Internationally Known

It looks like news of Harris County's bounty of wrongful convictions has gone international; the BBC did a piece on why they have lead the country in exonerations for the last two years. It's an interesting piece, and deals with the question of why seemingly small-time convictions, like drug possession, are such a big deal.

"Forty-two of those 2015 cases came from Harris County, the most from any single jurisdiction - the second runner-up is Brooklyn County, New York, with just 8. This is the second year in a row that Harris County - whose population is just shy of 4.5 million and encompasses the city of Houston - lead the report in sheer numbers. In 2014, it had 31, making it the exoneration capital of the US."

Check it out, it's worth a read.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35543898

Phone Call (10)

Ben G. left an interesting comment a few days ago and SPM was able to answer his question via phone call. The transcript is below.

Ben G. said, "I read this blog for a couple of hours, namely the letters in the sidebar, and was almost becoming convinced that SPM was innocent (new to the case, a friend at work told me about it so I figured I'd look into it).

Then I read on Wikipedia an elsewhere that he had been accused of sexual relations with 6 other young girls aged 13-14. Now I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt for the one he got pregnant because she may have looked older than her age and, most importantly, even if a girl is young if she isn't prepubescent than technically it doesn't make one a pedophile. In other words, having sex with a 13 year old, while creepy, is a far cry from sexually assaulting a 9 year old.

But come on 7 different girls all 14 and under? That's more than a little suspect, and shows that SPM obviously likes them very young - that can't be explained as an accident like the one case with the pregnancy.

So what is this site and SPM's response to this? I don't know if it's been addressed on this site or not, because it's a lot to go through, but I haven't seen it."

That’s a very good question; as long as you know that I didn’t hurt and molest a 9 year old child, that’s good enough for me. What you have to understand is that, and I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I’m not the average guy in the DA’s eyes. I was somebody they really had something against; I was somebody that would promote… and get them, I guess, the power that DA’s, and assistant DA’s, and maybe even judges…just one of those political pawns, I guess you could say. In all honesty, where there’s smoke there’s usually fire. I have to say that, without a doubt, I was sleeping with many, many more women than a person should be sleeping with. Wilt Chamberlain in an interview said that he slept with over ten thousand women. Now I’m definitely no Wilt Chamberlain, but I would say that, and I know this sounds crazy, but just going back over my life I would say that I’ve slept with at least two thousand women. That is a lot of damn women; and thinking back on it I have to admit that there was some kind of problem there, some kind of sex addiction there.

The thing is, I’m attracted to like, you know, thick women. I like big women, sometimes even fat women. My wife would always… every time she caught me cheating, a lot of times it was with a fat girl and she would make fun of me; she was like, “Why do you like fat girls?”

But to answer your question some of those girls I knew, and are now admitting that they were intimidated, for whatever reason. We’re investigating some stuff. I haven’t told you the back stories on these other witnesses, and this is something I need to do. As long as you know that I’m not attracted to a person’s child, that’s good enough for me. The rest you’ll find out as I explain every witness.

Some witnesses I have vague memories of. I remember maybe seeing them around; this is by no means saying that I’m guilty of sexual assault of young girls, but out of two thousand women… First of all I’m surprised I don’t have aids, that’s a miracle in itself. But I think it would be another miracle to say not one of those girls was under 18. At the time, I thought, all guys were like me, just sex addict fiends; now that I’ve sobered up in prison, I was definitely a little more sex-minded than the average guy I believe. I had lunch every day at a strip joint, I practically lived in strip clubs. It’s where I ate my lunch, it’s where I ate my dinner. When you’re hunting for big game tuna, and you throw the nets out for big game tuna, I’m afraid that sometimes a dolphin might get caught up in the net. I’m just… all I can do is be real.

Honestly Ben, I really don’t give a damn if you believe me or not. I’m gonna tell you the truth because that’s just the type of dude I am. I don’t like lying.

You might see six other chicks, some I know, some I vaguely remember…two of them were the sister and the cousin of a chick I was knockin’ down, and they both have admitted that they were intimidated into saying what these investigating officers were trying to get them to say. Hell, they even kidnapped my little girl from her school, and got her to say enough to where I couldn’t even sleep in the same home with my children, They interviewed her for two hours, and she was only six or seven years old; they got her to say that I would bite her shoulder and suck on her arm, and the investigative officer, Officer Ruiz, said that I was grooming my child to assault her. Some of those witnesses that you’re speaking about, we’re starting to talk to them now and one or I think maybe two now have agreed be interviewed for the documentary. You’ll see that they don’t need evidence to bring people up to say anything they want about you. They don’t need evidence. See, they brought these girls up in the punishment phase; this was just to get me more time. This was just to make sure that they kept me in prison for as long as possible. Anybody can come up and say anything they want, during the punishment phase.

Sometimes people are in trouble; sometimes people’s kids can get taken away from them. Sometimes they’re homeless… Believe it or not, and I can’t talk a whole lot about this stuff because this stuff we’re using, but there was a girl that was living with the DA’s investigator. She was wearing clothes they bought her, she was doing real bad. Sometimes you might get caught with some coke; sometimes you might have accidentally have burned your kid and these people are threatening to say, “You knew this guy, we heard you did this and that and all we want you to do is admit it and we’re not going to take your kids away, or we’re not going to put you in jail for this coke we found in your living room.”

They have ways to make people say what they want them to say, and it’s usually because they’re in a bad predicament. I wasn’t there, I don’t know exactly what they said and I really don’t know…I really don’t have any clear memories of some of those girls. I know I’ve seen some of them around. I know one chick, her mother was milking my father for all his money; we used to call her and her mother ‘lady and the tramp’. She ended up testifying and like I said, it’s a crazy deal.

