American Justice: Judge rules that black Texas inmate still behind bars 34 years after his conviction was overturned is at fault because he NEVER asked for a new trial

Greetings,

We just cannot receive a square deal from this government & unjust justice system that was build upon exploiting the former slaves. Their daily acts of injustice against God’s elect is what is causing the destruction and fall of the American republic.

….” The revelation of the Bible has given this people the right name (a beast) and a most vicious description does the revelation give. In Daniel of the Bible, this people is described as a beast rising up out of the sea with three ribs of a man in its mouth. This is the description of America with the Black slaves swallowed for three centuries in the power of our enemies (the devils).”–pg.81(tfoa)

I don’t care how you may have attained wealth or position in this society…”It is certainly evident by now that it was never intended that you be a full citizen, owner or a significant office holder in America. Your role was that of a slave. Today, even though four hundred years have elapsed, that intent underlies your role in the American body politic.

   How pathetic a sight many of us make as we boas of our meager education and the attainment of a measure of economic growth! All these things are are illusion. When rightly viewed, your education has been designed by your oppressors with the specific intent of keeping you in servitude. Your economic growth has been achieved by installment buying which is now clearly shown to be a Banger’s rope about the neck of the Blackman. Our oppressors own and control everything. We have nothing. What, then, is the basis of our vaunted and foolish pride? Something must be wrong upstairs. “–pgs.10 & 11(tfoa)

By now you should know, by the way you are looked at and by the way you are and have been treated, “There is no justice for the poor, the so-called Negroes in America as long as they are subjects under the American flag.”–pg.118(tfoa)

Look how they treat you, even after you get exonerated from their prosecution and persecution!!!!

Judge rules that Texas inmate still behind bars 34 years after his conviction was overturned is at fault because he NEVER asked for a new trial

• Jerry Hartfield was sentenced to death row in 1976 but his conviction was overturned four years later
• He has an IQ of 51 and maintains police used a false confession in his case
• Judge ruled that his right to a speedy trial had not been violated, even though the state was negligent in failing to retry him

By Peter Rugg

A Texas judge has ruled that an inmate with the critical thinking ability of a first-grader is responsible for spending the last 34 years incarcerated on an overturned murder conviction because he never asked for a new trial.

Jerry Hartfield, 56, has been behind bars without a new trial since 1980. But in a recent ruling, Judge Craig Estlinbaum decided that his constitutional right to a speedy trial had not been violated.

While Estlinbaum found the state negligent in failing to retry Hartfield, and agreed that the man’s ability to adequately defend himself had sharply diminished, he also found that it was essentially Hartfield’s own fault.

Jerry Hartfield remains in prison 34 years after his murder conviction was overturned because he never knew to ask for a new trial

As The Atlantic put it, that’s more than 12,000 days waiting for justice.

The Bay City native was convicted of robbing and killing a bus station worker in 1976, the Daily News reported.

Hartfield’s IQ has been estimated at  around 51. He has long maintained his innocence, claiming police used a  false confession in the case.

Prosecutors have tried and failed twice to get the court to reconsider.

Since then, Hartfield’s case has met with one legal obstacle after another.

Hartfield was on death row before a Texas governor commuted his sentence in the wake of his overturned conviction

In 1983, then-Governor Mark White commuted his sentence to life at the request of prison officials.

According to Jeffrey Newberry of the Texas Innocent Project, it’s uncertain whether White even knew the conviction had been overturned.

But, Newberry added, the commutation was actually issued in error.

‘He couldn’t commute the sentence because there was nothing left to  commute,’ Newberry said. ‘Mr. Hartfield should  have had a new trial. But he didn’t get one.’

Because Hartfield had no legal counsel after his trial ‘he just sat there,’ Newberry said.

Hartfield didn’t understand he needed to ask for a new trial until a fellow inmate advised him in 2006.

‘Someone helped him write documents on his own saying ‘Hey, I never got my new trial,” Newberry said.

Hartfield’s IQ is estimated at around 51 and he has long maintained police used a false confession to put him behind bars

Newberry is appealing the most recent ruling,

Hartfield was finally issued a court-appointed attorney after sending in handwritten legal filings.

As his case was passed between federal and state courts over the next 8 years, somehow the pick-axe allegedly used in the murder was lost. Even worse for his chances, key witnesses have died.

Yet after so many years behind bars, Hartfield said he is not bitter and has become a Christian.

‘Being a God-fearing person, he doesn’t allow me to be bitter,’ he said in a 2013 interview. ‘He allows me to be forgiving.’

A hearing on separate proceedings to retry his criminal case is scheduled for next month.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2608428/Judge-rules-Texas-inmate-bars-34-years-conviction-overturned-fault-NEVER-asked-new-trial.html#ixzz2zOHJd0Op