Date: 5/17/2019 2:51:36 PM

"JUST THINKING"

I often sit here and play and replay my trial in my head, and everything that could and should have been done. They railroaded the hell out of me!! Judge David C. Wiggins appointed an incompetent inexperienced lawyer, Henry Davis to represent me. Mr Davis had never handled a capital case. He didn't hire an investigator, to track down witnesses, look at evidence. And it wouldn't have cost him one single penny. All he had to do was file a motion for investigation fees. Mr Davis was so incompetent that he didn't even walk across the street to look at the physical evidence that the Sheriff's office had collected at the crime scenes. And you can't say that's trial strategy. No, that's an IAC (ineffective assistance of counsel) claim. Well, it is if you're rich, and have the money for competent representations. Otherwise you slip through the cracks of a broken system. That's what aggravates me more than anything... they say "EQUALITY"! Where's it at? I didn't see it in my case. And you're not going to see it in most cases. Why? Cause your poor dead beat attorney is going up against a Monster! The State or Federal Government, which has unlimited money and resources. How is that equal??!! Exactly, it's not. And anyone who thinks it is, well, they need a psych evaluation. It's like sitting at a poker table with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet where you've got a hundred dollar bill. The deck is stacked. And that's the case with this U.S. judicial system. The deck is stacked against the poor. What happened to me, would have never happened to a Gates, Buffet, Kennedy or Trump. No way, no how! They would have went in that court room fully prepared! The case would have been investigated inside out. No stone would have been unturned. My case, my attorney he didn't even walk across the street and look at mine and my codefendant's clothing. Yes, bloody clothes that the prosecutor didn't even want the jury to see. Why? Cause it shed a bad light on my codefendant, and would have messed up his credibility. My lawyer let witnesses get on the stand, tell lies and didn't even cross examine them! Yes, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, where a poor man can't get an ounce of relief!

I sit here every day and go over this stuff in my head. The prosecutor, oh, they put on a gorgeous show! Brilliant!! They manipulate the jury in every way, shape and form. They said, Yes, Mr Clark had a job, a wife, he was paying bills, etc etc. Trying to show that I was a fully developed adult. What they didn't hear, is the longest I ever held a job, was ten months. And that was while married to my wife Lisa, and while working for her father Bob. And I never paid any bills. My wife or her mother handled all of our finances. And my attorney should have brought all of them in to refute what that prosecutor was doing. What he was doing was trying to say my brain was fully developed, so I'd have no legal grounds for appeal. But it's scientific fact, the human man doesn't fully develop until your mid 20s. And I think some people's develop even later. I'd say mine was later, much later! At 21 years old, I didn't have a job, I was running the streets stealing alcohol out of stores, stealing gas, stealing from drug dealers. I had the mentality of about a 14 year old kid. I was high or drunk all the time! I didn't think about consequences! I didn't think about tomorrow, because my views were clouded in a drug and alcohol stupor! Responsible?? No way, shape or form!! I was an irresponsible 21 year old punk kid, who was doing good to make it through a day without doing something incredibly stupid! I've got a photograph of me, that was taken four months before my arrest, and I'm high as a kite. The camera the photo was taken with was stolen out of a car that day. It was juvenile ass behavior! It was stupid stuff a young punk kid would do. No, I was immature as they came. But that prosecutor, oh, he should have got an Oscar for his performance. Although it wasn't difficult, when sitting next to me was a warm body, a facade to show that I had representation. Truly, I'd have been better off with no lawyer, than to have some incompetent lawyer sitting there perpetrating this fraud, of competent representation. Oh well, it is what it is. But this still weighs heavily on my heart daily. I need to write and go into more depth. Until next time. God bless.

In peace and love Ronnie
May 17, 2019 Friday

Ronald W Clark Jr #812974
Union Correctional Institution
PO Box 1000
Raiford, Lf. 32083