Charlie Square Jr.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 1750 Harbor Drive

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Apt. 205

                                                                                                                                                                                                   Slidell, Louisiana 70458

                                                                                                                                                                                                    January 21, 2025

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Charliesquare7@gmail.com    

                                                                                                                                                                                                    985-445-2950

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to request your help or service to assist my family and me. My son Daleshonne Square, was incarcerated in February of 2012. And because his name might be pronounced wrong, it sounds like (Delshon). His DOC# is 00573565. He is serving time at Allen Correctional Facility in Kinder Louisiana. I am fighting to get his sentence reduced from 45 years in prison. In February he will be in prison for 13 years. Delshon has never served any time in prison before and he has no juvenile criminal record. He didn’t grow up in Louisiana, so there would be no criminal track record to suggest that he should be sentenced to such an excessive sentence as 45 years. