CONCERNED CITIZENS SPEAK OUT

It has been nearly 21 years since Jerry Conard JR was questionably convicted and sentenced to life behind bars for what many concerned citizens and family members have argued as a wrongful imprisonment of one factual innocent of first degree murder in the May 21st, 2000 shooting death of Patrick Allen Brown. Four other men was arrested and charged, and the accused shooter Jamal Wilson was found not guilty. At the trial of Jamal Wilson, a witness testified that she observed Wilson leave the scene approximately 15 minutes before hearing a gunshot; however, this information was willfully suppressed from Mr. Conard’s jury through a lack of investigation by his appointed counsel Terry Weber. Other shocking discoveries have also been presented to Muskogee district court through attorney Debra K. Hampton. Mrs. Hampton recently filed an application for post-conviction relief on October 28th, 2020 requesting Muskogee district court to grant Mr. Conard an evidentiary hearing in the best interest of justice because Mr. Conard is being unlawfully imprisoned. Mrs. Hampton argued in her brief that Muskogee police department made an unlawful arrest of Jerry Conard JR as a material witness and used involuntary statements and other inadmissible evidence obtained through the unlawful arrest to deprive Mr. Conard of his rights to a fair trial. Hampton also argued that the prosecutor knowingly used false testimony to gain its conviction which requires automatic vacation of the sentence and a new trial for her client in the best interest of justice.

            After following Jerry Conard’s story and reading attorney Mrs. Hamptons’ recent filed brief, I find it necessary as a concerned citizen and advocate of justice to bring this type of hidden police corruption and prosecutorial misconduct to the attention of other concerned citizens. “Whereas the innocent suffers the onus of a wrongful conviction.” This truly raises an eyebrow of suspicion and concern. Does our justice system work or maybe it is true that white officers and prosecutors do not believe young black men’s life matter? I like many, many others supports, Mrs. Hampton’s argument, that Jerry Conard JR is factually innocent and was wrongfully convicted at the hands of police corruption, prosecutorial misconduct, and other unlawfully suppressed exculpatory facts that violated his rights to a fair trial and a new trial should be granted.