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loies stort heor we oll now ihe show dr.phil so lote's siori with his show
obsessive love with o women who deliberotely moke folse ollegotions.Not
once did I heor or see Dr. Phil soy onything to her obout the cffcir . I om sorry
but if i heord o phone messoge from o mon to my wife stoting "you must be in
the both tub" i little pissed olso. Gronted, Jeffery is woy over the top ond is in of
need help but she didn't help the situotion by cheoting on him . Dr. Phil just
skipped over the phone messoge like it is normol for o guy friend to moke thoi
stotement to o morryed women . I think Jennifer hos lied to him obout thing
she shouldn't be doing when you ore in o morrioge, period. Of oll ihe responses
to this story seems to touch only on her side ond she did not get her foir
shore of criticism for doing the thing's she did .l found ihis story to be enormously
one sided when it come to who the'victim'wos. I occept thot Jeffery's
behoviour wos ond is inoppropriote to o point but'dongerous'l I don't think so.
The foct thot o coll io the Dr. Phil show eventuolly londed him in joil mokes you
reolize that with the righi stotement o person con be portroyed os o potentiolly
violent when he opporently hos never exhibited ony such behoviour before.
Controlling to o point moybe but violent? right .lt's ironic thot Jennifer's biggest
feor wos thoi he wos going to pock up the kids ond leove when her desire wos
to do exoctly the some! ond did ond Note how she constontly referred io them
os "my kids" ond sod lt offects my kids. lt offects my mother, my friends, my
coworkers. lt offects everyone in my life, ond so every decision thot I moke
offects numerous people oround me" not how it offects our kid's , our morryoge
or our life ond fomily . Now the kids con't see their dod oi all which, gronted,
wos o consequence of his inobility to control his behovior but I do think his
suspicions of Jennifer's infidelity hod some bosis in foct becuse of oll these
things thot she's soid to other people on the phone.he reod ihe lelters ond notes
thot she's written to other people, ond the e-moils thot she's written to other
people ond the thing's sod on the phone ond reod fhe letlers ond notes thot
she's written to oiher people on her myspoce poge,ond the things thol she's
done. lt doesn't give him the right to do it, but once he found out thot these
things ore hoppening behind his bock, ihere's o question in fhe bock of his
heod every iime she does onyihing. "She iolks io people on her MySpoce poge.
She sends sexy holf noked pictures of her self oround net," ond thot Jennifer
seni lhese picture of herself in o swimsuit ond hos received pictures of guys'
butts. "She'll write bock, 'Nice butt," .She met o guy in o bor eight months ogo
ond got his phone number ond storted colling him bock ond forth for o
lhree-week period of time ofier throwing him out of the house for oll most o
yeor. Now I ogree thot no omount of infidelity gives o person the right to put
someone in o box but I do believe thot if o person is in o morrioge unhoppy or
not, flirting ond myspocing ond borhopping, sending out holf noked pictures is
not the woy to deol with ii.Dr. Phil did seem to conveniently ovoid tolking obout
Jennifer's inoppropriote behovior but lwonder how Ok he would be if Robin wos
going out til the eorly hours of lhe morning drinking with o mole co-worker. she
lied to him ond sod she wos going out with o femole coworker, ond lhey
stoyed out uniil 3:30 o.m. "ond he find out o week loter thot she picked up one
of her guy friends thot she works wiih ond took him olso to the bor. he os cought
her in lies to him oll the time.My feeling is thot Jennifer, o beoutiful young
womon by most stondords hod decided long ogo thot morrying Jeffery wos o
mistoke but slill hod two more kid's with him, by her own odmission, wos ofroid to
leove becouse of the kids, ihe house, the finonciol security etc. Unoble to seek
o divorce which would hove solved oll her problems from doy I she decides to
olloy her feors ihot doing so would leove her olone ond withoui offection by
'putting herself out there' os o single womon ond not one thot is morryed wiih
three kid's . The foct thot she octuolly felt she needed o MySpoce poge speoks
obout her need to reossure herself thot she wos o vitol ond otiroctive womon.
Sexy messoges ond loie night drinking sessions ore Ok for o single womon but
totolly incppropriote behoviour for o wife ond mother of three young kids.lt's like
testing the woter without cctuclly getting wet. Dr. Phil wos determined to focus
on Jeffery's behovior becouse thot wos the shows ogendo ond it wos greoi TV
to see poor Jennifer bursting into teors of every opportuniiy ond cloiming she
wos the innocent victim of o her husbonds unfounded suspicions. ln foct, the
inference wos thot it wos his behovior not her wonting to get oui ond porty
ond her lieing thot wos ruining the morrioge ond thot everyihing would be OK if
he just stopped . When it become obvious to him thot Jennifer desire to get
out ond porty .olihough she hos on obsolute right to wolk owoy from the
morrioge, I don't believe it gives her the right to toke the kids with her.Obviously
his insecurity ond his inobility to cope with his wife wonting to pcrty like is's I999
ond not to toke core of him or the fomily she os with him .All in oll it's o shome
thot people end up in these siiuations. so much of this would be ovoided if she
were just honest with him ond the foct thot her lowyer sod He hos no right to
communicote with you. He hos o right to hove o relotionship with his children
becouse he don't like some of the people who she works becouse lhere 21 lo
25 yeor olds who ore out reody to hove o good time ond hove some fun, ond
she's o 31-yeor-old morried womon with three kids, ond some of the things thoi
they do, ond woys thot she octs out, I feel ore inoppropriote like being very
flirtotious ond o teose .her reoson why he wosn't on her MYspoce page wos
becouse when she occepied him os my friend "not her husbend" so thot he
could be my friend, ond we could communicote on MySpoce os well, he went
to every single person on my list of friends ond threotened them to stoy owoy
from me, so I nixed him off of it," he os never threotened one preson ond oll
he wonted lo now is why she hod no photo of him on it bui she hod photo of
her ond the preson she met five min before of o porty on her myspoce. she soys
"l wosn't hoving on offoir or even close to on offoir with ony of the people of my
job, ond he's colled /00 people from my job ond soid, 'You went on o dote with
mywife. Are you hoving sexwith mywife? Are you this with mywife?"'.thot's not
o threote ihot osking o queston ond Don'i morket yourself os this sexy, slulty
person is not o threote ond to thinking is extreme understotemeni to do so.
considering he writes her o lotter thot sod , Jen, l'm workina hard in orouo
meetinos fo beffer myself. / con't be/ieve whof o sfrono person vou ore. I hope
vou can share vour strenqfh with me to qet us to a betfer place, and in furn, lwill
be a stronoer, more coring person who will stand wifh vou. I apologize for whaf
/'ve done. lt bothers her when she get o letter from him ond tolks oboui them
being together. lt's olmost like she soying ."ive got to shut him down ond not
toke his colls.he's threotening people by soying "Stoy owoy from my wife ".A
threote is her soying to hove him removed ond houled out in hondcuffs"cnd
soyinq "He's the fother of my children. lwont him io qet better so thoi mv kids
don't see ihis,"ond not our children.thot's whon she threoiened him . He soys
when he broke into her MySpoce poge, his suspicions were confirmed she
does not include o picture of him, her husbond, on her MySpoce poge," ond the
looked of her poge ond with some of the sexy foiries ond pictures thot she
sends to coworkers is inoppropriotes. mov be thot's whv she wos fired .Through
oll this, he's just tried to be the nice person, the person who's going to remoin
colm ond nice no motter whot becouse he's tried to go ond do things, to
get help, so mony times ond becouse the foct is wouldn't help chonge o
thing becouse oll he did wos osk her quesiion's ond she toke's it os him
threoiening her.now ii's to the point thot now nobody wonts to hove onything
to do with him. I know thot they're more horrible thing's in life but there ore two
sides: o good side ond the bod side.ln the word's of the dr."You never fix c
problem in c relotionship by lurning owoy from your portner. You deol with it,
you turn over every sione, you investigoie every ovenue of rehobilitotion, you
go to counseling,you reod books, you proy,you do everyihing you con,You
obsoluiely hove the right to be upset wiih your wife. You hove the right to
comploin obout her behovior, you hove o right to comploin obout her conduct,
but with righis come responsibilities,ond when thot's done ond over ond
everything is worked out, ond you wont io look elsewhere, then thot is your righl
to do. But you don't hove the righi to do it now. ln foct, you hove o responsibility
not to send hofe noked picture of your self with your oss in the oir to people
on the net ond to your co-work's .You don't hove the right to threoten io
hove him removed ond houled oul in hondcuffs ond to soy He hos no right to
communicote with you. He hos o right to hove o relotionship wifh his children
.He hos o right lo now his wife is sofe when she go's out of nighi.This is o reckless
women thot will noi opologize for her octson's ond the inconsistency, she
mode him look o fool in public. wonte behind his bock ond emborross him
.she Don't . Act right or moke sure everybody knows she morryed this is the
woy it's supposed io be . she's ielling the kid's ihoi he's not oble io be oround
us right now.Becouse of oll the negotive things she wos soying obout their dod
in public. Jennifer wonls to toke her children home ond resume o normol life so
the only opinion she os to consider is her own.The foct's our ihot this men never
mode o theot's to onother person.This women wos so intoxicoted with being
the victom ,thot ihere wos no justificotion or excuse for whot she did.my opinion
is thot ihe dr.phil show so disproportionote in fovor of women thot no husbend
or boyfriendy con defend him self.Thot ihis "dr" is the dr.kevorkion of his field .The
totol intent of this show is to iflict substontionl punishment ond the
depiction of oll men who hove reosonobly credible evidence thot this wife is
hoveing on offoir,the interrogotion of these men by the "dr" os entitled him ond
them to coll them obuser's. when there is no credible evidence io show thot
he is or hos obused them. Some members of ihe public moy in foct perceive
the use of force by men os excessive even when the force used is to defend
themselves ond there fomilys form there obuser like there wife ,girlfrend.this
men wos being Emotionol obused ond no one gove o shit.Emotionol obuse
con include humilioting the viciim privotely or publicly, controlling whot ihe
victim con ond connot do, withholding informotion from ihe victim, deliberotely
doing something to moke the victim feel diminished or emborrossed, isoloting
the victim from friends ond fomily, implicitly or horming the victim who
expresses independence or hoppiness .domestic violence is like the wor on
drugs both ore couse-ond-effect relotionships thot don't chonge progroms still
leqd to unintended ond destructive consequences ihis is the cold herd focts the
government hosn't ihe slightest notion whot messoge our children ore presently
receiving. Perhops we should send o messoge to our children oboui the couses
of deoth in the United Stotes.We would hove to tell them thot tobocco is legol
ond, al 430,700 deoths per yeor, is the leoding couse of substonce-obuse
,l0,600
deoths; olcohol is legol ond I die from it eoch year; odverse reoctions to
legol prescription drugs couse 32,000 foiolities o yeor; ihot 30,500 commit
,l8,000
suicide; ore homicide victims; 7 ,600 people die eoch yeor from toking
onti-inflommotory drugs such os ospirin. Of course, we don't wont to send them
the wrong messoge thot the totol number of deoths coused by mor'rjuono is
zeto. Perhops the messoge we should be sending our children is thot locol, stote
ond federol governments now spend more thon $9 billion per yeor to imprison
458,000 drug offenders. Whot would be ihe cost of our current drug policy if it
were succeeding rother thon foiling? lncorceroting oll cocoine users in the U.S.
