Testimony at Kerry Lyn Dalton Case

The following are excerpts from Sheriff Wilson’s Testimony,
he was at the residence the night of the alleged murder scene, June 26th, 1988,
that Dusek & Cooksey described in the Deadly Women show, in reference to the Dalton case;

(p. 2738 line 12-14)THE CLERK:  PLEASE STATE YOUR FULL NAME FOR THE
RECORD AND SPELL YOUR LAST.
THE WITNESS:     DAVID WILSON, W-I-L-S-O-N.

(p.2741,line 2-4) 
Q.(prosecutor Dusek) OKAY. GOING BACK TO JUNE 2 6TH,
1988, DID YOU RECEIVE A CALL LEADING YOU TO A TRAILER PARK?
A. YES, I DID.
Q. ABOUT WHAT TIME DID YOU GET THE CALL, DEPUTY?
A. I COULD LOOK AT MY LOG AND GIVE YOU THE EXACT
TIME.
Q. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.
A. I HAVE A COPY OF IT. WELL IT IS A COPY. I CAN'T
EVEN READ IT. I BELIEVE THAT IT IS 2055 IS WHEN I
ACTUALLY RECEIVED THE TELEPHONE CALL AT MY RESIDENCE.
Q. THOSE OF US NOT IN THE MILITARY OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT, WHAT TIME IS THAT?
A. THAT WOULD BE 8:55 IN THE EVENING.

(p.2724 line 7-16)Q. WHERE DID YOU GO?
A. SPACE NUMBER 25,IN THE LIVE OAK SPRINGS TRAILER
PARK.
Q. ALL RIGHT.CAN YOU DESCRIBE THAT AREA FOR US, WHERE
THE TRAILER PARK WAS?
A. THE TRAILER PARK IS — IS IN A — WHAT USED TO BE -
IT WAS AN OLD RETIREMENT AREA, SMALL LIKE A LITTLE
VILLAGE, THEN THEY ADDED THE TRAILER PARK TO IT SO
THERE IS A LOT OF SMALL,  OLDER HOMES THERE WITH A
SMALL TRAILER PARK, APPROXIMATELY — APPROXIMATELY —
PROBABLY ABOUT 30 TRAILERS.

(p. 2745 line 28, 2746 1-10)Q. ALL RIGHT. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO GET TO the
TRAILER, APPROXIMATELY?
A. LET'S SEE, I ARRIVED THERE AT 2102 SO IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN 7 MINUTES.
Q. DID YOU GO WITH ANYONE?
A. NO.
Q. WHAT TYPE OF VEHICLE?
A. I BELIEVE AT THAT TIME IT WAS A FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE
CHEVY BLAZER. I BELIEVE THAT WE HAD CHEVIES THEN.
Q. MARKED UNIT?
A. YES, IT WAS MARKED.

(p. 2747 21-27,p. 2748 16)Q. DID YOU SPEAK WITH MISS FEDOR?
A. YES, I DID.
Q. DESCRIBE HER CONDITION?
A. SHE APPEARED TO BE ON METHAMPHETAMINE. SHE WAS
VERY EXCITED, VERY — SHE WOULDN'T COMPLETE HER
SENTENCES. SHE WOULD START HER SENTENCE THEN RESTART
ANOTHER ONE. SHE WAS VERY PARANOID ACTING.
A. I HAVE ARRESTED OTHER PEOPLE FOR BEING UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND OTHER DRUGS.    
I HAD ALSO INTERVIEWED HER IN THE PAST.
I HAVE HAD CONTACT WITH HER.

(p.2751 line 22-28, 2752 1-23, Q. WHAT WAS THE ORIGIN OF THE CALL, DO YOU RECALL?
A. IT WAS TO TAKE A REPORT OF A BURGLARY.
Q. WHILE YOU WERE THERE, DID SHE REFER TO ANY OTHER
ITEMS OF EVIDENCE OR INTERESTS THAT YOU RECALL?
A. YES,SHE SAID THAT — WHEN I ASKED HER WHAT HAD
BEEN TAKEN FROM THE HOUSE,  SHE SAID A TRASH CAN HAD
BEEN TAKEN,  YELLOW TRASH CAN AND
A SLIPCOVER FOR A CHAIR.
Q. DID SHE TALK ABOUT ANY OTHER PIECES OF EVIDENCE
THERE THAT SHE WAS CONCERNED WITH?
A. YES, SHE DID.SHE SAID THAT THERE — SHE HAD
FOUND A BLOOD SOAKED PILLOW CASE ON HER BED.
Q. DID YOU TRY TO FIND THAT?
A. YES, I DID.
Q. WHAT WAS THE RESULT, WHAT HAPPENED?
A. I WAS UNABLE TO FIND IT.
Q. WHAT DID YOU DO, WHERE DID YOU LOOK?
A. I LOOKED — SHE SAID THAT IT HAD BEEN ON HER BED.
I LOOKED ON HER BED, IT WASN'T THERE. THEN SHE SAID
THAT THEY PUT IT IN A BOX, IT WAS UNDER THE TRAILER.
I LOOKED UNDERNEATH THE TRAILER. THERE WAS NO BOXES OR
PILLOW CASE.
Q. DID YOU ACTUALLY GO UNDER THE TRAILER?
A. I KNELT DOWN AT THE TRAILER, WAS ABLE TO LOOK
UNDERNEATH ASSISTED BY MY FLASHLIGHT.
Q. HOW LONG WAS THIS TRAILER?
A.I BELIEVE THAT IT IS 60 FEET, I BELIEVE.
Q. AND WHAT LOCATION DID YOU POSITION YOURSELF WHEN YOU
LOOKED UNDER THE TRAILER?
A. ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT POSITIONS.
Q. YOU COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING THERE?
A. NO.

