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BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL WEBPAGE CREATED AT GARY'S
REQUEST WHILE HE WAS STILL ON DEATH ROW IN APRIL 1999
This information was provided by Gary Drinkard and his supporters
A WHO DONE IT MYSTERY
Full of corruption, deceit, intrigue, and mystery.
Fancy yourself a private, amateur professional investigator, paralegal, anyone
with a little common sense and able to think logically.
This mystery is for you !!!
Are you compassionate
and able to see the gray amongst the black and white ?
If you are any / all
of the above or just like solving problems, we need your help,
so check it out. The life you save could be your own.
Dates and names have been changed to protect the innocent and
the privacy of the victims family.
From the start of Voire Dire or Jury selection
the jury pool was tainted by
comments made by a couple of jury pool members.
Upon questioning by the
judge all denied hearing anything.
Af ter a person in the court room heard a
member of the jury pool making derogatory
statements against the defendant
in the court house hall, the man was questioned,
found to be lying and was
arrested for perjury by orders of the judge.
After defendants trial was over, that
man was not prosecuted, because of possible
testimony the DA didn't want on
record.
The prosecution coerced witnesses into
telling what he wanted them to say.
The prosecution distorted the truth and
manipulated the words of defense
witnesses. He could have made Jesus Christ
appear to have horns. The DA
called approx. 35 witnesses and none could
give any concrete evidence linking
defendant to the crime. There was no direct
evidence, murder weapon, finger
prints, excess money with victims
D.N.A., tire prints. The description of the car
did not match, exculpatory evidence was
withheld, no hair or fibers found.
DA's so called evidence was he said/she
said. Main prosecution witnesses
had been threatened with life sentences
and after their testimony all charges
against the four were dropped or their time
ran with previous jail time.
The investigator went so far as to send
an informant posing as a hit man to
visit the defendants wife trying to get
her to say that she wanted the witnesses
dead. When that failed the investigator
sent another informant to seduce the
defendants wife. Due to her overwhelming
stress, he succeeded.
This informant then stole correspondence
from defendants wife along with
phone/address book and turned over to investigator,
which the investigator
lied about. The informant had one of his
ex-wives to burglarize defendants
wife's apartment and upon her reporting
the incident to the city police, with
description of informants ex-wife and car,
the city police dropped the case
and told the defendants wife that she would
get into trouble if she tried to
pursue it. This informants uncle was the
chief of police at the time??!! None
of this was allowed to be brought out at
trial (about informant) until after the
trial when the defendant was allowed to
make a statement whereupon he
objected to the proceedings. There was no
forensic evidence linking the
defendant to the crime, no eyewitnesses,
only three people saying the
defendant told them about the robbery several
weeks before it actually
occurred and one testifying the defendant
had sold him a .45 caliber pistol
but that it wasn't accurate and he sold
it back to the defendant??? This really
makes no sense. That particular witness
had told the defendant that the pistol
had been stolen during a burglary, that
three of the states witnesses were
implicated in. Some of the stolen property
from his house was found in their
possession.
The day that the murder took place was
August 18,1993. It's in the record that
the defendant had an appointment with an
orthopedic surgeon to discuss a
back operation. The defendant was on summer
break from a community
college where he was taking courses to change
vocations due to the back
injury. The first defense witness,(defendants
16 year old daughter) testifies
that after arriving home the defendant took
her to rent a movie and video
game, to get his prescription filled and
picked up her friend that wished to
spend the night. Three witnesses states
that the defendant was home the
rest of the night. During this time the
daughters dog went into labor. One
puppy was still born and in an attempt to
revive it the daughters friend gave
it mouth to mouth. She states that her mother
almost got sick, saying that
she was going to a friends house ( in the
family's only available vehicle)
until the dog finished having her puppies.
The daughter had to call on the dog breeder
that she got the dog from for help.
She states that the dog breeder arrived
at approx. 5:30 p.m. and stayed until
approx. 10:00 p.m. . She stated that the
defendant took some of his medication
and fell asleep on the couch while her and
her friend watched a scary movie.
She also stated that her mother came home
at approx. 2:00 a.m. The second
defense witness, the defendants daughter's
friend, corroborates the daughters
testimony. The third defense witness corroborates
the same testimony along
with a calendar where she dated the puppies
birth counting the day of birth
she made a notation of how many days the
puppies were early in order to
prepare future A.K.C. papers. This witness
stated that the defendant was
home all the while that she was there and
that she left around lO:OOp.m..