would cost $24 billion, but only ofter construciing 3.5 million more prison beds ot
on initiol cost of $.l75 billion. lt would cost $365 billion to joil everyone who
smoked morijuono lost yeor five times the totol notionol, stote ond locol
spending for oll police, courts ond prisons combined. To contoin ihis crowd
behind wolls, we would need o codre of guords ond other prison employees
lorger thon oll of our militory forces combined. These projections ore not entirely
ocodemic: The notion is compleiing the construction, on overoge, of o new
prison every week, the breokdown of our criminoljustice system, the erosion of
our civil liberties ond the pervosive public disrespect of the low. Good citizens,
who ore othewise low-obiding, ignore or evode drug lows. With literolly iens of
millions of people using illegol drugs or reloted to those who do, on
ever-increosing port of the populoiion hos become cynicol obout our lows,
legol system ond politicol process. Eoch yeor since 1989, more people hove
been sent to prison for drug offenses thon for violent crimes. At the some time,
only one in five burglories is reported ond only one in 20 reported burglories ends
in orrest. detectives continue io be reossigned io investigoiion of street soles of
drugs.the sole of it wood put the united stoies in the block in five years or so
.Whot if legolizing medicol mor'tjuono turned out to be the firsi step on o journey
that ended in the outright repeol of every drug low? Whot would Americo be
like Undersiondobly, mony feor ihot with no drug lows, we would hove
hundreds of thousonds of oddicts, crock bobies, children irying drugs, ond other
evils fhot's whot we hove now.like when olcohol wos illegol . lf oll drugs were
legol, oddicts would no longer poy block-morket prices to criminols for drugs of
questionoble ond dongerous origin. They would get drugs produced by
legitimote phormoceuticol componies ond poy morket prices. They would no
longer die from buying toxic drugs, ond they would no longer hove to mug
innocent people io support their hobits., oddicis could seek help by going to
doctors no longer ofroid of being prosecuied for their medicol
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problems.,criminol drug deolers would no longer be on our streets. They couldn't
compete with the low, free-morket prices for drugs sold of phormocies., criminol
drug deolers would no longer prey upon our children
- any more
ond breweries try to infiltrote schools to hook kids on olcohol.
thon distilleries
the worst schools in
l.o ore sofer thon L.A.'s best schools ore .our government would no longer be
dispensing propogondo thot mokes children wont to try the forbidden fruit., our
prisons would be emptied of hundreds of thousonds of non-violent people who
hove never done horm to onyone else. No longer would over-crowded prisons
couse truly violent criminols to be free on eorly releose ond pleo borgoins to
terrorize the rest of us., low-enforcement resources would be ovoiloble to fight
violent crime, insteod of being used to chose people who moy horm themselves
but ore no threot fo us., much of the street violence would end os it did when
Alcohol Prohibition ended becouse gongs -
of thugs would no longer be
- police
fighting over drug terriiories., corruption would diminish, becouse
criminols could no longer use block-morket drug money to goin immunity by
subverting weok policemen., the government could no longer use the Drug Wor
os on excuse to teor up ihe Bill of Rights ond pry into your bonk occount,
strip-seorch you of on oirport, teor your cor oport, monitor your emoil, or seize
your property without even chorging you wiih o crime. True Equolity Network
conducted on obuse shelter investigotion in twenty-one stotes. This investigotion
involves hoving women go to o shelter soying she needs help. The lows in mosi
stotes permii women to stoy in o shelier for 72 hours without filing o comploint to
cover ihe needs of those who "escope" during weekend ond holidoy periods
when the courts ore closed. This open period of occess wos used io leorn how
the shelter operotes without filing o comploint.After only o few months this
invesiigotion uncovered illegol operotions, including sheliers operoting
prostitulion services, drug deoling, ond shelter stoffers orronging to hove the
shelter clients provide sexuol fovors to low enforcement officers in exchonge for
the officers' perjured testimony in court. ln one eostern stote investigotor mode
on ononymous tip to the locol low enforcement ogency thot resulted in the
orrest of two sheriffs deputies working os pimps for o prostitution service.The
women of True Equolity Network hove spent olmost five yeors in the courfhouses
of 97 counties ocross I Z stotes. During this period they hove interviewed over
15,000 plointiffs in domestic violence coses just before they entered the
courtroom. The overwhelming number of those interviewed did not ottempt to
mosk the reol reosons they filed o domestic violence chorge: control, money,
ond revenge for everything you could possibly imogine everything, thot is,
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except octs of domestic violence.Subsequenily, True
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Equolity Network osked
prominent members of the counties in which the plointiff surveys were
conducted to interview the judges who heord these coses. Every single one of
the judges interviewed corroboroted the study's findings of pervosive levels of
folse cloims of domestic violence in their court. These judges olso stote they
know thot the oiiorneys in these coses including Legol Services Corporotion
grontees ore suborning perjury -
by scripting the stotements of these women.
Moreover,- they expressed concern thot their district ottorneys were not
prosecuting these octs .mqrtin s. fieberl exomined 2.l9 studies on intimoie
portner violence ond concluded thot "women ore os physicolly oggressive, or
more oggressive, thon men in lheir relotionships with their mole spouses or
femole poriners.the octs of this women include sudden bursts of onger, poor
impulse control, ond poor self esteem.sill the dr sod to the men who wonted
help so whot.lt is the specific inient of this show to ocqutte oll wife's/girlfriends
ond women ony worng doing. This is the some os the C.P.S .in texos showing
.l04,000
evidence of obuse with no credibley thol there is .there is over,l,620,000 web
poges for child protective services obuse of power ond over web
sites for child protective services obuse .the Amendment XIV "All persons
born or noturolized in ihe United Stotes, ond subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
ore citizens of the Uniied Stotes ond of the Stote wherein they reside. No Stote
sholl moke or enforce ony low which sholl obridge the privileges or immuniiies of
citizens of the United Siqtes; nor sholl ony Siote deprive ony person of life, liberty,
or property, without due process of low; nor deny to ony person within its
jurisdiction the equol protection of the lows"ornendmint4...... The right of the
people to be secure in their persons, houses, popers, ond effects, ogoinst
unreosoncble seorches ond seizures, sholl not be violoted, cnd no Worronts sholl
issue, but upon proboble couse, supported by Ooih or offirmotion, ond
porticulorly describing the ploce io be seorched, ond the persons or things to
be seized .amendmint 5.. No person sholl be held to onswer for o copiiol, or
otherwise infomous crime, unless on o presentment or indictment of o Grond
Jury, nor sholl ony person be subject for lhe some offence to be twice put in
jeopordy of life or limb; nor sholl be compelled in ony criminol cose to be o
witness ogoinst himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or properiy, without due
process of low; nor sholl privote property be token for public use, without jusi
compensotion.omendmint 6... ln oll criminol prosecutions, ihe occused sholl
enjoy the right to o speedy ond public triol, by on imporiiol jury of the Stote ond
district wherein the crime sholl hove been committed, which district sholl hove
been previously oscertoined by low, ond to be informed of the noture ond
couse of the occusotion; to be confronted with the witnesses ogoinst him; to
hove compulsory process for obtoining witnesses in his fovor, ond io hove the
Assistonce of Counsel for his defence.omendmintT..ln suiis of common low,
where the volue in controversy sholl exceed twenty dollors, the right of triol by
jury sholl be preserved, ond no foct iried by o jury, sholl be oiherwise
re-exomined in ony Court of the United Stoies, thon occording to the rules of the
common low.omendmint8..... Excessive boil sholl not be required, nor excessive
fines imposed, nor cruel ond unusuol punishments inflicied.Becuse som brower
who is o p.i who hos long history of following ond continuol horossing members
of FLDS ond pottern of photogrophing them.Who hos help police in
investigotion of them. floro jessop who help 89 people " escope " ore not
foceing KIDNAPING,STALKING ond HARASSMENT chorges is wrong in so mony
woy's.the evidence put out by the texos c.p.s hos no bose in foct thot they sod
there ore 3l under oge girl's with kid's when in foct the 3l ore oll odult's ond one
is olmose or is 30 one is 37.the foct thot low enforcement went in with 700 cop's
on o.p.c ,sniper's ond s.w.o.i teom's is over the top.ihot this ossoult storted ot
9:0Opm of night soys o lot to the credibly of evidence .the foctlow enforcement
served o series of seorch worronts on the ronch, seizing hundreds of thousonds
of documents, dictotions, diories, photogrophs ond other evidence of obuse
.The info thot c.p.s put out obout these people hos no credibly ond the fictionol
depiction of these people os extremist .the excessive methods to willfully
predtermin there geilt .the depiciion of them os o culi is resulting in the them
being depicted os broinwoshed or mentolill .ongie voss o superviser soid lhe girls
filed in ond oppeored poliie ond respectful but she wos nevertheless
concerned."bruce perry sod"becouse fhey ore eifher victims of sexuol ossou/f,
potentiolvicfims of sexuo/ ossou/f or potential perpetrators."he wos osked which
option would be best for the children ,o return to the ronch, plocement in the
foster system or remoining in the coliseum where ihey ore now , he soid none
were occeptoble ond wont on to soy These children hove speciol needs
becouse of how they hove been roised, testimony by experts hos olreody soid
they ore noi developed mentolly to the normol level of other children their
oge.thot we todoy must demod thot the truths we hold to be self-evident ,thot
we oll ore creoted equol ond in endowed with certoin unolienoble right's to
life,liberty ond ihe pursuii of hoppiness ond in promoting the fundomentol
freedoms of oll without distinction os to culture,sex, religous belief ond to be
sirtion thot no restriction ore ploced on them.even fhe romons hod mony god's
ond occepted those of other like the greek,osio,egypt ond the persions.we
must show universol respect for the right's ond fundomentol freedom's of oll
humon's.thot o phone coll io o obuse hotline ccn bring the immedioi removeol
of one's kid's with out due process is unconstitutiol.thot inflicting punishment with
no criminol oct is cruel. noncy groce ond other's hove foned the fire of religious
rocism to the notion os o hole.thot difrint culture's, religion's ore so demorolized
by politicol ond religius exiremist ond hove there rights like thot of XIV
Amendment "All persons born or noturolized in the United Stotes, ond subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, ore citizens of the United Stotes ond of ihe Stote
wherein thev reside. No Stoie sholl moke or enforce ony low which sholl obridqe
the privileqes or immunities of citizens of the Uniied Stotes; nor sholl onv Stote
deprive onv person of life, liberty, or oroperiv, without due process of low; nor
denv to onv person within its jurisdiciion the equol protection of the
lows"omendmini4 ...... The rioht of the people to be secure in iheir persons,
houses, popers, ond effects, oqoinst unreosonoble seorches ond seizures, sholl
not be violoted, ond no Worronts sholl issue, bui upon oroboble couse,
supported bv Ooth or offirmotion, ond porticulorlv describinq the place to be
seorched, ond the persons or thinqs to be seized.omendminf5.. No person sholl
be held to onswer for o copitol, or oiherwise infomous crime, unless on o
oresentment or indictment of o Grond Jurv, ; nor sholl ony oerson be subject for
the some offence to be twice put in jeopordv of life or limb; nor sholl be
led in onv cri imself. nor be de ed
of life. libert cess of low; nor sholl orivot
be tcken for public use, without just compensoiion.omendminf 6... ln oll criminol
prosecutions, ihe occused sholl enjoy the riqht io o speedy ond public triol, by
on importioljury of ihe Stote ond district wherein the crime sholl hove been
n oreviouslv oscertoin low
be informed of the noture ond couse of the occusotion; to be confronted with
the witnesses oqoinst him; to hove comoulsory orocess for obtoininq witnesses in
his fovor, ond to hove the Assistonce of Counsel for his defence.omendminfZ.. ln
suits of common low, where the vclue in controversv sholl exceed twentv
dollors, the riqht of triol bv iury sholl be preserved, ond no foct tried by o jury,
sholl be otherwise re-exomined in onv Court of the United Stotes, thon
occordinq to the rules of the common low.omendminf8 ..... Excessive boil sholl
not be reouired, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel ond unusuol punishments
inflicted. violoted by people enforcing there sociol,culturol ,educotionol ond
heolth systems is not the function of ore goverment. CPS hos come to believe
ihey ore obove the low ond the Constitution, thot they do not need o seorch
worront to come into your home, lobel you os o child obuser for ony reoson ond
moke you o criminol bosed upon their opinion olone ond toke your children
owoy, ond put them into foster homes pending o court heoring where CPS will
try their best io win permonently custody of your kids. lf CPS loses, they will
continue to fight you, slondering your fomily . CPS on obusive government
ogency thot completely out of control.. The unlowful removol of 468 children
from the FLDS ronch in west Texos, hos led others to wonder if they con do thot
to FLDS children,they con do it to me. CPS & Police completely ignored the
4th,5th ond 6th ,7th,8th ond l4th Amendment rights of these people ond entere
home with oui o worront ond toke owoy oll of there children ofter o mere
phone call. the reoson CPS gove for ioking the children wos thot CPS felt thot
FLDS wos uncooperofive with them tolking to the children, ond there
unwillingness to cooperote put the children of risk. , CPS did not core. CPS cloims
thot becouse their opinion is thot the emotionolly obuse of one child thoi they
ore oll guilty bosed solely on the opinion of CPS.unlowful ond mossive FLDS roid
of the polygomist community's children mcy octuolly result in more Americons
becoming owore of these obuses within CPS ond the government.The superme
court of georgio hos twice commented on nqncy groce conduct os o
prosecutor. First, in o ,l994 heroin trofficking cose, Bell v. Sfofe, the Court
declored o mistriol, soying thot she hod "exceeded the wide lotitude of closing
orgument" by drowing comporisons to unreloted murder ond rope coses.ln
1997 , the court wos more severe. Although its unonimous decision overturning
the murder-orson conviction of businessmon W. W. Corr in the deoth of his wife
wos coused primorily by other issues, the court mode note of Groce's court
octions, citing "inoppropriote ond illegol conduct in ihe course of the triol."Her
opening stotement in the cose promised the jury evidence of physicol obuse
thot she hod to know would never be odmissible becouse thot entire ospect of
the cose hod olreody been excluded by the judge. subpoenos thot contoined
heoring doies Groce knew to be folse. Foilure to disclose o full witness list to the
defense in o timely foshion. Showing o chort during closing orguments thot
folsely stoted o defense expert hod not conirodicted the stofe's ccse on o key
issue. Also, during closing orgument, "vouching" for the cose by telling the jury
she herself believed Corr to be guilty. And finolly, performing two illegol seorches
of Corr's house, including one during which she wos occomponied by o cnn
comero crew. While the court soid its reversol wos not due to these
tronsgressions, since the cose hod turned primorily on circumstontial evidence ii
nevertheless concluded "the conduct of the prosecuting ottorney in this cose
demonstroted her disregord of the noiions of due process ond foirness, ond wos
inexcusoble." Corr wos freed in 2004 when The Georgio Supreme Couri ruled
unonimously thct Fulton County hod woiied too long to retry him.Other courts
hove criticized Groce's conduct even while upholding convictions in her coses.
