May 26, 2023 • 34 mins
This is part two of Luis Miguel Salinas talking about working on his appeal and the difficulties he had with lawyers along the way.
Luis Miguel Salinas is serving 44 year to life in Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, CA.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, tell the man no trouble. I
don't want to beat man. Ijust want fivee big man like me.
No need for the telephone. Hide, I got too much can online won't
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rule the nimal side. Wrong move. I bet they're gonna ride No.
So several years ago, you know, my dad he's working in downtown the
lad and he's right, he's ridinghis bicycle. He ends up getting hit
by a car and he gets prettyseverely injured, and you know, he's
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in the hospital for a little while, and you know, luckily he's able
to survive that. So, likeit took about maybe two or three years
and ends up beating a settlement fromthe insurance company of that driver. So
he came up on some money.So right away, you know, he
tells me, he's like, look, I got this money. Now,
let's get a lawyer. Let's findsomebody that we need to get you out.
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It's been too long already, youknow, been there for a long
time. So my family starts lookingfor a lawyer. They go online and
they come across Matthew Barhoma his webpage, and on his web page he's
talking about he's a number one lawyertop one percent super lawyer, best post
conviction lawyer. Like, you've goteverything on that side that you know,
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all the bills and whistles. Everythinglooks good. So they contact him and
they tell me about him. Theygive me the number. I end up
calling him, like, I speakto him and I'll rafter bag. He
tells me, look, this isthis is what I charge for a consultation.
So there's three thousand dollars for meto review your case. And then
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I'll break it down and I'll tellyou what it is I believe you qualified
for. So so he's like,and if you do, you do retain
my services and will deduct the threethousand from me or from whatever it is
that I'm going to file. Sookay, And he's like, if you
don't, then I keep three thousand. So I'm all right. So we
talking and I explain to him aboutmy case and everything, and uh he
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does. He does the review andhe sends me the paperwork and he puts
on there that he's recommending that Ido a commentation of sentence to the Governor,
that I file of avias corpus foractual instance, that I file uh
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Franklin hearing for basically that's for totry to get mitigating factors for parole as
a youth defender for a D twentynine forty two, which basically trying and
get the DA to refer you downfor re sentence. I think that was
directed. Those are the those arethe things that that we pay to get
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filed. So here's a charging us. We end up playing about twenty five
thousand just off of that right,and we put my dad pays up front
right away. So we're hoping thisguy, you know, starts working on
that case asap. So in thebeginning, you know, I could call
and he picks up, I'm ableto reach him, I'm able to talk
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to him right away, you know. And I'm talking to him, I'm
giving him as I'm talking strategy withhim, and I tell him basically that
that I wanted to file main meon like h knew what everdence about this
bullet because the victim, William,he got shot two terms by a thirty
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eight revolver, But the DA wastrying to say that that he was shot
by two different weapons by two differentpeople, but in reality, there was
only one person. There was onlyone gun. They just two in that
theory to get me convicted. SoI knew that he had got a shot
with his thirty eight. They hada thirty eight slunk inevidence already because one
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of the bullets went in and outof his sty, and then the second
bullet it was still launched in Ithink somewhere somewhere, being on his STI
also, and they never took itout. I guess the doctors had said
that they didn't want to take itout. It was too dangerous too,
they don't want to cut them openor whatever. For whatever reason, they
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decided not to extract the bullet.So my theory to the to bar home
is based on this evidence. Ifwe were able to get this bullet extracted,
we're able to test it. Andyou know these bullets, they have
barrel markings, and the barrel markingsare pretty much fingerprints. So we have
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a bullet already in inevidence with thebarrel marketings. So all we have to
do is get this bullet out ofWilliam and then compare to the two bullets,
compare the barrel markings, and ifthey matched, they should do they
should be an identical match, andthat one percent proves that he was shot
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with one gun by one person,killing the whole DA theory, and automatically
they would have to bring me backto courts and the throw out that case
because the whole entire case was involvingaround them saying that I shot him with
a forty four caliber weapon. SoI'm telling him all this, and I'm
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telling that we had made contact withWilliam in the past. The last attorney
that had h Clay Jack, hegot in contact with William and he did
he did an interview, so youknow, William was willing to cooperate and
willing to help me. Now,many years had already passed because the last
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time that we did that interview,I want to say it was like two
thousand, like two thousand, twothousand and nine, ten, two thousand
nine or two thousand and ten,So it's been almost ten years, you
know. UM, So I haveno idea where where William's at, and
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I have no idea if he's stillgonna be willing to help. So I
told him we should find him andsee if he's beating, if he's willing
to help, because the last timewe got spoke he was willing to help
UM. And my other thing wasUM I had asked him to look for
for for Hector, and I washoping that maybe because so much time had
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passed, he would be willing totalk, you know. And it just
so happened that when they when theywere looking for him, they ended up
finding him in federal prison. So, you know, I got lucky that
he was there and they were ableto schedule video conference and to him,
and he confessed to him. Hetold him everything. He told him that
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he was the shooter, that Ihad no involvement whatsoever. I had no
knowledge whatsoever. He just jumped intomy car because he seen my car park.
But you know, I never knewanything about what was going on.
So we got lucky on that pointwhere he was willing to do it.
And in Barhoma, you know,he's draft he drafts stuff and after David
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for Hector to sign. But thatafter David was complete complete bullshit, like
it was very very vague. Hetook he prolonged it like he waited till
the last minute, and the Hectorwas already getting released. So by the
time he sends him that, afterDavid, you know, actors already maybe
like a week or two to thehouse, and he sends it back to
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him time and look, adds theselines here, you know, because I'm
telling it was very short after Davidwasn't much much detail or nuncky, so
he wanted him to add some moreto it and then he will signing.
He knows it back to him.Well, by the time our homework gets
done with it, the actor getsreleased. So that's it, man.
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So we don't got nothing. Wedon't got that. We don't got that
after Davia. We don't want tosign that for David now because now he's
been deported to Mexico at the sametime that all this is happening. I
tell him to look for my alibile, who was Betty, and she was
in the car. She was sittingin the car with me that night when
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were in the car right there onWoman Street. We were drinking and we
were listening to music and we're talking. We're parked in one of the driveways.
