MILLION DOLLAR "MISTAKES": HOW TO PREVENT THEM

Arvin McGee had just had hernia surgery a few days before, and though be could hardly walk, this didn't keep unscrupulous Tulsa cops from attacking him with rape accusations. Randy Lawmaster, one of Tulsa's many disgraced cops, performed his "investigation" the same standard, traditional, shortcut way that all unscrupulous cops are secretly trained to do. First, he simply ignored every aspect of the victim's description of her attacker. Next, he went to the cop-computer for the current list of the cops' USUAL SUSPECTS. These are men who have previously been caught at, arrested for or merely accused of, any similar crime. This solves the first element of the cops' and prosecutors' famous "conviction equation" that goes ''MOTIVE-OPPORTUNITY-MEANS". Just like the momma-bird pukes food down the throats of her fledglings, the cop-computer vomits into its cops' minds a sophisticated gruel of hated potential targets for prison duty. Same as in horse shoes and hand grenades, "close enough'' often counts in police work too.

Based solely on this list, which is statistically biased AGAINST finding new, upcoming criminals, the cops rush out of their heavily fortified lairs to recycle any old criminals who may be living pseudo-free lives after having endured onerous slavery in the state's many torture and harassment centers. The cops' single goal here is to accost and interrogate everyone on their list to uncover all who had ''MOTIVE" to perform the crime they are attempting to "solve". In the case of rape, ''MOTIVE'' is satisfied by simple possession of male genitalia. "OPPORTUNITY" means anyone who was in the vicinity of the crime who can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he didn't do it. The 'MANS'' with which to perform the crime of rape is satisfied by possession of male genitalia. As you can see, rape is the easiest crime for cops to "prove" in court because conviction entails nothing more than one pointing finger and recitation of the prosecutors' and cops' time-worn phrase, "I'm absolutely positive it was him!"

But in the case of the cops v. McGee, the cops made one tiny little mistake: they forgot to destroy the DNA and thus were only able to conceal it and prevent its analysis for a mere 14 years. Unfortunately for them, Mr. McGee wasn't killed in prison by other inmates for being convicted of rape, and he was healthy enough not to die of medical neglect, the second most common cause of prisoner death.

So, McGee did finally, at great cost of effort,time and money, manage to rip through a series of vast, bloated, recalcitrant cop and lawyer bureaucracies to force judges to accept the fact of his innocence and remove their boots from his neck.

Next, McGee paid for ANOTHER corruption of lawyers to delay him FOUR MORE YEARS in an attempt to obtain a simple civil trial to confirm the appeals judges,verdict of, ''Yes you got screwed out of your life by the cops' and lawyers' system.''

Of course, nobody expects it to be easy to get cops and lawyers to admit the obvious and try to put things right. It's just not in them, which is why their victims are forced to slog through the same swampy, bloated bureaucratic mazes of arrogant officials TWICE to get the same answer. In a logical world, it wouldn't take decades to get the evidence analysed, a scientific fact to trump lawyer balderdash, the guilty cops and prosecutors punished, and their victim compensated.

