Hi Ronnie, I hope all is well with you and wanted to let you know I have been reading your blog(s)....before this one (and your new one) I read the old one you had at blogspot I believe? Before recently moving to wordpress? If Im wrong, my apologies but I have been a reader for awhile. I just want to wish you well with whatever ends up happening through this ordeal, by now hopefully you have gotten some sort of an answer. Thats why I wanted to send my best of wishes your direction. I would miss reading your thoughts on your blog, etc but if you had to stop writing totally no matter what its focused on, then I know its in your best interest due to the conditions and especially your Mother. I support you no matter what happens and hope that things will get much better soon. I may contact you through snail mail, I have thought about it before but was afraid it would not reach you because of the mail issues. Has that now changed and gotten better? Hopefully. Please take care. -CC
I hope you are doing well lately with the depression, as well as you can be anyway due to the circumstances. I would be upset too. I am even upset at your situation with/for you. As people should be upset at such! I once had issues with major depressive disorder where bouts of depression can come over you for maybe a few days or even a year entirely and you dont want to do anything but go numb or get upset because you feel so out of control of everything. Then it passes. since it was an actual diagnosis, Im sure Im just going thru a time when its passed on and not hanging over my head but God forbid it return I at least hope it moves on quickly. I have read major depression is worse than the well known bipolar disorder where one is happy one second upset the next etc. Please do all you can do to stay positive, although I know its hard. I truly do know. More than you would imagine even though I was just born the same year you went to court. I just want you to know you do have readers on your side and who think of you and wish you the best. Ive added a few new readers for you, thankfully. I hope they will send you their comments/thoughts. Please take care of yourself, although its hard for me to send best wishes as I know Id feel the same as you in the situation you are in. We sound alot alike. I understand and however will admit, I dont want to know what my depression/upsetting feelings would be like if I had lived with injustice for so long. I admire your strength, please never forget this and know that. Much Love, CC
Milo, you mentioned you had been attacked also that same day? I know you said you would go into that in a future blog but I was wanting to ask more about it, anyway. (smile, sorry if I am nosy but I am interested in whats happened in this case and wish I had heard about it sooner) Your injuries sounded severe such as a blow to the back of the head which can cause some serious damage....did you ever get that looked into or were you denied the right to medical care that was decent?? I hope you were not hurt in a way that has continued to affect you badly. I suffered a head injury and have suffered from tonic-clonic seizures ever since. Yet before my head injury was brought up, it took forever for the neurologist to rule out epilepsy which was ruled out 100 percent yet the EEG (brain scan) showed what appeared to be "scar tissue" as they said at the front of the skull.....Ive not had another EEG since due to insurance reasons (which isnt surprising!) but hopefully it IS scar tissue and not something that has grown, something worse. But luckily I think I am fine, as it has been years since that first scan. Also, when you mentioned the broken nose and blow to the back of the head- I know my cousin once received a blow to the back of the head so severe it broke her nose and blacked both her eyes from the hit to the BACK of her head!! She never had to be struck in the front at all, due to the severity of the blow to the back which caused what they call a HINGE FRACTURE. She too has problems until this day with vision, depression, personality change since the attack, etc. Sounds as if you are lucky to be alive especially coming from someone who has firsthand experienced a head injury and also helped nurse a relative (cousin with hinge fracture) who ended up in the CCU (critical care unit, worse than the intensive care unit) and wasnt even expected to live!! Thank God she has, but she has totally changed personality wise like a total different person. No kidding. I still love her, and am there for her though always. You said in this entry you have no one to call anyway, what happened to any family you have? Are they out of the US or have you lost contact with them? Wishing you the best and my apologies if my long winded reply and questions are annoying! Take care! -CC
Dear Milo, Did you know that in one persons case studies online regarding innocence and wrongful convictions etc he found that out of ten innocent people, in their cases, EIGHT of them were convicted based on testimony of a person or people who were truly testifying because either 1) they were protecting who they knew really did it and/or 2) they were involved themselves and had then just quickly went to the police to place blame elsewhere on someone they knew enough about to make the lie sound right....and also to quickly get the eyes off of them plus to set the lies going in motion and in the right direction for THEM yet in the wrong direction for the wrongly accused. This sounds so similar, dont you think?? I would be livid to sit on DR for any amount of time much less YEARS not only being innocent but also knowing most likely who really did the crime....even if I didnt know for sure, knowing who helped the state convict me wrongfully by giving false testimony that the jury believed and took seriously is bad enough as is. I hope they are happy, for I could never bring myself no matter what to put an innocent person behind bars PLUS take their life as well. I would sit in jail myself before being talked into or paid in any way shape or form to do so. But as we both know, the majority of human beings are not so concerned unless its about their own selves. Truly wishing you the best everyday, dont forget that, CC
Dear Milo, I would shout it out as well during my trial, and I am glad you did. Are you being represented now by someone you trust that is unlike your representatives before?? I hope so. Also, if I can get you in contact with anyone whose primary cause is proving innocence through evidence not considered, things not brought up, stuff not shared in court fairly etc- can you provide the necessary documents for them or are they ALL correct on the public record? I hope that the information about the racketeering comes to light asap and that its looked into also. I cant stop thinking about that. I also cant stop thinking about someone not proving your innocence IN TIME, which is a scary thought as it truly saddens me when people are exonerated posthumously, its too late! -CC
Keep writing, Milo, please. Ive passed this blog site (yours) on to several other sites and several through e-mail who handle cases like this....so it will be read along with those of us reading at this moment already. I am not done passing this webpage on, but want to make sure it gets to the correct, best people it possibly can. I hope you hear from someone, even if they are involved in another case right now, they can at least look into yours and read what you have to say and maybe they know someone higher up that I do not. I do not know if these people will write me back or if they will just start reading up on your case, but I am doing my best to get their interest on you where it belongs. -CC
I expect I'm the last person you ever thought you'd hear from. It's Jason, Mel and Fran's nephew/Jim's son.
