Federal Protective Service -- Letter 11/10/97

November 10, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Jerry McGill, S.A.
Federal Protective Service
Criminal Investigations Section
Southeast Federal Center
Building 74
3rd and M Streets, S.E.
Washington, DC 20407
Tel: (202) 690-9315

RE: Homicide/Violence Risk - Job Search - Federal Courts

Dear Mr. McGill:

This will advise the Federal Protective Service that, as part of my job search, I will be forwarding employment inquiries for the position of law clerk to district court and circuit court judges throughout the federal judicial system, in addition to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. As you know there are hundreds of federal judges.

Since the letters of inquiry will by necessity refer to the determination by the Government of the District of Columbia that my former employer, the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, formed genuine concerns that I might have been armed and homicidal during my tenure, it is to be anticipated that recipients of my inquiry may forward the letter on to the U.S. Marshalls Service. You may, therefore, want to review this matter with the U.S. Marshalls Service, and alert that agency to the possibility that it may be receiving a sizable number of inquiries from federal judges around the country with respect to the homicide risk determination affirmed as genuine by the Government of the District of Columbia in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. 96-CV-961.

From the perspective of my rights under the constitution of the United States, I am concerned that a simple no probable cause determination issued by a human rights agency of the District of Columbia gives the appearance of functioning as an adjudication of my potential for violence (felony risk), that may prompt inquiries by federal judges to the U.S. Marshalls Service. Can a simple no probable cause determination that found that my rights were not violated under the D.C. Human Rights Act, but which prompts inquiries to the U.S. Marshalls Service relating to a reported risk of violence (including armed violence and homicide)--concerns regarding a reported risk of violence affirmed as genuine by a state court--be deemed anything less than a violation of my rights under the constitution of the United States?

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman

cc: Charles L. Reischel, Esq., Deputy Corporation Counsel, tel.: (202) 727-6252
John C. Keeney, Jr., Esq., Assistant U.S. Attorney General, DOJ