enjoys dabbling in legal work as a hobby to help others who find themselves in various legal predicaments.
I recently posted on the Shire Society Forum that I was interested in donating some of my free time to get involved in another legal case. A gentleman named Robert “Rob” Lamontagne responded and asked me if I would help him with his legal situation.
Please meet Mr. Robert “Rob” Lamontagne
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