A USA TODAY newspaper INVESTIGATION

8/14/12

Have not read the story; just saw the headlines in USA TODAY paper that dozens of innoncent could be freed=? and =?

"Being the I was set up by WSTA bus driver,etc. and put in confinement [approx 5 or more hours]; DO KNOW that cues through association of authority and representation are difficult to dispand and those who operate the system of confinement are well aware and "Being that sibbling who recently was released from confinement has yet to call and ask anything" DO KNOW that would have told them to not go anywhere; stay in as much as possible; turn the television,radio, tv off to block all forms of communication association to establish a mindset that seperates mind in confinement from mind out of confinement. 

Those who have been in confinement are encouraged and it is imbedded in the system to continue the mindset given by authority in confinement-sort of like an expansion that way it is just about guranteed that the person released from confinement will eventually go in a circle and go right back into the system of confinement. And the longer the person stays in confinement the deeper the negativity associated with confinement goes.

Thus the 3,000  released [hope it is a different situation]; but they will probably end up back in confinement for another reason.  First time=innoncent=but the damage has been done.  And to tell them to deprogram/reprogram their minds by taking a serious vacation from the system of communication that lead to them being in the system of confinement [some call it entertainment] would be a joke to them; but that is what it takes.

After being set up and put in confinement and venturing out a day or so after;  did not venture out in public=to deprogram mind from system.

"The ACLU, which last week asked Justice officials to do more to help the inmates, estimated last week that as many as 3,000 people could be eligible to either be released or have their sentences reduced. because of the 4th Circuit's decision. The department did not say on Monday whether it would also drop its legal objections in those cases."

So for all the innocent who get released; hope they liked you; because if they didn't like you=???

form of mind control to subliminally psychologically abuse person?

And what is interesting and it could just be me=being pulled in 100 different directions at one time: But contacted the ACLU [sent fax of least 32 pages to New York ACLU] and have yet to get a reponse back concerning local abuse/violations [mail, employment, relationships, control of life,etc.]=???why=???

But do know that did put address; left phone number= is current release=exchange=??? sent info about local abuse =since don't fit in category of inhouse [n]=can take what should go to person and pass out the benefits to the group=???go to hell bastards.

Heard somebody say=can't help anybody else till you can help yourself;

To stop a threat;put LOVE/Duke Engergy [bill] by postman or one of people who live around me=Somebody had folded the article"For the love of the game" by Todd Luck ; on the front page of The Winston-salem Chronicle so that all the other words except the word LOVE was cosvered up and Duke Energy bill was placed beside the word love=harassment=NOBODY is suppose to be watching me or in my life to such an extent that they can put such in my mailbox=STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the bastards that put the camera in my eye that watch what I watch=channel 12 news to start as "ME" television station on 8/13/12=the number THIRTEEN= whoever started/suggested/organized the new "me" station= is part of system of abuse of African Americans.  [Watch and Decode]

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Dozens of 'innocent' prisoners could be freed

  

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-13/innocent-federal-prisoners-justice/57041342/1

Dozens of federal prisoners who are locked up even though prosecutors concede they are "legally innocent" could soon be released under new orders from the U.S. Justice Department.

The department confirmed Monday that it had instructed its lawyers to abandon legal objections that could have blocked — or at least delayed — the inmates from being set free. In a court filing , the department said it had "reconsidered its position," and that it would drop its legal arguments "in the interests of justice."

The shift follows a USA TODAY investigation in June that identified more than 60 people who were imprisoned for something an appeals court later determined was not a federal crime. The investigation found that the Justice Department had done almost nothing to identify those prisoners — many of whom did not know they were innocent — and had argued in court that the men were innocent but should remain imprisoned anyway.

· STORY: ACLU to Justice Department: Free dozens of innocent inmates

Neither Justice Department lawyers nor defense attorneys would speculate Monday how many innocent prisoners eventually might be released. Some who were convicted of other crimes might receive shorter sentences; others might be tried for different offenses.

Chris Brook, the legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina, called the move "an encouraging first step," but said "much more has to be done for these wrongly incarcerated individuals." He said the department still had not offered to identify prisoners who were sent to prison for something that turned out not to be a federal crime.USA TODAY interactive

Terrell McCullum did not committ a federal crime by having a gun, the U.S. Justice Department says. But the government wants to keep him in jail anyway.

Federal law bans people from having a gun if they have previously been convicted of a crime that could have put them in prison for more than a year.

In North Carolina, however, state law set the maximum punishment for a crime based in part on the criminal record of whoever committed it, meaning some people who committed crimes such as possessing cocaine faced sentences of more than a year, while those with shorter records face only a few months.

