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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Emergency: Mark Bowles Action Needed

The U.S. legal system has apparently lost all sense of reason and decency for prison profits. Mark Bowles, a United States veteran with mental illness and epilepsy, is to be sentenced on April 16 (following tax day) for charges that he was not allowed to give any defense for at trial. Apparently, no defense whatsoever was allowed. Bowles has progressive atrophy of his brain, and his prognosis is death. He should probably be in hospice. He is very afraid of dying alone in prison. He is afraid of being accosted again and unable to fight off potential rapists this time. This is an urgent note from his mother:

Mark is very suicidal again now in jail. He has had three surgeries this week from swallowing objects in jail in the suicide cell. Now he has done worse to himself, and the hospital has refused to treat him. Sentencing is tomorrow. If you're a praying man or woman, please do pray for my son. He has literally lost his mind over this now. God bless you in Jesus name.

Mark went to trial in 2014 for an assault that he did not do but was DENIED any defense at trial. The jury asked if Mark had mental illness or was taking any medications, and the judge REFUSED to give jurors any answer.Mark is in solitary confinement now in Sherburne County Jail in Minnesota, charged for terrorizing a DOG he told to shut up barking, because Mark could not stand the loud sound with his head injuries.

In 2014, just out of coma after fighting off a jailhouse rapist, Mark had an epileptic seizure and frightened a nurse who fell and bumped her own head, but the system blamed Mark for assault for being sick! Yes, it is outrageous, I know. But there is no law against prison investors being judges and prosecutors, although that is a direct conflict of interest. The quest for prison profits has apparently taken over the United States of America and its legal system.

Mark's mother was told he has inserted things up his penis today and the hospital the jail uses refuses treatment. He needs to be taken to the V.A. Hospital. He previously swallowed a spoon (in suicide watch, he should not have been given silverware), and before that he swallowed a bolt (where did he get a bolt?). 

Please call the U.S. Veterans Association and protest a veteran being mistreated like Mark Bowles is, please: Main number: 1 800 273 8255
St. Cloud, MN V.A. office: 320 252 1670 ext 6719

Call the governor of Minnesota, also: Gov. Mark Dayton
Telephone: 651-201-3400
Toll Free: 800-657-3717
Minnesota Relay: 800-627-3529
Fax: 651-797-1850

From Diana Sprouse: 
This is My Sworn Affidavit And Testimony Before The Living God Concerning My Son, Gregory Mark Bowles.

My name is Diana Sprouse, and I am the natural mother of Gregory Mark Bowles. Thank you in advance for the opportunity to tell the court a bit about my son today and what he has been through these past two years of his life.

Mark arrived in Minnesota for a two-week Easter vacation from another State late March 2013. He had been working very hard on rebuilding his life after having been in a car accident in 2001, which left him with brain injuries, and another accident in 2011, which left him with epilepsy along with permanent spinal cord damage requiring a titanium plate and a spacer where his L-1 vertebrae was shattered, and a rib removed. He also lost his fiancee and unborn child in the accident, causing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He was honorably discharged from Ft. Benning due to his medical condition in late May 2001. On arrival to Minnesota for Easter vacation, Mark was . . .

Read more at the article below, but please make the calls first. Thanks.
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2015/04/testimony-by-diana-sprouse-re-mark.html
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Judge Anderson vs. Michael Morton: Wrongful Conviction

I looked for my article below in the blog called "Human Rights for Prisoners March" and could not find it at first. I decided long ago that my readers really need the information that cyberstalkers go to lengths to hide. America wrongfully convicts 5k to 10k people per year, mostly people who are black or poor. It keeps them throughout their childbearing years to use them as slaves and for eugenics (to prevent population growth among "undesirable" populations of people, such as blacks). Around the time when people would normally retire, the injustice system may finally admit its mistake and release a few a year. That way the public is convinced the system really cares about innocence, although it does not. That's the game - eugenics and slavery and pretension.

