JUSTICE HAS NO COLOR

5 October 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | Washington D.C. Bryant Rhoades of Mercer County Ohio was never at the crime scene, and yet he's serving a life sentence without any possibility of parole for double murders that he says he did not commit. Bryant has maintained his innocence for over a decade now and he says they "buried me alive". But why didn't his public pretender-defender use Bryant's alibi witness as evidence to try and save him? "What evidence did the prosecutor have to try and kill me?. Bryant asked me over the phone. "Why is the prosecutor suppressing exculpatory evidence?" He says, "they deny me the DNA evidence because they know it will prove me 100 percent innocent". Continue reading at The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog Justice For Bryant Rhoades - https://www.justicenews.net/bryantrhoades

UNSHACKLED. WITH IMRAN| EP2 | KEMEN TAYLOR. Unshackled -https://www.justicenews.net/unshackledwithimran Kemen Taylor of Minneapolis Minnesota never asked or coerced or motivated Donquarius Copeland nor Derrick Catchings in the shooting death of 13-year-old Rayjon Gomez in 2011, says Donquarius Copeland himself. Donquarius also states that nowhere in the trial transcripts can you findany statements made by Donquarius where heconnectedKemen to the Gomez shooting. Then why is Kemen doing life in prison for something he has maintained he did not do, for over a decade now, and counting?. Unshackled -https://www.justicenews.net/unshackledwithimran

No Evidence No Intent No Indictment. Yet A Decade of Wrongful Conviction. June 19, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net This was the first message I received on Twitter from Michael Smith of Kentucky on Jan 3 2022. "Lexington Kentucky fraud on the court case number 3:08-cr-31(Jmh) denied due process malicious prosecution fraud-The federal grand jury declined to indict YET WE had a five 5 week trial and spent nine years in federal prison wrongful conviction miscarriage of justice malicious fraud by Kentucky bar members" ​ Then on April 30th I received sequences of Tweets containing messages like these. "All was malicious prosecution, malicious fraud on court - malicious civil rights violation. malicious injustice. -Malicious politics by political leaders." ​ "I have typed on Twitter 7000 times wrong full conviction miscarriage of justice actual innocent no crime no indictment malicious prosecution fraud-Fraud on the court case number 3:08-Cr-31(Jmh). Lexington Kentucky-malicious abusing of political power on a East Kentucky family." ​ On May 10 2022, after almost 4 months, which was wrong, but this was my response to Michael. "Good morning. Typing it a million times won't do anything until you stand up and raise your voice and both your fists." ​ I wanted to add more to the fists part, like where to take them, because the deeper I dug into his case the more nauseating it got. It is a case unlike what you see or hear about everyday. The case has never had an actual indictment, or if anyone has really seen one, and yet Michael spent over a decade in Prison for something he maintains he did not do. In fact they put him in prison, just to put him in prison, even they don't really know why they put him in prison. On the same day, May 10 2022, Michal sent a few more messages including this one. "It’s 1 in 10 million very rare and many involved will be held accountable and it will change the system across the USA." Continue reading onThe JBlog- https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog https://www.justicenews.net/post/michael-smith-fairplay-ep24-s2-the-case-with-no-indictment Imran Siddiquiis the managing editor atJustice Newsand the author ofThe JBlog. Listen toImran's podcast FairPlayChallenging Wrongful Convictions onwww.J107.net Justice Radio ​

Can you be coerced to allege criminal sexual assault on your partner? And who then is the actual victim? June 1, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net/post/omar-muhammad-fairplay-ep23-s2-a-crime-with-no-victim Like thousands of other young black men wrongfully incarcerated in the United States of America, there is another young and articulate man by the name of Omar Muhammad pulling a 26 year sentence in Minnesota for an alleged sexual assault that he maintains he did not commit. He says his girlfriend, C.M., who had a consensual relationship with him, was coerced by her co-workers, her parents and the police, to set up a trap for him. According to Omar, this is what happens when a 20 year old black man falls in love with a 40 year old white woman, both madly in love. After leaving Chicago, Omar moved to Minnesota, looking for work and wanting to make something out of his life. He found a job at a local grocery store in Hugo and there he met C.M. Both fell in love and soon moved in together. Omar says, nobody liked that and the stares were obvious. Continue reading on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/omar-muhammad-fairplay-ep23-s2-a-crime-with-no-victim | https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog

