Already paid Texas back 20 yrs ago; falsely imprisoned in Texas
September 5th, 2011
September 4, 2011
Ms. Betty Ann Waters
Innocent Project
Re: William Dexter Lucas <TDCJ-CID# 655960>
Dear Ms. Waters;
I am writing to you today because I just watched âConvictionâ the story about you and your beloved brother Kenny and my heart went out to you and your family. I cried, as I watched as you struggled and lost your marriage and put yourself through law school. Wow, you are such a strong lady and you have such love to do what you did! It was inspiring and courageous and so awesome how you not only went up against a flawed legal system, but you beat them at their own game. My hat is off to you!
I am writing to you to ask for your help in freeing my husband from being wrongfully incarcerated. He is not in prison on mistaken DNA on a murder rap, or rape. He is in prison on a bad check he wrote for $1,100.00 back in 1988. So why is my husband incarcerated and in prison classified as a G2 instead of G3? Is he a disciplinary problem? No. Is he a violent or sexual predator? No. Is he an escape risk? No. He wrote a bad check in 1988-- a real âAl Caponeâ huh? My husband has not committed a crime since 1988, and until he was picked up in 2009, he had been working as an engineer for a large corporation by the name of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold, and was in charge of two mines, two in New Mexico and one in Arizona. He had priors and I am not offering excuses for his past criminal behavior. When he was picked up, he had been a law-abiding citizen for the over 23 years.
I have asked the State and the Inspector General of Texas Department of Criminal Justice to look at his arrest, parole revocation, incarceration and classification; I have written them twice. They have his misclassified on his âtravel cardâ for âconspiracy to commit murderâ and he is only incarcerated for âTheft By Check- revocation.â I have contacted every department within TDCJ to find out why he was misclassified, and they have all placated me and lied to me! With NO exaggeration, I have spoken to AT LEAST ten or more of the State Classification personnel; everyone of them upon my first contact with them, has informed me that something was very odd in my husbandâs files and that they could see no reason for my husband not being classified as an Sat 2, G1. Yet, when I would call back as instructed, I would often feel like I was talking to and about a whole new person! It is as if someone got to them and told them to back off. One person I talked to for about an hour, told me that there was something, but just would not come out and say it (fear of losing her job?). I have been lied to by SO many of them, that I cannot even begin to tell you just how outrageous some of their prevarications have been! For sure, I have yet to have two of them tell me the exact same story! I cannot even begin to tell you how frustrating it all is!
My husband William has been incarcerated since June 10th, 2009, allegedly for a parole violation, which according to his parole certificate, should have ended December 20, 2007. The parole board states that my husband absconded from his parole in April or May of 2000, yet it is interesting to note that the parole department never charged him with absconding. His parole was violated on July 22nd, 2009, for allegedly being out of the state (of Texas) without written permission of his parole officer on June 10th, 2009; the fact that my husband had not had a parole officer since December 20th, 2007 does not seem to be an issue with the parole board. It is also imperative to note that this same board alleged that they issued a blue warrant for my husbandâs arrest on April 24th, 2000, yet until June 10th, 2009, they never even bothered to notify my husband or any of our family members about any problems with his parole, nor did they exercise ANY due diligence in either locating him or causing the execution of the warrant. (I have a copy of his âtime card.) It is also interesting that you know and consider that the fact is that until my husband created a website entitled www.fmisucks.com, after his layoff and his unfair treatment in regards to his severance pay he was to receive from Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold, and he went on the internet to find adverse information about the company and the extremely wealthy and influential Richard Adkerson, C.E.O. of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold and Billy Bob Moffatt who is Adkersonâs âright hand manâ, no one in Texas or in law enforcement seemed to have ANY interest in my husband. And also, please be consider that Mr. Adkerson and Billy Bob Moffitt of FMCG have VERY close ties to Governor Rick Perry; they go WAY BACK! Billy Bob Moffett and FMCG are one of the âsix-figure contributorsâ to the Governor of Texasâ presidential campaign.
