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Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:13 pm

Chiggerbit, in the Gosch update thread said<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>one exception does jump to mind: Dr. Felix Polk, who was killed by his wife Susan. I think her trial is still going on<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Susan Polk was found guilty of second-degree murder on<br>June 16, 2006<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A jury of six men and six women spent just three days deliberating before finding Polk, 48, guilty of second-degree murder and a weapons enhancement in the fatal stabbing of her husband, 70-year-old Felix Polk, at their Orinda home in October 2002. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/story/8632-64/">susan-polk-news.newslib.c...y/8632-64/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Polk, who represented herself during a trial that lasted more than three months, was convicted June 16 of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her husband in 2002. Polk now faces the prospect of spending at least 16 years, if not the rest of her life, behind bars. <br><br>Polk said Thursday she is now willing to do something she's refused to do since her trial began. She is now asking for legal help. <br><br>Attorney Charles Hoehn appeared next to Polk in court Thursday. Hoehn said he may be willing to take the case and try to get Polk a new trial. <br><br>Hoehn is a private attorney who was appointed to represent Polk by the criminal conflict program of the Contra Costa County Bar Association<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/story/8632-74/">susan-polk-news.newslib.c...y/8632-74/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Convicted murderer Susan Polk's attorney, appointed to represent her at sentencing, has stepped down because he couldn't get a trial transcript, prosecutor Paul Sequeira said Tuesday.<br><br>Charles Hoehn, a private attorney who was appointed to represent Polk by the criminal conflict program of the Contra Costa County Bar Association, stepped down Monday, days before Polk's now-cancelled Friday court sentencing in Contra Costa County Superior Court for murdering her psychotherapist husband Felix Polk.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/story/8632-81/">susan-polk-news.newslib.c...y/8632-81/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Brady said Point Richmond attorney Charles Hoehn, who had tentatively agreed to represent Polk in July for presentencing purposes, has stepped down. Hoehn has said he couldn't effectively represent Polk without the trial transcript -- Brady declined his request for the voluminous record -- and also cited scheduling concerns. <br><br>Further complicating the issue, Brady said that the Contra Costa County Bar Association's Conflict Panel, which assigns attorneys for defendants, had come up empty with any lawyer willing to step in as Polk's attorney. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>All 19 attorneys</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> with experience in homicide cases declined to represent Polk, said they had conflicts of interest or were simply unavailable, Brady said, citing information from panel director David Briggs<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/story/8632-78/">susan-polk-news.newslib.c...y/8632-78/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>MARTINEZ, Calif. The sentencing of convicted murderer Susan Polk has been delayed for six months.<br><br>The judge in the yesterday case reluctantly pushed back the sentencing date for Polk so her new attorney can have time to prepare.<br><br>Polk had represented herself during the trial, but requested an attorney during the sentencing phase. Several attorneys have declined to take her case.<br><br>The attorney that did take the case told the judge yesterday that she would only represent Polk if she had at least six months to review the case.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/story/8632-86/">susan-polk-news.newslib.c...y/8632-86/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>these reports are all from here -<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://susan-polk-news.newslib.com/">susan-polk-news.newslib.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>the other site keeping detailed reports of this case is<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newsmakingnews.com/">www.newsmakingnews.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Susan Polk dismissed three attorneys whom she said would not argue a pure self defense case on her behalf. But it was the fourth attorney Daniel Horowitz and the brutal murder of his wife Pamela Vitale in October 2005 that focused international attention on the Polk trial. On October 11, 2005 Daniel Horowitz delivered the opening statements in the Susan Polk murder case. Four days later in the late afternoon Daniel Horowitz arrived home to discover the body of his beloved wife beaten to death just inside the front door of their trailer home. On October 17, 2005, Judge Laurel Brady declared a mistrial and sent the first Polk jury home citing the international publicity covering the tragedy in Horowitz' life. A new trial date was set for January 31, 2006 after Susan Polk said that there was no conflicts of interest between her case and the investigation into Pamela Vitale's murder. At first it appeared that the attorney would try to overcome his grief and continue to represent his client. It soon became apparent, however, that disputes had arisen between the attorney and his client. On January 12, 2006 Susan Polk again fired her attorney and prepared to represent herself at trial<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newsmakingnews.com/vm,susanpolk,otherside,%20pt1,3,27,06.htm">www.newsmakingnews.com/vm...,27,06.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:18 pm

