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Help Michael C. Francis
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Greetings to you, America, the land of so much FREEDOM.

We are in various chains of censorship, bondage, ignorance, false imprisonment, city
zones of war, schools of violence and churches that burn while we sit in them to listen
to so much assimilation.

I am coming up on my 23rd year of life and I am serving the next forty-five years of my
time on earth in prison for a crime I honestly did not commit. I was charged illegally
with murder and attempted murder of two people in the large city of Mpls. I was found
guilty by a jury who was given false evidence, false instructions, false testimony and
who did not ever receive a rebuttal from my legal counsel Richard J. Coleman, (who
was paid for by my friend).

A severely mentally-ill woman named Moana Teppen (who was on probation for felony
charges and possibly had been caught with drugs by the same police, was on
several anti-psychotic medications (Effexor, Seroquel, Risperdal and Lexapro).
Teppen has been diagnosed with Bipolar Schizophrenia. She supposedly said that
she heard me state that I would kill someone additionally ‘like him’. She said that I had
said this at my birthday party some time not too far from the time of the murder. But I
did not make these statements, nor was I at a party. I tried to get my lawyer Richard J.
Coleman, to pursue challenging this witnesses’ testimony based off many reasons
including the fact that she was on probation for a felony and was facing drug charges
so her testimony was prejudicially - influenced by threatening factors from the police
and prosecutor. Additionally, she was Bipolar Schizophrenia and the Judge Thor
Anderson took her word that her anti-psychotic medications had no affect on her
memory, mind, emotions, or truthfulness.

The Court used the wrong standard in accepting her testimony without a proper
evidentiary hearing that would include testimony from her psychiatric and
psychologist in regards to her mental state and medications. She said she was sitting
in a room by herself, while myself and a quarter dozen people played and above all of
the noise she heard me say I would kill someone “like him”. No one else could verify
her statements or testimony. (There was no corroboration as is required by law). She
was a probationer with new charges. Her mental state, condition and medications - as
well as her exiting felony probation with new charges of drugs was absolute doubt
and impeachable in our court system.

However, I've learned that court is not autonomous inconduciveness to Justice, and a
lawyer must breathe life into the court on your behalf or lose your right to defend
yourself in concordance with the laws of our land.

Because I am ignorant of the law and was same in my Pre-Trial, Trial and Post-Trial, I
was not capable of standing up and fighting for myself in the legal system.

So I didn't know that my lawyer Richard J. Coleman was committing fatal errors in my
case from the beginning and that I was required to force him to do his job or address
the court with my grievances, or to raise objections and issues on my issues on
appeal. I was so shocked when I came to prison and was shown by other inmates the
facts of the Law and Rights to Appeal, Appeal issues etc; and saw that these cases
applied to what had happened to me in my case. But then they showed me cases that
said if I did not raise the issues during my Pre-Trial or trial or rather if my lawyer
Richard J. Coleman had not, then I was forbidden from raising them on appeal. I
discovered that my trial lawyer Richard J. Coleman didn't raise objections to many
appeal errors, nor did he apply for relief that was needed, nor call proper witnesses,
nor use an expert of his own or private investigator despite the absolute necessity for
one to challenge highly technical and scientific evidences and witnesses being used
by the state to paint a picture of guilt but truly, if he had challenged them, we would
have been able to show the jury an alternative and true expert analysis of satellite
technology, photography, video surveillance, and image transfer etc.

We would have been able to show the jury the criminal histories and current
mitigating issues or factors that would impeach and discredit those witnesses against
me. The victim who survived the assault was Marvin Pate who claims I shot at him
over a verbal argument over the sale or theft of 22” tire rims. There was absolutely no
corroboration to his claim of this mythological dispute he claims we had. Nor is his
claim that I was the one who shot him because he claims he saw me in the headlights
reflection from the cars that were involved and that he saw a blue Tahoe truck speed
away. The only thing that did apparently amount to credible corroboration was the
mentally-ill Moana Teppen who claims she heard over a month after the shooting state
that I would hurt someone if they tried something “like him”, and the satellite which
supposedly pinpointed me to be in the three-mile area of the shooting. They claimed
that I had made several calls from my cell phone while driving down a road. But the
truth is, the phone ended up not being mine; and the satellite is not possibly capable
of such technology, as I have discovered in science books and on the Internet
through family members. Neither evidence should have been allowed in - due their
falsity, corruptibility, great tendency to prejudice a defense wrongly, and to falsely
convince a jury of corroboration and guilty despite independently being clearly untrue
and inapplicable. Further, both the woman who died and the victim who lived had
enemies who had been threatening to kill them. Marvin Pate had been accused of
murdering a young man on a Greyhound bus not too long before and had beat the
case on acquittal which outraged the family of the victim and the community. He was
also a confidential reliable informant for the Mpls. police, the Minnesota Gang Strike
Task Force, and the BCA. He was setting people up on drug bust and snitching on
many others in Mpls. and St. Paul who were in large gangs and drug/gun dealers.