The fourth defense witness was a secretary
from the orthopedic Surgeon
5 office. She stated that the defendant
did, in fact, have an appointment with
the doctor that day, and was there at the
appointed time. The fifth defense
witness was a man that worked at a prominent
jewelry store and brought
records where the defendant bought a ring
for his wife on credit. One of the
states witnesses stated that the defendant
had bought that ring with stolen
money. The sixth defense witness was coordinator
of JTPA program in
Decatur whom stated the defendant was enrolled
in a two year college,and
maintaining a C average. The seventh defense
witness was the district
manager of the social security office in
Decatur. This witness stated that the
defendants wife and adopted daughter had
received a S.S.I settlement in
September of 92 of 14,566.77 and monthly
payments thereafter for 411.00
until the daughter was 18 or out of school.
After that the defense attorney
introduced a certified judgment from Madison
County where defendant
received 24,839.16 from workmans comp. settlement
in December of 92.
The defendant is supposedly presumed innocent
until proven guilty but with
a corrupt justice system you have to prove
your innocence or try. But with
state appointed attorneys that are paid
only 2 to 3 thousand dollars max.
they only do 2 to 3 thousand dollars worth
of work. If you hire a decent
criminal defense attorney he/she charges
in excess of 75,000 dollars.
The difference in the two figures alone
should tell you something. The D.A.'s
office has unlimited resources with city
police force, state A.B.I. division, and
FBI to do their leg work. In this case the
D.A. held back a FBI enhanced tape
recording that would have proven that their
lead city investigator was lying
under oath. The police never investigated
the mysterious burning of the crime
scene before the defense attorney could
view it. Nor did they investigate the
party that inherited the property nor the
insurance aspects. The victims son
was later caught and charged with possession
and intent to distribute cocaine.
The lead investigator received a promotion
after the case, he was and still is a
woman beater and an alcoholic resulting
in a couple of divorces.
We need donations of either money, (to
finance an appeal / new trial) or
volunteers to do legal work and investigative
work.
For further inquiries or donations, mail to
Sarah Love,
P.O. Box 244,
Holly Pond, Alabama
35083 USA.
The life you save could be yours because the true killer is still walking the free world streets and an innocent man is sitting on death row. I have lost 17 acres of land, all of my possessions, my wife and the opportunity to help my children grow into adults. But I shall not give up because on my walk through the valley of the shadow of death, my Lord is with me and does comfort me. If you can't help, please pray for my children.
The U.S court of appeals recently made a ruling in Sean Sellers case out of Oklahoma that "even though he may be factually innocent, that innocence alone is not sufficient to grant Federal relief " ! ! !
I need your help and support NOW, before my case speeds any further through the courts.
Just like Hitler, modern day politicians are making and bettering their careers with the deaths of people sentenced to death have been proven innocent, Some after having been killed by the state !
Another unexpected observation that has come to light, is the frustration which borders on anger expressed by the academic and professionals who work in this field day in and day out. They are angry about misconduct on the part of law enforcement officials ; police officers who use torture to secure confessions who are too lazy to follow up on leads which may exonerate their key suspects, who hide "street" files which may contain evidence of innocence. They are angry about Prosecutorial misconduct, jailhouse snitches whose testimony is purchased with a lenient plea bargain, withheld evidence, withheld witnesses etc. They are angry about attorneys who do not do a robust job of defending a client charged with a capital offense, either due to incompetence, laziness, overwork or whatever. And they are frustrated with judges who do not set high enough standards in capital cases. You would think that with such high stakes, every effort would be made to ensure an accurate result. This is apparently far from the reality of the situation. There is a rush to judgment and to kill in vengeance with the truth being sacrificed.
The judge in my case went so far as to
say the crime that he sentenced me to death for "was not" cruel or heinous.
And cruel and heinous is what the death
penalty is supposed to be about.
PLEASE HELP NOW, THANK YOU!
(This page had last been updated
April 21, 1999. Gary was released from death row Friday May 25, 2001.)
GARY'S PENPAL REQUEST
I am innocent of the
robbery murder that I was convicted of. In these deep south states which
by the way, kill you quick if you can't find a way to prove your innocence.
I am now on death row and have been since Sept. '95.
A little about myself,
I'm divorced, love women, children, the outdoors,
ball room dancing,
and reading. I'm 6'3", 230 lbs, brown hair and eyes,
sincere and loyal.
I was a carpenter by trade. May our Lord bless and
watch over you. I
hope to hear from you soon.
Gary Drinkard
Z-585 5-U-10
Holman 3700
Atmore, Alabama
36503 USA
Gary originally contacted us to make this webpage when he was still on death
row
for
a crime he didn't commit. The original webpage was created for Gary on April
21, 1999.
Gary's writing "A Who Done It Mystery" (See
below) proclaimed his innocence all along !
Gary was finally released Friday, May 25, 2001, another innocent man on
death row.
| NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT GARY DRINKARD'S RELEASE |
| CUADP's Page on Gary's Wrongful Conviction |
| Gary Drinkard's German Webpage |
| Untitled Writing by Gary Drinkard |
| Petition For Writ Of Certiorari |
