" Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself; it is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous. " --Abraham Heschel. A Killing in Princeton,MN

In Criminal Homicide--To Aid and Abet: How Corrupted Minnesota State Patrol Troopers and a Corrupted Rural State Courthouse, Covered-up a Criminal Homicide.

True Crime in Central Minnesota, and Systemic Public Corruption

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sheer terrorr experienced by the driver of the minivan above moments before his death--must have been like that as dramatized by actor Dennis Weaver in "Duel," Steven Spielberg's first-directed major film. Imagine looking into your rear-view mirror and seeing the huge grill of a semi-gas tanker truck bearing down upon you; then feeling the font bumper of that 40-ton semi-gas tanker behemoth pushing up against your minivan's back bumper, a minivan of less than two-tons; then feeling the gas tanker's hurricane-like-power pushing you down the road, and finally that pushing causing your minivan to spin wildly like you're in a tornado, spinning clockwise at 60-mph, out of the left lane and across the right lane, and there your minivan smacks into the tailgate of a dump truck at the fog line, a dump truck fully loaded with crushed rock--a loaded dump truck that weighs 28,000 lbs. You hit the tailgate on your driver's door, and then, you are killed instantly. Although the central Minnesota tanker truck driver who killed the Twin Cities driver of the above pictured minivan was identified [see below], he escaped scot-free because of systemic public corruption among central Minnesota's cops and courts--a rottenness that has been in-place, and ignored, for decades. This site will expose that corruption. In the photos above, the perfectly-straight-line path of the minivan's left front tire is one of the items that proves that the minivan was pushed by the tanker immediately behind, according to an expert in crash reconstruction.

"For all the other victims who haven't gotten justice, I say one thing: Don't give up..." --John Walsh, host of the television show America's Most Wanted speaking on 16 December 2008 upon finally learning who killed his boy, Adam. A failed police investigation in Florida caused Mr. Walsh and his family to have to wait 27 years to learn who killed and decapitated his six-year-old boy.

This is a true story of a failed fatal crash investigation that the Minnesota State Patrol doesn't want you to know about. It's the story of how this failed Patrol investigation launched a son on an odyssey to find the real cause of his father's death, and it's a story of what that son found: Corrupted state patrol troopers at the Patrol's St. Cloud, Minn. headquarters click here, a corrupted Judge and courthouse staff at the Milaca, Minn. state courthouse click here, and a cover-up of criminal homicide evidence--evidence that was later upheld unanimously by the Minnesota State Court of Appeals [shown and described below].This website will expose that corruption. It will also present irrefutable proof both that this criminal homicide happened as represented on this site, click [quicktime animation 234kb] here, and that this criminal homicide was committed by Randall [a.k.a. Randy] Bruce Veurink with a 40-ton semi-gas tanker truck owned by Eggen's Direct Service, Inc.--Veurink's then employer.

This fatal crash happened in central Minnesota on southbound Hwy. 169 in Princeton, Minn. click here which is 14 miles south of Milaca, Minn. click here. At the time of this crime, Veurink was living in Pease, Minn. pop. 163 click here a town four miles south of Milaca, pop. 2,600. Veurink's then-employer, gas jobber Eggen's Direct Service, Inc.'s, headquarters is located in Milaca, Minn. All three towns, Milaca, Pease, and Princeton, are situated on Hwy. 169.

And all three towns are located about 60-miles north of where the victim lived in St. Paul, Minnesota click here.

Corrupt Troopers and a Criminal Breach of Trust

Falsifying Official Reports, Illegally Concealing Critical Evidence in a Trooper's "Private" Home Files for Years, Destroying Key Evidence, Fabricating Bogus Evidence to Purposefully Mislead, Perjury, Carrying-Out Their Official Duties in a Repeatedly Biased Manner Forming a Clear Pattern of Biased Conduct, Conspiring to Obstruct Justice, and Fraud

The troopers admitted, only after having been placed under oath, that they had done a fake accident reconstruction for this fatal crash, instead of--as their own Patrol's policy and procedures required of them to do--a real fatal crash reconstruction to determine crash cause, and thereby to determine whether a crime had been committed.

You can see that fake reconstruction, and the troopers' under-oath testimony admitting to that fake reconstruction, at a link below. The Troopers' representing their fake as a real accident reconstruction in the official accident report was one of their falsifications of their official reports.

At that same link below, following the below bulleted-list, you can review a real accident reconstruction for this fatal crash. There you will see the evidence that proves that this was a criminal homicide committed by Randall [a.k.a. Randy] Bruce Veurink, driving an Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. semi-gas tanker truck. And at that same link, you will find the full-story of this crash and its aftermath, including what happened regarding the willfully-blind chain of command at Minnesota's Dept. of Public Safety.You will be able to see, that it all adds-up to biased rural troopers entering into a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, with a complicit chain of command. "We call them cowboys," said one licensed private eye in St. Paul, Minnesota about central Minnesota troopers in general who are headquartered out of St. Cloud, Minnesota [a town 65 miles north of the Twin Cities]"because they do anything they want."

The man killed in this crash, Clarence Waage, had been the driver in the minivan pictured in the photos above. Waage was pronounced dead at the crash site by ambulance personnel, minutes after the crash.

In the crash site photos above, why is the minivan's left front tire's path perfectly straight [it was surveyed] for 60-feet? You can see why--by viewing an animation of this crash, by clicking on the animation's still-frame graphic that is located below the next section, a section that highlights the troopers' obstruction of justice and dereliction of duty. If the animation doesn't play, click your back arrow and click on the graphic again.

Also further below you can click on a link to read in-full the Minnesota Court of Appeals unanimous decision in this case--a unanimous decision for the victim and his family.

All of the below listed actions taken by the troopers who 'investigated' this fatal crash, fit into a pattern of biased behavior that was purposefully orchestrated by these troopers to cover up what had really happened in this fatal crash, and to shift the blame off of the two local central Minnesota commercial truck drivers [and off their two central Minnesota company employers] and onto the dead Twin Cities minivan driver:

To see broken-out still frames of the below animation click: Here.

A Unanimous Decision for the Victim

Chief Judge Edward Toussaint, Jr. of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, at oral argument in this case: "Now, about this collision between the tanker and the van..." [between Eggen's Direct Service's semi-gas tanker truck coming up from behind the Waage van, both in the left of two southbound lanes.] Chief Judge Toussaint could not finish the sentence--he was interrupted by Attorney Roger R. Roe, Jr., the attorney for the killed man, Clarence Waage.

Attorney Roger Roe, Jr.: "There was no collision. They didn't collide. They [Clarence Waage and his wife in the van] were pushed." [From behind, by Eggen's 40-ton semi-gas tanker truck driven by Randy Veurink of Milaca--and that tanker's push on the Waage van caused the van to spin clockwise, and slide sideways to the right, and slam into a dump truck, a dump truck that was traveling illegally on the road's right shoulder [Minn. Statutes 169.18 subd.10 click, Here and also view 169.01 subd. 31 click, Here] when hit by the van. Eggen's Direct Service's tanker's push on the back bumper of the Waage's van, sent the van into an out-of-control spin and slide, ending when the van-driver-side-door slammed into the dump truck's left-rear box corner at 60 mph, killing Clarence Waage on impact.

An Eggen's Direct Service Tanker truck. Eggen's trucks with these logos [Eggen's in red, Direct Service in black] on their sides travel south virtually daily from Milaca, Minnesota on Highways 169 and 35E to the Twin Cities to fill up with gas to distribute up north.

And taken from the Court of Appeals unanimous Opinion for the Waage's and against gas jobber Eggen's Direct Service, Inc., and their tanker driver Randall [a.k.a. Randy] Veurink, et al. --an Opinion written by Judge Robert H. Schumacher:" ...We conclude there are genuine issues of material fact regarding Veurink's involvement in the accident. We reverse and remand."[ Gas jobber Eggen's Direct Service, Inc., a codefendant in this wrongful death case, has its headquarters in Milaca, Minnesota]. 

Also from the Court's unanimous Opinion:

"...Irene Waage felt a "strong force" push the van, heard a "terrible roar," and heard, as they were being pushed sideways, the "whoosh" of a passing vehicle.  The minivan spun out of control and collided with the dump truck...There were no vehicles between the Waage van and the Veurink tanker [behind]."...Irene Waage's statements that she saw a big black grill, felt a force pushing the Waage van from behind, and heard the "whoosh" of a passing vehicle, in a summary judgment analysis must be accepted as true.  The factual inference from these statements is that a truck with a big black grill struck the Waage van.  The record demonstrates there were no other vehicles between the Waage van and Veurink's tanker, and therefore there is a reasonable possibility that Veurink's tanker contacted the Waage van, thus causing Clarence Waage to lose control and collide with the dump truck."