My lawyer Richard J. Coleman refused to investigate important information that came
from many sources, even the discovery. He refused to call anyone as a witness to
testify to these facts and raise doubt that I was the guilty one, rather someone else
was guilty and had not been even investigated by the police. The reality is that Marvin
Pate and Pamela Ragland were assaulted and murdered by people who had motives
and intentions. I did not kill Pamela Ragland, nor did I shoot Marvin Pate. I would
never in my life seriously harm anyone. But the other suspects have history of violent
behavior, threats, gang activities. They are the true source of this tragedy. Young,
Pamela Ragland is gone forever; Marvin Pate is a world of chaos. Pamela family is in
misery and no doubt suffering every day from the loss of her

I am in prison for the rest of my life. My mother has been pushed back into the abyss
of the street-life she fought to free herself from for so many years. My nieces and
nephews are despondent and without guidance as I was the one they looked to for
comfort, fatherhood, fun and help to get by. I am becoming a shadow already. I have
to face each day a new day in the place where the sun has died and the men are like
ghosts without conscious. I fear of what will become of me in here. I am young. I fear
the courts will not hear me because I've somehow lost the ability to breathe. If I am
without life – how long can I go on? I really am innocent. So many people say this.
Some to deceive, some to hide, yet others to speak the truth of incapability for the
long – suffering of our own victimization. And me because I truly am innocent and
cannot spend my life in this inhuman place between shadows of the hell and the
valley of the dead. I am no longer a man and slowly I die inside a little each day. My
mind eclipsed by the total unreasonable aspects of my situation.

I am unable to appeal my conviction without Legal Counsel and a Law Library or
Legal supplies but the Legal counsel my family was trying to afford was uncaring. I
know of no lawyer in this state who is about freedom for his innocent clients. They are
all about capitol advancement or bureaucratic rise in the State sector or the private
firms. They steal money by taking money promising to provide adequate legal
services, but then file shallow briefs missing so many issues, case laws, and
investigations. The competence of a lawyer who's true interest is the pursuit of
Justice. I am afraid in the state of Minnesota, he will fail me in the pursuit to win my
freedom. I am unable to study the law on my own because this prison system has no
access to a law library or to a paralegal. I am still innocent in all these trials and
tribulations.

I was also falsely convicted because the Prosecutor Gemma E. Graham (#142086)
illegally presented in court the fact that I was charged with a misdemeanor
possession of a firearm some months previous to the crime. I plead guilty to it and
received a small punishment, The gun I had in the car was not mine and the car also
was not mine. I was driving a friend's car and the police pulled me over. I was put on
the stand by my lawyer Richard J. Coleman at trial who felt it was a really good idea to
do so. Then he proceeded to ask the most offensive, incriminating questions he
could ask as if he was working for the prosecution. Because of his stupid and
prejudice questions the prosecutor decided to bring up my gun conviction despite
being told by trial Judge in Pre-Trial that the gun issue was not allowed or admissible
in this case. She somehow was allowed to ask me this issue and I was forced to
answer. Then she went on about things that had nothing to do with the crimes
herein. But my lawyer, Richard J. Coleman, rather than object whole heartedly, barely
objected at all and then they put my mother on the stand as well for no reason;
despite my severe objections. She was not a witness.

He got her to say that I had been in some trouble, etc. Then the prosecutor
questioned her and got her to admit facts of my growing up without a father and being
hard to deal with as teenager. The Prosecutor, proceeded to question my mother
about a domestic assault case that I had previous with at the time my girlfriend when
we had a fight.

The Judge Thor Anderson, let the jury hear all this prejudicial statements and so did
my lawyer Richard. Eventually, most of it was suppressed but that did not matter to
the jury who considered in finding me guilty. There was no physical evidence,
circumstantial evidence, nor corroborated testimony from meditation in a homicide,
and attempted homicide case in the state courts. I was free over a month despite
them claiming to have known it was me. Marvin Pate was accusing me of such from
the very first night of the incident. Then they asked me to come to a local police
station to have a chat or conversation with Sgt. Pete Jackson. Without a warrant, Sgt.
Jackson arrested me therein.

I have discovered that arrest by trickery is unconstitutional in the U.S. I have further
discovered then when the state kept me in pre-trial detention for a couple of weeks
before allowing me to be arraigned, and two months after that, I was allowed to enter a
plea. Over 30 days longer than the length of a Speedy Trial demand in the state of
Minnesota allows. This all is illegal and requires a reversal of my case with prejudice
against the State.

Also, right before my Speedy Trial came up, the prosecutor re-filed the charges but
then changed them from Second degree murder charges to First degree. There is so
much from the trial and arrest that I can show to be wrong and illegal, but how can I
ever challenge the government in a place such as this? I am in a prison living unit
with cell bars for doors and so much noise from morning to night – it is impossible to
concentrate on anything but survival. I can't read or study. I am an innocent young
man found guilty. PLEASE HELP ME REGAIN MY FREEDOM.

Sincerely,
Michael C. Francis

"HELP FREE
AN INNOCENT
MAN"

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