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20-YEAR COP/LAWYER BS STORM FINALLY TRUMPED BY SCIENCE!

5-20-07; The Daily Oklahoman newspap: Oklahoma City Judge Twyla Joan Mason-Gray would have ! rather bitten her own tongue off, but finally, after a solid year of stalling around, she had no choice but to say those words that no robed lawyer ever wants to utter: case dismissed.

She and her kind-fellow lawcrats, cops and their eager mass-media tools-had stolen over 20 years of living from an innocent man and gleefully exchanged it for a life of daily harassment and physical, mental and spiritual torture by cops, guards and bureaucrats. So angry was Judge Gray in having to loose one of her victims that she spent much time forcing a roomful of onlookers and gawkers to listen to her spite-filled opinions before finally consenting to allow her target, Curtis McCarty, to leave.

Judge Gray's venom consisted of the standard "I know you're really guilty" diatribe spewn by all judges, cops and prosecutors when their legal corruptions finally unravel past the point of denial and repair. Checking to make sure that her friends in the media could write quickly enough to keep up, her "Honor" launched yet more barbs, explaining again, at length, what everyone already knew and didn't give a damn about: that it was all the fault of the prosecution's "hair expert", who had "tainted" her work with "misconduct". Judge Gray loudly wondered, rhetorically as well as theatrically, "Why isn't this woman in prison?" (When asked this question themselves, prosecutors looked at their feet, then the sky, then each other, then they mumbled that they had no answer for the plucky reporter.) Judge Gray then demeaned her own profession slightly, saying that it was "the law" itself that gave her no choice but to set a murderer free. The immediate source of Gray's seething anger was not revealed until now. Her District Attorney had assured her for every juror cycle in 12 months that he would be ready to send McCarty back to death row a fourth time with another spectacular, election winning trial. But each juror cycle, at the last possible second, he'd come up with an excuse to wait for the next juror cycle to perform at trial. Finally, McCarty had gotten wise and filed a request for a speedy trial, as is his Constitutional right, (only if he demands one). Now it is the 108thday of their 120-day "speedy" trial time limit, and the lies had to stop.

Her Prosecutor told Gray that, having their deceits, concoctions and perjury taken away from them by their boss-judge, they had nothing left. If they insisted upon performing another trial based on no evidence and their previous frauds, they would invite an even worse Public Relations nightmare than the ones they'd already spawned.

Next up was the Prosecution. The media's microphone and 7 cameras were swiftly steered to the excellently groomed and oh-so-appropriately-named District Attorney David Francis Prater (prate: verb; to talk excessively and pointlessly). Prater mouthed the exact, same legal pabulum for the ignorant masses as had Judge Gray, with the same appearance of sincerity. But there was no logic to his words, though no one seemed to notice. The idiotic words were recorded anyway and vended to the public as if they would be unable to detect their glaring falsity: "There is still enough evidence to convict McCarty of murder." He partially knocked down this fabric of lies by qualifying it thusly: "We just could not overcome the previous findings of bad faith." This is lawyertalk. In plain English, it means that, "Yes, we could probably convict him of this crime a fourth time merely because our multitude of false witnesses, evidence thefts, media slanderings, and lying libels have worked three previous times to trick emotional, excitable, gullible jurors into convicting McCarty, but there are still those appeals judges who will not be fooled. We can not get past them, and this time, if you read their orders sending this case back down to us again for retrial with instructions not to use our previous lies and liars, you'll see that they seriously do not want us to commit any more frauds to get this man re-convicted. Fraud was all we had. They took away our frauds. No fraud, no lasting conviction. To convict him again would make the appeals judges damage our careers. So we give up. We did the very best we could do. We stole over 20 years of his life, we sat on him in our jail for a year after the boss-judges virtually declared him innocent, and we set this accursed dismissal and freeing ceremony on a Friday so that the absolute fewest citizens will see it on the news or read about it in Saturday's newspaper." Prater next issued to the media his standard condolences to the family of the victim whom he's lied to continuously for months, then gave formulaic praise to his boss, Judge Gray, for making her forced, distasteful, yet courageous decision to follow the law and set a murderer free. Duty done, he quickly wormed his way out of the cameras to escape into the courthouse until the crowds left.

