December 5, 2015

Mr. Lakeith Amir-Sharif
TDCJ No. 1505969
Ramsey II Prison Unit
1200 FM 655
Rosharon, Texas 77583-8602

Attn: Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr.
Attorney General of Texas
209 West 14th Street, Ste. 500
P.O. Box 12548, Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711-2548

Re: Wasting The Taxpayers' Money

Dear Attorney General Paxton:
This letter is directed to your attention as I believe the serious implications and ramifications of your law enforcement defense division's staff mismanagement of taxpayers' money plus their misguided litigation objectives warrants your personal knowledge and involvement to ensure that appropriate corrective actions are immediately undertaken.

For the past four years, it is estimated that your LEDD staff of Karen D. Matlock, Kim Coogan, and Patrick Todd Pope have squandered over $63,000 in resources when consideration is given for all the staff hours, responses to discovery requests, court appearances, security personnel during hearings, food, lodging, transportation, and postage for all the pleadings and motions filed during the course of this litigation. All of these tax dollars for the purpose of litigating a simple destroyed and lost property lawsuit that your subordinates could have settled years ago for less than $2,000.

In fact, on November 20, 2015, I reduced my offer of $1,750 to settle all claims and offered your subordinates the opportunity to settle the lawsuit (Lakeith Amri-Sharif vs. Officer Angela D. Allen, Case #67247-I) for $1,500. This $1,500 offer was made in good faith to try and save all interested parties (namely myself and the taxpayers) from having to incur anymore unnecessary litigation expenses by our avoiding the need for the jury trial scheduled for June 6, 2016.

Moreover, I made this offer in light of the presiding judge's October 2015 orders that referred the lawsuit for alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Plus your subordinates and I were instructed to meet and voluntarily discuss settling the lawsuit. On behalf of you and your office, Attorney Pope met with me at the prison on October 30, 2015 and rejected my offer. He made me a counteroffer of $50 to settle all claims. As you realize, it cost more than $50 of the taxpayers' money for the rental car, gas, food, and work hours paid for Attorney Pope to make the round trip from Austin to Rosharon, Texas.

During our meeting, Attorney Pope told me that the LEDD has a war chest and, if I did not accept the $50 offer, it is he and his superiors' position that it makes good in a fiscal sense. Plus it looks better on paper for them to go to jury trial (June 6, 2016) rather than agree to a settlement offer of $1,750 made by a pro se prisoner over some legal materials and law book that was lost or unlawfully destroyed.

It's worthy of you to note a few things about defendant Angela D. Allen that your subordinates have been well aware of for the past four years. While employed as a TDCJ officer, Defendant Allen became involved in an inappropriate inmate relationship with one of the prisoners at this prison. Allen quit her job about three years ago to continue the relationship with her paramour once he was granted parole. On January 30, 2015, Allen gave birth to the couple's first child, a beautiful baby girl named Paris. The couple have since gotten married (see Texas Penal Code 39.04(2), Texas Government Code Section 501.011(A)).

If unlike your subordinates, you believe that settling this four-year-old lawsuit not only makes good fiscal sense and is the right thing to do, then I'm still willing to stand by the terms of the $1,500 offer made in my last letter to Attorneys Pope and Coogan.

Please respond to this correspondence by January 25, 2016 with your intentions. I look forward to working with you to resolve the lawsuit.

Most respectfully,
Lakeith Amir-Sharif
LAR

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Lyn Hed in Texas Jail
Justice
For Sandra Bland!

The jailhouse murder of Sandra Bland remains an unsolved mystery, and the legal system in Texas (Waller County, in particular) has for all practical purposes indicated to the world that nothing shall ever be done about it. If the latest developments in which a so-called "special prosecutor" failed to bring about an indictment for murder does not serve as a wake-up call to the black communities, then we are in worse shape than anyone could imagine.

The best this "special prosecutor" and his not-so-grand jury could muster is a damn state jail charge of perjury against the arresting officer, Brian Encinia. IF convicted on the perjury charge, it is highly—and I do mean highly—unlikely that this Texas trooper will spend as much as one hour behind bars. And the officials carrying out this judicial charade have the audacity to pretend as if they do not understand why the people are unsatisfied with how things are playing out.

That's because we know if Sandra was a child or relative of the Kennedy or Bush clan, these same officials and "their" legal system would stop at nothing until they discovered what really happened to Sandra and hold the individual or group of individuals accountable. The scene would be reminiscent of a modern day witch hunt.

Unfortunately for Sandra, she is the daughter of a black woman named Geneva Reed-Veal. And so according to our historical relationship to this country dating back to the time of chattel slavery, lynchings are a daily part of our reality. Waller County, Texas is no exception to Amerikkka's horrific past history as it relates to the country's non-white population (see US vs. Waller County, Texas (1979 case)).