Keith Kellerman
PERRY CO.—Remember Keith Kellerman?
Who can forget his skank ass.
And now, it’s gotten even skankier, because the sheriff of Perry County—that’d be Kellerman—has had a PRIVATE hearing in judge’s chambers outside of the view/earshot of the public and press (who has a RIGHT to know how their tax dollars are being spent) on his charge of indecent conduct from 2011…which resulted in the charge being dismissed.
That’s right. This incident from more than a year ago, in which the married-with-children Kellerman was caught by a cop in a lighted parking lot outside a bar in Caseyville in a car “unclothed” and with another man, J. Ian Stennett, “engaged in sexual conduct,” is gone. Kellerman is still a sheriff. And the public has NO WAY of knowing what went on in judge Julie Katz’ chambers…because that’s how it’s done in St. Clair County, which is how the place, along with Madison County, earned the nickname the “judicial hellhole of Illinois.”
The attorney for the village of Caseyville, Alvin Paulson, told the press and everybody else interested in the case that “We do that all the time” (regarding the closed hearing wherein Kellerman was exonerated of the charge…which was simply an ordinance violation from what we can determine). Well, yeah, Al…that’s why you’re the judicial hellhole of the state.
So here’s what we suggest.
Go to Caseyville and engage in ‘indecent conduct’…because as Judge Katz said, it’s “not defined” in the village ordinance.
Have sex with someone in a car in a lighted parking lot after a bar closes. You know, things like that.
Get ticketed.
Demand a closed hearing when it comes time to bring it to court.
Also demand a St. Clair County associate judge.
Then demand it gets dismissed.
If the court fails to give you EXACTLY the deal they just gave Sheriff Kellerman, demand that case law has been set and when you’re convicted, appeal it. And demand compensation when the case is overturned based on that case law set by Kellerman.
This is just sickening. We do hope that at least the Illinois Press Association’s attorneys do something about this…because we’re going to FOIA for documents from this, and when we don’t get response, we’re going to get a whole lot more agencies involved than IPA.
And of course, “judge” Julie Katz is an associate, so she can’t be removed by vote of the public…she’s selected by the duly-elected judges in the 2oth Circuit…who are there until they decide to retire because the people in the 20th don’t understand that they can vote “no” to retain judges (and should, at every election, until this kind of nonsense stops)…so we’re all just screwed.
Except for Kellerman, of course. He’s up for re-election—and you just know he’s gonna run—in 2014.