The video-hustlers turned their cameras, lights and microphones on ex-prosecutor Bob Macy, who was next in line. Bob Macy and his cabal of blue-uniformed thugs were personally responsible for this particular abortion of justice and an era of legal lawlessness where innocent persons were routinely ram-rodded into prisons and jail cells on the basis of fabricated testimony and concocted "evidence". Like all sleazy prosecutors, Bob Macy's primary conviction tools are character assassination, slander and libel conveniently transmitted by the commercial media to deliberately poison the juror pool prior to trial. Prosecutors and "news"-sellers feed on each other for lurid crime stories as their major source of re-election, political ascension and corporate profits. Both get away with routinely perpetrating these crimes because (1) their targets have usually lost their credibility due to previous conviction of crime, (2) suing the media whores is a waste of time, effort and money due to the extreme expense of litigation, the technical and procedural roadblocks erected by the media/lawyer alliance and the fact that media companies have purchased laws that cap their liability at a paltry amount; and, (3) the cops, lawyers, witnesses, jurors and especially the prosecutors are impossible to successfully sue because they have complete, legal immunity to the law. Hence, after a decades-long career of making millions legally screwing citizens out of their lives while hiding behind immunity, Bob Macy was finally caught at it one time too many and was forced to quietly take his very fat pension and leave "public service". You will not find anyone in the lawyers' system, courthouses or media say anything of the crimes that they know Bob Macy and his cops perpetrated throughout his career. These are secrets held closer than any Mafia vow of silence. The only way to find hints of them are through use of the new computerized, lawyers' system search engines to find how many people have tried to sue him and his murderous, state-protected minions.

Bob Macy's mass-media slanderings and courtroom histrionics tricked three sets of jurors into trying to kill McCarty with death penalties. Macy begins with more of his standard libels and slanders, which his media tools dutifully print and broadcast with impunity. Macy cunningly demonizes his target by claiming McCarty was "involved" in the death of a seven year old. Macy is careful to keep secret the fact that by "involved" Macy means that McCarty didn't immediately call the cops when the actual culprit confessed to him about the death. Macy and his media co-criminals all know this, but keep silent, glad to assist their scandalized readers and listeners into falsely thinking that McCarty had some part in the actual death. Macy and his media tools "explain" why Macy didn't prosecute McCarty then: McCarty's "involvement" told the cops where he was told the corpse was buried.

Macy also has to mention one of his best tools for getting a jury to issue three death sentences to McCarty: the fact that, in 1985, he was convicted of "second degree rape for sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl in Cleveland County." Ignorant people will gasp at this. People who know lawyers and who have studied the law will consider facts that are not readily apparent. First, what we call "rape" is very different from what lawyers have been able to call rape. "Statutory" "rape" doesn't have to have anything to do with actual, real rape. Also, when Macy or the news-sellers say McCarty was "convicted" of rape, they probably really mean "plea-"bargained" to avoid an extended abduction into jail to spend thousands and thousands of dollars ON lawyers to FIGHT lawyers to probably lose to a finicky highly-strung, emotional jury of meatheads who would thoughtlessly agree with the prancing prosecutor to take away decades of a man's life for nothing more than a consensual act of mere touchcrime.