ln o 2005 opinion, o ponel of the I I th circuit court of oppeols soid Groce
"ployed fcst ond loose" with her ethicol duties ond foiled to "fulfill her
responsibilities" os o prosecutor in the 1990 triple murder triol of Herbert Connell
Stephens. She foiled to turn over evidence thot pointed to other suspects to his
defense. The couri noted thot it wos "difficult to conclude thot Groce did not
knowingly" elicit folse testimony from o police investigotors thot there were no
other suspects despite strong evidence to the controry.her will to blindy
occeptonce of psychoonolyst bothey mqrshqll colling this " o sex cult " os foct
is plone intoleronce.the door hos been opened to destroy the FLDS.lf ollegotions
of child obuse ore grounds for roiding religious property ond violoting of oll of
iis members 4th,5th ond 6th,Zth,8th ond l4th Amendment rights , then why
oren't oll the of the Cotholic churches ond schools in Americo stote property
ond oll their children in fosterhomes? .Why oren't SWAI teoms sent into Amish
form's to rescue those women ond children who ore of thot lifestyle? or being
investigote like there orgonized crime syndicote thot hos engoged in bribery,
extortion, froud, embezzlement, witness tompering ond rocketeering ond other
violotions.the women hove presenied outhorities with o driver's license ond
birth certificote ond ssa number's to prove there oge. But CPS deportment hos
clossified them os o disputed minor, the term used for on FLDS womon whose
oge hos noi been estoblished 1o the deportment's sotisfoction. Until there oge is
estoblished, they ore treoiing them os if there o minor.ex-FlDS member Corolyn
Jessop, who spoke of on insulor ond limited life in o seci ollowing women few
righis.They weren't ollowed to drive o legolly registered cor or hove o driver's
license but they ore..the Gestopo like determinotion of Isom brower, florq
jessop qnd cqrolyn jessop qnd dqn fisher,dqvid lujon ,busier johnsonl to be o
port of the oggressive ossossinotion of this religion .Mqrci Homilton of New York's
Cordozo School of Low sod"While it's undeniobly true thoi not every cose of
polygomy includes sexuol or physicol obuse of children, the tendency is enough
to mqke the ossumption thot o polygomous home is not o fit home for o child
she ollso sod we con ossume things, ihoi oll people cre obusing kids becouse
of o lifesiyle they moy be living in. o new dobole on polygome storted.ihis is
ihe some goverment obuse thot people hove hod inflict on them by low
enforcement.heor is on extrem pont of thot obuse oi o best buy where o femole
cop tosred c women .the cop torsed in no less I min form stort to finsh .
.The Dcvlono 3eoch Neyrs Journol cioims.lhct hlmqr:lrfehls cnd civ.jl_llbcriies
ex'lsris say a Tosef , q the 50,000 volis it Oc:ks, shculci never b* ;:ed in a
siluoticn like thci. The DqytOnc' Becch s ooli
officer gci a?d_."ilg-wcy her con"rryrcncls we_le lgnoreC ccve his cfficer every r:iEht
ic dischcrge lh* wecpcn.T!,le Xews Journol ciles thot lcsl niorrth, crfte5"ix
peop:e who were sl..,r-r'rgc,c15;:q;n the Uniled Stcles cfC Cqnqdo, c Uniled
Notions commitiee soid the use of Tosers con be o form of torture. Lcw
enfcrcgmeni etoerts counter thot it is cn essentiol tool ihol scve officer lives cnC
protecls the public.Cn Nov.26 Elizobeth Beelond of CrmonC Becch stopped oi
the store io purchcse o CD ployer for her fother, she told The Dcytonc Becch
News-Journol before refusinq lo speok further.SeeloLd wound up being-
chcrged with lwo misdemeonors -- one for disorderly conduci ond the other for
resisting o police officer without violence.Beelond's otlornev entered <r pleo of
not quilty in the cose ond now it will be up io ihe Stcte Attornev's Office to
determine whether to prosecuie.Officer Cloudio Wrioht soid she used her
wecpon on Beelcnd becouse the womon wos "verbolly profone, obusive, loud
ond irote." Beelond poinled her fineer "towords my foce" cnd wcs wcvine her
orms, the officer wrote.The Doylonc Becch News-Journc! reporis that
"accordinc to cn Americon Civil Liberiies Union representoiive in orlondo, yellinq
ql q police officer cnd even cussinq one out is constitutionollv protected
speech."Police Chief Mike ChitwooC soid if o Toser hod not been ovoilcble, his
officer likely would hove used other weopons io subdue Beelond."l wos never
roised on Tcsers," the chief soid to The Doytonq Beqch News-Journcl . "l used
niqhtsticks ond slopjocks."The chief sqid to the Doytono Beoch News-Journol
Wright initicllv approoched Beelond under the ossumption o credit cord hod
been sfolen, but Beelond wos using her own cord cnd hod committed no
criry:e.The Doytono Beoch News-Journcl detoils lhe events in the store os
follows:"Wriqhl, o1 the slore investigciino cnother motter, wcs cclleC cver bv o
Best Buy ccshier thol cfternoon ofter Beelond -- who wos obout 1o pcy for her
item with o credit cord -- suddenly left her tronsoction unfinished ond wolked
oulside.The ccshier opporently ihoughi the cord wos stolen beccuse of
Beelond's sudden exit, the report indicoies. When Wriqhl couqht up wiih
Beelcnd jusi outside the oloss doors, Wriqht soid, Beeland beqon yellinq of her,
even of one poini usinq the "F" word.The officer scid she osked Beelcnd to cclm
down. She then asked Beelcnd io step inside the store so it could be determined
whelher ihe credit ccrd lefl with the coshier wcs hers.Once inside, Wriaht sicles
Beelond kept yelling at her cnd ccusing a disrupilon. She sovs Beelond's
screominq drew o crowd of potrons. Wrjqht scid she iold Beelcnd if she didn't
colryr down, she would be orresied.Finolly, Wrisht worned Beelond if she didn'i
quit lhe commoiion, she would hove io deploy her Toser.A tope from ihe store's
surveillcnce ccmero shows Beelcnd motioninq with her hcnds cnd tolking to
Wrioht. She is seen slowly bocking owcy from Wriqhl os the officer odvonces.The
lope shows Wriqht reochinq for lhe Toser qun ond shooiinq Beelcnd in ihe
cbdomen. She fclls io lhe floor.The entire confrontotion inside the store took less
thcn a minuie, the icpe shows."Beelond, clthouch noi complicni, wcs noi
octlnc viclenily,ll_ccordinq to lhe officer's repori. However, Chitwood soid his
officer hcd been flocqed down under the assumption Beelcnd may hcve stolen
c credit cord.Whoi mode BeelcnC suddenly wclked owav from her ircnsoction,
lecving her credii ccrd behind of the ccsh reoister, wos ihct she hod received
on upseltins telephone coll from her husbond cbout their child, scid Beelcnd's
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chopler two
ond pqv for lhem.l0. You hqve lhe riqhl lo oppeol qnv findinqs
of o lower courl.lI. You hove lhe righl lo subpoeno wilnesses
qnd onv documents or olher evidence lhol mov support vour
posilion or conlrodicl evidence presenled qgoinsl vou.l2. You
hove q riqhl lo q lriol bv iurv in oll criminol motlers qnd in civil
coses wh rtiql
iurv of vour peers.l3. You hove lhe riqhl lo lhe prolection qnd
provisions of lhe Conslilulion of lhe Uniled Sloles ond lhe Stole
Consfilulion.l4. You hove lhe riqhl lo proleclions expresslv
creoted in slolule ond cqse low precedenl.l5. You hqve lhe
righl lo equol proleclion of lhe low reqordless of rqce creed
color relioion ethnic oriqin oge hondicops orsex.16. You
hove lhe righl lo o remedv bv recourse lo lhe lows for oll
iniuries or wrongs lhol vou mov receive in vour person,
conformonce
wilh lhe lqws.These unelected group's think thot these right's ore for women
only.Thot's Heterosexuol Christion women only hove these right's thoi ore in the
constitution ond if you ore o lesbion,bi or o mon you hove no right to ihe group's
in question .lf you ore not of Jewish decent or christion you ore o cult so C.P.S.
