Catch a Nigga by His Toe

Black youths, Americans with mental disabilities, and other marginalized people in the USA are regularly detained in prisons and jails with trials denied unless they agree to plea bargain. These defendants are usually subjected to torturous solitary confinement and other abuses in order to rid them of such lofty notions as having their day in court. Certain defendants are denied their Sixth Amendment right guaranteeing a speedy, fair, public trial, with adequate representation by competent legal counsel. 

Indefinite detention without trial is more likely to happen to innocent than to guilty defendants. When prosecutors do not expect to win a guilty verdict, trials are denied and defendants are strong-armed into plea bargains just to gain jail release, sometimes after many years of wrongful arrest. It appears that defense attorneys and judges are sometimes participants in conspiracies to enforce plea bargains. The Terrell Scott case in Pennsylvania and the Shannon Nyamodi case in North Carolina are two examples of indefinite detention in torturous conditions to enforce plea bargains. This illegal practice is probably a by-product of the for-profit prison system. Today we are invited to consider the Kalief Browder case with DemocracyNow.org. Please see an excerpt below:

Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial ~ We look at the incredible story of how a 16-year-old high school sophomore from the Bronx ended up spending nearly three years locked up at the Rikers Jail in New York City after he says he was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. Kalief Browder never pleaded guilty and was never convicted. Browder maintained his innocence and requested a trial, but was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. Near the end of his time in jail, the judge offered to sentence him to time served if he entered a guilty plea, and warned him he could face 15 years in prison if he was convicted. But Browder still refused to accept the deal, and was only released when the case was dismissed. During this time, Browder spent nearly 800 days in solitary confinement, a juvenile imprisonment practice that the New York Department of Corrections has now banned.
[See a video and continue reading about Kalief Browder at this DemocracyNow.org link
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/1/accused_of_stealing_a_backpack_high ]

Mary Loves Justice Neal
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(678) 531.0262 or (571)335-1741
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
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Shannon Nyamodi's Mother: "Dunn, NC Police Beat Me"

The weeping mother whose two children were sold into slavery separate from her on the Academy Award-winning movie "12 Years a Slave" was told by the mistress of the plantation where she was conveyed, "Hush; don't carry on so. You'll forget about those children in no time."

Katherine Crudup, mother of Shannon Nyamodi, 19, was allegedly beaten and arrested by a Dunn, North Carolina police officer on March 14, 2014, while two other police officers look. She and a friend were parking at a Holiday Inn parking lot for a meeting when Katherine Crudup heard someone knock on her car window. She said that upon looking out of the window, she could see the uniform but not the officer's face. She partially rolled down her window and asked why the officer was beating on her window. He responded by ordering her out of the car. She asked what she had done. He responded by again ordering her out of the car with the added threat that he would remove her from the car if she did not exit on her own. 

After that, the story gets too horrific for me to describe. If she is able, Katherine Crudup will relay her ordeal on the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" Sunday, March 16, at 3pm EST, guest call-in no: (347) 857-3293, on "Human Rights Demand" Blogtalkradio channel. Hear the tape: 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/16/human-rights-for-prisoners-march

Katherine's teenage son, Shannon Nyamodi, was arrested at age 18, not long after his high school graduation, for the shooting of a Caucasian woman who he actually helped. The People's Champion reports that Rhonda McClean was shot in the face at point blank range and robbed of nearly $65,000.00 on August 16, 2013. Shannon was visiting a friend in a house on the cul-de-sac. The gunshot victim stumbled to the house where Shannon was visiting and collapsed on the porch. Shannon helped Rhonda into the house where his friend and other persons lived, and 911 was called.  Shannon waved the police and other emergency responders to the house. When questioned, the woman said her daughter was responsible for her injury. Later the same day, Shannon and his family were surprised when he, the good Samaritan in this story, was arrested for the crime.

Rhonda McLean reportedly said during Shannon's hearing that he was not the person who shot her and that he actually helped her. Rhonda's teenage daughter, who allegedly hired someone to kill and rob Rhonda, is reportedly already in custody serving a two-year sentence. Rhonda has apparently moved out of town and has now reportedly changed her story to implicate Shannon. Crudup does not know if Rhonda was also beaten and intimidated.