After taking so much time to carefully and rigorously slam McCarty for past crimes, Macy and his media pals slyly make no mention of the extremely short sentence that resulted from this "rape". McCarty, "convicted" of this "rape" some time in 1985, somehow finished his undisclosed "sentence" for "rape" very swiftly indeed to be running loose in time to get convicted of murder by March, 1986. Lawyers, like Macy, tend to omit crucial details except when they benefit from them, such as when they are passing around gory photos of bloody corpses to the jurors just before the prosecutor is to ask them to declare his target guilty. Macy was doing exactly this--passing out gore--when asked to perform for the cameras. Soon as he got that done--persecuting a person with his past--Macy had virtually nothing else to say. He pronounced, imperiously, that "Justice obviously did not prevail in this case: McCarty belongs in prison." Then Macy strutted quickly away, secure in the knowledge that no one in the media would ask him any hard question, but not quite so certain that, now that he was "retired" and thus toothless, McCarty himself might find loud voice to facts not told that the media might overhear and uncharacteristically distribute. There was nothing more that Macy could say. He made his escape quickly because he was not going to answer any questions about the lies his cops told under oath at trial, not going to speak about destroyed evidence, fabricated evidence, altered evidence or, especially, the testimonial lies of his expert witness, Joyce Gilchrist. Gilchrist, like Macy himself, had built her career as a lowly lab technician--termed "forensic expert" by cops and prosecutors--through use of carefully concocted deceits concealed within professional jargon that laymen pretend to understand. Because scientific jargon requires facts rather than opinions, it is much harder to abuse than lawyers' jargon. Hence Gilchrist got caught sooner, and Macy later. (Also, since the Scientific Community does not tolerate lies, the lies of Gilchrist got widely publicized, whereas the lies of Macy did not, because the Lawyers' System protects its liars.)

Gilchrist enjoyed a 24 year reign of terror of falsifying results in possibly 5,000 criminal cases brought to her by cops from all over the country. Once cops learned that she had no scientific integrity at all, they spread word of her willingness to fabricate evidenceto-order to all of their consciousless fellows. Gilchrist became the Frank Zain of testimonial, scientific, courtroom convicting evidence for no more reward than her fees, travel accommodations and any other taxpayer-paid perks that the grateful prosecutor/cop community would bestow. She's being sued by hundreds of her victims now, and hundreds more are still trapped in prison by her lies and an unresponsive, recalcitrant, arrogant Lawyers' System that is under virtually no quality control at all. Despite being caught uttering hundreds of lies while under oath at tens of trials, she is not now in jail for these perjuries, now will she ever be. Judge Gray and the prosecutors could have answered Judge Gray's phony question about why Gilchrist is not in jail, but wisely chose to keep this a well-kept lawyers' community secret. The fact is, perjury-for-the-prosecution is protected by immunity to this law in every state except Maine. Yes. If you swear to tell the truth for the prosecution, then deliberately lie your teeth black in court to the jurors until your lies get somebody executed, you are immune to ever having to pay for it in any way. That's the law. Almost as bad, Gilchrist first got publicly caught at lying under oath in court at trial for the prosecutor (Bob Macy) over two decades ago, yet she continued to fabricate evidenceto-order for the prosecutors for 14 more years before she was finally fired--oops, not fired; told to take her fat State pension and leave. Persons who buy into the lawyer's mystique probably won't even wonder how this situation is possible--a known, proven liar continuing to be let to sell lies. With our glorious, best-in-the-universe Lawyers' System, this is not just possible; it is likely. How? Consider how all legal information is buried under mountains of inane blathering. This blathering is in a mostly indecipherable jargon to mere citizens. Since the truth is already buried and encoded, hiding it from the past and future victims of the prosecutor/expert-liar team is triply redundant and almost superfluous. Also, expert liars-for-the-prosecution are economically favored. Prosecutors have virtually infinite taxpayer blank checks with which to buy expert liar testimony to ensure conviction of its victims and targets. Persons who are attacked by the lawcrats and cops, however, are swiftly stripped of all their assets just to feed the lawyers to fight off all the accusing lawyers of the State. With no money left over to buy scientific oversight of the prosecutor's expert liars, the entire field of "scientific" testifiers-in-court is driven solely by the people who have the money to buy it. You get what you pay for. The prosecutors make the market for expert courtroom liars by purchasing them. The cops, seeing this bonanza, and having the inside track on it by virtue of being cops and courtroom testifiers, moved to become these experts that the prosecutors sought and paid for so handsomely. With this rise of cops filling this demand for "scientists" came social stigma that acted to prevent honest, real scientists from testifying for the accused, even when the targets could pay for it. The newly-created class of cop "experts" excoriate people who testify for the accused. They throw their police noses in the air, then snidely proclaim that working for the defense is the same as working for the "bad guys". Add all this up, and toss in the cops' monopoly on the crime scene and the evidence, which they get to reveal, conceal, destroy, fabricate and alter at whim, and we can easily see why it is nearly impossible to ever get anyone unconvicted once fraudulent convictions are perpetrated. The entire edifice of American Law is merely a baroque facade barely concealing the fact that it is rotted throughout with graft, selfinterest, political greed and a total lack of honest oversight, quality control or even the operation of connected feedback loops. Because the cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and politicians have been let to disconnect themselves from any backlash that they deserve, legal crime is encouraged. When they do get caught in such a way as they are unable to any longer conceal or deny their crimes, punishment falls upon the taxpayers, not the white-collar criminals who profited so lengthily and mightily by sucking at the public trough while pretending to be "Public Servants".

