A little help would be appreciated. Please email Brevard County Clerk of the Court Mitch Needelman and ask him to do all that he can to ensure Gary Bennett’s safety and fair treatment. Thank you.
From: Susan Chandler
Date: May 27, 2011 2:20:03 PM EDT
To: Mitch.Needelman@brevardclerk.us
Subject: Gary Stanley Bennett Jr., 05-1983-CF-002375- AXXX-XX
The Honorable Mitch Needelman
Brevard County Clerk of the Court
700 S Park Avenue
Titusville, FL 32780-4015
Dear Mr. Needelman:
I am writing to make specific requests of your office in regards to Gary Bennett’s case.
Unlike Bill Dillon’s nearly identical case preceding the hearings that upset his conviction, Bennett’s case is still shown as archived rather than active on your e-Facts website, and marked as “disposed” although it is active per the order below dated May 18. I ask that you immediately make Bennett’s case information available online, with every link meticulously accurate, including listing all of the parties who are representing him.
Bennett needs and deserves courtroom protections; his epilepsy is volatile. Stress exacerbates seizures and seizures can be fatal. As court hearings are inherently stressful without imprisonment being at issue, I request that you have a portable defibrillator at hand and someone trained in its use who is capable of administering CPR as well as recognizing and reacting to seizures, which can present as inattention, random repetitive movements or vocalizations, staring, an inability to follow conversation and more … not just falling down and convulsing. I write not only from the standpoint of a person with epilepsy who has endured absurd trial outcomes from a clinical inability to follow courtroom conversation, but as a graduate EMT with years of experience working in hospitals, long-term care facilities and a mental health facility. Before the virtual epilepsy epidemic of Mideast Vets who survived Traumatic Brain Injuries, millions of Americans already had epilepsy; it was never an extraordinary request for court personnel to protect litigants who have epilepsy, yet it continues to be treated as such.
Through no fault of Clerk personnel, Dillon’s hearing date/time/location information was repeatedly posted incorrectly to the internet. Bennett will be appearing before the same judge – Dugan – so it is reasonable to assume that the same problem can happen again. As Bennett’s case is more definitive in portraying the extent of Brevard/Seminole prosecutorial and supervisory misconduct as regards John Preston’s perjuries than that of Dillon, Juan Ramos and Wilton Dedge, it is is important the media not be deterred from attending hearings. Please have your personnel continue to verify scheduled hearings and post updated information immediately.
If possible, please correct any further misstatements to the media from the Orange/Osceola State Attorney’s Office regarding the nature of the transfer of Bennett’s case into their hands. The transfer is tainted, there are judicial circuits in Florida where John Preston did not testify that have no vested interest in upholding his perjuries, and Bennett is deserving of the public being aware that he is being tag-teamed.
In the Register of Actions, please carefully indicate the date that former Governor Crist renewed his Executive Order facilitating the transfer ot Orange/Osceola, as it was months after the initial Order had expired. Please also make make clear who had custody of the signed, sealed evidence that was shipped to Orchid Cellmark’s Farmers Branch, Texas lab for DNA testing last year and was determined to have been “washed” of testable materials.
The public is continually defrauded and endangered when the wrong person is behind bars, especially when career criminals are freed – repeatedly – in exchange for false testimony.
Roger Dale Chapman – who admittedly testified falsely against Dillon – is back in prison as of the 3rd for a 2010 crystal meth lab bust and a 2007 sexual assault on a minor, the same charge Chapman got a “walk” on to lie about Dillon. Kenneth Plemmons and Michael Turner were used against Bennett. James E. Gilmore was used against Ramos. Clarence Zacke was used against Dedge and Gerald Stano, with his recantation ignored instead of saving Stano from execution and shaving years off Dedge’s wrongful sentence. Pertrell Kuiara was used against Linroy Bottoson, with his recantation ignored instead of saving Bottoson from execution – it’s relevant because it was an Orange/Osceola/FBI case and – as previously stated – should have prevented Orange/Osceola’s participation in Bennett’s case.
I look forward to finding Bennett’s complete case information on your website immediately as your response to this letter, signaling that – as an elected public servant – you will do your best to ensure public safety. Thank you for your time, sir.
Sincerely,
Susan Chandler
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