BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR—-SOME THOUGHTS
When I was incarcerated I met with the priest every week. I felt that I needed this extra support in order to cope. We prayed that the truth would be revealed. This was father’s prayer each week. I also prayed that God’s plan would be revealed to me as to why this had happened to me. Slowly as if by plan the truth of many matters began to be revealed to me.
First, I learned of all the false news reports that had been published in Bryan and College Station by KTBX and Gray Communications Inc., and The Eagle Paper. I was shocked that the papers would publish such false and defamatory stories and attribute me as the source of the false stories. I had never talked to the news media except to request that a story be published about a burglary in which my purse was stole with my identity in it. They did not do a report. I lost my passport and a lot of personal papers. Someone also stole my brief case with a lot of legal files in it.
Next, I received the court record for the appeal. I had not been allowed to see exhibits during the trial and was not allowed a copy of the tapes that they alleged was my voice. I noticed that all the exhibits were payments from customers of clients that were stolen from my home, office and car. All of these checks had been verified only and had been turned in to the fraud departments of their respective financial institutions. Also, the record had been materially altered and many of the hearings which were critical had been deleted or not included in the record. Notably the Hearing to Set the Appeal Bond was not included in which Lt. Arnold admitted in sworn testimony on the record that he had obtained the Wachovia Bank Check from my home in a warrantless search and admitted “we ” had been searching Miss Mayfield’s home for a week or two to see if we could find enough evidence to support a warrant.” He stated, “We found this large check in Miss Mayfield’s home in our search to obtain enough evidence to support a warrant.” Judge Smith stated, “We had to have evidence to support a warrant.” The subpeona for the record was signed by the three judges of 361, 285, and 272nd District Courts. He also testified that he talked to Judge Lott of County Court of Law and he told him to search without a warrant for personal records. All four judges per his testimony were aware that all of the checks were barred from use in my trial because they were obtained in violation of my civil rights in warrantless searches. This was the Texas statute. It was as though someone had given people truth serum and they felt safe to say anything. This was critical testimony that had been withheld during my trial and which the prosecutor had previously reported did not exist. The prosecutor felt cocky at this time so he bravely and boldly showed me the document which was a week or so before the warrant was issued and would prove all the evidence had been obtained in warrantless searches. The date of the signed subpoena was August 3, 2007. The date of the warrant was August 10, 2007. Additionally, all of my motions appeared to have been removed from the record. I wrote the court with motions to refer the case back to the District Court ot correct the record. The Court told me to designate that the portions of the record be included. I did this. I also filed several motions for the record to be corrected and supplemented. All of my motions were denied by the 10th Court of Appeals.
When I got released, I called Professor Robert Schuwerk at the University of Houston because the record indicated that my law school records had been admitted into the record. One note in my law school records was illuminating. Laura Rothstein, Ray Nimmer, Robert Knauss, Dean Newhouse and others appear to have been meeting about me and Laura Rothstein had agreed to send a false report to the State Bar that I had allegedly called myself the Editor of the Houston Journal of International Law instead of Associate Editor as it had been reported in the Journal and in several newspaper articles by the school newspaper and the Houston Chronicle. They did not cite a source for the false report. They appeared to have made it up to try to keep me from being licensed. Ihad sued Laura Rothstein about this false report when I saw it in the State Bar files and the court stated that she had absolute immunity for the false report citing the 10th Amendment. I did not appeal at the time. I had not been aware that several professors had been involved in that mess. Robert Schuwerk openly admitted that “I advised the law school to conceal your graduation so that we could do that to you. They had sent the verification of your graduation to the State Bar.” I then knew that the Texas, Michigan and Illinois Bars had full knowledge of the falsity of the charges made by the Michigan Bar and the law school and went along with it instead of disclosing the true facts. They were all pretty dishonest and frauds. They had to do investigations of their own and they knew that the information was substantially false about my criminal, work record and the “attempt plagerism” charge. They concealed this information to defeat my lawsuits. Character and fitness did not apply to persons doing the investigations or members of the State Bars in question. Schuwerk stated that they all knew and concealed the information. He practically crowed about it. I was shocked. I said one word, “why?” He became silent and hung up the phone. He did not have an answer. Later, when I reported this information to Professor Elwyn Lee, his explanation was this was probably not racially motivated but how they at the law schools had always done things. They all knew that the Honor Code does not apply to students who have graduated. They concealed my graduation a semester before I took this course. Also, all lawyers knew that you have to have the paper of another for plagerism. They closed their eyes to the truth and allowed this to happen to me. They were trying to ruin my life for no reason but that they had the power to do so and they could. Maybe the fact that I was Black helped to some degree but it is not the total answer.
Recently, I obtained documents from the police which indicate that they did a thorough investigation and learned that there was no illegality with the source of my funds and the person who loaned my California client funds for our project used his own funds and funds that he borrowed. There was no illegality with his funds. They interviewed his friend and neighbors and business acquaintances. The prosecutors and police knew that there was nothing illegal about the source of my funds or my client in California. None of those funds were connected to any illegal activity. I was arrested and bond was set for over a million dollars for $5800.00. Something was odd about this.
Finally, I learned that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not image my petition for discretionary review and destroyed the application. They allege that they sent the document to the 10th Court of Appeals. I went to the 10th Court of Appeals and the document had been destroyed. Only my signature page existed of the documents I filed. I kept getting copies of the record for my Motion for Appealability. They were not the correct file. After the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert., I tried to get another copy of the record. The clerk and supervisor boldly told me that my application had never been imaged and the originals had been destroyed. They did not have an explanation as to why my documents were not returned to me. I knew that something was terribly wrong. If all these people were destroying files and falsifying records something was terribly wrong. I had not been wrong. They were all hiding the truth whatever it was. They were boldly telling the truth now. Robert Schuwerk said, “we did that to you 20 years ago. You should not be having any problem with that today.” He still did not understand or care about the consequences of what he and his friends had done to me. I did not matter. I was expendable as a person, student and a lawyer. The fact that the court had destroyed my application for writ of Habeas Corpus and falsified other documents to defeat my appeal mattered to me. I wondered how many others this had been done to. What they had done to me had to matter. I had to stop this type of corruption. How many people were in jail or had died because of this type of corruption and wrongdoing. It had to stop.
Be careful what you pray for. It might come true.