I read about what happened to you. Whatever happened, prison's no cake walk. You'll be out in a few more years though, yes? Do you have plans for when you get out?
Do you have any contact from Sean? Or Janis' kids, Matthew or Debbie? If so, would you be willing or able to put me in touch with them? It's a long shot I suppose, but worth the try. And thank you either way.
I live in Oregon now, since moving from New Mexico in 2002. I love it up here.
And listen, I realize things weren't particularly great when we knew each other, but that was decades ago, and we're different people. At least I must suppose we are. I was a kid after all. *wry grin*
Anyway, take care of yourself and try to keep your chin up. Things will turn out okay.
Jailhouse snitch testimony, if I am a juror, is not taken seriously by me because most likely it has been purchased somehow and that is pretty low to go! You are very correct about going against the law and how its truly meant to be utilized in court. I agree, I just wish more people wanted something done about it. I feel when I question things, the public wants to quiet me and not make waves but I cannot be that way, never. Never should the US execute anyone who is innocent and who did not receive a trial where the guilty verdict received included a case where their so called "supposed" GUILT WAS PROVED BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT regardless of what was said about the person, their past, where they were at the time, where they were not at the time of the crime, and so on so on, etc. The oath that jurors swear to is not to just go by who the person being defended IS in his or her everyday life and by just the sometimes damning wrongly stated words by prosecutors BUT THEY ARE TO: consider did the state do its job in proving guilt or not?? If not, then as a jury they should stick to their oath and not risk sending an innocent man or woman to death especially, for anything. Even if I was one of twelve only, who did not feel that the state did its supposed job of proving its case to me, Id do my best to explain to my fellow jurors that its only fair going by oath and the real original law that the trial end as a hung jury. Id not give in either. Stay strong Milo, please!
I look forward to the day that those who are proved innocent are not under the twisted power trip control of states where the courts would much rather execute an innocent man rather than admit they were not RIGHT! (shaking my head) Its so wrong. I share your anger with you, please know this, as I have seen too many cases and experienced firsthand that what the law wants to happen is what will happen even when its not correct. I wish that I was in a position to help you with your definite need to prove your case truly. Id give anything to be a powerful lawyer that was listened to and was able to teach the US that its okay to question the courts and the law, etc. So many juries do not remain skeptical and look at things further than what the prosecutor is saying in his own twisted way, and the defense does not always bring up the correct issues.....I feel they leave so much out. If that isnt the problem then the judge can sometimes be biased to the prosecutors side rather than any defense side. I know you mentioned judge bias. I know for a fact this happens, you are not alone. -CC
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I expect I'm the last person you ever thought you'd hear from. It's Jason, Mel and Fran's nephew/Jim's son.
I read about what happened to you. Whatever happened, prison's no cake walk. You'll be out in a few more years though, yes? Do you have plans for when you get out?
Do you have any contact from Sean? Or Janis' kids, Matthew or Debbie? If so, would you be willing or able to put me in touch with them? It's a long shot I suppose, but worth the try. And thank you either way.
I live in Oregon now, since moving from New Mexico in 2002. I love it up here.
And listen, I realize things weren't particularly great when we knew each other, but that was decades ago, and we're different people. At least I must suppose we are. I was a kid after all. *wry grin*
Anyway, take care of yourself and try to keep your chin up. Things will turn out okay.