The Novelist Portent
Johnny E. Mahaffey
September 29, 2018

Reply ID: ph3k

To Sunshine:
Read each post? Bet that was fun. I tend to rant, a lot. I would be telling to tell you all about my story, but I am still fighting my case.

I should NOT be in prison.

There was real live jury tampering that happened at my trial that swayed jurors towards a conviction. The judge refused to declare a mistrial, even though two jurors showed during questioning that they had in fact been influenced. My "lawyer" said that the judge let the erroneous conviction stick, knowing one day I'll get it reversed because it was his way of making sure I did some time in prison. He was... somewhat biased towards me. They called him the hangman judge anyways because he was pretty much in the prosecution's pocket. he always sought a maximum sentence for anything that crossed his desk. He didn't want any re-cross done, no going back over anything. We were given only a certain number of days, with the trial over by the end of the week, and I was not allowed to present ANY witnesses for my behalf or for my characterization.

We were not allowed to tell jurors that the decedent had just been CONVICTED of assaulting me and had just gotten out of jail for it. We were not allowed to show the falsified police reports that the decedent had helped create in an attempt to send me to jail in retaliation. We were not allowed to present evidence that he took part in a first-degree burglary of my home in which my wife was assaulted and our 17-month-old daughter kidnapped! Shylynn Carolyn Mahaffey, I never got to see her again to this day. She's with her mother now and I last heard was from DSS in Greenville, SC, who was then investigating Shylynn's mother (Skyler Andrews) for child abuse against Shylynn.

So, no. My story has NOT been heard, at all. But it needs to be.

My daughter will never know the truth. She thinks that I left her, probably. If she even knows I exist. She'll never know that she was taken from me during a home invasion and that the cops only gave her to her mother (who hasn't seen her in months at that time) because I chased the burglary suspects myself across town and got my daughter back. But I was sent to jail for a few hours, charged with simple assault, for reaching into the car of the kidnappers. I was NEVER CONVICTED though. It was a huge mess. ANd it's my kids who have had to suffer most.

All I wanted was my family, and to be left alone. But meth-heads wouldn't stay away! Anderson, SC is full of them!

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