(2753 11-16)Q. YOU WROTE HER OFF AS A CRAZY DOPER?
A.YES,I DID.
Q.HOW LONG DID YOU REMAIN AT MISS FEDOR'S RESIDENCE?
A.I BELIEVE THAT I WAS THERE FOR ABOUT 18 MINUTES.
Q. DO YOU HAVE A LOG THAT SHOWS THAT?
A. YES, I DO. I ARRIVED AT 2102 AND I LEFT AT 2120

(p.2766 line 18-28, 2767 1-6)Q.(cross examination defense attorney Landon) AND WHEN
YOU CAME INTO THE KITCHEN, DID YOU SEE ANY BLOOD?
A. NO, I DIDN’T.
Q. WHEN YOU WENT INTO THE LIVING ROOM, DID YOU SEE ANY
BLOOD?
A. NO,I DID NOT.
Q. AND WHEN YOU CAME INTO THE MASTER BEDROOM, DID YOU
SEE ANY BLOOD?
A. NO, I DID NOT.
Q. DID JOANNE FEDOR, THIS INDIVIDUAL YOU HAD CONTACT
WITH, POINT OUT TO YOU ANY BLOOD IN THE TRAILER?
A. NO, SHE DID NOT.
Q. IF YOU HAD SEEN BLOOD IN THE TRAILER,WOULD YOU
HAVE MADE A NOTE OF THAT?
A. YES, I WOULD HAVE.
Q. WOULD THAT HAVE CONCERNED YOU?
A. YES,IT WOULD HAVE.

(p. 2768 line 9-27)Q. DID YOU — YOU HAD SOME COMMENT MADE BY JOANNE
FEDOR ABOUT HER FINDING A BLOOD-SOAKED PILLOWCASE;
IS THAT CORRECT?
A. YES.
Q. AND SHE INDICATED THAT SHE HAD — HAD FOUND IT ON
HER BED?
A. THAT'S CORRECT.
Q. AND DID YOU GO TO THE BED TO TAKE A LOOK TO SEE
WHETHER OR NOT YOU COULD FIND A BLOOD-SOAKED PILLOWCASE?
A. YES, I DID.
Q. AND DID YOU FIND ONE?
A. NO.
Q. AND DID YOU FIND ANY TRACE OF ANY BLOOD ON THE BED?
A. NO, I DIDN'T.
Q. DID YOU LOOK?
A. YES.
Q. ONCE AGAIN USING YOUR FLASHLIGHT TO INSURE YOU HAD
ENOUGH LIGHT TO LOOK;IS THAT CORRECT?
A. THAT'S CORRECT.

(p. 2770 line 10-19)Q. YOU INDICATED THAT YOU HAD HAD CONTACT WITH
MISS FEDOR' IN THE PAST; IS THAT RIGHT?
A. YES,I HAD.
Q. AND IN YOUR CONTACT WITH HER IN THE PAST, HAD YOU
NOTICED HER TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS?
A. YES, I HAD.
Q. AND TO YOU, THEN, SHE WAS A KNOWN METH USER;
IS THAT CORRECT?
A. YES, SHE WAS.
Q. DID YOU FIND ANY EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTED A
BURGLARY COMPLAINT WHEN YOU WENT TO JOANNE FEDOR'S
TRAILER THAT NIGHT ON JUNE 26TH, 1988?
A. NO,I DID NOT.

Kerry Lyn Dalton was wrongfully convicted: based on the testimony of a co-defendant & disreputable hearsay, there is no physical evidence and no common sense evidence. Please look further at this blog for more information.

There is no justice or closure in false convictions.

Deputy Wilson’s testimony covers 42 pages,
if you are interested in his entire testimony
please leave me your email and I will send it
to you, I will not publish your email.

This case ended with NO BODY - NO WEAPON - NO BLOOD; the evidence table was empty- There were NO FORENSICS evidence to support the drug induced stories even though
the elite task force conducted 3 searches.

