“How the did I get here… and how did THIS become my life. I’ve spent too many sleepless nights in a cold prison cell, asking myself those same questions. Staring in the dark at these concrete walls… trying to remember every detail, of that day it all went wrong.
But truthfully… I can’t. Because this time I’ve spent locked in a cage, that has stolen half of my life from me… has now, after two decades… begun to slowly take my memories too. So each day I relive my past in the trial transcripts and police reports I read… trying to piece together the Truth about a me I don’t even recognize. Fighting against a system that has been designed to prevent its dirty secrets from being reveled.
Because no one working within our criminal Justice system ever accepts responsibility for prosecuting an innocent man and their illegal actions always get swept under the rug, while the wrongfully convicted are shipped off to prison where the pleas of a convicted murderer fall on deaf ears.
They tried to silence me with a life sentence. Locked me in a box to slowly waste away. Poured dirt on my casket by using the media to influence the public to despise me. A manufactured monster. But I know the truth about that lie so many of you blindly accept, without ever asking yourself who gave you the story you believe. Do you even know? It’s time to open your eyes and learn the truth about the scumbag you’re assisting when you endorse the veracity of his accusations. Know his history of deviant behavior and his record of violence against women before you accept the story that he created to save himself. And also understand the motives of the men in power who used him for their own device.
The American Justice System is not about seeking the truth. It’s a game lawyers and prosecutors play to achieve their political and financial ambitions. Pay attention… an election year always brings out the big case… with a prosecutor grandstanding on TV. For your vote, he promises to save you from the villain… that he constructed. He gives the mob someone to hate… as they watch the news every night, seeking blood. It’s a secrete handshake between government and media. It’s planned pandemonium and they both use it to forward their own agenda.
But even with both hands cuffed… I reach trough these bars and pull back the curtain to reveal the wizard’s tricks. I’ve shown you proof of their lies and exposed the magnitude of their corruption. While they tell you to trust their judgement and follow them like good sheep. Like they’re above being questioned about what goes on behind those closed doors. It’s the unethical deals they strike with weasels and rats that expose crooked prosecutors for what they truly are: ambitious sociopaths. And when they’re done milking the tax payer for every cent they can get, they go into private practice and protect pedophiles to pay their mortgage… all they are… are lawyers.
And all I am, is one man… navigating the appellate process, on a high-school education and a three day law library call-out…. forced to fend for myself in a legal battle to the death, against the unlimited resources of the State’s hired assassins. This is that David verses Goliath fight… and will not back down.
From the day I was accused I was presumed to be guilty. I never had a chance at justice. They ran me through their kangaroo court and sentenced me to die in a cage. I was abandoned and left for dead by almost every person I cared for. My son was forced to grow up without his father. He was cursed by the name he carried… ostracized and bullied by a disgraceful community that considered my boy to be collateral damage. While I was harassed and tormented in the penitentiary by authoritarian prison guards. But against all odds I brawl with the big bully. My God is my strength and my faith has carried me through my darkest hours. I will not be silenced. The truth can never be changed… it has only been hidden… but I promise you this… it will soon be revealed. Because the Lord is my witness, I did not kill Rose Larner.” – JOHN ORTIZ-KEHOE MDOC 256263