So she was with me when weboth heard the gun shots. You
know, when when we were doinggun shots. Right away, I told
it to run inside, you know, going to stop the building. And
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so she knows for a fact thatI had nothing to do with it,
that I didn't shoot nobody. Ididn't do nothing, you know. Um,
And she had talked to also,she had talked to H. Klay
Jack in the past, back inlike O eight oh nine, and I
was hoping that she would she wouldtalk again, right because back then she
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didn't want to She didn't want tosign her AFT for David. You know,
she was still she was still concernedabout her legal status of getting deported
or getting retalitated against by Rampart.So she was willing to talk, but
she just didn't want to sign nothingor go to court. So I was
kind of open, Okay, well, maybe something changed, you know,
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maybe her legal status changed, orI don't know, maybe she'd talk.
So that was another discuss was boughtoman. And then also as the time
was passing, you know, itwas getting more and more difficult to get
an older bottle. You know.In the very beginning, you know,
I was very easily call him andtalk to him, and he would respond
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to me and everything, right,but as time went on, it was
like out call and he wasn't availableor didn't answer. You call his office
and it's just random random operators likethat, like a call service, answering
service and so a little by little, you know, it's it's just like
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I'm kind of having my doubts andstuff, so like, why is this,
Why is it so difficult to getall this dude? Why is this
dude like dragging it out? Andso when I finally and I finally get
to see the abeatists, you know, like I said, I noticed that
he makes a bunch of mistakes.All the pages, they're all numbered fourteen.
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Every single page says number fourteen onit. There's a bunch of blank
spots with dates, missing dates,missing names. Uh, there's no signature.
He never signed it. So helooked, I mean like it was
just a draft that was never prooffor it, that was never finished,
and he submitted it. So theda you know, right off the bat,
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she reads them like she she goesin on them hard, and you
know, points out this, let'scall Andrew our telephone number. We'll be
monitored and recorded, basically kind ofcalming him like what the fuck is this?
You know, and then she shesays, well that it might that
this is not new evidence, right, that this hasn't this there's no m
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there's no basically, there's nothing hereto to warrant my caste getting overturned.
So she does that argument right,and then after she turned into her argument,
then Baroma gets a chance to argueagain. So the second one it's
called a traverse, and she's respondingto the DA's response that one was a
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little a lot better, like hedid a much better job on that one,
and on that one he focused morebasically saying on the on the new
evidence, on Hector's confession and thepossibility of of getting this bullet removed and
been tested with the victims cooperation.He said, I wasn't sound it a
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lot better, But in the endthe judge denied it, and he basically,
uh, he quoted the whole thingabout on that being a transcript,
like this was already in the transcript, is not new evidence. And then
he's like there's no, there's nosignature from the alpha. David like,
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there's no, there's no signature,So you know, we don't know.
You can't they're not reliable, youcan't trust this, and so he just
pointed out all the mistakes and hedenied it. But it took it took
like a year and a half toget that, to get the final like
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the denial, you know, sothis whole time of process, you know,
we're going to court. I'm notgoing to court, but the lawyers
is going to court. And Ihad told the lawyer from the beginning that
I want to be present to fillout a request to be transferred down to
La County. But he kept bullshittinglike it wasn't happening. He kept telling
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me that the judge, you don'twant to do it. So finally I
had to pay him an extra fifteenhundred dollars for him to do a whole,
like a whole motion. Right,he does this big, whole motion
like I don't know. It waslike fifteen twenty pages on why I should
be transferred down to the county.Well, the judge approves it, he
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signs it, he approves it,right, But I never get transferred.
I never get transferred, even figningit. I'm over here waiting to get
transferred, but I never do.They're saying because of COVID, and but
COVID was all already kind of notreally what it was in the very beginning,
so they were still being transferred,a lot of people were still going
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to country on and stuff. Butthat's what they blamed it, and they
said don't know because of COVID.After so many months, asked again,
and then the judge backtracked on andhe says, no, I don't He
didn't want to get me transferred,no one, so he kept denying my
transfer. So I never got togo down to the county. I never
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got to go to any of thecourting or anything. But I wanted to
be president because you know, Iwanted to make sure that everything was going
good. So this guy, he'sshowing up at the same time as we
got the abeas going on, he'sshowing up for the Franklin hearing. The
Franklin hearing is basically to present mitigatingfactors, so they focused a lot.
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It's many for you, right,So they're focusing on how you grew up
and the person that you were,things that did you know. They're trying
to get whatever they can get toput on your files. They kind of
get you made it getting factor likeput something good on there. So when
you go to a parole board,they could be Okay, this guy was
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a youth, and you know,they could use all as much as they
can to try to get your yoursentence reduced or try to get you a
better chance of being paroled. Sohe's going to these to these hearings,
but every single hearing, all he'sdoing is postponing. So nothing ever occurred
in And it's been almost three years, the big two and a half years
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that the franking hearing has been goingon, and now one single thing has
been accomplished in in those hearings.So I had asked. I wrote to
the court and I asked them forthe records, all the minute orders so
I could find out what exactly whatwas going on in these court dates.
So I get the minute orders andnothing's going on. They're just basically all
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it has one line, um,what was it called postpone until such a
such date. You know, they'dnever discussed nothing. So it basically tracked
that out. And then also too, in the very beginning, before even
filing the abbas, I told Bahomato file follow the request for the Conviction
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Integrity Unit, you know, andgive them, give them our evidence.
And I was hoping that the dwould reopen the case on their own without
even having the file or abas oranything, because a lot of these cases
that's how they were, that's howthey were going. Basically, the lawyer
went to the DA the deal thatthe case, and the DA decided to
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join the defense and say, youknow what, we're both going to file
this and we're gonna get this guyreleased. That's kind of what I was
hoping for Kea. But this dudenever did that. Man Like, he
never He's submitted a request, right, but he never kind of he never
really followed up on it or nothing. And I kept telling him that what's
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up with DA? Man? Andwe talked to the day that was going
on with the DA, and He'slike, oh, well, I emailed
her and I'm just waiting, andyou know, he just kept giving me
a bunch of excuses, but he'snot over about it. Went over.
But we got a strong case.We're gonna win this, you know.
So this whole time, man likeit's just passing and I'm thinking, okay,
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well, I mean we got asolid case. You know, I
got this this evidence and everything,and I should be able to get my
case reopened, and you know,thinking positive. Well, yeah, it
took a year and a half toget the denial. Once I get the
denial, I didn't get the actualcopy of a habeas until that, you
know, because I had been tellinghim, send me a copy, send
me a copy, and I needa copy. So he finally sends it
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to me. And that's what Isee, Like, man, this he
just fucked everything up. Well,he ends up asking us for more money.
