I hope a lot of people read this and get mad enough to react and do something
about it. There is a danger to me because there are people in jail for pissing
off the good old boys.
On television you see the good old boys in shows like “In the Heat of the
Night,” "The Dukes of Hazard" and other shows that take
place in the small towns of the south. It is not only there but it is all
over the country and no doubt all over the world.
You have heard of dream weavers. The good old boys weave
nightmares. There are many people in prison, many of them on death
row. There are also innocent people who have been executed because of the
good old boy network.
The death penalty is big business and prisons are big business. The call
of the good old boys is, “Get that SOB even if he is
innocent.” Instead of solving the crime they dispose of it by
convicting a person whether they did it or not.
There is a murder case that the prosecutors want out of the way. If it is
high profile it is a stepping stone to bigger and better things for everyone
involved. The cops will frame a person because they feel that the case
will help them go up in the department, for money, just to get the crime into
the solved file or because they do not like the guy. The prosecutors will
work with the cops and the coroners may also be in on it. They may use
evidence that has been planted, rigged or non existent. They will use only
parts of a coroners’ report that will help convict and ignore the
evidence that shows the person is innocent. They will use witnesses who
are known liars. They will even use the guilty person’s testimony
to convict the innocent person.
Why won’t the judge do something about it? Three reasons, because
they are incompetent, because they were financially rewarded or because they
are one of the good old boys.
Why don’t the defense lawyers do something, because of the above reasons,
because they are drunk or because they are asleep?
Many innocent people will plead confess and plead guilty because they feel that
if they do not they will get more time in prison. Being innocent is not a
reason to fight a losing battle.
The defendants in these cases are poor and can not afford a lawyer so they have
to use the public defender who works, in most cases, indirectly for the
prosecutor not the defendant. If they are really bad at what they do they
rewarded with more cases and since they are not good enough to get paying
clients they depend on the prosecutors and/or the judges for their income.
If you are rich or middle income you probably do not know or care about the
good old boy network. It does not effect you until someone in your family
is killed because the wrong man went to prison for a murder committed by your
family members killer. Even then you may never know.
If you are poor you may know about it. If you are not white you may know
about it. If you are black and poor the odds are that you not only know
about it but you know someone who has been railroaded or you may have been
railroaded by the good old boys.
I am willing to bet that at least 10% of the people in prison and on death row
are innocent victims of the good old boys. Using that I would also bet
that over 10% of those executed were probably
innocent.
But then you say, “If there is evidence that there was a miscarriage of
justice in a case can’t it be corrected.” The answer is not
very often.
Virginia for example has a law that if you do not appeal a case within 21 days
of sentencing with evidence known at that time you are out of luck.
The system makes it very difficult if you are wrongfully convicted to get a
chance to prove your innocence. Even if they witnesses admit that they
lied, the victim admits that they were wrong or another person confesses and
the evidence backs up the confession the odds are against the case being
overturned. Why? The good old boys network protects their own.
Those of you who do not believe me go to the internet search engine and look up
innocent prisoners and you will find that there are many more than you imagine.
One is too many.
All I ask is that innocent people are not railroaded and those that do serve at
least the time they served and if the innocent person was executed they serve
life without parole because my friends they murdered that person who was
wrongfully executed.
It should also be noted that there are some who may be guilty of the crime but
they may be given too much time. If you look at penalties for crimes
where the crime is the same and the circumstances are similar you will see that
the poor, blacks and people who piss off the good old boys will have harsher
sentences. If you have a loved one who is a victim of the good old boys,
please e-mail me and I will be happy to
add a page for them. If they have a web site I will add a link ato their
site.
© Copyright 2002, Lee W. Gaylord
The most well known Chief Justice of India (which is the highest legal position
a judge can obtain in India), I would like to provide you with a quote from my
great grandfather T.L.Venkatraman Iyer.. "A hundred criminals may be set
free, but one innocent man should not go to prison... for that will make the
entire legal system criminal"
Possible innocent victims of the Good Old Boys
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