3/5: If it weren't for prison overcrowding, I'd disagree. This is a really simple case for the prosecution. It comes down to three witnesses and two sheets of paper. Unless Ron can give them Zodiac or something, he doesn't have anything to trade.
I hope the government decides that there's room for Ron in prison. He needs to be locked up.
3/6: Ron's petition was denied. See document below.
Everything he would be seeking to argue under Rehaif is a question of law that has already been decided by the judge in this case. There is no viable defense that would be affected by any eventual finding in that case.
Nothing online indicates the preparation of a transcript, which makes me worry that perhaps they didn't bother with one. Then again, its preparation and posting could be lagging simply because of processing time. It would fascinating to hear Ron rationalize his behavior and float his conspiracy theories. If memory serves, he has contended with this particular judge before, so it's possible they kept him on a short lease. In a previous trial for stalking and assault on which he managed to skate, he was acquitted... and then served several days in jail for contempt of court, presumably for pissing off the judge.
It takes real talent to go to jail for being found not guilty.
Nothing online indicates the preparation of a transcript, which makes me worry that perhaps they didn't bother with one. Then again, its preparation and posting could be lagging simply because of processing time.
That's my assumption. The judge's instructions to the jury are published, but they look like a prepared statement not a transcript in real time, so they didn't require any processing.
Oh, and Ron made the news! (archive) The article says he could get up to 20 years. I'd thought ten at the most, but they may be right.
Update 3/15: I've attached the transcript of his testimony. You can see him try to advance his legal theory that he wasn't involuntarily committed, and he gets shut down every time. And that, as they say, was that.
Update 6/26: Here's a one-two punch for ol' Ron.
His sentencing has been pushed back to August 14:
Also, the Fourth Circuit will not hear his appeal on his silly civil lawsuit:
Zero for two, Ron. This just doesn't seem to be your day.
so hey unagamer... i actually wanted to give YOU an update on Ron, because he called my Mom's house collect to talk to me a few days ago. basically he said he has been delayed due to disagreements with his attorney who he said is state appointed and friends with the cops he said are already against him but that a lot was "blown out of proportion" by the blogger Phil. Ron said he is working on a new book and an article for a mma website about how he is holding up in jail and that his side of the story will come out. i just wanna say that i am aware Ron is his own worst enemy and i dont approve of the stuff he says he just cant resist but i wanted to get the word out that i spoke with him and he asked me to share this stuff. he applied for restricted internet access and u also need to send him stamps or money for stamps if u want to correspond with him.
TL;DR: Ron thinks his attorney and the cops are conspiring to keep Ron inside. @Phil Elmore is also trying to keep a ninja down 24/7 with his blogging tricks. Also, send stamps and money.
I did not "blow out of proportion" anything to do with Ron. Ron bought a gun. Ron was previously committed to a mental hospital. Ron answered the question about this on the federal form by saying, "No" when he bought the gun. He was then arrested for doing so and convicted for doing so. It's open and shut.
@Phil Elmore y'all got your beef and I am not going to try to get in the middle or just automatically take Rons side that is between you two. I will say this I have known Ron for 11 years and like I said before I know he is a hot head and has a temper and says stuff that gets him in trouble. But he was a good dude to me and when I was out of work with disability he came over and taught me some self defense stuff involving the wrist. I am trying to help him a little now but I cant keep getting calls at my Moms house but my fiancee and I dont have a landline in our apartment and apparently he cant call a cel collect.
So I talked to Ron yesterday afternoon but that will be it for a while so anyone who wants updates you will have to contact him. This is what Ron said:
he has evidence that the blogger Phil targeted him because he was a business competitor (he means with his published books)
that him being locked up is the worst thing to happen to his enemies because now all he does is train and that he got in shape
the c.o.s are harder on him because he beat up police informers in the past and they know he will fight in prison
that he had to establish himself on the first day because he is short so he swept the leg of a taller inmate and now he has respect from some of the wv gangs
he is studying hard because his trial got delayed to the end of summer but that a MMA website is gonna promote his case to get it more attention
that the guy he fought on street beefs offered alot of support
he has evidence that it is in the prosecutors best interest to not let him talk on the stand because he knows alot of state secrets
the guy Master Don tried to petition them to lock him and throw away the key because Ron exposed his secrets and that this is all political from his haters. he said alot about Master Don but i dont remember it all i told him to calm down
if anyone wants to write him even haters he said if you do make sure u send stamps so he can write back and send a few dollars for supplies like envelopes and paper,
all in all he said alot in only a few minutes before he had to get off and i get the impression he doesnt know alot of people to call them collect and he doesnt want to work with the public defender. as i said this is the last time i will talk to Ron for awhile bc my Mom isnt happy with collect calls from prison lol
and for the record I am not a martial artist and have never been in prison... my brother studies tae kwon do in Kearneysville and sometimes Ron would give him pointers but thats it. i met him because id always see him walking and felt bad for him..