Over the past two years (since William has been incarcerated), I have diligently been trying to get just the issue with my husbandâs classification travel card resolved. His travel card states that he is incarcerated for âconspiracy to commit murder,â when in fact he was convicted for writing a bad check in January of 1988 (Cause No. 510359 â 182 District Court Harris County) and that is what is reflected on the TDCJ-CID Offender Locator online (you can check it out at TDCJâs website: http://offender.tdcj.state.tx.us/
POSdb2/index.jsp. I have been arguing my husbandâs case through the classifications and records department, parole department and unit classifications and my husband has submitted unit I-60âs and grievances, which have been largely ignored. Because of the info on his travel card, my husband has been housed with some of the most desperate and dangerous child molesters, murders and worse, doing âhard timeâ instead of being housed with the âwhite collarâ, light offendersâhe is a G2 and should be a G3 trustyâhe has not caused trouble or done anything illegal in prison. And on August 22nd, 2011 the director of TDCJ Brad Livingston, came to my husbandâs unit and personally spoke with him and ADMITTED they had made a mistake in his classification and on his travel card and that it would be corrected (when?). And the Unit Classifications person Mrs. Suarez wrote back on an I-60 to my husband ADMITTING that they had made a mistake in classifying him (my husband is now being housed at Pack One Unit in Navasota, TX and before that he had been incarcerated at Wayne Scott Unit, which is one of the worst-run prisons in Texas and the unit classifications person there, Mrs. Henry, HATED both my husband and I, as did the Warden, because we wrote grievances for the uncleanliness of the place and the conditions!) Anyways, Brad Livingston ADMITTED to my husband that he realized that my husband had been âmisclassifiedâ and that they were in the process of correcting itâTWO AND A HALF YEARS OR MORE LATER?
Ms. Waters, even now, we have two Section 2254âs (Writs of Habeas Corpus) in the Federal judges hands in Houston, TX and she has had them since February and no action since June 16th (I call every Wednesday to check on the progress of our case and I hear the same thing!). We also have a Section 1983 in the federal judgeâs hands in Austin, TX and they have not done anything on it since they collected the money out of my husbandâs commissary account (we are poor, so we had to file the case âinforma pauperisâ) Maâam, we have done ALL of the legal work ourselves. We did have a lawyer, Alex Forrest. He charged us $600.00 attended my husband pre-revocation hearing and told me he knew nothing about parole law and could not help us! Why did he accept the money????
Maâam, one thing that âstruck meâ during watching your story âConviction,â in that you never gave up on your brotherâs case. You know how it is to go up against the system without a lawyer! You know how frustrating it is to deal with an unfair system! You know how slow and exhaustive the process is! All I want is this nightmare to end and my husband to come home to me. All the judges need to do is LOOK at the cases and me as a non-legal person cannot make that happen! It would take a real good attorney to do that, and I donât have 18 years to become an attorney!
I work as a secretary with the federal government and do not make that much. What I make goes to pay rent, my car, car insurance, utilities, my husbandâs commissary, postage, and phone minutes (we get 240 per month at $4.26 for 15 minutes!). We are broke!
Please Ms. Waters, if you see this letter, I beg you for your help in getting my husband released! I will pay you what little I make, but I beg of you to help me! I feel that my watching that movie was a âgodsendâ because I have been praying so hard for someone, anyone to help me who knows the system.
TDCJ made a mistake. I know that when his charges on his court papers, parole papers and on the TDCJ-CID website read âTheft by Checkâ and his travel card says âconspiracy to commit murder,â Any reasonable person would understand that not only was that erroneous information put on his record on purpose, but also it was done maliciously. Add to that TDCJ is saying that he was out of the state of Texas without permission of a parole officer he does not have, nor have they come up with a name or paperwork associated to as to why the warrant for his arrest was issued in the first place. His timecard says that they supposedly issued a warrant in April 2000, then they dropped it in 2004 and reissued it, but the signatures are not there. Also there was no âdue diligenceâ in located my husband before his arrest, because on other timecards I have looked at, they say things like âtried to call motherâ or visited with offenderâs motherâ and there was NOTHING like that on his timecard; nothing until June 10, 2009. (I have copies of it I can scan/email or fax to you, if you provide me with a fax number!) I also have the I-60 where they admitted they misclassified him.