When The Tsunami of Justice Comes. The Unjust Are Mowed Down and Destroyed. April 30, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net/post/john-merritt-fairplay-ep22-s2-florida-commissioners-on-offender-review-are-corrupted-fuckers I have always felt that audio does not lie, audio is naked, no matter how hard you try to dress it up, you can't, you can always catch a person's true character in their audio, the sound, the spoken voice will say it all. This is one of those episodes where I don't have to say much. I chose to do audio so I can show people the reality of what we can really become, as human beings - and mostly we are worse than animals. A clear example of what I'm writing about is not just in the case of John Merritt a "Florida Shame" or any other external reference link that I will give you to source. Instead I will give you the pure audio, in it's closest raw form, and because you are reading this, then you do have a brain cell and you can think, listen and understand what's being said and then make up your own mind. This is an audio of John Merritt's parole hearing which was a public hearing that took place on April 27 2022 at the Florida Commission on Offender Review in Tallahassee, Florida. Merritt's Private Investigator Dennis Forrester of the Beacon Investigative Solutions was there along with John's attorney Gray Thomas, John's sister Darlene Roy and myself. What we heard at the end was absurd and shocking to the senses. This is what you get after 36 years of wrongful conviction. Continue reading on the JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/john-merritt-fairplay-ep22-s2-florida-commissioners-on-offender-review-are-corrupted-fuckers

Can the State of Michigan Return 25 Years Stolen From a Man's Life? - Do the Clown Parties in D.C. Need a Third Party To Wake Them Up - April 24, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net | https://www.justicenews.net/post/michael-thompson-fairplay-ep21-s2-life-after-clemency - After spending over 2 decades in a Michigan state prison for selling marijuana to an informant in 1994, Michael Thompson is thankful to God that he was saved from life in prison. Michael was granted clemency in 2021 by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, he wouldn't have been eligible for parole until 2038, he is over 70 - another possible death by incarceration - just for selling some weed, in a state that legalized recreational marijuana in 2018. Michael said he felt like he would never get out and cut all outside communication for 20 years. People thought he had gone crazy but Michael says he was just too tired of people lying to him. Continue reading on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/michael-thompson-fairplay-ep21-s2-life-after-clemency

Because any reasonable correctional officer should have realized that Trent Taylor’s conditions of confinement offended the Eighth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred in granting the officers qualified immunity. The Inside Out Project | Change Begins From Within https://www.justicenews.net/theinsideoutproject

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The Injustice of False EyeWitness Testimony - A Stab in The Heart of American Justice Values. March 21, 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | If you give a ride to some guys you kinda know, and they go and shoot someone else, will you be held responsible for the shooting? False or Mistaken Eyewitness Testimony is something that is loved by the U.S. In-Justice System. They love it so much that it makes up almost 70% of the more than 375 wrongful convictions in the United States that were overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence, according to some reports. But do you need more reports, when day after day, year after year, you yourself watch these cases unfold right in front of your own eyes? Would I be enough of a witness for you, who witnesses on a daily basis, the negative and disastrous effects of these, False Eyewitness Accounts destroying people's lives forever? The Case of Kemen Taylor is a prime example of such False Eyewitness Testimony devastating the core Justice Values of America while decimating the lives of real human beings and their families, along the way. Continue reading on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/kemen-taylor-fairplay-ep20-s2-false-eyewitness-testimony-breeds-wrongful-convictions Imran Siddiqui is the managing editor at Justice News and the author of the JBlog. Listen to Imran's podcast FairPlay Challenging Wrongful Convictions on J107.net or JusticeRadio.org FairPlay is brought to you by Justice News Warrior Patrons and Justice News Super Patrons https://www.patreon.com/justicenews

A “Harmless Error” for the State, and a “Lifelong Damage” to the Innocent. February 11 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | www.JusticeNews.Net | When the woman you admire becomes the mother of your child, it’s just a very surreal moment. Why would anyone want to throw all that away to oblivion? And just for a couple of hundred bucks? If you are insane then I can understand it, but if you're ready to cut a check for one year of advance child support then you wouldn't want to brutally kill your child’s mother for the sake of a few hundred bucks in child support, even if it's in two months arrears, because of the red tape, not because you didn't have the money to pay, especially when you were no where near that crime scene with zero motives to kill anyone. End result - A "Harmless Error "of the State, but a "Lifelong Damage to the Innocent". And no one really knows why. In United States law, A Harmless Error is a ruling by a trial judge that, although mistaken, does not meet the burden for a losing party to reverse the original decision of the trier of fact on appeal, or to warrant a new trial. In easy language. If you end up in prison due to the mistake or negligence of others, chances are you will never get out alive. Continue reading on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/david-thorne-fairplay-ep-19-s2-harmless-error-a-lifelong-damage Check out David Thorne on FairPlay - https://www.justicenews.net/davidthorne Justice For David Thorne - https://www.justicenews.net/justicefordavidthorne