Micheal Morton was not black, and he might not have been poor at the time of his wrongful conviction, which shows that wrongful convictions can happen to anyone who is not a millionaire.

Former judge Ken Anderson, a psychopath

Huffington Post reported on November 8, 2013, that for the first time ever, a corrupt prosecutor was going to jail. "Today in Texas, former prosecutor and judge Ken Anderson plead guilty to intentionally failing to disclose evidence in a case that sent an innocent man, Michael Morton, to prison for the murder of his wife. When trying the case as a prosecutor, Anderson possessed evidence that may have cleared Morton, including statements from the crime's only eyewitness that Morton wasn't the culprit. Anderson sat on this evidence, and then watched Morton get convicted. While Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge."

Anderson defrauded Texas taxpayers of approximately $782,150, the approximate cost for Morton's incarceration (the Vera Institute of Justice released a study in 2012 that found the average taxpayer cost in the 40 states it assessed was $31,286 per inmate per year). Although the former judge and prosecutor was sentenced to merely 10 days behind bars for his crime, he was fined $500 and must do 500 hours of community service. Most importantly, Anderson lost his law license. One might assume that Anderson will now face a lawsuit by Morton. See photographs and a thorough explanation of the case in an article that features the entire Morton legal team at "Legal Victories" blog where we report positive legal news
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/01/anderson-v-justice-for-morton.html

In addition to unethical prosecutors, some forensic labs are responsible for wrongful convictions. FilmingCops.com reports that 180,000 cases will require review, because of one government chemists' deception and another chemist's corruption at Hinton laboratory in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The Annie Dookhan deception continues to unfold. Dookhan was a government chemist who tampered with thousands of cases, creating fake “evidence” that caused the imprisonment of countless innocent Americans. Dookhan worked as a chemist for the State of Massachusetts, and she had close relationships with prosecutors. These prosecutors were able to successfully convict innocent Americans because Dookhan would taint the evidence, resulting in career boosts for the prosecutors while innocent men and women were torn from their families and locked in cells.  Kate Corbett, who worked in the same lab as Dookhan, claimed that she had a “chemistry degree” from Merrimack College, but she did not. (See two FilmingCops.com urls below that lead to reports about this tragedy.)

So many inmates have proved their innocence and been released from prison that prison investors in Government decided to stop levying criminal charges. Concentration camps are being prepared now for possibly millions of Americans to be warehoused without any criminal charges or opportunities for defense. Indefinite detention without trials in the United States was authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - approved by Congress in November 2011 and signed by President Obama on New Year's Eve that same year.

Even without NDAA, tens of thousands of innocent people are in prison, because the Supreme Court never recognized Americans' right to have post-conviction DNA tests or new trials on late-arriving evidence. In fact, there is no obligation for prisoners to be released because they present evidence of "actual innocence." Innocent inmates are released now and then just to give the impression of fairness, but most inmates serve their sentences whether innocent or guilty.

Some have not considered that people are in custody from the time a police officer says, "Halt." Many prisoners never make it to a jail cell but are killed during arrests. Those deaths are usually excused altogether or ruled "justified" upon investigation, regardless of the circumstances. There is no information available about how many of the police victims each year are black, white, middle class, poor, healthy, or mentally ill (police do not shoot wealthy people). Most Americans do not know that inmates in the United States are subject to brutality and murders behind bars with no accountability demanded.

It surprises plenty of people to learn that over half of the country's inmates are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses such as possession of small amounts of illegal drugs. Most people are unaware that the U.S.A. has 1.25 million mentally ill inmates. The mentally ill in America used to be treated in mental hospitals or community care programs until the rise of the private prison industry. Now people with brain disorders are warehoused in prisons after denying them psychiatric treatment, and they comprise 60% of inmates in solitary confinement torture.