OMG, another Gunderson client. OF course, she didn't have much choice. Weird case. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:33 pm

SUSAN POLK TESTIFIES ABOUT THE MOSSAD, THE TRANCES AND THE MARRIAGE <br><br>by Kathryn Joanne Dixon <br><br>On September 17, 2006,(sic) Susan Polk started direct testimony in narrative form to try to prove that she killed her husband Dr. Felix Polk in self defense at the pool house of their Orinda home on about October 13, 2002.<br><br>....<br><br>She explained that at her 40th birthday party she realized that all the persons attending were her psychologist/husband’s colleagues or patients, and that he had “dual relationships” with some patients -- "dual relationships" means his patients were also his personal friends. <br><br>Susan realized she wanted to know who she was and live her own life. She also realized her sons were beginning to act more like their father as they reached adolescence, in that they were aggressive, violent and had ideas identical to those of father. Susan said, “I felt I must intercede or they would think it’s okay to abuse women.” <br><br>......<br>Susan testified that Dr. Polk’s violence and verbal abuse of her continued. In September 2001, she finally left Felix Polk and drove to Montana with her sons Eli and Gabriel and their dogs. Within a few months Eli drove home to Orinda in his own car after a dispute with his mother about the rules of the house. Gabriel was also homesick and Susan sent him home by airplane. Her lease was up in Montana and she decided to follow them back to her Orinda home. <br><br>When she arrived, at first Dr. Polk was delighted to have her and their sons all home again. She testified it was like a "honeymoon". But soon Dr. Polk’s verbal and physical abuse of her resumed. He told her sons she was crazy and delusional. She tried to hold the family together. She did not leave him again until September 2002, when she returned to Montana to look for a permanent place to live. She wanted to buy a house<br><br>.....<br><br>From Montana, Susan sent a letter to seven Contra Costa Judges. She testified she faxed this letter to the judges about a week before Felix Polk was killed. Susan read the letter to the jury and it was admitted into evidence. The letter contained a diary entry Susan had made near the time she was in a trance prior to 9/11. Susan explained to the jury that she used the Code name "Alice", after Alice Little, the child who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland. Susan chose that name when her husband asked her during a trance session what code name she desired. Susan signed the letter to the judges as “A. Little, General Delivery, Jackson Wyoming”. <br><br>In the letter she referred to her husband as “F”, and her sons by the first letter of their first names. The letter stated that a Mossad agent failed to provide a warning he had about 9/11, and that “F”, should brace himself because he’s in for a shock. The letter said a Mossad agent and his “cell” were influencing the Contra Costa County Court, and that the Mossad cell included persons like “M” stationed in Germany, and “B” who was going on field trips in Pakistan. <br><br>.....<br><br>The letter referred to a child custody litigation in Contra Costa County and gave the initials of two of her sons. Susan opined to the jury that the letter was quite recognizable as referring to Dr. Felix Polk and herself and their divorce litigation. It directly implied Dr. Polk was a Mossad agent. In the letter, she challenged, “Why did this agent not warn about 9/11?” She said the targets were named by a person placed in a trance by the Mossad, and targets were identified during this trance, including the Pentagon and World Trade Center. The person in a trance stated a plane would be hijacked and flown into these buildings. The specific date of the attack, 9/11, was provided in this trance. The letter questioned whether persons in this Mossad cell had any loyalty to the United States because they did not tell US authorities about the prediction of the 9/11 attack. The letter included the political position of the writer which implied that the United States favored Israel over Palestine and that this policy would lead to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which would further Israel’s purposes. <br><br>........<br><br>Susan said that when Felix learned about this letter he was enraged. She had inadvertently faxed it to him on October 3, 2002. She testified that she then confronted him and accused him of being a Mossad agent. He did not deny it. He did not say “no”. He told her “You’re getting me into a lot of trouble." <br><br>.......<br>Before the day in court ended, Susan told the jury she felt her husband had betrayed American interests by not telling authorities before 9/11 that she had predicted the attacks. She testified, “I have a gift and it should have been used to spare their lives.” <br><br>Susan testified that her prediction of the 9/11 attack before it happened was the last prediction she made for her husband while under a trance he induced. <br><br>How did Susan and Felix get into the realm of trances and predictions? <br><br>Susan testified how she became a “medium” for her husband and for "them" -- his group of colleagues<br><br>......