Shannon Nyamodi was an electrical apprentice with a clean criminal background who planned to enter military service. He has been indefinitely detained without trial since his arrest. Elizabeth Crudup continuously seeks help for Shannon - help that is not forthcoming from Maitri (MIke) Klinkosum, the defense attorney who Shannon's family retained with "enough money to purchase a house," according to Crudup. She said that Klinkosum seems to work with the prosecutor to force Shannon into a plea deal on the false charges rather than filing a motion for a reduced bond ($500k) and enforcing Shannon's right for a speedy trial. 

Shannon has been arrested without trial for 1.5 years, in solitary confinement torture for most of his incarceration. Crudup learned that Attorney Kilkosum recently applied for a continuance in her son's case. When Shannon, and later his aunt, tried to fire Klinkosum, the attorney allegedly threatened them by saying, "If I am fired from Shannon's case, I will work with the prosecutor against him to see that he gets at least 30 years." Naturally, Crudup feels that it was wrong for Shannon's defense attorney to threaten her family and delay Shannon's trial while he suffers in solitary confinement, and she has been vocal about that on numerous radio shows.

Crudup said that as the police officer repeatedly body-slammed her against the police car, he said, "So you think you're a lawyer, huh?"

It seems more urgent than ever for Shannon's prosecutor to either acknowledge the lack of evidence to take the case against Shannon to trial or try Shannon on the charges (with a different defense attorney). Shannon Nyamodi must not be tortured into making a false confession, and his mother must not be brutalized and intimidated to stop her advocacy for Shannon's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. 

Google "Shannon Nyamodi North Carolina" for more information. This high profile court case that smacks of Old South racism is being ignored by mainstream media, but news about it is going forward on the Internet and would already be viral if censorship were not applied to stories exposing injustice to African Americans and people who lack wealth. We trust that persons exposed to this information will help Katherine Crudup's beating and arrest to become more widely known. Since 2014 is an election year, one might hope that local and national officials will intervene before the Shannon Nyamodi case gets more tragic than it already is.

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The weeping mother whose two children were sold into slavery separate from her on the Academy Award-winning movie "12 Years a Slave" was told by the mistress of the plantation where she was conveyed, "Hush; don't carry on so. You'll forget about those children in no time."

Mary Neal, director

Human Rights for Prisoners March

http://HumanRightsforPrisonersMarch.blogspot.com

Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal

http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com

Maitri Klinkosum Blocks Nyamodi Trial

Elizabeth Crudup discusses her son, Shannon Nyamodi, 19, who has been wrongly incarcerated in Franklin County Jail since August 16, 2012. He was charged with robbery and attempted murder on a Caucasian woman who he actually helped after a white youth allegedly shot her. Even the victim denies that Shannon is her assailant, but Shannon was arrested and is being held in solitary confinement torture to FORCE a plea deal. His attorney is apparently his worst enemy. See a video embedded below with Crudup requesting help:
http://youtu.be/Ee9rbljXQF8

Rhonda McClean was shot in the face at point blank range and robbed of nearly $65,000.00 on August 16, 2013. Shannon heard her screaming for help and rendered aid. Later the same day, he and his family were surprised that Shannon was arrested for the crime. Donald James “DJ” Chalk posted the picture below wherein he is surrounded by cash on his Facebook wall the next day. The People's Champion reports, "He just happens to be the source from which the conspiracy theory between Shannon Nyamodi and the victim’s daughter originated." See more at:
http://thepeopleschampion.me/bombshell-nyamodi-youth-frame-case-prosecutor-suppressed-evidence-exonerating-black-teen-home-invasion-story/#sthash.3ZJ0Fxsd.dpuf

The defense attorney is apparently double-crossing this family. Shannon's family raised a substantial fee and retained the defense attorney, who is a former prosecutor: MAITRI (MIKE) KLINKOSUM. He seems to be working with the prosecution instead of working for his client. He tries to get Shannon to take a plea deal instead of motioning for a bond reduction and a speedy trial on these trumped up charges. Shannon is apparently denied a trial because his attorney wants Shannon to lie on himself. Klinkosum requests a continuance in the pleading below, saying he is too involved in another case. Meanwhile, Shannon has been jailed under torturous conditions for nearly two years awaiting trial.
"Maitri (MIke) Klinkosum Requests a Continuance"
http://media.wix.com/ugd/effe2c_fce2b86013d647c3bcc01ba00dcbef57.pdf

More info is at the website
http://electbeth.wix.com/shannon

Elizabeth Crudup requests letters and cards of encouragement for Shannon. Protests are being planned for Shannon's immediate release or trial on the charges (Google "Justice for Shannon Nyamodi Protests Planned"). Tell the innocent, tortured youth that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" (MLK).