Some never considered that America has more prisoners than any nation in world history at a staggering cost. The federal government and states spend over $74 billion per year to incarcerate 2.3 million people (roughly $200 billion when including collateral costs: police investigations, prosecution, and indigent defense). Added to that tax money is the cost of caring for minor children and aging parents prisoners must leave behind. The high prison population also causes unemployment among "free" people. Americans were never told that many of their jobs that were "downsized" never left the country but were outsourced to prison labor projects. Over a million inmates work up to 72 hours a week without job benefits for pennies a day or for free.

It has been estimated that between 5,000 and 10,000 wrongful convictions happen in America each year (see the link to the study below among nine(9) references). Some of the innocent people are on death row and others are in solitary confinement today - years after their imprisonment. Most Americans care about security but object to wrongful convictions and wrongful executions. We certainly oppose psychopathic district attorneys and corrupt forensic labs railroading innocent people into prison to increase private prison profits and advance legal careers. Since it is understood that most Americans would object to enslaving innocent people, this information is largely censored.

Americans' mass ignorance about its justice system is no accident. Mainstream media does not fully inform about these situations, and millions of people do not use the Internet, or they do not use it to become knowledgeable about these matters. American officials have been accused of working with corporate executives against the interests of the People. The truth is that America itself is a corporation, and its elected and appointed officials are her "executives." I am greatly censored to prevent spread of the truth: America is still a penal colony, and all working class and poor people are essentially her prisoners.

Most of this country's officials do not seem to care if prisoners are innocent or guilty of doing anything illegal or immoral. It may not matter whether the nation's prisons are behind bars or have "work permits" like you do. We must serve the empire either as taxpayers, military personnel, or prisoners. The officials' job is simply to manage the penal colony we know as America, contain dissent, and continue to move people from the slave pool into active slavery through the legal system. If possible, officials try to prevent the People from knowing that we are all, in fact, considered property. The People are distracted from this truth partly by oppressors who encourage disunity through classism, racism and politics. The concentration camps under NDAA are for the day when misinformation becomes ineffective and distraction becomes impossible.

REFERENCES
1.  For the First Time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-godsey/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html

2.  Ken Anderson vs. Justice for Michael Morton
http://legalvictories.blogspot.com/2014/01/anderson-v-justice-for-morton.html

3.  10,000 Wrongfully Convicted People Per Year, Study Estimates
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm
See a study showing America's high wrongful conviction rate by C. Ronald Huff, (614) 292-4544; huff.2@osu.edu . Written by Tom Spring, (614) 292-8309

4.  City’s Annual Cost Per Inmate Is $168,000, Study [by Vera Institute of Justice] Finds

5.  The Price of Prison in Texas
http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-texas-fact-sheet.pdf

6.  How much does it cost to keep someone in prison (Wiki Answers)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_money_does_it_cost_to_keep_someone_in_prison

7.  "NDAA 2014," by Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ndaa-2014

8.  GOVERNMENT CHEMIST TAMPERED WITH 40,000 CASES, LOCKING COUNTLESS INNOCENT AMERICANS IN PRISON
http://filmingcops.com/corrupt-government-chemist-tampered-with-40000-cases-locking-countless-innocent-americans-in-prison/

9.  BREAKING: ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CHEMIST ACCUSED OF DECEPTION, OVER 180,000 CASES NOW NEED REVIEW
http://filmingcops.com/breaking-another-government-chemist-accused-of-deception-over-180000-cases-now-need-review/
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Repeat of paragraphs 1 and 2:  I looked for my article below in the blog called "Human Rights for Prisoners March" and could not find it at first. I decided long ago that my readers really need the information tha1t cyberstalkers go to lengths to hide. America wrongfully convicts 5k to 10k people per year, mostly people who are black or poor. It keeps them throughout their childbearing years to use them as slaves and for eugenics (to prevent population growth among "undesirable" populations of people, such as blacks). Around the time when people would normally reitire, the injustice system may finally admit its mistake and release a few a year. That way the public is convinced the system really cares about innocence, which it does not. That's the game - eugenics and slavery and pretension. Micheal Morton was not black, and he might not have been poor at the time of his wrongful conviction, which shows that wrongful convictions can happen to anyone who is not a millionaire. See Morton below on the right, and his corrupt prosecutor who became a judge on the left.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Can American Men Refuse Gay Lovers?


