Jims final response

Okay Jim,   You say that you checked your notes twice.  Maybe the foreman missed those two times. I bet they were Rivera saying I know my cars, and something about the uniform and the tag supposedly being torn off.  Those are two things the prosecution closed with.  Again, no checking notes for the defense, only for the prosecution.  Three hours of deliberation is ridiculous, and you were a part of that.  Live with it.  You really should read Dean's book, Four Years of Freedom; but you probably do not want to know the real person and family that you hurt.  Thanks for your communication with me. 

Jurors 1, 7 and 12

Going back over our notes from jurors, the consensus was that 1, 7, and 12, were sure Dean was guilty before they even stepped into deliberations, and they went about making sure everyone else went along with the program. Juror 1 made a big deal about Rivera saying "I know my cars". That is crazy. All Rivera knew was that it had stock wheels, and was a Blazer.  Did this juror remember the testimony, that in the first trial, Rivera said the Blazer was blue?  Did this juror number one put credit with this witness when he described the driver as looking just like Johnny Roy, and he had seen Roy later at a liquor store and recognized him?   Did juror number 1 ever ask how is it possible for 5 guys to get in a two door blazer, where a bloody crime has been committed and no blood of the victim ever got in it, and no fingerprints of the supposed 5 are in it either?  How does one clean a car of that, yet leave defendants' blood on the steering wheel, windshield, dash and outside door handle?  Did anyone in the jury ask that question? It's impossible.  Did anyone even suggest that Blazers are a popular vehicle and there could be 2 or 3 used by the gang?  Nope.  All these three did was walk in to deliberation and throw out things that the D.A. said for proof, and then say they just didn't believe Deans' story.  You aren't supposed to go with your emotions, but go on the facts, and spend time looking at both sides facts.  That takes days in a long trial.  No one did that.  They just let jurors 1, 7 and 12 lead the way to conviction.  No one stood up for Dean.  Women told us that they never saw the Blazer in the video, but the foreman said that all you needed to see was a likeness.  That was wrong.  If you do not see the Blazer, then it was not there.  We thought the whole jury had gone crazy, so we had an expert from NASA blow up the section of the video with the garage. They said" There is no vehicle there ...period"   The power of suggestion by the D.A. led those who wanted to convict see a "likeness".  How insane.
 Jim, you were a huge note taker, yet the foreman said that you never once went back and looked at your notes.  Again, bias walking in.  What was wrong with you?  What was wrong with the collective group?  Poor jurors, maybe what awaits them next life is worse than what awaits Dean.

Jim insists that he was a juror

Well Jim,
   I do not know how your memory is so different from the five that we have heard from.  Maybe you were in a daze too and now have created your own memory for your conscience.  It is confusing to me.  This brings me back again to how you got your info, and to please let me know any other  information that you got.  You now see the lies that we were up against.  The women may have been active during the trial, but in the jury room for three hours, they were not. They admitted that to us.
All of them told us about the "monster drink guy" and how he tried to be an authority on things he knew nothing about.  Why he had it in for Dean is beyond me.  I know some day karma will come around to him so that he will understand how bad it was what he did.  I do not concern myself with that.   I am just a mother who knows Dean is innocent of murder, and prays that he will one day soon be free.
 The Jody Arias verdict came back and her jury spent 15 hours and four days to decide. They were a responsible jury that went back over all the evidence and testimony, instead of walking into the deliberation only listening to the prosecutions' final arguments which by the way had a few lies in it.
That people on Deans' jury could decide a life in three hours is pathetic and shows the bias and laziness.
You keep harping on the prosecutions allegations and late information (which was wrong), but never do I hear you wondering about all the doubt and the defense points. Don't you see that shows that you believe "guilty until proven innocent"  instead of " innocent until proven guilty"?  That is wrong when you are a juror.
Please send me an e-mail and tell me any other information the prosecutor told you after the trial.  It might help in the appeal.   Hermosatara@gmail.com

Jim's response

Yay...Jim wrote back.  Boo...He refused to reveal who had mis-lead and mis-informed him of his wrong info on Dean.    I now believe that Jim is not a former juror, but possibly an investigator of the prosecutor.   He states that he never said that Dean testified to a different story , but that there was a different story from the first trial.  A juror would never say that.  The only person who would say that is someone who was lied to by the prosecution, or someone who listened to a jailhouse tape where I, Tara, stated that I believed the evidence was tampered with, and I wanted to investigate it.  The main reason that I believed this is because: 1) I was there the night the lead detective took Deans' only tennis shoes as an afterthought before he left our home, and those shoes were sparkling white like they always were, because Dean was obsessed with having clean white shoes.  2) the sock that was supposedly Dean's and had blood on it, was way bigger than the other sock that was its' "pair". I thought a switch was made with a victims sock, because Deans DNA was not in the sock that had the victims blood.  Explain that. 3)The lead investigator kept Deans shoes and socks in his office for two days before submitting it to the crime lab. (very suspicious). 4) The lead Detective had been in the newspaper for misconduct and poor morals when representing an investigation in Canada. Their police filed a complaint against him.  5) The lead detective was not allowed by the court to look in the Blazer until there was justifiable evidence to do so. Having the victims blood on a sock or shoe of Deans would be that evidence. How hard is it to go to the murder site, and turn the shoes upside down and dirty them up in the blood, and switch one sock with the victims sock that had blood on it?
The bottom of Deans shoes had no blood.  How is that possible when you are standing and walking in dirt with fresh blood? 6) the shoes shown in court looked dirty, and even the other detective who had seen the shoes said that they did not look like the clean shoes he had seen on Dean. hmm? and finally 7) He never wore his tennis shoes when going someplace directly from work. He had on his dark work shoes. His tennis shoes were at home.   All of this made me think that there was evidence tampering because I still could not talk to Dean un-recorded.
I asked his attorney to follow up on it, but he said that it was not needed and Dean did not agree with me. That was frustrating.  So.....nothing ever came of it, but I still think that is a theory worth exploring.  After Dean's first trial though, when I could visit with him in person at prison, he did provide me with the way the blood got on him.  He apologized for ever being involved and said that he did not want to tell me, because he knew it would hurt me to know that he wasn't completely innocent.
 Jim argues with me that the female jurors were not passive because he was there and saw it.  This makes me know he was not there.  We got letters from two female jurors and the jury foreman who all stated that the women were sheep in the deliberations and acted like they were in a daze.  The young male wanna be cop juror (or Monster Drink guy as the jurors told us they referred to him)  was the most aggressively outspoken and critical of Dean, coming up with body language interpretations of him and talking about knives like he was an expert. We got letters of apology from jurors for their not doing their duty in the deliberations and rushing through the process.  So Jim, you were not there and I do not believe for one moment you are a former juror.  I think your conscience is bothering you, and that is a good thing. Maybe your guardian angel is trying to reach you to come forward and help Dean get his freedom.  I think he has been punished enough for being an idiot gang member in his youth.

