Post by Logan on Feb 9, 2017 15:10:28 GMT -6
OWATONNA — Accused tax evader Sylvia Lee is not backing down from her argument that she has no legal obligation to pay Minnesota state taxes, and prosecutors appear willing to let her take that argument directly to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Lee, 66, of Medford was charged in 2008 with 11 felony counts related to her alleged failure to pay taxes from 2002 to 2005 on her income from her job at the Veterans Administration as well as from rental properties and a real estate business. She failed to appear for a hearing in 2009 and was arrested in November on the outstanding warrant. At her initial bail hearing, she declared her intention not to cooperate with the case and demanded the arrest of Judge Karen Duncan. She remains in custody at the Steele County Detention Center on a $100,000 bail.
Her overdue taxes now sit at more than $250,000.
In a series of motions since her arrest, filed with the court as well as sent directly to the People’s Press, Lee, who describes herself as a sovereign and denies citizenship in the United States or Minnesota, has advanced a number of legal theories to argue the case has no merit.
In a Dec. 17 motion to dismiss, which begins describing the State of Minnesota as a legal fiction and is liberally sprinkled with biblical references, she argues that attorneys and prosecutors are prohibited under the constitutional prohibition on “titles of nobility” and insists the court cannot order her into “slavery or servitude” without her consent.
Read more: www.southernminn.com/owatonna_peoples_press/news/article_58277b33-d7eb-5e50-aa9e-d46e1cd3c7e2.html
Lee, 66, of Medford was charged in 2008 with 11 felony counts related to her alleged failure to pay taxes from 2002 to 2005 on her income from her job at the Veterans Administration as well as from rental properties and a real estate business. She failed to appear for a hearing in 2009 and was arrested in November on the outstanding warrant. At her initial bail hearing, she declared her intention not to cooperate with the case and demanded the arrest of Judge Karen Duncan. She remains in custody at the Steele County Detention Center on a $100,000 bail.
Her overdue taxes now sit at more than $250,000.
In a series of motions since her arrest, filed with the court as well as sent directly to the People’s Press, Lee, who describes herself as a sovereign and denies citizenship in the United States or Minnesota, has advanced a number of legal theories to argue the case has no merit.
In a Dec. 17 motion to dismiss, which begins describing the State of Minnesota as a legal fiction and is liberally sprinkled with biblical references, she argues that attorneys and prosecutors are prohibited under the constitutional prohibition on “titles of nobility” and insists the court cannot order her into “slavery or servitude” without her consent.
Read more: www.southernminn.com/owatonna_peoples_press/news/article_58277b33-d7eb-5e50-aa9e-d46e1cd3c7e2.html