ARE AMERICAN MEN ALLOWED TO REFUSE GAY SEX? That question will be answered in the "Minnesota v. Mark Bowles" case. We will see if prison investors in Minnesota will incarcerate a U.S. veteran for having a mental health crisis after suffering a brain injury he received resisting jailhouse RAPE. This happened during Mark's jail sentence in Anoka County Jail when he should have been an inpatient or outpatient for epilepsy. Our GLBTQ friends of justice also object to rapes of heterosexuals. Mark faces imprisonment for frightening a nurse in his room during an epileptic seizure caused by the head injury after recovering from a coma. Why didn't the state prosecute the inmate who attacked Mark and gave him the traumatic brain injury? See Lewis (the alleged attacker on the right) and Mark Bowles in a coma in the photograph above. 


Prison profits are robbing our courtrooms of any sense of reason and respect for justice. One Florida judge physically fought a defense attorney who refused to waive his client's right to a speedy trial. http://youtu.be/rMWlQmea-I0


Mark Bowles has as much right to be a straight man as his attacker has to be gay, Minnesota. Nobody should be beaten comatose for refusing to accept a gay lover, America. Complain to the USDOJ if you agree: Email AskDOJ@usdoj.gov and call (202)514.2000. Mark Bowles goes on trial June 24 for frightening a nurse while having an epileptic crisis, and the judge allegedly said the court will not allow any testimony regarding Mark's diminished mental capacity, which is the only defense Mark has for having a seizure.

More information about "Minnesota v. Mark Bowles" case is at "Mark Bowles: Prosecuted for Epileptic Seizures"
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2014/06/mark-bowles-prosecuted-for-epileptic.html
(The article is in our "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog.) 

Gay rights are protected in the USA, but whether or not heterosexual rights have similar protections will be decided in "Minn. v. Bowles" on June 24. Censorship seems to be applied to our Twitter notices about this case. Information about Mark Bowles does not appear upon Twitter search for hashtags #gay and #straight. Using those tags, we invited gay and straight people to give opinions on the "Minn. v. Bowles" case by calling (347)857.3293 at 3pm EDT on Sunday, June 22, during the "Human Rights Demand" broadcast on Blogtalkradio. The radio show was taped for future listening and sharing. 

Data at the "Dog Justice" blog article includes photographs of Mark before and after his catastrophic injury that resulted from the rape attempt. Hear an interview with Diana Sprouse regarding her son's prosecution at "Human Rights Demand," channel, recorded on Saturday, June 14.
http://hosts.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2014/06/14/release-the-innocent

Gay rights and heterosexual rights should NOT be mutually exclusive. Nobody has the right to rape a man, and no government should prosecute a man for his injuries incurred while resisting rape. Nobody should be prosecuted for having an epileptic seizure under any circumstances.

Note: This article is repeated in the comment field below because of the cyberstalking it experienced. Unfortunately, tyranny is protected by censorship. 

UPDATE June 26, 2014: +Diana Beth sent me a message: "He slit his throat!" Her son, Mark Bowles, is on his way now to the hospital. He was convicted by a jury yesterday that was denied hearing any defense Mark could have given for allegedly assaulting a nurse in his hospital room. Actually, he frightened the nurse who fell and bumped her own head. Mark did not touch her. The veteran had an epileptic crisis after coming out of a coma caused by a traumatic brain injury he suffered while fighting off a jail inmate who wanted to rape him. The jury was allowed to know none of this. All defenses related to Mark's diminished capacity were reportedly squashed by Judge Frank Kundrat. The jury reportedly sent questions to the court, including: 1) Was Mark Bowles mentally ill? 2) Was Mark Bowles on medication that may have contributed to his offenses? The judge refused answers to the jury questions.