A comment from Jim

Someone named Jim responded to my last post, and it was a troubling comment, and an interesting one.  Jim stated that he believes Dean is guilty and he was a juror.  He says that after trial he found out that Dean's story changed from the first trial.  Since this is not true at all, because Dean never testified in the first trial, we wonder who would have mis-informed Jim this . (the prosecutor?)
 We would love to talk with you Jim if you are willing, so we can find out what other mis-information the prosecutor has told you so that you felt right about voting guilty.  Please send us another message if you are willing.   There was so much misconduct in these two trials which made the jury believe things that just were not so.
We hope as time goes by, that you will reflect more on the evidence and non-evidence, the coaching of snitches who are now walking free, and then realize that you are in denial, not us who have known Dean forever, and have lived through this nightmare.
 You can read through the whole trial on the blog, and maybe it will refresh your memory. From reports from other jurors, we know that the men pushed for the verdict and the others were like dazed sheep.  I guess you were one of those, and you want to believe that you were right because, this will stay on your karma for eternity.
 Please contact us again to let us know who told you this lie and what else they have told you.
Deans first trial was totally different with multiple co-defendants, and all remained mum, because they were still under the brainwashed impression that there was no alternative.  No one wanted to be a snitch, and Dean certainly and naively thought the evidence would set him free. He always thought it would.  That is why he returned from Australia, Europe, and the Caribbean for his second trial.  He could have disappeared, but he had faith that intelligent people would see through the crap and follow jury rules about doubt.
   Because Dean never testified, his attorney only showed that jury in the first trial, how mistakes in DNA typing can be made, and the one doing his test was written up for her mistakes and had to go back for re-training.  He left it at that.  The blood spot was very tiny, yet the D.A. with confusing language and direct, led the jury to believe that there were oodles of it.  That was smoke, and our attorney in the second trial did not make that clear to you.
  We his family never found out the truth until we were able to visit him in prison and talk without being recorded, months after the first trial.  We never got to meet with him and talk privately before or during the first trial.  Until, I could talk to Dean, I thought there was evidence tampering, and I still do not rule that out. I wanted to explore that, but the second attorney said it was not necessary. Dean could finally tell us what he told you in trial.  Of course we didn't have his words twisted and the truth bent like you did from the prosecutor.
 Deans biggest mistake was not coming forward right away and telling the police the truth, and helping them solve the case.  But, stupid young gang members just do not do that.  Ones, who really are afraid of serving life in prison (like Roy, who was threatened with that for the crime he committed.), will cooperate with cops. Salazar was a professional snitch, probably still is. Who knows. How did you miss in the trial that both Roy and Salazar , who were in different prisons when interviewed, both said that Raffie and Willie did the crime.?  It wasn't until they were given no deal, and Deans name was thrown in there multiple times, that they switched their story to Raffie and Dean.  
 The point is, life in prison without parole is not what Dean deserves, and we have faith as more and more truth comes out, that he will get out too.
  Maybe one day, you can help make it right for Dean.  Again, please contact us and let us know what else the prosecution team told you after the trial.

Habeas Filed

Well, our family project of the federal Habeas appeal has been filed.  We all pray that it will be read and work in Deans favor.  Strange thing... when I filed it in person at the courthouse, a question came up and the Magistrates clerk was called.  She told the window filer that she remembers my name because someone called her saying they were me and asking questions about the case.  Hmmmmm?????  I told them it wasn't me and I would like to know who would do this and that maybe I should ask the FBI to investigate.  He told me not to worry, that if it happened again, they would check phone records and be on it.  Is this more shenanigans by the prosecution?  Hopefully, the clerk was confusing me with someone else, and it was someone with a similar name.  Time will tell.   Happy Easter everyone......new beginnings.

Life imprisonment

So.... the guy that shot Gabby Gifford and killed six others gets Life in prison.  He has a possibility of parole.  Yet, Dean, convicted in the death of one person and wrongly so, gets life without parole.
If he does not get pardoned or win another trial, he will die one day of old age in prison.  Did his jury even understand this?    I think all of them will one day be in a prison of their own, whether through illness or isolation, and when they are, they can remember their punishment of Dean, and will understand why.  Karma is part of the universe.  No one can escape it. 
 To the snitches who lied, why do you think your lives suck, and why you can never get ahead?  Until you make right what you did to Dean, don't expect any kind of a wonderful life.  Dean is paying karmically for his mistakes right now.  No one can get away from it.