A recap of the most recent case goes as follows. Keovilaisack Sayasane, 44, was charged with threatening to harm his wife with a hammer in their home. A problem for the prosecution in the case was that Sayasane’s wife was scheduled to testify for the defense. As the only eyewitness and alleged victim in the case it could have proven to be an insurmountable obstacle to a conviction.
But the wife had a change of heart about testifying when she was told by Mary Kellett that Sayasane had been convicted of killing his first wife some 25 years earlier. The Bangor Daily News reports that when the judge in the case, Justice Kevin Cuddy, learned of this, he ultimately declared a mistrial, which ended the current proceedings against Sayasane, but allows the prosecution to retry the case.
Sayasane, however, had not killed his first wife. He was convicted of manslaughter in the 1987 stabbing death of a man in Hampden, Maine.
Court transcripts reveal that both defense attorney Jeffry Toothaker and Mary Kellett informed the court that they were both given the erroneous information on Saysane’s conviction by Deputy Attorney General William Stokes, head of the Attorney General’s Office’s criminal division. But Stokes has a strikingly different story. Namely that it never happened.
This is Stoke’s version according to the Bangor Daily News:
“Stokes said he never provided any information to Kellett that indicated that the victim in the manslaughter case was Sayasane’s previous wife, or even that the victim was a woman. Stokes said he had no prior knowledge of the case before Kellett contacted him about it, and so had to go look up the information in case summaries that are kept on file at the Attorney General’s Office in Augusta.
The summary, Stokes said, indicates that the victim in the 1986 stabbing was a 21-year old man named Boudone Meuaneboutdy who was a friend of Sayasane’s. He said that is the information he forwarded to Kellett.
“Where the wife part came in, I have no knowledge,” Stokes said.
- Mary Kellett engaged in witness tampering by lying to the alleged victim in the case thus coercing her to withdraw exculpatory testimony.
- Mary Kellett further perpetrated a fraud on the court by misleading the judge to believe that she had been furnished information from the state AG’s office, when in fact she had been furnished no such information.
There may well be other violations that become apparent as this case is investigated further. But these two points of interest do serve as grounds for further complaints to the Overseers of the Bar in Maine, as well as to the office of Governor Paul LePage and the Office of the State Attorney General.
There is a pending bar complaint on Mary Kellett stemming from the Vladek Filler case that was filed by the National Coalition for Men. That complaint has been investigated and referred to the bar with the recommendation that sanctions against Kellett were warranted.
It was originally the position of AVfM that before a complaint was filed with the bar against Kellett for the Sayasane case that the Filler complaint would be allowed to come to conclusion. These recent revelations by the state AG of Maine are grounds to revise that decision.
The time for action is now.
I am also going to call on readers of AVfM to assist with these vital actions as quickly as possible. Please write Governor LePage and the State Attorney General and ask them why, after such demonstrated malfeasance on the part of a Maine state functionary, is she being allowed to continue prosecuting in Maine.
I am also writing Ellsworth District Attorney Carletta Bossano, Mary Kellett’s direct supervisor and the individual that holds the ultimate responsibility for actions that emanate from her office, to demand that Kellett be suspended from duties until her actions are thoroughly investigated. I ask all those interested in justice to do the same.
Finally, if you have a blog or website, no matter how large or small, I ask you to please help us go on the offensive against the Orwellian nightmare happening in Maine by posting this article, in its entirety to your site. Facebook and twitter users, please do the same, and thank you all for helping us turn up the heat on an ongoing miscarriage of justice.
Remember, if we can just take one corrupt prosecutor out it will send reverberations throughout the system of feminist governance and will correct an absolute evil going in the state of Maine. Even the Bangor Daily News, previously hesitant to fully address this story, is now smelling blood. Let’s finish this. Let’s FTSU, and I mean NOW.
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Dr. F:
Mary Kellett is a representation of a lot of women in our culture. I have to deal with many women who seem to think every confrontation or disagreement with a man is an opportunity to come away with a win for Team Woman. If women let men get the better of them in anyway, then they have brought shame upon Team Woman. Mary Kellett tossing men in prison personifies what a lot of women think of men; men are to be used to fulfill a woman’s selfish needs/wants and then it is time to discard them. You only have to look at the glorification of female on male violence to understand there is open hunting season on the male gender every second of every day.
I think that is one of the things that makes me lose my cool. Women are considered more important than me because I was born with male genitalia. I am outraged that women think they are untouchable, yet it is acceptable to inflict pain upon men. People need to keep their hands to themselves unless they fight back in self-defense.
