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Seriously, LeMieux: Unsubscribe

Susan Chandler — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:41:22 EST

I'm not bothering to send this through LeMieux' webform. My previous post about him hit Google rapidly.

LeMieux' immediately sending me yet another Newsletter was likely high humor to him, right up there with moving a blind guy's chair just before he sits down.

As he's likely going to claim a glitch rather than taking responsibility, it's worth noting that the constituent computerized communications system was working when LeMieux got to Washington; I easily unsubscribed from Sen. Martinez' equally unoriginal obstructionist spin.

"You break it, you buy it," is a reasonable taxpayer protection.

LeMieux needs to get his checkbook out and pay to get the system working again.

For anyone else experiencing difficulty with LeMieux in need of substantiating his callousness, incompetence or dereliction, pdf copies of all six documented attempts to unsubscribe are available to readers by putting "pdf please" in the subject line of an email to studio8@infionline.net.

Sen. LeMieux: Unsubscribe

Susan Chandler — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:49:21 EST

I've three broken teeth, a pain in the neck and no interest in dying, so even though I wrote poorly when I'm this stressed, today was the day to ask Sen. Lemieux to leave me alone, at length, and then post the request here so that his specious rhetoric never hits my Inbox again. Using his website contact form, I sent the following:

"Sir, you are in Congress by the combined whims of former Sen. Martinez and Gov. Crist; your prior position made you aware that Martinez was complacent with Crist being a Paper Tiger, providing a projected image of toughness on crime via affixing his signature to death warrants while deliberately overlooking public misconduct that resulted in wrongful convictions in Brevard, Polk and other counties.

The knowledge that Crist has no intention of addressing scores of clouded convictions made it incumbent upon you to ask the FBI to investigate the public corruption. The failure to do so puts you in league with prosecutors who coached jailhouse informants to credibly provide false testimony.

My interest in you is therefore limited to your being prosecuted along with the other villains that continue to trample the likes of James Bain, Juan Melendez, Wilton Dedge, William Dillon and Juan Ramos while allowing rapists and murderers to find additional victims.

Because of my very limited [interest] in you, I unsubscribed to the first Newsletter I received from you and every one since, documenting the last five times with pdf copies.

I will save a copy of this submission for use in a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to request that the Supreme Court compel the FBI to adhere to their mandate to address public corruption that affected trial and election outcomes. As you likely know from you association with Crist, I have "standing" and your persistence in resubscribing me each time I unsubscribe will let me speak directly to your behaviors in the Petition. Your closeness to Crist that likely acquainted you with my years of request for consequences for the culpable would also have made you aware of my disabilities.

Many persons with epilepsy have stress-engendered seizures; I'm one such person. My medication is proving effective in preventing all but nocturnal seizures, which put me at risk of dying in my sleep due to my heart defect.

These nocturnal seizures are often apparent upon awakening by noting another broken tooth, neck and back pain and more difficulty with my memory than the medication causes. I have many other medical conditions aside from epilepsy.

I will use this analogy in the Petition - deliberately slipping a regular Coke to a person with volatile diabetes is attempted homicide, so is directing stress at a person with volatile epilepsy.

I ask that you not resubscribe me to your newsletter yet again to lessen the likelihood that another communication will cause me another broken tooth or worse.

In evaluating your choices hereinafter, it would likely do you well to recall that the FBI investigated dogfighting rings in several states last year while ignoring roughly 5,000 clouded criminal investigations tainted by debunked bullet-matching and DNA-discredited dog handlers. They put man's best friend ahead of men; not even the five most disingenuous Justices ever seated can spin their way around that simple statement of fact. The foreign press will have a field day, making it impossible for even Fox not to get on board.

Don't write to me of a unsubscribe glitch; in the absence of a copy of your letter to FBI Director Mueller asking that he put men ahead of dogs this year, all that a reasonable person could construe from the communication is that your behaviors are self-serving, constituents be damned."

William "Tommy" Zeigler endangered by undue process - again

Susan Chandler — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:32:53 EST

The judge that initially tried Tommy Zeigler 35 years ago had a prior contentious relationship with him. In states that give a damn about justice, Tommy would have been granted a new trial on his first appeal.

Scripps Treasure Coast Palm publications granted me an opportunity to appear before their Board and pitch my case to have one of their reporters accept my research on wrongful convictions and do a story. They didn't find the horror and heartbreak compelling.

They still don't. Below is the second Press Release I've sent them about Tommy; it'll probably be deleted, too.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: January 26, 2010 12:24:52 PM EST
To: Larry Reisman , Ken Ward
Subject: Fwd: Integrity of Judge in Death Row Case Compromised

Dear Mr. Reisman and Mr. Ward:

Please forward Ray McEachern's press release to the News Editor along with the following:

In considering the Release's newsworthiness:

James Bain ringing the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on Martin Luther King Day reminded the nation that Florida indeed will persecute innocents for as long as 35 years; Zeigler's time behind bars isn't an indication of guilt. Bain's exoneration was not Polk's first - Juan Melendez is now working to help others and is aware of Leo Schofield's likely innocence. Polk's attempted, nearly successfully, to get Gov. Crist to execute Paul Beasley Johnson before the Supreme Court could discover the rampant prosecutorial misconduct in his case. Johnson's likely guilt made the misconduct all the more inexcusable.

Gary Bennett's Brevard case in now in Lawson Lamar's unclean hands via Crist's Execute Order. Unless there was a John Preston-tainted conviction resulting in an execution in every Florida county, of itself the Order substantiates Crist's, Lamar's and Norm Wolfinger's moral bankruptcy in light of Linroy Bottoson's Orange County Preston-tainted conviction and subsequent execution.

There appears to have been untoward cooperation between Orange and Brevard in locating "new witness" Sandra Weeks, who was set to testify against now exonerated Bill Dillon until Wolfinger was asked to confirm or deny that Weeks was a felon likely in need of prosecutorial favors, like James E. Gilmore, Clarence Zacke and Roger Dale Chapman. There appears to have been untoward cooperation between the DOC and Brevard in securing yet another early release for Chapman and discrepancies in Chapman's testimony at Dillon's exoneration compensation hearing that he would not have been available to offer without early release. Chapman's release without parole supervision allows the DOC to lawfully deny requests for information on his release.

Brevard Sheriff Parker seems intent on keeping the public from knowing that Pauline Scandale's 1988 Canova Beach homicide was strikingly similar to the 1981 Canova Beach homicide Dillon was framed for. Mrs. Scandale was an 82-year-old widowed kindergarten teacher who likely deserved to be able to pass peacefully in her sleep. She died in terror, enduring blows that crushed her skull, just like James Dvorak died seven years earlier. John Preston had been discredited by Geraldo Rivera on ABC's "20/20" four years prior to Mrs. Scandale's murder; every investigation Preston participated in nationwide, including Dillon's, should have been reopened. John Walsh was provided confirmation that Ottis Toole was indeed his son Adam's slayer within a week of charges being dropped against Dillon. Adam was killed in the same timeframe as Dvorak and was spotted in Brevard with Toole; you know where Adam's head was found.

Our government is so broken that activists free innocents and incidentally find actual perpetrators while public servants who are being paid to protect rights and liberties obstruct rather than assist, serving only themselves. Mrs. Scandale's murder was one of two within a week of an elderly woman home alone in Brevard. The second woman is not on the Sheriff's Unsolved Homicides webpage, which may be only a tip-off to another frame-up.

Taxpayers paid for faux criminal investigations that incarcerated the wrong men for decades while the guilty found new victims, with Jeff Abramowski's Brevard frame-up proving that this century is no different than the prior; it's newsworthy that the media hasn't found it newsworthy.

Thank you.

Regards,

Susan Chandler
3008 N 25th St
Ft Pierce, FL 34946
772-466-9874

For Release Monday, January 25, 2010

Integrity of Judge in Death Row Case Compromised

by Failure to Disclose Spouse is State Employee

Contact: Ray McEachern, 813-294-6772

The Code of Judicial Conduct sternly warns judges not to allow even the "appearance of impropriety." In apparent disregard of this clear rule, Judge Reginald Whitehead of the Ninth Judicial Circuit assumed responsibility for the case of 33 year death row inmate William Thomas Zeigler in 2003 after another judge had authorized DNA testing in 2001. Zeigler’s attorneys were so confident that the results of the testing would prove his complete innocence that they immediately moved to have his sentence vacated. In 2004, Judge Whitehead, who, for unknown reasons, took over the case from Judge Grincewicz who had ordered the testing, denied Zeigler’s demand for a new trial.

Five years later, Zeigler’s pro bono New York attorneys asked the court to test the DNA of the stains which were not tested in 2001. Judge Whitehead had ruled before the 2004 hearing that only evidence which had been a part of the trial record in 1976 would be allowed to be considered, effectively blocking Zeigler from proffering other exculpatory evidence which the state had withheld from defense at trial. The untested stains had not been a part of the trial in 1976, yet Whitehead allowed the state to use them to imply that the untested stains might prove Zeigler’s guilt. The new petition was assigned originally to Judge F. Rand Wallis, but, inexplicably, was taken over by Judge Whitehead.

In a letter faxed to Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., Ray McEachern, Citizen Advocate for Tommy Zeigler, asked that the case be re-assigned to a different judge. In the letter, McEachern said that he verified with Chief Assistant State Attorney William Vose that ASA Esther Marie Whitehead was in fact the spouse of Judge Reginald Whitehead and that she was an employee of the state in 2004 when Judge Whitehead denied Zeigler’s petition for a new trial. In the letter McEachern states that the "integrity of the court has already been compromised by Judge Whitehead’s failure to disclose a relationship that can be exploited to the advantage of the state."

An online petition to Florida Governor Charles Crist, which has garnered 400 names, points out that the 1976 trial judge, Maurice Paul, now a federal judge, refused to step aside even though he had been an opposing character witness to Zeigler in a racially charged trial four months before the murders for which Zeigler was convicted. Zeigler was shot in the abdomen during those murders but survived to call police. Zeigler was charged with the murders three days later while he was in hospital intensive care.

For more information see www.freetommyz.com .

As usual ...