 Cops and lawyers make this hard to do though it could be easy. The easy way to do this is to make the cops register every bit of evidence that they carry off from the crime scene. This would prevent evidence from getting "lost", as often happens to exhonorative evidence, but,strangely, not to prosecutorial evidence. Next, the evidence should be certified so that there would be no confusion made of where it came from and who collected it. Because cops,lawyers and their tame coroners and lab-techs enjoy almost absolute secrecy, they also enjoy a culture of almost absolute, casual corruption that allows them to "mistakenly" convict innocent people at a rate of over 15%. When a factory has a 15% defect rate, quality control measures are introduced without fail. When lawcrats get caught time after time in flagrant, serial- and mass-corruption in evidence- and conviction manufacture, they usually escape any quality control. In worst cases, they merely move to a different political jurisdiction and repeat these same crimes in the privacy of another fat, government job. For example, it has been almost 20 years, yet still the cop/lawyer/media alliance has never revealed exactly how the cops and lawcrats managed to "overlook" the ONLY evidence that could reliably identify the actual rapist the McGee case. Worse, this exact same type of "overlooking" concerns more than 150,000 OTHER rape cases in which DNA is being ignored and/or concealed. (Their excuse is that it costs too much money to test all this backlog of DNA rape cases, as if it's more expensive to test than to pay scads of lawyers to fight over trash-evidence in courtrooms before $165,000/year judges.) Also, Joyce Gilchrist and many other police "scientists" have been caught fraudulating evidence recently. Gilchrist alone was caught at 5,000 cases after 20 years. She and all the others were not punished in any effective way that would provide negative feedback to any other police lab crooks. When it was found that the FBI lab was an evidence manufacturing plant that operated solely to create convictions, it was never fixed. Instead, millions of free tax dollars were given to 18,000 police stations so that they could build their OWN evidence manufacturing plants and label them crime "labs". The one national conviction factory (the FBI) couldn't keep up with the demand of local police stations, so it spawned 18,000 daughter conviction factories that could. So arrogant are they in their single-minded pursuit of convictions that the cops' standard procedure in many cases is to harvest hair, DNA, spit, blood, urine, semen and fingerprints directly from their targets while they are helpless in the privacy of their cages, then rush out to plant this "evidence" at the crime scene. Mark Fuhrman and his pal, Van Adder, got caught at this on TV doing it to O.J. Simpson, stupidly pouring his freshlystolen blood on socks and elsewhere to "prove" his guilt. This is why Simpson got away, and this is why the cops and lawyers need to be policed by ordinary citizens. They've practiced corruption so long that it is in their culture. Instituting the barest minimum of common sense quality control on them would not be hard to do. Overcoming the cop-lobby and lawyerlobby legislative-lock preventing real quality control WOULD be an onerous task.

Another thing that makes the conviction of innocents so easy is the fact that cops can talk witnesses into anything, and witnesses are protected from lawsuits when they lie for the prosecution under oath in courtrooms during trials. They have immunity from civil lawsuits from their victims, and when they lie for the cops and prosecutors, there is no prosecutor who will attack them with criminal lawsuits. This immunity, and all other immunities, need to be stripped away from all cops, prosecutors, witnesses, politicians, etc.

The second way the cops and lawerats deliberately screwed McGee was with lying witness testimony. They routinely do this by concealing the witnesses' first, most accurate truthful descriptions of the criminal recorded by police at the crime scene. Police are never forced to reveal the initial descriptions, but they and the lawcrats ARE allowed to play a farce upon the jurors months or years later by letting their heavily-coached and rehearsed witness merely point at the non-lawyer sitting in front of the witness chair and grandly proclaim, without describing the actual criminal first, "That's him! I'm absolutely positive!" Almost every case in which an innocent is convicted there is police theft of evidence and police/prosecutor manufacture of eyewitness testimony to fit their chosen target. In the case of McGee, the witness was talked out of her initial identification of a lightskinned man (and probably other traits the news-artist didn't mention) and talked into pointing at McGee, an obvious Black man. There can be no quality control while police are let to conceal/steal scientific evidence and conceal initial descriptions of accusees while switching witnesses' stories to fit their closest guess as to the actual criminal. Cops, lawyers, prosecutors and judges, when caught at this, like to pretend that it seldom occurs and call it by soothing, blame-nullifying names such as "improper conduct". "unfortunate mistake" and "mis-communication", but evidence theft and manufacture such as these examples are the foundation upon which virtually ALL criminal cases are built, guilty or not. Cops, lawcrats and their media lapdogs have for centuries twisted public and juror opinion with numerous criminal techniques such as I've described here and elsewhere. (See: Copculture and Training)

Besides theft of DNA and manufacture of eyewitness testimony, cops are able to ignore and "forget" their target's attempts to prove his innocence. Lawmaster and other, anonymous, Tulsa cops participating in their framing of McGee refused to obtain records of his hernia surgery. His court-appointed lawyer didn't do this either. The cops tricked their witness into pointing at McGee's picture at a secret, private cop-farce that they like to call a "photo lineup". This is where the cops subtly manipulate the eyewitness away from her initial description and toward the cops' target by slowly subtracting some attributes from their chosen "extras" while keeping their primary target's picture in the center of their array. In psychology, this is called "Operant Conditioning". It is the same way we teach animals to fetch a ball and crap outside.

