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Benjamin M. Schoonover

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Condemning Half  Cocked Whole  Truth Not Wanted

 

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                                      Knights in Dirty Armour

 " Condemning Half Cocked - Whole Truth Not Wanted "

 

          The Courts of Criminal Appeals base their opinions on the facts given them by the appellate counsel and finally the Attorney General.  Then, ideally, a rebuttal to the Attorney General’s argument by the appellant’s counsel.   However, when the defendant is indigent and her counsel is appointed …such as is the case here,  and that counsel is the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System,  the dictate of the State (of Oklahoma) is that there not be a rebuttal to the State (of Oklahoma).  Wolves dictating to the shepherd not to protect their helpless sheep.

 

          As Dr. Distefano stated in both testimonies of both trials, “If the information I received was in error then the opinion I make based on that (erroneous) information is in error.”  This is the clear case here.  The Court of Criminal Appeals had both erroneous information and incomplete accurate information.  This is by design of the Oklahoma statutes, not our federal government. Conservation of funds is tantamount and the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System is overburdened, understaffed, and fund restricted.  Thus no critical rebuttal to any errors made by the State (Attorney General) and the State made at least one crucial error that was not allowed to be corrected; that being the time element of the “late date” parietal fracture.  The judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals were totally ignorant of this fact and based their erroneous opinion on erroneous misinformation such as this.  No one explained to them that the parietal fracture did not exist at the time of our Ben’s entry into St. Francis hospital.  They erroneously assumed that this fracture, that could not be accidental, was inflicted before our Ben was taken to Mayes County Medical Center, when it was not

 

          Errors such as this is why there are more than just one innocent people behind prison walls. 

 

 

 

 

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          It is pathetic, the miniscule amount of information the Court of Criminal Appeals received and reviewed to make their decision to destroy an innocent life.  If I were a 6th judge on that panel and received only the fragment of information they received and believed it to be complete and coming from a reliable unbiased source, I, too, would concur with their decision to destroy Marie.  Especially that it is my own son to be; that called me “daddy,” that lay in the grave.  However, I know the true facts.

 

          Ignored altogether is the atrocious misconduct by Judge Post and Charles Ramsey that the Court of Criminal Appeals received no knowledge of. 

 

          Judge Post, when she publicly declared before the trial that my Ben was a “murder victim”  is and by itself proof that the trial was not going to be a fair one.  The Court of Criminal Appeals had no privy to this facet of warped prejudice of Judge Post. 

 

          Catrina Conrad-Legler was not allowed by the state to clarify to the Court of Criminal Appeals that the …“Two inch fracture” that Ramsey used to graphically portray Ben’s brains, “Bulging, squishing, gushing out of the top of his headdid not exist before Ben entered the hospital.  That, alone, would be reason enough to launch an in-depth investigation.   I question why, now that Attorney General Nancy Elizabeth Connley knows of this serious discrepancy, she herself does not seek the truth.

 

          The Court of Criminal Appeals read Charles Ramsey’s quote of Dr. Mark Krouse to the jury,  “You heard Dr. Krouse, the Schoonover’s own expert, say that this could not have happened from a fall.”  Condemning enough for me, if a judge, to hang Marie.  But I heard and read the transcript.  That is NOT what Dr. Krouse testified.  Dr. Krouse testified quite the opposite, as is written in Part I, “The finding of a child such as Ben, with no signs of abuse, no old or new bruises, no visible injuries; it is likely a fall.”  Assimilating that {Prosecutor Misconduct} alone would cause an informed panel of judges to reverse the conviction; and should cause Attorney General Nancy Elizabeth Connley to launch an investigation to seek the truth.

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          It is certainly contrary to what Judge Post publicly declared before the trial about “the bruises…murder victim…consistent with a pattern of child abuse…”   The Court of Criminal Appeals read this…convincing enough to destroy Marie…The Court of Criminal Appeals was not privy to the truth of testimony:  No signs of abuse, no old or new bruises, no visible injuries; it is likely a fall that caused this child’s death.”