"...The Waages obtained the opinion of an accident reconstructionist, David E. Hamerski, Ph.D.  In Hamerski's technical report he concludes, based on the Waage van's tire marks, the van's path was not chosen by the driver but was the result [of] an outside force.  In his affidavit to the court, Hamerski states it is his opinion the Veurink tanker's contact with the Waage van supplied this force....Hamerski relied on the methodology frequently used by accident reconstructionist, namely tire marks left at the scene and positions and speed of the vehicles involved.  He then applied the laws of physics and engineering to these facts.  There is nothing in the record indicating that Hamerski's qualifications as an expert were challenged nor is there any evidence he lacked foundation for his conclusions. "

"...The Waages argue that Irene Waage's deposition statements and Hamerski's opinion raise a genuine issue of material fact as to Veurink's involvement in the crash.  We agree. ...Reversed and remanded."--taken from the Minnesota Court of Appeals Opinion in Waage vs. Eggen's Direct Service, Inc., Randall Bruce Veurink, et al.

Months after their win at the Court of Appeals, Waage family members made two unanounced visits to the Milaca courthouse to look at their case file, and they found two items in that file that shouldn't have been in there. One of those items was a photocopy of the oral argument script used by Eggen's attorney Fred Grunke--the script that Grunke used as he made his oral argument for Eggen's Direct Service before the Minnesota Court of Appeals in this case. Why was that Grunke's oral argument script in the district court case file and how did it get there. An oral arguement script is not filed with any court and is solely in the control of the attorney that gives the oral argument. Months earlier, Waage had contacted the press about this case. Was that Grunke's script placed in the file for the press to see if they came to examine the file for a story? And who placed Grunke's oral argument script in the district court's file in the Milaca courthouse?

A Corrupted Rural Courthouse in Milaca, Minnesota: A Corrupted Judge First Oversteps his Position by Acting as Judge and Jury ; then Orchestrates a Sham Trial all the While Allowing a 'Defendant' Jury Manager [Carol Eggen], a member of his own Court's Administration, to Run 'Secretly' Her Own Family's Business' [Eggen's Direct Service's] Wrongful Death Case Inside the Courthouse--Outrageous Conflicts of Interest--and Illegal, Wrongful Actions Taken

Judge Michael Jesse [left] "Corrupted: a verb. -rupting, rupts. 1. To destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of. 2. To ruin morally; pervert. 3. To taint; contaminate. 4. To cause to become rotten; spoil. 5. To change the original form of (a text, for example). 6. Computer science To damage (data) in a file or on a disk. --intransitive To become corrupt.

"Conflict of interest: a noun. plural, conflicts of interest. A conflict between a person's private interests and public obligations. --from The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edition.

Judge Michael Jesse [at left] did not inform either the Waages or the Waages' attorneys that Carol Eggen--who is an Eggen's Direct Service family member--was working as a jury manager and general clerk in the Mille Lacs County District Courthouse. And that conduct by Judge Jesse violated Minnesota's Code of Judicial Conduct--to view that Code, click: Here.

Judge Jesse and Court Administrator Ronald Tvedt allowed then District Court Bookkeeper/Jury Manager Carol J. Eggen to extensively manage in the court's administration office this wrongful death case--Waage vs. Eggen's Direct Service, Inc.; Randall Bruce Veurink, et al.--a case that the Waages had filed against clerk Carol Eggen's relatives' business-- Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. And that conduct by Judge Jesse violated Minnesota's Code of Judicial Conduct. To view photocopies of court documents that prove this was so, click: Here.

These documents include documents that show clerk Eggen repeatedly acting as an intermediary between Judge Jesse and the Waages' attorneys without disclosing to the Waages' attorneys her last name, nor disclosing to them her family relationship to the Eggens Direct Service family--identifying herself to Waages' attorneys only as clerk "Carol"--and that conduct, allowed by Judge Jesse violated Minnesota's Code of Judicial Conduct.

