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To: Loretta Lynch, Attorney General , U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001, President Donald Trump, The South Dakota State House, The South Dakota State Senate, Governor Kristi Noem, The United Sta...
We ask for Justice after 88 years of combined false imprisonment! Reverse the sentences of the Ya...
With all the corruption involved in this case, by the court and other law officials, combined with the lack of evidence against Desmond and Jesse Rouse, Garfield Feather and Russell Hubbeling, there is NO LEGAL REASON these 4 men should have been imprisoned in the first place, much less STILL be there! This whole sordid mess is yet another display of the racism and hatred that exists toward the Native American people. It's thoroughly and totally DISGUSTING and each of you who have the authority to reverse their sentence needs to do so NOW! How absurd to still be in prison when they shouldn't have been sent there at all~ If you dislike or object to my using the word "corruption" in reference to those officials involved in this lunacy, do something about it!!!! Recognize the truth and reverse their sentences IMMEDIATELY! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
Why is this important?
The Yankton Sioux Desmond Rouse is one of four Native American Men whom have had their lives shattered for the past 22 years and their hopes, spirits and souls eviscerated. They have lost everything they love in life and have wrongfully spent the past 20 years of their lives imprisoned, for egregious offenses they are innocent of.
I am no attorney or crime analyst, but the reason that so many are falsely convicted of sex offenses seems painfully clear. First, this is the only category of offenses on which charges can be brought without a shred of physical or often even circumstantial evidence. Secondly, this is the only category of offenses where the accused is consistently assumed to be guilty from the outset. "Innocent until proven guilty" has no meaning and no application at all when one is accused of a sexual crime, especially against a child. It is "guilty until proven innocent," and with no evidence to refute or disprove, and with prosecutors salivating with the assurance of another victory, being proven innocent is as unlikely as flying around the world blindfolded and landing safely.
New evidence consisting of significant recantations and expert witnesses has recently evolved that will prove their innocence and exonerate them.
The medical evidence and opinions were based on 1994 technology and untested opinions. With the advent of modern medical research, we are now in a much better position to prove that the government's "expert" witnesses opinions were inherently wrong.
Mongolian spots are birth marks and aren't bruises. "Bruises" start the entire case off with fallacious reasoning based upon negative racial bias.
"The consensus is now that the abnormal findings described are nothing more than anatomical structures and normal variations. The use of Toludine blue dye on mucosal surfaces such as the vaginal vestibule and vagina was totally inappropriate and descriptions of dye uptake should not have been given any weight in determining whether there were signs of trauma to the genital and anal area tissues." concludes Professor Joyce Adams
Racial or ethnic discrimination rampant throughout the case. There was no real evidence in this case. What was purported to be evidence by the prosecution was not reliable evidence. Manipulated testimony, purchased testimony phony and manufactured evidence, evidence resulting from people having a conflict of interest (a social worker who was also a foster parent of the alleged victims), children who said NOTHING HAPPENED were not believed by the court and were threatened with not to be able to see their mothers again if they did not testify the way the prosecutors instructed them to testify.
Everything I say here is in certified transcripts. The first appellate panel (2-1) vacated the decision and remanded the case for a new trial. BUT the new trial never happened. The dissenter then wrote a new decision denying the new trial. Absolutely outrageous miscarriage of justice!
A blight on our judicial system.
If you wish to read further, see more, and educate yourself in detail about this terrible injustice, I welcome you to contact me. Alternatively we invite you to google Freedom4Yankton4 and learn from numerous sources about this prominent case. All help and interest is very welcome.
Desmond has two 501 c fiscal sponsors in VetsNiteOut and the National Center for Reason and Justice, NCRJ.
Thank you and God bless you,
Freedom4Yankton4
Desmond Rouse
Garfield Feather
Russell Hubbeling
Jesse Rouse
I am no attorney or crime analyst, but the reason that so many are falsely convicted of sex offenses seems painfully clear. First, this is the only category of offenses on which charges can be brought without a shred of physical or often even circumstantial evidence. Secondly, this is the only category of offenses where the accused is consistently assumed to be guilty from the outset. "Innocent until proven guilty" has no meaning and no application at all when one is accused of a sexual crime, especially against a child. It is "guilty until proven innocent," and with no evidence to refute or disprove, and with prosecutors salivating with the assurance of another victory, being proven innocent is as unlikely as flying around the world blindfolded and landing safely.
New evidence consisting of significant recantations and expert witnesses has recently evolved that will prove their innocence and exonerate them.
The medical evidence and opinions were based on 1994 technology and untested opinions. With the advent of modern medical research, we are now in a much better position to prove that the government's "expert" witnesses opinions were inherently wrong.
Mongolian spots are birth marks and aren't bruises. "Bruises" start the entire case off with fallacious reasoning based upon negative racial bias.
"The consensus is now that the abnormal findings described are nothing more than anatomical structures and normal variations. The use of Toludine blue dye on mucosal surfaces such as the vaginal vestibule and vagina was totally inappropriate and descriptions of dye uptake should not have been given any weight in determining whether there were signs of trauma to the genital and anal area tissues." concludes Professor Joyce Adams
Racial or ethnic discrimination rampant throughout the case. There was no real evidence in this case. What was purported to be evidence by the prosecution was not reliable evidence. Manipulated testimony, purchased testimony phony and manufactured evidence, evidence resulting from people having a conflict of interest (a social worker who was also a foster parent of the alleged victims), children who said NOTHING HAPPENED were not believed by the court and were threatened with not to be able to see their mothers again if they did not testify the way the prosecutors instructed them to testify.
Everything I say here is in certified transcripts. The first appellate panel (2-1) vacated the decision and remanded the case for a new trial. BUT the new trial never happened. The dissenter then wrote a new decision denying the new trial. Absolutely outrageous miscarriage of justice!
A blight on our judicial system.
If you wish to read further, see more, and educate yourself in detail about this terrible injustice, I welcome you to contact me. Alternatively we invite you to google Freedom4Yankton4 and learn from numerous sources about this prominent case. All help and interest is very welcome.
Desmond has two 501 c fiscal sponsors in VetsNiteOut and the National Center for Reason and Justice, NCRJ.
Thank you and God bless you,
Freedom4Yankton4
Desmond Rouse
Garfield Feather
Russell Hubbeling
Jesse Rouse