Hello everyone, I’d like to take this opportunity to send warm greetings
to all of you there. I truly recognize that any number of more pressing
issues requires your attention, yet you made a choice to attend this
important conference.
Whether you’re
a skeptic or already convinced that injustice exists and plays more
than the “harmless era” standard applied by courts across the country,
those of us seeking your help and support hope that we are providing
more than an emotional plea for you to operate with, for if emotion
alone would bring justice, every crying eye would be justly rewarded
(right?).
All our documents are
official from the state courts and in some cases our issue is that these
courts know the exculpatory documents would bring into question the
riot convictions and the deals given to the inmate conspirators that are
commonly called snitches, for the State.
Those of us convicted have consistently asked that if the system
requires our life, including how our absence from our parents, children,
wives & births & deaths has affected their lives, whether
“life” is by a State-scheduled death or death as it comes to an isolated
substandard existence, that all available evidence should be examined, I hope you agree?!
Curious to me is, why is it that those of us convicted are more
confident in the totality of the evidence than is a judicial system with
far more money, power & resources?
Without being too technical, I’d like to refer everyone to a case: Beckett v. Haviland,
6th Circuit 2003. [see attached below] This case law rules, and is a
continuation of court rulings back to the 1970s, the following; briefly
the case says:
“When the State’s star witness is given a deal to testify and that deal isn’t disclosed, the only remedy is a new trial.”
When you compare that case law to what my trial transcript reflects on
the State’s star witness (Lou Jones) and how members of my jury were
concerned about deals possibly being given out as incentive to lie, I
think all of you hearing my voice will share that same concern.
Let me be really clear: the State swore during my trial to the judge and jury that no deals
were given to anyone. Some of these prisoners were accused and some
admit involvement in riot-related crimes, yet none were charged and both
prosecutors, knowing that the “no deals”-testimony was false, allowed
it to be heard, even swearing themselves that no deals were made, so
that the coveted convictions were obtained.
The official records show that these same two prosecutors on Direct Appeal admitted: yes they had given deals. – check here.
Some skeptics have said to me “Well you have caught other cases since
the riot.” I’ve been on supermax-status since the riot and have been
faced with relentless oppression and retaliation at the hands of some
aggressive prison guards and leaderless administrative supervision all
the while being held against my will. It is amazing that I’ve not killed
someone for my freedom or for my just dues in court.
Let me point to the fact that before 1993 inside prison I had not been
charged with any violent behavior, since 1993 plenty, what changed?
What draws such a response from a peaceful person I ask you?!
For those of you who believe in our cause and us, like my dear brah
Kunta Kenyatta, I say keep the faith, keep sharing our info with people
and taking advantage of current technologies (Ben & Annabelle).
To the activist community in general, you must know it’s always
darkest before there is Light, continue to seek the Light of Justice.
At very least comrades, our effort should make it harder for an unjust
system to reuse these tactics on anyone else ever again!
Thank you,
Freedom First,
Greg Curry
From Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP)
Gregcurry.org