I had to fund a second appealto the appellate court because this is
spirit court. This is being heardby the judge who heard my trial,
who convicted me, in the spiritof court. So that's the first process.
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So he denies it, right,So right after he denies this,
there's probably like a couple of monthsin between, right and act. In
this time, we're trying to lookfor Hector again, you know, we're
trying to look for Hector and andluckily we find them all right, one
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of one of his family members wasin La and I guess he reached out
to him in Mexico and and thenhe got in contact with the investigator.
The investigator was able to do afull interview, then get a full confession,
and he ends up doing like eightpages on an affidavit and he signs
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it. He basically going into fulldetail, explains everything, takes full responsibility.
You know, let's call Andrew Itelephone number. They'll be monitored and
recorded. Now we have this fullaffidavit. So I'm telling them more.
They're like, look, man,give this to the DA like she would
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sub does there if if they'll reopenthe case said, it's a convission review.
So now he's no, no,but home to tell me. I
look, the one that heads upconvission review. Her name is Martha,
and she doesn't like me. Andwe have this thing going on and listen
this song like so that ship doesn'tmatter if you give her the give her
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the evidence and see what happens,you know. So he's like, well,
I eat out her and uh,I shoulder the shoulder our new habeas
right, because he not the habeousput the appeal from the habeas. So
he does a whole new appeal right. Then he's in there. He finally
puts he finally puts the alibi umthe alibis THELFI David and then he puts
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the new HALFI David from Hector andthen he he there's an FIDAVI with them
that the victims signed saying you knowthat he would be willing to remove the
bullet and all that, and heputs all that together, and so he's
telling them the DA like, look, I'm a follow this, you know,
like kind of like using it asKara back the threat, right,
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So it's like, what's up.Are you gonna work with us or should
have and file this? You knowin the days like shit filed that.
You know, they weren't fucking withthe man, and they they didn't want
to fuck with them out. Ithink he really fucked up my case more
than anything because later on, ummy little sister had had put up a
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post on Instagram and got a bunchof people to kind of sign sign this
change that org. And one ofthe guys who reached out, his name
is Frankie Carrillo and he was actuallyon Netflix. He did twenty years in
prison for for a murder that hedidn't commit, and he was set up
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by by the Sheriff's department, Likethey have a gang called the Linwood Vikings.
They little documents thing, everything's allover the news and everything. This
guy reaches out and he's like he'slike, little you know, I have
a good connection with Los Angeles InnocentProject. I'm gonna try to get your
case submitted. And he knew theconviction the Tivity Unit. He wrote some
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of the guidelines and stuff. Sohe's like, look, I'm gonna talk
to Martha. I'm gonna talk toher about your case. So he does.
He talks to her, and hetells me right that in the email
marked up, he's basically saying,look, you know this fucking lawyer,
he's a fucking sleeze. He's like, they look at him like he's a
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fucking like a joke. I guessyou know, like this, this dude's
bullshit, a shyster, you knowwhat I'm saying, like a scammer or
whatever. So she ain't really tryingto fuck with them, so she tells
she tells the guy Frankie, She'slike, look, I'm just gonna let
it play out, like I'm notgonna get involved, right, So she
wasn't trying to help me. She'slike, no, I'm good. She
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ain't trying to help me and andI'm basically because of his lawyer. So
Frankie tells me like, hey man, you need to fire this dude.
And this guy's sucking up the case. So I mean, I told him
like it will there's no lead forme to fire him because my case is
done, Like he already filed hefiled everything. He came him for everything,
or I'm not gonna pay him foranything else. So he's basically done.
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The only thing that he had waswas my Franklin hearing, so basically,
you know, I had pretty muchhe uh, he fouled the appeal.
And this appeal they got denied immediately, you know, immediately, like
he found it in November, likethe end of November, and you gotta
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remember December, you finally get liketwo weeks of actual court time because of
the holidays. They they go ontheir holiday break, right, So he
found it and literally in January itis denied. So so to me,
it's like as soon as you turnit in and they looked at it and
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they denied it, and that's unusual, you know, and usually this stuff
kind of gets prolonged. It doesn'thappen right away. So off the bat,
I'm like, there's something wrong here, man, Like this guy must
have done something wrong. He musthave violated some some rule, court rule
or something. Something's wrong for themto reject this so quickly. And they
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didn't give a reason as to whyit was being denied. They just denied
it right away, you know.So now I'm like fuck, just threw
away all this money, you know, And I thought it was like a
slam dumb case, you know,like like this dude had everything, he
had all the ammunition, and hedidn't do nothing, Like nothing happened.
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It was just a waste of thelast fucking almost three years and with nothing
to show for it. So youknow, we do. Frankie was telling
me, hey, then you're firinghis back. So I'm like, I
mean, pretty much, he's notmy norder no more. Because he got
paid to do the appeal and hedid the appeal and the appeal got denied.
So unless I pay him more money, he's not gonna do nothing for
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me. So I'm not gonna payhim nothing. So he was only representing
me now the Franklin hearing so recently, I want to say it was I
think it was March. I thinkit was March of this year to twenty
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twenty three that he goes to courtwithout even talking to me. Because in
the very beginning I had a lotof communication with him, like it was
constant communications and he was taking mycause. I was able to reach him.