 

          The Court of Criminal Appeals also read the quote of Dr. Block by Ramsey that “These injuries are only found in child abuse cases such as this one.”  “Dr. Block is THE expert in the field; there is no one better.”  Bolstering the witness is highly irreprehensible and a competent prosecutor would not do so but believing that ‘quote’ as fact is:

 

          More reason to condemn Marie for the death of my child.  I, too, would condemn her if Dr. Block, an “expert in the field of child abuse,” did in fact testify that statement.  A sixth vote for life in prison from this judge.

 

          But that is NOT what Dr. Block testified.  Fifty cases of child abuse death studied show that the majority are the result of cranial fractures.  Five hundred cases of accidental child death studied ALSO are the result of cranial fractures.  Dr. Block knows this and what Dr. Block testified is that “This type of injury is usually found in child abuse cases.”…and he did NOT testify, “such as this one.”  That perverted composition is Ramsey’s alone.

 

          The Court of Criminal Appeals also did not read Dr. DiStefano’s statement to the Court…and the jury was not allowed to hear it, “No one is saying this child did not die from a fall.” 

 

          Well, I am saying it now:  Benjamin Schoonover did not die from the accidental fall and resulting ½” occipital fracture at about 1833 hours the evening of October 29, 1999.  Ben died two days later after Dr. Philip Barton convinced me to disconnect the life support system.  Ben could still be alive today had I not yielded to his persuasion.  Ben would also not have the…

 

 

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          “Two inch fracture” that he did not have when he entered the hospital.  The one Ramsey graphically illustrated to the jury where Ben’s brains were  “bulging, squishing, and gushing out the top of his head.”

 

 

          The Court of Criminal Appeals wrote in their decision, “We find in Proposition III that any rational trier of fact  could find beyond a reasonable doubt that (Gilda delivered a fatal blow which resulted in Benjamin’s death.”*   First, though not paramount, is the fact that the physicians did testify that the medical evidence is that it was not a blow to Benjamin’s head but Benjamin’s head impacting a solid object (a fall).  *they refer to the “reasonable hypothesis standard” in Jackson v Virginia   99 S.Ct. 2781 (1979) and Richie v. State, 903 P.2d 236 (1995) which states that one must “exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt.” 

 

          It is certain that the medical evidence alone presented by all of the physicians that saw Benjamin alive and those who examined the hospital records cannot state that Benjamin did not fall from a piano bench onto a cement floor and receive a one/half inch (12mm) occipital fracture from that fall and die…which is exactly how it happened; it is the only way it could have happened.  With only this information the Court of Criminal Appeals would have to reverse the conviction of my innocent wife.  Even if they thought she might be guilty.   However, the Court of Criminal Appeals focused their tunnel vision on: Attorney General Patrick Crawley, “Toddler’s head was busted open” and Charles Ramsey’s “Brains gushing out the top of his head” and they have a “Two inch (48mm) fracture from the autopsy .

 

          No way, in my mind, could Ben fall in the house, even off the table as evidence shows he did, on cement, as he did, and receive such a large parietal fracture.  It couldn’t happen and it didn’t happen.  This fracture, in my mind, was not an accident.  There is no way it could be.  It was inflicted. 

 

          Ben lived two days after the accident.  Had it been abuse and had there been any violence such as was accused to inflict a blow sufficient to result in a two-inch (48mm) parietal fracture bruises would have developed in those two days.  There would be no hiding them.  There were none to be hidden. 

 

 

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          There did develop a bruise at the site of the occipital 12mm fracture that is in the radiologist’s report.  But there was no bruise development at the 48mm fracture site (parietal) from which Ramsey attested to the jury:  “brains gushing out the top of his head.” 

 

This fact tells all that that fracture was inflicted after my Ben was dead.

 

          The Court of Criminal Appeals knew nothing of this.  Had they been fully informed there is no way they would have upheld Marie’s highly illegal conviction in the Kangaroo Kourt of Mayes County.