Susan Chandler — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:51:41 EST

Pdf documents supporting statements made in my letter to Florida Today are available by e-mailing studio8@infionline.net and putting "pdf please" in the subject line. I'm too ill and tired to address how asinine an Innocence Commission is with a mainstream media promoting incumbent thugs and peacocks with ongoing, glaring omissions of facts (peacocks as in Haridopolos and Crist, and thugs as in Wolfinger and Moxley). Exonerees don't confuse compensation with justice; they want and deserve both. Criminal prosecutions are the most visible of all activities for police, prosecutors and judges; true miscreants show the full spectrum of their behaviors in matters that get less attention, as previously addressed in my blog about Executive Orders in October. Only a full-fledged federal investigation and criminal prosecution will address all the harm done.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: December 14, 2009 12:18:48 PM EST
To: John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Debbie Mayfield , larry.cretul@myfloridahouse.gov, Senator Mike Haridopolos , atwater.jeff.web@flsenate.gov, jrusso@pd18.net, Norm Wolfinger , Scott H Maxwell , TCPalm Daily Newsbreak , Gretl Plessinger , Sandy D'Alemberte , mschlakman@admin.fsu.edu, "Barry Scheck, Innocence Project" , "Maddy deLone, Innocence Project" , Seth Miller
Subject: "Motion Denied in Dillon case" 12/4/09; "Lawyers call for a squad on innocence" 12/12/09, etc.

Dear Florida Today:

I write once again to document information that discounts Gannett's reporting.

Roger Dale Chapman appeared at William Dillon's compensation hearing in Tallahassee, ostensibly to apologize to Dillon for lying about him on the stand and support Dillon's exoneration compensation claim, but noticeably more concerned with claiming he'd been coached to lie by former Brevard deputy Thomas Fair. As Chapman wasn't due to be rereleased until February, I've requested contact information for the appropriate records custodians to get the facts surrounding Chapman's somehow getting out early yet again, apparently without supervision this time. It's more than a little suspicious for a dangerous career felon to continually get early releases.

Florida Today's December 4th article, "Motion denied in Dillon case," portrayed Fair successfully getting his "belief" on the record in Dillon's exoneration compensation hearings that supported State Attorney Wolfinger's spurious claims that Dillon was released on technicalities, belied by DNA tests, Chapman's lies, misrepresented evidence, witness intimidation, officer misconduct, the use of John Preston's phony scent evidence expertise, etc.

Florida Today allowed Wolfinger to state that he had investigated cases involving Preston after Wilton Dedge's 2004 DNA exoneration in "Trials in which dog was used to be reviewed" on July 25th, 2009. Wolfinger did no such thing; I've known this since November of 2008 through asking Wolfinger's records custodian for his list of Preston's appearances. There isn't one. Wolfinger's custodian wrote that I was requesting an investigation, and that I would have to pay for it.

According to Wolfinger's records custodian, no one from the media had requested a list. And that is not as bad as it gets.

Florida Today reported on December 4th, "Fair, in his affidavit, calls Chapman's testimony "slanderous, libelous and defamatory to the good moral character of myself, Investigator Dan Wilmer and Judge Dean Moxley." Hanging Dillon out to dry - Florida Today did not print any of its archived information about Wilmer, Moxley or Fair, information that doesn't support Fair's glowing character endorsements.

Dan Wilmer - perhaps there are two; one honest, one not. Florida Today challenged the Sheriff's office over Wilmer's denial of the existence of a memo linking a prostitute to another deputy, with that challenge proving that Wilmer lied, according to the November 1995 Brechner report.

Judge John Dean Moxley - whether he's goes by John or Dean, there's but one Moxley involved, and he has a low moral character. Florida Today previously reported that he helped prosecute Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and others using untenable trial tactics like those listed above.

Thomas Fair - according to Florida Today's October 27, 2008 article, "Ex-police tester says he got fired unjustly," Fair claimed he'd been dismissed for speaking up about financial mismanagement. It's feasible that Chapman's statements at Dillon's hearing were solicited to undermine Fair's credibility in fighting to get his job back; it's also feasible that Fair is playing along with a dark charade to get reinstated. The latter seems the likelier scenario; Moxley was the initial judicial assignment of Fair's employment lawsuit.

Florida Today's ongoing disinterest in its own archives and public records remains married to its determination to steer the course of events away from a rule-of-law resolution of clouded convictions, as further evidenced by appending Annette Clifford's comment to John Torres December 4th article, implying a Grand Jury investigation of Preston cases is appropriate.

Grand Juries conduct secret hearings with evidence and testimony requirements that are inferior to our courts. The public, nationwide, has been endangered by Preston's perjuries for close to thirty years. Secrecy is obviously not in the public's best interest when it leaves miscreants on the job and felons on the streets. When Preston's, Keith Pikett's and other DNA discredited dog handlers are scrupulously investigated, there will likely be a bloody body count resulting from putting the wrong men behind bars based on their "scent evidence."

Florida's Chief Inspector General is obligated by statute to initiate investigations of public misconduct; CIG Miguel has refused to do so and Gov. Crist hasn't requested her resignation for nonfeasance. Florida's Bar and Judiciary aren't self-policing themselves. Florida's Legislature refused to step up and check and balance the Executive and Judicial branches despite knowledge of the scale of false expert testimony, including Preston's testimony in the 9th Judicial Circuit resulting in Linroy Bottoson's execution that gives that district a vested interest in upholding Preston-tainted convictions and makes Crist's Executive Order Number 09-147 yet another untenable tactic deployed against Gary Bennett, unless - of course - Preston testified in every judicial circuit in Florida.

It's the FBI's job to investigate bogus scent evidence experts involvement in prosecutions, including at their behest. Through an issuance resulting from accepting a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus, the FBI can be compelled by the US Supreme Court to immediately adhere to its mandates. A Petition stands a good chance; one of my requests for an FBI investigation included reporting an Internet scam that abused the FBI logo; the FBI e-mailed a prompt response to the scam. Additionally, the FBI protected dogs ahead of men in investigating dogfighting operations in several states this year while men framed by canine scent evidence remained caged.

Florida Today's December 12th article, "Lawyers call for a squad on innocence," suggests that there was a "mistake" involved in Willton Dedge's prosecution, as if there could possibly be no malice behind pressing for "finality" - the bizarre Brevard prosecutorial pretense that innocence has an expiration date - to hide the deployment of Preston and the same coached jailhouse informant used against Gerald Stano, the latter fact omitted by Florida Today in its graphics, "Cases involving Preston." That snitch recanted, too, but Florida Today didn't connect the dots from Clarence Zacke to Chapman. Nor is there any attempt of record, to my knowledge, of Florida Today trying to find out who coached James E. Gilmore to testify against Juan Ramos, or any mention of the two inmates who testified against Gary Bennett.

Despite Gannett's contrary conviction, callousness is not contagious; those fighting for impunity for civil servants that ruined the lives of innocent men remain an aberrant minority. As the majority doesn't always remain silent and the US Supreme Court is unpredictable, Gannett would be wise to report factually before the finger-pointing Fair initiated becomes earnest. Relieving employees of being mired in misanthropic muck would undoubtedly be a welcome holiday bonus.

Regards,

Susan Chandler

Who's on first?

Susan Chandler — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:22:20 EST

Abbott and Costello would have had a field day with Brevard County's comedic quagmire, "What's Fair?"

Not "fair" as is equitable; Fair as in former deputy Thomas Fair.

At first, Roger Dale Chapman's appearance at Bill Dillon's exoneration compensation hearing last month seemed to be nothing but Chapman's personal emotional appeal for forgiveness for playing a dastardly role in Dillon's frame-up.

Then, it seemed that Chapman's latest early release was engineered to damn Thomas Fair for coaching him to testify against Dillon. Fair had publicly bucked the system last year and lost his police "tester" job as a result, filing suit to get it back. Brevard-style retribution seemed likely. (05-2008-CA-059022-XXXX-XX,
http://webinfo4.brevardclerk.us/facts/name_search.cfm)

But the worm turned yet again. (Brevard is one big can of 'em.)

Now it looks as if Chapman's umpteenth early-out was to allow Fair - through answering Chapman's coaching accusation - to wheedle his way onto the public record in Dillon's exoneration compensation hearing as personally believing Dillon guilty, propping up unsavory civil servants' reputations in the process.

As one of the unsavory civil servants Fair praised was the initial judicial assignment in Fair's lawsuit, perhaps it's a behind-the-scenes way for him to get his job back.

To be clear: Bill Dillon's innocence claim is based on DNA tests that clearly implicated others and witnesses that put him miles away at the time of the crime. Brevard's claims of guilt rely on a "scent evidence expert" who was discredited on national TV in 1984, revolving-door felon Chapman's lies, witness intimidation, admitted officer misconduct, admitted witness perjuries, acknowledged evidence misrepresentation and theatrics, theatrics, theatrics in Brevard's snow-job tradition that mimics show business -- "the snow must go on."

So read the records request below and share your thoughts - What's Fair? Hardcore sell-out? Delusional? Combination of the two? Something I missed?

P.S. As always, all referenced pdf's are available by request to studio8@infionline.net - just put "pdf please" in the subject line. The link for the referenced Brechner Report is http://brechner.org/reports/1995/rpt9511.htm.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: December 7, 2009 7:22:33 AM EST
To: Gretl Plessinger
Subject: Fwd: Roger Dale Chapman, DOC #049972

Dear Ms. Plessinger:

A Florida Today article alerted me to Thomas Fair's success in disparaging Bill Dillon's innocence on the record.

I have learned since writing to you on December 4th that Fair initially appeared before Judge John Dean Moxley in his Brevard suit to be reinstated as a police "tester" (pdf below), clouding Fair's endorsement of Moxley's character in Dillon's matter. I also found that the investigator Fair simultaneously defended - Dan Wilmer - was apparently found to have have lied about the existence of a memo tying a deputy to a prostitute, per a 1995 Brechner Report.

Fair's statements disparaging William Dillon's innocence apparently went on the record without any attorney raising these points, although my finding them clearly indicates that they're easily learned. Apparently, no attorney asked Roger Dale Chapman how he came by yet another sentence reduction, one that allowed him to be present to open the door to Fair's floundering damnation of Dillon. Florida Today, although writing about Fair, Wilmer and Moxley in the past, did not check their archives before going to press, let alone any public records.

Please rush my request for records custodian information to prevent more tangles being added to the web of deceit surrounding Brevard/Seminole prosecutions. Thank you.

Regards,

Susan Chandler

Begin forwarded message:

From: Susan Chandler
Date: December 4, 2009 4:20:22 AM EST
To: Gretl Plessinger
Subject: Roger Dale Chapman, DOC #049972

Dear Ms. Plessinger:

James E. Gilmore's recorded wrist-slaps prove the pattern that Brevard/Seminole has established for coached jailhouse informants - Gilmore swore falsely against Juan Ramos along with DNA disgraced dog handler John Preston; no one has stepped up to sponsor compensation for Ramos, whose five years on death row ruined his life, by his account.

