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everytime i am scheduled to appear before a judge, the line to get through security in the downtown courthouses is long. i like to stroll into the building about an hour after the bldg opened. once when i was scheduled to get a trial date assigned, the presiding judge had already issued a bench warrant for me because i was not in the court when she began her docket. this resulted in a delay of 45 days to get the trial date. the govt still would not give me the discovery material i was seeking. the people in parker center were participating in the "system as usual" conspiracy to deprive me of exculpatory evidence. the whole decision-making process of govt prosecution is fun and games for govt employees but causes tremendous emotional trauma to citizen defendants. my trial was a waste of court resources, city atty resources, my personal time and intellectual fact finding and seeking complete discovery from the prosecutor. fortunately, the judge gave me a hint that i could just tell the jurors what the dozen govt employees i wanted to subpoena to testify would say under oath. i told the judge i was agreeable as long as he remembered this during sentencing. he would not look me in the eye when i told him my willingness to speed the trial along. what bothered me was the govt choosing sides in making a decision to go to trial. i felt i was in the right and the matter should not have been presented to a jury. the witness was a liar, the govt knew she was a liar and yet while i had been cooperative and completely honest in the investigatory stage of police work, even t

Rape suspect illegal alien, police say
Bail set at $100,000 in local attack

Alfonso Mendoza, 52, of the Stonecroft Apartments
Portsmouth police photo
By Elizabeth Dinan
edinan@seacoastonline
June 10, 2008 6:00 AM
PORTSMOUTH — A Mexican native who has been living in the country illegally went to a woman for a haircut on Saturday afternoon when he pushed her down, restrained her by force and raped her, said police.

Arraigned in Portsmouth District Court on Monday, Alfonso Mendoza, 52, of the Stonecroft Apartments, was charged with aggravated felonious sexual assault forcible rape and ordered held on $100,000 cash-only bail.

Prosecutor Corey MacDonald told the court Mendoza had propositioned the victim, a barber, in the past, but she repeatedly refused his advances.

After Mendoza raped her, said MacDonald, he went to his job at a Newington restaurant, phoned the alleged victim and told her "not to tell anyone."

"He told her the police won't believe her because she does not speak English and he does," said MacDonald.

"I am innocent," said Mendoza by video from the Rockingham County House of Corrections.

Judge Sawako Gardner set the $100,000 cash-only bail and ordered Mendoza to have no contact with the victim, to stay away from the Stonecroft Apartments and to return to the court for a June 17 probable cause hearing.

MacDonald said he will be notifying immigration authorities in the meantime.