<br><br>She said that when she was 14-years-old she attended Clayton Valley High School in Concord. She suddenly stopped going to school on several occasions, because she liked to stay home and read books. One day, a group of students were selected for an "experiment". She was selected. They were taken to a room where several University of California "grad students" tested them for psychic ability. The grad students told them to draw pictures of what items were hidden in a black box. Susan drew many items she believed were in the box. One of the grad students gave her a "hard look". She had a high test score. Shortly thereafter, the school suggested to her mother that she be sent her to be “evaluated” by Dr. Felix Polk, ostensibly for truancy. <br><br>Her mother took the advice. After all, Dr. Polk was recommended as an expert in adolescent psychology. Susan visited Dr. Polk at his office in Berkeley. Immediately, he talked to her about her psychic ability and gave her a cup of “herbal tea” and hypnotized her. Susan fell into a trance easily. She experienced her trances as her being either totally unconscious or sometimes slightly conscious and she was able to observe her trance-induced thoughts to some degree during the trances. Susan learned years later that during these trances induced in psychotherapy sessions during her adolescence, she told Dr. Polk what she “saw”. She didn’t realize at the time that she was reporting to Dr. Polk what she saw during the trances. She testified going into a trance was like "dying", "losing time", and "losing pieces of herself". After therapy sessions, she began to feel panic, fear and anxiety. She felt she "resisted" while being in a trance, but Dr. Polk overcame her resistance<br><br>......<br><br>Susan told her mother about one incident. In her testimony at the commencement of the defense case, Helen Bolling testified that her daughter told her she sat on Dr. Polk’s lap during sessions. Helen confronted him about this. He assured her he would act properly in the future. Helen believed him. She testified at trial she will always feel guilty that she didn’t report the incident to authorities. <br><br>Susan continued psychotherapy sessions with Dr. Polk throughout her adolescence and into her early twenties. Later in life, in her forties, she realized Dr. Polk began having sexual relations with her during the trances when she was only 14-years-old and continued to do so. She believed the cup of tea he served contained an unidentified drug -- possibly an hallucinogen. In later years, she "flashed back" to these sessions. Eventually during a group therapy session Dr. Polk held for young adults, Susan announced to the group, “Dr. Polk is my lover.” He was furious. She "came out". He told her he could lose his license. He threatened her. <br><br>.......<br>Susan’s fidelity toward Dr. Polk has never been questioned during this trial, whereas Dr. Polk’s fidelity toward her has been at issue. Susan testified that Dr. Polk wanted a “doll” to control and dominate. During the trance sessions he was dictatorial and mean. Outside the trance sessions he was a different person. No individuality was allowed during trances. He engaged in guided visualizations, some of which were simple in nature. However, some were terrifying. He pushed her into trancelike visualizations about her falling and then getting hurt and falling again. He induced visualizations about her father killing someone and her mother’s involvement in this. He had had her visualize Satanists and their activities. He forced her during trances to see her sons getting into trouble and told her she could not help them. Dr. Polk was extremely aggressive toward her sexually<br><br>......<br>Immediately after marriage, Dr. Polk informed his wife that if she did not have sex with him whenever he wanted it and that if she left him he would kill her. She did not leave him. She was in love with him. <br><br>Dr. Polk continued to place her in trances and she continued to make predictions for him. He told her he had a government grant for a research project involving ESP. The project was for life, and she couldn’t get out of it, he said. To keep the secrets was paramount<br><br>.......<br><br> Eventually, she began to understand the process. She felt she was in “cognitive dissonance” or that a hard disk crashed when she went into trances. She lived in two realities --- one was normal, the other reality had a side which was partly hidden from her consciousness. The other reality occurred during the hypnotic trance sessions with Dr. Polk. The “other side creeped her out.” <br><br>While engaged in his “project”, Felix never told her he was a spy. Susan testified that “No one said ‘I am a CIA officer!’” Yet Felix made it clear his “affiliation was with Israel.” He had dual citizenship – United States and Israel. He conditioned her not to talk about their secrets – his having sex with her when she was underage, the trances, the project, the predictions and his affiliations, all "the secrets". He told her if she talked he would kill her. Dr. Polk said “they”, meaning his associates, whom he referred to as his "family", (not his biological family) were interested in mind control and ESP, especially in obtaining predictions. When Susan didn’t produce predictions under trance, Felix grew angry. He pressured her. He used the trances to destroy her individuality. She continued to resist at times. Dr. Polk told Susan he was experimenting with the idea of multiplicity of selves and of consciousnesses and he was trying to control these with hypnosis. The process was like “remote control”. <br><br>.......<br><br>Without objection by Deputy District Attorney Paul Sequeria, Susan testified in significant detail about her husband’s intelligence activities. She said that about 25 years ago she heard her husband and his associates talking about the assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone before it happened on November 27, 1978. She felt that if Dr. Polk's associates whom he referred to as his "family" knew about this assassination in advance and did nothing to prevent it, her life was meaningless and that she was married to a monster<br><br>......<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newsmakingnews.com/kd,susanpolk,mossad,trances,5,17,06.htm">www.newsmakingnews.com/kd...,17,06.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:36 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>OMG, another Gunderson client. OF course, she didn't have much choice. Weird case<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>LOL chiggers, gets weirder, huh ?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:40 pm