 

          One of the judges on the Court of Criminal Appeals wrote:

“Schoonover did not testify and made no objection to evidence which suggested he might have delayed taking Benjamin to the hospital.”  This shows inattentiveness or lack of information available to that judge.  A careful examination of the court transcript shows that there was no evidence of any “time delay” as Nora Stanart testified she spoke with Ben after 6:30PM and the records of the hospital (19 miles away) show and the nurses testified that we were in the hospital, with Ben, at 7PM.  There is no time for any “time delay.”  It was Ramsey that lamented to the jury of a “45 minute time delay” in his closing argument.  I could not object as when I called attention to this flagrant misleading of the jury I was reminded that Judge Post ordered no interruptions! 

 

          “Had he known that evidence(?) would be used to support any accessory after the fact charge, Schoonover could have changed his trial strategy to contest the State’s timeline and any evidence(?) that he helped his wife cover up the circumstances of Benjamin’s injury.” 

 

          Charles Ramsey knew Judge Post would allow no rebuttal to his closing argument no matter how far out in fantasy land it is. 

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          It is difficult for me to fathom how such a high ranking judge can see a 45 minute time delay between 6:33 PM and 7 PM …even if he has no knowledge of the factual 19 miles distance between our home and the hospital.  He simply paid no attention; putting all his faith and judgment on Attorney General Nancy Elizabeth Connley who ignored the fact that Ben did not have any two inch fracture when he entered the hospital.

 

          He also wrote, however, in his decision to reverse my conviction, “Our resolution of the propriety of the accessory after the fact conviction renders the remaining propositions moot.  To assist evidentiary presentation in a retrial, we note that some evidence presented against Schoonover was irrelevant to any issue at trial and was admitted in error.” And he lists some of the irrelevant evidence. 

 

          The irrelevant evidence that was “admitted in error” is the evidence(?) that was used solely to illegally convict Marie.

 

          I did not want vacated.  I wanted a remand for retrial.  That is the only way I could have shown during a retrial that my wife is innocent.

 

          I needed a retrial for the purpose of that “evidentiary presentation.”  That need of mine, for Marie, is the reason Charles Ramsey did not want to proceed with another trial.   He knew that I knew his tit was in the wringer if I got on the stand!  He also knew, as he knows, there never was any evidence that Marie committed any crime at all.  He also knows that there is solid evidence that she is innocent and he suppressed that evidence because Charles Ramsey needed a scapegoat! 

 

          Judge Lile dissented the reversal of conviction.  Superficially  his argument is valid;  he uses the extremely large word “IF” frequently in his reasoning.  He pulls out of the sky that “IF” I “knew that the child was dying when he delayed taking him to the doctor in order to cover up evidence of abuse.”   That is an invalid accusation and shows he can either not read a clock or cannot subtract 6:33 from 7:00 and know there was no time for any delay of even seconds, much less 45 minutes!

 

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          I would concede that he would be correct  IF I knew Ben was dieing and IF I delayed taking him to the hospital and it would make me an accessory just like Wendy Luke and I would fall under the “Ryan Luke Law” …IF Ben had been abused!  IF I knew Ben was dieing …that is an absolute…and there is no way anyone could have known Ben was dieing.  All I knew was that Ben had a seizure and fell. 

 

          Twice in my life I have held a human male in my arms that was dieing.  One time I knew the male was dieing and there was absolutely nothing that could be done to prevent it.  I comforted him as best as I could and felt the life drain from his body.  I did not rush him to the hospital; he died in less than two minutes;  Though it seemed much longer.  The other male I thought would survive and drove as fast as I could with his head in my lap to where an ambulance was waiting.  He lived four hours.  Judge Lile has not walked in my shoes and has no right to question any decision of mine in a life/death situation.

 

          Judge Lile also did not read  No signs of abuse  and he cannot  read a clock.  There could not be any “delay” and had there been any abuse to start with it could NOT have been “covered up.”  Bruises would have developed!  One did where the oxygen tank was placed on Ben in Pryor.

 

          This fantasy “time delay” would have all come out had I been allowed another trial.  Judge Post knew, too.  Judge Post also knew that I learned of her public announcement declaration of Ben as a “murder victim” before the trial.  That declaration of guilt alone, by law, renders Marie’s conviction invalid and Judge Post’s close association with prosecution witness Judy Girdner is only an exacerbation of the wrongs she committed to illegally convict Marie.