We had a member of the media, Jessica Willey of ABC Houston Channel 13 news interested in our story, but she did not investigate but believed TDCJâs nonsense and lies! I have not told my job about this situationâthey think my husband is working away from home and I hate lying, but they do not look kindly as does anyone else, on convict wives! I have seen such prejudice, even though I am not the criminal or the convict! I have driven every Saturday morning to wherever they have my husband, at 8:00 am (leaving at 5-6 am) for a visit. We get three âcontact visitsâ per month and the rest are through the glass. We write to each other every day, and when we have the money for phone calls, we talk fast and furious, before our minutes run out.
You helped your brother and others I have read, can you please be my husbandâs attorney? Most of the legal work is done; all you would have to do is show up in court for them to hear his case; you can call him in for an evidentiary hearing. I have all of his paperwork at the house and can fax you what you will need. Please Ms. Waters, help us!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Deborah Lucas
Deborah Lucas
Already paid Texas back 20 yrs ago; falsely imprisoned in Texas
September 5th, 2011
September 4, 2011
Ms. Betty Ann Waters
Innocent Project
Re: William Dexter Lucas <TDCJ-CID# 655960>
Dear Ms. Waters;
I am writing to you today because I just watched âConvictionâ the story about you and your beloved brother Kenny and my heart went out to you and your family. I cried, as I watched as you struggled and lost your marriage and put yourself through law school. Wow, you are such a strong lady and you have such love to do what you did! It was inspiring and courageous and so awesome how you not only went up against a flawed legal system, but you beat them at their own game. My hat is off to you!
I am writing to you to ask for your help in freeing my husband from being wrongfully incarcerated. He is not in prison on mistaken DNA on a murder rap, or rape. He is in prison on a bad check he wrote for $1,100.00 back in 1988. So why is my husband incarcerated and in prison classified as a G2 instead of G3? Is he a disciplinary problem? No. Is he a violent or sexual predator? No. Is he an escape risk? No. He wrote a bad check in 1988-- a real âAl Caponeâ huh? My husband has not committed a crime since 1988, and until he was picked up in 2009, he had been working as an engineer for a large corporation by the name of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold, and was in charge of two mines, two in New Mexico and one in Arizona. He had priors and I am not offering excuses for his past criminal behavior. When he was picked up, he had been a law-abiding citizen for the over 23 years.
I have asked the State and the Inspector General of Texas Department of Criminal Justice to look at his arrest, parole revocation, incarceration and classification; I have written them twice. They have his misclassified on his âtravel cardâ for âconspiracy to commit murderâ and he is only incarcerated for âTheft By Check- revocation.â I have contacted every department within TDCJ to find out why he was misclassified, and they have all placated me and lied to me! With NO exaggeration, I have spoken to AT LEAST ten or more of the State Classification personnel; everyone of them upon my first contact with them, has informed me that something was very odd in my husbandâs files and that they could see no reason for my husband not being classified as an Sat 2, G1. Yet, when I would call back as instructed, I would often feel like I was talking to and about a whole new person! It is as if someone got to them and told them to back off. One person I talked to for about an hour, told me that there was something, but just would not come out and say it (fear of losing her job?). I have been lied to by SO many of them, that I cannot even begin to tell you just how outrageous some of their prevarications have been! For sure, I have yet to have two of them tell me the exact same story! I cannot even begin to tell you how frustrating it all is!