Another Childhood Destroyed By The U.S. Justice System. Will It Exonerate Him? January 15 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net | https://www.justicenews.net/post/mahdi-ali-fairplay-ep-18-s2-juvenile-injustice-growing-up-wrongfully-incarcerated Mahdi Ali did not grow up like a so-called typical kid, who bikes, goes to school, has fun with friends hanging out or just playing video games, nor did he go to college, he did get his GED but not in the way you might think. Because for the past 11 years, he’s been figuring out how to grow up and survive in different prisons across the state of Minnesota. He had to grow up fast. He had no choice. Mahdi Ali was convicted as a teenager, for triple murders in Minneapolis that occurred on the night of January 6 in 2010, Murders that he says he did not commit. Mahdi says despite his numerous efforts to reach out to Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison and his office, including the conviction review unit, no body has responded to his requests so far even when the facts are absolutely clear. Who is telling the truth? Did Mahdi Ali's story change this time? Find out on this episode of FairPlay on Justice News. Where Justice Has No Color. https://www.justicenews.net/post/mahdi-ali-fairplay-ep-18-s2-juvenile-injustice-growing-up-wrongfully-incarcerated https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog

Separated By An Unjust System and It's Decaying Prison Walls January 10 2022 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net | https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay If you are reading this while married, and if you have a spouse, a husband or a wife, and they are next to you, then immediately thank God. Because things can turn around for worse, any second, and all that you are taking for granted everyday, could be gone in the blink of an eye. I thank God for all that and more - Half of Americans have family members who are incarcerated. And that is from the data in 2018. Probably half of the incarcerated are innocent. And there is no real clear data on this. No one has it. What about those who are married and would do anything to be together but just cannot. Like the women who visit their innocent husbands incarcerated in prisons across America. They go through a lot of trouble, and embarrassing searches just to be able to meet and hug and see each other and spend some time together, until it's time to go. And then you turn around to have that one last look, holding on to that last hug and the beautiful smell that it left in your mind and your memories. Irreplaceable!. What kind of a toll does it take on a spouse when she knows her husband is innocent but in prison for something he did not do, and has been there for over three decades and she really doesn't know when he's coming back? What kind of an emotional and psychological impact does it leave on spouses who have innocent loved ones incarcerated? For many it's heart breaking. To help us understand the human side of the equation to wrongful convictions, and speak about what the Imprisoned Families go through, joining us on this episode of FairPlay is Paula Kensu, the wife of Temujin Kensu, who is serving life in prison for the alleged shooting death of a Port Huron college student Scott Macklem in 1986. Mr. Kensu has maintained his innocence for over 3 decades now and is currently fighting for his freedom from inside the prison in Michigan. But the Governor of Michigan is not listening to the truth. Yet. | The J Blog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/paula-kensu-fairplay-ep-17-s2-families-of-the-wrongfully-incarcerated

A Bad Mother, A Good Boy And A Scapegoat. December 29 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net/ - Bruce Smith has spent over 20 years in a Florida state prison as part of his conviction of Life without parole plus 15 years for allegedly killing a 4 year old boy Cameron in 2000, who was also the son of his girlfriend at that time. Bruce has maintained his innocence all these years and he says he has never hit a child let alone killed one, particularly when he has helped raise 6 of his own kids. Read on at The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/bruce-smith-fairplay-ep-16-s2-how-to-screw-the-poor-in-america

"Taylor v. Riojas" A Crack In The Wall of Dis-Qualified Immunity. When Govt. Thugs Have No Place Left To Hide. December 24 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | Justice News https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay Who Watches The Watchers? Especially when the so-called "Watchers" "Guards" are evil and mentally sick. So imagine you’re in prison for something that you did and you've been judged upon by the court system and you're in there paying the price of what you did. Fair enough. But what happens when while you're in there paying the price of the wrong that you did, you also get some extra benefits, like - Being Punched Beat Up Your Balls Getting Smacked With a Rod Leaving You Naked For a Couple of Days in Freezing Temperatures While You Sleep In Urine With Shit All Around You - on the Walls the Ceilings the Floor - spread by a Hepatitis C Patient. Why? Well, because they want to teach you a lesson, punish you so badly that you never forget it. Continue on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/trent-taylor-fairplay-ep15-s2-disqualified-immunity Check out FairPlay - https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay

