BECAUSE MEASURE 11 IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, USES HERESAY, SHE SAID/HE SAID, NO EVIDENCE NEEDED. D.A.'s HAVE TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE LEGAL SYSTEM. OUR DUE PROCESS IS GONE. YOU ARE GUILTY TILL PROVEN INNOCENT.

WE ARE PETITIONING FOR A STATEWIDE INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY COURT PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO STOP MINNESOTA JUDGES FROM HARMING INNOCENT DEFENSELESS CHILDREN. Minnesota residents are being bled of our most valuable resource, the innocence of a child, and because of which, we are slowly losing our grip on the future of America. Since 1998, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has continued a lengthy investigation into adverse childhood experiences (ACE). ACE is one of the largest medical investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. They found that a child’s exposure to certain traumas, including domestic violence, child sexual abuse, or being separated from their primary care-giving parent, resulted in more illnesses and injuries to children in childhood through adulthood, i.e., social emotional and cognitive impairment; adoption of health-risk behaviors; disease, disability and social problems; and PREMATURE DEATH. This study demonstrates how a child’s exposure to these elements are a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. Yet every year, an estimated 58,000 children are court ordered into custody or unsupervised visitation with a reported abuser. Additionally, current research estimates that false allegations of sexual abuse happens less that 2% of the time, yet 85% of those children are court ordered into shared or sole custody with the parent that is raping them. Inadequately trained professionals tend to believe the myth that mothers frequently make false allegations, contrary to current research. Therefore, in thinking they have the needed expertise, family court professionals don't listen to domestic violence or child abuse evidence, experts, and they don't include current scientific research. Mothers are being forced into bankruptcy and poverty trying to protect their children, and their children are being irreparably harmed. Governor Mark Dayton, House and Senate Representatives, we now have the medical research through the CDC to declare domestic violence, child abuse, and being separated from a primary attachment parent a PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE. And the U.S. Department of Justice's Saunders report states that the STANDARD and REQUIRED domestic violence training received by judges, lawyers, and evaluators does not adequately prepare them to handle abuse cases. WE ARE PETITIONING FOR A STATEWIDE INVESTIGATION OF FAMILY COURT PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO STOP MINNESOTA JUDGES FROM HARMING INNOCENT DEFENSELESS CHILDREN. We would like to see you, our leaders, echo your constituents concerns, and ensure that the HEALTH AND SAFETY OF A CHILD WILL COME FIRST IN DIVORCE AND CUSTODY LITIGATION. We thank you in advance for your support.

Freddie Gray’s family and the people of Baltimore were denied justice by Judge Barry G. Williams' refusal to hold Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero accountable for Gray’s death. There is an epidemic of racial bias, police violence, and a lack of accountability in our country's police forces. Please join us in calling on President Obama to crack down on violent and discriminatory policing by issuing an executive order to direct the DOJ to enforce our civil rights laws more aggressively.

Freddie Gray’s family and the people of Baltimore were denied justice by Judge Barry G. Williams' refusal to hold Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero accountable for Gray’s death. There is an epidemic of racial bias, police violence, and a lack of accountability in our country's police forces. Please join us in calling on President Obama to crack down on violent and discriminatory policing by issuing an executive order to direct the DOJ to enforce our civil rights laws more aggressively.

I am fighting for all mothers out there that flee their abusers and then lose the children to biased courts..I lost my 4 children to my physically, verbally and sexually abusive husband. The judge was a family friend. The evaluator Dr. Cuno was a father's rights activist and also worked with my ex father-in-law years ago The sheriff is related to my ex husband...but it don't stop there. Our kids are living our abuse since the protective mother is being abused. No one listens, DCFs turns their heads. Police do nothing because of kinship. These children are helpless to their abuser They fear to tell because he has a hold on them as he did the mother. You ask why do you stay? The answer is clear ....you live in fear...please save our children ..there is funding for father's rights but none for mothers. This is a violation of women's rights

Let's bring an end to state sanctioned murder! Let's give Life not Death! I propose a 'Give Life Penalty ', whereby, if a condemned inmate agrees to donate non life threatening organs and/or to donate blood regularly; that their sentence be commuted.

Roanoke County Police killed Kionte Spencer on February 26, 2016. He was 18 and was walking down Electric Road when he was confronted by police and shot under questionable circumstances. Chief Hall of the Roanoke County Police has been unresponsive to demands from the Roanoke community that he release the dashcam video, open an independent investigation, and release the names of the officers involved in the shooting death of Kionte Spencer.

My aunt Deborah, an optometrist, was stabbed to death when I was six, by her husband, Russell Franklin Stone. Her irreplaceable loss has affected me and my family for the past 26 years, and once again, her murderer is up for early parole. Russell has never taken responsibility or apologized for his actions, and to add insult to injury, has taken up optometry in prison, a direct insult to my aunt and her memory. Please join me in signing this petition to help keep this monster in prison.