For years, federal courts there said that didn't matter. If someone with a long record could have gone to prison for more than a year, then all who had committed that crime are felons and cannot legally have a gun, the courts maintained. But last year, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said judges had been getting the law wrong: Only people who could have faced more than a year in prison for their crimes qualify as felons. Its decision meant thousands of low-level offenders are not committing a federal crime by having a gun.

In many cases, prosecutors did not dispute that prisoners convicted of gun possession before that decision were innocent, but argued that they should remain locked up because of strict laws that limit when and how inmates can challenge their convictions. The department's new instructions directed prosecutors to drop those arguments.

Justice spokeswoman Adora Andy said the department had "decided to take a litigating position designed to accelerate relief for defendants in these cases who, by virtue of a subsequent court decision, are no longer guilty of a federal crime." She declined to elaborate on the details of the department's instruction. In at least one case on Monday, the government asked a court to set aside a defendant's gun possession conviction.

The shift was met with cautious praise Monday from defense lawyers scrambling to file challenges based on the court's ruling. Eric Placke, an assistant federal public defender in Greensboro, N.C., said it was "an appropriate response, a fair response, by allowing things to be handled on the merits rather than based just on procedural defenses."

One of those prisoners, Travis Bowman, said in an e-mail that he was hoping for "another chance at life" if his gun possession conviction is overturned. Bowman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm; he was arrested after a high-speed police chase through rural Murphy, N.C. Under the appeals court's ruling, his prior convictions weren't serious enough to make having a gun a crime.

Bowman said he didn't know he was innocent until USA TODAY contacted him earlier this year. He later asked a federal judge in North Carolina to release him. "If that happens, I got so much stuff I wanna do with my life," he said.

Many of the practical effects of the Justice Department's new instructions remained unclear on Monday.

The legal issue underlying the gun possession cases could also have implications for many other federal inmates. That's because a person's felony record plays a key role in deciding how long a prison sentence he will receive when he's convicted of a federal crime. Hundreds of inmates have already gone to court arguing their prison sentences are too long because at least one of their prior convictions no longer qualifies as a felony under the appeals court's decision.

The ACLU, which last week asked Justice officials to do more to help the inmates, estimated last week that as many as 3,000 people could be eligible to either be released or have their sentences reduced. because of the 4th Circuit's decision. The department did not say on Monday whether it would also drop its legal objections in those cases.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-08-07/aclu-federal-crimes-innocent-prisoners-justice/56860918/1

ACLU to Justice Department: Free dozens of innocent inmates

The ACLU asked top Justice Department officials Tuesday to act immediately to help free dozens of federal inmates whom prosecutors agree are innocent of the crimes that put them in prison.

This ongoing injustice has to stop," the rights group said in a letter to the department's second-in-command, James Cole.

The request follows a USA TODAY investigation that identified dozens of people who had been imprisoned for something a federal appeals court later determined was not a federal crime. Although Justice Department lawyers have conceded the men are "legally innocent," the agency has made little effort to notify them and has argued in court to keep them locked up.

• STORY: Scores in N.C. are legally 'innocent,' yet still imprisoned

Some of the prisoners the newspaper identified did not know they were innocent.

ACLU lawyers say up to 3,000 inmates and probationers could be eligible to be freed or have sentences reduced, but they said the Justice Department has not done enough to help them. "Instead of taking proactive steps to ensure that the innocent are freed, it has thrown up roadblocks," the ACLU said.

Justice's Allison Price said officials are "in the process of finalizing its position, within the confines of the law and in the interests of justice, as to how best to provide relief for defendants who by virtue of a subsequent court decision are no longer guilty of a federal crime."

The legal issue is complicated, and mostly confined to one state: Federal law bans people from possessing a gun if they have previously been convicted of a crime that could have put them in prison for more than a year. In North Carolina, state law sets the maximum punishment for a crime based in part on the criminal record of whoever committed it, meaning some people committing such crimes as possessing cocaine face sentences of more than a year, while those with shorter records face only a few months.

For years, federal courts there said that didn't matter. If someone with a long record could have gone to prison for more than a year, then all who had committed that crime are felons and cannot legally have a gun.

But last year, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said judges had been getting the law wrong. Only people who could have faced more than a year in prison for their crimes qualify as felons. Its decision meant tens of thousands of low-level state offenders should not have been prohibited from having guns.

Often, Justice lawyers have acknowledged that inmates did not commit a federal crime by having a gun but have argued they can't be released because of laws that strictly limit how prisoners can challenge convictions.

"There's a substantial amount of justice out there that needs to be done," said Henderson Hill, executive director of the federal public defender's office in Charlotte, which represents some of the inmates.