A TV Mini-Series
Synopsis: Floyd, a 40 year old Gangster-Disciple from Chicago and a
dangerous figure in the underworld who graduated from gangbanging to a higher form of violence, now moves alone with a singular dark purpose: to get out of Maximum Security, become rich and exit the game once and for all. Things don’t go according to plan and a gangster love story unfolds amid violence, drugs, and money.
It’s a non-stop rollercoaster of action, sex, and intrigue.
TALES TO TELL:
STORIES FROM THE CELL
1/26/2012
Dear Arthur,
I have many stories to tell and maybe you can help me get them out there.
Some stories are from “back in the day.” A couple of guys I’ve known for 35 years and used to hang around with participated regularly in the prevalent violence of the time. We got high all the time and were very familiar with the prison system, if you know what I mean. I was huge then. I could bench press over 450 pounds, dead lift 600 pounds and squat 700 pounds. I was the strongest guy in the prison.
In the '70's I spent about 7 years in lockup. Nevada State Prison (NSP) at one point in time in the ‘70's had more killings per capita than any prison in the US. My first several years there, I packed a knife since I went around by myself most of the time. NSP had no gun control in the hobby craft, gym or rec hall—not even in the dining hall. I was involved in 2 riots in ‘71 & ‘72. The guards in the office just watched them unfold and did nothing. Needless to say drugs were everywhere and easily accessible. Lots of stories here!
I was also confined during the 80's and 90's but for shorter terms: 6 months, 90 days, etc. In ‘81 I was convicted of attempted murder and battery with a deadly weapon, though it wasn’t my beef. At that time while researching a story about my time in Nevada, I started talking to two guys who had been involved in a retaliatory strike in the NSP dining hall in ’76. Two blacks were killed and 6 were injured. Both of these guys got a couple of life sentences for the murders. More very interesting stories.
I have even more stories from the ‘90's while at Ely Prison.
Now that I’m older I want to tell these stories and I think that you can help.
Sincerely,
John
SILENT STRUGGLE
(400 page book)
Based on the prison experiences of a convicted murderer
first sent to prison in 1965, subsequently released, then convicted of murder in 1970
currently serving life.
Synopsis in the words of the author/inmate:
A naive young man journeys into the violent and uncaring world of prison.
A 25 year old white male, Tom, takes a drug beef for a friend and winds up in a cell in a fictitious maximum-security prison in California. He is placed in a cell with a male, Adam, an independent that is not affiliated with the ruthless prison gang that literally controls the prison. The gang's leader actually wants him dead. George, a childhood friend and high ranking gang member, is there. He wants Tom to join up. Tom refuses. Bob, the leader of the gang is furious at Tom's refusal. He puts a hit on them. Tom and Adam get locked up after two members of the gang try to carry out the hit on the weight pile.
Meanwhile, the gang extends to the streets and is run by Ned , an older white supremacist and ex KKK member. He became Bob's mentor after some blacks raped and killed Bob's mother. The gang controls most of the drugs in California. Ned has a daughter who is married to a Bob, gang leader. She has an extramarital affair. Bob kills the man, but spares his daughter. Tom is no more the wiser.
Bob still wants Adam, and Tom dead. So he has Ned, a man whose influence reaches behind prison walls, set up a hit from the streets. A guard and member of K gestapo, a group of guard's within the prison who kill and brutalize prisoners, guns down Tom and Adam on the exercise yard in lockup,.
EVIDENCE WITHHELD
EXCELLENT STORY FOR A SCREENPLAY
SEEKING INVESTORS
SYNOPSIS
This is a juicy "murder for hire" story.
Twenty five years ago Larissa, an attractive Russian woman, offers a black hitman $50,000 to kill her husband Andrey, a club owner in Saint Louis, as he drives his Cadillac into their vacation home.. Prosecutors charge that Larissa wanted to kill her husband so she and her boyfriend Kevin, a drug dealer connected to the NJ mob, could take over the club. The hitman receives a death penalty conviction for his crime, while Larissa receives life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Five co- conspirators are also convicted; all are dead.
The hitman is still awaiting execution.
My client has been on death row for over 25 years during which there have been many appeals.
Recently he has received evidence withheld at trial that would have changed the verdict from the death sentence to acquittal.
REASONS FOR APPEAL
I. INCOMPETENT AND INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL
The District Court erred in failing to consider inmate Allegations of Good Cause and Prejudice which were based on limitations imposed by the State Courts which prevented him from receiving and vindicating his right to the effective assistance of post-conviction counsel.
Trial Counsel then made highly improper racist comments about his client to the jury:
"It is strange that all four of these people who are white got offered negotiations of life imprisonment and that the one black man, the one little nigger boy over here, we are going for the death penalty on him."
Trial counsel then completely abandoned his client, telling the jury he would respect their decision to give the inmate the death penalty because:
"I can't do anything about it. At least, I am not the one doing it so it won't be on my conscience and I won't have to live with it the rest of my life."
II. STATE SUPPRESSION AND WITHHOLDING OF EVIDENCE
State failed to disclose: favorable treatment given to jailhouse informants, and co-conspirators regarding the charges pending against them at the time of the trial which the State was holding over their heads at the time of their trial testimony.
State failed to disclose: law enforcement records indicating that there were multiple other black male subjects whom the State failed to investigate, and that the descriptions of three black man involved in the murder varied so wildly as to indicate that one of the other suspects was the perpetrator.
III. INVALID AND IMPROPER INSTRUCTIONS TO THE JURY
Hitman found not guilty of charge of attempted murder, found guilty of murder.
THE DECISION IS STILL IN APPEAL COURT
AND
THE "HITMAN" IS STILL ON DEATH ROW.
