WARNING: This thread is about a rapist thus rape is talked about.
Abstract or, TL;DR summary:
As of June 12 Patrick "pacman" McKinnon resigned from his tenor as partial owner of MXS and his wife, Diane "mother" now runs the company. This occured in response to an anynmous paintball player sending out 4 files countaining a cover letter, back ground check, and poorly organized legal files pretaining to the arrest, trial, conviction, appeal, and secound appeal of Patrick "pacman" McKinnon for rape in the first degree, 2 counts of forcible sodomy (oral sex), and 1 count of rape by instramentation. In the original case Pacman pled guilty to all charges except rape by instramentation. The total sentence for these crimes was 20 years for rape 1 and 10 years for the counts of forcible sodomy to be served concurently. Pacman was released in 8 years, founded his own paintball field, sold it, and founded MXS.
Forward:
I feel that the case has not been summerized in a way that in regards to your average forum user fully put forth the facts, educates, or has enough accesability. I will go over the story of how this information was released, responses by diffrent parties, and the case itself.
Given the very adult nature of the charges I will not be posting up the exact story of this case. Instead I will go over the charges, rulings, and opinion of the judges for these cases. I am currently not officially a member of any team and write with total indepedence from my sponsers. I write this post in order to attempt to inform the general paintball community with the only means available to me, I have nothing to gain by doing so.
I will attempt to not have my views influence this summary and seek to maintain a fair and just report.
the release of this information to the paintball community
On an unspecified date, before June 1st, an anynomous individual refering to him or herself as "concerned paintball player" (henceforth player) sent 4 documents (Cover letter, Intelius background check, poorly arrainged court documents) out to KEE Action Sports, JCS Jet City Specialties, Summit Products, Flurry Industries, HAMMERHEAD, Smokin' Products, Tiberius Arms, Tippmann Sports LLC., WARPIG.com, Palmer Pursuit, Air Gun Designs, PAINTBALL NEWS, Apprise Enthusiast Media, LLC, C/O Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, EMR, #1 Paintball, SplatBrothers PaintBall, Realms of Ruin, Herbies Paintball Games, Battle Creek Paintball, Official Paintball Games of Texas, MXS, LLC, Viper Enterprises, Black Cat Paintball, and Wayne's World of Paintball. (1) Player said his prefrence of anomity was because,
"This has been sent anonymous for the simple fact that I do not want Mr. McKinnon to retaliate against me or my family. And since he is aconvicted felon of a violent nature and has been known to have in his possession firearms, I do not want to take a chance." (1)
MXS's Diane "mother" (henceforth mother) put out an open letter on June 12th. In response to the senders choice of anomity she stated that "Anomity is the mask a coward wears." (2) Mother very clearly states what she believes to be the senders intent. Presently MXS is in a civil lawsuit brought against them by players who have been banned from MXS's games. Mother believes that the anymous sender sent the court records in "the latest volley in their attempt to discredit my company and drive away business so that I may not have an income to defend myself from their bogus lawsuit." and that it's intent was "[...] to discredit and ruin the lives of another human being and those they love. "(2)
validity of the documents is the patrick McKinnon cited the same individual as pacman?
On the topic of if these charges are true or false or if they relate to another individual with pacmans name mother has stated, "Upon the advice of our attorney, we have not responded to, nor acknowledged any of their accusations and claims. Neither shall we lend credence to, nor discuss, nor validate anything from this most recent attempt." (2) While player has stated "Also included is a background check that was run on the Patrick McKinnon’s SSN in the criminal file, as you can see it matched up to Patrick McKinnon who runs MXS" (1). The documents validity where also supported by TB who verifies pacmans Social security number, signature, birth date, address all match up to the patrick McKinnon cited in the various court cases. TB also reports that he has done his own background check and had the same results.
The case:
The State of Oklahoma v. Patrick McKinnon
CRF 85 4208
CHARGES:
Preliminary (charges by the prosecution NOT the findings of the court)
District attorny David Moss charged Mckinnon with,
-1 count of rape, 1st degree
-2 counts of forcible sodomy (in terms of forcing the defendant to have oral sex)
-1 count of rape by instramentation (forced penitration of HOOHA and anus)
(3)
also cited in 3 is the search warrent, record of arrest, and bond.