America presently has more than 1.25 million mentally ill inmates. The wrongful conviction of Mark Bowles, a U.S. veteran and epileptic patient, helps explain how it happened.


OUR ANSWER: NO, AMERICAN MEN HAVE NO PROTECTED RIGHT TO REFUSE GAY SEX.


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Friday, August 10, 2012

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



Monday, March 5, 2012

Thomas Arthur Murder: March 29

Thomas Arthur, Alabama Death Row
DNA eliminated as murderer July 2009

(Five(5) links) BEFORE Y'ALL MURDER THOMAS ARTHUR, could you tell me one thing? What did Arthur really do? There is no proof he killed anyone. In fact, the DNA test he took already in 2009 eliminated him as a match for ALL of the evidence that was tested. There is more evidence that could be tested against Arthur's DNA, and he wants desperately to do that to clear his name. But Alabama refuses to allow further tests at Arthur's attorneys' expense. We therefore might assume that Alabama knows the man is innocent and there is some other reason why Arthur is to be sacrificed. What is it, please? Did Arthur offend someone powerful? Please see an excerpt from a CrooksandLiars.com report below:

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AL Refuses to Allow Important DNA Test for Death Row Case
Arthur's attorneys are even willing to pay for that testing, the few thousand bucks it would be, and the testing could be completed by the execution date. It is here where prosecutors and judges lose me when they prioritize "finality" in capital punishment cases at the expense of "accuracy." It would cost Alabama nothing to let Arthur's lawyers do the testing. And it might solve a case that already has cost the state millions of dollars. Instead, Alabama wants to finally solve its Arthur problem by executing him. No matter how the new DNA test could come out, the state is more interested in defending its dubious conviction.
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Have people forgotten that Thomas Arthur already took a DNA test and it eliminated him as the murderer? The way my cyberstalkers get busy every time I write about Arthur is very disturbing. It is like a premeditated murder is about to happen. The Care2 ecards I sent out in 2009 announcing Arthur was about to be executed although his DNA test results indicated innocence arrived to most addressees blank. Care2 reported there was a technical issue. Then Gmail, which I use for prisoner advocacy, had technical issues, also - on the very same day that Care2 ecards reported problems - September 1, 2009. Arthur's DNA test results from 2009 are in a .pdf file at this link http://www.thomasarthurfightforlife.com/images/Arthur_DNA_Test_Results_07-20090001.pdf - This week my cyberstalking got worse than before. There is something strange happening regarding the Thomas Arthur case, and it seems personal - like someone WANTS the man dead no matter what.

I have been locked out of Care2 for weeks. Is that to prevent my contact with my Care2 friends? We worked together and pushed my Thomas Arthur article to the front page of Care2 in 2009, letting as many people as possible know that a man who passed his DNA test was facing imminent execution anyway. The story is at http://www.care2.com/news/member/51339753/1236493

Like most activists, I never met Arthur or any of the condemned people for whom I advocate. I just believe Arthur is innocent based on the evidence presented in the media and compelling evidence on Arthur's website at this link  http://www.thomasarthurfightforlife.com/ . The same was true about Troy Davis. What about Hank Skinner in Texas? The court stepped in and gave Skinner a stay of execution when he was going to get axed in November 2011. But has he had his DNA test yet? This is four months later. Are stays of execution just to give the public a chance to forget?


People have a right to know why they are being killed. Arthur begged for a DNA test for 20 years to prove his innocence and did not get one until another man said he killed Troy Wicker, the man Arthur was about to be executed about. Alabama wanted to prove the confessor did not do the murder, so Alabama ordered DNA tests for both men. It would have looked real bad to let the confessor take DNA tests just to eliminate his confession but deprive Arthur of DNA tests he begged to have for many years. Arthur finally got a DNA test early in 2009, but it apparently does not matter to anyone in the Alabama justice system that THOMAS ARTHUR'S DNA TEST ALREADY RULED HIM OUT AS CONTRIBUTOR FOR ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS TESTED.