The court should have declared this conflict of interest to the plaintiffs, who were from the Twin Cities and consequently were unknowledgeable about Milaca court staffers, and the court should then have moved this case to a different venue to have ensured a fair trial--instead, they let the "defendant" run her own family's case in the court's administration office with the plaintiffs and their attorneys unaware of this conflict of interest. To view clerk Eggen's then job description, click: Here.

Several months after the case had begun, Judge Jesse wrongly granted--according to the unanimous opinion of the Minnesota Court of Appeals--the defendants' attorney Fred Grunke's motion for summary judgment that Grunke had filed on behalf of defendants Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and Eggen's tanker driver Randall Veurink--and that wrongful action effectively threw out Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and Veurink from the Waage's case, pending an appeal by the Waage's to reverse the judge's decision. Instead of immediately appealing Judge's Jesse's wrongfully granted summary judgement, Waage's attorney Roger Roe went on to trial against the then remaining defendants: the dump truck driver and his employer, Essig's Construction. Roe told the Waage's that he, Roe, would appeal Judge Jesse's granting of Eggen's summary judgement motion following the trial against the dump truck driver and Essig's Construction.

If a Corrupt lawyer is appointed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty to a judgeship, will that Corrupt lawyer be a good judge?

The allegation is made here, that then-Eggen's-attorney Fred Grunke, left, who was the defense lawyer for Eggen's Direct Service, Inc.'s wrongful death case, had to have known that an Eggen's Direct's family member--Court Clerk/jury manager Carol Eggen--was processing his own, Grunke's, court documents and doing much more concerning the Eggen's Direct's wrongful death case, inside the Milaca Courthouse. We back-up this allegation with documention at the "full story" link that definitively shows through court documents that Grunke knew, or should have known, that Jury manager Carol Eggen was running her own family's business' wrongful death case inside the Milaca courthouse's administration office. Despite this blatant unethical conduct by Grunke, Gov. Tim Pawlenty appointed Grunke to a judgeship.

After the trial, Eggen's attorney Fred Grunke applied for a judgeship in the Milaca courthouse. He was one of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's three finalists for the position, the other two being Daniel A. Benson and Steven A. Anderson. But on 1/12/06, Gov. Pawlenty chose Anderson for the Milaca judgeship, saying at the appointment ceremony at the Princeton Municipal Airport: "'I think it's important to have someone in this position who has a heart for people and who cares,' Governor Pawlenty said," according to the Mille Lacs County Times. To read the full Mille Lacs County Times article, click: Here.But after Pawlenty won the last governor's race by less than 1 percent in November 2006 over Mike Hatch, Gov. Pawlenty then appointed attorney Fred Grunke [see adjacent photo] to a judgeship on December 15, 2006. The judgeship Pawlenty gave Grunke was in the central Minnesota town of St. Cloud. Fred Grunke, another man--like Judge Michael Jesse--for whom decency and fairness are dirty words, and who--like Judge Michael Jesse--should never have been allowed to have put-on a judge's black robe.

To view Grunke's "Judge bio" at the Minnesota Courts website, click: Here.

The majority of Minnesota voters did NOT vote for Tim Pawlenty for governor either in 2002 click, Here, or in 2006 click, Here. So how did he win? He split the vote: three or more people in the race and there is no run-off vote in Minnesota for the two highest vote getters to ensure that the winner gets 50-percent plus one vote thereby gauranteeing that the winner represents a majority of the people in the state--a provision even in effect in Iran! The rationale for such an election system is that the definition of democracy is "majority rules." Even former Minnesota Gov. Arnie Carlson, a Republican, has suggested that Minnesota should go to a run-off system to ensure that the head of our state really represents a majority of the state's citizens. Election experts in recent articles have stated that Pawlenty probably would never have won either the 2002 or the 2006 elections for Minnesota governor had such a 50-percent rule been in place. Only by short-circuiting democracy itself could such an extreme individual have become the governor of this great state.

The day before trial, David Waage, the victim's son, found out serendipidously that the clerk in the Mille Lacs County District Courthouse to whom he was speaking, a Carol, was a member of the Eggen's Direct Service family. Waage told Roe of this conflict of interest, but Roe did nothing. Roe instead took the dump truck driver and Essig's Construction to trial for wrongful death.

