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Life-Sentence Prisoner, Roderick "Rudd" Walker, Deserves New Trial, Please Help!
    #20583181 - 09/18/14 10:54 AM (9 years, 4 months ago)

RUDD'S BACKGROUND:

Roderick “Rudd” Walker is serving a life sentence in Federal prison on charges of conspiracy to sell and distribute LSD. His conviction was based solely on the testimony of 11 witnesses without any tangible evidence of drugs or drug-related transactions Rudd had been involved in. The witnesses testifying against Rudd mainly consisted of defendants in other drug-related cases not at all or very loosely related to Rudd testifying in order to receive reductions in their own sentences and DEA agents, all claiming to have witnessed and/or been involved in LSD transactions with Rudd.

Rudd was living in Buffalo, NY, in 2004 when he discovered that he had been indicted for LSD conspiracy in Tulsa, OK, where he had never visited. His home was searched, and no drugs or materials related to drugs were found. He was offered an 8-year sentence if he agreed to plead guilty, which he declined to do, and was sentenced to life due to mandatory sentencing minimums tied to the amounts of LSD (about 4,000 hits, though this number changed throughout the trial) witnesses alleged that they had seen him with but was never found in his possession.

WHY RUDD DESERVES HELP:

There are varied opinions throughout the growing discussion on Rudd's situation about whether or not he should have done time and the harshness of drug legislation on the whole, but it's important to make clear that these are not the issues that concern us primarily. The issue of primary concern is that this man's sentence is a life sentence, the second-harshest sentence a court can issue in the U.S. beneath the death penalty, and he was convicted on testimony alone and in the face of very dubious legal conduct that obscured important information to the jury and suspicious behavior by Federal agents. This is not acceptable.

Rudd has served 10 years of his sentence already (being denied satisfactory medical treatment for painful conditions by U.S.P. Hazelton all the while). Regardless of the highly questionable severity of his sentence itself, there are many issues of misconduct in several aspects of the case that need to be addressed, such as the fact that the information that several witnesses were testifying as part of plea bargains in their own cases was not properly disclosed to the court. Rudd (who has been studying every nuance of this case for those 10 years) says, “There's so much misconduct that each issue gets me released or a new trial, and I have over 18 misconduct issues.”

WHAT RUDD NEEDS:

In order for Rudd to appeal his case any further or be granted a new trial, he needs approximately 39,000 pages of relevant paperwork on his case via the F.O.I.A. (Freedom of Information Act), each of which will cost him $0.10, amounting to approximately $3,900. Additionally, the burden of all legal fees fall on him, and he is responsible for furnishing all new evidence on his case himself via a private investigator. His time is running out before the courts will no longer hear anything related to his case because of the time that has passed since his conviction. Rudd says that donations even in the amount of $1 can help him substantially. The collection is being managed by his closest friend Jeremy through the site GoFundMe.com:

http://www.gofundme.com/dyro3g

Alternatively, I maintain a Bitcoin wallet exclusively for the collection of funds for Rudd for those who would prefer to donate in Bitcoin at this address: 17M6jABg2PADK5wQsvCfTW2VDj2R1YxgpG

In addition to the efforts to gather attention in the courts to Rudd's situation, there is an active petition on Change.org for Rudd to be granted clemency:

http://www.change.org/p/clemency-for-roderick-walker-life-for-lsd

Contributing in any way to either of these efforts is dearly appreciated by those of us who care about Rudd, and any sort of spreading of awareness of and attention to this situation is invaluable. Please share this information with others. If any journalists/bloggers/etc. are interested, Jeremy and I are both available to answer any and all questions. Also, please see the link to the several court transcripts and other documents available at the Scribd.com link below.

Finally, Rudd has lost just about everything and everyone important to him in his life since being imprisoned, and he is lonely and in great need of friendship and loving support. He can receive letters at the following address and communicate by e-mail via the service CorrLinks.com once he has received your e-mail address by mail and you follow the brief instructions in the e-mail you will receive from CorrLinks.com:

RODERICK WALKER
#13615-055

USP Hazelton
PO Box 2000
Bruceton Mills WV 26525-2000

If you would like to e-mail Rudd and would prefer not to have to send a paper letter, you can provide your e-mail address to me, and I will pass it along to Rudd for you.

Please be mindful that it can take some time for communication to reach Rudd through the prison system and occasional periods of prison lockdown occur, during which no exchange can take place until the lockdown has been lifted.

OTHER RESOURCES:

Facebook group for Rudd:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1496665970571558/

A Facebook page run by his friend Jeremy that releases the most current information and media on Rudd and the efforts to set him free:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Roderick-Rudd-Walker-LSD-Prisoner/321368794554295?sk=timeline

Articles from various publications which have been written about or made mention of Rudd's situation:

http://www.ladybud.com/2014/08/27/petition-dont-send-roderick-walker-to-prison-for-life-over-lsd/
http://nypost.com/2014/08/09/why-prosecutors-love-mandatory-minimums/
http://www.politicallysuspect.com/2014/06/16/help-roderick-walker-serving-life-prison-lsd/
http://www.politicallysuspect.com/2014/06/19/follow-roderick-walker-post/
http://www.politicallysuspect.com/2014/08/25/optimism-roderick-walker/

Documents and transcripts related to Rudd's case, with many personal annotations from Rudd himself:

http://www.scribd.com/collections/5809418/Rudd-s-Case



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