Most women today want everything in life without sacrificing anything. They don’t want to be discriminated against while at the same time they discriminate against men. They want all the rewards life has to offer without accepting any of the responsibilities that come with those rewards.
love the grav, very fitting
Thank you Keith.
Robert, when people mouseover your avatar, they see your username. If you don’t want people to see it, go here:
http://en.gravatar.com/profiles/edit/?noclose#about-you
And under “display name” put however you want others to see you when they go over your avatar. Right now people can see your username.
Thanks for letting me know. I took care of it.
Thanks for adding the Webplayer Alex. Very professional and covenient.
Count me in, Boss. As soon as I get home.
FTA: ” Please write Governor LePage and the State Attorney General and ask them why, after such demonstrated malfeasance on the part of a Maine state functionary, is she being allowed to continue prosecuting in Maine.”
You got it Chief!
Will this do, for my letters to the AG, the Governor, and her boss?
I have been following the recent activities of Mary Kellett – assistant DA in Hancock County – and they confirm me in the belief that she is not fit for her post, or any post in a court save as defendant. How can the State of Maine permit such a lying, fact-twisting, witness-tampering, JUSTICE-tampering scoundrel to practice law?
Her evidence-hiding in the Vladek Filler case was egregious enough. But now, in the Keovilaisack Sayasane case, we learn that she told his wife – who was standing as a witness for his defense – that Sayasane had killed his previous wife. Kellett said she’d gotten this info from Deputy Attorney General William Stokes. But Mr. Stokes said he had told the attorney that Sayasane had been convicted of stabbing a 21-year-old man in the 1986 case.
It seems obvious that Kellett wanted to turn Mr. Sayasane’s wife against him, so as to rack up another victory against “the Patriarchy” and slam another man behind bars.
Kellett is an outrage. She has not merely “bent the law” to further her agenda; she has flouted any considerations of decency and professionalism that exist in the post of District Attorney. She has no place in the courtroom, save hopefully as a defendant.
Please pardon my bluntness, but I exhort you to get this one-woman travesty of justice out of the Maine justice system.
Sincerely,
Richard Westlake
Do you mind if I use your letter? I’ve tried writing a letter, but yours is much more diplomatic and thought out than mine would ever be.
By all means! Sir, I am honored!
Perfect.
Your article is now posted on my site.
TDOM
Thanks, bro.
I’ve tried to add a new avatar, but don’t know if I was successful. Yep, there it is. I might change it later.
Anyone got a jpeg of Kellet.
About 300 x size.
Can only find 112 x size on google and bing.
I will host on imgur.
Perhaps Mary Kellet is trying to make her image as scarce as possible on the Internet, given the reasons she’s lately become so popular. She didn’t seem shy when she was dragging good men’s names through the mud. Hmm. :-/
I plan to change that right now… I am making a post on my blog with several pictures of her.
It seems like Kellet will never learn. Until she is disbarred from the ‘whole’ law society, then she will continue with her lies.
She has taken an oath to uphold the ‘true law’ of the USA.. BUT she has come unstuck too many times.
I wonder how many more are out there. Just because this case was a mistrial, why couldnt the judge turn around and say to Kellet.. enough is enough with your lies and send her to jail for it??? Oh thats right she is a ‘female’.. oh silly me.
This might not be an appropriate letter, but it succinctly sums up my feelings in this matter, “Fire Uber Thug Sleazeballs.”
Mary Kellett seems to be a high functioning sociopath who has positioned herself in an office which gives her power and imunity to commit her crimes against men.
I will ofcourse do my part, but would also like to suggest the involvement of the U.S. Justice Department in all this. Her misconduct against men clearly qualifies as a civil rights crime. Civil rights abuse investigation and prosecution is the responsibility of the U.S. Justice Department and the State’s Attorney General’s office. We should demand just such an investigation and prosecution of Mary Kellett and her office for civil rights abuse based on gender.
If I recall correctly, then senator Barack Obama was one of the people who wrote a letter to the Justice Department calling for a Federal prosecution of Michael Nfong for the Duke case. That was just one case. Here Mary Kellett and her office seem to be engaged in persectution of men. A Federal investigation in to civil rights abuse of men like Vladik Filler and Keovilaisack Sayasane is what I would like to see happen here. The more I type, the more I realize how important it is to bring Mary Kellett to justice for reasons far beyond what is obvious.
Done.
