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                 Notes on Aaron's Case

1)  POLICE BRUTALITY:

FORMER COMMANDER JON BURGE AND HIS DETECTIVES
BEAT/SUFFOCATED AARON  WITH A PLASTIC TYPEWRITER COVER OVER HIS HEAD WHILE HANDCUFFED TO A WALL!

JON BURGE WAS FIRED FROM CHICAGO POLICE DEPT. IN 1993 AFTER AN INVESTIGATION BY POLICE BOARD S OPS INVESTIGATORS, SUBMITTED REPORT STATING THERE WAS A SYSTEMATIC PATTERN OF ABUSE AT AREA 2 POLICE STATION BY JON BURGE AND HIS DETECTIVES OVER A 15 YR. TIME PERIOD USING METHODS OF TORTURE AS:

PLASTIC TYPEWRITER COVERS
ELECTRICAL CATTLE PRODS
BATS
STICKS
RADIATORS
CIGARETTES TO BURN ARRESTEES
RUSSIAN  ROULETTE
BEATINGS             ETC. FROM AREA 2 TO AREA 3 POLICE STATIONS.

2)SCRATCHINGS ON BENCH/DOOR BY AARON .

AARON  TOOK A PAPER CLIP IN INTERROGATION ROOM AND SCRATCHED MESSAGES ON BENCH AND DOOR STATING THAT HE WAS DENIED A LAWYER/SUFFOCATED WiTH PLASTlC BAG BY DETECTIVES/AND THAT HE WILL HAVE TO LIE/AND SIGN A FALSE CONFESSION TO AVOID BEING ABUSED OR KILLED BY DETECTIVES.

A/P INVESTIGATOR TOOK PHOTOS OF THESE SCRATCHES ON MAY 27,1986.
JON BURGE TRIED TO BLOCK A/P INV. FROM PHOTOGRAPH1NG THIS EVIDENCE
BECAUSE HE GOT A MEMO ABOUT THiS FROM HIS DETECTIVES ON MAY
7,1986, FOREWARNING BURGE ABOUT WHAT A/P PUT IN THAT ROOM.AFTER
BEING TOLD BY INV.THAT HE HADA SUBPOENA,BURGE RELENTED AND
ALLOWED THE INV. TO PHOTOGRAPH THE SCRATCHES IN THE ROOM.
JUDGE CIESLIK AND MORRISSEY REFUSED TO ALLOW THIS EVIDENCE
INTO COURT AT HEARING OR TRIAL BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE PROVED A/P
DID NOT CONFESS TO THIS CRIME AND THAT HE WAS TORTURED IN POLICE
STATION BY JON BURGE AND HIS DETECTIVES;
PIENTA
YOUCAITIS
O HARA
MARLEY
PEDERSEN
MCWEENEY
DIGNAN
FLOOD
BYRNE

3)FINGERPRINT ON RADlO:
THERE WAS A FINGERPRINT TAKEN OFF A RADIO
FOUND IN GARBAGE CAN ON VICTIM S BACKPORCH IN A PAPERBAG.IT DID
NOT MATCH A/P OR EITHER V1CTIMS IN THIS CRIME.YET THE PROSECUTORS
AND POLICE REFUSE TO TURN OVER THE SAMPLES TO BE TESTED BY A/P
LAWYERS EXPERTS TO DO AN (AFIS) AUTOMATED FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM TEST ON IT.WHICH WOULD DETERMINE EXACTLY WHO PRINTS THEY BELONG TO.AND LEAD US TO THE ACTUAL KILLER(S).