Shannon Nyamodi

285 T. Kemp Road

Louisburg, NC 27549

“Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit … whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique,” UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez told the General Assembly’s third committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural affairs, saying the practice could amount to torture.

A University of Michigan neuroscientist suggested Friday that the physical impact on the brain could be just as significant if not moreso, and could “dramatically change the brain” in just a matter of days. Speaking on a panel about solitary confinement, neuroscientist Huda Akil said a number of other studies have documented how each of the factors involved in solitary confinement change the physical shape of the brain.

See more information about damaging effects solitary confinement has on inmates in "Legal Victories" blog at "Limiting Solitary Confinement in Corrections"
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/02/limiting-solitary-confinement-in.html

When Shannon and his aunt tried to fire Klinkosum, he allegedly threatened Shannon's family. Klinkosum allegedly swore to them on separate occasions that if he is fired, he will work with the prosecutor to get Shannon jailed for 30 years. They are foreign-born women, and Crudup's sister may not know that is illegal. A Bar complaint has been filed. The family will try to get this man off the case so that a public defender can be appointed. Of course, they would prefer a private attorney, but Shannon's family paid Klinkosum a SIGNIFICANT amount of money for Shannon's defense and exhausted their funds. 

The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees all citizens a speedy, public trial with adequate defense. Shannon does not deserve to have his case in the hands of a man who allegedly threatened his family and his freedom and has been instrumental in lengthening Shannon's incarceration by filing motion(s) for continuance. Shannon's court docket will reveal how many times this has happened. In another case this writer covered, a defense attorney and prosecutor in Pennsylvania took turns refusing trial until the defendant, Terrell Scott, a mentally ill black youth, remained incarcerated without any conviction for 4.5 years. Scott, who retained permanent injuries from beatings, finally plea bargained when it appeared he would continue to be indefinitely detained and denied trial. It is a serious conflict of interest for defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges and lawmakers to own prison investments.

At 3pm EST on Saturday, March 8, 2014, we spoke about Shannon Nyamodi's wrongful arrest with Elizabeth Crudup and others. Her interview is archived at the "Human Rights Demand" channel on Blogtalkradio. Hear the tape any time at  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/03/08/release-the-innocent

Background on this case is at "Shannon Nyamodi, a Good Samaritan Punished"
http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com/2013/12/shannon-nyamodi-good-samaritan.html

For a thorough explanation of how unethical Klinkosum is in his dealings in this case, see
The People's Champion: "Proof Something Is In the Water in North Carolina . . . "
http://thepeopleschampion.me/proof-something-water-north-carolina-nyamodi-youth-attorney-threatens-client-saying-will-help-prosecution-convict-30-year-prison-sentence/

Kulture Kritic.com also follows the Nyamodi case, although mainstream news does not.
Cover up? Man being held for crime that victim allegedly says he didn’t commit
http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/02/news/cover-up-man-being-held-for-crime-that-victim-says-he-didnt-commit/

Injustices that elitists in politics and mainstream media censor or slant need public attention. For that reason, protests are planned to support 'Justice for Shannon Nyamodi.' Shannon's supporters are asked to take action:

TAKE ACTION

1) Justice for Shannon Nyamodi Telephone Campaign: Call elected and appointed officials and protest Shannon's indefinite detention without trial, especially in solitary confinement torture. Telephone and fax numbers are listed at this web page:
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2014/03/justice-for-shannon-nyamodi-telephone.html
2) In-person protests: Nyamodi's supporters are to meet at courthouses in their own areas for an hour either at lunchtime or after work every Monday to demand an end to Nyamodi's indefinite detention without trial and that he is immediately released from solitary prison torture. Solitary confinement, which causes mental illness in some inmates, is apparently intended to make Nyamodi desperate enough to plea bargain on the false charges. 

Indefinite detention and cruel solitary confinement must not be allowed to force defendants in America into false confessions. Stand for the Sixth Amendment.