I’d really like to better understand the people in the area. Is it apathy or fear, or do they protect and support her? I mean she continues to wreak havoc in the justice community there and no one seems very concerned.
A few MRA groups have to mount complaints from a far in great numbers to get any attention. Do they even have a pulse in Bangor Maine? Or a conscience? Why is she so protected? What dirt does she have on whom? I have a real uneasy feeling, because we’re distanced from it, we’re missing some pieces to this puzzle.
I can tell you the citizenry in every place I’ve every lived would never stand for such abuse of power. I’m vexed by just how she’s able to get away with what she does and why no one in Bangor (or Maine for that matter) seem to care. American’s don’t let injustice linger this long without action, locally or otherwise.
I think things may be changing, Keyster. It seems possible that Kellett, (or more likely Bassano) have dirt on someone as a hold card, but I am more inclined to think this is just insider protectionism in a relatively small community.
I would guess that members of the editorial board for BDN, the prosecutors office and the higher ranking members of the Ellsworth American all back slap and sip gin together after hours. All the same club members who don’t want to rock the boat. So they protect from within locally. That would even include Sayasane’s lawyer, who, according to the BND story, stood beside Kellett to claim that the bad info came from Stokes.
Birds of a feather. Also consider that with Kellett’s abysmal record of taking on really FUBAR cases, Toothaker, as a public defender, has profited from her going after all these guys.
I spoke with him yesterday, off the record, and while I can’t divulge any of the details of our conversation, I can say that the impression I got was of an attorney with no interest in anything but business. And Kellett has sent him that in spades. Nuff said?
This whole fucking enchilada is rotten to the core.
But it also seems clear that Stokes of the Maine State Attorney General’s office doesn’t give a rats ass about outing Kellett as a liar. He’s a member of a bigger club, and at this point Kellett, Bassano, et al,. with our assistance, have managed to create a public split between the two camps.
Very, very bad move.
Stokes group wins that standoff hands down, and I think that is the reason you even saw Trotter running that article. He can’t buck his contemporaries too hard, but I get the distinct feeling with the recommendation for sanctions against Kellett already afoot, and more on the way, she is quickly becoming and outsider; persona non grata with the ides of march heading her way right at home.
The table is now set for Kellett to take the fall for all of them. I say that because it is clear that she has served in a dual role. First as enforcer for Bassano, who I think is the real force behind all these corrupt prosecutions, and now the soon to be sacrificed patsy for all of it.
Blaming your boss, so he has to self-incriminate to get you off…not shrewd, not shrewd at all
bye, bye baby
Couldn’t happen to a bigger fuckin’ bitch
Yes Doc P, I think you’re bringing it into focus a bit more. Also, the judge first dismissing the case and then changing his mind later to declare a mistrial. (WHA?) Small town politics, corruption and there’s plain ‘ol incompetence.
If found this in local Texas politics, where they hide behind a cloak of corruption and malfeasance, to distract people from how incompetent they really are. In other words, they’d prefer you think your at least smart enough to to be corrupt in some way, rather than an idiot who just screwed up.
In Kellett’s case she (and it seems the community at large) has an obvious bias against men who’ve been accused of harming (or threatening to harm) women.
In looking back into the record there, it seems there’s an inordinate number of wife beaters, rapists and pedophiles for such a small geographic area, and that people are fed up with it, so they support Kellett’s activist position…whether she’s dead wrong sometimes or not doesn’t seem to matter. It’s a hit and miss proposition, a numbers game, go for the jugular in all cases and you’ll get some “wins”, now and then. But her losses are catching up to her now.
I think the VERY LAST THING they want there is national scrutiny, which is what we’re bringing. Heaven forbid the mainstream press catches on to this, then they have a real cluster fuck on their hands trying to spin out of it. Besides the State Attorney General probably has his eyes on the Governors office in a few years…he doesn’t want this blowing up. It needs to be handled.
Wasn’t Kellet a holdover from the last DA? I believe she was.
They must want a new Stephen King novel with Kellett cast as the monster. Odd, since as far as I know he has never done true crime novels.
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Posted as requested Paul. Let’s see if we can rid of that pest this time around. Type Kellett’s name in Google and all you get on the first page are responses from the MRM..
Thanks Christian. Always glad to know you are out there working.
Let’s hope this time we take her down once and for all.
I smell victory
Wow!!! One of my local cable channels (I.D., Investigation Discovery) is running a “Deadly Women” marathon. http://investigation.discovery.com/tv/deadly-women/ I just put Seasons 1 & 2 in my shopping cart at Amazon. Somebody should require the leaders of the Office of Violence Against Women to watch these, IMO.