Some time ago, I pdf'd career felon Roger Dale Chapman's Inmate Population Information that portrayed a release date of February, 2010. Gain time is preposterous with Chapman's record of apparently recently violating parole (per another pdf), yet he was released in October, making him available to testify at William Dillon's exoneration compensation hearing, where he was markedly not as concerned about apologizing to Dillon so much as making sure the press damned a former deputy - Thom Fair - that likely had nothing to do with Chapman's perjuries against Dillon aside from recording what Chapman said after he'd been coached outside of Fair's knowledge.

I would very much appreciate immediately receiving the name(s) and email address(es) of the appropriate records custodian(s) to approach with FPRA requests for documentation of the circumstances surrounding Chapman's early releases and the reason(s) why this latest release appears to be without supervision. Chapman is a violent, multi-county offender - it's beyond irresponsible for Floridians to be deluded by the lackadaisical media into believing he was repentant if he instead was released early in trade for framing Fair.

And again, I would very much immediately appreciate the name and email address of a party that Threna Adams may approach to get her statement about Monte Adams adjusted to reality; she never said her son was violent. Monte Adams will likely be paroled if you cooperate; once free, Monte can begin to personally address the untenable trial tactics used against him. (DOC #914886) Monte wasn't the one found in possession of stolen goods; the prints found at the crime scene weren't "run" after a match with Monte was eliminated, being too inconvenient to the prosecutor's theory of the crime.

There can't continue to be two justice systems running side-by-side, one catering to dangerous career felons, the other ridiculously railroading men with by ignoring inconvenient evidence and perjured testimony. On November 21st, I apprised one of Sen. Bill Nelson's aides, in person, that I intend to file a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to have the US Supreme Court compel the FBI to immediately adhere to their mandate to investigate public corruption that affected trail and election outcomes nationwide surrounding DNA disgraced dog handlers.

John Dean Moxley's long-time former assistant was married to a former Brevard Chief Deputy - Ron Clark - who likely had greater access to jail inmates to shop for snitches than Fair. Moxley is already implicated in coaching Clarence Zacke to testify against both Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano, and of course, implicated in soliciting false testimony from DNA disgraced dog handler John Preston against both. Supposedly a handwritten case note by Moxley implicates Thom Fair.

Framing Fair for coaching Chapman will have the effect of making Dillon appear guilty, which apparently is what miscreant State Attorney Norm Wolfinger is shooting for. Wolfinger lied to the press this year about having investigated all Preston cases after Wilton Dedge's 2004 exoneration, according to correspondence from his records custodian, Patty Crowell. When I requested a list of Preston cases, Crowell responded on November 19, 2008, " ... there is no list of cases. What you are actually requesting in your email is that this office conduct a research project."

Time is of the essense. The press will continue to write at random without conducting research in hopeless "he said, she said" ravings, and William Dillon doesn't need additional years of drama atop the nearly three decades that were stolen from him. Florida taxpayers don't need to pay for Thom Fair to fight for his honor if Norm Wolfinger and/or John Dean Moxley are the ones that arranged for Chapman to besmirch it.

Aside from Monte Adams, Crosley Green, Jeff Abramowski and likely many others were railroaded in Brevard - so far only Preston cases have gotten any attention, and that attention has been derelict; Wolfinger's record custodian wrote that the only other requests for a list of Preston victims aside from mine was from the Brevard/Seminole Publc Defender and the Innocence Project of Florida - no AP, no UPI, no Reuters, no Gannett publication, etc. The wrongfully convicted deserve hope for the holidays, and William Dillon needs immediate assurance that his days of being Brevard's pawn are over. Please respond immediately.

Regards,

Susan Chandler
1060 South Highway US 1 #99
Vero Beach, FL 32962

When unique is too oblique ...

Susan Chandler — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:44:19 EST

We call District Attorneys "State Attorneys" here in Florida. And we have to stop.

There is no southern-steeped tradition that's worth risking that the United States Supreme Court misunderstand the role of key players when the Justices are formally asked to compel the FBI adhere to its mandate to investigate the cover-up of decades-old multiple malicious prosecutions that assured the reelections of miscreant civil servants - election cycle after election cycle - while keeping killers on the streets and innocents behind bars.

State Attorney Norm Wolfinger's behaviors contributed to my having standing to file a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus with the US Supreme Court to request that the Justices author an issuance that directs the FBI to immediately adhere to their mandate to investigate nationwide public corruption surrounding use of DNA disgraced dog handlers that affected the outcome of trials and elections.

Florida Today reported on August 2, 2009, "Wolfinger says he ordered an examination in 2004, when Dedge was exonerated, to identify cases "where limited evidence raised a question of actual guilt," and believes only four men in prison today meet that standard, and that at least three of the convictions are sound." ["Our views: Not good enough - Full investigation of state attorney's office use of fraudulent dog handler still needed"]

It's possible that Wolfinger made his 2004 list of those DNA disgraced dog handler John Preston testified against, checked it twice, and then threw it out, but I double-damn doubt it.

It simply doesn't jibe with what Wolfinger's records custodian Patty Crowell wrote on November 19, 2008 in response to my request for a list of cases Preston had participated in, "What you are actually requesting in your email is that this office conduct a research project."

Bill Dillon lost 27 Christmases with his family, Wilton Dedge lost 22, Juan Ramos lost five. There are many others that the Justices have to decide to compel the FBI to find and secure justice for, turning the tables of the granddaddy of Grinches - Norm Wolfinger - whose heart is more than two sizes too small. Wolfinger knew all about men like Ramos, Dedge and Dillon when he took office in 1985 and defied all that's legal - and all that's holy - to look the other way.

Keeping in mind that Preston is reported to have been involved in @100 Brevard criminal investigations, Ms. Crowell's words were ominous, "There is no list of cases that identifies John Preston as a witness."

Crowell notes that the Innocence Project of Florida and the Brevard/Seminole Public Defenders Office made the same request for a list of Preston's appearances. Period.

Crowell apparently received no requests from Florida's Chief Inspector General, Attorney General, Governor, Legislators, the Florida Bar Association, the American Bar Association or anyone in the media - not even wire services.

Having done no credible research, Florida Today loftily lamented in the final lines of the August 2nd opinion piece, "... the wheels of justice have turned slowly for the known victims of Preston' frauds. It's past time to find out if there are more."

While Florida Today works their Ouija Board, I'll keep writing formal requests for information and working on my Petition for a Writ of Mandamus.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "WEBMASTER"
Date: November 19, 2008 10:29:35 AM EST
To: "Susan Chandler"
Subject: Re: William Dillon 05-1981-CF-001746-AXXX-XX Status Hearing 11/3/08

Dear Ms. Chandler:

The address for Sandra Weeks is listed on a two page discovery document.
There is no list of cases that identifies John Preston as a witness.
There have been public record requests by the Innocence Project of Florida and the Brevard County Public Defender’s Office that sought information about John Preston, but they have also been advised that there is no list of cases. A copy of their public record requests are available and are a page or two in length.

What you are actually requesting in your e-mail is that this office conduct a research project. To create the lists that you request would require a hand-search of numerous case files and hours of review. As mentioned in the prior e-mail, the requester of such a search would be required to pay the hourly rate of the person who did the research.

Should you wish for the discovery document or the public record requests mentioned above to be copied and mailed to your, please contact Cathy Romans at (321) 617-7510 and she will verify with you the number of pages and the cost. Ms. Romans can also coordinate with you should you wish to review other documents that may be available for inspection that you could review for some of the information you are requesting be compiled into lists.

Patty Crowell
State Attorney's Office, 18th Circuit

This one's for you, wherever you are ...

Susan Chandler — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:18:56 EST

Jeff Abramowski likely envisions Judy Foley and her son retracting their testimony, explaining why Brevard framed him and let them walk. I recently discovered Judy died last year, and Michael may follow soon, depending on whether he stopped doing drugs or stopped getting caught. He served about a month all told, with no sign that treatment was ordered. Perhaps eFACTS has inaccuracies, but Michael’s self-destruction would be convenient for officers, prosecutors and judges.

DNA identified the hair found on Cortney Crandall’s body as Judy’s; DNA found in a sink trap matched Michael. Their fingerprints were present, Jeff’s weren’t. There were two murder weapons; burly young Jeff wouldn’t have needed one. The FDLE DNA expert said that Jeff’s DNA - hitting on two of 15 markers - was a match due to the uniqueness of 17.3 at D18S51; government sites say it’s present in one in 16,500 males.

Testimony regarding a knife purchase placed Jeff in Melbourne. Former SEAL Chief “Patches” Watson hooked me up with the former Gerber knife sales manager, employed when Crandall when killed. Wal-Marts didn’t sell black-bladed knives (too expensive, too military), but indeed there had been a cutlery shop in the Orlando mall Jeff named that sold Gerber knives, next to a Foot Locker, as Jeff described. The knife turning out to be a knock-off means nothing. Watson, author of “Point Man” and designer of SEAL equipment aside from his knives that Gerber manufactures, confirmed that retailers frequently foist knock-offs on customers (in shorter, saltier words appropriate to lost incomes).

Brevard prosecutors attempted to get two incarcerated men to lie on the stand about Jeff. One made it all the way to the courthouse before backing down.

My blog gets hit hard enough to stay near the top on Google, Yahoo and Bing - if you're reading this, Michael, flip on Brevard.

Email A.G. Eric Holder.

Make a mark; don’t leave a stain.

http://webinfo4.brevardclerk.us/facts/name_search.cfm

Mandamus to un-damn us?

Susan Chandler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:14:28 EST

I Inter-tripped over a means to compel the FBI to investigate clouded convictions and the media’s related manipulation of information that affected the outcome of elections, including the number of candidates.

After some research and collaboration to assure airtight arguments and proper format, I’ll file a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus requesting that the U. S. Supreme Court direct the FBI to immediately investigate DNA-discredited scent experts, clouded convictions within the same judicial jurisdictions and the media omissions of fact that recklessly endangered the public, artificially enhancing the reputations of public servants while forestalling their investigation and prosecution.

It’s fitting to go straight to the Supreme Court, even if bogus crime scene dog handlers aside from John Preston are addressed as footnotes; Stephen Epperly is still incarcerated in Virginia from a Preston no-body homicide conviction, making it beside the point whether or not all other remedies in lower courts have been exhausted.

