4. MALETTA YOUNG - 2017 to 2019 One of the many bizarre events in this case is Maletta Young’s attorney, at the time she made her deal to testify against Mandi, was also Scott Love's attorney, Kenneth Hamburg. Scott Love’s other attorney Michael Nielsen, told me Hamburg was doing the day-to-day busy work in the case, while Nielsen was busy with another trial across the state. So Hamburg would have immediately been paid as much as $100 an hour, to write the motions that one of his clients Maletta Young’s statements, were unreliable hearsay and could not be used against his other client, Scott Love. Maletta Young's false claim that Mandi confessed, also made it harder for the state to offer Mandi a fair deal to testify against Hamburg’s other client, Scott Love. Of course Hamburg had an ethical obligation to withdraw from one of the cases, and specifically to withdraw from the case where he knew his client was lying. Hamburg withdrew from Maletta Young’s case. But only after he already got paid twice for what she said, shielded his own client from what his other client said, and saved Love from Mandi being offered a fair deal by having Young say what she said. Maletta Young is an interesting character. She had been getting arrested for drug felonies at least as far back when she was 20. In 2017 when she was 30 and she was already a convicted felon, she got arrested for an aggravated home-invasion battery which she setup. Before that case was even settled while she was out on bond, they kicked in her door and caught her dealing fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, suboxone, amphetamine, lorazepam, and codeine. She also had a loaded gun and extra bullets in a drug baggie, as a convicted felon and habitual offender. For all that, the Seminole County prosecutors let her out without posting bond, and gave her two years. At Maletta's deposition, she said she had to testify against Mandi because she couldn't set people up buying drugs as an informant any more. She would have liked to do more buys, more police stings to get more reduction in her sentence. But it was not possible. Everybody knew she was an informant. Maletta saw it posted on the Seminole Clerk of Court website, that she was working with police. And she assumed everyone else saw her case there also. Maletta said in her deposition she was not doing the same things any more, she was not talking to the same people, she was not selling drugs. Drugs were just not a part of her life any more, and she could not buy them because no drug people would talk to her. The material publicly available about Maletta, which said she was an informant and which people read about her on the Seminole Clerk of Court website, had ruined her ability to be a drug user. Judge John Galuzzo set Maletta's two-year sentencing for Friday October 5, 2018. He must really be impressed with his own voice, because he gave Maletta specific instructions "DEFENDANT MUST APPEAR ON TIME TO NEXT COURT DATE" and "DEFENDANT IS NOT TO BE ARRESTED OR COMMIT ANY NEW LAW VIOLATIONS." So on Friday October 5, 2018, Maletta showed up late, and Judge Galuzzo told her to come back Monday. And then on Monday Maletta came back and got her two year sentence, and was taken straight from the courthouse to the jail. And then on Tuesday, someone tipped off the jail that Maletta brought drugs to her sentencing before Judge Galuzzo, and had smuggled them into the jail. They caught her with five small balloons that she was carrying around the jail in her mouth, and two large balloons in her cell, containing buprenoprhine, naloxone, meth, alprazolam, and fentanyl. While those charges were pending, Maletta told her boyfriend to mail her suboxone in the jail which he did, and she got caught and charged for that also. You could not hope to outdo Maletta Young's persistence and determination to commit drug felonies over the years and put peoples live at risk. For all that, including dealing fentanyl in the Seminole County jail, they gave Maletta another three years. Maletta only actually spent 18 months in prison. So much for being tough on violent armed fentantyl dealers. It is kind of like all the trouble they went to, to replace Aramis Ayala as the prosecutor so Ishnar Lopez-Ramos could get the death penalty. Then they instead offered Ishnar 40 years, in exchange for a sheet of lies to convict the innocent. Maletta Young’s unique story about what Mandi confessed to her, seemed to fit with her unique circumstances. Of the people who claimed Mandi confessed, Maletta was the only one who was out on bond. The story Maletta told, seemed to come from the clerk web site and from Google, not from Mandi or Madara. Maletta’s story largely contradicted what the other girls claimed Mandi confessed. IV-l8