Karla Brada Mendez was one of these women. She met Eric Allen Earle in AA. Karla was there to seek help with alcohol and drug overuse; Earle was court-ordered to attend AA for the fourth time. He had already spent two years in prison and had six restraining orders against him. Court records clearly documented his relapses with alcohol and violent behavior towards those closest to him. According to his friends, Earle, age 40, trolled meetings for emotionally vulnerable women who would take him in. He had a string of girlfriends that he all met in AA, and Karla, age 31, would soon become one of them. After enduring months of escalating domestic violence, Karla was found strangled in her apartment in 2011. Earle now faces charges for her murder. Karla’s story is not the only one. AA has built a reputation among predators as a place to find victims. Sexual predators learn how to rise up the ranks of AA and use their power to target women with less than one year of sobriety, who they consider the most vulnerable. This phenomenon has become so common that members refer to it as ‘the 13th step.’ Meanwhile, the organization’s leadership has done little to implement safety measures at their meetings and judges continue sentencing violent offenders to meetings in droves. Every citizen and every AA member deserves the right to safe recovery. Please demand that the courts find somewhere else to send sex offenders and violent criminals. Lives depend on it. Sincerely, Monica Richardson, Safe Recovery Advocate & Director of The 13th Step Film Jaroslava Mendez, Safe Recovery Advocate & Karla's Mother

My son Zach's right to stand trial for his crime was unfairly stripped from him when his attorney requested a second psychiatric evaluation, I believe because his attorney did not want to go to trial since he accepted the case for a flat fee of $2500.00. The first psychiatric evaluation one month prior declared him competent to stand trial. Thus when the second opinion declared him incompetent he was sentenced to time and forced medication at a state mental hospital.

The Court's excessive new search fees burden public records access and fall disproportionately on the poor.

Gregory has done his time and he is ready to come home! He has got his GED and is working on college courses so he can have a steady job with stable finance when he comes home. He also goes to church every Sunday and has completed a bible study.

It is about the 2012 NDAA , signed by President Obama in the closing hours of 2011, as the nation partied. The law allows the President to use the military to detain indefinitely anyone he/she suspects of being a terrorist. It butchers the sixth Amendment, along with half of the Bill of Rights. It was appealed by a group of journalists , led by Chris Hedges, and was struck down by federal judge Katherine Forrest. The law was then reinstated on appeal, and the Supreme Court recently refused to hear it. We must NOT allow this dangerous law to remain on the books! Please sign and pass on this petition!

Because 65 million Americans with criminal records face unprecedented barriers to employment; because human potential is being squandered; because a 'get tough on crime' policy created a bogged-down criminal justice system; and because policies within the American legal system have denied far too many citizens their right to trial is why I'm starting this petition. And for the record- most countries don't hold misdemeanors against their citizens for life. Consider that, while you compete for jobs- against immigrants brought in to take the jobs that they won't give to you. Something to consider.

Everyone deserves a fair trial and everyone victim deserves justice.

This is a public safety issue. We need to be able to feel safe in our own community and not fear our police officers.

JUSTICE

A Belgium National has been allowed to come to the United States, marry a convicted imprisoned killer, obtain a green card, take an American job, and advocate for the release of this convicted murderer. She has also fought against the victim's family and their first amendment rights. Tell our lawmakers inmates should not be allowed to marry behind bars and that this is unjust, unacceptable, and un-American. http://www.legalnews.com/detroit/872056 http://www.theoaklandpress.com/general-news/20110215/after-marrying-man-in-prison-for-murder-rochester-hills-woman-seeks-green-card http://articles.wsbt.com/2011-02-14/green-card_28535927 http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=580814#.U20FtGdOXcs https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/prison-pen-pal-relationships-lead-marriages-best-selling-20110308-131717-209.html http://www.penmighty.com/blogfiles/5897/woman-traveled-from-belgium-to-marry-man-convicted-of-second-degree-murder/

THE State's Attorney Office in Champaign, IL informed us that they will not seek chargers for Rachel's attack. A Champaign-Urbana Parkland College Student was ATTACKED in her APARTMENT! The VICTIM LOST the use of her RIGHT HAND due to a MOB ATTACK by 6 other Students and 1 adult, against a 19 year old VICTIM in HER RESIDENCE (NOT OUTSIDE). The girls attacked the victim knowing she had surgery 2 days prior. The victim's MOM was on the phone with her daughter as the attacked occurred. They both had no IDEA that one 19 year would bring 5 others to her apartment for a PLANNED and PREMEDITATED ATTACK!

To get the case re-opened and any evidence (if any) evaluated and the killer to Justice..