As The Martin Chronicles reported Sunday, a motion hearing regarding Villa Hills Mayor Mike Martin's destruction of City documents was on the court docket today. The motion was a request to have the court issue an order to Martin to stop destroying evidence in the pending lawsuit against the mayor for LIBEL, SLANDER and DEFAMATION.
As our readers know all too well, law enforcement officers stopped the Villa Hills Public Works crew from burning City documents on January 5, 2012. Martin told the Public Works Director not to let anyone know he had ordered them to do it. Martin ordered the destruction of documents after both the City Attorney and Attorneys from the Kentucky League of Cities sent written notice to Martin about the importance of preserving all City records during the lawsuit. The document Martin falsified after-the-fact to cover up what he really had destroyed is blown out of the water by some of the actual documents law enforcement recovered from the fire.
As fate would have it, the Court House was evacuated this morning. Sources say someone called in a bomb scare. No, The Martin Chronicles is not going to touch that. It's too easy. That is not our brand of humor. Nothing really funny about a bomb scare. And we want to be factual. Some were concerned that the evacuation would cause weeks of delay.
That was not the case. When court re-convened, the judge scheduled an evidentiary hearing on Martin's records destruction for this Thursday morning at 11am. The Martin Chronicles Legal Team thinks that the Judge's schedule for the evidentiary hearing is on a very "fast track". Especially given the fact that other motions on today's docket were continued for weeks. That may very well speak to the seriousness of the matter.
These legal experts also expect witnesses to include the Villa Hills' Public Works Director and Police Chief. We also imagine that the judge will get the opportunity to see some of the documents recovered from the fire-that were not on Martin's falsified list.