A portrayal of related coached informant testimony will cement the need to address clouded convictions related only by virtue of arrests, prosecutions or trials conducted by the same civil servants, with Jeff Abramowski’s being a case in point. Questionable case transfers, like Gary Bennett’s, will more concretely tie in other jurisdictions that superficially seem benign.

Other Executive Orders portraying suspicious jurisdictional changes resulting in wrist slaps will be supplemented with other cases that are unrelated to incarcerations, opening the door for justice for all, at long last.

That the media made no mention of many dereliction dots, making it impossible to connect them, will be inherently apparent, but explained, none-the-less.

With a little help from political cronies and the media, State Attorney Wolfinger ran unopposed last year, although betraying his constituents since taking office in 1985, and Sen. Haridopolos is in line for Senate President.

Hi, FBI ...

Susan Chandler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:06 EST

I received a call from a friend who says she can't get emails through to me today. I checked my mailbox, it was only at 17%, so it wouldn't have kicked anything back automatically. It could be she just typed my address wrong, or it could be high-tech game playing in response to my email to the FBI early this morning on their Tips and Public Leads web form:

"Please immediately investigate convictions in which self-acclaimed
DNA-discredited "scent evidence" experts were involved. Keith Pikett and John Preston both lied on the stand about their credentials. Please investigate the Associated Press, Gannett and any other news organization whose failure to disclose information forthrightly and in full skewered elections and recklessly endangered the public.

Please advise me by return email that you will open an investigation today. The remainder of Pikett's and Preston's victims deserve hope for the holidays."

Friends have claimed sporadically for years that they their emails to me get returned; I've been writing to the FBI sporadically for years, requesting that they adhere to their mandate to investigate public corruption that affects trial outcomes.

The additional request to investigate news organizations may be ground I've covered before, but I'm not going to open each pdf to check. There's too many, and this day is already gloomy enough without me reminding myself how many times I've written "please" to the FBI.

Domestic violence demagoguery

Susan Chandler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:57:59 EST

Florida Today fails the public again in reporting on the pandemic of violence against women.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 10, 2009 7:47:17 AM EST
To: ksummers@floridatoday.com, John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: cig@eog.myflorida.com, Governor Charlie Crist , Senator Mike Haridopolos , Debbie Mayfield
Subject: "Victim's assistance is vital in campaign against domestic abuse" Florida Today, October 27, 2009

Dear Florida Today:

The theme of this article is the theme of many Florida Today articles - blame the victim. Yolanda Garvin-Williams had formerly dropped domestic violence charges against her estranged husband, so - according to Florida Today - it's her fault that he killed her. There's no interviews of family members to ascertain her reasons - women frequently drop the charges when their domestic partners threaten to kill them if they don't. Ms. Garvin-Williams may have dropped the charges out of sheer terror. There's conveniently no interviews of domestic violence shelter workers, because they could detail the reasons that women drop DV charges, and the subplot of the story is to make tarnished officers, prosecutors and judges shine, another recurring theme in Florida Today articles.

There are more women killed by their domestic partners every year then there are law enforcment officers who lose their lives on the job, including officer lives lost in traffic accidents.

Roughly three women per day die from domestic violence in the land of the free and home of the brave. Hundreds per day are seriously injured.

What the police, prosecutors and judiciary say about domestic violence in interviews and what they actually do about domestic violence on the job every day do not match, and all that Florida Today would have had to do to discern and report as much would be to interview women currently residing in domestic violence shelters. Florida Today is already well aware of the need to interview actual victims; I'm sure they've received many emails similar to the one I sent to John Glisch on June 18, 2004.

Further proof of Florida Today's bias is supplied through reading Gov. Crist's Executive Orders, which I assume that someone at the newspaper is assigned to do. The Orders tell a tale of state employees (or their relatives) perpetrating domestic violence and having their cases transferred to another jurisdiction for wrist slaps. If Floridians want real news, they have to read blogs like CourtWatcher; a November 8th post tells of a Castleberry police officer who now has no domestic violence record, if he completed a diversion program as directed. [http://courtwatchflorida.blogspot.com/2009/11/whatever-happened-to.html]

My June, 2004 email to Glisch detailed my personal concerns about Judge John Dean Moxley, who was quoted in the subject article, "While it's just a piece of paper and won't stop a bullet, it stops rational people who had a temporary aberration." Moxley was speaking of injunctions, and he spoke with his typical dishonesty. Most perpetrators of domestic violence exhibit an escalating pattern, not a singular outburst.

Drawing Moxley into the article is blatantly spit-polishing a hopelessly tarnished reputation. Moxley was involved in the lawless persecutions of Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge, Gerald Stano, William Dillon and likely many others, deploying coached jailhouse informants and bogus "scent evidence expert" John Preston. Jailhouse informant Clarence Zacke named Moxley as one of the prosecutors who coached him to lie on the stand about Dedge and Stano. As a judge, Moxley retained his penchant for perjury and his affinity for ridiculous "scent evidence," and developed a propensity for predation of taxpayers' money. The proof is in my case file. And Crosley Green's. And in Glenda Carlin Busick's book "Brevard Good Ole Boys." And the St. Petersburg Times DROP double dipper database. Throughout most of his career as a prosecutor and judge, Vicki Clark served as Moxley's assistant. My intuition says that the shortest distance between coached jailhouse informants and courthouses will eventually prove to be Ms. Clark's husband, a former Brevard Sheriff's deputy.

At the turn of the century, the Melbourne Police Department was a mess. There were internal and external investigations of officer misconduct, including domestic violence. Chief Chandler resigned; Chief Carey took over. Both chiefs thought domestic violence was no big deal. The FDLE was content with their attitude. The advice I received in a domestic violence shelter was to be grateful that I got out alive and to just forget about recovering my home and possessions. I was told to hide. I didn't heed that advice, but in group sessions I learned that most women did, especially the women who had children. They relayed tales of officers laughing at them while they cried; officers refusing to respond to calls when injunctions were violated, let alone make arrests. I didn't find out till years later that the day the MPD finally allowed me to file a complaint was the day after my then-husband had been arrested in a prostitution sting. Violating procedure, the Palm Bay Police Department had released an impounded vehicle titled solely in my name without notifying me, blaming the towing company, much to the owner of the company's ire. He gave me the officer's name who authorized the release. The MPD covered for the PBPD, and the FDLE covered for both, and the Attorney General, Chief Inspector General and Governor covered for them all.

Brevard isn't a safe place to live because Florida Today finds most truths inconvenient. If we don't have laws like other states that allow officers to make arrests and prosecutors to file charges based on visible evidence of domestic violence, we should. And our legislators won't address that need until newspapers make it clear. So who's fault is it - really - that Yolanda Garvin-Williams is dead - hers, or yours?

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

Warning - explicit material

Susan Chandler — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:24:21 EST

Never thought I'd write that admonishment. But I never though I'd keep tripping over the wrongfully convicted like just so many askew stepping stones, either.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 9, 2009 5:43:19 PM EST
To: ACLUFLCentralPresident@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Police Ban Banner in Front of Courthouse

Dear Central Florida ACLU:

A small group of Floridians are attempting to address Florida's wrongful convictions; some of us have been laboring for years.

While in Orlando to file an Amicus Brief in Tommy Zeigler's case, Ray McEachern tried to stage a protest today to increase public awareness of our efforts and garner more support. His email, below, apprised the group of what happened.

I believe that Ray should have been able to peacefully protest anything he wanted without interference from the police. William "Tommy" Zeigler has been on death row - wrongfully - for 33 years.

Eschewing the old saw "silence is golden," Francis Bacon said, "Silence is the virtue of fools."

Please do something about the police stopping Ray from telling Orlando about Tommy.

Regards,

Susan Chandler

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Police Order Courthouse Banner Removed
Contact: Ray McEachern 813-909-0217

Orlando - The grassroots Committee for Justice for Tommy Zeigler was ordered by police today to remove the table displaying the above banner 15 minutes after it was put up on the public sidewalk several hundred feet from the Orange County Courthose. The goup was at the court house to file an amicus curiae brief in support of a petition to test DNA that they say will prove Zeigler is innocent of the murders he has spent 33 years on death row for.

The Amicus brief questioned why the state attorney would accuse Zeigler of sucking the genitals of a dead man Zeigler was convicted of killing when there was no evidence of such an act. Assistant state attorney, Jeff Ashton made the claim in a hearing before Judge Whitehead to try to excuse the state's error at the original trial. At the trial in 1976, State Attorney Robert Eagan demonstrated his theory of how the blood stain got on Zeigler's shirt by telling Zeigler in front of the jury, " You can't tell me how you held Perry Edwards around the neck and clubbed him with your right hand as you held him with your left?" Perry Edwards was also killed in the attack as were Zeigler's wife and her mother.

The DNA proved it was Charlie Mays blood whom Zeigler had claimed was the man who shot him in the stomach as he entered his furniture store in Winter Garden on Christmas Eve, 1975. A recent deposition by a retired detective found evidence that Mays was the shooter in the murder of another store owner by the name of Jacob Reddick. That murder was never solved.

For more information, go to www.freetommyz.com ..

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P.S. for a pdf copy of the banner, email studio8@infionline with "banner" in the subject line

A second opinion on Karen Thurman's viability as FDP Chair

Susan Chandler — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:27:19 EST

Offered with the permission of the author:

Nov. 6, 2009

Dearest Party Leaders,

My name is Chairman Benjamin John “BJ” Chiszar of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party and it is with great sadness that I write to you all to expose what I consider to be the final straw in my dealing with the leadership at FDP headquarters. I have had nothing but problems and frustration in dealing with our “parent” organization and enough is enough is enough. I am not going anywhere and I will continue to lead the Miami-Dade DEC to victory (we have won 23 out 29 local races this year). We are active on the issues that we as Democrats say we believe in (healthcare, equality, assault weapons ban, right to vote, the environment, etc) and we are growing our DEC rapidly (over 150 new applicants- up 62% in my first year). I do not require the FDP for anything! The MD-DEC would be better served if they would simply leave us alone. Let them coddle up to corrupt big donors (like the crook Mr. Rothstein, whom FDP returned $200,000 to) and then continue to waste the money, without supporting DECs, as section 7 and 9 of the FDP Charter demand!

