Hamblin Case Pushed to Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 8:15 a.m.

Yet Another Delay

At the 12:30 p.m. hearing before Judge Griffin, Jared Perkins of the Utah County Attorneys Office (UCAO), claimed that the position of the UCAO is that the Hamblin case was always a case for the Attorney General, given that the Attorney General appointed a special prosecutor. Since UCAO was recused from the case by order of Judge Griffin, the case reverted back to the State Attorney General’s Office, which does not explain why that office failed to step in in either October when Special Prosecutor Ryan Peters was nominated to a judgeship, or several months back when Judge Griffin recused the UCAO as the prosecution.

It also does not explain why the Attorney General’s Office failed to send an attorney to the hearing today, given that Perkins claims that Craig Barlow of the Attorney General’s Office was noticed as to today’s hearing via email. The Hamblin case is a case that no prosecutor in the state of Utah wants, even though it was a path to a juvenile court judgeship for Ryan Peters, former Juab County Attorney and special prosecutor in the Hamblin case.

Judge Griffin’s perplexed posture is bemusing, given that his ruling disqualified the UCAO from filling in on the case even though David Okerlund Leavitt is no longer the Utah County Attorney. Leavitt, whose disastrous press conference torpedoed his reelection chances and his political future, has decamped to Scotland to remodel Knockderry Castle with his wife Chelom and Allisandra Fishinghawk, the Native American child he allegedly purchased from her mother Tonah, the drug addled dilettante who purportedly received payment via a USBank account. Leavitt also allegedly bribed Lawrence Jace Killsback, the tribal president of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, in order to secure Killsback’s interference with Tribal Social Services, which initially denied Leavitt’s request to take custody of Allisandra a mere seven days after she was taken into the custody of the Rosebud Emergency Lodge.

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), specifically stipulates a year long waiting period before a Native American child with enrolled member status in a federally recognized tribe can be placed in an adoptive or foster setting. The alleged $30,000 payment to Killsback was sufficient to negate that legal requirement, as was Leavitt’s admitted quid pro quo offer to leverage his contacts in the Ukrainian government to enable Killsback and his tribe to export buffalo to the Ukraine. This enabled Leavitt to leave that afternoon with Allisandra, trafficking her across state lines back to Utah, where he commenced an adoption proceeding in a Provo court with no jurisdiction whatsoever over the adoption of a Native child. ICWA confers exclusive jurisdiction for Native American adoptions on the tribal courts.

During his time as Utah County Attorney, Leavitt failed to disclose the fact that he was engaged in an ongoing adoption proceeding with Tonah Fishinghawk’s child, which is significant because he prosecuted Tonah for felony child endangerment and drug possession in 2019, which he negotiated down to misdemeanors in a plea deal. Tonah Fishinghawk promptly skipped town and never met the terms of her probation deal, leading to the issuance of an arrest warrant in November 2019.

In 2022, Tonah Fishinghawk turned up in Oklahoma, incarcerated on domestic violence charges. Her release sheet lists David Leavitt as her emergency contact, and stipulates that she called him. He was still the county attorney, and she was still a fugitive with an active arrest warrant. Again, David Leavitt did nothing to notify the court in Provo of Tonah’s whereabouts, nor did he file to extradite her to Utah. He was obligated to do both as an officer of the court, and he committed obstruction of justice by failing to perform his duties.

When Leavitt’s wife Chelom filed for divorce, her case was promptly assigned to none other than Judge Roger Griffin. She later withdrew her petition.

David and Chelom Leavitt were both accused of participating in child rape, child trafficking, and murder as part of the LDS Church of Satan. They allegedly received training from David Lee Hamblin as it pertained to rendering their own children compliant with ritual abuse. None of their adult children have publicly come out to repudiate the allegations against their parents, or to refute a single claim made by Rachel, Eliza, and Katherine Hamblin, or Emily Sheets, who is the current victim in the criminal case in American Fork.

Michael Petro, who is one-half of David Hamblin’s defense team, worked with David Leavitt’s nonprofit Leavitt Institute in Ukraine. He notified the court that he would be calling David Leavitt as a witness in the Hamblin case, which was one of the cited factors in Judge Griffin’s ruling disqualifying the UCAO as a prosecuting agency.

And so we wait again, gentle readers, for next Thursday to arrive as the establishment in Utah tries to figure out a way to extract themselves and David Lee Hamblin from the quagmire of these allegations without appearing even more blatantly corrupt. We will see if the State Attorney General’s Office will take up the case, or whether they will take the fall for its dismissal. Everyone wants the Hamblin case to go away, but no one wants to be responsible in the ultimate sense for its dismissal.

In the meantime, Emily Sheets, Hamblin’s alleged victim, and his daughters Rachel and Eliza, who are her eyewitnesses, sit and wait as well. We will see you at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2024 for the latest in the saga of David Lee Hamblin.