Do you remember what Judge Pulliam said and did when Arthur's and Bobby Ray Gilbert's DNA tests came back? She said that the DNA test had conclusively proved that Gilbert was NOT the murderer. Regarding Arthur getting the VERY SAME results, she said, "Put Arthur's test results under seal and do not let anyone see them!" This is serious.

Right away Alabama was ready to execute Arthur although Arthur's DNA test results were the exact same as the false confessor's who Judge Pulliam said had been CONCLUSIVELY ELIMINATED. If the test conclusively proved in the judge's mind that the confessor was not the killer, then why didn't the same test results for Arthur exonerate him?  

After Arthur's DNA test results came from the lab in the summer of 2009, he and his family thought they were home free. His daughter and I talked several times. Not only did Arthur expect to be moved off death row, but we all believed Arthur would be going home soon. Contrarily, an Alabama district attorney told Birmingham News that he was going to go ahead and request Arthur's death warrant - time his DNA tests came back NEGATIVE FOR ALL EVIDENCE TESTED.

At least tell Arthur why you really plan to kill him. Did he hit someone's bumper and neglect to leave a note? Did he date someone's wife 30 years ago before being imprisoned on this unproved murder charge? Arthur should be told why Alabama wants him dead so he can stop begging for DNA tests as though someone in the justice system cares about innocence and guilt. 

I just read that Thomas Arthur had three trials, and Alabama set a $1,000 cap on his attorney's fees all three times. How many hours of an attorney's time will $1,000 buy?  In the law firms where I worked, it might purchase between three to five hours of legal work, depending on whether a partner or an associate did it. I read that the public defender assigned to handle the Troy Davis appeal had over 70 open cases to defend simultaneous to his case. Is that not ridiculous? It is beyond ridiculous to execute people when their defense was necessarily negligent, and you know it. Is that loving thy neighbor as thyself? No.

Please explain the prosecutor's position on killing a man whose DNA test results indicate innocence. Taxpayers have a right to know why killing is being done in their names and with their dime. Why does Alabama really want Arthur dead? Is it personal? I saw some television shows featuring people who held grudges from childhood against individuals who bullied them when they were little kids. Is something like that happening here? Or is Arthur being murdered to propel Alabama to a higher score in the DP race with other capital punishment states?

I am against capital punishment even for the guilty. But if Alabama wants another notch on its belt in the DP race, couldn't the state kill someone who is guilty or at least "likely" guilty of murder instead of using a man whose DNA test results completely eliminated him on everything that the State of Alabama was willing to test?

This is serious. We want to know, and Arthur has a right to know, what is the real reason for Thomas Arthur's execution? The Bible says "Woe unto hands that shed innocent blood" (Prov. 6:16-17). Isn't it worth a test - a test that will cost Alabama zero - to be sure? What is wrong with simply using the test results that were already received from the forensics lab to exonerate Arthur? Is everyone still pretending that Arthur never had DNA tests already? Why did the judge put Arthur's DNA test results under court seal? Who ever heard of such a thing as that? 

Did you know the former police officer who stretched Oscar Grant out on the cold B.A.R.T. station platform and shot the 22-year-old father in his back only served 11 months in prison? Even if Thomas Arthur is guilty, he already spent 30 years behind bars and underwent the stress of imminent execution more than once. The disparity in sentencing from state-to-state and person-to-person is truly unacceptable. I know you probably respond, "Says who?" I have to reply, "God says." If you place no value on being fair, what is the "justice" system?

