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	May, 2010
	Supreme Judicial Court of Maine heard oral arguments in the State vs. Vladek Filler.
	Assistant district attorney Mary N. Kellett committed prosecutorial misconduct. After the ruling she continued to abuse her position using the State of Maine to file an appeal of her prosecutorial misconduct, writing the appeal herself, and then arguing the appeal herself before Maine Supreme Court as a representative for the State of Maine. According to witnesses Mary Kellett misinformed the Supreme Court that there was no prosecutorial misconduct and nothing preventing Mr. Filler from using the bitter child custody battle with his accuser as a defense. Instead, she accused the defense attorney of failing to properly represent Mr. Filler. Yet according to Filler's current attorney, records indicate Mary Kellett filed a pretrial motion demanding the court block all evidence of the accuser’s misconduct and child custody battle from the trial. The court granted Mary Kellett's motion and ordered evidence of all other court actions and accuser's misconduct to be kept out of Mr. Filler's trial. Afterwards, maybe most shocking of all given the arguments presented to the Supreme Court, this same prosecutor filed another motion praising the court's ruling to block custody battle evidence and urging the court not to grant Mr. Filler another trial. This case of prosecutorial misconduct is now in the hands of the Maine Supreme Court. Filler’s supporters and witnesses of the proceedings report being shocked by prosecutor Mary Kellett's misconduct and disregard for the truth, the evidence, and the trial record. Despite this being one of the most prolific cases of prosecutorial misconduct and prosecutorial misandry in Maine's history, local media outlets have chosen not to cover it.

	April, 2010
	State of Maine vs. Vladek Filler Supreme Court Oral Arguments Schedule
		May 19, 2010, at 9:00 AM Penobscot Judicial Center 78 Exchange Street, Bangor, Maine 04401 Telephone (207) 561-2314
		Assistant DA Mary N. Kellett arguing on behalf of the State of Maine
		to reverse the ruling granting Vladek Filler a new trial based on her prosecutorial misconduct
		Attorney Neil L. Fishman arguing on behalf of Vladek Filler
	http://dirtydecisions.blogspot.com/2010/04/kellett-assistant-da-hancock-county.html

	February, 2010
	Vladek Filler has been awarded custody of his two sons. Vladek Filler's ex-wife has been found by the court to be a child abuser who physically assaulted her husband. A 60 page court ordered report and Findings confirm that Ligia Filler engaged in domestic abuse. The court also found Ligia Filler has shown a capacity to manufacture claims and that she lied to police that her husband molested their children. The court found that evidence of forced spousal rape, for which Vladek Filler was convicted, does not even achieve a preponderance. The prosecutor's misconduct forced Class A felony charges and a conviction of an innocent man in a case were the evidence did not even achieve a preponderance! Assistant DA Mary Kellett demands the Maine Supreme Court deny Vladek Filler an acquittal or even a new trial, and continues advocating for proven false allegations made by a female domestic abuser. The Hancock County District Attorney position is up for election.

	September, 2009
	Court records suggest the accuser, Ligia Barrientos Filler, may be a registered abuser of children who could not win a child custody dispute with her husband. Hancock County DA's Office withheld and blocked evidence and motives of the accuser from Vladek Filler's trial.

	September, 2009
	Former police investigator has revealed under oath that he did not take any of the staged photographs presented by prosecutor Mary Kellett to the jury. A set of staged photographs were secretly produced weeks before trial through unauthorized access to Mr. Filler's residence, and were never shared with defense before trial. At trial the same investigator testified about a video taped interview where the accuser made revealing statements about motives and being coached to cry to be believable; statements which were edited out of recordings and interview transcript.

	May 28, 2009
	Court records of criminal charges against Ligia Filler for attacking the father of her first child are now available here. Evidence concerning the accuser's child custody motives and history of misconduct was not allowed at her husband's trial.

	May 13-15, 2009
	Another innocent man was charged and tried on 20 counts of sexual misconduct by prosecutor Mary Kellett with virtually no evidence.
	http://fillerfund.com/marykellett.htm

	March 23, 2009
	Ligia Filler Barrientos moves to vacate the appointment of a court official following his report identifying numerous witnesses to her abuse of children and partners spanning the past 20 years. Witnesses include her 19 year old daughter and 12 year old son who reported being abused by their mother. The report states that the children unequivocally deny Vladek Filler ever being violent, even when attacked by his wife. One child is quoted as stating: "my mother would hit everyone in the house. She was a terror to everybody." Ligia Filler's previous psychological episodes and police involvement in her relationships were cited in the report. A Department of Health and Human Services investigation is cited with findings that Ligia Filler Barrientos abused her children and should not be allowed unsupervised contact with them. Assistant District Attorney Mary Kellett was interviewed for this report and moved to block all evidence of Ligia Filler's violence and abuse from being revealed in her husband's trial.

	March 18, 2009
	Asst. DA Mary Kellett files intentions to appeal judge's ruling for a new trial with the Supreme Court.

	March 12, 2009
	Mr. TJ Ward, of *Investigative Consultants International, Inc.* becomes publicly involved in the Vladek Filler case.
	http://investigativeconsultantsinternational.com/default.asp

	March 2, 2009
	After examining the transcripts from Mr. Filler's trial and considering Asst. DA Mary Kellett's conduct in this case, Honorable Justice Kevin M. Cuddy signed an order GRANTING Mr. Filler's motion for new trial due to prosecutorial misconduct of Asstistant DA Mary Kellett. Mary Kellett misrepresented facts and repeatedly lied to the jury and the Court about evidence in this case. The full extent of Mary Kellett's misconduct has not been exposed. Mary Kellett is currently seeking to appeal the Superior Court's ruling to the Maine Supreme Court in order to hide the truth, and jail this innocent man without any evidence of a crime. Should the conviction be upheld in Maine's Supreme Court, this innocent man will be incarcerated, and his children will be taken by the State of Maine.

	Bangor Daily News - Front Page April 28, 2007
	The authorities were notified from day one that false accusations against Vladek Filler were motivated by the custody battle for the children. ELLSWORTH -- A Gouldsboro man accused of forcing his wife to engage in a sex act was charged with rape Friday in Hancock County Superior Court. Anthony Beardsley, an Ellsworth attorney who represented Filler in court on Friday said his client denies the charges. "We feel there is a custody component involved in this," Beardsley said, referring to the couple's children. Bail was set at $10,000 cash or $50,000 surety. Beardsley had argued for a lower bail based on the fact that his client had no criminal record.
	www.bangordailynews.com



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