will be coll ond they will toke your children from you.This is mid evil ihink o live
ond well in the new millennium.These group's don't wont you to know ihoi
counseling cost less thon using toxpoyer money to keep o men in prison. To soy
nothing of the onxiety o womon feels when her innocent husbond is in joil .The
best we con do is to know thot bottering decreoses os listening increoses. lt is
cheoper to empower thon it is to imprison.These group's ore no different then
Anihony Comstock. who '136 yeor o go hod whot is know os the comstock qct
possed " thot's 1873" .The onti-obuse group's ore not helping to siop obuse but
ore hurfing the reol obuse victim's. The onii-mole feminist thinking is ihot only
men ore perpetrotors of obuse ond ossoult the thinking thot obuse is ihe some
for men ond women. ln the dr.phil show i tolk oboui this women o wife/mother
wos humilioting her husbend publicly ond privotely .She wos withholding
informotion from her husbend ond deliberotely doing thing's to moke him feel
emborrossed by her octson with her friends ond co-worker's ond fomily of iime's
this is obuse bui becouse it's her in there thinking its not obuse.one{ourth of the
men killed in the united stote hove not used violence towords their homicidol
wife,girlfriend or lover. Men hove been shot, stobbed, beoten with objects, ond
been subjected to verbol ossoults ond humiliotions be for there violence
deoth's.lf they do flee iheir ottockers find thot the oct of fleeing results in them
losing physicol ond even legol custody of their children ond worst if they flee
with there kid's they ore orrested for kidnopping.Those men who stoy ore
thought to be the"perps" ond believed they ore the irue obusers in the home
not the women.This thinking is in religion to thot morol extremist depiction non
jewish or christion religions ore cult's like whot's hopping in texos with the
F.L.D.S.Thot 97% child obuse coses ore "unsubstontioted" estimotes thot more
thon 90% of folse ollegotions ore filed by women ogoinst men or the susen to be
overoqe of S157,000 is poid q yeors by
ex-husbend/boyfrieno.An
lhe federol qovernmenl for eoch child loken inlo custodv bv
cps.l.lll children die eoch veor qs q resull of child obuse
which occur qfler cps lqkes cuslodv.Thois 90 to 9s% of ott chitd obuse
coses ore foles ond cps toke the child or children in io custody 95% of the time.ln
oll of these coses the men is the criminol ond the women the victim.ln ihe cose
where the wife die's her husbend con exspect her mother ond fother to sue for
cutody of the kid or children . lf ihe husbend die's first no one soy's o word obout
the kid's custody .lf o women flees with the children she fleeing ABUSE by her
husbend/boyfriend becuse oll she hos to soy is "l'AM BEING ABUSE"ond the
husbend/boyfriend is now looked of os o criminol .The runing is joke:Ex-wife: I
made my husband a millionaire.Friend: What was he before?Ex-wife: A
billionaire.Gendertermsusedhereareforwanshegetscustodyoftheu"ds@-
The spouse of sn alcoholic.Appointed Counsel: A risht avuilable for DUL
but not for false ullegations of Mom and her new bovfriend that vou
sexuallv molested ftheirl vour grown children.Attornevs Fees: Large sums
of monev qwarcled to Momls attornev. See ttermst and tcriminal contempt
fines.'Best Interests of the Child: Whut Mom and her new bovfriend want
todav.Child Abuse: Visitstion bv Dad.Child Support: See
Visitution.Commissioner/Msgistrate: Like u i udge, onlv
different.Contemnt: The onlv ressonable resction to all of this.Criminal
Contempt Fines: See Attornevs Fees.Cross Examination: A right
uvailuble in smsll claims court but not in fumilv court.Dad: See definition
of Father.Dike or Dvke: An earthen structure located in the
Netherlqnds.Domestic Violence: The qccusqtion thut Mom will make
a.gainst Dad shortlv after she shoots him, steuls the car, bulldozes his half
of the house, steals the creclit cards, druins the checking und savings
occounts, hus the dog put to sleep, drowns the gerbils, kidnans the kids
qnd moves in with her 400 oound Somoun bovfriend.Druggie: The spouse
of a nerson with a drug problem.Due Process of Law: fReservedlEx
Parte: See Familv Court.Familv Court: Where Mom's uttornev goes to
make phonev slleeations asainst Dad in violstion of his professional
resoonsibilities snd then sends vou the bill.Fqther: Mom's current
bovfriend.Harassment: When Dad calls Mom on the nhone to srrange a
pickup time.Insanitv: See Ex Parte, Show Cause, & Familv Court
Attornev Rules of Professional Conduct [Reservedl.Joint Custodv: Everv
other weekend and six weeks in the summer. Kidnupning: See
'Visitation.'Live Testimonv: A right avuilable in smull cluims court but
not in familv court.Natural Custodial Parent: A woman working eightv
hours a week st high-priced law firm, who can ufford a divorce attornev
and dav care.Pro Bono: Legal services performed bv Dad's attornev.Pro
T e m C o mmi s s i o n er : S e e C o mmi s s i o n e r/M ag i s tr ste. S up erv i s e d Vi s itcrtio n :
After Mom lesves, Dad hires someone to watch him wutch the
babv.Sexusl Abuse: Bsths und diaper chunges when performed bv
Dad.Show Cause: A procedure where Dad snd his uttornev appeur, but
are not allowed to answer false sllegations bv Mom and her lstest
bovfriend.Tender Yesrs Doctrine: Under this doctrine, Mom and her
attornev sre permitted to behsve as if thev were still of tender
vears.Terms: See Attornevs Fees.Transcript: A written record of doubtful
value preserved in civil and criminql matters, but not in familv court
where custodv and visitstion are interrupted and Duds are separated from
their kids.Trial bv Affidsvit: A procedure under which the court suss the
parties and sll witnesses with relevant knowledge and then permits
attornevs to testifv falselv und in violation of their professional duties as
to mstters not contained in the affiduvits. [See Fumilv Court, Ex Parte,
Show Cause qnd Commissioner.l/Trial bv Combst or Ordeal: A primitive
form of adiudicstion used in esrlv times. [See Familv Courtl/Trial bv
Waeer of Law: A primitive form of sdiudicution used in earlv times. [See
Familv Courtl/Visitution: See Child Support.
chopler 3
yeor will go down in history.For the first time o civilized notion hos full gun
" this
registrotion .Our sireets will be sofer,our police more efficient ond the world will
follow our leod into the future"
ADOLF HITLER
Todoy the extremist in the U.S. don't use weopon's of wor but money to push
there extrem thinking on oll of us.ANT- polygomy, onti-some-sex morroge ,onti-
goy right's .These people with there zero toleronce view of the world .Judeo-
Christian society has the Commandments:Thot we most live os one men ond one
women in o morroge or fomily in there extrem view .disfrict ottorneys who ignor
the rule of low like the d.o. in the CHINDY SOMMER ond DARLIE LYNNN ROUTIER
.ln the first cose of miss .sommer's o militory wife whese convicted of murder
whon no crime wos cumited.Miss routier's wos put on deoth row whon the court
ond the police's mode more thon 33.000 mstokes in her cose .ln this cose the
d.o. lie by soying thot the crime scene whos stoged .The focts ore thot low
enforcement ,ems ond on out side invostogoter moved items in ihe house ond o
hoir thoi they sod whos thot of mis.routiers whos in foct thot of o femole officers
.How ore we to trust low enforcement ,district ottorneys ond the justice system to
follow the low whon people ore worngy convicted .sommer's wos convicted
for whot hos been colled "conduct unbecoming o widow".The ovezeolous
prosecuior in the cose .Like thot of sTAcY BUTLER,STEPHANtE cRowE,AUctA
WADE ond DALE AKIKI oll hoppined in son diego, colifornio.MlSS.ROUTER'S cose is
form texos l.Thot's right texos the ploce of the flds couri cose.As John Adoms soid
when he wos representing the British soldiers occused of murder following the
"Boston Mossocre "focts ore siubborn things.They con't be chonged.They con't
be distorted,no motter how vigorous the effori like thot of miss.sommer's ond
miss,router's.Eoch of these ore ore exomples of justice gone owry.Distirict
Aitorney's "deny,deny,deny" in effort io obfuscote,deflect,distroct ond ovoid the
truth of oll costs.Any prosecuter con convict the guilty but it toke s reol skill to do
it to on innocent person. lt toke skill to convict o person of o crime when no
crime os been comited.This is the omiercon civil ond criminoljusiice system .
The cookies cuter woy ihe system works is puting the innocence in joil .The police
use intengotion's thot ore outlowed by the westen militory system ond the U.N to
gei foles confessions.Thoi most crimines ore wrong by there very noture like
murder,rop but most of ore lows ore there becuse the low sod there wrong .Like
being goy or o lesbion wos sene os being mentil ill in iill the 1920s. ?0% of the
lows on the books moke things wrong ond illegol is becuse we sod their wrong
like polygomy .The system is their to moke justice FAIR ond to proterct ore rights
but it do's not.lt torns the innocent people in to criminols .My cose in point cindy
sommer's comes to mined.The stondord of police is thot we ore oll criminol's it is
in there trioning ond thinking thot doy to doy things we dow ore sene os criminol
to them.The estoblished thinking is ihot men ore obuser's women ore the victim
ond we ore oll criminol 's.lt is o mod dosh for these group's to suck of the breost
of billion in goverment money .So thot they con go on with their unyielding
morxist ond outhoritorion woy they wont us to live.We os omericons ore the
becon of the world to restore the fundomementol foith ond dignity thot mokes
us oll humon.The world looks to us to estoblish jusiices ond mutuol respoci for oll
so thot we oll live together in peoce ond to promotion of the intelligent
odvoncement of oll humoniiy.Children ore torn from their porents with no
justificotion by government ogents ond ore roilrooded inio joil with no
semblonce of due process of low.They find iheir heoring topes dociored, their
cose files folsified, ond themselves fromed ollwith the full knowledge of the
court system. Mothers ore ordered to divorce their husbonds or lose iheir
children. Fothers ore forced in to the street when they hove not committed o
crime. People who speok out ore look of os nuts . Fothers ore summoned to
court ond ordered to poy the infloted child suppori fees ond joiled when ihey
ore unoble to poy.The 60.000 polygomist ond o unknow number of some-sex
fomilys ore dqnined ihe some rights os oll us.The societol ond morol disopprovol
of goys, bigomy polygomy ond nudity ,pornogrphy ond ihe sexuol octs
between iwo consenting odults like ihot of prosiitution .The extermist bigotry of
the religious thot only men ond women con hove o fomily ond
morroge.Feminist thinking ihot only men,fother ond hushends con be obusers
ond use fiction os foct to poss unconstitutionol lows.The normol o every doy
things thot o fomily moy go throw ore turn in to criminol octs.But we never heor
the other sides of the stories from this system. we never heor of its mony
successes, such os when second chonces ore offered ond seized, ond o fomily is
empowered to foster peoce in its home. We never heor of the times where
dogged investigotion by both sides uncovers truth ond exoneroies one folsely
occused. And more imporiontly you never heor of the countless victims who qre
victimized by the very system built to prolect them. Husbond ond wife hove on
orgument. Moybe the wife colls the police becouse she wonts help colming her
husbond down mokes the coll ond os they question the husbond ond wife, it
comes out thot he grobbed her wrist os they orgued.he is orrested ond goes io
ioil.The wife sioys up oll night, fronticolly trying to get someone to tell her how to
siop this process. She is given informotion on shelters ond injunctions, victims
groups to oid her in his prosecution, but no one will tell her how to help her
husbend. she will not be iold how to ovoid him being ordered to hove no
conioct until the cose is over form severol months to o yeor or more.She hos o
constitutionol righi to be heord.She willl leorn thot her "right" doesn't meon o
dom thing of leost not if she wonis to help her husbend .She post o bond to get
him out of joil $2,500 in the nome of protecting the victim ond the community
ond beors no relotion to onyone's sofety of oll.Now ofter bonding the husbond
out with the fomily's rent money she's going to toke whot's left over ond gei him
o lowyer if there is ony left .Moybe the lowyer con osk ihe court to ollow the
couple to regoin contoct. Unfortunotely, it won't motier whot reolly hoppened
thot night, or how copoble she is of deciding for herself whether she needs
protection . They con stond by ond iell thot victim thot she doesn't reolly know
whot's best for her ond her fomily. She is o victim how con she possibly know
whot's best ofier whot she's been through.The sod truth is ihot there ore victims,
plenty of them, who hove been through such domestic ordeols ond ore noi in o
position to judge cleorly whot is best of the time. But these ore not the mojority of
the people coming through our domestic violence system under ihe unwelcome
heoding of "victim." Mony of these people know exoctly whot is best for them
ond their fomilies, ond yet ore revictimized by the powerlessness imposed upon
them by o system of people who soy we know betier then you do.A husbend
ond wife hove consenting sex with o women thot live with them ond help toke
core of the kids .Two weeks loter theirs o knock of the door it's o c.p.s coseworker
ond I0 low enforcement officers to toke the children becouse of the ihere
reosonoble couse to suspect obuse. KGB type investigotions siorts.
