Jimbo Gomez
11-13-2005, 03:07 PM
Lindstedt transfer in works
By John Ford / Daily News Associate Editor
Martin Lindstedt could soon be transferred from the Newton County Jail to a state mental health facility, officials with the prosecutor's office said Thursday.
Meanwhile, court proceedings in Lindstedt's first degree statutory sodomy case have been put on hold, and 22 counts of contempt of court against the Granby resident have been set aside by Division III Associate Circuit Court Judge Kevin Lee Selby, according to court documents.
According to Jake Skouby and Bill Dobbs, assistant Newton County prosecutors, Lindstedt will be taken into the custody of the state's department of mental health and his case will be reviewed within six months.
“Jake and I agree that it's public knowledge that Martin has been committed to the Department of Mental Health,” said Dobbs. “We can't give any specifics as far as placement.”
Lindstedt will remain a ward of the department of mental health until it's determined he can contribute to his own defense, Dobbs said.
A jailer answering the telephone at the Newton County Jail said Martin Lindstedt was still in custody Friday morning.
Lindstedt was accused of inappropriately kissing a family member on the child's back, buttocks and groin sometime between March and August 2003.
In a short note delivered to the Daily News office last week by a family member, Lindstedt said he wished to be released on his own recognizance, to be able to defend himself in court, and that Judge Selby be removed from the case. He filed four court documents over the past summer and this fall asking that Judge Timothy Perigo reassign the case.
Lindstedt is in custody on $100,000 bond. Earlier this summer, he was sentenced to 660 days in the county jail for 22 counts of contempt of court for his outbursts in the courtroom.
Last week, the Neosho Daily News reported that Lindstedt had effectively been excommunicated from the Church of the Sons of YHVH, a white supremacist organization, for “writing and distributing some very disturbing ideas,” according to Pastor Morris L. Gulett. These ideas included “prion poisoning” of game animals, the “skinning alive of prisoners and execution by slow torture,” and the “gang rape of female whigger herd animals to use them as a brooding stock.”
“Now, you all may be aware that Martin Lindstedt is an ordained pastor with The Church of the Sons of YHVH and the Missouri state contact for the Legion of Saints,” Gulett said in his Aug. 9, 2005, letter titled “A Joyless Announcement,” which was posted on the church's website. “This letter is to make public that this is no longer the case. As of this moment, Martin Lindstedt's ordination as a pastor is null and void and his membership status with the Legion of Saints is revoked. I cannot in good conscience allow anyone who promotes such ungodly behavior and tactics to carry a valid ordination certificate that bears our church standard and my signature. Nor can I in good conscience allow anyone who promotes such ideas to carry a valid membership card that bears the standard of the Legion of Saints.”
Gulett added he did not believe the allegations brought against Lindstedt were valid.
“But as I stated, I cannot and I will not allow an ordained pastor of our church of an officer of the Legion of Saints to promote and endorse such vulgar, ungodly, unbiblical, unchristian practices as rape and torture. We are sons and daughters of the Most High YHVH, not street thugs.”
Gulett is no stranger to brushes with the law. In 1997, police spotted Gulett's van driving the wrong way down an Ohio street. After a 12-mile chase that ended in Beavercreek, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, Gulett crashed his van into a police car, attempted to run an officer off of the road, and tried to run down another officer before finally crashing his van into a creek.
Gulett pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer and was sent to prison, where he was on the receiving end of a severe beating by black prisoners. This left him with a broken nose, a ruptured ear drum and a busted lip. He threatened to sue Montgomery County, but settled out of court for $30,000.
In 2002, Gulett and the late Ray Redfeairn founded the Church of the Sons of YHVH. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the church supports “white racial supremacy” and the foundation of a group of violent “warriors for God.”
“We stand on the principles of racial segregation and white racial supremacy,” the church's website states. “We believe that the white race are the direct descendants of the Adamic man made in the image of YHVH, in the of [sic] garden of Eden, and was placed here to be the light bearer and supreme ruling race of this lost and dying world.”
A perennial political candidate, Lindstedt has sought a number of local, county and statewide offices over the years as a Libertarian, a member of the Reform Party and as a Republican. He last sought office this past April, when he ran for Granby municipal judge and for a seat on the East Newton R-6 School Board.
