Save Katherine Conner

(Updated at the bottom) Katherine Conner is a wrongly convicted woman who needs and deserves our support. Katherine was ordered to pay $388 per month for probation and restitution fees out of her low income, which is only $586 per month. Katherine was unable to care for herself and her household out of just $198 per month. Katherine paid $100 per month to the probation office, but she is now $3,000 behind. In March a judge ordered Katherine to pay the full amount that is past due by June 2013 or face imprisonment. We ask that 300 people give at least $10 to help Katherine Conner to raise her past due probation fees, or this innocent woman will be imprisoned in June 2013. Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o  or mail her at P.O. Box 211, Wilson, LA 70789. Katherine will tell you about how the situation came about in the embedded below and at YouTube link http://youtu.be/6nFVLk4H3v4

Katherine was a working mother whose home was damaged by Katrina. She hired a contractor to repair her house in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and that is where her trouble began. Katherine signed contract with Ralph Jefferson and agreed to pay $7,000 before repairs started on her house and $7,000 once Mr. Jefferson completed the job. Twice during the repairs, Katherine's contractor threatened to temporarily stop work on her house because he lacked the money to purchase materials and pay his workers. He requested and received advance payments on Katherine's final payment. Katherine advanced her contractor $3,500. When Katherine was presented with her final bill for the home repairs, she was addressing a problem on the phone and was distracted. She wrote the check for the entire amount on the contractor's invoice, plus $574. Katherine immediately realized her mistake. She called the contractor and asked for her check back and a corrected bill giving her credit for the advanced payments. The contractor refused. At that point, Katherine Conner did what any of us would have done. She cancelled the check, thinking that the contractor would return with a corrected bill when he saw that it was impossible to cash the check. Unfortunately, Katherine's credit union only cancelled the check to stop counter payments and did not also stop bank withdrawals. The contractor simply held the check for several weeks and then cashed it by electronic withdrawal. Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o

Katherine's contractor therefore received payment on the $7,574 check that Katherine had already cancelled. Katherine complained to Pelican State Credit Union. The credit union acknowledged its error and and withdrew the money from the contractor's bank to repay Katherine. The contractor then filed a criminal complaint against Katherine and claimed she had done "theft of services." Katherine was arrested and prosecuted on what she feels should not have been a criminal justice matter, but a civil justice matter. All Katherine wanted was a corrected bill that credited her for the $3,500 advance payments she had made on her home repairs. Instead, Katherine was arrested for the first time in her 52 years, and she was faced with paying a bond and attorneys' fees in her defense.

At first, Katherine was convinced that once Prosecutor Samuel C. DaQuilla and Judge George H. Ware, Jr. saw her evidence and understood that she never wrote a check on insufficient funds, her trouble would be over. She hoped that they would not allow an unlicensed contractor from Mississippi to take unfair advantage of a Louisiana Katrina victim by demanding thousands more than the contracted sum for home repairs that were not actually finished. Katherine Conner was so disturbed about her arrest on criminal charges, in fact, that she filed a grievance against the officers of the court. Katherine certainly regrets complaining about the judge and district attorney now, because they refused to recuse themselves from her case. She was convicted and sentenced to pay 77% of her monthly income in probation fees. Since then, Katherine has been rejected by several employers due to her wrongful conviction on felony charges, and she got behind in her probation fees. She now faces prison, and taxpayers face paying incarceration costs for a crime that did not happen. Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o

Katherine Conner appealed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Surprisingly, the higher court upheld the conviction but ruled that Katherine Conner's probation fees should be appropriate according to her income. The lower court, however, levied unreasonable probation and restitution fees. Katherine appealed to the public, hoping to find legal assistance. She published videos and petitions to protest her conviction and gave numerous radio interviews: "Say Your Piece - Selena McCall," "Dr. Shirley Moore," "Brian Coleman," "Bill Windsor," "Rev. Pinkney," "Women in Prison," and "Making a Difference."

