A list of judicial misconduct committed by Associate Justice Ronald Gagnon

The following complaints seem to show that Judge Gagnon views Citizens exercising their Constitutional Rights as harassers and enemies of the state.

Complaint One:  On 3-10-2000 in a hearing on the matter of Garganta v Mobile Village, Judge Gagnon told Richard Garganta in open court with witnesses present, "There are only 3 people in my life that aggravate me and you're one of them.  He then followed with other remarks one being, "You are aggravating the system and you will pay the price for that."  Note these comments were said after Mr. Garganta thought the hearing was over and had turned away from the bench.  Judge Gagnon also told Richard Garganta, "I don't know if you're telling the truth even if you take the oath"   which was plainly saying Mr. Garganta wasn't believable to Judge Gagnon...period.  Yet, Judge Gagnon said this without having one single example of Mr. Garganta ever having lied or using deception with Judge Gagnon or anyone else.  Judge Gagnon also kept interrupting Mr. Garganta's arguments and would not let him finish.  At one point he started to rule WHILE Mr. Garganta was presenting his arguments.  In this matter Judge Gagnon:

• steadfastly refused to order a Rhode Island mobile home park [Mobile Village] to comply with fire code violations despite knowledge of the violation and
• created a "semi-civil process" where litigants go through the motions without a chance of being effectively heard or getting any meaningful results.

Complaint two:   In an earlier hearing regarding the above matter, Mr. Garganta had a volunteer attorney handling the matter.  The attorney was told by an angry Judge Gagnon as soon as the attorney walked in the door, "Your client [Garganta] has been harassing Mobile Village for the last five years and it is time it ended."   Mr. Garganta was the spokesperson for the duly recognized tenant's association.   The overwhelming majority of dealings he had with Mobile Village were tenant association related and are listed below.  Therefore, the "harassment" as defined by Judge Gagnon consisted of:

• the tenant's association fighting for and finally getting street lighting in Mobile Village that was supposed to be in place for over a decade
• the tenant's association fighting for and finally getting a sign outside of the park so it could be located by emergency vehicles.  This sign was also supposed to be in place for over a decade.
• the tenant's association fighting for and finally getting proper street names/numbering so emergency vehicles could find homes.  This was supposed to be done several years prior
• the tenant's association fighting for and continuing to fight for correction of fire code violations that as of 1-31-2003 remain uncorrected.  The Exeter fire codes have been ignored for almost 20 years
• the tenant's association also had to fight several times regarding periodic septic system problems
• Mr. Garganta fighting his retaliatory eviction that was fraudulently brought, fraudulently heard and fraudulently executed.

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