As far as Gilchrist's own crimes against McCarty, not a single one of them were mentioned in the media's account. To get them, one must look up McCarty's appeals in the law library. Four of them are "McCarty v OK, 765 p2d 1215; 905 p2d 110; 977 p2d 1116 and 989 p2d 990. (It takes numerous appeals after conviction to get rid of legal frauds because the law-monster becomes oblivious to facts and answers to no one.) I sped-read through some of the crap and found that Gilchrist first excluded McCarty at the culprit, then altered the evidence to make it appear to indict him, then told this lie to juries along with lied about her qualifications, lies about using elementary scientific methods such as controls, and backed up these lies by lying about her work being peer-reviewed (it wasn't) and lying about how she took yearly "proficiency tests" (she didn't). She also stole and destroyed DNA evidence to prevent non-cop lab techs from using it to exonerate McCarty. Plus, she deliberately altered her lab notes to try and cover up her previous frauds. All this and more was intimately known by Judge Gray and Prosecutor Prater, having read the entire opinion of their work by the bossjudges in the Okie court of appeals, yet they coyly feign ignorance and sum-up massive, longterm, career-corruption as mere "taint" and "misconduct". (The appeals judges themselves denied the open secret of the nationwide conspiracy of expert liars-for-the-prosecution: their origin and history were exposed to all by 60 Minutes about 15 years ago or more.)

The news-vultures next pointed their gossip-tools at unidentified members of the murdered girl's family, hoping to capture some emotion to photograph and broadcast. (Tears sell almost as much advertising as does blood and gore.) The Willis family, though, if the news-sellers can be believed, "declined comment". So the news vultures added comment for them, by claiming something that was not true: that they were angry about the judge's decision. (Earlier, Prosecutor Prater had put slightly more accurate words in their mouths, claiming that they were "angry mostly because no one had been forced to answer for Pamela Willis' death".) This is one of the most foul things about the cop/media alliance-if you refuse to pander to them, they will use your lack of comment to pander to themselves. The Willis family was fed the most despicable lies by the ones that they should have been able to trust completely. Now they are the last to uncover the fact that the cops and prosecutors not only lied their teeth black for 20-plus years, they chose to continue to lie into everyone's faces right up to the present, even after irrefutable scientific facts make it glaringly obvious that they are the most extreme of lying scum. My hypothesis as to why the Willis family "declined comment" is that they had to exert monumental control to keep their jaws clamped tightly shut until they could get privacy enough to finally decide what the hell really happened. They want to rail at someone, but it can't be their "friends" in law enforcement or the prosecutor's office who have been so sincere, supportive and glib all these years. When they finally do figure it out, it will be too late: they will only dream of what they should have shouted into cameras and microphones when this golden opportunity occurred. Nobody will care a week too late. They should console themselves with the fact that everything of substance that they might have said at the time would certainly have been edited out if it could possibly be viewed as besmirching the reputations of any powerful official of the office or agency they work for. The media whores do not defame their pimps. The tax herd in general can not be let to learn of just how dirty the work is behind the shiny curtain. If they are angry enough, and can be satisfied to only vent that anger in a "correct" way (at criminals) or in a "general" way (at an anonymous, faceless, "system"), and not name any names or attack gov't agencies, the media will gladly exhibit them as long as they can remain interesting (salable). This is how buffoons

such as Mark Klaas and John Walsh manage to repeatedly insert themselves between TV camera and other peoples' tragedies with sickening regularity: they appear to offer "solutions" that exactly parrot the agendas of politicians on the re-election track. They provide the sideshow of a tiny, clownfilled car of people who know only the slogan of "Git Tuff on Crime!" (But not mass-media crime, not cop-crime, not politician-crime, not gov-crime and not bureaucrat-crime or systemic crime; just low-level, disorganized, blue-collar, economic- or passion-crime.)