 

            It goes back to the late Attorney General Patrick Crawley and his statement of semi-fact that Gilda Marie and I were both home when our boy had his fatal accident.  Patrick Crawley stated, “This is direct evidence that the couple were present when the toddler’s head was busted open.” 

 

 

 

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          I wrote that he was not an evil man.  I thought he was when I first read “busted open” because Ben’s head was not “busted open,” as all the physicians that examined Ben and the hospital records that show no sign of visible or physical injury and only the radiologist report revealed the hairline 12mm occipital fracture that Dr. Barton stated was insignificant and that is certainly not  busted open.”

 

          This  Busted Open” declaration  by the Attorney General Patrick Crawley was imbedded in the minds of the Court of Criminal Appeals.  As Patrick Crawley states this as fact and the Coroner reported this huge fracture and Charles Ramsey graphically exhibited it to show Ben’s brains “gushing out the top of his head” this is proof enough that there was a non-accidental fatal blow to Ben’s parietal.   How can there be any doubt?   The only question is:  When  was  this  fatal fracture  inflicted?

 

          Only by reading the transcripts of both trials and no less than twelve times there is the physicians’ reports that the only fracture in existence before Ben’s post surgery was the small “insignificant” (quoting Dr. Barton) hairline 12mm occipital that Dr. Krouse stated was from a fall and Dr. DiStefano concurred that such a fall as Ben experienced would most likely be fatal.  An accidental death. 

 

          But this 44mm parietal “busted open head” was not an accident.  It was intentional and I can only hope that Ben was in fact dead when it was administered.  He may have still been alive.  There is no way to know.  Death was not guaranteed before this blow.  It is this post surgery inflicted fracture that Ramsey used to convict my innocent Gilda Marie with his wild pantomime of the eruptive geyser  activity of “Bens brains gushing out the top of his head!  He cannot deny knowledge of it.

 

          We were present, as Patrick Crawley stated, when “The toddler’s head was busted open.”  But it was not at our home nor was it when when Ben fell.  Ben’s turban was intact and in place when I was ordered to lay him on the clean hospital bed and leave the area…with all the other people present.  Ben’s turban was NOT in tact when the gross photos were taken of Ben on the hospital bed where his body was contorted.  The Coroner reports that it was in tact when he received Ben. 

 

 

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         Ramsey had stipulated in court for the transporters that nothing happened to Ben en route from the hospital to the Coroner.  We were present…at the hospital, but we had been ordered out of the room.  We (Marie and I) were also never alone with Ben at any time. 

 

          I discussed this fact with Kevin Adams and he advised me not to point a finger at anyone.  Especially not a high ranking officer in the law enforcement…specifically one from Mayes County.  Well, one such person has been “relieved of duty” in association with the perjured Probable Cause Affadavit and he is the only one who insisted on being alone in the room with Ben, curtains drawn for privacy, to take the photographs of his contorted body.  And what else?

 

          I know  one ex Mayes County deputy that worked for this officer who could verify the capability of this officer…who was later fired from another position for having illegal drugs in a county vehicle. Toby Stanart, Marie’s brother, worked for him.  He, too, warned against “going up against” this ex Dirty Knight Officer of the Law.  So I will back off in fear…like a eunuch…and not suggest, but only asp what with and just who could have inflicted the 44mm guaranteed fatal size fracture in Ben’s parietal for his brains to “gush out the top of his head” to get a conviction for a murder that did not exist?

 

          If I knew only what the late Attorney General Patrick Crawley knew and nothing else, that is, the knowledge that Ben’s head was in fact “busted open” and that is the only information the Court of Criminal Appeals had, I too would cast a vote for the life sentence.  That limited knowledge is how Marie was convicted.  No one bothered to check the time, the distance or when the fatal inflicted injury that convicted Marie was actually inflicted.

 

          State Representative Opio Toure recently told Tulsa World staff writer Brian Barber that he wants a task force to determine if any executed defendant was innocent.  “We know for a fact that we have wrongly convicted people”…Is he referring to Marie as one?  It would not take a “task force” to show that!  I would submit:  Take care of the living first, while there is still time!  Perhaps the concern is that the innocent that are executed cannot file for restitution.  Oh, I’m also advised not to mention that subject. 