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Katherine has searched and prayed for help. Please BE the change that she needs to see. We must operate in the third rule of Kwanzaa - Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and solve them together. Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o

JOIN US at a Google+ Hangout to raise the past due probation fees for Katherine Conner and discuss the prison industrial complex on Saturday, April 13, at 6:00pm Eastern Time. Unless CoIntelPro interferes, the broadcast will also be archived at YouTube. Katherine only has a short time to raise the $3,000, which is an astronomical amount for the newly impoverished mother, but it is not much if we divide the cost - $10 each among 300 people who walk the talk against wrongful convictions and the mass incarceration of people, especially African Americans. Louisiana has the nation's highest incarceration rate in the USA, a nation with the world's largest number of prisoners in world history.

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO STARS WHO RECENTLY WROTE THE PRESIDENT

"Let’s Tackle Mass Incarceration and Drug Policy Reform Together"

http://legalpronews.findlaw.com/article/0fyM4tp2sxbbg?q=crime+OR+criminal+OR+arrested
NEW YORK – Tuesday, a coalition of over 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected officials and advocates, brought together by hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons and Dr. Boyce Watkins, presented an open letter to President Obama, urging him to double down on his efforts to change the United States’ criminal justice policy from that of a punitive, suppression-based model to one that favors evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation.

Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o
For everyone who prefers to mail Katherine Conner a contribution to pay her past due probation fees and help her avoid a Louisiana prison cell: P.O. Box 211, Wilson, LA 70789.

Please contribute at this "GoFundMe" account http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o

God bless everyone who gives and everyone who desires to give but cannot. Hopefully, you will contribute before June 2013, if you cannot donate immediately and help to ease Katherine's mind. Thank you for sharing this fundraiser. We appreciate you for sharing Katherine Conner's problems. Please save her from wrongful incarceration. Pray for all Katrina victims and people caught in other disasters. It could have been you.

October 5, 2013 UPDATE: 
Katherine Conner received some donations toward her probation and borrowed the rest. Now she struggles to pay her monthly probation and restitution fees which amount that is 70% of her income PLUS repay her loan. Meanwhile, her district attorney continues his attacks on black people. District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla had Herman Wallace re-indicted for murder a few days after he was released from 41 years of solitary confinement in Angola Prison. Wallace, one of the Angola 3, probably died immediately upon hearing the news in hospice care that he was due in court in December 2013.

“I say he is a murderer, and he is not innocent,” District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla said. “The conviction was overturned because the federal judge perceived a flaw in the indictment — not his murder conviction.”

D’Aquilla said Wallace's attorney Nicholas J. Trenticosta, of New Orleans, was wrong when he said Tuesday that Wallace is “a free man, and he’s innocent.”

We often consider what our lives would be if only . . . But no matter how dissatisfied we may be, it could be worse. Regarding the physically or mentally handicapped, homeless people, the incarcerated or people facing imprisonment, think to yourself, "It could have been me." - Curtis Foster and the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
http://youtu.be/z6j4PDI6y6U

Mary Neal, human rights advocate against mass incarceration (Pv. 31:8-9)

Phone me at 678.531.0262

Black Teen Found Dead, Organs Missing

I emailed an article that included Jason Smith's death, which the 14-year-old's father said was a KKK killing in Louisiana. The article exposed five(5) deaths of people whose families differ with the medical examiners' findings. See "Suicides, Accidents, and Government Cover-ups" in MaryLovesJustice blog at this link
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/09/covering-up-black-mens-murders.html . All five families say their loved ones were murdered and that the authorities are engaging in cover-ups. When I copied the article about Jason and others into an email and sent it, only three of the four videos showed at the bottom of my Gmail screen. The Jason Smith video was missing. Therefore, to ensure that you know about little Jason's death, which was ruled an accidental drowning, I republished his video along with some some recent radio interviews in this article. The JudicialJustice group at Facebook is working to expose Jason's death and get closure for his family. Dr. Randy Short and Rozalyn Ratcliff lead the justice quest for Jason's family. Some recent radio interviews by the two advocates and Jason's father are beneath the embedded video herein. Perhaps cyberstalkers rendered the entire paragraph about Jason's death invisible on my email, so it is repeated below, also. Mr. Smith's audio was published on PressTV (Iranian television station) at this link:

