Average Joe checking in. I hope this finds all of you enjoying life every chance you get. As for here on death row everyone moved. Some pencil pusher in “Tallahassee” decided for security purposes they would move all of us on death row to different cells. So they used the last number of our commitment numbers. Mine was A3 so when I moved all who had A 3 moved. So, I went from 5 wing bottom floor – cell 2 to 2 wing top floor – cell 4, which is cool with me. I usually fit in anywhere I go. For some it’s not! Because they may have problems with others. Since “Tallahassee” assigned the cells and not the staff here at the prison, who know the ones that do not get along. Then they may place guys who do have problems on same floor. But that’s what occurs when someone in “Tallahassee” makes rule to try to justify their job or move upward. Even the ones who work here don’t understand it. Now, we come to the new “Innocence Commission”; what a joke this is! The Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice appointed a panel of people to study why people are falsely convicted. They consists of judges, prosecutors and attorneys. They appoint the very same people that create the problems. And they cannot study cases that may be innocent even now, only cases already found innocent. I take this personally, because the main man Chief Circuit Judge Belvin Perry was my prosecutor in 1988. Where they knowingly hid a witness in my case, we proved this in 2004 at an evidentiary hearing. We found phone messages from the prosecution files where the boss at Sanford Crime Lab came in to testify. He said he called the Prosecutors Office 2 days before my hearing told them he had found their witness. We had the 2 phone messages to back this up. Where this boss Stephen Platt called gave her name – phone number – the prosecutors stood up told the judge after exhaustive search they could not find this hair analyst. And had Stephen Platt read in her testimony. You see they knew she had been proven unqualified to do the work in another case before my hearing.

Now at the same time during my hearing in 2004, my case was heard in Mr. Perry’s court room by a judge who was a friend of Mr. Perry’s not enough? after my hearing in a separate case heard before Mr. Perry. He actually said: “So you’re trying to dig up old bones like Hitchcock”! So, I take it personally that he is head of the Innocence Commission and lends even more credence to the fact it’s a joke. And it’s a shame for those of us who have hope and wish for justice. Those of us that wanted them to do something like this. And maybe help fix a broken system. What we get is another for show to cover their own wrong doings. Another like the hearings on the botched execution! More cover ups. More of acting as if they are concerned about fairness in justice. When all they care about is protecting their own butts! Don’t be fooled. You’ll see what I mean when they complete their study and find nothing that has any real meaning for justice or in any way fixes the broken system. The panel should have been made up of outsiders. Scholars maybe that could be unbiased, and if there were active cases hear those cases. These type of things are why it’s so difficult to end the death penalty. But don’t let this in anyway make you lose hope in the cause. Because no matter what they do, they cannot hide injustice. It stands out on its own. And the efforts of you guys who see it and do not allow it to be swept under the carpet. Instead use it to recharge your enthusiasm and resolve once you see the truth. You can use it in a positive manner. As for myself I am doing ok just passed my 34th. year since being locked up date. 33 1/2 on death row. I’m still alive, still sane and still have some fight left in me. And a sense of humor. So I’m ok, well for where I am. I was speaking to an old friend on the exercise yard last week just joking around. I said: “Man life is a bitch sometimes.”He came back with. “Then that’s a perfect match for a tough old bastard like you.”Couldn’t do nothing, but laugh. That was the perfect come back. More or less just saying:”you can handle it”.

But, I also recognize you guys outside make it possible so we inside can handle it. Thanks! You may not receive much credit outside for all you do. But you do from the guys inside! Take care of yourselves and stay strong maybe have some delicious fried chicken for me! Till next time warmest wishes Average Joe.