My husband William has been incarcerated since June 10th, 2009, allegedly for a parole violation, which according to his parole certificate, should have ended December 20, 2007. The parole board states that my husband absconded from his parole in April or May of 2000, yet it is interesting to note that the parole department never charged him with absconding. His parole was violated on July 22nd, 2009, for allegedly being out of the state (of Texas) without written permission of his parole officer on June 10th, 2009; the fact that my husband had not had a parole officer since December 20th, 2007 does not seem to be an issue with the parole board. It is also imperative to note that this same board alleged that they issued a blue warrant for my husbandâs arrest on April 24th, 2000, yet until June 10th, 2009, they never even bothered to notify my husband or any of our family members about any problems with his parole, nor did they exercise ANY due diligence in either locating him or causing the execution of the warrant. (I have a copy of his âtime card.) It is also interesting that you know and consider that the fact is that until my husband created a website entitled www.fmisucks.com, after his layoff and his unfair treatment in regards to his severance pay he was to receive from Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold, and he went on the internet to find adverse information about the company and the extremely wealthy and influential Richard Adkerson, C.E.O. of Freeport McMoran Copper and Gold and Billy Bob Moffatt who is Adkersonâs âright hand manâ, no one in Texas or in law enforcement seemed to have ANY interest in my husband. And also, please be consider that Mr. Adkerson and Billy Bob Moffitt of FMCG have VERY close ties to Governor Rick Perry; they go WAY BACK! Billy Bob Moffett and FMCG are one of the âsix-figure contributorsâ to the Governor of Texasâ presidential campaign.
Over the past two years (since William has been incarcerated), I have diligently been trying to get just the issue with my husbandâs classification travel card resolved. His travel card states that he is incarcerated for âconspiracy to commit murder,â when in fact he was convicted for writing a bad check in January of 1988 (Cause No. 510359 â 182 District Court Harris County) and that is what is reflected on the TDCJ-CID Offender Locator online (you can check it out at TDCJâs website: http://offender.tdcj.state.tx.us/
POSdb2/index.jsp. I have been arguing my husbandâs case through the classifications and records department, parole department and unit classifications and my husband has submitted unit I-60âs and grievances, which have been largely ignored. Because of the info on his travel card, my husband has been housed with some of the most desperate and dangerous child molesters, murders and worse, doing âhard timeâ instead of being housed with the âwhite collarâ, light offendersâhe is a G2 and should be a G3 trustyâhe has not caused trouble or done anything illegal in prison. And on August 22nd, 2011 the director of TDCJ Brad Livingston, came to my husbandâs unit and personally spoke with him and ADMITTED they had made a mistake in his classification and on his travel card and that it would be corrected (when?). And the Unit Classifications person Mrs. Suarez wrote back on an I-60 to my husband ADMITTING that they had made a mistake in classifying him (my husband is now being housed at Pack One Unit in Navasota, TX and before that he had been incarcerated at Wayne Scott Unit, which is one of the worst-run prisons in Texas and the unit classifications person there, Mrs. Henry, HATED both my husband and I, as did the Warden, because we wrote grievances for the uncleanliness of the place and the conditions!) Anyways, Brad Livingston ADMITTED to my husband that he realized that my husband had been âmisclassifiedâ and that they were in the process of correcting itâTWO AND A HALF YEARS OR MORE LATER?
Ms. Waters, even now, we have two Section 2254âs (Writs of Habeas Corpus) in the Federal judges hands in Houston, TX and she has had them since February and no action since June 16th (I call every Wednesday to check on the progress of our case and I hear the same thing!). We also have a Section 1983 in the federal judgeâs hands in Austin, TX and they have not done anything on it since they collected the money out of my husbandâs commissary account (we are poor, so we had to file the case âinforma pauperisâ) Maâam, we have done ALL of the legal work ourselves. We did have a lawyer, Alex Forrest. He charged us $600.00 attended my husband pre-revocation hearing and told me he knew nothing about parole law and could not help us! Why did he accept the money????
Maâam, one thing that âstruck meâ during watching your story âConviction,â in that you never gave up on your brotherâs case. You know how it is to go up against the system without a lawyer! You know how frustrating it is to deal with an unfair system! You know how slow and exhaustive the process is! All I want is this nightmare to end and my husband to come home to me. All the judges need to do is LOOK at the cases and me as a non-legal person cannot make that happen! It would take a real good attorney to do that, and I donât have 18 years to become an attorney!