VERDICT BY JURY (filed Jan 21, 1986) SENTENCING April 4th, 1986:
guilty of count II, forcible sodomy: sentenced to 5 years
guilty of count I, rape in the 1st degree: April 4, 20 years
guilty of count III, forcible sodomy: 5 years
In all counts the court wavied victim compensation because pacmans future prospects looked pleak
(4)
The appeal
October 1992
Patrick Mckinnon V. The State of Oklahoma
PC. 92-0791 (the appeal has a diffrent cite than the case, don't cross it out in the future)
Appelete (McKinnon) contended
-warentless arrest in his own home was illegal
-his home was searched without warrent when he was arrested
-Evidence found in this warrentless search tainted the latter warrent to search his house
-the trial court should not have allowed this warrentless physical exhibits into court
-the court allowed testimony not aloud into court to be used by the prosecution creating a predjudicial effect
-the appeliants lawyer was not proper represintation (the lawyer sucked)
-the dr. shouldn't have been alowed to testify
-the counts of two similarly worded counts of sodomy are void because the defendant could not defend against them due to their unspecific nature
-the instructions to the jury on the specific law where improberly given by the judge
-the prosucutor used unethical and improper conduct throughout the case
-the court refused to hold an evidenciary hearing
-there are new facts pretaining to the case that would change it's verdict
Judge Hopper, citing court precident (Strickland v. washington a supreme court case) denied this motion. As to the courts response to the rest of the appeal the record sent out by player is incomplete and missing many pages. Although the post conviction relief (which happens AFTER appeal) shows that the appeal, on all counts, was denied to the best of my understanding.
The post conviction relief court has some memerable "go screw yourself" precident cites.
"lack of success is not the proper method for determining adequacy of representation" (taylor v. state)
"council is not required to advance every argument regardless of merrit." (cartwright v. state)
MXS, pacman, mother, and the current state of affairs:
MXS's website lists no history of Pacman or their company thus I must use the hearsay of others, please keep in mind the hearsay is not an acceptable standard of proof in a court of law. He began his paintball career as a field owner of BSG in 1996. "Then 4 years after he is released he sells a paintball field for over 6 figures and starts a company [MXS]. He has grossed over 1 million dollars in the 7 years that they have been in business" (
www.**************). This quote is from TB who is biased against pacman.
Pacman was one of the original scenario game promotors. He founded MXS with mother in either 1999 or 2000. They traveled across the country producing scenario games as a third party. Until June 12th, 2007 he ran this company with his wife. After the release of this information to the paintball puplic pacman "on June 1, 2007, I received Patrick’s resignation as an officer and managing member of MXS, LLC. " (2) and then "June 12, after a lengthy meeting with my attorney, I accepted Patrick’s resignation. Patrick McKinnon will no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations, and will not be appearing at future events. He, in his own words, is retired from paintball, and happy to do so."
Despite this many, including myself, believe it to be hogwash. His wife still is "running" the show. While pacman may not be at the field it's pretty obvious to anyone with common sense that any profits his wife reaps will be shared with him. It's also more than fair to assume he will still be very active in MXS behind the scenes. It would be hard to believe his wife did not know about this beforehand. Given that the person found guilty is deffiently him, and he pleaded guilty, and his two appeals failed, it's obvious that he was guilty of rape.
Due to PBN's word limit I did not post the sponsership list I did elsewhere, link:
http://www.mxsportz.com/invasions/index.html
Reseach refrenced and cited
1. "to whom it may concern"
http://www.box.net/shared/t0kx5dq3sm accessed June 13, 2007.
2. Diane "mother" (owner of MXS): Untitled, open letter on the issue
http://www.mxsportz.com/letter.html
3.
http://www.box.net/shared/f38uziqcb4
4.
http://www.box.net/shared/7e0bk630zg