It's long, but I recommend reading the whole thing. The highlights:
Toby Keether said:
he has evidence that the blogger Phil targeted him because he was a business competitor (he means with his published books)
that him being locked up is the worst thing to happen to his enemies because now all he does is train and that he got in shape
the c.o.s are harder on him because he beat up police informers in the past and they know he will fight in prison
that he had to establish himself on the first day because he is short so he swept the leg of a taller inmate and now he has respect from some of the wv gangs
...
he has evidence that it is in the prosecutors best interest to not let him talk on the stand because he knows alot of state secrets
the guy Master Don tried to petition them to lock him and throw away the key because Ron exposed his secrets and that this is all political from his haters. he said alot about Master Don but i dont remember it all i told him to calm down
"Master Don" is ninjutsu instructor Don Roley of Colorado, the guy Ron couldn't work up the nerve to fight when he was face to face. Ron hates him and it's probably mutual, given that Ron made jokes about his late wife's cancer. I doubt that Don has the political pull to put Ron in prison, nor that Ron exposed any actual secrets. But, then, there's a lot to doubt in that statement.
Anyway, this sounds pretty plausible to me as something Ron would say. Toby says more in that thread, but those are the funniest parts IMO.
Update 7/5: As I'd expected, Ron's attorney has filed a motion for acquittal:
And another for a new trial:
Both of these are based upon a finding in another case, Rehaif v. United States, in which a defendant under very different circumstances could not have known that he was prohibited from buying a gun.
The thing is, the court ruled on this issue months ago. Before Rehaif was even decided, the court determined that it didn't apply to Ron, who had every reason to know that he had been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Mere ignorance of the law is no excuse.
I don't blame Ron's lawyer for trying, but I'll be very, very surprised if these motions are granted by the same court that said "hell no" to them in March.
Update 7/12: The prosecution has responded to Ron's motions. See PDF below.
An amusing excerpt:
Shoulda listened, Ron.
Update 1 7/31: Ron's not being acquitted and not getting a new trial. Reminder: His sentencing is currently scheduled for 14 August.
Update 2 7/31: The government has filed a sentencing memorandum against Ron, and it contains an interesting fact. The reason Ron's previous lawyer withdrew from his case is that Ron straight up assaulted him. Smooth move, asshole.
Update 8/14: The court favored the prosecution's recommendations on sentencing. Ron got five years, plus three years supervised release. The default sentence as per Federal guidelines was 24-27 months, so this is a big loss for Ron.
This is why you don't attack your own defense attorney, kids.
EDIT: As @Saint Mengele said in chat: "he doesnt have the right to hit anyone if Gollum can slap him around like an irishman's wife tbh"
Update 9/20: Ron is now in the system. If you go to the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator and enter inmate number 07769-088, you'll see his information. If you're a raw-JSON type, you can get the information in one click...and sorry about your autism.
He's in FCI Elkton. That's good news for him in that it's a low-security facility, but bad news in that it's a ways from home. He may not be seeing much of his mom. His fellow inmates include Peter Gotti, the successor to the famous John Gotti, and also the most bad-assed beard-cutting Amish wild man of all time. (I am not making this up.)
There's not much in the way of special medical facilities in Elkton, so I'm not sure how the BoP intends to implement that part of the court's intent.
All in all, I think he lucked out. He didn't go to a medium-security facility. It's still a prison, but as prisons go, it's less hellish than many.
What a big-brained move. It's not like the prison guards need to have rock solid proof of his contraband cellphone before they can toss his cell to find it.
Of course, our little lolcow couldn't resist trying to bait his tormentors:
TL;DR: Ron thinks that organized crime is working with the cops and the courts to frame him, but his appeal will surely prevail because reasons! This time he'll pull it off.
TL;DR: Ron thinks that organized crime is working with the cops and the courts to frame him, but his appeal will surely prevail because reasons! This time he'll pull it off.
I’ve been waiting for this day for so long, can’t believe he’s actually out. Wonder what he’s going to do next. Hopefully he starts making more videos again
And what kind of RonPost would it be without a lengthy exchange with his bete noire, Phil Elmore:
TL;DR: I'm not a pedophile, YOU'RE the pedophile (presented without proof of any kind); I'm only temporarily a felon and my appeal will prevail; neener neener!