But then you know, after acouple of months, it was harder
and harder to get a hold ofhim. I would call and call and
call, couldn't reach him, andit was just could not reach this dude
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and learning. And that's how it'sbeen this whole time. Man. So
I hadn't spoke to him since likeNovember, right since he fouled the abist
and then and then he said aletter time about that. It got denied
in January, but we had wehadn't actually spoken, so like in March,
ry and go to court and thisdude he tells the judge that he
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wants to relieve himself per his client'srequest, right, and he tells the
dog that you know that I wantto go proper represent myself and that he
will be my co counsel. AndI'm not wait a minute, you know
I didn't tell you, dude todo this. So he basically took himself
off the case and they assigned apublic defender. So this guy is not
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doing nothing for him no more,even though I paid him to handle that,
and he should have never He shouldhave still been on that on that
case, right, he should havestill been doing the hearing because that's what
he got paid for. Aside fromfollowing the pure and everything. Well he
excused himself, so you know they'retrying to call him, can't get older
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in trying to get our transcripts,can't get can't get the transcripts, can't
get another paperwork, you know.So this dude is just just bullshit and
like and then we find um justrecently, like maybe about a month ago,
there was a big there's a bigarticle in LA Times talking about spoling
law and Baroma used to work withspoiling and they're they're basically the same exact
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thing, right, So in thisarticle they're talking about how spollen it's going
after all these um prisoners families,right, given the false hopes M charging
him enarmo the leg to do somestuff that these guys don't even qualify for
it. These guys have no chancewhatsoever of getting a sensive repection or getting
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whatever. He's just doing this becauseit's easy money. So and there's no
laws that are gonna help the prisoner, you know, to be uh from
these lawyers that are going to takea lend of you, right is there's
nothing really out there. So theseguys get away with it without no problems
whatsoever. So you know, Iread this article, and it's pretty much
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the same exact bar Homa, sameship, the whole the whole business,
proposition, the whole everything. Likeit's a cookie cutter or statement right that
he sends to everybody like here youcan qualify for this list and that's pay
me three thousands, Like they're doingthe same exact thing. Like well,
after reading that, our cales like, man, there's the same exact shit
bar Home was doing. And thenI'm like, well he must have learned
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it from him because they worked together. So you know, now I'm like,
funck, man, this guy basicallygot me. Man, this guy
got me and there it's just it'sall bad, man, Like I felt
fucked up, like he had onagain another another fucking lawyer. Man.
And that's why it's it's it sucksthat these dudes can get away with them,
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you know. It's it's difficult tofind a really solid lawyer that's gonna
be honest, it's going to reallyhelp you. Most of these guys,
they it's easy money, easy,easy money. Man. They just take
the money and they don't really gottado shit. They don't really got to
show nothing or you know, theyjust do It feels like you know,
you have a little kid and you'rein class, right and you know,
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everybody doing their little art project andthis guy, fucking this little kid,
you know, draws this little cartoonwhatever, and they just you look at
it and it's it's horrible. It'shorrible. But you tell a little kid,
oh, that's great, that's great. You know, you did your
best right there. I feel likethat's how this system is, right,
Like the lorder does a horrible fuckingjob, but the law and life,
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oh, at school, you didyour best. It's all right, don't
worry about it. You'll do better, you know. So it's fucked up.
Man. Well right now, rightnow, we're just we're just basically
waiting um on this next court day. Well, in May of last year,
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May of twenty twenty two, rightas soon as I as soon as
my my my hadees got denied,I filed a motion myself. Well it's
called a seven seven five motion.There was a lot of that past that
basically said if you're not the actualshooter, you can get resentance. So
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I fouled that, and Barhomo's like, man, you shouldn't have fouled that,
you know, qualified for that you'regonna get denied. So you know
he was. He was telling melike, now he shouldn't have done it.
But so all this time passed,right and they finally h looked at
that motion and they gave me alawyer for that emotion. So right now
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I have a lawyer for the resentencymotion, and I got my court day
in July. So just by themactually gave me a lawyer, I guess
I did qualify, you know,because I know other people that got the
night off the bat they didn't.They didn't get a lawyer. They just
denied them. They said, no, they don't qualify. So I'm guessing
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I did qualify because they gave methe lawyer. Nothing has happened yet,
but you know, it's just thelawyer. Burder got my case and he's
looking at my case right now.So I'm kind of hoping that now that
I have this lawyer on the RESENTSUSscene, that we could just give him
everything, give him the affidavids,give him all though evidence, give him
everything. Hopefully he could present thatto the judge, and hopefully this new
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judge is more willing to reopen thecase and examine the evidence because the last
judge that I had. He wasthe original judge on my case, and
this dude was not trying to hearnumber that. You know, he's try
going to try to overturn his owncase. Then know another thing too,
rad the Dean had tried my case, he became a spiritual judge, So
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I kind of think that too,kind of tolls wrenching it too, because
you know, the duds are judgenow. He was sitting judge now,
so he ain't trying to have hisconvictions overturned. So I'm kind of thinking
maybe that's why the d's not reallytrying to help me either. But you
know, I don't know what's what'sreally going on. I just feel like
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everything's there, man. Like I'veseen cases like you know, you could
watch twenty twenty, you could watchstate Line, n min whatever, and
you see all these you know,true crime stories, and you see how
these people got out of prison withless with less evidence, man, and
man, I got the full confessionof the real shooter, and you know,
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nothing has happened in my case,you know, But you know,
I blame it on these lawyers andthen blame it on these lawyers because I
feel like I have to write lawyer. All this, all this would have
been done by now, you know, and even from the very beginning,
if I would have had a goodlawyer, I wouldn't even be in prison,
though I wouldn't been able to provemy ansence back then. But yeah,
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it's just rough man, soul.You know, I'm sure there's a
lot of guy in prison that thatcan relate, that can understand that struggle
with these lawyers man, and eveneven not even just criminal, even like
immigration because there was a big oldscandal about that too. You know that
these lawyers taking advantage of these immigrantstelling them that they're gonna follow these paperwork
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for them, they're gonna get themtheir citizens ship and charging them in arm
in the leg and then just rippingthem off like not doing nothing for them,
and knowing that these these immigrants arenot gonna face ship because they're illegal,
so they're probably thinking like what canthey do? They have no rights?
Right, So you know, theselawyers then, you know, and
everything, you know, they're justdamn Yeah, I gotta keep it trilling
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on my soul. I'm a smallstuff person that I know can be dull
down. The right We've got acouple of cares by my next go back.
When you got all you put yourselfin Jack, they don't hit me
down, down, they don't hitme. That was I've been going around
and around and around like the marriedup dead truth A far for any of
your scenari y'all. Why I keepmy circle smaller than the cherry, y'all.
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Just accompany this pig sty walk.He's gonna be called fleet. End
up going with you read know yourworth and no self cheat. It goes
inside of me. Been to getout of me, no matter wear I
been, go white man to be, I'd be shining perfect time and check
your wife fox. Why and Iknow what I damn, I am no
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longer lost. I got tired ofwalking around with a mask on, smelling
but my heart singing sad song.Yeah, I was living for myself.