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By John Ford / Daily News Associate Editor
Martin Lindstedt could soon be transferred from the Newton County Jail to a state mental health facility, officials with the prosecutor's office said Thursday.
Meanwhile, court proceedings in Lindstedt's first degree statutory sodomy case have been put on hold, and 22 counts of contempt of court against the Granby resident have been set aside by Division III Associate Circuit Court Judge Kevin Lee Selby, according to court documents.
According to Jake Skouby and Bill Dobbs, assistant Newton County prosecutors, Lindstedt will be taken into the custody of the state's department of mental health and his case will be reviewed within six months.
“Jake and I agree that it's public knowledge that Martin has been committed to the Department of Mental Health,” said Dobbs. “We can't give any specifics as far as placement.”
Lindstedt will remain a ward of the department of mental health until it's determined he can contribute to his own defense, Dobbs said.
A jailer answering the telephone at the Newton County Jail said Martin Lindstedt was still in custody Friday morning.
Lindstedt was accused of inappropriately kissing a family member on the child's back, buttocks and groin sometime between March and August 2003.
In a short note delivered to the Daily News office last week by a family member, Lindstedt said he wished to be released on his own recognizance, to be able to defend himself in court, and that Judge Selby be removed from the case. He filed four court documents over the past summer and this fall asking that Judge Timothy Perigo reassign the case.
Lindstedt is in custody on $100,000 bond. Earlier this summer, he was sentenced to 660 days in the county jail for 22 counts of contempt of court for his outbursts in the courtroom.
Last week, the Neosho Daily News reported that Lindstedt had effectively been excommunicated from the Church of the Sons of YHVH, a white supremacist organization, for “writing and distributing some very disturbing ideas,” according to Pastor Morris L. Gulett. These ideas included “prion poisoning” of game animals, the “skinning alive of prisoners and execution by slow torture,” and the “gang rape of female whigger herd animals to use them as a brooding stock.”
“Now, you all may be aware that Martin Lindstedt is an ordained pastor with The Church of the Sons of YHVH and the Missouri state contact for the Legion of Saints,” Gulett said in his Aug. 9, 2005, letter titled “A Joyless Announcement,” which was posted on the church's website. “This letter is to make public that this is no longer the case. As of this moment, Martin Lindstedt's ordination as a pastor is null and void and his membership status with the Legion of Saints is revoked. I cannot in good conscience allow anyone who promotes such ungodly behavior and tactics to carry a valid ordination certificate that bears our church standard and my signature. Nor can I in good conscience allow anyone who promotes such ideas to carry a valid membership card that bears the standard of the Legion of Saints.”
Gulett added he did not believe the allegations brought against Lindstedt were valid.
“But as I stated, I cannot and I will not allow an ordained pastor of our church of an officer of the Legion of Saints to promote and endorse such vulgar, ungodly, unbiblical, unchristian practices as rape and torture. We are sons and daughters of the Most High YHVH, not street thugs.”
Gulett is no stranger to brushes with the law. In 1997, police spotted Gulett's van driving the wrong way down an Ohio street. After a 12-mile chase that ended in Beavercreek, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, Gulett crashed his van into a police car, attempted to run an officer off of the road, and tried to run down another officer before finally crashing his van into a creek.
Gulett pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer and was sent to prison, where he was on the receiving end of a severe beating by black prisoners. This left him with a broken nose, a ruptured ear drum and a busted lip. He threatened to sue Montgomery County, but settled out of court for $30,000.
In 2002, Gulett and the late Ray Redfeairn founded the Church of the Sons of YHVH. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the church supports “white racial supremacy” and the foundation of a group of violent “warriors for God.”
“We stand on the principles of racial segregation and white racial supremacy,” the church's website states. “We believe that the white race are the direct descendants of the Adamic man made in the image of YHVH, in the of [sic] garden of Eden, and was placed here to be the light bearer and supreme ruling race of this lost and dying world.”
A perennial political candidate, Lindstedt has sought a number of local, county and statewide offices over the years as a Libertarian, a member of the Reform Party and as a Republican. He last sought office this past April, when he ran for Granby municipal judge and for a seat on the East Newton R-6 School Board.
http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2005/11/11/news/news02.txt