Next in line for the news stalkers was an innocence project lawyer, Colin Starger. Without the pushing of these lawyers, mostly college students, the cops, public defenders, prosecutors and judges would have gotten completely away with using their unchecked power to legally murder an innocent man and thus protect the killer of Pamela Willis from ever having to pay for this murder. The print media allowed Starger to mention a few of the scientific facts about the case that were so glaringly lacking from all the comments from the cops, prosecutors and judges. The broadcast media, always so preoccupied with time (commercial) constraints, perpetrated their usual scam: they displayed Starger and his voice for the few seconds necessary for him to offer routine condolences to the murdered girl's family and to pronounce his client's vindication, but soon as he began explaining the scientific facts, they cut off the sound. On top of video of Starger silently yapping facts into their microphones, they had their talking head blather quickly about "taint", "altered notes" and "misconduct", same as the authorities had already said. The fact that peoples' attention spans have shortened to a mere few seconds practically guarantees that only a very shallow grasp of anything will prevail in most people's minds, and that will itself prove to be very ephemeral. Starger's press quotes are less than what I've already mentioned. McCarty himself may have said volumes, but was quoted only the usual inanities granted persons in his situation, such as, "Thank God!", "It feels great to be out!", and "I feel sorry for the victim and her family." Only one thing about him escaped that didn't seem scripted: his lawyer said he was amazed (that the judges and prosecutors hadn't used another of their multitude of legal tricks to send him back to jail.) He'd been subjected to so many phony legal proceedings in the past 20 years that he fully expected this last gasp to be yet another legal bull shit ritual. McCarty's mother was given token voice to her belief in her son's innocence and that he'd eventually be freed, (or at least not killed by the State). Then it was straight back to what the officials had to say.

As in legal courtroom rituals, the accusatory officials got the first and last say. The media handed the stage over to the police chief cop, who began by parroting Bob Macy's theme that McCarty was "involved". It is not explained in the media that the cops had to change their theory of this crime several times to make up for deficiencies after each trial was overturned by higher judges. The favored cop/prosecutor method for keeping their chosen target convicted despite growing proof of innocence is to simply create another perpetrator and claim that this phantom worked along side their chosen target in committing the crime. An advantage to this is that, as the cops' evidence fabrications get revealed as having nothing to do with their innocent target, they are then attributed to their target's phantom buddy. This way the cops and prosecutors make certain that the evidence-pointer on their crime scene compass never swerves completely off their target, no matter what. In McCarty's case, as the cops' fabricated evidence unraveled, the cops made new forays into the crime scene. They "found" new evidence, then had their witnesses and experts (the coroner too) "adjust" their "findings" to agree with the prosecution's new, improved speculations of the crime. They invented a co-criminal by "proving" during a later trial that two knives were used to kill Ms. Willis. The actual facts are now documented and too easy for some skeptic to look up, so now, Police Chief Bill Citty, who was one of the cops who constructed this abortion around the wrong man, must be very careful about dodging the facts, else his career may go up in smoke, same a Gilchrist's should have. (She could still be faking results as an anonymous underling in another crooked coplab elsewhere.) Consequently, Bill City begins his turn before the media lights with the usual bald, unsubstantiated assertions that he knows are lies: "I have no doubt that McCarty was `involved' in Willis' murder." He goes on, insanely, to say that Gilchrist's proven lies and deliberate corruptions for the police and prosecutors, when added to "other" evidence prove, "as a whole" that McCarty was "involved". This is also standard police diatribe designed specifically for people who can not afford to admit fault or defeat, no matter how flagrant or obvious their crimes were. He and his fellow detectives spent much of their careers being led, by the evidence they found, to nowhere. They spent just as much of their time dragging the evidence they "found" to people they felt it should go. In rookie police minds, the weight of the as-yet un-tamperedwith evidence is only slightly more than the weight of the "evidence" they find in the files that cops keep on every citizen. As cops progress along their careers to be frustratingly led mostly nowhere by the real evidence they find, they tend to give more weight to the dirt they find on people in their files on citizens. Then they begin to fabricate evidence to prop up the list of targets they pick out of their cop files. Then they progress to stealing evidence that doesn't fit with their chosen targets. Next they actively prevent non-cop access to evidence that will kill the cases that they've worked so hard to construct, and plant evidence needed to confirm their conviction plans. Lastly, they learn to cover their tracks and destroy evidence of their crimes and evidence that may eventually expose their careers as evidence tamperers. Hence Chief Chitty has nothing at all to say about facts. He safely proclaims nothing but generalities and opinions about how he is sure he is still right even in the face of having been proved wrong. The closest to an evidentiary fact that the officials come is Prosecutor Prater's lame mention of a rope traced back to McCarty's employer, as if thousands of feet of that rope don't exist in thousands of other workplaces, homes, garages, trucks, boats, barns and corrals, etc. He also pulls out a thumbprint that had nothing to do with the crime, since the victim and McCarty, along with dozens of other persons, were friends. Cops and prosecutors are fiendishly clever in their ability to give mundane objects sinister connotations. City spends his last quotes on kissing up to the poor judge, sending his praise and respect to her as he is "bothered" by the system breaking down. ` Lastly, the authorities claim that they will continue searching for the John Doe that they invented for the sole purpose of preventing the false evidence from flying too wide of their mark.