By the way, the link above is to the old version of his stupid manual. But don't pay money for it! He uploaded a free version to Scribd, which I am attaching to this post. It is not a treat for the eye or the mind, so be warned.
Yes, somehow, by aligning myself with the legion of conspirators who are all part of the Not Ron Collins Coalition, I am providing aid and protection to nefarious, nay, monstrous people across this land, from corrupt police to sexual predators. And it is all because Ron has cleverly manipulated me into staying out of prison and living my life as a productive, employed member of society who occasionally writes a book on swords, as Ron himself -- the fiend! -- hides inside federal prison, temporarily donning the cloak of a felon who may neither vote nor own firearms.
Great is my shame. Greater still is my outrage at having been so cruelly tricked.
Ron has filed what may be his craziest motion yet.
He wants the judge recused because she's out to get him, but that's only medium crazy for Ron. The really loony bit is that he wants his letters to the court unsealed. You remember - the ones that were so full of crazy that the court sealed them for his protection? Yeah, those letters.
I pray that this portion of his petition succeeds. I said at the time that surely something good was in those letters. Let's see 'em! You go, Ron!
I've attached two documents: Ron's petition to appear before the court in spite of his late filing, and a response to his previous petition to recuse the judge and unseal his letters. The latter is simple to summarize. The judge did not recuse herself (LOL), and the unsealing has been referred to a magistrate but will probably be granted, since they were sealed to protect his dumb ass.
Here are also some screenshots of two handwritten documents. The first set, I think, is one of the sealed documents, and it's written in a hand suitable for scrawling in excrement on an asylum wall. The second is easier to read and appears to be a boast letter. Both were posted to Facebook in July 2021.
EDIT: Here's my best effort at transcribing the first handwritten document. Ron only posted the odd-numbered pages, for reasons which are scarcely more comprehensible to me than his handwriting.
Motion for Trial on Habeas Corpus
Ronald Collins,
Plaintiff
v.
Raliegh [sic] County Circuit Court Judge Robert Burnside
Defendant.
Case No: 14-C-900-H
I, Ronald Collins, hereby petition the court to hold a hearing on the Habeas Corpus for my commitment at Sharpes [sic], formally known as William Sharpe Jr. Memorial Hospital, as soon as possible. To answer to each count as follows:
Ground One: Motion for finding of Incompetence to stand trial gained by unlawful arrest.
State violated West Virginia Code 27-6A-3(b) "At a hearing to determine a defendant's competency to stand trial, the defendant has the right to be present and he or she has the right to be represented by counsel and introduce evidence and cross-examine witnesses. The defendant shall be afforded timely and adequate notice of the issues at the hearing and shall have access to all forensic evaluator's opinions. All rights generally afforded a defendant in criminal proceedings shall be afforded to a defendant in the competency proceedings, except trial by jury."
The State denied the plaintiff a fair hearing by revealing discovery without giving proper notice & court erred (also violated 27-6A-3(b)) by not permitting plaintiff time to review state's "surprise discovery."
State violated 27-6A-2(a)(b)(1)(2)(4) by failing to produce material evidence of a crime persuant [sic] to the 13F-1026 arrest warrant filed by Trooper Sgt. M.S. Hayes/Haynes 30th August 2013 over blog posts 16th to 22nd August 2013. Thus as per WV rules of evidence 1005 all evidence in the public domain is admissable [sic] in court & according to criminal complaint blog posts were public domain. State has no excuse to violate 27-6A-2(a) "Whenever a court of record has reasonable cause to believe
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It is the plaintiff's belief the state was attempting to conceal misconduct & criminality with false arrest & false evidence to have the plaintiff commited [sic], by intentionally misleading Dr. Miller. That has the State provided Dr. Miller with appropriate & legally required information to include item 4 a copy of the defendant's criminal history/record, Dr. Miller's opinion would have been much different.
Ground Two: State's motion violated protection against double jeopardy.
As already discussed in code & supported with material facts. State essentially retried this plaintiff by providing Dr. Miller information on older cases & withheld information related to the arrests under case no. 13F-1026. The Plaintiff hereby submits attachments A to E for material support:
Item A: Arrest Warrant Case No. 13F-1026 is a Raleigh County warrant by Trooper M.S. Haynes alleging offense committed on 16th to 22nd August 2013, aquired [sic] on August 30th 2013.
Item B: August 30th 2013 Search Warrant aquired [sic] by Trooper Haynes.
Item C: First page of Dr. Miller's February 25th 2014 evaluation, cites case no. 13F-1026 & [illegible] case numbers 12-B-234, 13-B-410, as well as case no. 12F-470/471 demonstrating double jeopardy clearly. Also has incorrect charges & incident date of February 25th, 2011.