I was dead wrong till I getthe call no cell phone. I got
tired of walking around with
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look, tell the man no trouble. I
don't want to beat man. Ijust want fivee big man like me.
No need for the telephone. Hide, I got too much can online won't
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rule the nimal side. Wrong move. I bet they're gonna ride No.
So several years ago, you know, my dad he's working in downtown the
lad and he's right, he's ridinghis bicycle. He ends up getting hit
by a car and he gets prettyseverely injured, and you know, he's
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in the hospital for a little while, and you know, luckily he's able
to survive that. So, likeit took about maybe two or three years
and ends up beating a settlement fromthe insurance company of that driver. So
he came up on some money.So right away, you know, he
tells me, he's like, look, I got this money. Now,
let's get a lawyer. Let's findsomebody that we need to get you out.
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It's been too long already, youknow, been there for a long
time. So my family starts lookingfor a lawyer. They go online and
they come across Matthew Barhoma his webpage, and on his web page he's
talking about he's a number one lawyertop one percent super lawyer, best post
conviction lawyer. Like, you've goteverything on that side that you know,
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all the bills and whistles. Everythinglooks good. So they contact him and
they tell me about him. Theygive me the number. I end up
calling him, like, I speakto him and I'll rafter bag. He
tells me, look, this isthis is what I charge for a consultation.
So there's three thousand dollars for meto review your case. And then
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I'll break it down and I'll tellyou what it is I believe you qualified
for. So so he's like,and if you do, you do retain
my services and will deduct the threethousand from me or from whatever it is
that I'm going to file. Sookay, And he's like, if you
don't, then I keep three thousand. So I'm all right. So we
talking and I explain to him aboutmy case and everything, and uh he
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does. He does the review andhe sends me the paperwork and he puts
on there that he's recommending that Ido a commentation of sentence to the Governor,
that I file of avias corpus foractual instance, that I file uh
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Franklin hearing for basically that's for totry to get mitigating factors for parole as
a youth defender for a D twentynine forty two, which basically trying and
get the DA to refer you downfor re sentence. I think that was
directed. Those are the those arethe things that that we pay to get
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filed. So here's a charging us. We end up playing about twenty five
thousand just off of that right,and we put my dad pays up front
right away. So we're hoping thisguy, you know, starts working on
that case asap. So in thebeginning, you know, I could call
and he picks up, I'm ableto reach him, I'm able to talk
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to him right away, you know. And I'm talking to him, I'm
giving him as I'm talking strategy withhim, and I tell him basically that
that I wanted to file main meon like h knew what everdence about this
bullet because the victim, William,he got shot two terms by a thirty
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eight revolver, But the DA wastrying to say that that he was shot
by two different weapons by two differentpeople, but in reality, there was
only one person. There was onlyone gun. They just two in that
theory to get me convicted. SoI knew that he had got a shot
with his thirty eight. They hada thirty eight slunk inevidence already because one
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of the bullets went in and outof his sty, and then the second
bullet it was still launched in Ithink somewhere somewhere, being on his STI
also, and they never took itout. I guess the doctors had said
that they didn't want to take itout. It was too dangerous too,
they don't want to cut them openor whatever. For whatever reason, they
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decided not to extract the bullet.So my theory to the to bar home
is based on this evidence. Ifwe were able to get this bullet extracted,
we're able to test it. Andyou know these bullets, they have
barrel markings, and the barrel markingsare pretty much fingerprints. So we have
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a bullet already in inevidence with thebarrel marketings. So all we have to
do is get this bullet out ofWilliam and then compare to the two bullets,
compare the barrel markings, and ifthey matched, they should do they
should be an identical match, andthat one percent proves that he was shot
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with one gun by one person,killing the whole DA theory, and automatically
they would have to bring me backto courts and the throw out that case
because the whole entire case was involvingaround them saying that I shot him with
a forty four caliber weapon. SoI'm telling him all this, and I'm
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telling that we had made contact withWilliam in the past. The last attorney
that had h Clay Jack, hegot in contact with William and he did
he did an interview, so youknow, William was willing to cooperate and
willing to help me. Now,many years had already passed because the last
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time that we did that interview,I want to say it was like two
thousand, like two thousand, twothousand and nine, ten, two thousand
nine or two thousand and ten,So it's been almost ten years, you
know. UM, So I haveno idea where where William's at, and
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I have no idea if he's stillgonna be willing to help. So I
told him we should find him andsee if he's beating, if he's willing
to help, because the last timewe got spoke he was willing to help
UM. And my other thing wasUM I had asked him to look for
for for Hector, and I washoping that maybe because so much time had
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passed, he would be willing totalk, you know. And it just
so happened that when they when theywere looking for him, they ended up
finding him in federal prison. So, you know, I got lucky that
he was there and they were ableto schedule video conference and to him,
and he confessed to him. Hetold him everything. He told him that
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he was the shooter, that Ihad no involvement whatsoever. I had no
knowledge whatsoever. He just jumped intomy car because he seen my car park.
But you know, I never knewanything about what was going on.
So we got lucky on that pointwhere he was willing to do it.
And in Barhoma, you know,he's draft he drafts stuff and after David
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for Hector to sign. But thatafter David was complete complete bullshit, like
it was very very vague. Hetook he prolonged it like he waited till
the last minute, and the Hectorwas already getting released. So by the
time he sends him that, afterDavid, you know, actors already maybe
like a week or two to thehouse, and he sends it back to
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him time and look, adds theselines here, you know, because I'm
telling it was very short after Davidwasn't much much detail or nuncky, so
he wanted him to add some moreto it and then he will signing.
He knows it back to him.Well, by the time our homework gets
done with it, the actor getsreleased. So that's it, man.
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So we don't got nothing. Wedon't got that. We don't got that
after Davia. We don't want tosign that for David now because now he's
been deported to Mexico at the sametime that all this is happening. I
tell him to look for my alibile, who was Betty, and she was
in the car. She was sittingin the car with me that night when
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were in the car right there onWoman Street. We were drinking and we
were listening to music and we're talking. We're parked in one of the driveways.
