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Knights in
Dirty Armour
II
Chapter
XII
STRAINING GNATS,
SWALLOWING CAMELS
When the request for extension of time allowed was sent to
the Court Clerk of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, stating
the ambiguous time restraints and irregularities in the answer from
Judge Post and Mayes County; making it impossible to file a brief
for appeal with any meaning within the ‘catch-22’ time Judge Post
allowed, or rather, did not allow, I received the properly dated
documents back along with twenty five pages of rules to follow. Amount of pages allowed,
type set, font, many references to “rules” by number…but not the
rules themselves. It
must be done according to the “Rule abc and Rule xyz” etc. Twenty five pages. If any gnat sized Rule is
not adhered to the appeal can be thrown out. Simple as that.
We need an attorney.
Kevin Adams bailed out after he has been paid and it is
impossible to locate an attorney who can read 1,300 pages of
transcript and 100 pages of caselaw and showings of Prosecutor
Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
[State induced and, in the case of Kevin Adams, ineffective due to
conflict of loyalty to his client or to his collegues Judge Post and
Charles Ramsey, who he obviously prefers to protect] and prepare a
brief limited to thirty pages and containing all the camel sized
violations of U.S and Oklahoma Constitution laws committed by Judge
Post and Charles Ramsey.
These great laws are there, not to “protect the criminal” as
so many believe but to protect the innocent from being criminally
prosecuted and punished!
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Are these great laws abused by “criminals”? Most certainly. In this case, as well. It is criminal to send an
innocent woman to prison to die when no crime was
committed.
The criminals are, in this case, from the
beginning: George Klatt who, among other things, photographed a
pitchfork I used to clean out our chicken coop with; showed it and
told the press we used it to “Tortured Ben with a pitchfork” and
gave it to the coroner, Ronald Distefano who stated in limine
[outside the hearing of the jury] that the two insect bites on
Benjamin on his waste were not puncture wounds. Photographed a collection of
antique baseball bats, showed and told that we “Beat Ben to death
with a ball bat.” “Oh,
my God” was one of the exclamations from the prospective jurors when
they were told this in the Courthouse Hallway. This was printed in the
Pryor Daily Times. It
was never printed publicly that there were no visible injuries or
bruising as the physicians testified. Only what George Klatt told
the media and what Judge Post and Charles Ramsey said about “all the
bruises on the murder victim being consistent with child
abuse.”
Charles Ramsey, Pryor County Attorney who suppressed
exculpatory evidence he knows vindicates Marie. He must protect his friend
George Klatt.
Judge Post who will not allow Marie’s attorney to put up a
defense of our theory of what happened to Benjamin while I was
outside and Marie was on the phone to her mother. “The State has presented no
evidence that there is any furniture in that house.” “Refused, Return to Sender”
in her handwriting on an envelope containing titanic evidence to the
innocence of Marie.
These are NOT honourable people. They are, in my opinion,
worse than Jeremy Jones.
Jeremy Jones…not even Saddam Hussein sent innocent victims to
their death under the cloak of Justice!!!
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Martin Niemoller, German Lutheran pastor, 1892-1984: “The Nazis came first for
the trade unionists and communists and as I was neither, I did
nothing. Then they came
for the Checzs, and I wasn’t Checz, so I did nothing. They then came for the
Poles, Slovs and Gypsies, and as I was none of these, I did
nothing. Finally, the
Nazis came for me and there was no one left to do
anything.”
George Klatt, Charles Ramsey and Judge Post are not Nazi mass
murderers. They have
conspired, though, to deprive one single Gilda Marie Schoonover, an
innocent woman, of her life.
It was a “vengeance” attack on Marie because they could not
get me. Then did
succeed in robbing from me four years of my life that concluded only
when the Court of Criminal Appeals stated I was innocent of the
charge brought against me by Judge Post. She sent me to prison on
that charge without a trial.