The cops and prosecutors were "only" able to prevent access to the DNA found inside the victim and under her fingernails for less than two decades. Now that it is out in the open, a public outcry should get it sequenced by reliable, trustworthy scientists once and for all so that it can never again be abused by police forensic experts. Once DNA is finally pried out of the claws of the police, it should be sequenced by actual scientists instead of mere flunkies who work as lab technicians for the cops. There are always going to be convictions by fraud, but there doesn't have to be so many of them, (an absolute minimum of 7W of a:11 American death row convictees from 1975 to 1995 have been uncovered to have been innocent). None of these innocent convictions need to be defended to the last taxpayer's blank check to crooked, re-election-happy prosecutors. Eventually someone must realize that quality control and 3rd party, non-cop; non-prosecutor oversight is required for any accuracy in law. It simply can not be that everyone is blind to the fact that actual scientific methodology must be forced on police and prosecutors. Scientific accuracy can not occur in the conviction process until police are made to register their evidence as they find it.

Scientific accuracy can not occur in the conviction process until police are made to register their evidence as they find it. Scientific accuracy will never occur while police and prosecutors can monopolize crime scenes, keep their evidence secret and cunningly "adjust" it to fit changing contingencies. The practice of permitting police to simply steal DNA, hair, blood, saliva, etc. from persons they accuse without first registering their own, similar, evidence, if any, guarantees that fraudulent convictions will increase as this country turns further and further into the two-class police state that the millionaire terror-mongers have designed for our future. Don't let this happen!

As for McCarty's point of view, this is what occurred: Two years after being excluded from this crime by the State's hair expert, she agrees with then detective Bill Citty to perpetrate frauds with the evidence to make it appear to indict McCarty. Meanwhile, Det. Citty and his cronies cook up a case against McCarty by coercing or tricking witnesses into indicting McCarty too. (Witnesses are extremely maleable in police hands. Almost every one of them are eager and excited to play Dick Tracy with the police. Since the police have all the information on everything, they can train witnesses as easily as a big, slobbery-happy dog is trained to fetch, except that the dog knows it's being trained.)

McCarty is dragged off to jail for Willis' murder on the basis of no more "evidence" than this: he was the closest, convictable person the police could find.

