Draft:Moe Dimanche
Moe Dimanche | |
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| Born | Moliere Dimanche November 7, 1987 Orlando, Florida, US |
| Education | St. Johns River State College (associate degree) |
| Occupation | Non-fiction author |
| Years active | 2016–present |
| Political party | Independent |
| Website | Official website |
Moe Dimanche (born November 7, 1987)[1] is a Haitian-American artist[2] and author[3]. He is best known for his historic litigation in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit challenging procedural hurdles hindering inmate abuse lawsuits by prisoners.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). Salon.com featured Dimanche’s art as a diagnosis of "the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries."[4]
Biography
Moe was born on November 7, 1987. When Moe was fourteen years old, he started his first job at Winn-Dixie as his family struggled financially. He attended West Orange High School (Florida) where he excelled in English and enjoyed studying Shakespeare.[5] In 2016, he received a scholarshipCite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). to attend Florida School of the Arts at St. Johns River State College, where he majored in Studio Art. During this time he hosted pop-up art shows throughout the First Coast of Florida in anticipation of the release of his first book, “It Takes a Criminal to Know One: How the Inspector General and I are One and the Same”.[6] He has three sons with the love of his life, twins Gio & Pepé, and Caleb, whose names he combined for the name of his streaming app, Gipeca.[7]
Publice corruption litigation
Dimanche v. Brown (11 Cir. 2015)
Moe set precedent with the landmark case, Dimanche v. Brown, which led to the unanimous reversal and remand of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.[8] The case set the stage for compliance with the Prison Litigation Reform Act if inmates encounter situations where prison officials obstruct the grievance process. It was held that the mandated exhaustion of administrative remedies is satisfied if an inmate bypasses an institutional grievance and proceeds directly to the formal process with an agency’s headquarters if staff at the institutional level have threatened or engaged in acts of reprisal for participating in the grievance process. This gas involved allegations of the use of chemical agents in the confinement unit in retaliation for filing inmate grievances.
Dimanche v. Jackson
In 2024, Moe fully briefed the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Dimanche v. Jackson.[9] The case involves public corruption, allegations of election interference, judicial corruption, official misconduct, usurpation of jurisdiction, and raises a Constitutional challenge to the Federal Magistrates Act. The case was initially brought in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida under the Ku Klux Klan Act.
1216
Moe successfully had a petition for a writ of certiorari docketed with the Supreme Court of the United States under docket number 23-1216. The case was distributed for the Opening Conference of the 2024 Term. The petition seeks the court’s clarity on Thompson v. Clark and it’s “favorable termination” language, while also seeking to have the Federal Magistrate’s Act declared unconstitutional.
Politics
Mayor & District 5 Interim Commissioner
Moe was a candidate for Mayor of the City of Orlando in the city’s 2023 general election. He was also a candidate for Interim Commissioner after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended then-serving commissioner Regina Hill from office.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). While running in the race for Interim Commissioner, Moe defended Hill’s good name and contended that the prosecution against Hill was politically motivated. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). In both municipal elections, Moe was disqualified over the manner in which qualifying fees were expected to be paid, per the City Clerk. [10]
Governor of the State of Florida
Moe set his sights on becoming the first Haitian Governor of Florida. He is an independent candidate in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial election.[11]
Investigative journalism and other ventures
Moe began a series of exposé vlogs on YouTube covering inmate abuse within the Florida Department of Corrections. [12] He has traveled the United States doing speaking engagements on the correlations between messages in his art and the systemic injustices in American prisons. [13]
Publications
- ’'It Takes a Criminal to Know One, Amazon (2016)[14]Cite error: The
<ref>tag has too many names (see the help page).
References
- ^ "Moliere Dimanche". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ "Moliere DiManche Exhibition Brings Crowds". www.youtube.com. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
- ^ "It Takes a Criminal to Know One". www.amazon.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ^ Fleetwood, Nicole. "Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida's penitentiaries". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
- ^ "REDEMPTION Behind Bars". Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ "It Takes a Criminal to Know One". www.amazon.com. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ^ "Gipeca".
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
“Eleventhwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Dimanche v. Jackson".
- ^ "Moe Dimanche".
- ^ "Independents".
- ^ "Detienen a guardia de prisión en Florida por tratar de envenenar a recluso".
- ^ "Carceral Aesthetics: Vision and Imprisonment".
- ^ It Takes a Criminal to Know One: How the Inspector General and I are One and the Same. Amazon CreateSpace. 2016.
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