Please consider that everyone is mortal. Everybody in the justice system from Mr. Holder to the man who mops the floor in a jailhouse in a little country town is going to have to stand before God some day. Do you want innocent blood on your hands? I wore myself out trying to appeal to the justice system for Troy Davis, and I recognize now that something is terribly wrong. It is a hard thing to understand, but I don't think y'all care if people you execute might be innocent. Arthur's case proves you don't care if they are highly likely to be innocent. If DNA tests are good enough to send people to death, why isn't Arthur's DNA test good enough to save him?

To my atheist friends, please don't take offense. I know religion is not strictly necessary for a person to be moral and support human and civil rights. I also know that just because a person claims to be religious does not mean he/she really is. But it seems that some people who believe human beings are apes' great grandkids can do just about anything to people and feel no more guilt than I do when I eat hamburgers. Human beings are just meat to them.

I will finish this article later and add some links. But after all the work I did to help save Troy Davis only to find out you killed him anyway, I just don't know whether it helps. With Troy, I thought everything was fine and went to bed. Then the next morning, someone said, "They killed Troy last night around 11."  I could not believe it. If over a million people worldwide could see more proof of guilt was needed, why couldn't you? Why don't you care?

This is overwhelming, and it is late. May God bless SOME of you and prove His power to the rest. I cannot take much more of this human rights advocacy right now. It is disheartening to know how MEAN SOME OF Y'ALL ARE. MEAN PEOPLE. Have you ever dreamed you were falling? You awakened with relief in your bed, right? Well, hell is a bottomless pit with fire and hot lava all the way down leading to nowhere, ever, and you do not awaken in your own bed and Jesus refuses to hear you repent.

Repeat of paragraph 1 for cellphone users. (My articles are often coded to begin after the first few lines or paragraphs to censor photos and introductory information.) BEFORE Y'ALL MURDER THOMAS ARTHUR, could you tell me one thing? What did Arthur really do? There is no proof he killed anyone. In fact, the DNA test he took already in 2009 eliminated him as a match for ALL of the evidence that was tested. There is more evidence that could be tested against Arthur's DNA, and he wants desperately to do that to clear his name. But Alabama refuses to allow further tests at Arthur's attorneys' expense. We therefore might assume that Alabama knows the man is innocent and there is some other reason why Arthur is to be sacrificed. What is it, please? Did Arthur offend someone powerful?

See also "ALABAMA IGNORES THOMAS ARTHUR'S DNA TEST RESULTS" http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-ignores-thomas-arthurs-dna-test.html
The quoted text in this article is from this link:  http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/alabama-refuses-allow-important-dna-t

A photo of Thomas Arthur is below. Imagine nearly 30 years on death row, most of them spent asking for a DNA test, finally getting the test, then the test results are ignored because they eliminate the inmate for the crime scene evidence tested. Amazing!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Mary Neal's MLK Birthday Tweets

Happy MLK Weekend!   Dr. King would be 82 today if he had not been such a threat to racists and mercernary people.  Dr. King's human rights quest became intollerable when he began to speak and write against the Viet Nam War, and he died.  Wars are very profitable to some, just like the prison industrial complex is, which I write about in my censored articles.  The Human Rights for Prisoners March I launched in our online advocacy group advocates against many money-makers, like lawyer fraud, criminalizing mental illness, excessive sentencing, wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and other abuses.   Since all my tweets published prior to November 2010 disappeared suddenly (censorship) on December 6, 2010, I thought I would republish today's sixteen (16) tweets here to give more people an opportunity to see my writing, which the censorship force deems more dangerous than Wikileaks tweets. Julian Assange's tweets are still posted, but mine were deleted.  See my January 15, 2011 tweets below (before you get an assigned Internet I.D. number assigned that will finish free speech and free press in America).

koffietime Mary Neal - http://twitter.com/koffietime
@blackvoices @ACLU @NAACP @cxs I'm protesting PRISONER ABUSE & secret murder of LARRY NEAL on @MLKDay despite ATL police threats #government

2 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@Twitter Goodness! When the censorship force sees my tweets 2day, they may order them all deleted like in Dec. 2010. http://alturl.com/nai74

6 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

Internet I.D. = easy Gov't censorship. Incombents will always win as differing views can be squashed online as they are in mainstream media

13 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@ChildrensBible Everyone will get Internet I.D. & won't need passwords. Every word U write will B rec'd, reviewed, & "protected" by the Gov.