Please ask me questions you may have about the case- I will answer them all,
I want everyone to know the truth.

http://www.safecalifornia.org/home


**Refer to the Nov 21, 2011, article (No Victim Established Day 6 of the Trial), to locate
case #, Judge and attorney names.
Looking through older posts will give you much more background and information. Please keep asking me questions.

No Victim Established in Day 6 of the Trial

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
      IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO
DEPARTMENT 21               HON.  THOMAS J.  WHELAN, JUDGE

                  CR NO. 135002 TRIAL

                  FEBRUARY  14, 1995

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

VS

KERRY LYN DALTON,DEFENDANT.

REPORTERS' TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS VOLUME  35

PAGES  3361 THROUGH  3517

APPEARANCES:

FOR THE PLAINTIFF:

JEFF DUSEK

DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

22 0 WEST BROADWAY

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92101

FOR DEFENDANT DALTON

ALEX LANDON AND

ELIZABETH MISSAKIAN

2442 FOURTH AVENUE

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92101

MARY E.   ROSS,  CSR NO. 4100 GLORIA J.  STERNER,  CSR NO. 3876 SAN DIEGO SUPERIOR COURT OFFICIAL REPORTERS

3507

(Judge Thomas Whelan speaking) …FIRST, BY WAY OF FACTUAL BACKGROUND, I THINK THE RECORD IS CLEAR THAT NO BODY HAS EVER BEEN FOUND IN THIS CASE. THE RECORD IS EQUALLY CLEAR THAT THERE IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS A HOMICIDE. THERE'S ALSO CONFLICTING CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE THAT IT MAY NOT BE A HOMICIDE;  IN FACT,  SHE MAY STILL BE ALIVE,… 

MY REASON FOR MAKING THESE STATEMENTS IS TO ESTABLISH FOR THE RECORD THAT IN MY MIND THE CORPUS IS A LEGITIMATE ISSUE IN THIS CASE. IT'S NOT A RUSE THAT — THERE IS A LEGITIMATE ISSUE BEFORE THE JURY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S — A CORPUS OF A HOMICIDE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.

(Whelan was addressing, in his own words, the need to establish)… MELANIE MAY, IS A VICTIM OF A HOMICIDE, AS VERSUS HAVING DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES OR SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS OR ALIVE BUT OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY OR ALIVE BUT HIDING WITHIN THE COUNTRY.(Whelan referred to the missing person by her street name, not her legal name Irene Louise May.)

Six days into a capital case and it had not been established there was ever a murder – the "victim" had not even been declared deceased .

Can you find the trial transcripts and read them yourselves?

Start at the Top

The Occupy movement represents the key to significant change; start at the top and work from there. Reforming the justice system would be one of the effects that would naturally develop out of reforming our current campaign, legislative, and lobbying ways.
Equal campaign spending for equal representation and opportunity.
Term limits and restructure.
No money involved in lobbying.
That equals a start to getting our voices heard again.
Human Rights is a continual evolution/revolution; please take peaceful active part in your world.

Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after being hit with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Nov. 15 at Westlake Park in Seattle. (Joshua Trujillo - AP)

                                     Students at UC Davis are pepper sprayed for a “sit-in”.

                                                  James Alex

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OWS News: Insidious proposal by the “Status Quo”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45366471#45366471

 Check out this clip of Up with Chris and decide for yourself what Occupy Wall Street is all about.

Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 – November 6, 1996)

“...There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all." Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariosaviosproulhallsitin.htm

Remember your first amendment rights

Kerry Lyn Dalton was convicted by the disreputable words of criminal informants; No forensics to suport, and so now there are No forensics to disprove.

Blog letter October 6, 2011

This work takes me into difficult places, it takes up my energy, it drains my emotions,  I’d say it does all the things a good job should do.

This is a particularly isolating work though; the subject does not exactly make me the life of the party. Like the evening at my friend’s Pirate theme party at their boat club, when the handsome young man, whose dancing we’d been admiring, came over to introduce himself and compliment our dancing. The initial easy chatting was quickly extinguished when he asked, “What do you do for a living?”
 Though I left room for escape, “Oh, I’m a writer these days,” he pursued the subject.
 “Oh yea, what are you writing about?”
 I tried again to allow him a graceful exit, “I prefer fiction, but currently it’s a biography.”  His brown eyes looked interested beneath peaked brows, “about who, if I may ask?” He hadn’t stopped swaying to the band that continued to play classic rock loudly.
 I had to speak up and leaned in closer to answer, “It’s about a woman living on death row,” I pulled back to catch his expression.
“Wow, do you know her?”

There it was.
“Yes, it’s my sister.”

He lost any remnants of the charming smile he’d begun with. “Wow…wow…” His eyes dropped, he rubbed his face and hands went into his pockets, “That’s, wow, I’m sorry, I hope I didn’t make you uncomfortable…” He rubbed his face again, and darted his eyes to look in mine then looked toward the band.
 I assured him it was all right, I’m used to the subject, but he clearly wasn’t. We had an awkward moment or two of silence as we watched the band finish another Led Zeppelin tune. Then he excused himself to catch up with his friends, he looked in my eyes once before he left and trailed back to the carefree party a few tables over.
I felt the burden of my work and my message, I felt bad I rained on his party. I was sorry it ended our conversation; we never did dance. Mostly I was sorry to be the bearer of sorrow into his world. Even that slight insinuation to another’s pain gave him pain. He must have been a sensitive man. I never saw him again.