Just so that you know, I have never slept with a chick that I knew was underage. But I have slept with thousands of women, man, it’s just what I did. I used to hop from one hotel room to another hotel room when I was out there, especially after concerts. It was really pathetic because, like I said, I don’t think that it’s normal. Where there is smoke there is fire, all the way down to the little girl, to the little nine year old. My best friend growing up as teenagers, that was my best friend’s daughter. His wife, me and her would sleep together every time he went to jail, we would hook up. I was boning my best friend’s wife, his most prized possession. I loved this guy, I would die for this guy, and this guy would die for me, but I definitely had a problem. Why else would I do something like that. I have to really give it an honest look and say that something was abnormal. It was definitely an addiction to big fine women like I like. Anybody who knows me, anybody who hung out with me knows that that’s who I dated. Either strippers at a strip club, or video vixens in my videos, or just some big fine thing I met in my everyday activities.

Sorry for the long answer; I will get more specific and speak about each witness, especially when the documentary comes out, you will see how one innocent man named Carlos Coy found himself in prison. They just used all these other chicks, my baby’s mother and these other chicks to really stack a lot of time so that they could hide me for a good 25 years. I was blowin’ up like the Hiroshima bomb, and I was anti-police, anti-authority, and I had a huge influence on the fastest growing race in America. When a person like that gets in trouble these cops can really make some shit happen, trust me.

I want to thank you for spending so much time on this site, but to be honest with you I haven’t given this site not even a third of the information that it deserves. I’m just a lazy son of a bitch, all I do is watch TV and play chess and when I do write I write songs. I think…well, I know the documentary is going to really do so much for bringing out the truth in this matter. Something inside of me really just wants to tell you to sick my duck because you think I’m guilty but I know it’s not your fault, but honestly I’m grateful for you because I believe you’re a fan.

Gerardo Bianca Orozco asked, “When is visionary droppin?”

The ‘Harris County Boys’ is going to drop first. It is a project that was done in the Harris county jail. It’s a magical, amazing project even though it was done on the payphone over there. It is, in my opinion, and I have a realistic opinion, the best telephone album that’s ever been done. We also want to accompany the Harris County Boys with a film which I’ll explain more about later, because I’m going to need funding from the fans to do the project. Depending on what package you buy, whether it’s a twenty dollars package or a hundred dollar package, you will get your money’s worth on music and merchandise. I’m definitely not going to just dry-ask for funding.

Mestizo Hernandez asked, “What's his status with him and lucky?”

Me and Lucky are great. Me and Carolyn are great. Carolyn and Lucky were…after all my investigation I’ve come to the conclusion that they weren’t 100% innocent, but it really wasn’t close to the betrayal that I thought at first. Basically, they didn’t know that Jaime was stealing from me. They didn’t know that. If they did, I believe they didn’t but if they did, it’s so minimal that it’s not even close to anything worth separating myself from them. We’ve got far bigger fish to fry and we’ve got to keep the family strong. Jaime, on the other hand, stole and sold so many verses that he just has to pay, in whatever way the law of this land requires people to pay for doing what he did. The man sold over three albums worth of material. Over 50 verses. I still love him, I still wish him no ill, but honestly a man selling his soul, selling his friendships, selling his future for opiates is somebody who needs to do prison time for his own life’s sake, if that’s what is decided in a court of law.

Letter to Devon Anderson (13)

Time for another letter to the DA! As always, please feel free to write your own, copy this one, or just send out one of the printable flyers to your right. The Honorable Devon Anderson Harris County Criminal Justice Center 1201 Franklin, 14th Floor Houston, Texas 77002

Ma'am,

I'm writing today about the case of Carlos Coy, #908426. 

I was interested to see that Charles Sebesta, the prosecutor responsible for Anthony Graves' wrongful conviction, recently lost his appeal.

While this loss merely prevents Sebesta from practicing law rather than confining him indefinitely in prison, it might be justice. Graves nearly lost his life twice while sitting on death row, and I hope that Sebesta might have time to reflect on that. 

In Coy's case, there was no physical evidence presented; the fact that the complainant's testimony changed from interview to interview, and even from court appearance to court appearance, was hidden from the jury. Even changes in the mother's testimony were excluded.

I don't know if Coy's prosecutors concealed evidence from his defense lawyers, but their courtroom antics don't inspire a lot of faith. Please, look into this; the public does not have acces to police files, but the DA's office does. Please, give us justice.

Thank you for your time.

Me, may address, etc.

http://abc13.com/news/prosecutor-who-sent-innocent-man-to-death-row-is-disbarred/1194122/

54

It's looks like 2015 was a bumper year for homicide exonerations; the Innocence Project has a neat little infographic with some interesting facts about where, why, and how these wrongful convictions occur. (Protip: 76% were the result of official misconduct)

Although I expected the majority to be DNA exonerations, but 53% were the result of a witness recantation, and 21% were the work of conviction integrity units. That's good news for us, because there was no physical evidence in Coy's case. Houston does have a CIU that we were in contact with several years ago, but they refused to look into the case without new evidence being introduced.

There were a grand total of 149 exonerations of all types last year; to the surprise of no one, Texas led the pack with a whopping 54. Most of those came out of (another shocker) Harris County. While it is awesome that these 54 individuals have been redeemed, I hope it is also evident that the system responsible for these travesties is still going strong. Let people know; don't be afraid to spread the word around, to talk about Coy's case and others like it. Accusations of child molestation are, in my opinion, the hardest to fight because people only see the 'ickiness' of the conviction. They hesitate to support a deeper look into the convictions because they don't want to be associated with a crime so repulsive.

This allows those hellbent on their own version of justice to roll over civil rights, due process, and basic human decency. Let's stop making iteasy to convict the innocent.