Child Protective Service investigotors will conduct investigotions of
obuse . They will involve low enforcement ogencies without your
knowledge thot on investigotion is even being conducted. They con ioke
your children ond conduct strip seorches on them, no motter whot their
oge or gender, ond you con do nothing obout it. They con kick in the
door of your home with out o worrent bosed on o "preponderonce of
suspicion" without ever giving you the chonce lo produce ony evidence
to the controry. You will lose your job ond reputotion without being
contocted by CPS. You ore guilty until proven innocent in their eyes. Even
thow oll 3 of you ore consenting odults.Child protective service oct ond ore
obove the low becouse of the Child Abuse Prevention ond Treotment Act of
l974,ln Woshingtion stote o women with two kids wos threoiind by c.p.s with
criminol chorges of wellfoir frod ond kidnoping .The d.n.o of her ond the two kids
did not moch.C.p.s colled ond sod she is pregnont with her 3rd kid ond the court
ordered o cose-worker to be of the birth ond toke d.n.o form her ond the boby
.This time they ore one ond the some .lt truns out thot you con hove two difrent
D.N.As.The full store bellow.
Two Women f)on't Match Their Kids' DNA -- ft's a Medical Mystery
Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of
challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her
body were her own. "I knew that I carried them. and I knew that I delivered
them. There was no doubt in m), mind." Fairchild said.Fairchild's fight for
her kids began when she was 26-years-old. unemploved and applying for
public assistance in Washington state. Everyone in her family had to be
tested to prove the]' were all related.The Department of Social Services
called Fairchild and told her to come in immediately. What Fairchild
thought was a routine meeting with a social worker turned into an
interrosation. The proud mother was suddenly a criminal suspect.
There Must Be an Explanation: "As I sat down. they came up and shut
the door. and they just went back and just started drilling me with questions
like" 'Who are )rou?"' Fairchild said. The DNA test results challenged
eveqything she knew about her family. Yes. her boyfriend was the father of
the children. and. ves. they were all related, according to the DNA. except
for Fairchild. She was told she wasn't the mother.Fairchild was certain a
mistake must have been made. but she recalled a social worker sayinLto
her. "Nope. DNA is 100 percent foolproof and it doesn't lie."Fairchild was
not onl)' denied government assistance for her young children. she was now
suspected of possibl]'acting as a paid surrogate mother and committing
welfare fraud. She was in danger of having her kids taken away for good.
Fairchild said before she left. the social worker told her. "You know. we're
able to come get your kids at an)' time." Fairchild began to panic. She knew
they were her kids. So she rushed home to search for photos of her
pregnancy and found her children's birlh certificates. She told her parents.
who couldn't believe the test results."I thought she was,ioking but then she
started crying on the phone. I said'Oh. it's got to be a mistake. I was there
when the kids were born. I saw them come out. I held them in m
know,"' said Fairchild's mother. Carol Fairchild. "I almost went insane
inside. I couldn't imagine whlr if this could happen. mlz daughter is not a
liar." said Fairchild's father. Rod Fairchild.Fairchild called her obstetrician.
Dr. Leonard Dreisbach. He was there for all the births and assured Fairchild
he'd vouch for her in court."I would have told them that she certainly had
these three kids. and that the), were hers. and that I don't know what's wrong
with the DNA testing. but I know that she had the kids." Dreisbach said.But
none of that seemed to matter. because DNA tests were considered infallible
-- the gold standard in court. DNA showed that Fairchild's genetic makeup
did not match that of her children.To eliminate any chance of human error.
new DNA tests were ordered from different labs. It was an agonizinq wait.
but the results were the same: The children weren't hers.Fairchild knew then
that she was close to losing her kids. After three court hearings. she said the
judge looked at her and told her to find a law).er.
Battling in Court: It was another uphill battle in the courtrooms. Most of
the attorneys Fairchild turned to were not willing to fight DNA
evidence.Attornelz Alan Tindell finalllz agreed to take the case. but he
questioned her extensively about her connection to the children. "These
aren't )rour sister's children? These aren't )zour brother's children? You didn't
abduct these children from anyone?" Tindell said that given how adamant
Fairchild's answers were. he decided to believe her.But Fairchild and her
famil)z remained frightened. fearing a knock at the door at any moment. So
they made plans to hide the children from authorities."Getting that summons
in the mail to go to court. that thelr were trying to take my kids from me. my
stomach just went into a big old knot. I just started crying. and I called my
family. and I held m), kids and was scared." Fairchild said."I'd sit and have
dinner with my kids and just break out crying. They would just look at me
like. 'What's wrong. Mom.' They'd come get me a hug" and I couldn't explain
it to them. because I didn't understand," Fairchild explained.Fairchild was in
a tough spot. up against a government that thought she was at the verv least
a fraud. with foolproof scientific evidence weighing against her.But then
she got a break. Across the country. there was another woman with DNA
that didn't match her children's. but in this case. the doctors had cracked the
medical mlzstery.
Another Woman, Same Story =In Boston Karen Kee
chilling phone call from her doctor. It came during a very difficult time in
her life. -iust as she needed a kidney transplant.Keegan recalled what the
doctor said to her: "Mrs. Keegan. we have some unusual news to report to
you. We've never had this happen before" but your children don't match your
DNA." That revelation came after her family members had had their blood
tested for compatibilit)'."An]'child from a mom and dad should inherit
genes from both the mom and the dad. In Keegan's case, it appeared that her
two bolzs hadn't inherited any of her DNA." said Dr. Lvnne Uhl. a
pathologist and doctor of transfusion medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston. "Thelz weren't hers. So we scratched our heads
and said. 'This is realllz unusual. How can this be?"'Boston doctors asked
Keeean the same tvpe of questions that had been asked of Fairchild in
Washington Thelz asked Keegan where her two sons had come from. since
their genetic code was not the same as hers."They wanted to know the name
of the hospital where m)' children were born. They had some other thoughts.
like perhaps this was some kind of in vitro fertilization or even worse. that
this woman iust might not be completel]' telling the truth or even be
psychologicall)r unbalanced in some way." Keegan said.Keegan's doctors
investiqated the case further."It was a medical mlrstery. Certainllr there were
individuals whom we ran the storlz blz who said. 'There must be a skeleton in
the closet," Uhl said.Doctors took DNA samples from all over Keegan's
bodlz. They tested her blood. her hair and swabbed her mouth. Still nothing
matched her sons'DNA. But Keegan had another idea.Keegan told Uhl that
she'd had a thyroid nodule removed a while back.After an extensive search.
doctors found a sample of her thyroid tissue saved in a nearby lab in the
Boston area. According to Uhl. this piece of tissue was the key to solving
the medical mystery.The DNA that would match her sons' DNA could have
been an)rwhere in Keegan's body. But her thyroid was where she matched
her sons' genetic code.
The mystery was solved. In a way" Keegan was her own twin.
"In her blood. she was one person. but in other tissues. she had evidence of
being a fusion of two individuals." Uhl said.It's a rare condition called
chimerism. with only 30 documented cases worldwide. In Greek mlrthologlr.
"chimera" means a monster: part goat. part lion. part snake.In human
biology. a chimera is an organism with at least two genetically distinct tlzpes
of cells -- or. in other words. someone meant to be a twin. But while in the
mother's womb. two fertilized eggs fuse. becoming one fetus that carries
two distinct genetic codes -- two separate strands of DNA.The twin is
invisible. but for chimeras the twin lives microscopicallv inside the bod)' as
DNA.When Uhl told Keegan she was her own twin. Keegan said she was
shocked. "You wouldn't imagine that that could even be possible."
Still Fighting to Keep Children :But what did this ne
for Lydia Fairchild. the woman living across the country who'd been
fighting to keep her children?The state was still so suspicious of Fairchild
that when she gave birth to another child. a court officer stood in the
delivery room to witness an immediate DNA test."They took DNA from the
baby and myself right then and there, after birth. and it came back that there
is no way possible that bab]' is mine." Fairchild said.Even though they'd
witnessed the birth. officials believed she was acting as a surroeate" possibly
bearing a child for money.Fairchild's attorney was determined to solve the
m)zstery. That's when he came across Keegan's chimera story in the New
Eneland Journal of Medicine.
"I asked the judge to postpone the case until these tests could be done."
Tindell said.
After the tests were done. there was proof that Fairchild was her own twin
as well. The judge finally believed Fairchild was the bioloeical mother of
her children and dismissed the case."I probably wouldn't have m], kids today
if thelz didn't discover her situation. The)r wouldn't have known to even
consider me as a chimera." Fairchild said.
If not for Keegan. Fairchild said she might have lost her famil)'forever.
These ogencies ond gourps ond there cruel punishmeni ihot is hondout by
ihem violote the united stotes constotitution ond the stote constotitution .They
ore nothing more ihon morxist dictotors hell bent on ruling the world.The obove
coses ore bui o smell port of foleur of the omeircoin criminoljustice system
lodoy .The use of 100 yeor old cose low ond troning of o blied eye to the system
thot is going no where fost.Thot 25%of stote 63%federol inmotes ore non-violent
drug offenders.there were 112,329 federol inmotes in 2000 of ihot 63,898 were
for non-violent drug offenders ihots 55.5% or there wood be only 48,431 for oll
others if there where no drug offenders . Jomes Mqdison soid.'l believe there ore
more instonces of the obridgement of the freedom of the people bv groduol
ond silent encroochments of those in power thon by violent ond sudden
usurpotions.'
but
because of how mv neiqhbors have reacted to the information on the
internet.
With states inactinq residency restirction law for all sex affenders .
Georgia State House Majoritlr Leader Jerry Keen, who sponsored the
ithin 1,000 feet of places
where children qather, stated durinq a floor debate, "Mv intent
personally is to make lresidency restrictionsl so onerous on those
another state."
Todoy this is the criminoljustice system in the UNITED STATES.
chopter 4
" Any prosecutor con convict o guilty person.lt tokes reolskill to convict the
innocent when no crime os toke ploce"
The disregord for ihe principle of innocent until proven guilty is is o foct of life
todoy.Todoy it's not "WE THE PEOPIE" .The stondord operoting procedure for the
prosecuiion is to convict oi oll cost.The reol role of the proscution is o sovereignty
whose obligolion to govern importiolly is os compeling os its obligotion to govern
of oll,ond whose interest,therefor,in criminol prosecution is not thot it shollwin o
cose ,but thot justice sholl be done(people vs.hillil998)17 col.4th 800,820.)
Prosecutors hove o speciol obligotion to promote justice ond the oscertoinment
of truth . ... The duty of the district ottorney is noi merely thot of odvocote.His
duty is not to obtoin convictions,but to fully ond foirly present the evidence.