She simply charged me and told the jury I was guilty. That is not justice. I am living proof that Judge
Post is a criminal. I
paid four years of my life…she tried to take seven…in prison that
proves it. That cannot
be controverted.
This same criminal sent Gilda Marie Schoonover to prison to
die.
So why should the loss of one life concern anyone? Because, Who Is Next?
Are there others?
I believe there are.
Janet Reno, past U.S. Attorney General told me to my face
that she believes 10% of convictions are wrongful. I was in that 10% Gilda Marie Schoonover is
also in that 10%. I
have researched several other cases of suspected improprieties by
Judge Post and have found three that are, though not as egregious as
this one, wrongful convictions.
Who Is Next?
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I have met child abusers, drug dealers, all walks of
criminals in prison.
Contrary to screams of “I’m innocent” most admit the
mistake[s] they have made.
Most belong where they are. Some should have simply been
taken out and shot.
Some, like Doyle Dobson, whom I attempted to help get
released, shortly before he died, are dead dogs being beaten.
“Forty minus one” lashes were ordered one victim of a corrupt
judicial system. Mel
Gibson put it on the big screen and there were far more than forty
lashes. Punishment
beyond benefit. Doyle
Dobson was sentenced to 25-75 years; the Department of Correction
decided that 75 years was necessary. But when I met Doyle he has
spent over twenty five years in prison without a single
misconduct.
Doyle Dobson was guilty and found so by a just court. Twenty five years ago. When I met him he was
senile, incontinent, helpless and harmless. I wrote many petition
letters to get him released.
The problem was that no one wanted to bother to take care of
him; he had no home but prison. The vegetable withered away
in prison. The same way
Judge Post wants for innocent Marie!
Who is next?
When freedom is stolen from one and it is ignored by all,
then freedom can be stolen from another, and another…we all
lose. You lose. It is only a matter of time
before our Constitution falls by the wayside just as did Russia’s,
once touted as being second only to our own.
The fate of Gilda Marie Schoonover is no longer in the hands
of the criminals that put her in prison. It is now in the hands of
the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.
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Kevin Adams having abandoned Gilda, she is now without an
attorney who can and will write her appeal appropriately and within
the constraints of the fourteen pages of references to rules of the
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals. An irony is that just before
Kevin Adams bailed out he told Marie that He was certain that I had
killed Benjamin and he based his belief on my demeanor when I
refused to sign the confession he had written for me to sign. That “certainty” of his that
I am guilty is “certainty” that he knows Marie is innocent when he
abandoned her. Marie
has only me and my friends now of limited ability to fend for
her. To type her appeal
for Justice the best way we know how.
Gilda Marie told me during our Sunday visit December
18th that NO ONE there who has submitted a “Pro-se” brief
has ever won their appeal.
This fact has put fear into her that we are fighting a lost
cause. I will not
concede to this though it is definitely an uphill battle.
“An uphill battle” reminds me that it was an “uphill battle”
on Iwo Jima when our Marines pushed
up our flag. The late
“Captain Kangaroo” was their sergeant and he was wounded there at
that time. Carried back
to the beach on a stretcher.
I will continue my “uphill battle” for Marie until I am carried away on a
stretcher. I will
also help, or try to help, a few others whom I know do not belong in
prison.
During these past four years I know of four who have been given relief
through the filing of Pro-se pleadings. Four who were not
guilty. Others who have
had sentence modifications who were guilty but wrongfully
convicted. Melton Herd
is in prison. Pled
guilty to several burglaries.
However, a close examination of his records show that two of the burglaries he
pled guilty to were committed when he was in jail in another
county. He should not
be punished for burglaries he did not commit! His case is old and it is
being difficult because of the time…but Justice delayed is Justice
denied. He is a good
chef and he has a job waiting for him if we are successful.
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Most, however, who file Pro-se do not have any substantial
grounds for filing.
Most are frivolous suits. I have had to walk away from
some telling them to quit crying and take what you deserve. But there are those who do
not belong in prison and some, if I can help, I will.