MaryLovesJustice Neal, director
Human Rights for Prisoners March
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Shannon Nyamodi Tortured with Solitary Confinement to Force a Confession in Franklin County, NC

Solitary confinement is known to cause mental illness. It is being used in Franklin County, NC to force a confession from an innocent black youth who has been imprisoned for a year without trial for a crime that even his alleged victim said he did not do. TORTURE, CORRUPTION, AND RACISM IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, NC JUSTiCE SYSTEM ~ Franklin County Jail in NC prevents Shannon Nyamodi from receiving visitors and phone calls. He is under a GAG ORDER that is likely imposed without a court order. Hear about his torture on "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" Blogtalkradio show January 1 at (818)572.2947 at 9pm Pacific or computer http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1

Shannon is the black youth who helped a Caucasian woman when she was shot and was then charged for being the shooter because he was the only black man in the vicinity. His mother Elizabeth Crudup interviewed with "Human Rights for Prisoners March," my blogtalkradio show produced by NNIA and Dr. Floyd Harris Jr. Shannon's story went viral on the Internet. But Elizabeth Crudup has NOT been allowed to see her son to let him know that YOU know and YOU care about his being imprisoned a year without trial. The Franklin County Jail hurrdied and put Shannon Nyamodi in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT to tighten the screws and make the innocent youth sign a plea deal for a crime that even the victim said he did not do. Furthermore, Franklin County REFUSED at first to accept a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Shannon. This is something his attorney should have filed long ago if he were not a part of this railroading that is being done against a black youth, but after having received $30,000 from the family, the defense attorney turned his back on Shannon Nyamodi and does nothing to end his client's indefinite detention without a trial. This has continued for a year.

Now there is a Facebook page that is represented as being by the woman Shannon helped. Her daughter is in jail, sentenced for 2 years for working with other parties to have her mother shot. Both she band her daughter signed statements saying that SHANNON NYAMODI has nothing to do with this and was an innocent bystander who came to the woman's aid. Whomever put that Facebook page up misspelled the victim's name and seems to be trying to withdraw the victim's testimony that was in Shannon's favor. Could it be the sheriff has paid somebody to put up a Facebook page representing the victim? Have authorities promised an early release to the victim's daughter if they CHANGE their testimony and lie on Shannon? The victim said repeatedly on all records when she was initially shot that Shannon was not her shooter, but the corrupt Southern system seems to be trying to MAKE her change her testimony and keep Shannon Nyamodi in solitary confinement until they run the teen crazy to enforce him to lie on himself. Ms. Crudup said the real shooter is related to Franklin County's sheriff.

Ms. Elizabeth Crudup said she has been writing to me about Shannon being held in solitary confinement on Facebook as comments to my articles and posts about Shannon, but i did not see her comments. Internet companies can have fake views - what you see when you post is not necessarily seen by anyone other than you. Whether this is done BY the Internet companies or by NSA, I cannot say. I know this is true and have films to prove it. I typed using two computers and was signed in as myself on one computer but not the other. I entered data as myself. On the other computer I viewed my page and did not see the data that should be there. (You will see this proof next time I upload films at YouTube channel JKEMPP703 - my Internet cyberstalking film channel http://www.YouTube.com/jkempp703 .

MaryLovesJustice Neal

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

678.531.0262

Indefinite Detention for Race Mixing

INDEFINITE DETENTION WITHOUT TRIALS FOR SEX WITH WHITE WOMEN

The two following youths are being held in indefinite detention without trials most likely for the "crime" of miscegenation (race mixing).

Shannon Nyamodi: A Good Samaritan Imprisoned
It is alleged that Shannon slept with a white girl in North Carolina.
http://humanrightsforprisonersmarch.blogspot.com/2013/12/shannon-nyamodi-good-samaritan.html

Terrell Scott - Teen Sex Slave Wrongly Arrested in PA
Scott lived with a white woman and her children for four years.
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/11/teen-sex-slave-wrongly-arrested-in-pa.html

Miscegenation (/mɪˌsɛdʒɨˈneɪʃən/; from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation.

Laws banning "race-mixing" were enforced in certain U.S. states from 1691 until 1967, in Nazi Germany (the Nuremberg Laws) from 1935 until 1945, and in South Africa during the early part of the Apartheid era (1949–1985). All these laws primarily banned marriage between persons of different racially or ethnically defined groups, which was termed "amalgamation" or "miscegenation" in the U.S. The laws in Nazi Germany and many of the U.S. states, as well as South Africa, also banned sexual relations between such individuals.