Bruce Smith: My son was beaten, raped, murdered by KKK 

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/256247.html

JASON SMITH STORY: A 14-year-old Louisiana youth's death was ruled "accidental drowning," but his father is convinced he was murdered in a racially motivated hate crime. His organs disappeared. Some people think they were taken for transplants. However, the child had been dead for hours before his body was recovered from a lake. Could all of Jason Smith's organs have been stolen to hide the theft of his lungs, which could possibly have disproved the medical examiner's finding of "accidental drowning"? Jason's father alleges that his son was sexually assaulted, also, and that one of Jason's murderers was the son of an FBI agent. Mr. Smith claims that police tried to kill him and another son on his way out of the Louisiana town when he went to make final arrangements for his son. See one of the YouTube videos about Jason Smith at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAWgASicEk0 and embedded below. Jason's father buried his son on Father's Day. Find other videos, radio interviews, and articles about Jason Smith by browsing online for this phrase: "Jason Smith Louisiana Organs Missing."

Radio interviews regarding Jason Smith, a young black teen who was found dead; his organs are missing.

Seeking Justice for Jason Smith 14 yr old killed in Louisiana
MP3 Podcast: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-23479/TS-656101.mp3

Dr. Randy Smith and Jason's Father Interview on Dr. Shirley Blogtalk Radio Show
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drshirley/2012/08/15/the-jubilee-act-reducing-the-districts

Petition for Federal Hate Crime Investigation Regarding Wrongful Death of Jason Smith
http://www.change.org/petitions/attorney-general-office-we-demand-a-federal-hate-crime-investigation
Petitioning the U.S. Attorney General's Office: "We Demand a Federal Hate Crime Investigation!"

It is very likely that signatures on this petition will be surreptitiously deleted or that some people will get a denial of service (DoS) trying to sign it. It has been my experience that Attorney General Holder has zero interest in doing investigations on black people's deaths, and he would probably prefer not to be asked to do so. See WRONGFUL DEATH OF LARRY NEAL.com at the link below to the website about my mentally, physically disabled brother's murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail, which was under direct supervision by the United States Department of Justice after lawsuit by the United States due to inmate brutality http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com . The Justice Department actually helped the jail to cover up Larry's murder by allowing the "correctional facility" to file fraudulent reports in its federal release hearings in 2006 that omitted Larry's arrest (perjury by county officials). When I was a teen, there was a song that topped the charts entitled, "That's the Way I Feel About You." Unrequited murders of black people seem to reflect what this administration feels that black people deserve, despite giving the president 90% of the black vote in 2008. My family's petition for an investigation regarding Larry's murder after 18 days of secret arrest was sabotaged like Jason Smith's petition might be. And there was no federal investigation into the disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson, a young black woman who "disappeared" immediately after allegedly being released from a jail in California in 2009, whose bones were discovered a year later. Pit bulls' deaths are investigated in the United States. In fact, Eric Holder conducted an investigation regarding Michael Vick's pit bulls' deaths for the NFL. However, Africans in America do not ordinarily qualify for DOG JUSTICE. Instead there is the "illusion of inclusion" portrayed when blacks are represented in wrongful death civil actions and often defrauded by The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm. Google "COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD."

Although Jason's story has been on Black Talk Radio and international media, there is still an effort to contain the news about the young teen's death and his missing organs. How long will mainstream media in the U.S.A. be like the State-owned media under Egypt's ousted dictator? Journalists ignored their duty to report a rebellion that was right outside their doors while the world watched hundreds of thousands of Egyptians protest. May God bless young Jason's family with justice and peace. As Dr. King pointed out, we must have both. Authorities would prefer for Jason's father to forget he ever had that son. They would also prefer for this writer to stop publishing articles about the secret arrest and murder of my handicapped brother and news about other victimized persons, but as Reverend King eloquently said, "No justice, no peace."

