I phoned the Texas Defender Service and made this matter known to Jim Marcus and several other individuals at that particular office.  I phoned them three times, the last resulting in them simply telling me that there is nothing they can do.  Now I  read this essay in your paper about how much they care, etc.  Well, I'm a living example that people are using the suffering and pain of death row prisoners for their own personal gains.  The lawyer who has vanished from my connection does not give a damn about my life.  This is obvious.

Certain people don't want to consider claims of innocence anymore.  Even
some lawyers.  Evidence found at the crimes scene over ten years ago that establishes my innocence is constantly being neglected and ignored.  Witnesses with testimony that corroborates the evidence found at the crime scene and helps establish my innocence in a concrete manner are being intimidated and threatened by the very people who committed the crime.  The latest series or brutal assaults, threats, and intimidations were inflicted upon my wife, who is a valuable witness in this case.  The police aren't going to do anything because they think I'm guilty anyway.  She's had her throat cut, teeth knocked out, she's
been beaten against the head with the butt of a gun, her jaw sliced, and her lips busted.  All of this is taking place by members of the "Branch" family to keep her from testifying on my behalf.

I have made these facts known to all that I possibly know, but does anyone care?  Hardly not, because with the testimony she has that helps prove my innocence, why isn't someone doing something to preserve it?  Why hasn't this evidence located at the crime scene been tested and entered into my appeal?  this is exactly why Texas is able to get away with executing so many people so swiftly.  Here I sit on death row with evidence of my innocence but can't find anyone caring enough to take out the time to look into my claims, not a lawyer anyway.  I have been pleading and pleading for someone who cares, especially a caring lawyer, to look into my claims so they can establish for themselves whether or not I'm innocent.  No one cares, regardless of what their pre-formed
speeches may indicate.  I have not been able to find one Texas organization to help me, or to even look into my allegations.  It's a sad day when Texas lawyers can go to other countries and talk about how horrible the justice system is when they refuse to even help those with concrete proof on their innocence.  In their own backyard.  Because no one cares for or about me, David Hicks, evidence of my innocence is going to die right along with me.
                        David Hicks #930
                      15-2-20 Ellis One
                    Huntsville, TX 77343

I come to you today with a very heavy heart.  Is there anyone out  there with the time and resources who would be willing to come and visit me?  I have struggled this ordeal for over ten years alone and without family  support, and now it seems that the end to my life has come.  I now dread even waking up to face another day inside this place because nothing seems to matter anymore.  Whats the use in trying anymore, whats the use for anything  now that such bad news has come my way. I haven't been receiving visits from anyone, except for the ones from my lawyer, which are very scarce.  I would  at least like to have some type of excitement in my life for the last months I  have to live, and I would be very thankful if you could find someone who  would be willing to come down and see me before I am executed.  I am 36 years old, black, and a guy who loves the outdoors.  I have no feelings today,  none that would authentically express the way I feel inside today.  It is a very  numbing feeling to have received this news, so many questions do I have, but  no answers to satisfy my mind as to what's happening to me.  All of my
dreams  have once again been shattered. The dream of ever being free again, the  dream of finally having life to live and enjoy the many things that the world  has to offer.  I now look back on my life and try to find what I could have done  so serious that would warrant this type of fate, but I can find nothing. We read  so many things, and we think we understand whats being said.  Well, I can tell you that I know what it feels like to have a lifeless soul.  Today, life has been  taken away from me completely.    For over 10 years, I have been fighting this  matter, this senseless and wrongful conviction, hoping that in the end justice  would come my way.  But in a land where justice is dead and the constitution is upside down I have received the short end of justice, wondering how I could have been convicted of this crime from the start.  I am tired today, I am mentally exhausted because the life seems to have been sucked out of me at this point.  Well I
won't take up anymore of your time today, I just wanted to send in this request to see if you could help me locate someone willing to come and visit me. Thank you for your time and understanding, and with best regards, I remain

                        David Hicks #930
                      15-2-20 Ellis One
                    Huntsville, TX 77343

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