From Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund:
With 25 letters of commendation, two awards, and nine years of service to the Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland, Stephanie Mohr does not sound like an officer who should be spending years in jail away from her young son, Adam. Unfortunately, this is already Mohr’s fifth year of a prison sentence that she does not deserve. With your help though, we can get this innocent officer out of jail and reunited with her son.
This is the last chance that we have to help Stephanie.
In September of 1995, Mohr was on patrol with her police dog Valk. She was patrolling Takoma Park, an area that had been known to have many recent burglaries. When Mohr and her partner, Sergeant Anthony Delozier, got a call for backup from an officer who had spotted two men on the roof of a nearby store, they knew they may have found the criminals.
Ricardo Mendez and Herrera Cruz were the two suspects who were ordered to get down and face the wall. Mendez then made a move that looked as if he were about to flee the scene.
As Mohr had been trained to do in this type of situation, she released her canine. Valk, the police dog, was trained to perform the police department’s standard “bite and hold” and that is exactly what he did. The dog bit Mendez on the leg and held him there until the officers could apprehend him.
Mendez and Herrera were convicted of 4th degree burglary and were then deported. The two illegally re-entered the U.S. again and were arrested for selling crack cocaine. They were then deported a second time.
Stephanie was relieved that she had gotten these two criminals off of our streets and back to their country.
She soon gave birth to her son Adam and was a proud mother.
Unfortunately, her joy did not last very long. Five years after this incident and one day before the statue of limitations was set to expire, Mohr was indicted by the U.S Department of Justice.
Looking for cases of “police brutality” the U.S Department of Justice indicted Stephanie and two fellow officers charging them with conspiracy charges and violating Ricardo Mendez’s civil rights.
At the trial, Officer Mohr was found not guilty of conspiracy. A hung jury, voting 11 to 1 in favor of Mohr failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the civil right charges.
The prosecutor sought a retrial that was held in 2001. The trial was scheduled even though the jurors from the first trial said that the case lacked merit. At this trial the prosecution convinced the jury that Mohr had released her canine on innocent minority citizens.
In this second trial, the judge allowed prejudicial testimony into evidence that Mohr had used racial epithets in making a prior arrest using her canine. The charges did not start out as racial but the prosecutors needed to do something desperate to save their case. This questionable evidence should not have been allowed into the courtroom.
The jury was stacked with minorities who would be sympathetic with illegal immigrants. The government even flew Mendez back into the U.S. at taxpayer expense. They did this in order to have Mendez testify against Mohr despite the fact that he was a convicted felon.
Because of the racial tactics the prosecution had to use to save their failing case, Stephanie was convicted of a federal criminal rights violation and given a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
Stephanie is now serving her fifth year of the ten year prison sentence.
This is the fifth year that she has had to spend away from her son Adam. She has missed so many important days in her son’s life like birthdays and holidays because of this prison sentence she does not deserve.
Stephanie has not lost hope though. She has faith in the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. We are doing everything we can to help Mohr.
We have appealed the trial Courts decision denying Stephanie a new trial to the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Virginia.
Last month we filed our “request for a Commutation of Sentence” to President George W. Bush.
With just weeks left in his administration, President Bush is now reviewing Pardon requests. You and I both know that no one in the country deserves her freedom more than Stephanie Mohr.
Stephanie’s eight year old son has now spent the last 5 years of his life without his mother by his side.
Five years of her life have been wasted in prison because she followed police procedure when she ordered her police dog Valk to stop a suspect from fleeing the scene. Five years that can NEVER EVER be given back.
The suspect – an illegal alien from San Salvador – was convicted of selling drugs and deported. —- But outrageously the prosecutor brought him back, at public expense, to testify against Stephanie.
And Stephanie was convicted of “violating” his civil rights.
Just as unfair as the charges, the Judge, blindly following the recommendation of the Civil Rights Division, imposed a draconian ten-year sentence that both Stephanie and her son Adam are both serving. What can be more outrageous!!!
Now with President Bush only four months away from the end of his term, this may be our last chance to free Stephanie.
If you agree that its time to send this innocent mother home to her son, won’t you please help fund our crucial “Request for Commutation of Sentence” to the U.S. Department of Justice by sending your most generous tax deductible contribution to The Law Enforcement Defense Fund by clicking here today.
We strongly believe that Mohr has been wrongly accused and innocent of this crime. Stephanie did not cross any boundaries while trying to apprehend Mendez. Mohr followed all the police procedures as she was trained to do.
In order to protect the public, which was her main concern, she had to release her canine to ensure that Mendez could not escape and pose a further threat to the community.
We here at LELDF (see who we are) hope that you as an American citizen can realize that this sentence is unjust. Mendez is an illegal alien who is receiving more benefits than Mohr, a police officer who protected the public for over nine years.
We are asking you to show your support by giving a gift of $25, $50, or any amount that you can afford. This gift of any amount is tax-deductible.
LELDF is assisting Stephanie with all the legal costs for the appeal and for the Petition for Commmutation of Sentence.
Stephanie’s appeal asks the federal judge to review her conviction based on evidence in court documents that a witness against her lied, saying she used a racial slur and that this lie influenced the jury to convict her.
LELDF is trying to help Stephanie Mohr in any way we can. But, we cannot do it alone. We need your support to help Stephanie obtain her rightfully deserved freedom.
Your contribution of any amount will greatly impact our efforts in supporting Stephanie.
By the time Stephanie gets out of prison, her son Adam will almost be a teenager. Mohr has lost some of the most crucial moments in Adams life. This is every mother’s worst nightmare. We need to help her get out of prison as soon as possible so she can be reunited with her son.
We thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
David H. Martin
Chairman
[Those responsible for this prosecution each deserve to serve a whole ten years in Staphanie's stead. Let us return Justice to our once great nation. ~ Editor]
They are only allowed to brutalize Americans.
Mexican/Illegals are a protected class. The plutocrats WANT them here and want them to be treated like human beings.
But us, we are the fat stupid hogs to be slaughtered.
And we deserve it too.
Millions of injustices a year, the U.S.A with the highest per capita incarceration in the world and yet they only mention one case.
Return to the supreme law of the land the Constitution for the united states of America !
Equal protection under the law with libety and justice for all.
FENDING OFF THE EGYPTIAN POWER STRUCTURE
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin85.htm
The federal government is out of control. They ARE the enemy within.
Sillie Lizzie said
“The federal government is out of control. They ARE the enemy within.”
Add state and county and city government to that list.
All governments are more or less combinations against the people. . .and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled. . . the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people.
– Benjamin Franklin Bache, in a Phildelphia Aurora editorial 1794
Strat,
Governments are the collective use of force, ostensibly on behalf of the people, but, as misused, on behalf of the government or its benefactors.
Government is no more inherently evil than restaurants or homowner’s associations.
Governments are like firearms. It is the use to which they are put that makes their effects good or evil.
The United States Government is, it appears to me, just like the Republican Party, dominated at the top levels by men of evil intent, men without ethical limits on their own actions. But they rule an unstable base, one that, if it knew the truth, would depose those scoundrels at the earliest convenience.
The challenge, to those of us who know the facts and can see through he deceptive rhetoric, is to reveal the truth to those bases. The grassroots American (or Republican) thus equipped and made responsible for his decisions, then holds his soul in his hands.
If we were to liberate the GOP from its dark masters, I believe the nation would soon follow, because the Republican Party would then actually be working, like a machine, for the truth, instead of its current “name only” masquerade. We would, with an ethical Party, have a way to offer the righteous alternative to the nation.
We would never, with a free and open procedure, have nominated a buffoon like John McCain.
There is no human institution that cannot be corrupted. There is no “constitution” that, by itself, can ensure the proper functioning of any body without eternal vigilance.
But there is, by contrast, no device that can be constructed against the Remnant, the Called, as they hearken to the voice.
“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.”
It is not that complicated, men are either ruled by the spirit of precepts of the Creator or they are ruled by the lusts of the flesh.
This subject came up at the council in middle Washington, “men dominate men to their own destruction” !
As Alex R. stated the scepter must be destroyed, one man can not rule another by brute force of the letter of the law, for “the power of sin is law” “the law gives incentive to sin”.
Free men and women, sovereign souls can lead by example but it is folly to believe that wrestling the scepter of the republican party from the wicked that wield it, will change anything long term.
It is past time to set the positive example of “good government” to have the spirit of Christ ruling in the heart of the individual.
Evil is destruction, the action of wasting, left completely to it’s own it ceases to exist, for it can not create or build or produce, it must have a host to exist.
Military and police are subject to the civil authority, so when the civil authority is evil there is no force to correct it unless the electorate is informed as to who is the real authority.
The large central government will never work as a positive force, it will always remain destructive as it is now.
Government is evil by nature for it is created by reaction to evil, the only way to reduce the evil is to reduce the size of government and empower the individual.
One key element that has been missing is means of communication, the large federal bureaucracy known as the FCC has robbed the people of the airwaves that belong to them, intrastate broadcasts are lawful, next year ends the analogue transmission of TV signals, giving even more power to the leviathan.
Truly, “My people are lost for lack of vision” that was quite obvious at the Snohomish campaign for liberty last night.
“…it is folly to believe that wrestling the scepter of the republican party from the wicked that wield it, will change anything long term.”
Would it be logical to extrapolate, Strat, that this means
“It was folly to believe that wrestling the scepter of America from the wicked British Crown that wielded it, would change anything long term.”?
My view is that maintaining freedom in civil society is like keeping your balance on a bicycle. As soon as you go to sleep, you fall over.
Your comment sounds like someone suggesting that there is no point in trying to ride a bicycle, since its natural tendency is to fall sideways.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupt absolutely, even a good king is bad government when the population is large, this was true when Moses tried to be the judge for all Israel after coming down the mountain, thats why Jethro convinced him to go to the system of tens.
Captains of tens
Captains of hundreds
Captains of thousands
Captains of ten thousands
As with our present system it does not follow the proportional representation of 60 to 70,000 instead we have only reps per 700,000 this is in no way representative government.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
– Daniel Webster
We received a special request letter from Stephanie Mohr
initiated by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.
What has happened to Stephanie is the result of our government being out of control. This event is very similar to the Border Patrol incident. They are free today, but Stephanie is not. With President Obama in office and the Socialist Progressive agenda of this Administration. we can be certain to see more of this kind of injustice. President Bush was no better. Why didn’t he pardon Stephanie? Stephanie’s case is a sample of the kind of injustice Americans will be experiencing across our nation as soon as Americans try to correct these injustices. Except for Fox News, the rest of the Media are socialist. They will not expose the injustice!
Americans are beginning to lose their rights which come from the Constitution. Stephanie received a fair trial the first time, but our Federal Government came back and made certain she would be put in jail in spite of the fact she had been found innocent the first time. The fact that our government payed to bring two illegal immigrants back to court to help find Stephanie guilty is proof of what are government will do to American citizens if we get in their way!
My heart goes out to Stephanie and her family.
Oscar Gomez
This is an outrage, and I will join the fight to bring the the appropriate Dept. of Justice lawyers and the activist judge responsible for this to the equal justice they deserve.