The drawing "Justice Mountain" by Taggert is copyright protected. Please read the article for which I commissioned the art at this link: 

"JUSTICE MOUNTAIN"  http://maryneal.hubpages.com/hub/Liberty-Mountain

Thank you for your interest in justice issues as relayed by this layperson. Please help to overcome censorship about Jason's death and other victimized people by sharing articles in my FreeSpeakBlog and MaryLovesJustice blog. Check the links after you copy this article to ensure there is a space before and after the link (stalkers replace spaces with non-breaking spaces that disappear upon using the copy/paste function to render the links inoperable). Share the links for articles published by Mary Neal at HubPages. See continual attacks on this writer's "freedom" of press in my blog, JusticeGagged. Pray that America will some day "be true to what she said on paper" (MLK). The only way for that to happen is to expose and renounce deception. Thanks in advance for standing against oppression and supporting Jason Smith's family and my own. Blessings!

Avoiding Teacher's Sexual Overtures Leads to Wrongful Conviction for Matthew Moore, a Louisiana Teen

October 5, 2013 UPDATE: MATTHEW MOORE did his time for a crime he never committed and returned to his job, which he promptly lost. His mother, Katherine Conner, was able to borrow the money that was overdue on her probation and restitution for the "crime" of cancelling a check that was written for $3,500 more than the original contract. Matthew's and Katherine's prosecutor continues his vendetta against black people in Louisiana, including Herman Wallace, deceased.

District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla had Herman Wallace re-indicted for murder a few days after the dying man was released from 41 years of solitary confinement in Angola Prison. Wallace, one of the Angola 3, probably died immediately upon hearing the news in hospice care that he was due in court in December 2013.

“I say he is a murderer, and he is not innocent,” District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla said. “The conviction was overturned because the federal judge perceived a flaw in the indictment — not his murder conviction.”

D’Aquilla said Wallace's attorney Nicholas J. Trenticosta, of New Orleans, was wrong when he said Tuesday that Wallace is “a free man, and he’s innocent.”

October 2012 Update: MATTHEW MOORE was sentenced to jail on October 23, 2012. His words before being taken into custody were, "Don't cry, Mama. I'll be alright. Tell everyone who supported me that I thank them. Ask them to keep praying for me. Call my supervisor and ask him to please try to keep my job open for me. Mama, please don't cry." He served a 120-day sentence and was released in February. Matthew and his family appreciate the support they received during his ordeal.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:  Matthew Moore speaks on video about his wrongful conviction in Louisiana. Matthew rejected a teacher's sexual overtures when he was 17, and Deborah Anderson retaliated by falsely accusing the teen of revealing his penis to her in a school hall where Matthew worked a summer job. It was Matthew's word against the teacher's, because authorities refused to release videos from the school's surveillance camera to exonerate Matthew. Sentencing was rescheduled to September 11. [Update: On September 11, Matthew Moore's attorney filed a motion for a new trial. Matthew must return to court on October 9, 2012. Please continue to pray for and support this young man who works hard and plans to return to community college once he is relieved of the burden of being wrongfully accused and convicted of a crime that never happened outside of a pedophile's wet dreams.]  Thanks to the Internet, falsely accused people like Matthew Moore have an avenue to share information about their cases and seek help. In obedience to Hebrews 13:3, I assist wrongfully accused people in that effort and hope that you will, too. Matthew published the video embedded below and at YouTube at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGLfWct_SI  We ask that you share it widely to help illustrate one reason why Louisiana has the nation's highest rate of incarceration. The story about Matthew Moore continues after his embedded video. There are eleven(11) links and sixteen(16) paragraphs in this article, not counting the updates above. Please select "go to page 1" on cellphone view.

Paragraph 2 --- MATTHEW MOORE AND HIS FAMILY COULD NOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEY TO APPEAL HIS WRONGFUL CONVICTION. Weeks after Matthew was falsely accused by Deborah Anderson of revealing his penis to the almost 60-year-old woman, a bipolar volunteer teacher made the same accusation against Matthew. The woman had previously been forced to undergo psychological counseling by the school's administration because of her compulsive lying. When Paige Fleming Guillory heard about Matthew's accusation in the school grapevine, the mentally challenged teacher told her own tale of having seen Matthew's penis two months prior. Guillory said she saw it one day when she was going downstairs and passed by Matthew who was taking large boxes upstairs. How a youth walking upstairs carrying large boxes could expose his penis is a feat that was not explained. It would have to be at least three or four feet long to show over the top of boxes! During the trial, the bipolar witness's testimony was not challenged. Neither did Matthew Moore's attorney object to the mentally challenged witness sitting through Anderson's testimony on the stand and writing notes in order to mimic the teacher's testimony. Nothing was presented to create reasonable doubt about either witness. Moore's attorney did not reveal Guillory's mental dysfunction to the jury, and he did not he tell the jury about Anderson's history, which indicates that she is possibly a pedeophile. A male high school student and his mother had lodged a complaint with the Board of Education against Anderson the prior year, alleging that Anderson sexually molested the student.