By "convictable" the police mean someone delicious enough with prior convictions for a jury of meatheads to eat. McCarty fit this description perfectly, what with his "priors" of being "involved" in telling the police where a killer had stashed a corpse, and having recently been "convicted" of "rape". (Police and prosecutors rely heavily upon past dirt that they dig up in people's lives to use as tools to shovel more dirt upon them. If people ever did really "pay" for past crimes, meaning that police and prosecutors were prohibited from using past crimes to trick jurors into believing in newer crimes, the police and prosecutors could no longer convict nearly as many innocent, yet "tainted" persons. (Innocent convictions run approximately 19% for ordinary crimes, because of the uncovered and proven 7% rate found to occur as a minimum in much more heavily scrutinized and reviewed death penalty convictions.) A law to this effect would force police and prosecutors to concentrate on finding the actually guilty instead of defending to the death the ones they have found to be simply "close enough". Many fewer killers, rapists, robbers, etc. would escape justice as a result, too.

McCarty was from Moore, Oklahoma, a rich suburb of Oklahoma City. His parents had money to waste on professional defense lawyers. (Professional criminal defense lawyers are the ones who are not currently able to work for the gov't as prosecutors, Assistant District Attorneys (ADA's), or judges. The glut of criminal defense lawyers guarantees that there will always be thousands and thousands of them in socalled "private practice". This is far too many of them to justify the sky-high prices that they demand for their "services". They have to struggle to maintain the artificially high prices that they demand; they have to compete with their fellows for business; virtually all of them have to branch out into other, lesser, fields of law such as bankruptcy, divorce, personal injury, or traffic cases, etc. Most criminal lawyers thus prefer the steady, high pay of working for the State in any capacity, even if it is just the Public Defender gravy train usually reserved for fresh out of school criminal lawyers. The Public Defender works to please his bosses, the judges, (and the system that so richly rewards him for the vocation of rhetoric and logorhea). He tries to worm his way into an ADA slot, then a DA slot. Then he either turns into a judge, if possible, or, if he has higher ambitions, he uses his prosecutor job to turn political, aided by years of glad handing jurors and smooching public butt via plenty of self-generated media attention.) McCarty's parents could have afforded a real lawyer, but had given up on their worthless son who refused to grow up or become a responsible adult. Subsequently, McCarty was saddled with a Public Defender. Despite all the lawyers' rhetoric about how their system of law is "adversarial", the barely concealed fact is that this is a cruel sham. Reality shows us, too late, that the Public Defender works for the people who sign his checks and pass out promotions and perks: the judges. Judges, same as their prosecutors, love convictions. Pay hikes, budget increases, re-elections and political ascension occur with highly publicized and sensationalized conviction, high success rates and long sentences or death sentences. Just like Imperial Rome, today's voters pay to see blood and violence. Prisons are their lions, and, (aided by the shrieking of the media), they want to see the hated criminals eaten alive! When the Accursed persons escape conviction, everybody loses except the one target. When conviction is successful, the crowd roars with delight. It was in this context that one finds McCarty trying repeatedly to fire his "idiotic" Public Defender. McCarty is quoted by the appeals judges as calling his Public Defender "idiotic", but they do not say why. We cannot uncover the reason from the record, either, because the target's appeal brief is not published. Only the judges' words reach the law books. (It is rumored that there exists a "Lawyer's Edition" in which the target's appeal brief is included with the judges' opinions, but I've never seen one, and they are rarely cited. They are marked "L. Ed", and it is thought that the function is to teach lawyers how to write winning briefs by showcasing both losing and winning appeals. The target's appeal briefs tend not to get published so that the judges can engarble the facts in such a way as to make their denial-opinions sound plausible. This is another open secret of the lawyers' system.)

Persons with actual experience in dealing with Public Defenders, however, have a very good idea why McCarty would call his Public Defender's strategy "idiotic", try desperately to fire him and hope for better luck with the next appointed one. The standard Public Defender's strategy is ever to get the target to sign some type of plea "bargain". Lawyers should, by now, have some inkling of the fact that innocent men rarely, if ever, plea "bargain" for our lives. What the Public Defender usually does is to magnify whatever the police and prosecutors claim to possess in the way of incriminating evidence, then try to convince the target, "You're screwed, jack! The prosecutor is going to bury you in prison for the rest of your life! You can't win! Take this plea bargain! It's your only chance!" (Plea "bargains" are gravy to lawyers because they pay large dollars for little time and effort. The lawyer tries his damnedest to put in as little effort and time in them as possible.)