After they got their witness trained to salivate at McGee with plenty of secret, practice photo "lineups", the cops talked her into making it seem more official and truthful by having her finger McGee "in person" at a "real" lineup. This is where McGee and others are walled off onto a sophisticated, sound-proof police theatrical-type stage. This and a one-way mirror prevents the potential convictees from hearing or seeing how the cops manipulate the witness. (For a detailed description of this process, see my essay, COPCRIME: PERPETRATING LINEUP FRAUD) There is also a cunning assemblage of powerful lights with which coptechs can change colors of hair and make dark skin appear lighter. The cops refused to allow McGee to give a "voice lineup", and his court appointed lawyer was more than merely worthless; he was actually harmful to protecting McGee's rights, by talking him out of objecting to being tramples by the cops' and lawcrats' biased, systematic, built-in rights-stealing technology.           (See: INNOCENT'S GUIDE TO AVOIDING FALSE CONVICTION)

McGee's four-years-delayed civil trial was almost as colossal a legal farce as his criminal trial. The woman who falsely identified him as her rapist was allowed to dodge multiple subpoenas and never had to reveal how the cops manipulated her into this mesa. The media hacks helped keep her identity secret, as did the cops and lawcrats, else honest citizens may have shamed her into going to fix the crap she caused. The cops were all allowed to escape having to testify about their criminal procedures except for one token cop, who testified for both sides.

Despite all this legal flim-flammery, the jurors somehow were not fooled again. They told the city of Tulsa to pay McGee a million dollars per year that he spent in prison due to the cops' theft of DNA and manufacture of fraudulent eyewitness testimony,.

This points up another aspect of the farcical nature of the lawyers' system: all the cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and media "news"-stalkers who created, engineered and perpetuated these frauds against McGee and the taxpayers for the past 18 years escaped all sanction. Worse, the token few who had to show up were allowed to perpetrate NEW frauds upon the public by pretending, as usual, that this was just one big, isolated, "misunderstanding" that is nobody's fault that will never happen again. No corrective measures are necessary; the fabulous lawyers' system ''worked'' again, HURRAH! The culprits all got away, and instead, the innocent taxpayers had to pay. Nothing was fixed. Nothing will change except for the worse until several things happen: the cops', lawcrats' and witnesses' immunities need to be stripped away; when caught in legal and evidential frauds they need to be fined and sued from their OWN pockets and go to prison or jail, and; newspaper publishers need their $200 cap on liability removed along with similar lobbiest-bought legal contraptions given the other media "news"-artists.

The final insult to our intelligence and common sense has yet to play out. The city of Tulsa will use its fat supply of taxpayers' cash to mount endless lengthy appeals through at least four more batches of appeals judges, taking years and years, and serving only to fatten up more lawyers like themselves. The judges will suck up maximum taxcash for themselves, their cronies and their many aides, assistants and paralegals. Finally they will make their usual, standard mockery and sham of juror's awards by reducing McGee's entitlement to a mere 1.5 million or less for their theft of decades of his life enduring daily danger, stress, torture, harassment and delay in prison and fighting for some reparations. Such is the lawcrat's version of "Justice".