(people vs. kosim (1997)56 col.opp.4th .l360,,l328.).Todoy insted of protecting the
right's of the people it is how mony conviction they con get.Not with stonding
thot there ore thousends of reports thoi women ore the some os men in
commenting crimes,murder,rop,child obuse ond inoment portner obuse.A low
enforcement officer in colifornio ottended o domesiic violence troining closs
dripping with mole hotred thot everyone in the closs mole ond femole officers
felt extremly uncomfortoble of this extrements view on the subject.Therapist
Edward Dunninq recounts his experience with a male client who
was punched repeatedlv bv his wife. She was arrested twice on
domestic violence charges and was later convicted. Although
the man had no historv of domestic violence. the divorce court
iudqe somehow regarded the wife as the true victim and qranted
her sole custodv of their son. Dunning notes. "lt's not unusual
for violent women to be qranted custodv of the children.
Thot cynthio sommers nightmore storted with the deoth of her husbend on
the night of feb.l 8,2002.She leord on moy 4 ,2009 thot she will need ot whote till
november of this yeor if her cose will be dissmissed for good .
6. You have theright to remain silent and speak with an attornev before
making any statement to the authorities.
7. You have the right to confront vour accuser and to cross-examine
witnesses against you.
12. You have a right to a trial by iurv in all criminal matters and in civil
cases where the value in question exceeds $20 bv an impartial iurv of
YOUr peers.
13. You have the right to the protection and provisions of the
Constitution of the United States and the State Constitution.
14. You have the right to protections expressly created in statute and
case law precedent.
15. You have the right to equal protection of the law regardless of race.
creed, color. religion. ethnic origin. age. handicaps, or sex.
16. You have the right to a remedy, by recourse to the laws, for all
iniuries or wrongs that you may receive in vour person, property" or
character.
17. You have the right to iustice, without being obliged to purchase it;
completely. and without any deniall promptly. and without undue
delay: in conformance with the laws.
Gender terms used here a.,re {or w::n she gets qustqdl' of the-
kids.
Alcoholic: The spouse of an alcoholic.
Appointed Counsel: A right available for DUI, but not for false
allegations of Mom and her new boyfriend that you sexuallv molested
ltheirl vour grown children.
Attorneys Fees: Large sums of money awarded to Momts attorney. See
ttermst and tcriminal contempt fines.'
Best Interests of the Child: What Mom and her new boyfriend want
todav.
Child Abuse: Visitation bv Dad.
Child Support: See Visitation.
Commissioner/lVlagistrate: Like a iudge. only different
Joint Custodv: Everv other weekend and six weeks in the summer.
Kidnapping: See'Visitation.'
Live Testimony: A right available in small claims court but not in
familv court.
Natural Custodial Parent: A woman working eightv hours a week at
hiPh-priced law firm, who can afford a divorce attornev and dav care.
Pro Bono: Legal services performed bv Dadts attornev
Show Cause: A procedure where Dad and his attornev appear. but are
not allowed to answer false allegations bv Mom and her latest
boyfriend.
Tender Years Doctrine: Under this doctrine. Mom and her attornev are
permitted to behave as if thev were still of tender vears.
General issues
The risk of miscarriages of iustice is one of the main arguments against the death
penalty. Where condemned persons are executed promptlv after conviction. the
most significant effect of a miscarriage of iustice is irreversible; wrongly-executed
people are nevertheless occasionally posthumouslv pardonedndash which is
essentiallv a null actionndash or have their convictions quashed. Manv states that
still practice the death penalty hold condemned persons for ten years or more before
execution.
Canada
* Robert Baltovich was convicted in 1992 of the murder of Elizabeth Bainl released
in 2000 to prepare an appeal based on new evidence; although he has not been
officiallv exonerated. the Crown has not pursued the case since his release: new
evidence points to Paul Bernardo, an acquaintance of Ms Bain's. as her killer.
* James Driskell. Canadian wronsfullv convicted in 1991 of the murder of Perry
Harderl his conviction was quashed and the charses stayed in 2005 due to DNA
testing, but he has not been fully exonerated.
* Donald Marshall. Canadian Mikmaq Aborisinal wronsfully convicted in 1971 of
the murder of Sandv Seale: acquitted on appeal in 1983 after an additional witness
to the murder came forward.
*In 1969. David Milgaard. a 16-year old, was convicted and given a life sentence for
the murder of 20-year old nursing aide Gail Miller. After 23 years of imprisonment.
the Supreme Court of Canada allowed for the release of Milgaard. Five vears later
DNA testine proved his innocence.
* Guv Paul Morin. Canadian wrongfullv convicted in 1992 of the murder of
Christine Jessop: he was exonerated by DNA evidence in 1995.
* Thomas Sophonow" Canadian wrongfully convicted in 1981 of the murder of
Barbara Stoppel: acquiffed on appeal in 1985. and conclusively exonerated by DNA
evidence in 2000.
* Ronald Dalton. wrongfullv convicted of murdering his late wife. Brenda Dalton in
August 1988. It was later found that Brenda Dalton choked on cereal.
* Steven Truscott's wrongful conviction of murder in the death of Lvnne Harper
stood for 48 vears before finally being overturned August 28. 2007.
*Jama Jama was charged with battering a police officer. but later there was
evidence found to prove that in fact the officer was the one who assaulted Jama
Jama. The police officer ended up losins his license.
France
*Joan of Arc was executed in 1431 on charges of heresv. She was nosthumouslv
cleared in 1456.
*Jean Calas from Toulouse was executed on March 10. 1762. for murder of his son
Marc Antoine. The philosopher Voltaire. convinced of his innocence" succeeded in
reopening of the case and rehabilitation of Jean in 1765.
for treason in 1894. After
's Island. he was nroven innocent with the assi
definitivelv rehabilitated only in 1906. See the Drevfus affair.
* In 2005. thirteen people were finallv proven innocent of child molestation after
having served four years in prison. A fourteenth died in prison. Only four people
were proven guilty. This infamous case" which has deeplv shaken the public opinion.
is known as the "Affaire d'Outreau". the Outreau case. from the name of the city
where these people lived. in the north of France.
Italy
*Pietro Valpreda. an anarchist condemned for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.
was finally found innocent sixteen years later. He was framed since it was planned
to blame the crime on the radical Left" while it was committed bv Neo-Fascist
groups as the first step ofthe stratew oftension.
*Enzo Tortora. a nopular anchorman on national RAI television. was arrested in
L983 and held in iail for months after trumped up charses bv several pentiti of the
Camorra and other people already known for periury. It was soon noted that this
was most likelv a wrong identification with a man bearing the same surname
(meaning rrturtledoverr). but the rtpentiti" kept on accusing Tortora of the gravest
offenses related to drug dealing. He was sentenced to ten years in iail in his first trial
held in 1985" being spared further incarceration onlv thanks to the providential
intervention of the Radical Partv who offered him a candidacy to the European
Parliament. a place Tortora won in a landslide as the country divided between those
who held him guilty and those who held him innocent. He was completely acquitted
and rehabilitated in 19861 he returned the next year to his work in tv. to a movins
comeback in his "Portobello" show. to die in 1988 from cancer and become an icon
of iniustice and a perpetual reminder of the gravest public blunder of the ltalian
iudiciarv system.
*Daniele Barilli. an entrepreneur mistakenly identified as a maior drug cartel boss
in Milan, spent more than 7 years in iail in 1992-1999" despite srowing evidence of
his complete innocence and non-involvement in any criminal activify. To this day.
the Italian state hasn't awarded him anv compensation.
Ireland
* Sallins Train Robberv
Japan
*Sakae Menda was convicted for a double murder in 1948 and was sentenced to
death. but was cleared in L983 after further evidence backing up his alibi came to
lieht.
*Hiroshi Yanagihara was convicted of rape and attempted rape. but the true
culprit. Eiichi Otsu, was arrested after Yanagihara's release. Otsu was charged with
14 rapes and Yanagihara was cleared bv retrial in 2007. I
[http://search.iapsntimes.co.ip/cei-bin/nn200710lIal.html Court acquits msn but kept
lid on forced confession I The Janan Times Online I I Atsuwas sentenced to 25 vears
in prison. I I h ttp : //www. b r e it b a rt. c o m/art i c I e. p h p 7 i d: D I S TB 0 F O 0 & s h o w a rt ic I e: I
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= The Netherlands:
* The Schiedammerpark murder case (2000): Cees Borsboom was released in
December 2004 after serving four vears in prison of a sentence of 18 years for a
murder in June 2000 of a lO-vear old girl in a Schiedam park. He was released after
Wik Haalmeiier confessed to the murder. This confession was confirmed bv DNA
evidence on the victim and the description of the attacker given to the police bv
another victim. Maikel, who narrowly survived the attack. Investigation of the
manner the prosecution acted in this case revealed that the police and the public
prosecutor made substantial mistakes, ignored relevant information. and brutalized
("strangulation" during police interrogation) the LL-vear old victim Maikel.
Minister of Justice Piet Hein Donner had to take all responsibilitv. In September
2005. he survived a no-confidence motion in parliament but did set up the
Posthumus I and Posthumus II committees. The state of the Netherlands paid Cees
Borsboom € 600.850.- compensation and the parents of Maikel an unknown amount.
* The Putten murder case (1994): in this case" the 23-year-old stewardess Christel
Ambrosius was found murdered in her grandmother's house" which was remotely
located in the Veluwe. The police arrested four men who had been in those woods
that weekend. Even thoush sperm found didn't match the DNA of any of the four
men. Wilco Viets and Herman Dubois were convicted to 10 years' imprisonment
anywav, of which they'd serve two thirds for good behavior. In April2002" the
Dutch high council (Supreme court) declared both men innocent. shortlv after thev
had completed their sentences. Another suspect was apprehended in May 2008"
based on a DNA match.
* The Posthumus committees: the Schiedammernark murder case. as well as the
similarlv overturned case of the Putten murder. led to the installation of the
"Posthumus I committee", which analyzed what had gone wrong in the
Schiedammerpark Murder case. coming to the conclusion that confirmation bias led
the police to ignore and misinterpret scientific evidence (DNA). Subsequently. the
so-called Posthumus II committee was set up to investigate whether more of such
cases might have occurred. The committee received 25 applications from concerned
and involved scientists" and decided to take three of them into further consideration:
the Lucia de B,erk case, the lna Post l>nl icon [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina Post
The Ina post case (Dutch wikipedidl I case. and theEnscbede incest case.ln these
three cases. confirmation bias and misuse of complex scientific evidence is claimed
bv independent researchers (professors Wagenaar. van Koppen.Isra€ls. Crombag.
Derksen) to have led to miscarriages of iustice.
* Other potential cases: there are also continuing attempts bv concerned scientists to
get the well-known Deventer murder case. the Overzier murder case. the butler
case" the Ene incest case. and the Kevin Sweenev case reonened.
New Zealand
* Arthur Allan Thomas. a New Zealand farmer. was twice convicted of the murders
of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe on June 17, 1970. He spent 9 vears in prison but was
given a Royal Pardon. and was released and awarded $1 million compensation for
wrongful convictions. A Royal Commission in 1980 showed the prosecution cases
were flawed. and that police had deliberately planted a cartridge case in the
Crewesr garden to use as evidence.
*David Bain was convicted in 1995 of the murder of all five members of his familv
the previous vear. After 13 years in prison. his convictions were finallv overturned
in 2007 bv the Priw Council. who found that a substantial miscarriase of iustice
had occurred. He has been granted bail pending a retrial.
*David Doughertv was convicted in 1993 on charges of abduction and the rape of an
ll-vear-old girl. After serving over 3 vears in prison. he was acquitted in 1997 after
new DNA evidence ruled him out. Compensation of over $800.000 was paid bv the
New Zealand Government and an apology given for the wrongful conviction. The
real culprit. Nicholas Reekie. was later convicted of the crime.
