🚀 go-pugleaf

Other than Mr Rose saying he did not do it... NO ATTEMPT is made in
this posting to provide evidence of why he could not be the murderer.
Every person that thinks he is guilty is obviously wrong or corrupt
according to this letter, but frankly, if I had been falsely accused,
I would be talking more about cold hard evidence than whining about my
inept lawyer etc...

Datalink Computer Services <dcs@dcs-chico.com> wrote:

>The following letter was brought into our store by a woman who knows the 
>man who wrote the letter.  She typed it for him and asked us to try to 
>distribute it.  Please use the address at the end of the letter for 
>correspondence.  Thank-you.

>�On October 18, 1982, I was arrested and charged with the first degree 
>murder of Robert Richardson, Jr. even though I had no knowledge of his 
>death.  I was taken to the Clearwater, Florida police station and 
>charged with his murder by an over zealous detective.  At the police 
>station, Detective Peter Fire, told me that he had overwhelming evidence 
>as to my guilt.  I was told that four people had positively identified 
>me as the person they had seen repeatedly hit Richardson in the head 
>with a cinder block, that I had the victim�s blood on my clothing and 
>person.  Also that a couple had come forward stating that I had admitted 
>killing Richardson and asked them to be my alibi.  I told detective Fire 
>that none of what he said was true and to get his story straight.  I 
>fully expected to be told that a mistake had been made---but that was 
>not the case.  

>While incarcerated in the Pinelles county jail waiting to go to trial, I 
>faced total opposition in  my quest to learn the facts of Richardson�s 
>death.  The court appointed defense attorneys assigned to represent me 
>were telling me that the evidence was over-whelming as to my guilt.  
>They advised me to take a plea bargain or to plead insanity.  None of 
>them would help me to obtain the facts.  My pleas of innocence fell of 
>deaf ears.  On June of 1983, I was forced to stand trial with totally 
>unprepared and inept court appointed legal counsel.  Since my attorney 
>was inept, he could not put on a defense.  The jury heard what was 
>presented as overwhelming evidence as to my guilt  I tried 
>unsuccessfully to dismiss my attorney during trial.  I also stood and 
>shouted to the jury that I was being �railroaded� but the jury was left 
>with no alternative but to convict.  They also voted to sentence me to 
>death.  Judge Susan Schaeffer did this In July of 1983.

>The appellate process has so far proven to be another farce and mockery 
>of the criminal justice system.  A court appointed appellate attorney 
>filed nine issues in my initial appeal.  Only two of these issues dealt 
>with trial error and both were frivolously raised.  The other seven 
>issues dealt with the sentencing phase of my trial.  After the initial 
>appellate process ran it�s course through the state courts with all the 
>issues being denied, I would be given different state mandated appellate 
>attorneys to file what is known as a (3.850) Post Conviction Relief 
>Appeal.  I had a two year time limit in which to file my (3.850) appeal.  
>Yet, in September of 1987, the Governor of Florida signed my death 
>warrant scheduling my execution for November, just weeks before my 
>deadline to file my (3.850) appeal came due.

>During the two year period of preparing to file my (3.850) appeal.  My 
>attorneys proved to be a great help to me.  They provided me with a 
>transcript of the trial record, police reports, and copies of the 
>depositions my trial attorneys took from the state�s witnesses.  With 
>this information I was finally able to help myself and my attorneys to 
>piece together the facts.  When I received a copy of my (3.850) appeal 
>while on death watch, I was elated.  It contained evidence of my 
>innocence and of being railroaded.  The evidence would totally discredit 
>the alibi witnesses, the eye witness identification, the blood test 
>results, plus show misconduct by the states attorneys and the 
>Clearwater, Florida Police Department.  Not to forget the ineptness of 
>my court appointed attorneys to bring the facts to light.

>My elation with my (3.850) appeal would be short-filed.  Judge Susan 
>Schaeffer would grant me a stay of execution on the sentencing issue of 
>my appeal.  She refused to hear the trial issues--her rationale was that 
>it did not matter that I could discredit the eye witnesses and the blood 
>results--stating that it did not matter that the rest of the evidence 
>was still overwhelming as to guilt.  Her erroneous and even unethical 
>ruling came at a time when another man was receiving national media 
>coverage for the gross misconduct in his case--by the Clearwater, 
>Florida police  and explicitly Detective Peter Fire.  The rationale 
>behind Judge Schaeffer�s ruling of refusing to hear my trial issues 
>becomes highly questionable as to whether she abused her judgeship or 
>not.  I maintain she did!

>The Florida Supreme Court did uphold Judge Susan Schaeffer�s unethical 
>ruling of not hearing my trial issues.  On July 19,1993, my Habeas 
>Corpus appeal was filed in Tampa, Florida district Court.  My faith in 
>the legal system has been traumatically shaken and unless, I too, 
>receive media attention and support in the scrutiny of the facts of my 
>case, I fear that the Tampa, Florida District Court will uphold Susan 
>Schaeffer�s erroneous ruling that I am not entitled to relief on the 
>trial issues.  I already know this court can be notoriously slow ruling 
>on death penalty cases.  The case before mine has sat idle in this court 
>since 1989 while mine is going on two and a half years.  Without support 
>and media coverage of my case, I fear many more years will pass adding 
>to the abuse I have already endured.  I have state mandated attorneys 
>that are more friends of the court than zealous advocates.  There are 
>many conflicts with this type of legal representation, but, at present 
>it is all I have.  Although with the support and media coverage of my 
>case, these attorneys will no longer have their hands tied and will have 
>to give me the zealous advocacy they swore to uphold.

>Tom Sawyer had private appellate attorneys.  He was fortunate enough to 
>get his case highlighted on ABC�s World News Tonight.  He has since been 
>vindicated of murder and received a substantial settlement.  Had he not 
>been fortunate enough to have private attorneys and get his case covered 
>by the media, maybe Judge Susan Schaeffer would have ruled differently 
>in my case.  I have written numerous letters to both Diane and Forrest 
>Sawyer of ABC explaining everything contained within this outline of my 
>case.  Including information about the Tom Sawyer case which was 
>highlighted by their network and helped him to be vindicated.  Their 
>failure to reply is typical of the apathetic responses and non response 
>of all the medias I have sought help from.  Now, I hope with this 
>opportunity to appear on the Internet that the media and legal system 
>will no longer be able to ignore me.

>Please help me to build a network of support--help me to E-mail and link 
>to media world-wide the location of my material about my case.  Help me 
>to stay on-line with this material so I can vindicate myself.  Thank 
>you.  Individual correspondence can be forwarded through the following 
>address.�
>Milo Rose c/o D. E. Burke
>P.O. Box 9004
>Red Bluff, CA 96080

>Thank you, Milo Rose