The film The Star Chamber with Michael Douglas is an interesting scenario.   9 Superior Court judges decide on the guilt or innocence (well, they always pick the ones they feel are guilty, so there is never any innocence) and they have a hit man execute the “guilty party or parties” – “machinery set in motion” where the hit man doesn’t know who hired him and the judges have no idea who the hit man is.

Frank Pilleri’s Kangaroo Court at TV3 Medford acted very much like a Star Chamber, everyone in the community funding the TV station could be tossed out with Pilleri’s libelous false charges and venomous attacks from the board of directors.  Sometimes, as in the case of saxophone sideman Deric Dyer, the insidious attacks were done in secret, only revealed after the victim filed a public records request with City Hall and obtained the evidence of vicious back-stabbing by screwballs like Deric Dyer or Ronald DeLucia, Dyer’s neighbor over where Pine Ridge Road meets Coolidge Road.   The unspeakable harm those individuals did to Medford life by wrecking the access station – now off the air for 15 months, no new programming in 18 months, is the responsibility of those unethical board members, who think nothing of fleecing the cable TV subscriber franchise fee and then putting the town jerk, Arthur Deluca, on the Medford Patch with nonsense about the ratepayers having no right to the materials Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. was required by contract, by Agreement, to give to the community.

To see Deric Dyer’s writings, done in secret, found via public records request, is chilling.  Arthur Alan Deluca sent numerous lies to the Medford Police Department, so why hasn’t Deluca been charged with lying to the police?

The Star Chamber at Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. has been destroyed.  Board members, if recognized by landlords at 40 Canal Street, 5 High Street and/or 32 Riverside Ave., are no longer welcome.  Allegedly those landlords did not get paid by the publicly funded entity that had the contract with the city of Medford to provide access.  Daniel Ryan Mailhiot failed, Deric Dyer and Jay Ricci failed.  They were pompous and arrogant thinking they were part of something special, but they hurt people and they damaged Medford life.

The Star Chamber at TV3 has been vanquished.  Now Justice must be Served and the Pilleri gang must be held accountable for their alleged crimes.

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THE ORIGINAL STAR CHAMBER

 The court was set up to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against prominent people, those so powerful that ordinary courts would never convict them of their crimes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber

The Star Chamber, an English court dating back to the middle ages, reportedly was named  for the stars on the ceiling of the courtroom, located at Westminster
Palace.  Over time, it grew increasingly powerful and corrupt.  By the
17th century, under Charles I, it had become a vehicle for  prosecuting political dissent.  The court’s procedures made it virtually impossible for defendants to get a fair hearing and served as a rubber  stamp for the monarchy.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10/24/notorious-%E2%80%9Cstar-chamber%E2%80%9D-courts-protect-government-wrongdoing/

The above image is of the Star Chamber. The Court of Star Chamber was an English court of law that sat in the Palace of Westminster until 1641. It was so called as the hearings were held in the Star Chamber. Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing. The function of the Court of Star Chamber was to act like a court of equity, which could impose punishment for actions which were deemed to be morally reprehensible,

 http://www.british-gazette.co.uk/2010/09/20/lib-dem-tax-policy-resurrect-the-star-chamber/