Maybe that nice young man will think about Capital Punishment a little differently next time it’s on the news?

The Christmas I was visiting Kerry and our memories sparked her heartache, one of the Deputies pulling visitation duty was suddenly unlocking the door to our little cinder block room. She hadn’t  loosed her key from the bolt in the metal door so was fidgeting with its chain connected to her belt as she blurted, “What did you say to upset her? Is she going to be okay?” And handed me a fistful of tissues. Kerry didn’t speak from behind her tears and looked away. I accepted the tissues and assured the guard my sister was all right.
After bolting us back inside, the deputy returned to her duties.
“They never seen me cry,” Kerry whispered, “I do that back in my cell.” She blew her nose and collected her emotions.

I looked out the window of our room across the packed auditorium of visitors moving about this strange Christmas day and caught the deputy glancing over again. She still looked concerned.
 It was the first Christmas in 18 years that Kerry had family with her. It was a good Christmas for both of us, there was even the smell of a real pine tree filling the usually rank dirty room. Someone had donated trees to the prison and one was decorating the large room where regular visitors mingled.
The prison guard went home with her husband and family after the shift to spend the rest of Christmas with them, but was compassionate to a Death Row inmate before joining her family festivities. By proxy, some unknown donor had sprinkled fresh pine smells from real Christmas trees onto family visits at the CCWF.
As a result of a wrongful conviction for Kerry, I sometimes meet the nicest people.

Because of my lessons through Kerry’s trial, I work to educate about the Death Penalty and towards abolishing it. Recently working on Juan Melendez’s  visit was a big focus. Meeting Juan, hearing his story, learning of his path and choices, and feeling his compassion for those he left behind (but does not forget and continues to fight for) was such a benefit on its own, but I also got the opportunity to meet a friend of Juan’s. A long time human rights activist came to Spokane to speak at the race conference at Gonzaga. He brought two young men to the conference. I was blessed to share a meal and some conversation with them one evening. I heard about a 17 year old being held on a drive by shooting in Kent, without any cause other than race and location, and their plans on what they personally will do to save this boy from a possible train wreck. I listened as four men discussed Troy Davis’ tragic killing by the state of Georgia, Juan sharing his personal friendship with the family. These activists asked about Kerry’s case and listened intently while encouraging me not to give up.

I meet the nicest people on this journey.

Today I had the opportunity to visit with another law student, seems I’ve started collecting them recently. She’s active in her developing career already, in many areas, one of which was arranging for Juan Melendez recent visit to Spokane. The young law student has a full scheduled life and it wasn’t easy for her to squeeze in the hour at the coffee shop for us to meet up so she could pass on a copy of Juan’s speech to me. After the greeting niceties I moved onto my thoughts since I knew she was anxious to get into her afternoon study session.

I looked across the uneven circular wooden table between us at her kind dark eyes and dove in. I figured spill the story quickly, not only was her time limited but she’s a law student: she’ll appreciate just the facts, right?  I expected questions to interrupt my repertoire, that was usual, but when I’d pause she was speechless, never taking her eyes off me. I tried to read her thoughts; bored or stunned? I worried she was bored, because I assumed this sort of story was old news for her, so I rushed on into more details while I still had her attention. I finally stopped for another breath, she blinked from behind her glasses and asked calmly, “what would you like done?”

I ran on about justice, freedom, life, truth, “I want someone, anyone, everyone, to take an interest - whatever time they have, and help get attention on Kerry’s case.”

By the time I was finished the eager young law student blinked again, her eyes were wet, she licked her lips before she spoke, “ I’m sorry you’re going through this…”  We talked some more, quite somberly. She reached for her laptop, after placing it on the table and typing in Kerry’s name she wished us both luck and said she’d think about the case. She told me they don’t have much exposure to actual trial transcripts in schooling, usually doing research for professors on projects, like she was currently wrapped up in.

I had taken her by surprise. I’m sorry, this time I hadn’t been prepared for that. I was surprised too, surprised she didn’t know how many bad cases there were out there, surprised she hadn’t already worked on old cases, surprised this case would elicit personal conflict and pain. I felt I’d invaded enough of her day and her thoughts, so excused myself, with apologies for having laid that on her so abruptly - it’s just that I saw a possible opportunity and know I have to reach out to all of them – just hoping one day one time it will stick - and stick good ,on someone who catches fire for this case and spreads the enthusiasm until we become a statistic like Juan, like Anthony Graves, like  the other 136 exonerated ; and not a statistic like Troy or Cameron, or Jessie…

I meet the nicest people while delving into the harshest, brutal, ugly side of human nature. While digging for truth and searching for people to listen, I meet the nicest people. Like this sweet young law student who has hopes of helping the world and maybe even changing it. This law student who has a love for the law and for people – People first. This work has given me the chance to meet the nicest people.