Groaning under the "services" of a lawyer who was determined to dodge a trial, and screwed by a crooked judge who would not permit the worthless, actually harmful, Public Defender to be fired, McCarty was swiftly processed by the judge/DA/PD/cop/media team and given a death sentence. McCarty detailed this process to his parents, who were doubly horrified to learn how extremely easy it is for an ignorant, innocent man to be legally murdered by a corrupt State using a corrupt system. Not willing to let their son be killed by crooked cops and lawyers -they- _ spent $30,000 on a real lawyer in private practice, whose fee bloomed unexpectedly before the long process of getting screwed by another pack of lawyers finally ended. He split this bonanza with the appeals judges, carefully packaging it as "campaign contributions" (for elected judges, sometimes shuffled through the democrat or republican party machine headquarters) or merely as cash stuffed in plain manilla envelopes (for appointed-for-life judges). The judges contributed to the legal scam by tossing McCarty's case back to the Oklahoma County judges on a tiny technicality that didn't amount to a pimple on a warthog. McCarty was swiftly re-convicted and sentenced to death again.

The McCarty's were appalled. The expensive lawyer explained, "We did our best," and made his exit. The McCartys sought more legal "advice" and were referred to an even more expensive lawyer with an even finer reputation.       (Lawyers generate their own "reputations" by merely speaking very highly of each other. Win/loss records are never kept, since they are all different degrees of dismal or abysmal, so objective estimates of a lawyer's effectiveness or skill are impossible to determine.) The McCartys are taken for the exact, same legal ride, except at over double the previous cost. The money bought another worthless technicality that resulted in yet another death sentence.

Finally the McCartys got wise: instead of wasting another fortune on lawyers, they hired a private investigator. For much, much less than they'd already spent, the PI uncovered the frauds that Gilchrist had used to lie jurors into conviction mode. It helped very much that, by this time, Gilchrist had been uncovered as a serial liar for-the-prosecution in at least 9 other cases. The lawyer community and cop-lab community struggled for 14 years to keep this cat in the bag, but finally, about eight years ago, Joyce Gilchrist was announced to be a supercrook, possibly responsible for creating fraudulent "scientific" evidence in 5,000 prosecutions over 24 years: The true criminals had finally been forced to the surface, and they were cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges and Public Defenders. Every one of them were allowed to escape their crimes, except perhaps Ms. Gilchrist. She may have suffered through the conclusion of a few civil suits, but no actual punishment was ever mentioned.          Since the news-stalkers are silent on this, and Ms. Gilchrist has-long since sneaked off to no known place, we can safely assume that she got away too, losing only her reputation. Such is our glorious, best-in-the-universe Lawyers' System and Cop-lab community.

The TV propaganda spews on with endless cop shows and CSI nonsense where the crook is always caught, expertly concealing the fact that a minimum of 14$ of all convictions are of innocent persons. Once the law-dozer rolls over you, it doesn't matter how innocent you are. Like the Terminator, the machine never stops pursuing its target, never admits defeat, and few innocents ever get out before their time is up. Many have been "legally" murdered by the State, though judges, cops and prosecutors all hotly deny this. (The Georgetown Law Review, in 1987, released a study that proved that as many as 23 innocent persons have been "mistakenly" executed by the State from 1906 to 1973.) In cases such as 0'Donnell v West Virginia, the State destroys evidence that could prove that they killed innocent men. The judges care not a whit for accuracy, only that they never get caught at it. Beware the cops' and lawyers' systems: they are amok with corruption, same as a rabid dog. No one is safe; especially not your children, as it gets worse every year. People who do not pay attention to what the State is doing make themselves the easiest targets for false accusations and fraudulent convictions. Every time a new legal invention is loosed upon the public, such as a contemptable Patriot Act, an Accelerated Death Penalty Act, or a Prison litigation Limitation Act, etc, we should all cringe, as it is our freedoms being flushed down the crapper every time we let such rabid legislation pass unopposed. Study the law and the lawyers. Do not let this happen to you!