4)DIFFERENT SET OF BLOODY FOOTPRINTS IN KITCHEN /BACKPORCH:
THERE HAD TO BE AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT OFFENDERS IN THIS HOUSE!
NONE OF THESE FOOTPRINTS MATCHED A/P OR VICTIMS.YET THE POLICE!
PROSECUTORS REFUSE TO TURN OVER THIS EVIDENCE (PHOTOGRAPHS) ALSO!
WHICH ALSO PROVES IT IS TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR A/P TO HAVE STABBED
OR STRUGGLED WITH VICTIMS WITH OUT HIM LEAVING HIS FOOTPRINTS IN
THE BLOOD UNLESS HE FLOATED THRU THE AIR TO AVOID STEPPING IN
BLOOD!

5)CORRUPT AND RACIST JUDGES:A/P WAS FIRST APPOINTED TO JUDGE BAILEY AFTER ASKING BAILEY FOR A SUBSTITUTION OF JUDGE FROM HIM,BAILEY GOT MAD AND SENT A/P TO A KNOWN RACIST JUDGE,ARTHUR CIESLIK.CIESLIK MADE RACIST REMARKS TO A/P  LAWYERS LUTHER HICKS AND JAMES RHODES. HE ALSO MADE A SEXIST REMARK TO LAWYER MARY JANE THEIS ABOUT HER  PREGNANCY.HE WAS PUNISHED BY THE JUDICIARY INQUIRY BOARD FOR THESE REMARKS AND LATER KICKED OFF BENCH IN NOV.1988 ELECTION. UNFORTUNATELY A/P S HEARING TO THROW OUT FALSE CONFESSION WAS DENIED BY CIESLLK BEFORE HE WAS KICKED OFF BENCH. (B)JUDGE MORRISSEY WAS GIVEN A/P S CASE MYSTERIOUSLY AFTER CESLIK WAS KICKED OFF OF BENCH,EVEN THOUGH MORRISSEY NEVER TRIED

A CAPITAL CASE BEFORE AND HAD JUST BEEN ELECTED TO CIRCUIT COURT
JUDGE IN 1988.AFTER DOING A BACKGROUND CHECK ON JOHN E.MORRISSEY
WE FOUND OUT JUST HOW CORRUPT HE WAS AND WHY A/P WAS GIVEN TO
HIM TO HAVE A TRIAL BEFORE HIM! MORRISSEY WAS A FORMER PROSECUTOR
IN 1980 S WHO LIED DURING CLOSING ARGUMENTS OF TRIAL OF STEVEN
PAUL LINSCOTT,SAYING THAT BLOOD/HAIR SAMPLES AT CRIME SCENE
MATCHED LINSCOTT S HAIR/BLOOD.THIS LIE FOOLED THE JURY AND SENT
LINSCOTT,AN INNOCENT MAN TO PRISON.THE APPELATE COURT REVERSED
THE DECISION BECAUSE OF THE MISCONDUCT OF MORRISSEY S INTENTIONAL
LIES OF THE EVIDENCE.LINSCOTT WAS LATER PROVENED INNOCENT AND
RELEASED!INSTEAD OF MORRISSEY BEING PUNISHED,HE WAS LATER REWARDED
TO A JUDGESHIP! AS A JUDGE ON A/P CASE HE WOULD NOT ALLOW SCRATCHINGS A/P DID IN POLICE STATION INTO EVIDENCE.AND HE DID NOT ALLOW A/P LAWYER TO REVEALED PRIOR ABUSES BY DETECTIVES TO OTHER ARRESTEES.
HE WAS JUDGE TO RONALD JONES,WHO REQUESTED MORRISSEY TO TURN
OVER DNA EVIDENCE TO BE TESTED BY BARRY SCHECK.MORRISSEY REFUSED
TO DO IT!THE IL.SUPREME COURT FORCED MORRISSEY TO RELEASE THE DNA
EVIDENCE TO BE TESTED AND IT PROVED JONES DID NOT MATCH DNA EVIDENCE!
A/P NEVER SIGNED/OR WROTT  CONPESSION POLICE MADE UP/REFUSED TO
CONFESS ON TAPERECORDER POLICE USED IN INTERROGATION ROOM/NO
COURT REPORTED STATEMENT/NO MURDER WEAPON/NO STOLEN PROPERTY
6)HEATER JUDGE SYSTEM AT 26TH CALIFORNIA:
BACK IN THE 1980S THERE WAS A SECRET SYSTEM 0F THE WAY CERTAIN
HIGH PROFILE CASES WERE SENT TO CERTAiN JUDGES WHO WERE EITHER
BIASED/RACIST/PRO-PROSECUTOR/CORRUPT/ETC.THIS WAS DONE TO ASSURE
THAT THE DEFENDANT WOULD NOT RECEiVE A FAIR TRIAL.ESPECIAILY IF
THERE WAS LACK OF EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OR IF THERE WAS QUESTIONABLE
THINGS DONE BY CHGO POLICE DETECTIVES.THESE SELECTED JUDGES WERE
KNOWN AS "HANGMAN"JUDGES!WITH A LONG LIST OF SENDING MEN TO DEATH
ROW REGARDLESS OF LACK OF EVIDENCE OR INNOCENCE.JUDGES LIKE:JAMES
BAILEY/ARTHUR CIELIK/MALONEY/FITZGERALD/MORRISSEY/SURIA/MANNION/
ETC. MOST LAWYERS REFUSE TO DiSCUSS THIS ISSUE BECAUSE OF REPERCUSSION
THAT MIGHT HINDER THEIR CAREERS.THERE WAS AN ARTICLE DONE A FEW
YEARS AGO ABOUT THiS "HEATER JUDGE SYSTEM"BUT NOTHING WAS DONE TO
CORRECT THIS INJUSTICE!