17 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@_GOOGLE_ More blk ppl use cell phones for their web browsing, so my DOG JUSTICE poem is INVISIBLE on phone view. http://alturl.com/inbes

21 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@RWW AZ murders will be investigated & prosecuted, proving that white ppl are equal to or more valued than dogs in USA, unlike LARRY NEAL

25 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@_GOOGLE_ Despite threat by ATL Police I'm holding signs on @MLKDay asking 4 HUMAN RIGHTS 4 PRISONERS & justice 4 my murdered bro LARRY NEAL

29 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@BMW If more ppl in D.C. die in BMW SUVs after low-impact front end crashes, U may lose yo 5-star safety rating. RIP #AshleyTurton.

40 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@moneymakercrash Do prison investors laugh @ tearful mothers visiting sons N jails the mamas support via their IRA accts & stock portfolios?

46 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@metrosistah Atl police say my signs cannot ask WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL or beg for HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS like I will on @MLKDay.

53 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@freetroynow Gov. Deal or Pres. Obama can pardon you. My requests 4 justice R censored & U're gagged. That's how they do us Georgia Negroes.

57 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

@Twitter Does the line separating 1/15 tweets fr previous days on my PROFILE view mean anything - like more censorship 4 prison investors?

1 hour ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal @

@MLKDay TO AMERICA: 'BE WHAT U SAID ON PAPER.' Still an issue, Dr. King http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/still-issue-dr-king.html

1 hour ago Favorite Reply Delete » MLKDay MLK Day by koffietime

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve." - Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLKDay

14 Jan Favorite Undo Retweet Reply » koffietime Mary Neal

@societynewsinfo When Americans get personal Internet I.D. numbers, everyone can be easily censored like I am when I use my library number.

1 hour ago Favorite Reply Delete » koffietime Mary Neal

FIRE at Tunisian prison Sat. killed 42 inmates. FIRE killed at 81 prisoners in Chile Wed. U.S. inmates' peaceful HR revolt in Dec. censored.

Officials knew prior to December 9, 2010 that thousands of Georgia inmate laborers in six correctional facilities planned to go on strike to protest malnutrition, slavery, phone costs that prevent them from talking to their loved ones, and brutality.  The inmates' protest was nonviolent, and Dr. King would be proud of Georgia prison slaves for that.  I watched the news twice daily, but never saw a broadcast about the largest prisoner uprising in American history, which was happening in my home state.  Although sensored in the media, many people discussed the prisoner strike online.  Therefore, my tweets were deleted to prevent the public from learning about my HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH across the Internet and about my handicapped brother, Larry Neal.  Larry was secretly arrested and murdered in 2003 after 18 days in custody of Memphis Shelby County Jail.  My tweets were probably deleted to hide THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD and the fact that this administration's Department of Justice is alligned with Larry's murderers to keep his lynching secret, especially from adoring blacks who might object to Larry's death and my family's persecution for asking for records and accountability that have been denied for seven years.  Another possible reason for my deleted tweets may be the fact that another Memphis man was murdered in Shelby County Jail the week of December 3, which the USDOJ refuses to investigate.  I do not know what happened to that inmate, but I do know that many people in the justice system enjoy prisoner abuse, unfortunately, and prefer to do it in private. 

We have before us the same task that our grandparents had - eliminating slavery in America.

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
 
Blog:  http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/
 
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
 
Articles:  http://NowPublic.com/duo
 
See also Mary Neal on HubPages, at IndyMedia, and OpEdNews