In the United States, the various state laws prohibited the marriage of whites and blacks, and in many states also the intermarriage of whites with Native Americans or Asians. In the U.S., such laws were known as anti-miscegenation laws. From 1913 until 1948, 30 out of the then 48 states enforced such laws. Although an "Anti-Miscegenation Amendment" to the United States Constitution was proposed in 1871, in 1912–1913, and in 1928 no nation-wide law against racially mixed marriages was ever enacted. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional. With this ruling, these laws were no longer in effect in the remaining 16 states that still had them. (Source: Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation)

A person writing in answer to my post about Shannon's case on Google+ gave me what I feel is the real reason why Shannon is incarcerated despite having shot nobody. His comment and my response are below:

Perry - There are a lot of truths being left out of this story. Why do you think no attorney will touch it? Shannon was the victims daughters boyfriend and often slept in his truck outside. One big piece of evidence that isn't being discussed.

MaryLovesJustice - Take the case to court, then. It is not up to the D.A. and sheriff to decide the case and keep any American in jail indefinitely without trial. This youth has been arrested for a year without trial. He is not in jail for sleeping with a white girl. He is in jail for shooting a woman he did not shoot - a woman who SAID he did not shoot her - a shooting that had numerous other witnesses who attest that Shannon went to the woman's aid and that he did not shoot her. North Carolina cannot institute indefinite detention without trials for black youths who sleep with white girls. Thanks for commenting.

Each time Terrell Scott's case should go to trial in Pennsylvania, his prosecutor files a lie with the court claiming that Scott is not mentally trial-ready and that he is in Norris Town Mental Hospital. Scott is actually in prison and looking forward to prove his innocence. His attorney, who basically ignored him for four years, started visiting Scott regularly after his story was published in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog, and Scott is being urged to sign a plea deal for a crime that never happened. Shannon is also being urged by his attorney to lie on himself and sign a plea deal. They both were told they would be released if they only sign on, the dotted line. In most states, defendants who plea bargain cannot then sue their attorneys for malpractice.

Whereas Shannon Nyamodi and Terrell Scott are being held indefinitely without trial likely for having sex with Caucasian women, a Virginia youth is apparently being punished for being the product of a bi-racial couple. See "Parents' Race Mixing Gets Interracial Son Six Life Sentences" in my "Human Rights for Prisoners March" blog. Virginia taxpayers were sentenced to paying for six life sentences to enslave a 15-year-old interracial boy who followed two men into a robbery. They robbed a party of teens and 20-somethings. There were no injuries. The young men involved in the robbery received sentences of from 10 to 13 years, while Travion Blount, the interracial child, received six life sentences. Travion Blount's case shows what sometimes happens when blacks refuse to give up their constitutional right to trial-by-jury and take a plea deal, especially people who are "guilty" of race-mixing or are products of such unions. Sentencing for the robbery:
David Nichols, VA robber, age 18 - 10 or 13 yrs
Morris “Mo” Downing, VA robber, age 18 - 10 or 13 yrs
Travion Blount, exploited interracial child robber in VA, age 15, received six life sentences

This writer will research to learn which states were among the 16 that Wikipedia reports did not withdraw their laws against miscegenation (race-mixing). It is highly likely that Virginia, North Carolina and possibly Pennsylvania are among them.

Racism in the USA is at a critical level today. Besides being overrepresented in the nation's jails and prisons, unarmed blacks continue to be murdered by police officers who are protected by the justice system, which usually excuses the killings. In addition, civilian whites have started killing blacks at a brisk rate, claiming they felt threatened. The killings of unarmed black people by whites who are not police officers gained momentum after George Zimmerman's trial and release regarding the murder of Trayvon Martin. See four victims of Caucasians' irrational fear at "Justice Gagged" blog: "Killing Young Blacks in USA."
http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2013/12/killing-young-blacks-in-usa.html
The victims whose black skin apparently made Caucasians feel "threatened" include Jerome Tyson, a U.S.P.S. employee in the D.C. area, Renisha McBride, a 19-year-old woman in Michigan, Jandei Cherry, another Florida resident (like Trayvon Martin), and Jonathan Ferrell, who was murdered by a police officer in Carolina for knocking on a white woman's door and frightening the mistress.

MaryLovesJustice
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(678)531.0262
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