7)WILLIE WASHINGTON CONNECTION
:WE BELIEVE HE AS WELL AS HIS BROTHER WAYNE COMMITTED THE CRIME A/P SITS ON DEATH ROW FOR. BOTH OF THEM DID CHORES FOR MR.SANCHEZ/HAD ACCESS TO HOUSE/SOLD HIM STOLEN GOODS/SMOKED CRACK COCAINR THEN/TOLD MACK PAY THEY WANTED HIM TO HELP ROB SANCHEZ IN JAN.1986.MACK REFUSED TO DO IT!!  WILLIE IS RIGHT-HANDED/NEVER WAS FINGERPRINTED/DISAPPEARED AFTER CRIME/LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM VICTIMS/TRY TO SELL A GUN TO CHARLIE TILLERY RIGHT AFTER
CRIME/CARRYING GREEN SUITCASE WITH GUNS AND STEREO EQUPT. FROM VICTIMS HOUSE./COMMITTED SIMILIAR CRIMES IN AURORA, IL LIKE THIS CASE./STABBED COLLEEN HAMLING 35X IN AURORA CASE IN 1994./STABBED SANCHEZES 25X AND 15X IN 1986 CASE./SAT A VCR ON PORCH OF CASE IN AURORA./SAT RADIO ON PORCH IN SANCHEZ CASE IN 1986.

8)MARVA HALL LIES/RECANTATIONS:
TOLD POLICE AND PROSECUTORS 3 DIFFERENT LIES ABOUT WHEN SHE TALKED TO A/P AND HE CONFESSED TO  HER HE DID THIS CASE.
1ST)   TOLD POLICE SHE TALKED TO A/P ON APR 19, 1986(sat.)
2ND)   GRAND JURY TESTIMONY:SAID SHE TALKED TO A/P ON APR.18,1986
           DAY   BEFORE BODIES DISCOVERED BY POLICE!
 3RD) TRIAL TESTIMONY SHE SAID SHE TALKED TO A/P ON APR. 20, 1986
           RECANTATION OF THESE LIES, JUNE 1986 AND 1994 TO REPORTER ON TAPE.
           MARVA'S COUSIN DELWOOD  WHITE WAS A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE,
           WAS SEEN CARRYING PROPERTY OUT OF THE VICTIM'S HOUSE!


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