Worse, McGee's lawyer, Seymour, will inform him of these facts and use them as a crowbar to talk McGee into giving up the fight entirely. Semour will have already cooked up the usual "bargain" with his fellow "adversaries" and wave this as bait at the tired, disgusted man who has learned by living it that the lawcrats' primary output is not justice, but timewaste. The "deal” that the lawyers have concocted among themselves will be about $1.5 million. Seymour will enlarge this sum in McGee's mind and exaggerate the length of the four more years of fighting (minimum) that it would take to get the $14 million award whittled down to between $7 million and $2.5 million, depending on how much bad publicity he can manage to get the media to generate about his case. Semour conveniently will not tell McGee of this relationship between heat generated against the lawyer establishment and higher, quicker payout. Semour's scenarios both end with $1.5 million; the only difference being four more years of delay and higher costs in one %immediate fabulous payout. Soon as McGee signs the paper, he'll be told that Seymour and his many assistants, experts, secretaries and paralegals will be taking at least half. (Lawyers are very adept at billing, transferring costs and using various accounting principles to their advantage, and you can not find out how very creative they have been until after you have signed.) Seymour alone will get half of McGee's payout for nothing more than taking a case McGee had already made and researched and presenting it verbally to the judge and jurors: that is $750,000 for only a few minutes working his jaw for the media, judge and jurors. Of course he and his fellow adversaries will insist on McGee keeping the actual payout secret, unless it is quite small, that is.     (In the case of the two men framed by the police snitch/culprit in which Oklahoma's prosecutors and judges came within five days of executing one of the innocents, their initial lawsuit was for half a billion dollars. This sum equaled less than three months' sales tax receipts from Tulsa. The lawyers rushed to make a secret deal complete with gag order soon as trial was ordered.) This is how lawyers dodge setting any messy "precedent" that the next innocent victim can use: secret judgements are judgements that they only have to give to one person. By keeping innocents and the public in the dark, the lawyers are able to screw everybody all the time while squeezing out maximum wealth for themselves. This is how the parasite class became the richest class.

McGee's half, when divided by the number of years of suffering and fighting it took to get it works out to be about $40,000/year. ($750,000 divided by eighteen-plus years.)  - This is hardly the jackpot that the lawyers and media hacks would have us ordinary folk believe. The news-artist who wrote about McGee's lawsuit for the Tulsa paper, (david.harper@tulsaworld.com) mentioned an anonymous Chicago innocent who got a million dollars/year from a fraudulent conviction lasting 15 years in 2001. This type of sensational math sells a lot of papers and grudges, but does not reflect the true end result of all the city's automatic appeals. Fifteen million dollar verdicts get the front page; secret deals and lengthy appeals where they quietly yank away 90% of the payout years later are lucky to get a short paragraph buried near the bottom of the obituaries. Like the obituaries, the circumstances of these newest frauds are long forgotten.

My own case is pretty much identical to McGee's, as are virtually all fraudulent convictions: they are nearly all formed by the same cop and lawyer technology. The cops and lawyers refused to get medical records proving that due to a motorcycle accident I couldn't run five blocks like the actual killer did, only hobble along, like I still do today. The cops manipulated two witnesses' stories with phony photo "lineups", tricky lighting and by hiding a third witness who wouldn't lie for them, and by concealing all three women's initial, truthful descriptions of the killer at the scene of the crime. The cops are still concealing exactly what they did with their eight samples of the killer's blood and their 23 fingerprints from him. They did get caught destroying information on the blood so that the FBI could perform 14 unnecessary tests on seven samples while pretending to look for seven different killers of Mr. Hunt. The ridiculous lengths to which they conspired to make plenty of blood into "insufficient" blood are detailed in my essay; How Police Screw Scientific Evidence.

McGee got the DNA away from the Cops; the cops still sit on the DNA and prints that will set me free. McGee caught them with DNA, but I caught them in flagrant corruption. Also, there is a now technology that will eventually free me, if I can live long enough. (The prison Kops and the Tulsa cops conspired with the inmates here to murder the first guy I thought was the killer less than two months after I asked them to match his prints with their stockpile of the killer's prints.) The new technology is called Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain-Scanning Lie Detection. Just like your car has a gearbox, our brains have a lie-box. It shows up in scans every time we use it. Lying is an essential social skill; we can't live without it any more than a car can move without a transmission. The scientific community who developed this technology already accepts and understands the fact of FMRI lie detection. Within a few more years, judges will be forced to accept it too.

When they do, I leave prison and sue the Hell out of them all.

One other difference between McGee's fraudulent conviction and mine is that mine has been going on strong for over twice as long.    Going by the news-artist's example and two juror verdicts of a million/year, my eventual lawsuit against the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma and the Tulsa police and prosecutors will begin I at $34 million.

Anyone who would like to help me for half of that, let me know. We can set a lot of very messy precedent and save a lot of trouble for the 300,000-plus other innocents still trapped by this rotten system and the thousands yet to come.

Sincerely, James Bauhaus