Listen to the conversation cited partially below in red quotes by clicking, Here [1.9 mb audio file]. You will hear how clerk Eggen misled a Waage-hired detective and in-effect denied the detective a public document--the DWI court hearing transcript for Ken Ruis, Ruis was the key defense witness for Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. And listen to the tape and hear how clerk Eggen trys to mislead David Waage about the availability of this same Ken Ruis DWI transcript.

In the taped call, the Kevin who is referred to is the Waage's hired detective; and those laughing in the background are Mille Lacs County District Court staffers.

David Waage on the phone, one day before the trial: "Are you related to Eggens of Eggen's Direct Service?"
Court Clerk/Jury Manager "Carol": "Yep."

After Judge Jesse granted summary judgement to Veurink and to jury manager Carol Eggen's relative's company, Eggen's Direct Service, Inc., Roe led the Waages to believe that they, the Waages, could first go to trial against the dump truck driver and his employer, then go to the Minnesota Court of Appeals and win a reversal of Judge Jesse's summary judgment--and then go to trial against Veurink and Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. in district court.

But Roe did not tell the Waages about the legal concept of res judicata, "the thing has been decided" until after the first trial against the first two defendants, and then it was too late. In a nutshell, res judicata means that whatever the first jury would award the Waages in damages, that would be the upper-limit for damages in a later second trial against any of the other defendents in the case. If the Waages had been fully informed, they would have insisted that Roe had gone to the Court of Appeals before taking any defendants to trial, get a reversal of Judge Jesse's summary judgment, and then take all four defendants to trial together.

Did Carol Eggen's relatives learn from Eggen's Direct's then attorney Fred Grunke about the concept of res judicata and then tell their family member, jury manager Carol Eggen, about it, or did jury manager Carol Eggen already know about res judicata from her longtime courthouse experience? What there can be no doubt about is that jury manager Carol Eggen had a conflict of interest in this case. And, what there can be no doubt about is that the jury's award of damages to Irene Waage was incredibly unjust--being way low for a wrongful death case, in fact the award was essentially "nothing." And, what there can be no doubt about is that the jury's award of "nothing" in damages to Irene Waage was perfectly in-line with the Eggen's Direct's wishes, perfectly protecting Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and its tanker driver Randy Veurink if the Waages should later win at the Court of Appeals which would clear the way for the Waages to take Veurink and Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. to trial for the wrongful death of Irene's husband, Clarence Waage.

So even though the Waage's won with a unanimous decision at the Minnesota Court of Appeals--the Court saying unanimously that Judge Jesse should never have thrown out Eggen's and Veurink from the earlier wrongful death trial, that Judge Jesse should have allowed the Waage's to have taken Eggen's and Veurink to trial for Clarence Waage's wrongful death with the other defendants, the dump truck driver and his company--and that this unanimous win at the Court of Appeals meant that the Waage's could then "technically" take Veurink and Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. to trial for the wrongful death of Clarence Waage--the jury's "nothing" award in the first trial precluded any attorney from doing so for the Waages. How fortunate for jury manager Carol Eggen's relatives.

The jury found that the Waage's prevailed in the trial against the dump truck driver and his employer and then went on to award Irene Waage, who was riding in the van with her husband of 50 years at the time of the crash, was knocked out, and awoke to find her dead husband in the seat beside her--$4,000 for the loss of her husband. The jury awarded Irene--zero dollars for her pain and suffering.

The jury found that Irene Waage was permanently and seriously injuried by the crash, and awarded Irene--zero dollars for those future medical treatments that she would need to treat those injuries, money that her attorney had asked for at trial [that ruling being in contradiction with itself, the Waage's attorney complained later in a motion to Judge Jesse. Jesse did nothing].

After the trial, David Waage requested the job description for Carol Eggen from the court's St. Cloud regional office. It showed that Carol Eggen was a jury manager, a court scheduling clerk, a court financial clerk and did general clerk duties. Both the Mille Lacs County district court and the State Court's main office located in the Minnesota Supreme Court/Court of Appeals building next to the State Capitol have since refused to tell the Waage family exactly how Carol Eggen is related to Eggen's Direct Service's founder, and then president, Harley Eggen. But you can tell us, if you know, and you can do it anonymously if you want, by sending us a message--see farther below.

Roe did appeal Judge Jesse's granting of summary judgment to defendants Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and Veurink, but Roe didn't do the appeal for the purpose of taking Eggen's to trial.