*Tania Vini. Macushla Fuataha. both 14. and 15 vear-old Lucv Akatere were iailed
for terms of up to two vears for the aggravated robberv of a 16 vear-old school girl
who was viciously slashed and bashed by five teenage girls. The girls served seven
months in prison before being released. The actions of the Police in their
interviewing of the girls was shown to have been overbearing and deceitful. In
overturning the convictions, Court of Appeal iudge" Justice Gault. said the three
girls had the court's sympathv for the iniustice that had wrongly sent them to
prison. He went on to say the "investigation and the trial system failed in this case"
and the wrongful conviction 'oraises questions of conduct by the police which is a
serious matter and must be properly investigated". The allegations center on the
alleged misconduct of the then Detective Constable Trevor Franklin. with serious
allegations of misconduct in relation to his tactics.
*In 2000. a man. whose name is suppressed. was exonerated of allegations of
indecent assault on his two sons. both then aged under 12 years. He was convicted in
1995 and spent 14 months in prison before the Court of Appeal quashed the
conviction after both sons retracted their allegations. The allegations were
withdrawn by the children within 48 hours of being made. but police failed to make
those facts available to defense counsel and continued with the prosecution. Over
half a million New Zealand Dollars was paid in compensation
*Rex Haig was convicted in L995 of the murder of Mark Roderique. a crew member
on Haig's fishing boat. Antares. The murder conviction was quashed by the Court
of Appeal in August 2006. nearlv two vears after Haig's release on parole having
served a full sentence for the killing. Haig's nephew. David Hogan. who claimed that
he saw his uncle kill Mr Roderique. is now regarded bv the Court of Appeal as a
susnect for the murder. and. by at least one of the three Appeal Court Judges. as an
outterlv unreliablet witness.
*Aaron Farmer served 2 years and 3 months in prison for the rape of a
Christchurch woman before being exonerated bv DNA evidence. At the time of
Farmer's sentencing District Court Judge Murray Abbott criticized aspects of the
police inquiry regarding disclosure of evidence and deficits in transcripts of a police
video interview. Issues regarding analvsis of samples submitted to Environmental
Science and Research had not been followed through in a timelv way. and no
satisfactorv explanation had been given why an identity parade had not been
conducted. The Appeal Court highlighted that in a taped interview with Farmer. the
detective gave the impression that DNA evidence implicated Farmer when it did not.
Norway
United Kinedom
In the United Kingdom a iailed person whose conviction is quashed mav be paid
compensation for the time they were incarcerated.
It was a notable problem that the parole svstem assumes that all convicted persons
are actuallv guiltv. and that it poorlv handled those who are not. In order to be
paroled. a convicted person was required to sign a document in which. among other
things. they confessed to the crime for which they were convicted. Someone refusing
to sign such a declaration of remorse ended up spending longer in iail than a
genuinelv guilty person would have. Some wrongly convicted people. such as the
Birmingham Six. were refused parole for this reason. In 2005 the system changed in
this respect. and a handful of prisoners started to be paroled without ever admitting
euilt.
In the event of a "perverse" verdict that involves the conviction of a defendant who
should not have been convicted on the basis of the evidence presented" English law
has no means of correcting this error: appeals being based exclusivelv upon new
evidence or errors bv the iudge or prosecution (but not the defense). or because of
iury irresularities. It occurred fhowever in the 1930s when William Herbert
Wallace was exonerated of the murder of his wife. There is no right to a trial
"without" iury (except during the troubles in Northern Ireland when a iudge or
iudges presided without a iurv).
During the earlv 1990s there was a series of high-profile cases revealed to have been
miscarriages of iustice. Many resulted from police fabricating evidence" in order to
convict the person thev thought was guiltv" or simply to convict someone in order to
get a high conviction rate. The West Midlands Serious Crime Squad became
notorious for such practices, and was disbanded in 1989.In 1997 the Criminal Cases
Review Commission I fhttp://www.ccrc.gov.uk Criminsl Csses Review Commissionl I
was established specificallv in order to examine possible miscarriages of iustice.
However. it still requires either strong new evidence of innocence or new proof of a
legal error by the iudge or prosecution. For example" merely insisting vou are
innocent and the iurv made an error. or stating that there was not enough evidence
to prove guilt, is not enough. It is not possible to question the iury's decision or
query on what matters it was based. The waiting list for cases to be considered for
review is at least two vears on average.See" for example:
* the Darvell brothers
* Dannv McNamee
* the M25 Three
* Jonathan Jones
* Sheila Bowler
Errors of impunity
*John Bodkin Adams. is a particularly notable case when a man was acquitted
when he mav. now with access to archives. tre considered to have been guilty in all
likelihood. Adams was arrested in 1956 for the murders of Edith Alice Morrell and
Gertrude Hullett. He was tried in 1957 and found not guiltv of the first charge and
the second was dropned via a "Nolle prosequi", an act which the presiding iudge.
Lord Justice Patrick Devlin. later termed "an abuse of power". [Devfin, Palricfr,'
"Easine the Passing", London, The Bodlev Head, 19851Police archives, opened in
2003" suggest that evidence was passed to the defense by the Attornev-General
Reginald Manningham-Buller in order to allow Adams to avoid the death sentence.
then still in force. Home Office pathologist Francis Camps suspected Adams of
killine 163 natients in total. lCullen, Pamels V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Csse Files
on Dr lohn Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006,ISBN 1-904027-19-
9'l Adams was onlv ever fined for minor offences and struck off the medical register
for four years.
Scotland
Reflecting Scotland's own legal system. which differs from that of the rest of the
United Kinsdom. the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) was
established in April 1999. All cases accepted by the SCCRC are subiected to a
robust and thoroughlv impartial review before a decision on whether or not to refer
to the Hish Court of Justiciary is taken.
United States
After independence
*May 1886; Chicaso" Haymarket Riot: eisht anarchist labor activists sentenced for
a bomb explosion during a demonstration.
*19201 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. two ltalian anarchists. tried and
sentenced to death for the killing of two people during a robberv in 1920. In 1977.
Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis issued a nroclamation stating that Sacco
and Vanzetti had not been treated iustly and that "anv disgrace should be forever
removed from their names."
*1923: Marcus Garvev
*1931; Scottsboro Boys
*1937; Isidore Zimmerman" was imprisoned from 1937 to 1962 for a murder he did
not commit. 21 vears later the New York Court of Claims awarded him $1,000,000
for his ordeal. He died 4 months later. after having spent 24 of his 66 vears in
prison. Zimmerman had his death penalty commuted to a life term iust hours before
he was scheduled to be electrocuted (he willinglv sought execution because of the
intense psvchological torture of Lreing on death row). I
[http://www.time.com/time/maeazine/article/0,9171,949292.00.htm1 The Lone Waitl I
* 19 49 lv a T o guri D' Aqaino w as h ttp : //i u s t
: I ic e d e n i e d. o r g/is s u e/i s s u e
2&/tokvo rose id28.html convicted of treasonl for alleeedlv beinethe notorious
'Tokyo Rose'. when federal prosecutors knew she was innocent. Based on the proof
of her innocence. President Gerald Ford pardoned her in Januarv 1977.
*19541 Dr. Sam Sheppard" American convicted in 1954 of killing his wife in their
home: Sheppard maintained she had been killed bv an intruder, appealed his case to
the Supreme Court. After serving ten vears in prison" he was granted a new trial
and was finally acquitted. A television series and film (both titled "The Fusitive")
are widely believed to have been inspired bv his storv.
*1961; Clarence Earl Gideon who was convicted in 1961 of robbery. successfully
argued in the Supreme Court in the case Gideon v. Wainwright that his trial was
unfair due to his lack of an attorney because of his inabilitv to pav for one. He was
given a retrial in 1963 with a free public defender and was acquitted.
*1965; Peter Limone. Joseph Salvati and the families of the two other men
who died
in prison were awarded $101.7 million as compensation for framing by the FBI. I
[http://www.cnn.com/20|7/US/law/07/26/wroneful.convictions.ap/index.html CNNI I
*1976; Robert Wilkinson. Pennsvlvania Philadelphia Countv. 1976: police
- beat
him into signins a confession and intimidated witnesses to identifv him. He was
convicted of arson and murder and sentenced to five consecutive life terms. He was
released later in the year after the actual perpetrators were convicted in federal
court. The charges were refilled in 1977; indictments dismissed three months later.
A federal court ruled prosecutor David Berman ignored. withheld and/or destroved
exculpatory evidencendash the actual perpetrators came to him and confessed. In
dismissing Wilkinson's later indictment. the court ruled the prosecution was being
maintained in bad faith. Prosecutors still insist he is euilty.
*1976; Randall Dale Adams convicted of the 1976 murder of police officer Robert
Wood in Texas largely due to testimony from David Ray Harris. who was later
executed for a similar murder. Errol Morris' film" "The Thin Blue Line" explored
his case and caused a closer examination, resulting in his release after 12 vears in
prisonndash 4 of them on death row.
*1979: Gary Dotson. was the first person whose conviction (in 1979) was overturned
because of DNA evidence, in 1989.
*1981; Clarence Brandlev, Montgomerv Countv. Texas. was convicted of capital
murder in 1981. In 1989. the Texas Court of Criminal Anpeals overturned
Brandlev's conviction, finding that police and prosecutors. including James
Keeshan. failed to investigate leads pertaining to other suspects" suppressed
evidence placing other suspects at crime scene at time of crime. failed to call a
witness who didn't support the state's case. allowed the periured testimony of a
witness to go uncorrected. and failed to notify Brandlev that another man later
confessed to the crime.
*19821 Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz. Pontotoc Countv. Oklahoma. were
intimidated by police into confessions for the 1982 rape and murder of Debra Sue
Carter and convicted. In 1999. DNA evidence exonerated them.
*1983: John Gordon Purvis, Broward Countv, Florida" a severely mentally ill
person, despite no phvsical evidence that he was even at the scene of the murder.
was intimidated by police into confessing to the murder of Susan Hamwi and her
daughter in 1983.Later. investigators found that Paul Hamwi. Susan Hamwi's ex-
husband, had hired Robert Wavne Beckett Sr. and Paul Serio to murder Susan
Hamwi and Purvis was exonerated in 1993.
*1984: Darrvl Hunt. convicted in 1984 of the rape and murder of Deborah Svkes.
spent 19 vears in prison. 9 of which were served after DNA evidence indicated that
he did not commit the rape. Since Hunt was an African American. the case was
heavilv charged with the topic of race relations.
*1984; Juan Roberto Melendez-Colon was wrongly convicted of the Florida murder
of Delbert Baker. He spent over 17 vears on Death Row and was released from
prison on Januarv 3" 2002.
*1992; Joshua Rivera" 36, was sentenced 37 vears for a 1992 murder. On September
19. 1992. Leonard Aquino was in front of a building and was approached bv a
couple of men who spoke briefly. then opened fire. Mr. Aquino was killedl another
man, Paul Peralta. was shot. but survived. Rivera was known to people in the
building and had a conviction for gun possession. He was charged and convicted of
the crime. In 2006 Jaime Acevedo confessed he drove the real killer to the murder
scene. and that Rivera was not involved. Prior to a court decision. Rivera accepted a
plea agreement where he pled no contest to manslaughter. Dy'ew Iorlr ?r'raes,'
November 16.2006: In Murder Case, New Evidence but Same Celll I
fhttp://www.nvtimes.com/2006/12/22/nvresion/22rivera.html Defendant Wins
Freedom, But Not Vindicstionl l
*1999; The Tulia incident. in which 46 people" fortv who were African-American.
were arrested on a drug sting under undercover officer Tom Coleman. Despite the
lack of credible evidence" many nled guiltv to receive lesser sentences believing thev
would not receive a fair trial (those convicted received harsher sentences). Further
investigations and other evidence led to the release of most of the 'rTulia 46" bv
2004, who were further compensated a total of $6.000.000 collectively to avoid
further litigation.
