According to court documents and trial testimony, Gibson moved into a foreclosed home in Lithonia, Ga., an upscale, gated Atlanta suburb in March 2013. He quickly declared he owned the house, valued somewhere between $300,000 and $600,000, by filing paperwork with DeKalb County officials claiming he had deeded the home to himself.
After moving into the residence, authorities say, Gibson changed the locks on the doors and posted a warning to real estate agents to stay off the property. The home, however, was under contract to be sold, and Gibson was not the buyer.
Meanwhile, when the homebuyer contacted local police, she was told it was a civil matter and police wouldn’t be involved. The homebuyer then spoke to Gibson, telling him the house sale would be closing soon and asked him to leave. Gibson told the homebuyer that someone lied to her because she would not be moving into that home.
In further efforts to establish his “right” to the residence, court documents say, Gibson “taped to the windows fraudulent Quiet [sic] Claim Deeds and other sovereign citizen documents” declaring he “was a Foreign Official and that the Property was a Foreign Embassy.”
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Throughout the trial, Gibson proclaimed his innocence and protested the validity of the court. A day before his trial began, he filed a rambling 17-page, typed-written “affidavit of truth” in which he described himself as a “living, breathing, flesh-and-blood man living under the laws of the God, Father and Creator of the boundless universe…” He also claimed that the U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over him “because it is not really a court as per Article III of Constitution of the United States, but rather a tribunal operated as a private corporation…”
Gibson also claimed the criminal charges against him were really commercial charges “as defined in the code of federal regulations 27 CFR 72.11.” “My attorney and the Court both do not seem to understand this regulation and, as such, my attorney is incompetent to defend [me],” Gibson said.
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