So she was with me when weboth heard the gun shots. You
know, when when we were doinggun shots. Right away, I told
it to run inside, you know, going to stop the building. And
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so she knows for a fact thatI had nothing to do with it,
that I didn't shoot nobody. Ididn't do nothing, you know. Um,
And she had talked to also,she had talked to H. Klay
Jack in the past, back inlike O eight oh nine, and I
was hoping that she would she wouldtalk again, right because back then she
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didn't want to She didn't want tosign her AFT for David. You know,
she was still she was still concernedabout her legal status of getting deported
or getting retalitated against by Rampart.So she was willing to talk, but
she just didn't want to sign nothingor go to court. So I was
kind of open, Okay, well, maybe something changed, you know,
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maybe her legal status changed, orI don't know, maybe she'd talk.
So that was another discuss was boughtoman. And then also as the time
was passing, you know, itwas getting more and more difficult to get
an older bottle. You know.In the very beginning, you know,
I was very easily call him andtalk to him, and he would respond
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to me and everything, right,but as time went on, it was
like out call and he wasn't availableor didn't answer. You call his office
and it's just random random operators likethat, like a call service, answering
service and so a little by little, you know, it's it's just like
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I'm kind of having my doubts andstuff, so like, why is this,
Why is it so difficult to getall this dude? Why is this
dude like dragging it out? Andso when I finally and I finally get
to see the abeatists, you know, like I said, I noticed that
he makes a bunch of mistakes.All the pages, they're all numbered fourteen.
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Every single page says number fourteen onit. There's a bunch of blank
spots with dates, missing dates,missing names. Uh, there's no signature.
He never signed it. So helooked, I mean like it was
just a draft that was never prooffor it, that was never finished,
and he submitted it. So theda you know, right off the bat,
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she reads them like she she goesin on them hard, and you
know, points out this, let'scall Andrew our telephone number. We'll be
monitored and recorded, basically kind ofcalming him like what the fuck is this?
You know, and then she shesays, well that it might that
this is not new evidence, right, that this hasn't this there's no m
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there's no basically, there's nothing hereto to warrant my caste getting overturned.
So she does that argument right,and then after she turned into her argument,
then Baroma gets a chance to argueagain. So the second one it's
called a traverse, and she's respondingto the DA's response that one was a
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little a lot better, like hedid a much better job on that one,
and on that one he focused morebasically saying on the on the new
evidence, on Hector's confession and thepossibility of of getting this bullet removed and
been tested with the victims cooperation.He said, I wasn't sound it a
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lot better, But in the endthe judge denied it, and he basically,
uh, he quoted the whole thingabout on that being a transcript,
like this was already in the transcript, is not new evidence. And then
he's like there's no, there's nosignature from the alpha. David like,
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there's no, there's no signature,So you know, we don't know.
You can't they're not reliable, youcan't trust this, and so he just
pointed out all the mistakes and hedenied it. But it took it took
like a year and a half toget that, to get the final like
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the denial, you know, sothis whole time of process, you know,
we're going to court. I'm notgoing to court, but the lawyers
is going to court. And Ihad told the lawyer from the beginning that
I want to be present to fillout a request to be transferred down to
La County. But he kept bullshittinglike it wasn't happening. He kept telling
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me that the judge, you don'twant to do it. So finally I
had to pay him an extra fifteenhundred dollars for him to do a whole,
like a whole motion. Right,he does this big, whole motion
like I don't know. It waslike fifteen twenty pages on why I should
be transferred down to the county.Well, the judge approves it, he
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signs it, he approves it,right, But I never get transferred.
I never get transferred, even figningit. I'm over here waiting to get
transferred, but I never do.They're saying because of COVID, and but
COVID was all already kind of notreally what it was in the very beginning,
so they were still being transferred,a lot of people were still going
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to country on and stuff. Butthat's what they blamed it, and they
said don't know because of COVID.After so many months, asked again,
and then the judge backtracked on andhe says, no, I don't He
didn't want to get me transferred,no one, so he kept denying my
transfer. So I never got togo down to the county. I never
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got to go to any of thecourting or anything. But I wanted to
be president because you know, Iwanted to make sure that everything was going
good. So this guy, he'sshowing up at the same time as we
got the abeas going on, he'sshowing up for the Franklin hearing. The
Franklin hearing is basically to present mitigatingfactors, so they focused a lot.
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It's many for you, right,So they're focusing on how you grew up
and the person that you were,things that did you know. They're trying
to get whatever they can get toput on your files. They kind of
get you made it getting factor likeput something good on there. So when
you go to a parole board,they could be Okay, this guy was
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a youth, and you know,they could use all as much as they
can to try to get your yoursentence reduced or try to get you a
better chance of being paroled. Sohe's going to these to these hearings,
but every single hearing, all he'sdoing is postponing. So nothing ever occurred
in And it's been almost three years, the big two and a half years
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that the franking hearing has been goingon, and now one single thing has
been accomplished in in those hearings.So I had asked. I wrote to
the court and I asked them forthe records, all the minute orders so
I could find out what exactly whatwas going on in these court dates.
So I get the minute orders andnothing's going on. They're just basically all
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it has one line, um,what was it called postpone until such a
such date. You know, they'dnever discussed nothing. So it basically tracked
that out. And then also too, in the very beginning, before even
filing the abbas, I told Bahomato file follow the request for the Conviction
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Integrity Unit, you know, andgive them, give them our evidence.
And I was hoping that the dwould reopen the case on their own without
even having the file or abas oranything, because a lot of these cases
that's how they were, that's howthey were going. Basically, the lawyer
went to the DA the deal thatthe case, and the DA decided to
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join the defense and say, youknow what, we're both going to file
this and we're gonna get this guyreleased. That's kind of what I was
hoping for Kea. But this dudenever did that. Man Like, he
never He's submitted a request, right, but he never kind of he never
really followed up on it or nothing. And I kept telling him that what's
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up with DA? Man? Andwe talked to the day that was going
on with the DA, and He'slike, oh, well, I emailed
her and I'm just waiting, andyou know, he just kept giving me
a bunch of excuses, but he'snot over about it. Went over.
But we got a strong case.We're gonna win this, you know.
So this whole time, man likeit's just passing and I'm thinking, okay,
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well, I mean we got asolid case. You know, I
got this this evidence and everything,and I should be able to get my
case reopened, and you know,thinking positive. Well, yeah, it
took a year and a half toget the denial. Once I get the
denial, I didn't get the actualcopy of a habeas until that, you
know, because I had been tellinghim, send me a copy, send
me a copy, and I needa copy. So he finally sends it
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to me. And that's what Isee, Like, man, this he
just fucked everything up. Well,he ends up asking us for more money.