 

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          “We know for a fact that we have wrongly convicted people.” Because we know we have corrupt…little Dirty Knights in lower offices lording it over the populace.  We need to do a little housecleaning.  

 

          Some good may come of the fact that two innocent people were cast into prison.  Had this never happened we would not know how corrupt one prosecutor in Mayes County can be and is.  We would not know that the Judge that advertises herself on full size billboards as a great advocate for the prevention of child abuse does herself throw child like temper tantrums on the bench when she does not “get her way” and we certainly do not need judges like that or the Judge Thomas who was recently ‘de-benched’ for playing with himself with sex toys during trials.  He got away with it for so long though, as  no one would say anything lest, as it was reported in the paper, “I didn’t want to be found dead in a ditch somewhere.” 

 

          So many live in fear.  I am one who does not.  I will not live in fear of Ramsey or Klatt or Post.  There are those who “get in the way” of tyrants like these and sexual deviates who are found in ‘ditches,’ …even good FBI agents “commit suicide” for some strange unknown reason and are found hanging in a tree; some innocent victims that get in the way are never found.  Abandoned zinc mines near North East Oklahoma are a good place to put two girls in body-bags filled with lime.  Closer to my home, I live near a big lake.  Marie’s family is weak and they live in fear. 

 

          Judge Dynda Post has done a great service for many…got great publicity for her involvement in getting a pair of swine lungs for a dieing woman whose lungs were burned years ago in a ‘suspected’ arson. One of her witnesses against me. 

 

          Charles Ramsey and Judge Post broke several of our Oklahoma and Federal Constitution laws to secure an illegal conviction for me and illegally incarcerate me in prison.  I was told that I should file complaints to the Oklahoma Bar about their flagrant abuse of our laws.  I’ve been promised that I would receive help in doing so as “he is a dishonest prosecutor” and “She should not be a Judge.”  Fear has interfered and that help has not come and I again “stand alone” to seek justice.

 

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           I “stood alone” when I filed the habeas in Federal Court because the Department of “Corrections” discriminated against this 68 year old 100% Disabled Veteran and held me beyond the actual sentence had been served after the conviction was reversed…and to compound that; medical negligence (dental), prescribing a “muscle relaxer” (methocarbamol) for the pain of passing kidney stones…a real physician properly treated that problem within hours after I was released and a real dentist has restored my teeth.  Ignoring infarctions as they occur;  “Come back tomorrow at sick call” is why Stanford Osborn, A fellow inmate at Crabtree “Corrections” in Helena died in 2002.  Immediate care would have saved fellow inmate and friend Pat Sanders, age 44, at Dick Conners “Corrections,” March, 2005. He did not know what to do; I do.

 

          I suffered a great deal of physical damage due to the law-breakers George Klatt, Judge Post and Chuck Ramsey and mental anguish that is beyond the comprehension of anyone short of a holocaust victim.  Hitler started small.  Brings to mind a group in which there was a suspected “criminal” (Polish resistance) one of his lesser published quotes:  “Kill them all; let God sort them out.”  No less disregard for the  law.

 

          11 April 2005 I receive an email notifying me that I will have an opportunity to present this documentary to Janet Reno, former U.S. Attorney General.  She will be giving a speech on the very subject of “Wrongful Convictions” April 15th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Tulsa Oklahoma.

 

          Thus she will receive a personalized printed copy of this text and I address the following pages to her:

 

 

Ms. JANET RENO

Former U. S. Attorney General:

 

Everything I have written and published to the internet site Knights In Dirty Armour (.com) and FreeMyMarie.com can be substantiated by court records, Notarized letters to me And/or sworn testimonies.

 

However:

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          Pieces fit together to form a picture that is obvious to many but I cannot prove and thus cannot put on the internet and publish.  Then the unrelated connection of a principle in this work directly connected with the deaths of Danny and Cathy Freeman and the disappearance and disposal in body bags of their teenage daughter Ashley Freeman and her friend Laura Bible.  The information in a hand written document from the eye witness present that was “along for the ride” and had no knowledge there was going to be four murders, one planned and three spontaneous.  Two were executions.  Jeremy Reed played no part in the rape of teenagers in Whitaker Childrens Home in Pryor in 1975.  Fear of her own execution by the officer has her silenced.  Anything I could write of this would be “hearsay” and not considered “fact” in a court of law thus I must leave this subject as fiction, and fiction has no place in this documentary.  At least not before Marie is justly released and we can leave to a safer    “neighborhood.” 

