My son was punished for pissing off a prosecutor. That was all, plain and simple. The local media reported nothing but misinformation and lies, and what was worse is that they knew they were lies, no mistakes. They were in the court room and heard the facts yet turned right around and continued with misinformation and lies. My son's story immediately got the attention of "reputable and honest" journalists and we are working with them now, but the damage was done. There are so many people with the power to enact change, yet no one takes a stand. Everyone is afraid to take a stand. There are so many just ordinary folks who also see the horrible situations that have been caused by a corrupt justice system, and they too stay quiet. Are we just supposed to sit down and shut up because we don't want to rock the boat? I guess I was not raised that way. We have been working with many political groups and there are many many politicians who agree that laws need to change and some need to be abolished but what I hear is "nothing is going to happen this year because it is an election year and no one can afford to look like they are not tough on crime". The problem that I have with that is that who is it that they are worried may see them as soft and not elect them? The American citizens! So who is really the problem? Have we become so blood thirsty that we the people want this injustice to continue to happen? Want innocent people incarcerated? Want innocent people put to death? IF the the very people that can change all of that have to worry about what we will think, that says more about us than it does them. :(
http://just-us-justice.weebly.com/luke-pelham.html
http://www.freelukepelham.com/
https://cases.nationalcdp.org/luke-pelham/
So I guess I am to understand and accept that my government would rather innocent people sit in prison because my fellow citizens will not like them if they try to fix it? What happened to the great country that I used to live in?
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Omg!!!!
how can people do this!?!?
this is sooooo awful! What can you do?
i also have a feeling that my son's lawyers and DA(District Attorney) might have made deal off records, I was told it happens a lot, they are really buddies.... ugh makes me sick!
can you appeal? Can you get a different lawyer and take it back to court?
I am so sorry, it must be so upsetting, but keep doing what you are doing, using social media is great idea.
We are all in this together, you all have son's that have been taken too, my story is just another story in the sea of for profit justice.
Thanks Ann, Rebecca and Mary. Most days I am so busy with this fight that I can out run the sadness but every so often I am forced to sit still. As long as there are laws on the books (law that every other civilized nation in the world has abolished) that hold many responsible for the actions of a one and we have ridiculous sentences being handed down to others, we are all going to continue to loose our son's. I look at the faces of those that I see when I visit my son and my heart is just broken. Our justice system has become so out of control and the stage has been set for "nothing left to loose". Prisons are filled with people who have "nothing left to loose" and that makes it very dangerous. But the justice system became about money and the almighty dollar has ruled this land for a very long time.
This is awful, I am speechless... what can we do to add our voices to the outrage?