There are a few religions, very few, that see good in
everything. George
Burns said it best in “Oh, God” when asked about evil by John
Denver, referring to a half-dollar, “How can I make the front
without making the back”?
Silly, perhaps, using that example. But how can there be “Good”
without something to compare it to?
Marie told me there has got to be some good come of
this. “God has a reason
for letting them put me in prison.” Marie has come up with some
pretty good reasons:
Heretofore she viewed prisons as full of evil people
deserving to be caged.
Now she knows that not all prisoners are guilty and deserving
of being caged.
She has involved herself in evangelism programs and other
programs to help others in prison, guilt not a factor. She has tried to teach
others how to live with less stress and more tolerance. She has tried to
promote harmony where there is little or none. She has shared her
commodities with some who have no one “on the outside” who will
help. She takes pride
in her menial assigned job.
“You have to take pride in what you do, no matter how
small.” Pride in detail
is what put Rolls Royce at the top.
Marie’s faith in her God has kept her from being destroyed in
prison. She uses it to
the best of her ability to help others. That is [part of] the good
she sees in this evil by the three officials in Mayes
County. Other good is that by their
exposure Mayes County may become a little bit
cleaner. George Klatt
is already gone. That
evil one is no longer in Mayes County. I feel we have succeeded in
removing one dirty spot.
We have a little more house cleaning to do and I cannot do it
alone.
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“Straining gnats and swallowing camels.” That is where we are
now. If everything is done right,
the Court of Criminal Appeals will rule Justice for our innocent
Marie. It will not be
necessary to proceed to the Federal Courts for Justice. Then the “housecleaning” in
Mayes County Oklahoma will be up to the residents of Mayes
County. If they want to keep their
dirty Knights it is up to them. They have only two left to
sweep out if they don’t want to keep them. Good, coming out of
evil.
The first “straining of gnats” came December 16, 2005 from
the Court Clerk Of the Court of Criminal Appeals. Mentioned in the first
paragraph of this chapter:
“Rule 1.6 non-Resident
Attorneys; Recognition
A. A practicing attorney of
any State, Territory, or the
District of
Columbia, not licensed to practice in
this state, having professional business in this
Court,
may be recognized in accordance with the
Rules
Creating and Controlling the Oklahoma
Bar
Association, Ch. 1, App. 1, art 2, Section 5 of title
5.
B.
Only pro se
Appellants/Petitioners and licensed
Attorneys may sign and file pleadings with
the
Clerk of this Court.
See also Rule 1.16.”
The above was on the first of 14 pages. I re-submitted, via
certified mail, and with the following reply, and a copy to Drew
Edmondson, Oklahoma’s Attorney
General:
16
December, 2005
Michael S. Richie,
Clerk of the Appellate
Courts
Room B-2 State
Capitol Building
2300 N. Lincoln
Boulevard
Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma 73105:
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Enclosed is part of what
was returned to me that I attempted to file in the Appellate Court
for Gilda Marie Schoonover.
1. She has been and is
indigent.
This can
be verified is necessary.
2. Her attorney that I paid
quit with his tail between
his legs
because of what I wrote on the internet
concerning his divided interests; that being
putting the welfare of Judge Post and
Prosecutor
Charles Ramsey as a priority over his client,
Gilda
Marie Schoonover.
I concur, that is superlative.
3. The time restraints
vs. Marie’s limited ability to get help
via
the Law library at Mabel Basset is a problem that
restricts many from obtaining Justice.
4. I am merely a
typist. I type what is
necessary and it
would take days, sometimes weeks, for mail to be sent
back
and forth before it can be sent to you in proper
format which usually takes more time than you
allot.
5. Enclosed is a Power of
Attorney which allows me to sign
in
behalf of Gilda Marie Schoonover.
6. The lower courts have
violated multiple Constitutional
and State laws to obtain the illegal conviction of
an
innocent woman.
She will die in prison if Justice is
not allowed by straining gnats and swallowing
camels.
Please do not allow petty
impediments to obstruct Justice.
