Transcript Fraud 2011 James Bauhaus

With the passage of the federal DNA Act a few years ago, your transcript was turned into lawyers' system gold. How? Millions of free taxpayer dollars were allocated by the legislature. Any lawyer or group of lawyers, or even law professors with a gaggle of law students aspiring to be prosecutors, can sign up for these free millions. What do they have to do? Virtually nothing: These grants are paid on the basis of how many transcripts are collected. The scam works like this: 

The lawyer describes himself as an Innocence Project to the grant administrator. The grant is approved. The free money is sent. The lawyer gets his Innocence Project address listed on the net with all the 80odd other Innocence Projects. Prisoner organizations download these addresses and send them, at their own expense, to the tens of thousands of desperate innocents buried in America's biggest prison complex in the world. We write these people, begging for help from the clutches of the most unresponsive, megalithic bureaucracy ever    let to run amok. The lawyers demand our transcripts. They are deluged in transcripts. These transcripts are tossed in a storage room and serve as the source of continuing funding for the lawyers' Innocence Projects. Every year, a student or intern is sent to count these transcripts. The total number of transcripts collected translates directly into the amount of grant money sent to these various Innocence Projects every year. A hand printed note is tacked onto the door of the transcript closet, encouraging students, public defenders or junior associates to peruse the contents during off-hours. The dust settles, disturbed only by the addition of more transcripts or the counting rituals. The grant administrator pays no flunkies to fly around the country to audit these lawyers or calculate their effectiveness, or even see if they are actually doing any work. The desperate innocents, lives frittering away while the actual culprits commit more, worse crimes, suffering constant petty harassments and mental and even physical torture in the stats' rank, slow death camps, grow even more desperate. They send copies of their transcripts to other Innocence Projects. To the lawyers, this increased prisoner desperation after months and years of zero progress is like a steady rain of more free money.

These duplicate cases are also lightly scrutinized before being tossed into the closet. When the funding bonanza peters out, these transcripts will all be quietly hauled to the incinerator.

The innocent prisoner envisions hordes of eager lawyer-trainees poring over this mess, looking for the one case that will earn him millions in civil awards and the name recognition of F. Lee Bailey. This does not happen, for many reasons: criminal lawyers get rich and famous by becoming prosecutors and judges, NOT criminal defense lawyers; to win millions on an innocent's case, the lawyer has to win twice, which entails years of work fighting the conviction machine, then fighting the civil law machine. Out of tens of thousands of innocents, only about 260 have ever succeeded, and every one of them have required irrefutable scientific proof of complete innocence. A single pointing finger is plenty enough to get 12 eagerbelievers in the jury to slap their guilty buttons as quickly as if they were competing on Family Feud. Nobody wins release from their sentence without proof of innocence beyond a shadow of any doubt. Same as everyone else, lawyers go for the easy money, which is awarded to persons who cooperate by boarding the gravy train, not trying to derail it.

The worst of these fake innocence Projects are easily detected long after it is too late. Simply try to get your transcript back from them. "Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals" is the worst: they have an east and a west division, and have stolen two transcripts from me.            (The OK court of criminal appeals judges even stole a transcript from me, so, you can see, transcript theft is very common within the lawyer community.) I lost a fourth transcript to a professor of law at Irvine, CA. The situation is so bad that we simply published the thing on the net.

The sad fact is that the lawyer community is far more busy covering up its incompetence and corruption than it will ever be fixing the problems it created. It keeps people silenced with a blend of suppression, both tech nological and physical, and hope. Prison rules preventing access to 19th century writing technology such as typewriters and carbon paper prevent our complaints of rampant corruption from going far. The human hand can only scribble so much before cramping. Physical suppression is applied through censorship and sanction. Say too much the wrong way, and you get buried in isolation where no one can hear you. They keep innocents silent with hope through hints of parole, fair appeals and Innocence Projects.

Their combined success rates are far less than one percent. (Appeals alone succeed only 44/100ths of one percent of the time.)

This is the lawyer community's response to the punch in the gut it got from DNA technology. DNA was a disaster for the cop and lawyer community by proving that their most carefully administered sanction, death sentences, is, at maximum, only 93% accurate. Ordinary trials are, by inference, half as accurate. This 15% failure rate would not be accepted by any business entity, but govt bureaucrats are largely immune to quality control, competence and efficiency. They are assisted in this lack of quality by their media, which is steered by govt in a symbiotic relationship.

While the lawyer community reels from the DNA disaster and learns how to appear to fix the problem, it is also feverishly staving off the next gut punch, which is fMRI brain-scanning lie detection. This newest technology is already more accurate than the lawyer' system death penalties, (97% v 93%) and, unlike DNA, can not be "lost", concealed, contaminated or stolen.

The lawyer community is using its verbal skills to demonize this technology and the science behind it. An appalling example of this can be seen in the 12-10 issue of scientific American, P. 18. A law professor, Hank Greely, uses circular "reasoning", demanding that business use of fMRI lie detection services be outlawed until we can get "real world" data on this technology. It is as if he pretends he has no idea where real world data comes from. Upon learning these scams, the innocent-convicted community and our voting supporters should immediately expose these scams and demand our politicians fix these problems. Statistics are purposely not kept, or they are actively concealed from the public. This is so the lawyer community can disguise this huge, glaring problem and vend the idea that it is small or non-existent. Our job is to expose the exact number of innocents trapped in their dungeons. This number equals the number of culprits who run loose, terrorizing citizens. Business keeps statistics in order to stay profitable and competitive. Lawyers, prosecutors, judges and cops all run sway from statistics. When statistics reveal how extremely ineffective, incompetent and outright corrupt they are, they will be forced to use scientific methods, which are measurable, comparable and objective, instead of lawyer methods, which are amorphous, nebulous, contradictory and subjective.

The sooner we act together to force science onto the conviction machine, the sooner we can achieve a more honest lawyers' system and better society.