I work as a secretary with the federal government and do not make that much. What I make goes to pay rent, my car, car insurance, utilities, my husbandâs commissary, postage, and phone minutes (we get 240 per month at $4.26 for 15 minutes!). We are broke!
Please Ms. Waters, if you see this letter, I beg you for your help in getting my husband released! I will pay you what little I make, but I beg of you to help me! I feel that my watching that movie was a âgodsendâ because I have been praying so hard for someone, anyone to help me who knows the system.
TDCJ made a mistake. I know that when his charges on his court papers, parole papers and on the TDCJ-CID website read âTheft by Checkâ and his travel card says âconspiracy to commit murder,â Any reasonable person would understand that not only was that erroneous information put on his record on purpose, but also it was done maliciously. Add to that TDCJ is saying that he was out of the state of Texas without permission of a parole officer he does not have, nor have they come up with a name or paperwork associated to as to why the warrant for his arrest was issued in the first place. His timecard says that they supposedly issued a warrant in April 2000, then they dropped it in 2004 and reissued it, but the signatures are not there. Also there was no âdue diligenceâ in located my husband before his arrest, because on other timecards I have looked at, they say things like âtried to call motherâ or visited with offenderâs motherâ and there was NOTHING like that on his timecard; nothing until June 10, 2009. (I have copies of it I can scan/email or fax to you, if you provide me with a fax number!) I also have the I-60 where they admitted they misclassified him.
We had a member of the media, Jessica Willey of ABC Houston Channel 13 news interested in our story, but she did not investigate but believed TDCJâs nonsense and lies! I have not told my job about this situationâthey think my husband is working away from home and I hate lying, but they do not look kindly as does anyone else, on convict wives! I have seen such prejudice, even though I am not the criminal or the convict! I have driven every Saturday morning to wherever they have my husband, at 8:00 am (leaving at 5-6 am) for a visit. We get three âcontact visitsâ per month and the rest are through the glass. We write to each other every day, and when we have the money for phone calls, we talk fast and furious, before our minutes run out.
You helped your brother and others I have read, can you please be my husbandâs attorney? Most of the legal work is done; all you would have to do is show up in court for them to hear his case; you can call him in for an evidentiary hearing. I have all of his paperwork at the house and can fax you what you will need. Please Ms. Waters, help us!
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Deborah Lucas
1711 Bayou Homes Drive
Galveston, TX
(209) 247-8032
Teri Vanderberg
Free Larry Vanderberg
November 15th, 2010
My husband of 30 years has been falsely accused and incarcerated for 6 years. It's what i breathe everyday. Bring him home, bring him home. Our family needs there dad, my husband,visit our story at www.truthcafe.net. I could write a lengthy story, but actually i am so worn down and the website speaks volumes. God bless you Betty Anne for your love. Love is an action word, that's why we can't stop fighting for justice.
Sincerely,
Teri Vanderberg
MaryAnn Lubas
Justice for Mike
November 14th, 2010
Our son has been wrongfully convicted and is serving an 8-16 year sentence for a crime that never happened. We work continuously on his case, holding fundraisers to pay for the legal fees, directing the Pennsylvania Freedom March for the Wrongfully Convicted 2009/2010. We go to seminars, we have a poster of the Conviction movie that we take to all of our fundraisers and Freedom Marches. This isn't just Betty Anne's story but our story and their story and for all of us fighting the issue of wrongful convictions. You can read about our son at his website http://www.justiceformike.net
We've been fighting now since Jan. 09 for our son and will fight until he is home and totally vindicated. He is a young innocent man who is losing years of his life for a crime that never happened. Anyone that can help, please contact me at mlubas2@yahoo.com. Our lives have been shattered and the pain never goes away!
Kate Smith
never give up
November 9th, 2010
This is sad====I was supposed to do 30 years----with no family --and by the grace of god I was saved
