Jacob, the Media Committee is currently working on a statewide project to educate media personnel and selected lawmakers. Our effort is not to condemn but to expose these folks to the truth about the ‘myths’ they have clung to for years and reported as facts. When this project is completed they can no longer claim ignorance of the subject. Any reporting or voting on false information will be purely intentional. Whether this project will produce the ‘fruit of the truth’ is yet to be known.

We often think of our Media Committee’s job as responding to news reports with criticism, but it’s beyond that. Where possible, I think they try to build relationships with reporters and become a reliable source for them. Or they should try to do so if I’m wrong about this. Occasionally FAC has been able to get Gail quoted in local and statewide news, and that’s been great.

Although I deserved some time for what I did do, there were BS add on charges for things I never did. So I got rail roaded by the police, the prosecutor and the judge. Instead of hiring a cut throat bastard of a lawyer, I hired a sympathetic lawyer. Nicest guy I could of hired , but nice was not what I needed even though I thought I did.

I appealed for years using the same lawyer and he redeemed himself. He used the same shaddy tatics the prosecuter did. He judge shopped and got me before a judge that actually listened and didn’t just “Judge”. He threw out the remainder of my sentence and was appalled at the time I was given as a first time offender. He never bashed the other judge and he is now on the Florida Supreme court. If I could get before him, I know he would remove me from the registry but that is not how it works I suppose.

CherokeeJack, I don’t know what you did…and don’t care…but if it was bad enough Satan would have probably approved of it and let you off.

JZ

Well to show there may be hope, Bill Cosby just had his convictions overturned

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bill-cosby-s-sex-assault-conviction-overturned-by-court/ar-AALD5IP?ocid=msedgntp

Greig

I wanted to go to trial but for two reasons. First off I spent every dime I had on bonding out twice (They kept re-arresting me) and lawyer cost. Also law enforcement said If I plead guilty they would not go to the news with my story. (Really no story to tell)

Also did not want to put my family or the person I was seeing family through that. But yeah, sometimes looking back I should have gone to trail, at least I could have had the lawyer have the forced confession thrown out. That would have made all the difference. I asked for a lawyer 3 times and each time the cop would say “Do you want me to go to the news?”.

Thanks for the reality check! The judge I had was a member of the One Million club. My paid attorney was ineffectual as well. I may have gotten a better deal with a public pretender.

Man that sounds like Jim Wallace in Harris County Texas. He laughed at me every time he saw me in his court. If I knew now what I didn’t know then, I would have taken the a**hole to trial!