Paragraph 3 ---  MATTHEW'S MOTHER SOUGHT HELP WAS WAS DENIED ASSISTANCE BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER, THE NAACP, AND OTHER CIVIL/HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCHES, AND THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. Matthew missed classes because he suffered an embarrassing arrest at his school after a judge had told him he could return to school. The system is broken, and impoverished Americans have almost no place to turn for legal healp when treated unjustly. Blacks, Latinos, and whites who lack wealth are often incarcerated  whether or not they are guilty (2.3 million people and counting). Many falsely accused Americans agree to lie on themselves; they plead guilty and accept probation or lesser sentences for crimes they did not do because they lack the money for effective legal counsel. Matthew's jury was not informed about the system's refusal to release videos from the school cameras that should have captured Matthew in the school hall being confronted by Anderson, who admits asking Matthew "Are you modeling for me?" When he answered, "No m'am," and went outside to wait for his mother, the camera would have showed what the police report admits: Anderson followed the boy outside and continued her banter. Few or no women would follow a pervert who had just exposed his penis. Probably enjoying the boy's discomfort, Anderson continued to discuss Matthew's penis while he waited for his mother to pick him up from work. Anderson filed a false report against Matthew only after Katherine Conner, Matthew's mother, demanded to see the school's surveillance videos.

Paragraph 4 --- The jury was not informed that the district attorney, who was also of counsel for the school board and had a vested interest in protecting the school from more student complaints about Anderson's pedophile tendencies. Would any system allow a child's harm in order to protect pedophiles? We should remember that Catholic priests were protected by the Church when children in their care were assaulted. Saving pedophiles from prosecution and the Church from embarrassment and lawsuits were strong motivators. Matthew Moore's jury was also not informed that Matthew's mother had filed a complaint against the district attorney in a separate matter prior to his bringing charges against Matthew, and the district attorney had vowed to arrest her son. Conner feels that Matthew's wrongful conviction was probably retaliation for the complaint she filed against the district attorney and a parish judge. The district attorney told Conner, in front of witnesses, that he would arrest her son because he did not like her "attitude." The prosecutor refused to recuse himself from Matthew Moore's case despite his conflicts of interest, and neither would the judge recuse him. Would learning about these facts have made a difference to the jury? Many juries have said after convicting innocent people that they would have decided differently if they had been given all the facts.

Paragraph 5 --- The jury convicted Matthew Moore based on the witness statements by two educators who were middle aged women with respectable positions. They heard no evidence during the trial to doubt the witnesses' testimony, such as: (a) Anderson's pedophile conduct that was alleged by another student a year prior to the time when Matthew Moore rejected her attempts at sexual banter with him; (b) the second witness's mental instability and documented history of being a compulsive liar; (c) the district attorney's second job protecting the school board as its legal counsel; (d) the district attorney's rage at Katherine Conner for filing a complaint against him and a parish judge in a separate matter that did not involve Matthew, and (e) the district attorney's promise to arrest Conner's son because of her "attitude." Juries can only decide cases based on the evidence they hear in court. Defense attorneys should ensure that juries have all the evidence that would lead to just decisions, but they often do not do that. In fact, some defense attorneys, district attorneys, and even judges are private prison stockholders. Racism and high rates of incarceration are major problems in Louisiana and throughout America. In fact, Louisiana has the world's highest incarceration rate. A New York Times report entitled "Plantations, Prisons and Profits" gives the following data:

• One in 86 Louisiana adults is in the prison system, which is nearly double the national average.

• More than 50 percent of Louisiana’s inmates are in local prisons, which is more than any other state. The next highest state is Kentucky at 33 percent. The national average is 5 percent.