I had to fund a second appealto the appellate court because this is
spirit court. This is being heardby the judge who heard my trial,
who convicted me, in the spiritof court. So that's the first process.
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So he denies it, right,So right after he denies this,
there's probably like a couple of monthsin between, right and act. In
this time, we're trying to lookfor Hector again, you know, we're
trying to look for Hector and andluckily we find them all right, one
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of one of his family members wasin La and I guess he reached out
to him in Mexico and and thenhe got in contact with the investigator.
The investigator was able to do afull interview, then get a full confession,
and he ends up doing like eightpages on an affidavit and he signs
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it. He basically going into fulldetail, explains everything, takes full responsibility.
You know, let's call Andrew Itelephone number. They'll be monitored and
recorded. Now we have this fullaffidavit. So I'm telling them more.
They're like, look, man,give this to the DA like she would
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sub does there if if they'll reopenthe case said, it's a convission review.
So now he's no, no,but home to tell me. I
look, the one that heads upconvission review. Her name is Martha,
and she doesn't like me. Andwe have this thing going on and listen
this song like so that ship doesn'tmatter if you give her the give her
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the evidence and see what happens,you know. So he's like, well,
I eat out her and uh,I shoulder the shoulder our new habeas
right, because he not the habeousput the appeal from the habeas. So
he does a whole new appeal right. Then he's in there. He finally
puts he finally puts the alibi umthe alibis THELFI David and then he puts
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the new HALFI David from Hector andthen he he there's an FIDAVI with them
that the victims signed saying you knowthat he would be willing to remove the
bullet and all that, and heputs all that together, and so he's
telling them the DA like, look, I'm a follow this, you know,
like kind of like using it asKara back the threat, right,
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So it's like, what's up.Are you gonna work with us or should
have and file this? You knowin the days like shit filed that.
You know, they weren't fucking withthe man, and they they didn't want
to fuck with them out. Ithink he really fucked up my case more
than anything because later on, ummy little sister had had put up a
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post on Instagram and got a bunchof people to kind of sign sign this
change that org. And one ofthe guys who reached out, his name
is Frankie Carrillo and he was actuallyon Netflix. He did twenty years in
prison for for a murder that hedidn't commit, and he was set up
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by by the Sheriff's department, Likethey have a gang called the Linwood Vikings.
They little documents thing, everything's allover the news and everything. This
guy reaches out and he's like he'slike, little you know, I have
a good connection with Los Angeles InnocentProject. I'm gonna try to get your
case submitted. And he knew theconviction the Tivity Unit. He wrote some
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of the guidelines and stuff. Sohe's like, look, I'm gonna talk
to Martha. I'm gonna talk toher about your case. So he does.
He talks to her, and hetells me right that in the email
marked up, he's basically saying,look, you know this fucking lawyer,
he's a fucking sleeze. He's like, they look at him like he's a
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fucking like a joke. I guessyou know, like this, this dude's
bullshit, a shyster, you knowwhat I'm saying, like a scammer or
whatever. So she ain't really tryingto fuck with them, so she tells
she tells the guy Frankie, She'slike, look, I'm just gonna let
it play out, like I'm notgonna get involved, right, So she
wasn't trying to help me. She'slike, no, I'm good. She
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ain't trying to help me and andI'm basically because of his lawyer. So
Frankie tells me like, hey man, you need to fire this dude.
And this guy's sucking up the case. So I mean, I told him
like it will there's no lead forme to fire him because my case is
done, Like he already filed hefiled everything. He came him for everything,
or I'm not gonna pay him foranything else. So he's basically done.
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The only thing that he had waswas my Franklin hearing, so basically,
you know, I had pretty muchhe uh, he fouled the appeal.
And this appeal they got denied immediately, you know, immediately, like
he found it in November, likethe end of November, and you gotta
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remember December, you finally get liketwo weeks of actual court time because of
the holidays. They they go ontheir holiday break, right, So he
found it and literally in January itis denied. So so to me,
it's like as soon as you turnit in and they looked at it and
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they denied it, and that's unusual, you know, and usually this stuff
kind of gets prolonged. It doesn'thappen right away. So off the bat,
I'm like, there's something wrong here, man, Like this guy must
have done something wrong. He musthave violated some some rule, court rule
or something. Something's wrong for themto reject this so quickly. And they
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didn't give a reason as to whyit was being denied. They just denied
it right away, you know.So now I'm like fuck, just threw
away all this money, you know, And I thought it was like a
slam dumb case, you know,like like this dude had everything, he
had all the ammunition, and hedidn't do nothing, Like nothing happened.
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It was just a waste of thelast fucking almost three years and with nothing
to show for it. So youknow, we do. Frankie was telling
me, hey, then you're firinghis back. So I'm like, I
mean, pretty much, he's notmy norder no more. Because he got
paid to do the appeal and hedid the appeal and the appeal got denied.
So unless I pay him more money, he's not gonna do nothing for
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me. So I'm not gonna payhim nothing. So he was only representing
me now the Franklin hearing so recently, I want to say it was I
think it was March. I thinkit was March of this year to twenty
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twenty three that he goes to courtwithout even talking to me. Because in
the very beginning I had a lotof communication with him, like it was
constant communications and he was taking mycause. I was able to reach him.