The young woman swallowed before she shook my hand, wished me luck, and said we’d keep in touch. I cut off her uncomfortable feeling, “I’m gonna take off so you can get in a good afternoon of study in.”

“I doubt it now,” she puffed a small laugh, but her eyes were serious. I left her gentle eyes saddened by my story.  Sorry I had brought gloom to another’s day my steps hurried me through the café to give her space. Just as I reached for the door handle I heard, “Excuse me, miss?” from a woman on her cell phone.

As I stepped outside I checked if I’d dropped something or left something behind, since the woman addressing me didn’t appear to be someone wanting to bum some money.

She put her phone in her purse, “I’m sorry, but I was sorta eavesdropping on your conversation, I just wanted to say something-“  she looked me steady in the eyes and with compassion, my anxiety about the other option; confrontation,  lowered.

This stranger quickly, but eloquently, expressed genuine sympathy with my sister’s  situation and encouragement for my continued fight for her. This person I’d never seen before offered her prayers and advice for my family. She took a chance, she put herself out, and she gave me what I needed: hope in the eyes of a stranger. I gave her Kerry’s and my names, my contact info. She gave me kind words and an honest heart that cared about to strangers’ lives.

I may never see this person again, I hope I do though, but my day was blessed by her willingness to reach out to me. She shared that she has a youth ministry of some sort, and she’s made a CD with encouraging music for them. She said she was going to name it “Sink or Swim,” but decided there wasn’t an option: she calls it “Swim,” and offered to send me a copy.  Before she said good bye she hugged me and said, “Swim. You have to,” and  keep fighting for your sister and what you know is right.

 I meet the nicest people because of this work.
She said my sister was blessed to have me on her side; I am blessed to have Kerry and this life we share, because of her I meet the nicest people - and sometimes she does too. Because of this tragedy I have had to learn and grow and change - I would never wish for this and can’t wait for this nightmare to be over!!  Don’t get me wrong, but because of this travesty in our lives, I have been blessed with the nicest people.

I love and support you Kerry. Many people, some you've never met and some who you don’t even know, love and support you too.


http://www.voicesunited4justice.com/juan.htm

http://camerontoddwillingham.com/?p=675

http://www.fadp.org/fl_wrongfulconvictions.html

http://www.anthonygraves.org/

http://troyanthonydavis.org/

Day Of Remembrance for Troy Davis

On Saturday, October 1,  a Day of Remembrance,
 in Savannah for Troy Davis’ funeral.
The service is open to the public, but media cameras will not be permitted:

October 1, 11am
“Celebration of Life Service”
Jonesville Baptist Church
5201 Montgomery St., Savannah, Georgia

Let us continue to present the higher side of humanity; stand against all murder. Remember Troy's personal struggle, and continue to do the work. Some of his own very last words,

"The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me. I'm in good spirits and I'm prayerful and at peace."  Troy Davis

Juan Melendez visits Spokane

Kristi and  Juan  in Spokane.(We were blessed to have time with Juan to hear his experiences, discuss Jimmy and Kerry's cases, and pray for them both)

         Kerry Dalton's sister, Victoria, and Mr. Juan Melendez, September 25th, 2011.

Juan was exonerated in 2002, after losing nearly 18 years of his life living on Florida's Death Row. On the day Juan was declared innocent of all charges and set free, the state graciously gave him $100.oo, a new pair of pants and a new shirt. Not even an apology was offered...

Juan's appeal came when it was discovered that the D.A. had the confession of the real killer in his possession - 1 month prior to the Melendez trial; he also had 16 documents to back up that confession. None of that information was revealed during Juan's 2 day trial - sentenced to death on the third day.
Because of immunity over district attorneys, that  D.A was not held accountable. There is no way for Mr. Melendez or any other wrongly convicted person to sue a district attorney who inadvertently or even purposely prosecutes the wrong person.

It seems accountability could probably help avoid unjust convictions - what do you think?

It was a pleasure and a privilege to meet Mr. Melendez. His eventual freedom and the life he lives now are such an encouragement to me in hopes for my own sister's life. Mr. Melendez's life on Death Row has affected him permanently; he can never turn the clock back and undo what he lost and what he experienced. Instead of dwelling on the past, Mr. Melendez is dedicated to the people he left behind. He spreads the word about the flaws in the justice system and works hard to change it to a humane, responsible, JUST one. After all, as he has said, there are many others unjustly imprisoned - and some we have already killed, "they will kill them all," if we don't do something about it.

I admire his spirit and compassion. He is a brave, exceptional man! I pray for more people like Juan Melendez to populate this world.
I thank you from my heart for the sacrifices you make to help abolish the Death Penalty Mr. Melendez!