The Day They Banned A Plant But Allowed The Poison. VAMJ with DCMJ Helped Legalize Cannabis in Virginia on July 1 2021. Now they want the non-violent marijuana convictions thrown out so people can finally go home. Imran Siddiqui | Justice News | https://www.justicenews.net/ Once there was a time, long long time ago, when people didn't have to look shocked or dumbfounded if someone mentioned the word, Marijuana or Cannabis. In fact, no one even bothered, they used it in many different ways and extracts of it were available over the counter, like Aspirin today, but just better. Read more on The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep14-s2-vamj-and-michael-krawitz-marijuana-justice-reform

American Justice System Is Rigged To The Core. November 21 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay | https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog Reader Discretion is Advised. Imagine being in prison for over 35 years for a crime that you did not commit and no matter how hard you tried, no matter how clear the evidence of your innocence is and who else on this earth comes to support your exoneration, the state nor the government with no remorse or shame, just won't let you go. Who's face are you going to punch? When there is not one but many hidden behind a gigantic machine. But David, killed Goliath! Read more on the JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep13-s2-temujin-kensu-the-man-they-don-t-want-to-let-go

The Case of John Merritt | An Indictment of America, it's people and all the branches of it's government. October 24 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net Reader Discretion is Advised. https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep-12-john-merritt-an-indictment-of-america John Merritt is the only case in U.S. history where a Department of Law Enforcement deemed the case unsolved while the alleged accused has sat in prison for almost 40 years now. When I started writing about Wrongful Convictions some time back I had not intended to find so much of dirt buried right under the façade of an incredibly evil and unjust criminal justice system that is a cesspool of dishonest and disgraceful individuals from the police, the prosecutors, the public defenders, to the clerks, the judges and everyone else involved in making blood money from a fucked up prison system. Read on at the Jblog https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog

What Happens To The Innocent While The Judges Defecate On Their Oath. https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep11-charmon-sinkfield-cattle-for-the-u-s-prison-system

FAIRPLAY EP 10 | LEONARD COLEMAN | MOVING FORWARD DESPITE THE ODDS Explicit Content Warning | 18 + | For Mature Audience September 8 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net Take a Deep Dive in to the case of Leonard Coleman, he’s serving a life sentence at the St Clair Correctional facility in Alabama. For the past decade, he’s been trying to fight what he calls, his unjust conviction of the murder of Kimberly Mixon who was found dead in December 2010 with a gunshot wound to her eye. Kimberly is also the mother of Leonard’s son, Xayvion who was 4 when his mother died, and they allege it all happened in front of him. But what you or I say or think is the truth doesn't really stand in front of the facts, the ground realities, and no matter how much you would hate it or how hard you try to accept it, or not, the truth does not have your or my versions, nor does it need any of our permissions, the truth is simply just the truth. But can you take the truth? https://www.justicenews.net/leonardcoleman https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep-10-leonard-coleman https://www.instagram.com/freeleonardcoleman/ https://www.change.org/p/take-a-stand-against-racial-inequality-and-criminal-injustice-join-us-in-petitioning-the-circuit-court-of-mobile-county-alabama-bureau-of-pardons-paroles-to-free-leonard-coleman-from-his-wrongful-conviction

At the Wrong Place. At the Wrong Time. Explicit Content Warning | 18 + | For Mature Audience August 19 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net Trinity Matthisen has spent the last two decades of his life inside a prison. Rightnow he is somewhere in Michigan, behind bars, in a small, very uncomfortable cage, for something, he says, he did not do, for a crime, evidence may prove, he did not commit. Can you imagine what I just said, does it sound so repetitive that it has become acceptable to hear this? Have we become accustomed to this, so used to it by now, is it something normal? We have been desensitised to the fact that we love to incarcerate people who probably are innocent of the crime for which they have been punished for, and punitively, unjustly, wrongly, wickedly punished and for what? Prison as Rehabilitation, Matthisen says, is a lie. Check out more at the JBlog | https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog Trinity Matthisen | https://www.justicenews.net/trinityma... FairPlay episodes on | https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay Seek Justice | https://www.justicenews.net

