The Day had been a really crappy one to start with, G got with some friends and failed to make it home the night before, hadn't been able to work because it had been raining and nasty all day... and he worked construction.
He didn't really want to go home either. He and his girlfriend had been fighting for days, so he didn't figure this day would be any different...
He was already on parole and had missed his appointment to see the parole officer.
He knew he needed to call, but had been just so caught up in the arguments, that seemed the least of his problems, right now...
He just wanted to get home and pack his few things and leave without confrontation again.
If he got lucky, maybe Debbie, wouldn't be home so he could get his things and leave without trouble, with her again.
She was beginning to get, way, to controlling and bossy, for him to continue their live in arrangements...
He knew he would only be able to contain his temper for a little longer, at best, before there was real trouble.
Of course, Luck had never been one of his team mates either, so his hopes of having a peaceable exit weren't dashed, when he walked in and she was waiting.
She started in with the same arguments, as usual and he told her he was leaving...
Of course that seemed to please her too for awhile.
Then some where, the whole scene changed into a different kind of argument, than had been their forte, the times before.
He had managed to get his things into a single box, at least what he felt he must have, in case it's all he could get, before she burnt it, or destroyed it, before he could get back to get the left overs, and was nearly out the door, when Debbie Jumped on him and began lashing out at him and biting, scratching and fighting like a wild thing, he had never seen before.
He dropped his box right next to the door and was trying to get her off of him, with no luck there either.
Without even thinking or really realizing, what this situation could do to him, he head butted her and caught her right between the eyes and she went down,
He immediately began to feel the guilt, of what he had done, raising within him, as he watched, in sympathy, her eyes blacken and swell from where he had most likely broken her nose.
His anger subsided quickly after that....
He hadn't wanted this to happen and she should have seen that, why do women tell you to get out and then when you try to leave, come rushing you?
So taking care of her wounds, was the least he could do after what he had done, to her, never thinking about the cuts, bruises and bleeding scratches, she too had left behind, on his body...
All he could do was try to make her feel better.
The evening trailed into night and the holding and pampering became even more, to the point of wanting to make love to her again, just to show he was sorry, for what he had done.
The night went well he thought, they made love several times, intercourse , as well as orally and they seemed to forget the heated encounter, of just a short few hours before.
Maybe he had just been too harsh a judge, of her attitude, this week, things were just really looking like he was too soon, to judge, her moods.
They ate a little dinner, had a few glasses of wine and went back to the bedroom for more love making and make up chat, that lasted most of the night, he finally fell asleep somewhere close to morning.
Then like a bad dream, that you try really hard, to pull yourself out of, he found himself face down, on the bedroom floor, being handcuffed.
Thinking it had to be because of missing his appointment with the PO, he didn't ask any questions.
Naked, except for his socks, the female officer, arresting him had to help him put his pants on and then led him out to the car, with no shirt or shoes and as he approached, he realized Debbie was standing by a police car, crying and acting afraid, like he might get away.
now he begins to ask questions and can't get a response to them, except for "shut up" and get in the police van.
Several hours later they come to the cell and got him for questioning.... he had been charged with 5 counts of rape, 5 counts of sodomy and 4 counts of armed criminal action.... don't ask me why one charge short, on the ACA... I'd only have something sarcastic to say and I can't do that and stay.... "Detached"....
The evidence, in this case, that convicted G, was a joke, to say the least, the rape kit done at the hospital came back with DNA evidence that Debbie had been sexually involved with G the night before,
but no evidence of force could be found.
Debbie had made several statements to the police and all were different accounts of what happened... the most damaging being chosen to use as evidence.
Nothing was mentioned in the courtroom about the fact that Debbie, had in fact, done this same thing before, about 3 other times , all to different men, or that she had made several phone calls during the night and the next morning, to friends and family and never once mentioned abuse, or rape, to any of them, nor did she try to dial 911 to get assistance.
The only other mark on her body, besides the two black eyes, was a small mark on her neck, that one investigating officer, said looked like a hicky...
Debbie refused to allow the police photographer to take picture of her body, because it was to embarrassing, yet the hospital had already said there were no signs of force, except her eyes...
Also it was pointed out that G had some scratches, supposedly proving Debbie had fought him.
but again never mentioned, that G had told them she had jumped him too.
She had told them he didn't live there but it was never brought into court, that his things were all in the box still beside the door where he said he dropped them when she jumped him and in the drawers in the bedroom too.
Debbie said he had a knife stuck into the bedside table, during all this...
Yet there were no marks, on the table, to prove this either...
There was however a pocket knife found across the room in a drawer, in a chest, along with Gs wallet and some change.
We also have signed statements from Gs original Lawyer, that she didn't do her job, to her full ability, but she's a woman and that would stand to reason, because she would never be able to get past the thought of "could he have done this?" She would be, in a sense, betraying her own kind to just accept his innocence.
These are only the tip if the iceberg, on the court briefs, that I have in my possession...
Nothing was ever said about any of Debbies "Past history" yet everything about Gs was brought into court against him.
Gs lawyer wouldn't let him testify, on his own behalf.
I could point out failures, one after the other, in this, to make you wonder how an innocent man, can be thrown into prison and be kept there, because everyone wants to only hear selected facts, or prosecutors are too good and court appointed lawyers, are too inexperienced, underpaid, or just plain Lazy to do a job, they need to do.
G was given a 25 year sentence, and I know some of you are sitting there just rolling in your anger, that it isn't enough.. But you need to look again, at what has been said...
G admits to fighting with Debbie... he also admitted to having sex with her, he didn't deny blacking her eyes and he admitted he was already in trouble because he missed his PO visit...
but when all the evidence points the wrong way, in a case... isn't it someone s job to do something about it?
Am I still so nieave as to think there are still people who care that someone can just yank the life from a man and not even look back...
and dozens of others, will look away to save time, or money, or how they will look if they don't do what everyone else is doing, about a miscarriage of justice.
I wont lie here and say it doesn't matter to me, because this is my husband, I'm talking about... but I've been told, by a very good lawyer, that if G had been charged with anything it should have been Date rape, providing there was proof of force, which can be proved but the black eyes, but that only carries a 5 year sentence.... not 25 and that if I would bring him $10,000 he could start the proceedings to get G out... but he wouldn't touch it for less and that is just the retainer, it could actually run close to or slightly over $100,000, before it was over.... I don't have that kind of cash and G wouldn't allow me to spend it if I did... And if God's willing, I'm sure there's a miracle in the making for us somewhere, but until it's time for God to do, what God sees fit to do... we'll wait... I've learned that God has a way of bringing the world to their knees when it's necessary, so why doubt He will send us just a tiny miracle, to help.
I love G... He is my love and has become the very base of my world, as well as the reason I started this site... and if it helps just one person.... and never does another thing.... it has done its job ... I bless you all and hope your lives are a lot easier than this...