Troy Davis is Finally Free

God be with and comfort Mr. Davis' family; his 20 years of torture are ended in freedom - not the kind we all dreamed of for him, but no one can hurt him any longer. All this nonesense now makes sense to Troy, he can see the bigger picture.

I pray for his family, that they may be comforted, that Troy's spirit will let them know they can let him go, he'll be at peace now.

I pray for the family of the murdered officer; for their healing and their finally understanding that murdering another human being will not bring back their loved one and most definitly is not justified. Even  killing the actual murderer of the officer would not make things better - let alone killing someone who most likely was totally innocent of the crime.

I pray for the human race that it would grow up one day - soon, and know the meaning of life, love, and truth.
Leave behind vengence, wrath, blind rage. It leaves us with a very crippled world...

I am so sad for all of us. We have not come a very long way afterall.
God must be ashamed...

Troy Anthony Davis' execution set for Sept. 21

 http://www.ncadp.org/

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/cases/usa-troy-davis/watch-videos-examining-the-troy-davis-case

Global Solidarity Day for Troy Davis and the abolition of the Death Penalty;  September 16, 2011
Down town Spokane

 The U.S has killed 79 people under the Capital Punishment law from 2010 - Sept. 2011.  What are we telling our children? What kind of message about the value of human life are we sending?
1. The State can kill whom they choose, (those are righteous killings - not murder? )
2. We don't care if it's fair - we just want someone to pay for our fears and pain... (Do you feel better now?)
3. Anyone we can convict - ( it's not about keeping society safe; we let "the bad guys" go everyday - just tell the D.A. what they want to get a conviction and they'll give you a deal!)

Look what happens when you won't compromise your truth; Jessie Misskelley was offered great leniency if he'd testify Damien Echols killed the three 8 year old boys. He didn't want to lie, so spent half his life in prison...

Kerry Lyn Dalton wouldn't take the D.A.'s offer of 2nd degree murder for her testimony against the others
because she didn't kill Ms May. She wasn't going to lie to get a sweet deal, she chose to trust the system would work. 
Kerry Lyn has lost over 16 years of her life adhering to the truth...

This is not justice, it is not even intelligent. The public is not being protected by a system like this.

Wake up.

There are many types of Cages

The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.

While the sage,
Who has to duck his head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.

-- Hafiz


To hide from the truth is a cage of its own - an ostrich can bury its head in the sand, but that only leaves its butt vulnerable to get kicked.

Thrilled for the West Memphis Three !!!

 Kerry Lyn Dalton and her sister, Victoria Thorpe, June 2011. Visit at Death Row CCWF locked inside the individual cinder block rooms used for condemned womens' visits.

We all celebrate with these men who are tasting freedom after 18 years, one on Death Row, and we all need to send them and their loved ones prayers for this difficult time of adjustment and keep in mind they are not done.

At this same time the families of the boys that were murdered in this case need our prayers also; it is a difficult time for them to have the case re-opened and realize they haven't found their killers...

The Memphis Three are not totally exonerated yet, but were offered their release on conditions from Arkansas; they chose freedom. The investigation to who the true perpetrator or perpetrators were continues.
Another aspect to remember here is that again we see mistakes were made, innocent persons lost a good deal of their lives to a system that failed. We need to work to change things to insure this travesty does not happen again.
It took a great deal off effort from a large group of supporters and funding to get the Memphis Three this far; not the legal system. It' needs re-structuring.

In his own words, Damien Echols speaks volumes about the experience; "I am not alone as there are tens of thousand of men and woman in this country who have been wrongfully convicted, forced into a false confession, sentenced to death or a lifetime in prison. I am hopeful that one day they too will be able stand with their friends and family to declare their innocence."

Learn more at these links:

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Please take the time to see the truth; mistakes are happening, and injustice is stealing lives while perpetrators remain on our streets.

That is why I work towards freeing Kerry Lyn Dalton from Death Row: she has been wrongly convicted. I know it as fact. I have the documented facts. I miss my sister.

Even though she cannot read this (no computer access on Death Row), I love you Kerry Lyn, and will continue to seek your release!

Kerry Lyn Dalton Never Confessed

Women on Death Row:


The so-called confession reported in the press was based on Investigator Richard Cooksey's testimony that a jailhouse snitch told him that Kerry Lyn confessed. The husband, and other friends/witnesses, said the alleged victim was never murdered; the woman ran away with a man. CPS and the missing person's husband both testified the woman had a history of disappearing; the husband believed she ran off. No body, no blood, no weapons, no sign of any crime ever turned up with the searches conducted by the specialty Task force. The alleged victim wasn't even declared deceased during the trial: corpus needed to be determined by the jury.
Based on hearsay and and the coerced testimony of a co-defendant; a jury declared a murder took place and gave Kerry Lyn the Death Penalty. Judge Whelan upheld their decision.
Would the verdict have been different if Kerry had the funds O.J. Simpson had? Or if we had been permitted to bring the media in so everyone would be held accountable like in Casey Anthony's trial?
No body, No weapon, No blood, No evidence...