Roe appealed to gain negotiating advantages with the other attorneys and Judge Jesse regarding his own, Roe's, costs and expenses.

And, because Roe won at the Court of Appeals, reversing Judge Jesse's summary judgment for Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and Verurink, that meant that Eggen's Direct had no right--none--to have the Waage's pay for any of Eggen's Direct's costs and expenses, according to Roe. Yet Eggen's attorney Fred Grunke asked Judge Jesse to order Irene Waage to pay for Eggen's Direct Service, Inc. and Veurink's case expenses--even though Judge Jesse had wrongly denied Irene and her famiy the trial that they had legitimately sought, according to the Court of Appeals, against the alleged killer of Irene's husband. Judge Jesse granted Eggen's attorney's request, and ordered Irene Waage to pay the alleged killer of her husband of over 50 years, Randall Veurink, $1,500. Can there be any doubt that Gov. Jesse Ventura should never have appointed Michael Jesse to a judgeship.

 

You won't find a picture of either of the two Mille Lacs County judges now practicing at the Milaca courthouse on the Minnesota State Courts' judges' bios website. Why? Doesn't the public have a right to see their faces, as the public can see the other judges' faces pictured on the site? To get to the Minnesota courts' judges' bios site, click: Here. And to get to the page on that site that depicts the below "(No Photo) for either Judge Steven A. Anderson or Judge Steven P. Ruble, the only two judges in the Milaca courthouse, click: Here.

 

 

The alleged killer got away scot-free and did not have to stand trial in either civil or criminal court. Why?--A corrupted State Patrol, a corrupted court administration, a corrupted judge, and corrupted attorneys--all of which will be proven on this site. With such a thoroughly corrupted and'rigged' game, the System's murder of Justice is a forgone conclusion. We are going to expose that corrupt system in depth and in detail on this website, and we are going to give conclusive proof that this fatal crash happened just as we say it did on this website.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are [purposefully] ignored." --Aldous Huxley.

To view mainstream media stories about other abuses of power, and the out-of-control staff at both the Mille Lacs County District Courthouse and its adjacent county jail, click: Here for story: Boy, 11, jailed and shackled even though he was a victim. And, Here for story: Experts say putting shackles on young victim is policy flaw. And, Here for story: Crime victim's parents sue county. And, Here for story: Former Viking's plea bargain in Arctic Blast case rejected by court. And, Here for story: Suit faults jail workers in teen's death. And, Here. for story: Wrongful-death lawsuit is settled, Mille Lacs County will pay $700,000 in the death of Brandon Brown, who pleaded with jail staff to see a doctor. And,. Here. for story: Mille Lacs County Strip Search Lawsuit Settled. And, Here for: Mille Lacs County Strip Search Litigation. And, Here for story: Mille Lacs County's lawsuit about the Mille Lacs Reservation Boundaries. And, Here for story: Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band/ Chippewa Indians. And, Here for story: County claims Mille Lacs Reservation doesn't exist. And, Here for story: Reservation battle fuels Mille Lacs hostility. And, Here for story: Investigator on leave, charged with harassment. And, Here for. story: Call for Mille Lacs County Minnesota Sheriff Brent Lindgren to Resign after recent $2 Million strip search settlement, 11 year old crime victim's arrest, handcuffed, and shackling, and harassment charge against deputy. And, Here for story: A Mille Lacs County sheriff's deputy has been accused of stalking and harassing his former girlfriend--who's now the county attorney. And, Here for story: Judge, venue change sought in harassment case.

Gov. Jesse Ventura appointed Michael Jesse to the Mille Lacs County District Court in 2000. That county's courthouse is in Milaca, Minnesota; a town of 2,500 located 65 miles north of the Twin Cities on Highway 169 [runs north-south] at the intersection of Highway 23 [runs northeast-southwest].

In early 2006, Judge Jesse shifted county's, leaving his Mille Lacs County judgeship to work instead as a judge in Benton County, where he had formerly worked as a county attorney. View Judge Jesse's "bio" on Minnesota's Judicial Branch's website by clicking on: Here.

View the Minnesota Court of Appeals' decision for Waage v. Eggen's Direct Service, Inc., Randall Bruce Veurink, et al, at the Court's own State website, by clicking on the following hyperlink: http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/ctapun/0309/op030246-0930.htm. [This link takes you directly to the Court of Appeals' ruling on this case.]