On yesterday, November 5th, I received a rude and threatening phone call from the FDP Director of Party Affairs, Milli Smith who claimed that the DNC had contacted the FDP to complain about me. The way Ms. Smith spoke to me as if she was some supreme authority figure over the MD-DEC was inappropriate and I let her know it. I yelled at her in response to her wording and tone, and told her that she was not to call me and threaten me ever again and if there was a problem with DNC, they should put it in writing for my review and then hung up in her face. Unfortunately for Milli, it turns out that she was lying, got caught and then tried to play the victim as if I was mean to her. The DNC told me that they DID NOT contact FDP to complain about me and Southern US Political Director, my friend Nate Jenkins (from Orlando) even went so far as to say that it was “completely inappropriate for Milli Smith to call me and say there was a complaint”. What had occurred was that I, as the youngest Chair of a large county in the US had placed a call and left a message to speak with our National leader Gov. Tim Kaine on Wednesday. I left my name and number and that was it. I didn’t specify the reason for my call, so Nate Jenkins called FDP to see if my call to DC had something with the Judicial Committee issue from this summer (which I will get late in this letter). My call did not have anything to do with FDP. Ms. Smith also claimed that our DEC Treasurer called to complain about me twice yesterday, which I found out to be a lie as well, according to my Treasurer Paul Barthole. He says called because Milli never sent a certificate for the Haitian-American Democratic Club, which is part of her job. Now where does Ms. Smith get off taking liberty with the facts and saying the DNC and DEC Treasurer “complained” about me? Why doKaren Thurman and Scott Arceneaux, who knew exactly what was going on, because I copied them on ALL the emails, allow this non-sense? Because it deals with BJ in Miami-Dade, that’s why! I highly doubt any of you are subjected to this tyranny!

First of all, allow me to give you some background information that will help you understand my frustration with FDP. The Karen Thurman croniesDID NOT win election at our Organizational Meeting. Knowing that I do not like Karen and her team in Tallahassee (based on 2008 personal experience, when I was an employee of DNC and FDP), my victory was greeted with utter panic and disdain. Karen Thurman, FDP staff and their gadfly do nothing friends in Miami-Dade have tried their darnedest to be divisive and disruptive from day one. I have no doubt that their failures to impact our DEC operation boils their blood. In the spring, the FDP and Karen’s MD-DEC cronies tried to undo my free and fair election of December 3rd, by complaining about past Chair and current State Committeeman Bret Berlin and his conduct before and during the election. After failing to comply with their own bylaws and having to re-schedule the hearing, the FULL Judicial council met and exonerated both Bret Berlin and also Chairman Mitch Caesar (Broward) from any wrongdoing concerning the organizational meetings. They made some recommendations, one of which we had done 2 months before the hearing. Another was to send the ballots from December 3rd which had never been in my possession and the third was to “bring our DEC bylaws into compliance with FDP”. I asked both verbally and in writing at least 10 times for someone to please tell us EXACTLY what is wrong with our bylaws and we will change them. I spoke to Vice Chair Diane Glasser, who told me that was a reasonable request and that FDP should assist. This never happened, yet the FDP wanted to try me later for not following their broad general recommendation. It should be noted that FDP was updating their own bylaws this year and makes zero sense to tell a DEC to fix our bylaws while FDP is fixing their own. These are the folks in charge of this Party!

Another bit of information for background purposes pertain to rude and intimidating calls from FDP staff. The first rude call I received from Milli Smith came on April 1, while I was down at the election department to get confirmation that a candidate was NOT a registered Democrat (Myron Rosner). It just so happens that Ms. Smith was calling about this same candidate. Three of her DEC friends (Thomas Pinder, John Julien, & Carline Paul) had supposedly (according to Milli) called FDP to complain that I was telling them they had support our Democrat, Mayor Ray Marin (who happened to be one of our only Puerto Rican electeds in the entire State) in North Miami Beach. Now I did not invent the loyalty oath or make her friends sign it, they did so on their own, knowing full well what it says and means. Milli Smith ordered me to “let them support whomever they want, because FDP didn’t want them on Haitian-American radio saying bad things about the Party”. So I was told to let them violate the loyalty oath that we all signed by an FDP official. On the same call, Milli claimed that another friend of hers (Elizabeth Judd) had called to say that I was doing “nothing to help DEC member Eddie Lewis in his council bid in Miami Shores”. The only problem is that it is completely false! We (DEC and myself as an individual) had been doing everything you can imagine (door knocking, phone calling, providing walk-lists & call-lists, emails and even did a GOTV mailer) to help him and he is still very appreciative of the DEC’s efforts to this day. So once again, Milli’s friends and Milli Smith take liberty with the facts to suit their own agenda of opposing me. Ms. Judd’s true intentions were later revealed. She wanted the DEC to assist her friend in North Miami in a race featuring 5 Democrats! We offered them all the same assistance as any good DEC would. To add icing on the cake, on the same April 1st call, she claimed that one of the DFA gadflies, Sam Feldman said “BJ won’t give me VAN access”. This is also false; Sam was one of the first DEC members to get VAN access (3/23/09) for his PRECINCT. He demanded the entire city of Miami Beach and of course I said no way! This is a perfect segue to what FDP tried to do to me this summer.

Mr. Feldman and DFA decided to endorse a Republican over the Florida League of Cities President, and Liberal Democrat Michael Blynn in North Miami. They did so knowingly and in fact didn’t even invite the Democrat to their “candidate screening”. Now DFA can do whatever it wants, but Milli’s friend Sam Feldman violated the loyalty oath and took a paid position with the Republican. Hmmm…I would find out later that the Republican’s daughter had been employed by DFA during 2008 and when the Republican made a run-off, Sam had her switch to Democrat to prevent the DEC from assisting the Real Democrat. DCCA Chair Alison Morano was made aware of this, as was Vice Chair Diane Glasser and Milli Smith. This exposure was an embarrassment for DFA and Sam. This incident was the catalyst for these gadflies filing a fraudulent complaint against me with FDP.

The first complaint was about Union bugs and that the DEC used a designer bug, instead of printer bug. The DEC has been using the same guy for 9 years and I never examined with a magnifying glass what the tiny bug said. Not to mention that nowhere in our State or Local bylaws does it say I have to use any Union bug. I will have you all know that the DEC relationship with organized labor has never been stronger as I am known all over South Florida as “Union guy”. The second complaint was from the UM Democrats who were encouraged by Sam (who signed complaint because none of the others were from DEC) saying that I wouldn’t give them VAN access for free. What they forgot to mention is that these rich little snobs refused to assist our Cuban-American Female Democrat, Commissioner Maria Anderson in Coral Gables (she lost the UM precinct) and said they weren’t interested in local politics or joining the DEC. Once again nowhere in our State or Local bylaws does it say that I have to give inactive and unsupportive Non-DEC members from a College Democrats Chapter VAN access. The third complaint was from perennial gadfly and Karen Thurman crony, Barbara Walters claiming a litany of procedural silliness that she couldn’t back up. This was proven at FDP hearing AND DEC hearing which both found no grounds to remove me. I save the best for last, the fourth complaint was from a Club President in Dade who had no idea about the complaint process, made false accusations that he later withdrew and told me “he was put to this by someone from the FDP staff”. Let me say that again, the FDP staff told one of my Club Presidents to make a false complaint against me in the hopes I would resign. If that does not disturb you, then I question your loyalty to truth and justice.

Now let’s review the despicable August 29th Judicial Council hearing in Miami Lakes. This Kangaroo Court set up by Karen Thurman, who appointed a SUBCOMMITTEE with one my enemies Millie Herrera, a gadfly who lost to a complete unknown civil rights activist in the election for State Committeewoman and still cries herself to sleep every night about it. This hearing was in violation of FDP bylaws! First of all, section 5.5.2 says the Judicial Council hears APPEALS, an appeal would indicate that it came before the DEC first. That did not happen and everyone at FDP knew it. Section 5.5.2 also clearly says that the appeals must be a result of a FDP bylaws violation. Not a single one of the four complaints met this criterion, unless you consider Ms. Walters non-sensical complaint bylaw related. You as Party leaders should also be aware that Section 5.5.4 of FDP bylaws says that a complainant has 30 days from date of the incident to file a complaint in writing by certified mail. Not a single one of the complaints was filed within that time frame. This was easily noticed by looking at the date they were filed (all within 3 days of each other and signed by the same people) and the dates of the alleged incidents.FDP knew that they were all filed way after the 30 days time limit passed. This was brought up at the beginning of the hearing and Vice Chair Rhett Bullard, while having the deer in headlights look on his face, let the Kangaroo Court proceed. My attorney also pointed out at the beginning of the hearing that Section 5.5.6 of FDP bylaws clearly states that when a DEC or DEC officer is brought up on charges and Karen Thurman appoints a subcommittee instead of the full Judicial Committee, the Chair (Rhett Bullard) SHALL enlarge the subcommittee to include fellow DEC Chairs from within 100 miles of the county where accused is from. This did not happen and after being informed that the hearing was violating these 3 FDP bylaws pertaining specifically to Judicial Council, Vice Chair Bullard proceeded. After wasting all of our time, there decision was to send it back to DEC officers and let them decide. This was as backwards as you can possibly get. So the FDP appointed my fellow officers to be a grievance committee, which I believe to be inappropriate. It didn’t matter because they found the complaints non-sensical and denied them all!

Again. Let’s return to yesterday, I got a call late in the day from the NEW Executive Director, Scott Arceneaux. This was my first time ever speaking with the gentleman and after simple hello-how are you, I asked him why his staff had lied twice in one day about receiving complaints about me, got caught and he allows such a thing to occur. He then told me not to be mean to his staff, when I reminded him who started this business. Mr. Arceneaux then proceeded to rudely insult me and tell me to shut up. As you can imagine, I let him have it and put him in his place real quick. I will not be spoken to by these scumbags like that! I can only assume that you wouldn’t either!

Today I am calling for resignation and/or removal of Karen Thurman and her senior Staff (especially Scott & Millie). Given that many of you are friends with these people, I expect some blind loyalty to the status quo. This is unacceptable behavior from leaders of the most important State in the Union. I believe there is a direct correlation to this pathetic excuse for leadership and our losing big in 2010! You can prevent that from happening! All you need to do is ask some simple questions. If you do that you will find that everything I have laid out for you is true. I wake up every day with the people of Florida and especially our 4 million+ Democrats on my mind and in my heart. Thank you for your time!

BJ Chiszar (305-491-0713)

You scream, I scream ...