Would you expect to be judged the same?




The following article is Reason to Celebrate!!! Thanks to people who believe in the truth.

Equal Justice USA
 

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Wolfe Death Penalty Case Gets Thrown Out the Door

July 2011 -  Earlier this month Virginia District Court Judge Raymond Jackson reversed the conviction and death sentence of Justin Wolfe.

Wolfe was 20 years old when he was accused of killing marijuana supplier Daniel Petrole. Said Judge Jackson, “The Commonwealth’s capital murder case against Wolfe can best be described as tenuous.”

The key witness was Owen Barber – the man who undisputedly pulled the trigger that killed Daniel Petrole. Barber was facing the threat of a capital trial himself but testified that Wolfe had hired him to do the killing in exchange for immunity on the death sentence.

Four years later Barber admitted by sworn affidavit that he had lied and that Wolfe had nothing to do with the killing.

In addition to the key witness recanting, Judge Jackson also found that Wolfe’s original defense was inadequate. Prosecutors withheld or ignored crucial evidence, and Wolfe’s own attorney – who had never handled a capital murder trial – had his law license revoked soon after the trial.

Virginia has executed more people than any other state apart from Texas and its courts are among the least likely to reverse a capital conviction.
But with cases like this coming out of the woodwork, even the biggest executors are getting squeamish about the ultimate punishment. Virginia has only had one new death sentence this year and last year there were none. Soon another person short, the state’s death row is dwindling.

Learn more at:
http://ejusa.org/learn/primer/introduction

Kerry Lyn Dalton is not the only one in danger.
Look what the United States has done this month;

May 6: Jeffrey Motts, SC - Executed

May 10: Benny Joe Stevens, MS -Executed

May 17: Rodney Gray, MS - Executed

May 17: Daniel Bedford, OH - Executed

May 19: Jason Williams, AL - Executed

Should we be proud?
God have mercy on our nation.

http://www.ncadp.org/

You can still help Troy Davis. Go to National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

False Testimony at Kerry Lyn Dalton's Trial

False Confessions

False testimony presented at Kerry Lyn Dalton's trial  happens all too often; the following article from the Innocence Project can be applied to persons who give false testimony; such as Kenneth Waters' case, Anthony Grave's case, Troy Davis and a number of others.
 A major issue with this frequent problem is that district attorneys cannot be sued civilly for misconduct; there is no accountability.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php

In about 25% of DNA exoneration cases, innocent defendants made incriminating statements, delivered outright confessions or pled guilty.

These cases show that confessions are not always prompted by internal knowledge or actual guilt, but are sometimes motivated by external influences.

Why do innocent people confess?
A variety of factors can contribute to a false confession during a police interrogation. Many cases have included a combination of several of these causes. They include:

•duress
•coercion
•intoxication
•diminished capacity
•mental impairment
•ignorance of the law
•fear of violence
•the actual infliction of harm
•the threat of a harsh sentence
•Misunderstanding the situation

•Some false confessions can be explained by the mental state of the confessor.

•Confessions obtained from juveniles are often unreliable – children can be easy to manipulate and are not always fully aware of their situation. Children and adults both are often convinced that that they can “go home” as soon as they admit guilt.

•People with mental disabilities have often falsely confessed because they are tempted to accommodate and agree with authority figures. Further, many law enforcement interrogators are not given any special training on questioning suspects with mental disabilities. An impaired mental state due to mental illness, drugs or alcohol may also elicit false admissions of guilt.

•Mentally capable adults also give false confessions due to a variety of factors like the length of interrogation, exhaustion or a belief that they can be released after confessing and prove their innocence later.
Regardless of the age, capacity or state of the confessor, what they often have in common is a decision – at some point during the interrogation process – that confessing will be more beneficial to them than continuing to maintain their innocence.

From threats to torture
Sometimes law enforcement use harsh interrogation tactics with uncooperative suspects. But some police officers, convinced of a suspect’s guilt, occasionally use tactics so persuasive that an innocent person feels compelled to confess. Some suspects have confessed to avoid physical harm or discomfort. Others are told they will be convicted with or without a confession, and that their sentence will be more lenient if they confess. Some are told a confession is the only way to avoid the death penalty.

 

Capital Punishment is False Security

Basic facts on Kerry Lyn Dalton's case ;

Kerry is an innocent woman currently living on Death Row in California.
In March of 1995 she was convicted of 1st degree murder with special circumstances.
She was sent to wait for execution in June '95.

She pleaded innocent and still maintains her innocence.

The jury found guilt without a body, without any weapon, without any crime scene evidence, and even without blood evidence (therefore no ability to have DNA testing for exoneration).

The case was built on a missing person's report (phoned in anonymously. The husband of the alleged missing woman swore in court she "ran off" like she had more than once before.) and based on the words of informants, ex-cons, and drug addicts, all hearsay testimony.