A call for other witnesses and people with information

If you are a witness to this crash, or if you have any information regarding this crash, or if you have information about any other unjust ruling(s) or actions by Mille Lacs County District Court personnel, or if you want to send me a message of any kind, first click on: Here. and then click on: contact/questionnaire.

To view an Adobe Acrobat PDF (528 kb) of the table of contents/index of the Minnesota State Patrol's Policy and Procedures Manual [they call it their General Orders manual], that we obtained and that was in force this past winter of 2008, click, here

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Dick-Cheney-like penchant for super secret government is revealed by his appointed Public Safety Commissioner, Michael Campion, and his appointed State Patrol Chief, Mark Dunaski's, recent stonewalling for 4 months my series of written requests made under Minnesota's Freedom of Information Act-type law for the above Table of Contents/Index; click Here (PDF, 304 kb) to see those series of letters; and then compare that to what happened in 2001 when I made the exact same request to a pre-Pawlenty Administration, which processed my request in 10 days, by clicking, Here (PDF, 804 kb).To view a July 2008 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Pawlenty's secrecy click, Here. Gov. Tim Pawlenty became the only Minnesota governor in the long history of Minnesota to have ever presided over a Minnesota state government shutdown. And don't believe anything other than this: Pawlenty was responsible for that 2005 shutdown of the state. A shutdown that Pawlenty brought about himself because of his extraordinarily extreme "my-way-or-the-highway" governing style, click Here to view a July 2005 article about the state shutdown in the The New York Times. What an inspirational leader.The majority of Minnesota voters did NOT vote for Tim Pawlenty for governor either in 2002, or in 2006. Pawlenty couldn't even get 1/2 of all Minnesota voters to vote for him in either of those two elections. So how did Pawlenty win? He split the vote; meaning there were three or more people in the race and because there is no instant run-off vote in Minnesota [there should be] for the two highest vote getters to ensure that 51 percent or more of the voters elect the winner, Pawlenty's plurality gave him the office. To view Pawlenty's vote totals for 2002 and 2006 elections, scroll up this page and click on the hyperlinks that are to the left of the picture of Pawlenty.

A Killing in Princeton, Minnesota

Contact us by first clicking Here and then Here. To view an animation (234 kb) of this criminal homicide click Here. And to view the Table of Contents/Index of the Patrol's General Orders Manual click Here. (PDF, 528 kb). That Manual informs a trooper of what exactly their duty is at a fatal/serious injury accident scene and what their duty is in most all other situations that they will encounter. Gov. Tim Pawlenty's Dick-Cheney-like penchant for super secret government is revealed by his appointed Public Safety Commissioner, Michael Campion, and his appointed State Patrol Chief, Mark Dunaski's, recent stonewalling for 4 months my series of written requests made under Minnesota's Freedom of Information Act-type law for the above Table of Contents/Index; click Here (PDF, 304 kb) to see that series of letters; and then compare that to what happened in 2001 when I made the exact same request to a pre-Pawlenty Administration, which processed my request in 10 days, by clicking, Here (PDF, 804 kb). To view a July 2008 article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Pawlenty's secrecy click, Here. Gov. Tim Pawlenty became the only Minnesota governor in the long history of Minnesota to have ever presided over a Minnesota state government shutdown. And don't believe anything other than this: Pawlenty was responsible for that 2005 shutdown of the state. A shutdown that Pawlenty brought about himself because of his extraordinarily extreme "my-way-or-the-highway" governing style, click Here to view a July 2005 article about the state shutdown in the The New York Times. What an inspirational leader.The majority of Minnesota voters did NOT vote for Tim Pawlenty for governor either in 2002, or in 2006. Pawlenty couldn't even get 1/2 of all Minnesota voters to vote for him in either of those two elections. So how did Pawlenty win? He split the vote; meaning there were three or more people in the race and because there is no instant run-off vote in Minnesota [there should be] for the two highest vote getters to ensure that 51 percent or more of the voters elect the winner, Pawlenty's plurality gave him the office. To view Pawlenty's vote totals for 2002 and 2006 elections, scroll down this site's home page to the right, to the hyperlinks that are left of the picture of Pawlenty.