Susan Chandler — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:04:26 EST

Screaming gets attention. So does writing about screaming. It's one of the artifices in Florida Today's arsenal; artifices that are wearing thinner by the day.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 8, 2009 3:31:59 AM EST
To: John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Senator Mike Haridopolos , Debbie Mayfield
Subject: Our Views: Justice ignored - Florida Today 11/6/09

Dear Florida Today:

I'm frankly amazed at FT's Editorial Board's pernicious persistence in misinforming the public on "what still must happen" in investigating John Preston's participation in criminal investigations and trials over 25 years ago, resulting in three upset convictions to date, with perhaps scores to follow.

Your November 6th editorial, "Our Views: Justice ignored," says "Gov. Charlie Crist and Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum have shamefully ignored mounting evidence since 2006 that screams for a broader investigation."

As I've previously pointed out to FT, in different words, screams for oversight are - by law - unnecessary.

Florida Statute, Title IV, Chapter 14, 14.32 Office of Chief Inspector General, (2)(a), states, "The Chief Inspector General shall: initiate, supervise and coordinate investigations, recommend policies, and carry out other activities designed to deter, detect, prevent, and eradicate fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement and misconduct in government."

FT has yet to publish any attempts to contact Chief Inspector Miguel to see why she hasn't initiated an investigation of already detected misconduct.

And although I suspect FT printed "since 2006" for a purpose, the year has no special significance. Geraldo Rivera discredited Preston in 1984 on ABC's "20/20;" the same year State Attorney Norm Wolfinger won his first election. Upon taking office in 1985, Wolfinger did nothing to ensure that there had been candor before the tribunal in regards to Preston and coached jailhouse informants such as he'd encountered in defending Juan Ramos and Gary Bennett.

1998 is more significant. Gerald Stano fried in Old Sparky that year, although the coached jailhouse snitch recanted in time to save him, retracting testimony against Wilton Dedge simultaneously (DNA exonerated, 2004), and naming those that coached him - prosecutors Chris White and John Dean Moxley.

Moxley is now an elected judge, and he still has a provable penchant for perjury.

"What still must happen" is that Florida Today must start telling the truth, either to the public now, or the FBI later. (The FBI's mandate to investigate public corruption affecting trial and election outcomes is published at http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/pubcorrupt/pubcorrupt.htm.)

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

Sheriff reopens '81 murder case ...

Susan Chandler — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:22:22 EST

Brevard's Sheriff Parker is getting a lot of help from Florida Today in making it seem rational that he take a hard look at just one of a reported 100 investigations to which John Preston lent his DNA discredited "scent evidence" expertise. There are people crying themselves to sleep every night in Brevard over John Preston's perjuries, and they've been weeping for at least 25 years. There are killers and rapists that are laughing every day over eluding prosecution, and they've been laughing for at least 25 years.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 7, 2009 9:04:39 AM EST
To: admin@bcso.us
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com
Subject: "Sheriff reopens '81 murder case that sent innocent man to prison" Florida Today 11/4/09

Dear Sheriff Parker:

Hours before the above captioned article became available on the Internet, I wrote to Florida Today and copied Gov. Crist and Chief Inspector General Miguel in regards to a rumor I'd heard that the article solidified; your agency will reinvestigate James Dvorak's 1981 homicide.

Here is part of what I wrote:

"Through the electronic grapevine, rumor reached me that James Dvorak's homicide, for which Bill Dillon served 27 years, will be re-investigated. I rechecked the Brevard County Sheriff's Office cold case web page recently, expecting it to show some new sign of order since a cold case had been reportedly resolved. It's still in disarray. The Canova Beach homicide of an elderly woman - Pauline Scandale - still bears no information that could possibly bring resolution. Perhaps there was an inconvenience factor to posting the date of the Ms. Scandale's homicide, as Dvorak was bludgeoned to death on Canova Beach. Perhaps it's mere carelessness. Either way, the BCSO looks bad.

John Dean Moxley is now four-for-four in involvement in resolved Preston matters. He served as a prosecutor against Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano, and was in the background on Bill Dillon's case. Moxley's former long-time assistant, Vicki Clark, is married to former BCSO Deputy Ron Clark. Through Roger Dale Chapman's public apology to Bill Dillon, Thom Fair has been mentioned in connection with obtaining coached informant testimony, but my intuition says that Fair won't prove to be the shortest distance between coached informants and the courthouse. It very much matters that resolution for Stano took the form of being fried alive in Old Sparky, with evidence lawfully allowed to be destroyed after 60 days. It very much matters that Gannett took the low road and did not reveal in it's summation of Preston cases that the same coached snitch testified against Dedge and Stano, and had recanted prior to Stano's 1998 state-sanctioned homicide."

Sir, I don't know you, and can only guess at the content of your character. I do know that the BCSO had as much information on the incredibility of John Preston's testimony and the entrenched use of coached jailhouse informants when Wilton Dedge was exonerated as it does right now. All that's new is increasing public awareness of what individual public servants knew about Preston and snitches, and when. I've tried to add to that awareness, given that the media is determined to deliver information piecemeal, with frequent omissions. It is likely that such reporting affected the outcome of elections, and the likelihood of it being deliberate - in Florida Today's case - becomes ever more apparent with every article cheerleading Sen. Mike Haridopolos.

I interviewed Bill Dillon and Jeff Abramowski behind bars. I believed both men's claims of innocence; Bill's story echoed that told by Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano. Jeff's story was equally credible - two loci out of 15 is never a "hit," and 17.3 at D18S51 is nearly as common among males as head colds. My SEAL friends helped me get to the bottom of the Gerber knock-off knife purchase that supposedly placed Jeff in Melbourne when he was in Orlando. Wal-Mart doesn't sell black-bladed knives, sir, they're too expensive and too military. I "followed the money," too; it wasn't very difficult, and it didn't lead to Jeff.

Crosley Green changed his mind when I arrived at the prison for his interview, afraid that his lawyers would desert him if he spoke with me. He was still on death row then. The D.C. firm representing him typically limits their pro bono work to domestic violence cases; they defend agencies against whistleblowers, help corporations get the best of the EPA, represent public servants accused of misconduct. There's no case remaining against Crosley now that it's been established that his brother had previously driven the vehicle involved in the commission of Flynn's homicide, yet somehow Crosley is still behind bars. Crosley initially appeared before John Dean Moxley, and we both know what that means - the "scent evidence" is ridiculous - despite a different dog handler, given that Crosley's prints were nowhere to be found. Kim Hallock's "the black man did it" nonsense is just that - Crosley had a buzz cut, not Jheri Curls, and no ability to change his size. Statistically, Hallock is the prime suspect given her prior relationship to Flynn, and her convoluted, conflicting statements seem to make the statistic bear out.

I haven't been well enough to travel to interview Monte Adams. His parents are in hell. They know that fingerprint evidence is in the Clerk's possession that points to someone else other than their son, prints that were never run. They likely belong to the key witness against Monte, Johnny Galvin, who was found in possession of a TV set from the crime scene. After years of trying, they can't even get enough cooperation from the state to get Threna Adams' portrayal of her son altered to suit reality so that he will be eligible for parole. She never said her son was violent - Monte had no history of violence. Johnny Galvin did.

Gary Bennett apparently didn't receive the letter I sent to him when I was searching for additional Preston victims, which isn't surprising. Although the media won't publish the conflict in transferring his case to a jurisdiction where Preston testified, resulting in Linroy Bottoson's execution, I will. Over and over again. From where I sit, State Attorney Lamar's reputation is as tarnished as State Attorney Wolfinger's; I'm familiar with William "Tommy" Zeigler's and John Dobbs' cases and I'm familiar with other untoward Executive Orders aside from Bennett's that trade cases between Wolfinger and Lamar.

You accepted the campaign reelection endorsements of Wolfinger and Brevard's community of retired federal agents, including Sen. Haridopolos' father. From defending Ramos and Bennett, Wolfinger knew all about Preston and coached informants when he was sworn in and did nothing credible, in 1985 or since, to ensure that there had been candor before the tribunal. The retired FBI agents know that their agency is mandated to address public corruption that affects trial outcomes, yet ignore continuing coverage of contrived convictions, doing nothing to kick-start the Brevard field office, and all the while Sen. Haridopolos pretends that he's unaware of the FBI's mandates and the duty of the Legislature to check and balance the Executive and Judicial branches, even though he teaches politics as his day job at a pay rate that matches his academic aspirations, not his credentials. It would be odd if the information he pretends no knowledge of appeared in his "book" that belied the collegiate tradition of payment from publishing companies rather than taxpayers.

The more legitimate books "Fatal Flaw" and "Brevard Good Ole Boys" are still out there for anyone to read, and so is my blog, and others. Don't just investigate Dvorak's homicide, sir; investigate your entire department. And not just the Preston cases. I know who attempted to get inmates to testify falsely against Jeff Abramowski, so should you. Failure to run the prints in the Adams' case is a big deal. Please don't stop at clouded convictions; I've heard from non-incarcerated persons claiming to have been abused by your agency. If you can't investigate clouded convictions and citizen complaints out of determination to make Brevard safe, then by all means act out of fear of disgrace.

A growing number of people won't settle for the even the national media's accounts of anything having to do with Brevard law enforcement, the State Attorney's office or the judiciary. The AP's related articles have enough holes in them to steer an aircraft carrier through. Anderson Cooper couldn't bother his staff to correct the years Bill was incarcerated from 26 to 27, having considerable time to do so during the delay caused by Michael Jackson's death. Instead of doing a follow-up story of his discrediting John Preston in 1985 when charges were dropped against Bill in December, Geraldo Rivera went to Charlie Crist's wedding. Instead of being incensed at the apparent link between delayed confirmation that Ottis Toole killed his son and Bill's release, John Walsh instead publicly endorsed Charlie Crist's and Bill McCollum's political ambitions. The avowed victims' advocate didn't advocate for Preston's victims and inform his viewers that Florida's Chief Inspector General is obligated by statute to investigate complaints of public misconduct, calling in whatever agencies are necessary.

Eddie Joe Lloyd, a now-deceased exonerated gentleman once said of DNA, "That's God's signature ... God's signature is never a forgery." Fox frequently films your agency in action for "Cops," but all the footage in the world isn't going to nullify God's signature.

I've repeatedly requested that the FBI adhere to their public corruption mandate.

They're going to show up, sir, and it's going to be soon, and they're going to look at Orange County and Tallahassee, too.

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

Sen. Thad Altman weighs in on Brevard County corruption!

Susan Chandler — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:55:35 EST

Okay, the title is a lie.