Some sources can be found that state Kerry had confessed; those refer to the hearsay testimony from jailhouse informants who falsely claimed Kerry told them she committed murder. She has never made any such statement.

The San Diego Metropolitan Homicide Task Force needed a diversion from their  investigation; 12 law enforcement were implicated in the HWY 8 serial murder case they were commissioned to solve. By their own admittance the Task Force hoped the missing person rumor would give them a lead in another direction.

 Not only did they uncover absolutely no support of a murder on their first investigation, but they also found nothing on two more subsequent searches.

The Task Force never solved the serial murders (over 22 women killed; most were prostitute/informants).

Sadly, Kerry's case is another example of the system forcing a case and a solution regardless of truth or public safety.

Capital Punishment is not keeping anyone safe; so-called "bad guys" run lose while some district attorneys and some law enforcement pursue their career advancement, manipulating their authority.

We can see this is not an isolated case ; Anthony Graves, Kenneth Waters, Kevin Cooper, and many others have been convicted and lost too many years of their lives because of some law enforcement and some prosecutors bending and breaking the law. ( Thank goodness for people of integrity like prosecutor Kelly Siegler who would not prosecute Graves a second time since the evidence proved he was innocent.)

We need to reform the justice system - for all our sakes, not just Kerry's.

Her first attempt to gain an appeal is still in the process after 16 years.

Go to these links;

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

http://www.innocenceproject.org/

http://www.ncadp.org/


http://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty

Death Penalty Fatally Flawed

 

Written by Amy Goodman 
The Spokesman-Review

April 1, 2011

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the death-penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis. It was his last appeal.

Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years after being convicted of shooting to death off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, seven of the nine non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, alleging police coercion and intimidation in obtaining the testimony. Despite the doubt surrounding his case, Troy Anthony Davis could be put to death within weeks.

Davis is now at the mercy of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Parole, which could commute his sentence to life without parole. It will be a tough fight, despite widespread national and international support for clemency from figures like Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Davis’ sister, Martina Correia, has tirelessly campaigned for justice for her brother. In response to the Supreme Court decision, she told me: “We were really shocked and appalled yesterday when we received the news … no one wants to look at the actual innocence, and no one wants to look at the witness recantation as a real strong and viable part of this case, even though new witnesses have come forward. There needs to be a global mobilization about Troy’s case, and the fact that in the United States it’s not unconstitutional to execute an innocent person needs to be addressed once and for all by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Correia brings up a significant but little-known fact about death-penalty law in the U.S., namely, that current court precedent allows the execution of innocent people. Remarkably, the Supreme Court, in a 1993 opinion, suggested that “actual innocence” is not a sufficient cause to be let free. The court only cares if the legal rules are followed, while acknowledging that innocent people could still be convicted and put to death. In such cases, a prisoner could appeal for executive clemency. It seems the court has not yet learned what many states have, that the death-penalty system is broken beyond repair.

Illinois recently became the 16th state in the U.S. to outlaw the death penalty. Gov. Pat Quinn, after signing the bill into law, said, “I have concluded that our system of imposing the death penalty is inherently flawed … it is impossible to devise a system that is consistent, that is free of discrimination on the basis of race, geography or economic circumstance, and that always gets it right.” He follows an earlier Illinois governor, Republican George Ryan, who commuted the death sentences of 120 death-row prisoners in that state.

Both Illinois governors bring to mind former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, who wrote, in a dissenting opinion in 1994 after the court denied yet another death-row inmate’s last appeal, “From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”

Tinkering with the machinery of death is just what some states seem to be doing. Thiopental is one of the three drugs used in the lethal “cocktail” administered in most executions in this country. Hospira, the last U.S.-based company to make sodium thiopental, quit making the controlled drug, creating a national shortage. States began scrambling to keep their death chambers well-stocked. When California borrowed a similar drug from Arizona, California Undersecretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation Scott Kernan wrote in an email, “You guys in AZ are life savers …”

Georgia, it turns out, seems to have illegally imported its supply from a dubious, London-based company called Dream Pharma Ltd., run by a husband and wife out of a rented space in the back of a driving school. Georgia is not currently licensed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to import controlled substances, so the DEA recently confiscated the state’s thiopental supply. Pending an investigation, Georgia will not have this key ingredient and will not be able to execute Davis or any other death-row inmate.

On the same day that the Supreme Court denied Davis’ appeal, Amnesty International issued its annual report on the death penalty. The United States remains among the world’s leading executioners, along with China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and North Korea.

In addition to leading the fight for her brother, Martina Correia has been fighting for her own life. The day of the court decision was the 10th anniversary of her ongoing battle against breast cancer. Her face adorns the mobile mammography van that helps save the lives of poor women in Savannah. The National Breast Cancer Coalition named her and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Women Who Get It Right.” Correia, with customary humility, feels she won’t have earned the title until her brother’s life is saved as well.

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour. Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.

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