But then you know, after acouple of months, it was harder
and harder to get a hold ofhim. I would call and call and
call, couldn't reach him, andit was just could not reach this dude
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and learning. And that's how it'sbeen this whole time. Man. So
I hadn't spoke to him since likeNovember, right since he fouled the abist
and then and then he said aletter time about that. It got denied
in January, but we had wehadn't actually spoken, so like in March,
ry and go to court and thisdude he tells the judge that he
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wants to relieve himself per his client'srequest, right, and he tells the
dog that you know that I wantto go proper represent myself and that he
will be my co counsel. AndI'm not wait a minute, you know
I didn't tell you, dude todo this. So he basically took himself
off the case and they assigned apublic defender. So this guy is not
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doing nothing for him no more,even though I paid him to handle that,
and he should have never He shouldhave still been on that on that
case, right, he should havestill been doing the hearing because that's what
he got paid for. Aside fromfollowing the pure and everything. Well he
excused himself, so you know they'retrying to call him, can't get older
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in trying to get our transcripts,can't get can't get the transcripts, can't
get another paperwork, you know.So this dude is just just bullshit and
like and then we find um justrecently, like maybe about a month ago,
there was a big there's a bigarticle in LA Times talking about spoling
law and Baroma used to work withspoiling and they're they're basically the same exact
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thing, right, So in thisarticle they're talking about how spollen it's going
after all these um prisoners families,right, given the false hopes M charging
him enarmo the leg to do somestuff that these guys don't even qualify for
it. These guys have no chancewhatsoever of getting a sensive repection or getting
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whatever. He's just doing this becauseit's easy money. So and there's no
laws that are gonna help the prisoner, you know, to be uh from
these lawyers that are going to takea lend of you, right is there's
nothing really out there. So theseguys get away with it without no problems
whatsoever. So you know, Iread this article, and it's pretty much
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the same exact bar Homa, sameship, the whole the whole business,
proposition, the whole everything. Likeit's a cookie cutter or statement right that
he sends to everybody like here youcan qualify for this list and that's pay
me three thousands, Like they're doingthe same exact thing. Like well,
after reading that, our cales like, man, there's the same exact shit
bar Home was doing. And thenI'm like, well he must have learned
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it from him because they worked together. So you know, now I'm like,
funck, man, this guy basicallygot me. Man, this guy
got me and there it's just it'sall bad, man, Like I felt
fucked up, like he had onagain another another fucking lawyer. Man.
And that's why it's it's it sucksthat these dudes can get away with them,
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you know. It's it's difficult tofind a really solid lawyer that's gonna
be honest, it's going to reallyhelp you. Most of these guys,
they it's easy money, easy,easy money. Man. They just take
the money and they don't really gottado shit. They don't really got to
show nothing or you know, theyjust do It feels like you know,
you have a little kid and you'rein class, right and you know,
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everybody doing their little art project andthis guy, fucking this little kid,
you know, draws this little cartoonwhatever, and they just you look at
it and it's it's horrible. It'shorrible. But you tell a little kid,
oh, that's great, that's great. You know, you did your
best right there. I feel likethat's how this system is, right,
Like the lorder does a horrible fuckingjob, but the law and life,
(29:33):
oh, at school, you didyour best. It's all right, don't
worry about it. You'll do better, you know. So it's fucked up.
Man. Well right now, rightnow, we're just we're just basically
waiting um on this next court day. Well, in May of last year,
(29:56):
May of twenty twenty two, rightas soon as I as soon as
my my my hadees got denied,I filed a motion myself. Well it's
called a seven seven five motion.There was a lot of that past that
basically said if you're not the actualshooter, you can get resentance. So
(30:18):
I fouled that, and Barhomo's like, man, you shouldn't have fouled that,
you know, qualified for that you'regonna get denied. So you know
he was. He was telling melike, now he shouldn't have done it.
But so all this time passed,right and they finally h looked at
that motion and they gave me alawyer for that emotion. So right now
(30:40):
I have a lawyer for the resentencymotion, and I got my court day
in July. So just by themactually gave me a lawyer, I guess
I did qualify, you know,because I know other people that got the
night off the bat they didn't.They didn't get a lawyer. They just
denied them. They said, no, they don't qualify. So I'm guessing
(31:00):
I did qualify because they gave methe lawyer. Nothing has happened yet,
but you know, it's just thelawyer. Burder got my case and he's
looking at my case right now.So I'm kind of hoping that now that
I have this lawyer on the RESENTSUSscene, that we could just give him
everything, give him the affidavids,give him all though evidence, give him
everything. Hopefully he could present thatto the judge, and hopefully this new
(31:23):
judge is more willing to reopen thecase and examine the evidence because the last
judge that I had. He wasthe original judge on my case, and
this dude was not trying to hearnumber that. You know, he's try
going to try to overturn his owncase. Then know another thing too,
rad the Dean had tried my case, he became a spiritual judge, So
(31:49):
I kind of think that too,kind of tolls wrenching it too, because
you know, the duds are judgenow. He was sitting judge now,
so he ain't trying to have hisconvictions overturned. So I'm kind of thinking
maybe that's why the d's not reallytrying to help me either. But you
know, I don't know what's what'sreally going on. I just feel like
(32:09):
everything's there, man. Like I'veseen cases like you know, you could
watch twenty twenty, you could watchstate Line, n min whatever, and
you see all these you know,true crime stories, and you see how
these people got out of prison withless with less evidence, man, and
man, I got the full confessionof the real shooter, and you know,
(32:32):
nothing has happened in my case,you know, But you know,
I blame it on these lawyers andthen blame it on these lawyers because I
feel like I have to write lawyer. All this, all this would have
been done by now, you know, and even from the very beginning,
if I would have had a goodlawyer, I wouldn't even be in prison,
though I wouldn't been able to provemy ansence back then. But yeah,
(32:55):
it's just rough man, soul.You know, I'm sure there's a
lot of guy in prison that thatcan relate, that can understand that struggle
with these lawyers man, and eveneven not even just criminal, even like
immigration because there was a big oldscandal about that too. You know that
these lawyers taking advantage of these immigrantstelling them that they're gonna follow these paperwork
(33:16):
for them, they're gonna get themtheir citizens ship and charging them in arm
in the leg and then just rippingthem off like not doing nothing for them,
and knowing that these these immigrants arenot gonna face ship because they're illegal,
so they're probably thinking like what canthey do? They have no rights?
Right, So you know, theselawyers then, you know, and
everything, you know, they're justdamn Yeah, I gotta keep it trilling
(33:50):
on my soul. I'm a smallstuff person that I know can be dull
down. The right We've got acouple of cares by my next go back.
When you got all you put yourselfin Jack, they don't hit me
down, down, they don't hitme. That was I've been going around
and around and around like the marriedup dead truth A far for any of
your scenari y'all. Why I keepmy circle smaller than the cherry, y'all.
(34:10):
Just accompany this pig sty walk.He's gonna be called fleet. End
up going with you read know yourworth and no self cheat. It goes
inside of me. Been to getout of me, no matter wear I
been, go white man to be, I'd be shining perfect time and check
your wife fox. Why and Iknow what I damn, I am no
(34:31):
longer lost. I got tired ofwalking around with a mask on, smelling
but my heart singing sad song.Yeah, I was living for myself.
I was dead wrong till I getthe call no cell phone. I got
tired of walking around with
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