But Altman did weight in on something that will make Brevard a safer place to live.

Okay, that was another lie.

What Altman weighed in on was gun control. Kind of.

Florida Today reported in their November 6th article from staff and wire reports, "Altman: Don't ask about guns in home" that Floridians seeking to adopt children shouldn't have to disclose gun ownership to an adoption agency. Whoever the heck "staff and wire reports" are, they took the time to have NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer explain why adoption workers have to back off: "An adoption agency has no right to subvert the privacy of gun owners."

My daughter is adopted. I answered questions about guns. Adoption workers ask about them to make sure you're aware of how to make it safe to have guns and children under the same roof. They ask because they want to make sure an arsenal of AK47's doesn't betray that you're a whacko that somehow knows how to pass the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory with flying colors. Or have they stopped checking prospective parents' health, mental and otherwise, because those requirements, too, are invasive?

In the late 70's, the hoops were numerous. They safety checked the house, they even tested our well water. Our friends and relatives had to fill out forms. They made us describe what we'd do if the child developed criminal tendencies; what we'd do if the child turned out to be gay. They even - gasp - inquired about our religious beliefs. They popped in at odd hours to make sure we weren't doing odd things. They poked and prodded and snooped like a child's life was at stake. Because it was.

Sen. Altman should get a grip and borrow a clue. There are rapists and killers roaming Brevard because prosecutors and law enforcement don't give a damn if they get the right guy - any guy will do; and, to put that guy away, they'll release a career felon willing to tell lies on the stand. Ask Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge, William Dillon and Gerald Stano. Oh, wait. You can't ask Gerald Stano. He was executed in '98 even though the coached snitch recanted his testimony against Stano and Dedge in time to keep Stano from being fried in Old Sparky. Dedge didn't get out for another six years.

Sen. Altman should sponsor Juan Ramos' exoneration compensation. Immediately. The Legislature may disqualify Dillon for compensation if the legislators are allowed to continue to pretend to the public, through disingenuous "staff and wire reports," that they don't know that wrongful convictions are habitual in Brevard.

Florida Today recommends bullet biting

Susan Chandler — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:02:41 EST

In response to teachers protesting hikes in their health insurance costs, in "Our Views: Tone it down" on October 27th, Florida Today's editors said, "We’re strong supporters of Brevard educators, as we’ve proven in advocating better state funding for schools and better pay for teachers."

Florida Today's argument boils down to this: the rest of the working world is having a tougher time than all youse teachers, so just shut up, already.

Here's my version of showing strong support for the teachers - providing a resource naming the Brevard School Board members that were collecting wages and retirement benefits simultaneously at the time the St. Petersburg Times printed their double dipper database in 2008. Simply go to the main web page [http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/interactives/retirement-loophole/], and then select Brevard Co School Board under "Refine results by." Hopefully, some of the double dippers have actually retired by now.

Peruse the database, read the other articles it references and all the while keep in mind the SPT disclaimer that some civil servants' wages are allowed to be kept secret, by law; see just how many Brevard civil servants are riding the gravy train - there seems to be more in Brevard than the county non-residents confuse it with - big, bad Broward. Most of the rest of the working world had to actually retire to collect retirement benefits, and had their retirement benefits reduced reflecting economic losses specific to their industry. Not so with Florida's double dippers. Puzzling SBA financial losses, now under formal investigation by the SEC, have done nothing to inspire Florida's legislators to close the welfare-for-the-wealthly loophole they created.

Don't shut up, Brevard teachers and support staff. You've endured a two year pay freeze, according to the article, and now you're going to face increased health care costs and reduced coverage on top of inflation. An either/or isn't unreasonable -- unfreeze wages or freeze health care premiums. Even though taxpayers can be mislead into opposing you in the absence of all the applicable facts - as the comments on Florida Today's editorial indicates - they likely don't want to overpay the Board while underpaying y'all.

Quando quandary

Susan Chandler — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:18:15 EST

Although Florida Today asked "how" and "where" questions in their editorial and I in turn posed a "what" question, the crux of Brevard's corruption conundrum remains a question of "when."

Quando, quando, quando.

When is anyone going to do the job they're paid to do, and swore to do, in providing oversight that's decades overdue?

From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 4, 2009 12:19:14 AM EST
To: John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com
Subject: "Our Views: Travesties of justice" Florida Today 11/3/09

Dear Florida Today:

Once again, Gannett is sparing no ink in establishing the appearance of outrage over injustices, "State leaders must stop ignoring the glaring examples of misconduct in the 1980s-era trials and order a full probe. Where are you, Gov. Charlie Crist? Where are you, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum? How many travesties of justice will it take to win your attention?"

I have a hunch that the number of travesties it takes to win Charlie Crist's attention is exactly the same number of travesties it will take for you to report that it is the statutory obligation of Florida's Chief Inspector General to initiate investigations of complaints regarding public servant misconduct.

That number will match, according to my intuition, the number of travesties it will take for you to report that the FBI is mandated to investigate public misconduct that affects the outcome of trials, and that the local field office, along with a covey of retired agents, including Sen. Haridopolos' father, believe that mandates are optional - the former by arrogant declaration, the latter by spurious public support of an incumbent Sheriff who's failed to internally investigate his agency's role in frame-ups.

My intuition tells me, too, that the exact number of travesties will have you report that Florida's Legislature is obliged to check and balance the Executive and Judicial branches' callous indifference to clouded convictions, not simply cheerlead select survivors of decades-old frame-ups. None have lifted a finger to secure Juan Ramos' compensation.

Through the electronic grapevine, rumor reached me that James Dvorak's homicide, for which Bill Dillon served 27 years, will be re-investigated. I rechecked the Brevard County Sheriff's Office cold case web page recently, expecting it to show some new sign of order since a cold case had been reportedly resolved. It's still in disarray. The Canova Beach homicide of an elderly woman - Pauline Scandale - still bears no information that could possibly bring resolution. Perhaps there was an inconvenience factor to posting the date of the Ms. Scandale's homicide, as Dvorak was bludgeoned to death on Canova Beach. Perhaps it's mere carelessness. Either way, the BCSO looks bad.

John Dean Moxley is now four-for-four in involvement in resolved Preston matters. He served as a prosecutor against Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano, and was in the background on Bill Dillon's case. Moxley's former long-time assistant, Vicki Clark, is married to former BCSO Deputy Ron Clark. Through Roger Dale Chapman's public apology to Bill Dillon, Thom Fair has been mentioned in connection with obtaining coached informant testimony, but my intuition says that Fair won't prove to be the shortest distance between coached informants and the courthouse. It very much matters that resolution for Stano took the form of being fried alive in Old Sparky, with evidence lawfully allowed to be destroyed after 60 days. It very much matters that Gannett took the low road and did not reveal in it's summation of Preston cases that the same coached snitch testified against Dedge and Stano, and had recanted prior to Stano's 1998 state-sanctioned homicide.

Gary Bennett's Preston-related case should not have been transferred by Gov. Crist's Execuctive Order to the 9th Judicial Circuit, where Linroy Bottoson was convicted after John Preston testified against him. As Bottoson was subsequently executed, the 9th has a vested interest in making Preston frame-ups stick. Gannett gave no ink whatsoever to Bennett being transferred from one set of unclean hands to another; State Attorney Lawson Lamar's reputation for fairness is the equivalent of State Attorney Norm Wolfinger's, it is only through sporadic, artificial outrage that either double dipper gets reelected - there's been as little in print about William "Tommy" Zeigler bogus Orange County capital conviction as there has Gerald Stano's Brevard County capital conviction. The only difference is that Tommy is still alive, and enough of us are working on freeing him that it is very likely to happen, despite the congealed corruption that has kept him on death row for 33 years.

There will never be enough travesties for Gannett to stop playing politics and start reporting news that keeps those they have a fiduciary relationship with safe - subscribers, advertisers and still others (public notice incomes). Gannett will continue "he said, she said" reporting as though State Attorney Norm Wolfinger and Sen. Mike Haridopolos have equal credibility to Bill Dillon and Wilton Dedge. It'll take a lawsuit that challenges Gannett's actions as interfering in the election process and/or obstructing justice, in defiance of requirements that corporations behave as would a prudent person in the same circumstances - and ordinary prudent persons do not willfully facilitate the persecution of innocents, decades-long cover-ups, etc. Somewhere out there, there's an attorney with the right stuff who will see the potential for immortality and go for it. And once the attorney finds out that the corruption is ongoing, resulting in Jeff Abramowski's life sentence, he or she will be "loaded for bear." But in the meantime ...

The question I pose of Gannett isn't "Where are you?" - because you're everywhere - it's instead "What are you?"

Your feigned outrage has kept innocents behind bars for decades while rapists and killers found new victims; it's kept callous, corrupt public servants on the job to do further harm; it's kept Brevardians crying themselves to sleep at night over persecuted loved ones; it's put Brevardians in exile, unable to bear memories of persecution - Bill Dillon moved to Ohio to see if distance could provide peace.

You're certainly not a news organization, so, seriously, Gannett, what are you?

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

The proof isn't in the pudding, it's in the porridge

Susan Chandler — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:16:04 EDT

According to both political parties and most media sources, Floridians only have two choices for Governor in 2010, choices that the Orlando Sentinel's Greg Dawson parodied John Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage" to describe as displaying "Profiles in Porridge."

Dawson expressed displeasure that the anything-but-dynamic duo were arguing over who should protect Floridians from unscrupulous debt collectors. Each, of course, claims the responsibility falls to the other.

You know their names: Alex Sink and Bill McCollum.

And you know that they both have a lot of money behind them. Millions and millions and millions.

And you know that they both have unapologetic, unexplained party endorsements that circumvent our primary system.

The media covered each un-American anointment as if there is nothing unusual with both parties telling their registered members that no matter how much time and money they contribute, their preferences for candidates are (select one or all, according to how you believe the puppeteers perceive you) beside-the-point, ill-conceived, ridiculous, inconsequential, naive, plebeian, moronic.

I frankly don't care how the puppeteers perceive me or my fellow Floridians. It's time for them to care if we Floridians perceive them as (select one or all, according to the level you've personally been betrayed) power drunk, putrid, bought-and-paid-for, shallow, callow, delusional, despotic, despicable.