• Louisiana leads the nation in the percentage of its prisoners serving life without parole.

• Louisiana spends less on local inmates than any other state.

• Nearly two-thirds of Louisiana’s prisoners are nonviolent offenders. The national average is less than half.

Paragraph 6 --- In the early 1990s, the state was under a federal court order to reduce overcrowding, but instead of releasing prisoners or loosening sentencing guidelines, the state incentivized the building of private prisons. But, in what the newspaper called “a uniquely Louisiana twist,” most of the prison entrepreneurs were actually rural sheriffs. They saw a way to make a profit and did. (Continue reading the New York Times article at this link http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html )

Paragraph 7 --- More about the case of Louisiana v. Matthew Moore is at the links below.  Katherine Conner, Matthew's mother, suffered a wrongful conviction stemming from a dispute with a contractor for house repairs after Katrina damaged her home. She overpaid the contractor by approximately $3,500. When the contractor refused to return her check and accept one in the correct amount, Katherine canceled it like anyone would. The contractor then falsely accused Conner of theft of services. That began the ordeal for Katherine Conner and her son, neither of whom had any priors. See Katherine speak about her own wrongful conviction on this VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkekRdq056A&feature=relmfu  It was this case that led to Conner's complaints against the district attorney and judge. After her complaint, Matthew was falsely accused and convicted. Retaliatory arrests remind one of famous man from Morgan City, Louisiana, Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt, who was set up on false charges in the FBI CoIntelPro program after he began advocating for civil rights for African Americans. Geronimo endured 27 years of incarceration, eight of them in solitary confinement, until he was finally exonerated by a legal team that included Johnnie Cochran in 1995. After his exoneration and successful lawsuit regarding the injustice, ji Jaga's godson Tupac was murdered, and Johnnie Cochran's 16-year-old nephew was murdered as he rode his bike with a friend. Cochran's brother was also assassinated. None of the cases were resolved. Matthew's case also reminds one of Private Manning, a young man who is presently incarcerated after exposing to Wikileaks certain military behavior in Iraq that he found objectionable. Therefore, the legal system sometimes persecutes whistleblowers like Katherine Conner. She filed complaints against a judge and prosecutor who took a case to criminal court that she felt should have been handled as a civil action rather than as a criminal matter that put felonies on her record. The felony convictions prevent employment in a tight job market. Katherine also believes that the court should have reduced the amount of her probation when a higher court so ordered. She now pays the probation office more than of half her income, and her savings were used for defense attorneys for herself and her son in the criminal matters before you.

Paragraph 8 --- Judges and prosecutors have large caseloads. If the prosecutor and judge did not hear or fully understand Matthew's account of what really happened, we hope the court will carefully consider Matthew's side of the events before sentencing. It should not take much effort to investigate prior allegations against Deborah Anderson by a mother and son who complained to the school superintendent about Anderson's inappropriate sexual advances on the student. They asserted that Anderson actually fondled the teen. That was information that Katherine and Matthew did not know when Anderson made advances toward Matthew and falsely accused him when he rejected her like another student did a year before. Paige Fleming Guillory's documented history of compulsive lying and mandated psychiatric counseling would also be easy to verify. Guillory's testimony might have been less convincing to the jury if she had not remained in the courtroom taking notes through Anderson's time on the witness stand, but Matthew's attorney raised no objection to that. Because Matthew could not afford to file an appeal, he must now rely on the mercy of the court. (There are eleven(11) links and sixteen(16) paragraphs in this article. Please select "go to page 1" on cellphone view.)

Paragraph 9 --- Grassroots organizations and activists have helped Katherine and Matthew to communicate their trouble. The family is thankful to everyone who supports them through the stressful ordeal. Roughly 1,400 people joined the "Save Matthew Moore" Facebook group the first weekend Katherine Conner shared her family's predicament on a radio show. People are aware of statistics showing that America has between 5,000 and 10,000 wrongful convictions annually. I once lived next door to a retired police detective who said his greatest concern during his years on the force was that he might help convict an innocent person. The risk of wrongful convictions is higher among minors and mentally challenged people. The main causes for wrongful convictions were identified by Ronald Fraser, Ph.D and published in a Buffalo News article in September 2009. Dr. Fraser gave the percentage of effect for each factor that contributes to wrongful convictions: (a) misidentification [and false testimony] by eyewitnesses (75%), (b) unvalidated forensic evidence (50%), (c) lying government snitches (16%), and (d) false confessions by juveniles and mentally challenged suspects (25%).