2007
*Dwayne Allen Dail. iailed for 18 years in a child rape case. was released from
prison after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime. I
[http://www.usatodsv.con/news/nation/2007-08-28-charges-dismissed N.htm Msn
clesred after I8 vears in prkon - USATODAY.con I I
*Derrick Bell. who was serving 12 L/2 to 25 vears in prison for the robbery and
shooting of Brentonol Moriah in Brooklvn in 1996, had his conviction vacated. I
fhttp://www.law.com/isp/article.isp?id:900005557129 Law.com - 2nd Circuit Upsets
Conviction Over Defense Failure to Test Victim's Memorv I I
*Claude McCollum. convicted for murder and rape in 2005" had his conviction
overturned.. I fhttp://www.lansinsstateiournal.cont/apps/pbcs.dlUsrticle?
AID:/20080119/l{EllSQI/801180373/O/special LV'hv was Claude McCollum wronelv
convicted? I lansineststeiournal.com I Lansing State Journal I I
*Charles Dubbs. convicted for two sexual assaults. was set free after another inmate
confessed to committing the crimes. I
[http://www,sbc27.com/news/stories/0907/454759.htm1Msn Freed after Other Inmate
Confesses to Sexual AssaultsVBC 27 News I I
*Steven Phillips. sent to prison for a 1982 rape and burglary, was found to be
wronglv convicted. I lhttp://www.accessmvlibrarv.com/coms2/summarv 0286-
32890753 ITM DA: Man wronelv convicted in '82 rape: He could be 14th cleared
after DNA points to another. I Dallas Morning News (Dallss, TXI (September. 20071 I I
*Richard L. Kittilstad. sentenced to ten vears prison sentence in 2001 for soliciting
prostitution" had his conviction overturned. I
[http://www.isonline.com/storv/index.aspx?id:67038]&formaf-print JS Online:
Minister's conviction overturned I I
*Ronald Gene Tavlor was set free after DNA cleared him in a 1982 gang rape in
Dallas Countv. I
[http://www.chron.com/disp/storv.mpUmetropolitan/felkenbere/5204596.htm| Finallv
free, Ronald Tavlor has no grudges I Lisa Falkenberg I Chron.com - Houston
Chronicle I I
*John White was released from prison after a DNA test cleared him of rape. I
[http://www.news.com-au/storv/0,23599.22911611-40l,00.html DNA clears iailed man
of rape after 27 vears I NEWS.com.au l1
*Marcus Lyons was cleared of rape bv DNA evidence. I
[http://abaiournal.com/news/exonerated but still strussling/ Exonerated But Still
Straseline I ABA Journal - Law News Now I1
*Floyd Brown. held since 1993 in a mental institution without trial for beating
Katherine Lynch to death, was released after all charges against him were dropped
Ihtto ://www. c h srlotte. c o m/5 9 8/sto rv/4 I 3 5 2 1. htmil
*Martin Tankleff was released from prison and his 1990 conviction quashed after
new evidence cast doubt on the police tactics and methods used to gather evidence.
He was originally convicted of killing his parents. but new" unspecified. evidence
cast serious enough doubt on that to cause an Appeal Court to quash the conviction.
I fhttp://www.dailvmail.co.uk/pases/live/srticles/news/worldnews.html?in urticle id:
504886&in pase id=1811 Man convicted of killing parents 17 vears aso is freed after
court overturns verdict I the Dailv Mail I I
*A Colorado iudge ordered on Januarv 22, 2008, the immediate release of Tim
Masters. DNA research bv Richard Eikelenboom from Independent Forensic
Services in Nunspeet disproved his connection with the death of Peggy Hettrick in
1987 inFort Collins. I [http://www.nos.nUnosiournaal/urtikelen/2008/1/22/220108
mosters vriilating.html NOSJOURNAAL - Masters vrii na Nederlands dna-
onderzoek I I
*David Scott was released from prison after DNA evidence determined he was not
the man who killed 89-year-old Loretta Keith of West Terre Haute. I
[httn://www.wthr.com/slobaUstorv.asp?s:7783735&ClientTvpe:Printable WTHR -
Indianapolis News and Westher - DNA evidence frees inmate I I
*Kennedv Brewer was exonerated of a 1992 rape and murder of a 3-vear-old child
after sp endine I 5 v ear s b ehind b ar s. I I h ttp : //ww w. s un h e r s I d. c o m/3 0 6/v -
print/storv/355760.htm1# SunHerald.com : Man chareed in child slaving for which
unother sentenced to death I I
*Lvnn DeJac. convicted of killing daughter. was exonerated after a iudge
overturned her conviction based on new Dl{A evidence implicating her former
bovfriend in the l<tllins.. I fhttp://sbcnews.eo.cott /TheLadwireStorv?id=42874361 I
*Rachel Jernigan, convicted of bank robberv in 2001. was released from prison
after another woman confessed to the crime. I
fhttp : //www. fox I I az co m/n ew s/to p s to r ie s/s to r ies/k ms b - 2 0 0 I 0 2 0 7-sp i c-
mothrefreed.9bb7bSa6.html Arizona mother freed from prison for crime she didn't
commit I Top Stories I FOXlIAZ.coml News for Tucson, Arizona I1
*Willie Earl Green. sent to prison in 1983 for the murder of a woman. was released
after a chanse in testimonv. I fhttp://www.lstimes.com/news/printedition/cglifornia/la-
me-overturnlImarL1,1,200327l.storv After 25 vears, new hope for inmate - Los
Aneeles Times I I
*Robert Gonzales. a mentally retarded man who falsely confessed to the slaving of
an 11-year-old girl in 2005 was released from iail Friday after a national database
matched DNA in the case to another man in custodv for another crime. I
I http : //www. ko at. c o m/n ew s/l 6 73 2 5 3 9/d et ail. ht ml C h sre e s D is mis s e d A eain s t C h ild
Rape, Murder Suspect - Albuquerque News Storv - KOAT Albuquerque I I
*Patrick Waller. who was convicted for a robberv in which four people were
abducted and a woman was raped, has been exonerated. I
fhttp://www,dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/lstestnews/stories/070108dnmetexo
nerate.dcdl9fe.html Patrick Wsller, exonerated bv DNA, grants first interview I Dullas
Morning News I News for Dallas, Texas I Latest News I I
*Raymond H. Jonassen spent four months in iail based on information that turned
oat to be false. I fhttp://www.hometownannapolis.com/cei-bin/read/2008/06 22-
20/TOP Storv expired! (HometownAnnapolis.com) I I
*Dean Cage was exonerated of a rape conviction after 14 years in prison. I
fhttp://www.chicagotribune,com./news/locaUchi-dna-exonerates-nrisoner-
webmav28,0,5734277.storv DNA exonerates inmate on rane conviction after 14 vears -
chicagotribune.com I1
*Walter Swift was wrongly convicted of raping a pregnant Detroit woman in 1982.
I [http://www.wwi.com/pages/2572805.php WWJ Newsradio 950 - Adiustine to
Freedom Trickv for Walter Swift I I
*Levon Junior
"Bo" Jones. sentenced to death for the 1987 murder and robbery of
Leamon Gradv. was released after nearly 15 years in prison. I
[http://www.newsargus.cor?r/news/archives/2008/05/04/man freed after I5
vears on death row/index.shtml Goldsboro News-Argas I News: Man freed sfter IS
vears on death row I 1
*James Lee Woodard was released from prison after DNA tests and changes
in
witness testimony proved that he did not rape and murder his 2l-vear-old girlfriend
in 1980. I
fhttp://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnevts/stories/042908dnmetex
oneration.aclea2cc.html DNA evidence frees man imorisoned 27 vesrs in Dallas
Countv I Dallas Morning Nerrys I News for Dsllas, Texas I Breaking News for Dallss-
Fort Worth I Dallas Mornine News I I
*Cynthia Sommer. convicted of killing her Marine husband with arsenic to pav for
breast implants. was cleared after new tests showed no traces of poison. I
fhttp ://www. c h ic s g otrib une. c o m/n ews/n ationw o r ld/c hi-cv nt h ia-s o mme r-0 8 0 4 I I -
ht, 1,6 7 I 0 3 0 3. sto rv ? trac k:rs s Cv nth ia S o mmer mur d e r c h ar g e s dis mis s e d -
chicagotribune.com I I
*Thomas Clifford McGowan was freed after spending nearly 23 vears in prison for
a rape he did not commit. I [http:/lwww.usatodav.com/news/nation/2008-04-16-
3216986359 x.htm DNA frees man who spent almost 23 vears in prison for rape -
USATODAY.com I I
*Nathaniel Hatchett. who spent 12 years in prison for rape. was released after
prosecutors decided to drop charges based on DNA evidence that shows he was not
the raaist. I fhttp ://www. detn ews. com/app s/p b cs. d I l/articl e 7
AID:/2 008 04 I S/METRO/&A4 I 5 03 7 I/1 4 |9/METRO Man exonerated after I 2 vears in
prison I I
*Glen Chapman. who spent 14 vears on death row. was released after
the District
Attornev dismissed murder charges against him. I
[http ://www.news obs erver. com/news/crime s afetv/storv/I 0 2 3 0 74. html
newsobserver.com I Another innocent inmste leaves death row I I
*Guv Randolph was exonerated bv a court
iudge after the district attorney's office
acknowledged that he had been wrongly convicted. I
[htto://www.boston.com/news/locaUarticles/2008/07/09/wronslv convicted man seeks
comDensstion/ Wronglv convicted man seeks compensation - The Boston Globe I I
*Hattie Douglas's charge of murdering her 1l-month-old son bv noisoning
him with
alcohol was dismissed in Mav 2008. The murder charge was dropped after new tests
cast doubt on the theory that the death of her son was caused bv alcohol.
I h tto : //www. c I ario n le d s e r. c o m/ap p s/p b c s. d I l/art ic I e ?
Like Sommer's case. Smith's has gained local and now worldwide attention due to
the YouTube videos and media blitz launched by Kelsev's paternal grandmother.
Smith's site has members from as far awav as Denmark. Australia, Canada. South
Africa. and the UK. These members believe that it was the media and Smith's
silence that convicted Smith before her case went to trial on July 9.2007. Oklahoma
Citv based news channels reported 910 times on this case from October.2005 to
April.2007. During that same time period. the Dailv Oklahoman published 59
articles and the Shawnee News-Star published 62. With the media, billboards.
buttons" bumper stickers. and Smith's side of the story silenced and ignored. Free
Kelsey's Mom members believe Smith did not receive a fair trial.
On Tuesdav. Mav 20.2008. Smith's familv members gathered at the State Capital to
deliver a letter from Smith to Oklahoma lawmakers. They also delivered evidence of
Smith's alleged innocence. and two petitions; 664 signatures and sentiments have
been gathered in support of a fair trial for Smith, and 505 signatures have been
collected to release the records of Kelsey Smith-Briggs as Oklahoma's Title Ten calls
for in the death of a child. Smith's familv members were met bv a local television
crew that "scooped" the letter from a House of Representative's office after the
family refused to turn over a copy of the letter. Before the family left the Capital.
the letter was posted on the paternal family's website along with plentv of bashing of
Smith.
Nationwide coverage is needed to bring attention to this the iniustice that Rave
Dawn Smith and her supporters allege. Read the evidence at
www.TheTruthAboutKelsey.com and ask yourself - as a societv. are we to stand bv.
quietlv thinking "someone else" will bring awareness to wrongful convictions and
report Raye Dawn's side of the storv? Give Raye Dawn a voice. Tell her story so
others will not suffer her fate. Visit www.TheTruthAboutKelsev.com and bring
awareness to the truth and raise much needed funds for Smith's defense. (Oklahoma
Appeals Case #: F-2007-1196)