 

          I could not afford to hire an attorney for myself for the second trial.   My family hired James Rowan to represent Marie in our second trial.  James Rowan had read over all the transcripts and agreed that the first trial was a circus.  It was obvious neither of us were guilty and it would be a simple defense.  He was content that I accept Timothy Wantland as my defense attorney as it was “open and shut” as far as I was concerned.  Almost open and shut as far as Marie was concerned as there was proof she was not present at the accident and the testimonies of Nora Stanart, Dr. Krouse and even the coroner (Dr. Distefano) who testified “No one is saying this could not have been an accident” (paraphrased as I need to write this before I have another stroke and forget again). 

 

          My Court appointed attorney (Timothy Wantland) NEVER would talk to me in private (without a deputy sitting at the table with us) but assured he would have my bail ($500,000) reduced to an amount my family could make…stated, in fact, that Judge Goodpaster had agreed to reduce it to $25,000.  At the araignment all was going well but there was no mention of bail and when Judge Goodpaster asked if there was anything else I started speaking up and Tim Wantland stood in front of me with his back to the bench and telling me to shut up; he had taken care of that!  Well, he hadn’t.

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I had been silenced and the bail was not reduced.  Timothy Wantland  also NEVER acknowledged ANY of my requests to speak to him about the case.  After six unanswered letters to him requesting consultation I fired him for disconcert and negligence.

 

          I was ready to go to trial without an attorney.  A fool, perhaps, at the time, but I was confident Mr. Jim Rowan would do as he said he would; that was to prove that Marie was innocent.  Jim Rowan promised he would consult with both of us again before the trial

 

          In steps sapling young energetic Mr. Kevin Adams.  I did not know who he was when he came to see me and asked to represent me pro bono.  I could not very well refuse as he, like James Rowan, expressed that he could see that we were both innocent; would work energetically and hand in hand with Jim rowan and was going to prove that no crime had been committed.  He had a physicist (but would not tell me his name) in Verdigris who would show exactly how the single one/half inch (12mm) fracture occurred to our boy.  He was elated that we had a life size mannequin of Ben dressed in the clothes Ben wore that fateful night and a portable (though rather heavy) sample of the ceramic floor Ben fell on to show the jury all that could have happened to our boy. 

 

          Also many videos of our boy, including an hour long interview with DHS workers in our home only days before the accident.  When Ben was asked whose house this is he replied, “Momma’s house,…Daddy’s house,…and BEN’S house.  But not yours!”  This video also shows after the interviewers left, Ben commenting that they forgot their ice cream.  Ben was not short on intelligence and obviously an extrovert.  I expressed my primary concern to Kevin  of Marie and he reassured me that he and Jim Rowan would work together.

 

          Jim Rowan did come to see Marie and I in the Mayes County jail BUT the jail officials would not allow him to see me or me to see him!  It had been decided unnecessary and a  “conflict of interest” …though there was none. 

 

 

 

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          During the trial I had been placed at the end of the table; on the long side starting next to me was Kevin Adams, then a real sharp ex JAG Marine {David Keesling}, then Marie, then James Rowan.  Kevin stated he did not want Marie and I sitting next to each other AND he did not want me to speak to Marie AND I should not speak to Jim Rowan.  Also not to write notes and give to Marie or Rowan …it was not a pleasant arrangement but there was nothing I could do about it.

 

          When I saw that the prosecutor was starting to invent time that did not exist between the accident and arrival at the hospital  I brought this to Kevin Adam’s attention and asked him to remember the logged phone records at after 1830 with Nora Stanart, my two cell calls at 1845 and 1855 and entry into the hospital at exactly 1900 hours and asked him to “Close that window”  that does not exist that Charles Ramsey is opening in a solid wall.  I was assured that he would take care of it in his closing argument. 