Item D: Page 2 of report reveals only past cases, does not mention anything but a Court Order for Re-evaluation with the 13-F-1026 & 13-B-410 case numbers, in SOURCES OF INFORMATION. Furthermore, beginning under the section titled RECORD'S ACCOUNT OF EVENTS Dr. Miller discribes [sic] case number 10M-6004 & 6005 from December 15, 2010 of which the plaintiff was found not guilty & proving double jeopardy & misleading the courts.
Item E: Page 3 of Dr. Miller's report continues discribing [sic] case number 10M-6004 & 6005 from the criminal copmplaints & continues by citing Case numbers 11M-867 & 11M-950.
Said information proves with the State's own discovery that State subjected the plaintiff to fraudulent legal proceedings & double jeopardy to have plaintiff falsely committed.
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what the alleged threat was.
In the second paragraph on page 9, labelled Thursday 22nd 2013, trooper Haynes again provides misleading paraphrases of the plaintiff's statements without direct quotes & states plaintiff will defend himself "if it comes to that." & that the plaintiff had "no intention to harm anyone." Such action is condoned under Bad Elk v. U.S. & Brady v. Ohio and can only be over turned [sic] by the U.S. Supreme Court in accordance with Article 3, Section 2 & Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution & outside the authority of the lower court's & trooper Haynes [sic] opinion.
In unlabelled paragraph 3 of page 9, Trooper Haynes cites a blog Open Letter to Jonathan Russell: Don't Lay Down With Dogs you'll get fleas... Trooper Haynes again paraphrases the plaintiff leaving out that the defendant plaintiff said the fear was of having corruption & criminality exposed. Again Trooper Haynes was intentionally bias [sic] in his investigation & the state's prosecutor Kristen Keller took actions to withhold this evidence relying on her ex-husb ex-husband Judge Robert E. Burnside to support her actions by abusing Judicial Authority.
Copy 3: Page 12 of Trooper Haynes [sic] report labelled August 17th 2013 citing a message from the plaintiff to John Bird(?) quotes the plaintiff citing an intent to bring matters to court "Now if they want to arrest me; we're going to have to discuss this in court. All the players all together."
This exposes the defendan plaintiff's intent to all the defendant & the state to carry out fraudulent legal process & evidence tampering. The last unmarked paragraph of page 18 quotes a message from June 2nd 2013 quotes the plaintiff "Nah they want me to goi all Doomer that why they can make look bad and call me a domestic terrorist or something. What scares them is that I'm exposing their dirty little secrets. They're more scared of exposure they then any violence all that talk bout being able to lawfully use violence is just there to make them expect one
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Additionally, page 35 lists Trooper Haynes as a witness & to being assigned to investigate & to meeting with Kristen Keller & Detective Morgan Bragg. So that if Kristen Keller was Prosecuting & met with investigating officer (Trooper Haynes) she was aware & had access to publicly available information prior to Dr. Miller's evaluation & the plaintiff's arrest. Reinforcing the evidence was hidden because it was gained by unlawful arrest, the state with aid of defendant unconstitutionally failed to disclose false arrest evidence & relied on a coerced statement from the defendant through abuse of judicial authority.
Copy 7: Page 88 of C.I. transcript that shows Whittamore, Robert speaking to an UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE about unknown Instructions given to him. Suggesting the CI was coached into attempting to coerce a false confession from the plaintiff.
Copy 8: Page 11 of C.I. transcript plaintiff says "I didn't say I was going to shoot cops and judges. I don't have to do any of that. That's what they said. This is what they said I was going to do. I let them get away with it. If you look at what I actually said, what I actually said --" then is cut off by state's CI trying to interrogate the plaintiff for the police & coerce a statement.
Thus providing reason for misleading Dr. Miller to cover up coercion & why state relied on defendant to threaten plaintiff with judicial authority to coerce a false confession.
Copy 9: Page 12 of C.I. transcript. Plaintiff makes statement to complaints to Governor to create a scandal drawing in the Governor to bring action against Prosecutor & police for lying & falsifying evidence. As addressed in Copy 3 Plaintiff state August 17th 2013 his intent was to bring case to court to "discuss all this" evidence of criminal misconduct. This was stated by the plaintiff to entice state to use CI recording knowing CI unlawfully interrogated plaintiff as a proxy for the state. Page 88 (Copy 7) was a bonus.
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statements made by the plaintiff under the defendant's threat of judicial authority & evidence & failed to be brought forward by state added by the defendant.
