By signing this petition, you would be supporting this letter that will be submitted to Governor Phil Murphy (NJ)  addressing the case of Kai the Hitchhiker asking that he be granted clemency.

We, the undersigned, respectfully ask that you exercise your executive power to grant clemency/pardon to Caleb L. McGillvary. The world knows Caleb as "Kai the Hitchhiker"; from the news interview he gave in California, where he saved a crowd of people of color from an attack by a criminally insane white supremacist. After his interview, hundreds of fans invited him to their homes for drinks and a place to stay. 3 months after he saved those people, a lawyer named Joseph Galfy invited Kai from Times Square to his house in Clark, NJ.
Galfy drugged Kai's drink, then sexually assaulted Kai while he was unconscious. When he awoke on the floor, he fought off Galfy from underneath. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Galfy died from his injuries.
The investigation was marred by the fact of the rapist being a past president of the local police union in charge of the crime scene. The investigators destroyed the carpet on which the rapist was found; without testing the urine stain under his chest for rape metabolites. They destroyed pill bottles from the fridge and drinking glasses from the dishwasher; instead of testing them for drug residue. They destroyed the evidence knowing that if it showed Kai's drink was drugged; and he urinated out of fear; with those same drugs in his urine in the carpet: Kai would be exonerated and found innocent under NJSA 2C:2-8(d) and/or 2C:3-4.
The rapist wasn't just president of the police union in the small township wherein 90% of that County's judges reside; he was also friends and business partners with many judges, prosecutors, and lawyers in that County. For this reason, Kai sought to change the venue in which trial was held. However, instead of transferring the case to a different County, the Union County authorities held Kai for 6 years without trial in Union County Jail; then forced him to go to trial with a lawyer he sought to self-represent instead of.
From the beginning of trial, our constitution was violated by the Union County Judiciary. The judge banned cameras in the courtroom, violating America's right to a public trial. The judge systematically excluded every juror that had been sexually assaulted, or had family who had been sexually assaulted; but prohibited Kai from even asking about, much less excluding, any jurors who had been ACCUSED of sexual assault.
Half the jury was black; but the judge refused to allow Kai to present evidence of saving people of color from a white supremacist attack. Instead, the defense counsel foisted upon Kai; called a witness who bragged about defending ku klux klansmen who dragged a black man to death behind a pickup truck. That so-called counsel refused to present any expert testimony about drug residue or carpet stain analysis; instead asking the judge to shift the burden of proving guilt or innocence onto Kai; then telling the jury "my client is full of crap. He did this intentionally."
Even after all that, the jurors expressed a reluctance to convict Kai; shifted burden of proof notwithstanding. They sent a note to the judge asking for clarification on passion/provocation manslaughter (which carries a 10 year maximum sentence, as opposed to murder's 30 year mandatory minimum). In response, the judge practically directed them to their verdict, by telling them: "passion/provocation is basically murder."
At this point, even if Kai were to get a speedy public trial in a different county; allowed to represent himself; provided a nondiscriminatory jury venire; judged by the proper standard of innocent unless proven guilty; and given a jury verdict without interference by a biased judiciary: Kai can never find a substitute for the carpet, drinking glasses, and pill bottles that were destroyed by the friends of the rapist. Those friends of the rapist should have immediately recused themselves from supervising the crime scene. If Kai could show residue of beer and GHB in the drinking glass; his saliva/DNA on the rim of that glass; GHB powder in the pill bottles; Galfy's fingerprints on the pill bottles; and drug metabolites from the GHB in Kai's urine in the carpet under the rapist's chest: any reasonable juror would see the obvious truth. The truth is that Galfy poured rape drugs into Kai's beer; Kai drank the drugged beer; and Kai was under the effects of those drugs when he urinated underneath the rapist.
For all these reasons, we believe that the conviction of first degree murder was so out-of-line with our Constitution; that the only remedy to restore public faith in law and order, is an executive clemency/pardon.
We therefore respectfully ask you to grant an executive clemency/pardon to Caleb L. McGillvary aka "Kai the Hitchhiker "