 

          He didn’t.  He did emphasize  “John was not there.”  several times but no mention of the non-existent forty five minute “Time Delay” that Ramsey had invented and convinced Judge Post …and nine members of the jury, to accept.   He rolled my dice; I paid the price.

 

          The highly inappropriate and illegal sua sponte “Accessory After The Fact” charge initiated and introduced after the trial by judge Post that was a    ‘surprise’   to all was NOT any surprise but to Jim Rowan, David Keesling, Marie and me!  It is in the in limine transcripts where Kevin Adams brought it up long before the trial was scheduled; he submitted it to the prosecutor as a “deal” that was not accepted. 

 

          Charles Ramsey did file the charge appropriately BUT, whether anyone knew about it cannot be proved.  It is a fact that he did not give notice to Kevin Adams, and Dave Keesling  and he certainly secreted this fact from Judge Post or Judge Post may not have stuck her foot in her mouth, and Jim Rowan would have no way of knowing it existed; there was no “obligation” to give him notice. 

 

 

 

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          It was this illegal “surprise” that supported the non existent “time delay.”  Without this criminally created “surprise time delay” there was NOTHING to show that any crime could have been committed by either Marie or I.

 

          No one but me (that I know of) likes Kevin Adams.  They all think that his only interest was in getting his Darrow Award.  No one but me has faith in him and confidence that he will get the Justice release Marie deserves. 

 

          Asking him to do this was the first subject of conversation over breakfast at the Village Inn following my release in November, 2004.  As of this date I know of nothing that has been done to this end.  However, I have heard many excuses.  From others as well and they all have roots in fear.

 

          Fear of prosecutors.  Fear of Ramsey.  Fear of Judge Post.  Fear of George Klatt.*  Fear of Nancy E. Connley.  Fear of offending each other.  To Hell with Marie.  She is a nobody!  Let her rot in prison To Hell with John.  He is just a fanatic.  Hinder him getting his Social Security check and he will be harmless.  Label him paranoid.  Maybe the biggest drug dealer in Mayes County has a body bag for him, too, if he becomes too much of a cocklebur.    *[ I was told after the meeting that George Klatt had called and threatened Kevin Adams to ‘back off’ ]

 

          This fear of retaliation by officials (present and past) should not exist.  It was justified in Germany…six million times sixty years ago.  It is not justifiable here and now for any reason even as small as only criticism. 

 

          “Criminal Lawyers”  get criminals off.  It is a game.  I know personally of a woman who could not have shot her husband accidentally with a .30-06.  A man in Tulsa who could not have shot himself in the side of the head with the .22 rifle he was found with.  A stout man in a bar who could not have accidentally shot himself in the chest with that particular weapon as was described.  Then there is the FBI agent “hanging himself” in a wooded area…Yeah, right!    That last has nothing to do with  Criminal Lawyers getting criminals off.

 

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          “Criminal Lawyers” also are all citizens’ only weapon against total tyranny.  “Criminal Lawyers” are all citizens’ only protectors of the Constitutional Rights all citizens were given by our founders and deserve.

 

          When “Criminal Lawyers” fear corrupt prosecutors, fanatic judges and dirty cops…Knights In Dirty Armour …none of us are safe.

 

          Gilda Marie Schoonover is not a “nobody.”  Gilda Marie is a somebody just as each of us are.  No more…but no less.  She is the remaining victim in this atrocity.  The State may welch in its obligation to pay restitution due me as having been found illegally convicted by the violating by our “honorable” Judge Post and Charles Ramsey of multiple Constitution Laws.  That is far less of a shame sham than that of the State refusing to launch at least an evidentiary …a thorough evidentiary investigation…into the many, many reprehensible improprieties that led to the   “Wrongful Convictions”   of Gilda Marie Schoonover. 

 

          All I ask is for that sane rational hearing.  Without condoning a maniac stomping up and down the halls among jurists flaying her arms and chanting in anger “John did it, John did it, John did it; I know John did it!”  Allow me to testify without another threat of an unappealable death sentence and I will prove my Marie did not harm our boy.

 

 

 

John Schoonover

25 April, 2005

 

 

 

Four years to this date

my innocent wife remains buried alive. 

                

                            

 

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