Steven J. Stringfellow v. Texas Comptroller Judiciary Section

Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided March 28, 2025·No. 15-25-00035-CV·Published

Opinion

ACCEPTED 15-25-00035-CV FIFTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS D-1-GN-24-009050 3/28/2025 4:42 AM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Travis District Civil Court CLERK Texas FILED IN ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15th COURT OF APPEALS Steven J Stringfellow AUSTIN, TEXAS v 3/28/2025 4:42:21 AM Texas Comptroller Judiciary Section CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE Clerk ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Complaint (Amended) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Description of Cause • Travis County wrongfully imprisoned the Plaintiff, originally charging me with a felony based

upon falsified witness testimony which had not been fully investigated at the time. At a later

date, the testimony of those witnesses was deemed unverifiable by the court, leading to

Plaintiff's release. The Plaintiff was imprisoned for 799 days before being released, with the

charge adjudicated to class A misdemeanor conviction and time served. Plaintiff had mailed the

required documents for the application for compensation to the Comptroller’s Judiciary Section

in accordance with Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 103.051 in late December of 2022,

to which no response was received. Upon emailing the Comptroller’s Judiciary Section

recently to check on the status of the application Plaintiff's emails were returned undelivered,

prompting the filing of this complaint.

Releif Sought • Relief is being sought in the form of injunction ordering the Comptroller’s Judiciary Section to

process the application for compensation for wrongful imprisonment and for that monetary

compensation. 1. Exhaustion of Remedy 1.1. A request for an application for compensation was sent to the State Comptroller’s

Judiciary Section via postal mail in late December of 2022 for wrongful imprisonment stemming from

Travis County Criminal Case D1DC17301319 (see Exhibit P.1). The Plaintiff had since mailed two

changes of address updates advising them of new addresses after moving from Austin to Houston and a

mail delivery service in Spring. Plaintiff had not received any mail in reply from the Comptroller’s

Judiciary Section for some time and so I decided to contact them by email (see Exhibit P.2). Plaintiff

then received in return email an “address not found, undelivered mail and returned to sender” error

messages with the error code “550 Invalid recipient (#5.1.1)” from : host

cluster9.us.messagelabs.com [67.219.250.219]. Plaintiff had initially received that email via my my

Gmail account and so I sent an email from my ProtonMail account in order to troubleshoot and

received the exact same error message (Exhibit P.2).

1.2. Considering the recession and the fact that the Plaintiff has had other issues occur at

other government departments as well as private corporations, even going as far as having been

subjected to several cases of internet based crime from a hacker clan known as lulzsec who have likely

been editing my information both in government databases and elsewhere, filing a complaint against

the Judicial Branch should be the more lawful route in order to remedy this issue because Plaintiff

senses that my original mail was never received at this point, perhaps have been re-routed unlawfully

by said internet crime.

2. Claims 2.1. Plaintiff filed the original application for compensation by mail, with all necessary

copies of required documents according to Tex Civ Prac Rem Code 103.051.

2.2. Tex Civ Prac Rem Code 103.051 states that individuals wrongfully imprisoned are

entitled to monetary compensation at $80,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment. 2.3. Class A misdemeanors in Texas carry a maximum sentence of 1 year of imprisonment or

a $4,000 fine or both.

2.4. The Plaintiff, Steven Jacob Stringfellow’s dates of incarceration to wit were from

11/09/2017 to 01/17/2020. Plaintiff was incarcerated for 799 days with 434 days of that time being

over one year (see Exhibit P.1); therefore, the Plaintiff was owed 434 days worth of compensation for

wrongful imprisonment, which would come to a total of $95,123.

2.5. Sec 103.051 did not give instructions to send the application by registered mail. Proof

of delivery therefore would rest upon the State under Rules of Evidence, and through which recession

may stand as direct evidence against such a larger party as the State would be, with the Plaintiff already

being extenuated for secession’s caveat of recession in progress through my party The Federal Exit

Party and our work under the Article III precedent law for sovereign immunity (Exhibit P.3.A). The

burden of proof would rest moreso upon the State by law, with favor towards the caveat (see Exhibit

P.4).

3. Allegations 3.1. Background

3.1.1. The Plaintiff was originally arrested on a felony warrant by the Austin Police

Department following a routine traffic stop on November 9 th 2017. The Plaintiff was unaware at the

time that I had a warrant out for my arrest with the instigation of the altercation leading to the warrant

having been caused by the other party—a semi-homeless man and known drug dealer under the

Highway 183 overpass, who had called the police after I had already left the scene and had fabricated

events of the altercation, of which he had started by threatening me for some odd reason...this homeless

or semi-homeless man was also very high on some sort of stimulant early that morning while I was

trying to go work at my moving business’ from our storage unit, with nobody else around on that

Saturday morning (I had suspected that he was trying to rob me or something at the time). The Plaintiff was arrested several months after that original altercation, which was definitely within the field of view

of several surveillance cameras although no surveillance video every made it into evidence, prompting

the State to drop the case.

3.1.2. Due to lack of evidence and conflicting accounts of events, the prosecution had to rely

upon the opposing parties’ testimonies alone, being the mentioned bum aggressor and the manager lady

of the property he was friends with, even though the surveillance video would have exonerated Plaintiff

anyway (and such issues would be more common than not under recession anyway). Upon the

prosecution’s contacting of the other parties, who had also fabricated their original statements

(according to the Plaintiff) they declined to participate in the case any further (and seemed surprised

that I had been incarcerated for such amount of time).

3.1.3. Plaintiff was offered a plea bargain and released with the conviction of Class A

Misdemeanor, with the original charge having been dismissed. The conviction will likely be

completely dropped at a later date once Plaintiff has finished litigating that cause as well (I just had no

other way to get out of jail at the time and could not wait several more months for the trial after being

surprised with a felony warrant which had been falsified to a 1st degree assault causing bodily harm

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