Mohamedou Slahi has been unlawfully imprisoned for 14 years by the U.S. government. Thirteen of those years have been at Guantánamo Bay prison, where he was subjected to gruesome torture. The U.S. has never charged Slahi with a crime. The U.S. government's justifications for holding Slahi fail because he has never taken part in any hostilities against the United States. And he poses no threat to the United States. A former chief military prosecutor in the Guantánamo military commissions, Colonel Morris Davis, has said he couldn’t find any crime with which to charge Slahi. In 2010, a federal judge ordered Slahi’s release, rejecting the government's arguments since evidence was tainted by torture and coercion or was otherwise not credible. But the government appealed. The U.S. is currently holding him indefinitely despite his innocence. Soon Slahi will have the Periodic Review Board hearing he should have had four years ago, where he can prove he’s not a threat to the United States. Will you urge the Department of Defense to free Slahi?

I'm personally affected by any child unfairly treated as something they're not. A child is a child not an adult; they do not have the mindset, understanding, comprehension nor self-control as an adult is expected to have. Despite the actions of the juvenile, trying them as adult is an injustice and is unjustifiable.

Hello, My name is Paula. I used to think that the worst thing imaginable I could have happen is a knock on the door by the highway patrol in the middle of the night telling me about the death of one of my children. But, I never imagined that the next to the worst thing would be seeing my child broadcast on local television as a murderer. My son had dated a young lady for 8 weeks. After 3 weeks, she invited him to move into her parents home with her and her baby. After 6 weeks he was asking me if we would help with him adopting this beautiful, sweet, delightful little girl. To which I reflexively replied, "Of course, we will." It was all happening so fast. He told everyone in our family he was marrying the young lady and adopting this amazing child. At 8 weeks after he started dating the baby's mother, he awoke to the sound of the baby gurgling. His CPR attempts were unsuccessful. He yelled immediately for his girlfriend to call 911. She took her phone to an adjacent room and calmly and quietly spoke to the 911 operator. After 1 min and 19 seconds the operator asked if she was in the same room with the baby and my son administering CPR. She told her no. The dispatcher asked if he knew infant CPR, she said she didn't know. The dispatcher told her to go to the room where he was doing CPR and talk him through it. You could hear my son sobbing in between breaths and the mother remained calm and emotionless. The ambulance driver asked the mother if she wanted to ride to the hospital with them, she said no. The ER DR asked if she wanted to come into the bay where they were making efforts to revive her, she said no. After the Dr pronounced the sweet baby girl dead, the Dr asked the mom if she'd like some time with her to say goodbye, she said no. Upon returning home, she asked her brother and my son to pick up all her belongings and take them out of her sight and close the door of the baby's nusery. They did as she asked. At this point the Dr had told her and my son it was likely SIDS. My son was wrongly accused, convicted and though the mom spent 7 of her 11 hour interrogation saying my son "NEVER HURT HER BABY!" She is free on probation and he received 30 years. There was no DNA, NO Witnesses, NO sounds!! NO signs he'd ever been anything other than loving and doting to this precious baby, the prosecutor suborned perjury from the mother. She admitted to that during the trial. It's in the transcript! For her proffer "she had to say whatever the prosecutor told her to." 36 people wrote or testified to my sons love and commitment to children and especially this baby. All saying it was impossible that he did this. Yet, the day of sentencing- an uncle who left my daughter a voice message and told her that the prosecutor was forcing him to testify and it was "all lies". The sentencing hearing was made up of the underbelly of the most detestable likes. One mother who had already had her child removed from her for abuse and was charged again, was now claiming my son had something to do with her son's injuries. And the best part- her attorney was my son's attorney! She told her dad and stepmom and the doctor that the injuries were from another child on the playground! The lady forewoman was a former friend and student attending William Woods Business Administration at the same time as the baby's grandfather. Another juror was good friends for over a decade with the aunt and sister in law of the grandparents (she sat in the courtroom making eye contact with the the friend) the grandma- a licensed clinical social worker never came to the trial or sentencing hearing. Her daughter, the baby's mother suffered from rage disorder and depression and was drinking the day of the death. She told her mom that she dropped her little girl. A mandatory reporter did not take the baby to a hospital. The mandatory reporter did not seek medical attention. The mandatory reporter knows my son is innocent! Please help us to get my son out of prison. Please show that you want the courts to be right and not throw people's lives away because it isn't your son. Please Jeremiah, do what you know is right. Sincerely, Paula Wilson

Help keep non violent offenders and their families from doing a life sentence. Put our tax dollars to better use. Reform prisoners that are non violent by offering GED's classes or training for a job. I am a wife of a man who faces a life sentence for 3 non violent felonies. I am a mother of 3 grade school children who are going to loose their father for the rest of our lives. Let's make a change for the better, help by signing this petition to support the crime must fit the punishment. Stop the 3 strike law for non violent offenders