Perhaps Kellett could gain some insights into the abundance of vicious, violent women by viewing this series. This “Deadly Women” series could be a valuable re-education tool for prosecutors, judges, and police who need to understand more than the misandrist propaganda/training they’ve received through VAWA STOP grants, IMO.
Deadly Women
One female, former FBI profiler in this trailer says, “Women who kill are rare.” http://tinyurl.com/3uklgr8 I say bologna. Women who kill are not rare. They’re just more insidious, get others to kill for them so it doesn’t show up, use poison and go undetected, etc.
Some women even use the law to kill, and kill slowly, taking years off men’s lives with their vile lies and the legal systems rampant misandry.
Yea, “Women who kill are rare,” is hogwash, and if 50, 000, 000 aborted babies could speak they’d say otherwise, IMO.
According to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,460 in 2005), than all the female intimate partner homicides in in a year (1,181 in 2005). And mothers are the single largest group of kid killers.
But women’s violence and murder goes far beyond the above as numerous murdered men and women could attest if they still had a life, a voice.
One big reason female serial killers go undetected for so long is the biased opinion society has that women are above committing murder, or doing violence.
Apparently Prosecutor Kellett has an unrealistic perception of women’s inherent nonviolence, given her behavior in the Vladek Filler case, IMO.
My letter to the governor; will write another letter to the DA after this:
I believe I have e-mailed you before, about the same very person, but she has done it again.
Before, Mary Kellet unjustly prosecuted Vladek Filler, the man who was given full custody of his children by Family Court, despite his wife, Ligia Filler’s, (false) accusations of rape and (child) abuse.
For a bruise that mysteriously appeared after Ligia Filler filed complaint to the police about it, Filler was sentenced to 21 days, while the prosecution sought an entire year. A year that Filler would have been gone from his children. It’s still 21 days too many, but at least it isn’t a year.
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, which is sad as well, I’m informing you now of Mary Kelley once again prosecuting an innocent man, needlessly, wasting tax payers money AND tampering with witnesses. Keovilaisack Sayasane is charged with threatening to attack his wife with a hammer at home. The very wife was going to testify on his behalf, against Mary Kellet’s prosecution; so she told Sayasane’s wife that he murdered his first wife and was convicted for it 25 years earlier.
Sayasane’s wife changed her mind about testifying on her husband’s behalf, and after Mary Kellet was found out, the judge declared a miss-trial.
When will this woman (Mary Kellet) be disbarred/fired/removed from her position? When will she be stopped from prosecuting innocent men? When will she be stopped from performing illegal act after illegal act causing miss-trial after miss-trial and using up more and more tax payers money?
It would be horrifying enough in a time of plenty, but in these economic times the actions of Mary Kellet and her continued employment are doubly so.
You might want to think how that looks come election time.
So, please, if you’re not taking steps to have her removed for the principle of the thing, do it for your own good.
Yours truly,
J.G. te Molder
Just posted your article over at my place. Keep on keepin on, brother.
Many thanks to you, and you do the same, sir.
Its up on my quiet blog
I posted this on my blog and sent the emails.
Let’s see what happens.
Link is up at our place as well. Well done Paul.
Here is what I have sent to all three offices, with the appropriate honorifics:
I have recently been made aware of another issue of prosecutorial misconduct, in Ellsworth, by Mary Kellet. First, there was the suppression of evidence in the Vladek Filler case, for which it appears there has been no accountability, nor as far as can be discovered, even an investigation into.
Now, it appears that she has not only tampered with a witness for the defense in the case of Keovilaisack Sayasane, but she has put Deputy Attorney General William Stokes in a position where he either ad to lie to protect Ms. Kellet, or tell the truth, and likely face some form of retaliation from D.A. Kellet.
I am both saddened and disgusted that the Attorney General’s office in Maine would support these types of actions, and allow Mary Kellet to continue what appears to be an agenda of win at any cost, even if it means prosecuting people who should never have appeared in a courtroom to begin with.
Word is being spread across not only this country, but internationally, and the eyes of those concerned with justice are watching this closely. I hope that you will look deeply into the actions of Mary Kellet, and her actions towards those who, from all of the evidence that is available, are innocent.
Thank you for your attention on this matter,
E. Steven Berkimer
There’s no doubt she needs to be made an example of.
Big time.
Done. I just sent my part in there. Really hopes somebody listens…