Copy 15: Private Black Dragon Fighting Society forum, date unknown post count 464. Plaintiff outlines a plan to get state police, prosecutors [sic] office & judges to entrap themselves by covering up for unethical, illegal & immoral activities. Not to use violence or even a threat of violence. Thus addressing why the state used unlawful arrest by trooper Haynes together with bias & misconstrued paraphrases, why state & defendant caused plaintiff to face double jeopardy of old cases & withheld evidence required by WV Code 27-6A-3(b), 27-6A-2(a), 27-6A-2(b)(1)(2)(4) to Dr. Miller subjecting the plaintiff to fraudulent processes, why state & defendant acted together (state withholding evidence & defendant ruling against on ruling & plaintiff's right to examine evidence 27-6A-3(b) in a timely manner) to withhold evidence from the plaintiff and finally, the defendant's threat of abuse of judicial powers to coerce false statements from the plaintiff.
Copy 16: Private Black Dragon Fighting Society forum, date May 3 2013 post count 500 sets Copy 15 as on or before May 3, 2013 & 4 or 5 months before arrest. Plaintiff compares giving (illegible) to suicide & addresses previous case before defendant, that was transferred to Judge Hutchison when the plaintiff testified as to having a personal aquaintance [sic] with former Magistrate Mary Jennings who's [sic] son-in-law is Darrell John Lilly former Avenger MC president & personal friend of Bobby Redden, Ashley Redden's father & Avenger MC member. Whose son John Nathan Lilly & daughter Jessica Lilly, wife to Jeffery Aldin was involved in the assault mentioned Copy 12 by the plaintiff as "police informants". Thus potentially tying the defendant to organized crime by way of the Avengers MC.
The plaintiff has no issue with allowing defendant to hear Habeas Corpus as according to WV Code 53-4A-1 defendant would hear writ anyway & the defendant can only provide more evidence of bias & unethical activity before writ is appealed by plaintiff to a higher court.
Furthermore, the plaintiff requests that since material evidence & issues
I did post that from Prison see the court docs I released from my supplemental brief are sealed by the 4th circuit and the Jersey circuit just unseals released sealed documents. The 4th has no precedence and I was outside their jurisdiction when they did it. That means the 3rd circuit can't release the docs and the 4th can't do anything to me. Technicalities...
Oh and I am not a sex offender. I was charged but never convicted. I'll post legal docs proving this to you all at a later date.
Your bullshit ninja king,
Ron Collins' Ghost... lol
PS: Even in prison no one can shut me up. And I tried to post on here from prison. I was even up arguing with idiots on facebook from prison.
I did post that from Prison see the court docs I released from my supplemental brief are sealed by the 4th circuit and the Jersey circuit just unseals released sealed documents. The 4th has no precedence and I was outside their jurisdiction when they did it. That means the 3rd circuit can't release the docs and the 4th can't do anything to me. Technicalities...
Oh and I am not a sex offender. I was charged but never convicted. I'll post legal docs proving this to you all at a later date.
Your bullshit ninja king,
Ron Collins' Ghost... lol
PS: Even in prison no one can shut me up. And I tried to post on here from prison. I was even up arguing with idiots on facebook from prison.
I did post that from Prison see the court docs I released from my supplemental brief are sealed by the 4th circuit and the Jersey circuit just unseals released sealed documents. The 4th has no precedence and I was outside their jurisdiction when they did it. That means the 3rd circuit can't release the docs and the 4th can't do anything to me. Technicalities...
Oh and I am not a sex offender. I was charged but never convicted. I'll post legal docs proving this to you all at a later date.
Your bullshit ninja king,
Ron Collins' Ghost... lol
PS: Even in prison no one can shut me up. And I tried to post on here from prison. I was even up arguing with idiots on facebook from prison.
I did post that from Prison see the court docs I released from my supplemental brief are sealed by the 4th circuit and the Jersey circuit just unseals released sealed documents. The 4th has no precedence and I was outside their jurisdiction when they did it. That means the 3rd circuit can't release the docs and the 4th can't do anything to me. Technicalities...
Oh and I am not a sex offender. I was charged but never convicted. I'll post legal docs proving this to you all at a later date.
Your bullshit ninja king,
Ron Collins' Ghost... lol
PS: Even in prison no one can shut me up. And I tried to post on here from prison. I was even up arguing with idiots on facebook from prison.
Welcome to the Farms, Ron. FYI, this place is big on backing up any documents or videos that get posted and routinely refuses to remove them when requested to by individuals and agencies. So any docs you upload here will likely stay up.
When do you get to move out of Dismal Charities? Do you have a job lined up? Is your mother still doing well enough to provide a place for you?