Get to the part from Jackie McGauly(?) yet? <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:43 pm

How old was she when Felix married her?<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 9/11/06 8:49 pm<br></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:47 pm

NEWSMAKINGNEWS.COM<br>OPEN LETTER TO SUSAN POLK <br>from Jackie McGauley<br> <br><br>June 4, 2006 <br><br>Susan, <br><br>Remember me? <br><br>Jackie McGauley from Manhattan Beach. <br><br>Your husband, Felix was recommended to me by one of my conference speakers from the ACT Forum in 1987. She was one of Felix's patients. <br><br>Felix came here to meet some parents of Ritually Abused children during the 1980s preschool cases in Southern California and, I learned later, to promote some sort of group Felix was forming. Felix brought you and your two small children. <br><br>Felix asked me to speak at his conference held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. I drove to San Francisco and stayed at the Presidio where there was an active daycare child molestation case at the time. It seemed to me most of those participants were his students and patients. <br><br>You consistently and quietly bowed out of all of Felix's activities. Felix always claimed you had to take care of the children. He kept using your name as an active participant. I could tell you did not share Felix's enthusiasm and I could not figure out why he kept dropping your name. <br><br>Even though I never answered his many phone calls, Felix continued, for literally years, to leave messages and try to persuade me to join his group. I was never comfortable with him or his ideas. <br><br>There are some things you need to know. <br><br>You need to do some research on the people who are advising you. <br><br>During my trial I got some very bad advice from the same people that are now advising you. They were involved only to promote their own agenda and in fact, seriously hindered any progress we had made. <br><br>To this day my case is tragically misunderstood due in large part to the unauthorized misrepresentation and blatant interference in numerous public forums. <br><br>It seems you are caught up in the same mistake I and others have made -- trusting the wrong people. <br><br>If a mistrial was ever called for, it is in your trial. <br><br>You can reach me at xxx-xxx-xxxx. <br><br>Jackie McGauley <br><br>Kindest regards,<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newsmakingnews.com/jacquemcgauley,6,5,06,letter,susanpolk.htm">www.newsmakingnews.com/ja...anpolk.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:49 pm

LOL<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:49 pm

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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:51 pm

chiggers, <br>fastest draw in the west ?<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rain@rigorousintuition>rain</A> at: 9/11/06 8:51 pm<br></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:59 pm

No need for redundancy.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby FourthBase » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:51 pm

WTF are you two carrying on about? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :| --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/indifferent.gif ALT=":|"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>I wouldn't be surprised if everything she said was either:<br>A) 95% true or B) 95% bullshit.<br><br>The Mossad thing is weird...<br>But not <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>that</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> weird. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby chiggerbit » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:14 am

I posted the very same article a few seconds before rain. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

Postby rain » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:16 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>WTF are you two carrying on about? <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>apologies FB,<br>that was both of us posting the Jackie McGauley letter at approx. the same time, but chiggers was faster,<br><br>and, <br>I choose A.<br><br>lol.<br>there he goes again!!!<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rain@rigorousintuition>rain</A> at: 9/11/06 10:17 pm<br></i>
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Re: Susan Polk case

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OK <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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