Respectfully,
John Schoonover
knightsindirtyarmour.com
RR 1 Box
67 Cleveland Oklahoma
74020
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One document mailed me by the Clerk of the Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals is
Form 13.2 Affidavit in Forma Pauperis. Highlighted is for
signature, notary, verifying a statement of prison account if
incarcerated and that must be signed by a prison official.
I, personally, can come up with the filing fee necessary for
me to file the appeal.
However, there is no way that Gilda, on her own, can do
this. By the time this
document is mailed to her and mailed back to me to submit as the
instructions are to “Return to OCCA Online” and computers are not
allowed in prisons.
Such impediments to indigent prisoners should not exist. The time limit would expire
before this could be done.
A gnat between an inmate and justice.
NOTICE TO
ATTORNEYS
This instruction sheet is clear; for filing by an attorney
the fees are outlined well as are the number of copies; in this case
an Original & 7 copies.
I will be delivering and filing the brief in person; that way
I know it will be done.
When Kevin Adams,
[ kevin@oklahomacriminallaw.com ]deserted
Marie he knew she was innocent and he knew she was indigent as I had
paid him my entire Social Security check and he knew my funds were
exhausted. He knew that
she would be unable to proceed with the appeal. He did not desert because of
funds or hurt feelings.
He lives in the same county as Judge Post and Charles Ramsey
and they are his collegues.
He advised me that George Klatt is a dangerous man and I
should not press the issue of his part in this disgraceful abortion
of Justice. Kevin Adams
is afraid of George Klatt as he is afraid of Judge Post and Charles
Ramsey. I can
understand this. He
knows their capabilities.
Being prejudice I believe Marie is worth more than thirty
pieces of silver. But
not to Kevin Adams.
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That being said, I know there are others out there in a
similar boat as Marie.
I know
that there are at least three other victims of Judge Post’s
perversions of Justice.
One, she simply overruled a hung jury, which that by itself
is obvious “Reasonable Doubt,” and sentenced the woman to life in
prison. Our jury was
deadlocked at 9-3 for well over seven hours before Judge Post
ordered them to deliberate indefinitely until they were
unanimous.
This takes the decisions from the juries. Why bother with juries if
Judge Post is going to overrule them?
I have not much to offer in the way of help for others. Gilda Marie is my priority,
of course. I would like
to mention the names of a few others whom I believe deserve a little
help and who I will do what I can to help but I am not at liberty to
post them here, except for one: John Vernon DuBiel. Well deserving a release; he
has been physically injured while attempting to defuse a volatile
situation and his injury will cause him pain and disability the rest
of his life. He has
promoted drug courts for first time drug offenders. He is being wasted in prison
whereas there would be no recidivism and he would be a productive
member of society. I
have petitioned the courts in his behalf; John DuBiel should be
released. He has more than paid his debt.
This website is read an average of forty times a day. Virginia has the largest viewers, followed by
Pennsylvania, Canada, Florida, Oklahoma, other states and then other
countries such as the Philippines, Australia and even the mid-east near
Iraq. I will renew it and keep it
active and I will help others with it if I can. Marie is not
alone.
I do have limited funds but I do not ask anything. I will make do with what I
have; that being my income as a service connected disabled veteran
and Social Security disability.
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Justice is supposed to be guaranteed available by our
Constitution to all,
whether they have money or not. Whether they have legal
representation or not.
I have a thousand plus names from all over the country on
petitions to Oklahoma officials requesting an
evidentiary hearing for Marie.
I have been told that I was wasting my time. That the petitions will fall
on deaf ears. If this
is true, it is sad indeed.
I cannot bring myself to believe that the Oklahoma Court of
Criminal Appeals will sweep me under the table with Marie in favour
of three corrupt officials in Mayes County. I cannot bring myself to
believe that they will Strain innocent Gnats and Swallow three dirty
Camels.
John Schoonover,
freemymarie@netzero.net
freemymarie@yahoo.com
To be
continued
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