FairPlay EP 7 | Luke Wirkkala, Acquitted The Right To Defend Myself July 22, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net You have got to seriously pause for a few seconds and put yourself in this situation, after I ask you this question... What do you do in a moment when you are under assault?... Should you give in. Should you run? Or Should you fight… There’s not much time left for other questions here. But what if the attack is also a sexual assault A man to another man... Someone in your home... Would that make you think twice about what to do next? Are you thinking that this is something that cannot happen to you? If you do, then you live in a dreamworld, like most of us do. But if you think that you can also be a victim, under assault by a person who was known to have a record and history of aggressive assaults, but you didn’t know about it, then you are not alone. Luke Wirkkala was also asking himself the same questions, when he was under a sexual assault by someone he had trusted and had invited him to his home after a day of super bowl drinking, but after Luke passed out on his couch, he was awoken at 2 am while David Ryder was assaulting him. It was a moment of reckoning, thus activating the instinct to defend himself. Luke was wrongfully convicted of murder in 2013 and after a long, exhausting and cruel battle, he was acquitted of that murder in 2021. In this episode of FairPlay Luke Wirkkala takes you through a weird reality that can turn anybody’s dream into a nightmare and then witness the power of principles, persistence and faith. Read more at The JBlog https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog on https://www.justicenews.net/ https://www.justicenews.net/post/fairplay-ep-7-luke-wirkkala-acquitted

How to convict an innocent man in America, but not get away with it, this time. June 10, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay Justice for Lydell has finally been achieved but not without a hard fight. In our previous episode of FairPlay we spoke to Mike Ware the defense attorney for Lydell Grant and we discussed Lydell's extraordinary case of wrongful imprisonment and its following consequences. In this week's episode we speak to Lydell Grant himself as he unloads some facts about his case and lays bare the injustices within the U.S. criminal justice system that can completely decimate an innocent man's life forever. https://www.justicenews.net/post/fair... https://www.justicenews.net/thejblog https://www.justicenews.net

Justice for an Accuser a Defendant and a Missing Girl - Who is telling the Truth. 8 14 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | www.Justice News.Net What do you do when out of three the people you have, the only one who can tell you exactly what happened, is dead? How much truth can you find in the remaining two people, one of whom is an accuser and the other one, a defendant. Michigan resident Rose Larner was killed, or overdosed on cocaine or murdered somewhere between the late afternoon and evening of a December day in 1993 and all this occurred between three friends. Bill Brown, Rose’s childhood friend, accused another friend John Ortiz Kehoe of the murder, three years after it allegedly occurred. Bill’s account given to the prosecutors was the only eyewitness testimony used to convict John Ortiz Kehoe and it sent him to life behind bars without any possibility of parole. But a new hearing on John’s case raises many questions about what really occurred on that day in December of 1993. Read more at The JBlog - https://www.justicenews.net/post/fair... #RoseLarner #BillBrown # JohnOrtizKehoe #Justice #Murder #Crime #WrongfulConvictions Listen to the conversation at www.FairPlay.show Listen to FairPlay at - https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay

Attorney Mike Ware Fights Another Miscarriage of Justice for Lydell. And Mike is not stopping to take a break. June 1, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | www.JusticeNews.Net Lydell Grant spent more than 9 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, but being free now, safe in the comfort of his home in Houston Texas, didn't come without a fight. It took him a decade to break free from the chains of a Cruel Prison-System where he was unjustly incarcerated for almost a decade. Check out more at https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay

FairPlay EP 4 | Exonerated with Valentino Dixon It Took 27 Years For Him To Get Justice May 17, 2021 | Imran Siddiqui | https://www.justicenews.net https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay Joining me on this episode of FairPlay is someone who persistently fought for justice for his own life and his freedom and for the truth and he got it but it took him about 27 years to get there, and his name is Valentino Dixon. And he spoke with us out of Buffalo NewYork. On June 12, 1992, the jury convicted Dixon of second-degree murder of Torriano Jackson, attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. He was sentenced to 38 1/3 years to life in prison. Fast forward to 26 plus years to September 19, 2018, Lamarr Scott, the actual shooter, who admitted to this crime many times before, pled guilty to manslaughter in return for a sentence that would run with the 25 to 50 year sentence he was already serving for another killing. That same day, Dixon’s convictions for second-degree murder of Torriano Jackson, attempted murder, and assault were vacated and the prosecution dismissed the charges. The conviction for criminal possession of a weapon remained intact because the TEC-9 that Scott said he used in the shooting belonged to Dixon. Dixon was then released from prison more than 27 years after his arrest in 1991. What's next for Valentino Dixon? Find out on the latest episode of FairPlay on https://www.justicenews.net https://www.justicenews.net/fairplay