Paragraph 10 --- See and excerpt from a report in "Criminal Justice Bulletin, Qualitatively Estimating the Incidence of Wrongful Convictions (Volume 48, Number 2)" by Marvin Zalman, which is called  "Setting the Stage: How Many Wrongly Convicted?" - Within the past decade, innocence consciousness (the sense that wrongful convictions regularly occur, that they result from structural errors in the criminal justice system, and that as a result, improvements need to be undertaken) has gained a foothold in the legal and criminal justice communities. Under the innocence banner, a host of reforms have begun to move the adversary and criminal justice systems toward positive changes in police interrogation, forensic science, and many other areas. It is good news that positive change is expected in the future to stop so many wrongful convictions from happening, but will that matter in Matthew's case?

Paragraph 11 --- Matthew, who was always a slim person, lost roughly 30 pounds since he was falsely accused at age 17 of exposing himself to a teacher who is old enough to be his grandmother while working his third year on a summer job that meant a great deal to him. Especially with his mother not working, Matthew counted on his summer job to purchase school clothes and supplies and pay for graduation and prom costs. He would certainly not have risked his job even if he suddenly found himself attracted to a woman old enough to be his grandmother - a very far fetched idea. Matthew finished high school and enrolled in community college despite his stress. Matthew had to leave the college because it was hard to concentrate on classwork with all that was happening, but he found a job this summer. Working helps Matthew cope with the uncertainty of his immediate future. He says he is sustained by his faith in God and an outpouring of support from many people, most of whom he never met. There are eleven(11) links and sixteen(16) paragraphs in this article. Please select "go to page 1" on cellphone view.

Paragraph 12 --- Wrongful convictions separate families, irreparably harm the lives of innocent people, negatively impact communities, plus cost taxpayers unnecessary money to punish or supervise people who have done nothing wrong. America is not as careful as needed to protect citizens' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. People who do not have the revenue to fight wrongful convictions in court suffer. Unfortunately, some wrongfully convicted people have been executed. More innocent inmates could be killed or spend years behind bars because they are denied DNA tests and because courts have no obligation to consider an inmate's post-conviction evidence, even if that evidence definitely exonerates him. BGA produced a report on wrongful convictions that focused on Illinois, but much of the information is not specific to a single locale. Please see the report at this link  http://www.bettergov.org/investigations/wrongful_convictions_data.aspx

Paragraph 13 --- LISTEN to Kathryn Conner and advocate Mary Neal on "SAY YOUR PIECE" Blogtalk Radio Show (July 15, 2012) at this link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sayyourpiece/2012/07/15/justifying-the-unjustified

Paragraph 14 ---  More data is in six(6) links below and on other videos available at YouTube:

Matthew Moore, Falsely Accused Louisiana Youth http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/matthew-moore-falsely-accused-louisiana.html 
Let's Change the World Movement (featuring Katherine Conner) http://thechangetheworldmovement.com/2012/05/louisiana-justice-east-feliciana-parish/
Help Matthew Moore, a Living Trayvon Martin http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2012/04/help-matthew-moore-living-trayvon.html
Facebook Group: Attorney General Save Matthew Moore http://www.facebook.com/groups/171271056328880/
AXJ Save Matthew Moore - http://www.facebook.com/AXJLEGAL?ref=t
"Save Katherine Conner from Prison" Fundraiser  http://www.gofundme.com/wxx2o

Paragraph 15 --- Some people think it is a small thing to sexually assault children or to use them for prison profits. Browse online for a case where two Pennsylvania judges delivered thousands of children into juvenile detention over time in return for $2.6million in kickbacks from a private prison facility. God is an advocate for justice and compassion, especially for people who were victimized as children. The Bible says this repeatedly:

Paragraph 16 --- But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ~Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2