I'm backing Michael Arth for governor. With his powers of persuasion and power tools, he's made a life-sized working model of a revitalized Florida in Deland. No one needs to take my word for it, his website is very informative. [http://www.michaelearth.org/] Arth's not for sale personally, and he won't sell Floridians out. He doesn't claim to have all the answers, but his site proves he's given all the hard questions deep thought. His positions are admittedly open to change if new information warrants a revision.

Arth proved he can turn a hellhole into a haven; when someone displays the abilities to achieve that spectacular success, we ought to give ourselves the chance to benefit by a statewide application of the same principles.

There's evidence that neither Sink nor McCollum even has the capacity to care whether the average Floridian flourishes or perishes - taking Dawson's parody a step further, they're "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old," appetizing to only the most dispirited among us.

Despite the heartbreaking injustices I blog about, I'm anything but dispirited. I'm saying it loud and clear, "Don't tread on me."

As a registered Democrat and a Precinct Captain, I demand that Karen Thurman retract her spurious support of Sink and let the two Democrats debate; the sooner, the better. I hope that registered Republicans will make the same demand of their state party leader, and see if a non-porridge Republican subsequently throws his or her hat into the ring.

Noel Naiveté

Susan Chandler — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:29:54 EDT

I received a personal plea from a well-intentioned lady looking to have others join her in entreating Gov. Crist to exhibit the spirit of Christmas by pardoning William "Tommy" Zeigler, who has wrongfully spent 33 years on death row. She's clearly under the impression that Gov. Crist is being treated unfairly by the media, when the truth is that the media's inattention to Crist's failed oversight borders on election tampering.

Here is my response to the kind-hearted Christian so very mistaken in believing she was addressing another in writing to Gov. Crist:

From: Susan Chandler
Date: October 29, 2009 2:29:22 AM EDT
To: "V...
Subject: Re: an early Christmas gift for Tommy?

Dear V...:

Gov. Crist's email address is Charlie.Crist@eog.myflorida.com. I copy him on emails frequently, probably twice a week on average. I can't honor your request to approach him directly requesting that he pardon Tommy Z in time for Christmas. Please bear with me if my pain medication makes my explanation less coherent than it should be.

Two Christmases ago, I repeatedly requested via email that Gov. Crist release Bill Dillon on recognizance pending the outcome of DNA results. Bill's mother has an inoperable brain tumor. It's stable now; it wasn't then. Just as A. G. Crist ignored my pleas concerning Wilton Dedge (freed, 2004) and others that I believe to have been wrongfully convicted or executed, Gov. Crist ignored my Christmas plea for Bill.

I believe it's a miracle, from so many of us praying, that Amy Dillon lived to see Bill walk free and has had almost a year to get reacquainted with her gentle giant of a son, so grievously harmed in prison - raped within the first hour and knowing no peace in the 27 years behind layers of razor wire that followed - and knowing no peace even now. Bill's essentially serving a second undeserved sentence, this one imposed on him by his conscience and Gov. Crist's callousness. Hearing Bill personally tell his story breaks the hearts of those that have them; he shouldn't have had to make one public appearance to spread the word that there are many innocents behind bars, let alone travel the state.

I'm fighting for peace of mind for Bill, Wilton, Juan Ramos, Alan Crotzer and others who have already won their freedom, and fighting for freedom for Crosley Green, Jeff Abramowski, John Dobbs, Gary Bennett and scores of others aside from Tommy that appear to have been wrongfully convicted, and fighting to clear the names of those that were wrongfully executed. I'm fighting for other Floridians that have gotten in touch with me after reading my blogs or letters to the editor. They were harmed by the same civil servants involved in the clouded convictions, who logically behave just as improperly in other aspects of their public employment. I fear for the safety of some that have reached out.

Gov. Crist knows that he is obligated by statute to protect the life, liberty and property of Florida's inhabitants. While ignoring Bill, Tommy and perhaps 100 others, Crist rapidly acted to pardon disabled attorney Richard Paey, who apparently had no basis for an innocence claim. This established Crist's belief in a caste system wherein precious few, if any, deserving Floridians will receive the benefit of Crist's adherence to his sworn and fiduciary responsibilities.

When Crist won his bid for Governor, I said, "Forgive them, Lord, they know not what they do." I will pray the same prayer if he's successful in winning a Senate seat, which I will continue to try to prevent by reminding the FBI of their mandate to investigate public corruption that affects the outcome of trials. The FBI busted dogfighting rings in several states while ignoring over 1,000 clouded convictions related to DNA discredited "scent evidence experts" John Preston and Keith Pikett. They protected man's best friend ahead of actual men, keeping innocents locked up while killers and rapists found additional victims.

Too many people are crying themselves to sleep tonight because Crist has unlawfully decided that oversight is optional, V.... His caste system endangers the public and persecutes innocents, ruining or taking their lives and ripping their families apart. It is our Legislature's job to hold Crist in check; they have demonstrated rare cowardice in failing to do so. The criticisms of Crist, if earnest prayers are answered, will become increasingly harsh - Crist knows that State Attorney Lawson Lamar is disinterested in justice for Tommy, John Dobbs and others; it is why Crist transferred Gary Bennett's case to Lamar's jurisdiction. Sadly, the only reason that Crist wound honor your request, or any other request for oversight, is out of fear that he will soon be held accountable. It's a very reasonable fear, many of us are working very hard to have justice prevail over politics.

Warm regards,
Susan

Rainbow Connection

Susan Chandler — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:16:21 EDT

When we're ill, most of us have odd comforts we allow ourselves. I've got YouTube playing Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection" in the background, reminding me of singing it to my daughter when she was little and under the weather. The very best thing that can happen is to have good wishes reach you out of the blue without anyone knowing you're sick.

Thanks to those who requested via email, along with kind words, copies of State Attorney Norm Wolfinger's awful letter to Special Master Kent Wetherell that spuriously attempts to portray Bill Dillon as unworthy of exoneration compensation for the 27 years of his life he lost after being maliciously prosecuted.

Wolfinger couldn't be so boldly blasphemous without enablers in Tallahasee and the media. Someday the dreamers will triumph over the dastardly, making the rainbow connection. Until then, we just have to keep writing letters as if innocent people's lives depend on them. Because they do.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: October 24, 2009 1:13:32 PM EDT
To: Senator Mike Haridopolos
Cc: Debbie Mayfield , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Governor Charlie Crist , letters@floridatoday.com, John Glisch , Norm Wolfinger , jrusso@pd18.net
Subject: "Matt Reed: Haridopolos tackles issues"

Dear Senator Haridopolos:

When a news article is well-written, the online comments section is absent information that the article should have contained.

In the case of the above-captioned Gannett Florida Today article this week, an informed reader commented on the gigantic oil spill off the coast of Australia that indicates that the new, purportedly safer offshore oil rig technology failed. Reporter Reed's failure to ask you about that spill did not take you off the hook for not addressing it; you're to represent your constituents' best interests, not Big Oil's. Out-of-work high-tech Space Coast residents that were paid government funds to make solar technology work in space should logically be paid government funds to perfect the same technology on earth to bring cheap, clean power to our nation. If they can come up with a vehicle that works on Mars, they can come up with an electric car. There likely isn't a single resident in your district that will be employed by endangering our coastline with oil rigs.

I didn't read all the comments; Florida Today's readers' rants, born of being misinformed, quickly become tedious, frightening and/or depressing. Hopefully, another enlightened reader countered your fiscal responsibility claims by commenting on your inability to effectively "tackle" DROP double dipping, which allows the likes of Norm Wolfinger and John Dean Moxley to exercise another form of predation on your constituents, aside from covering up the persecution of innocents for decades. Or perhaps a comment instead countered your fiscal responsibility claims by pointing out that you accepted professorial wages based on credentials you merely aspire to, along with a bogus "book advance," betraying your personal propensity for predation.

I hope that someone commented, "Where's Juan?" to counter your bragging about sponsoring Bill Dillon's exoneration compensation. Juan Ramos deserves his $250,000 to partially right the ruination caused by his five years on death row from John Preston's solicited perjuries. That Ramos' conviction was upset in 1987 is embarrassing for those who are still in the state employ - including Wolfinger and Moxley - that are responsible for the cover-up that kept Wilton Dedge, Dillon and many others behind bars and cost Gerald Stano his life. Through the electronic grapevine, I made Centurion Ministries aware that the 9th Judicial Circuit had used Preston to convict and execute Linroy Bottoson, and that transferring Gary Bennett's Brevard/Preston case there was conflicted. I've since found out that the 9th and 18th trade cases like baseball cards, with Gov. Crist's permission. Crist announced his intention to address South Florida's corruption on October 14th, continuing to deliberately ignore Preston's involvement in a reported 100 Brevard felony investigations.

Gannett pretended that Preston cases had been cleared nationwide 15 years ago. ["Convicted on false evidence; False science often sways juries, judges," authors Laura Frank and John Hanchette, USA Today, July 19, 1994; "The unmasking of Preston's dogs caused an uproar. Cases were overturned in Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Arizona and other states."] Despite Gannett's wiles, I'm even more confident now that there will be a federal investigation of the corruption and cover-up. The White House removed my comment from their facebook wall, "The FBI muddied their own credibility in protecting man's best friend ahead of actual men; after investigating dogfighting rings in several states, they have little choice but to rapidly investigate Florida's framing innocent men." Their censorship means that they read my message loud and clear, and so fast that no one got the chance to comment - this time. As of yesterday, I'm on Twitter and will learn my way around it as haltingly as I did facebook.

Reed claimed you're "one of the most influential Republicans in Florida." If true, what possible reason can there be not to use your influence to make it incumbent upon Florida's Governor to investigate any county wherein two upset convictions indicate use of an identical, untenable trial tactic to stop making taxpayers pay to be kept safe from harmless men like Ramos, Dedge and Dillon, then pay exoneration compensation of top of malicious prosecution costs. Roger Dale Chapman, who bragged to his brother about getting valid rape charges dropped by lying to tighten Dillon's frame-up, was apparently re-released Thursday after a sentence reduction. James E. Gilmore, who lied about Ramos, is a revolving-door offender, apparently released without supervision after the most recent offense. The harm done by coached informants that benefit by continual prosecutorial favors and actual perpetrators that innocents serve time for can only be stopped by an investigation that looks at every single Preston conviction and every subsequent complaint of prosecutorial malice.

So much is made of your ability to amass millions, so little is made of what little those millions actually pay for - pandering, predation, persecution, public endangerment. I have nothing against you personally and no ability to act on it even if I did, but I am forever wondering what it is that you personally have against your constituents and what prompts you to harm them so often.

Regards,

Susan Chandler