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Cops, Courts & Conspiracies…
02
May

Over the course of some 400 published articles in this blog, I’ve written a number that refer to my criminal case. For easy reference, I will condense here the basic elements that led to that trial, conviction and sentence.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia...

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia…

The trial itself was a 2-wk affair before a jury in Detroit federal court, Aug-Sept of 1990 before Judge Bernard A. Friedman.

A former Wayne County prosecutor, he was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1988. I was his first major trial. more…

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Trials & Tribulations (3)…
12
July

(Note: In the first of this 3-part series, I spoke briefly to my arrest by SEMCO in Detroit, February 11th, 1989, and the year leading up to it. In the second article, I commenced a two-week trial by jury in August of 1990.)

Allow me to briefly note here some comments made by observers as to my being involved in the drug business yet denying my guilt.  Circa 1983, when the CIA et al. popularized crack on the West Coast to finance the White House Contra War, most of us on the left got out of that business.

Recent cooler days...

Cocaine had become devastating to the black and poor communities; there was no longer any political justification for including cocaine in our fund-raising (but, of course, that didn’t stop the gov’t…).

By the time 1989 rolled around, I had been out of that business some 5yrs.  This case involves the gov’t (failing to entrap me with their informant) inserting me into a conspiracy of which I was never a member.  I make no other claims of “innocence.” more…

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Trials & Tribulations (2)…
10
July

(NOTE: This is the second of 3 articles on the gov’ts original case against me. The first spoke to the preceding circumstances leading to the bust. Here, I speak to the gov’ts case at trial.)

Probably the greatest error that I committed in the case was in briefly becoming a fugitive.  The second error was voluntarily returning.  But that was all now 22 years ago…

Detroit: Wayne County Jail...

Despite a written surrender agreement, the feds threw me in the Wayne County Jail. Normally, federal prisoners are held at FCI Milan outside of Detroit.

One of the Sheriff’s Deputies I knew (where, as an investigator I used to visit clients) told me that the feds ordered the “special treatment” because I refused to “cooperate.” Well, they got that right. more…

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Trials & Tribulations (1)…
07
July

(NOTE: The following 3 articles over this next week will speak to the preceding circumstances, trial and some commentary concerning the origins of my case.)

On April the 5th, 1990, I started a 25yr sentence in federal prison. On Friday, July the 8th, 2011, I will have completed that time.

Cellmate, Chief of Navajo Nation...

I served 16yrs in high- and medium-security prisons, another 3yrs in federal prison camps, and the past 2yrs on severely restricted home detention. I was 47 when I started this journey. I’m now 69. In many respects, I might as well have been off-planet. more…

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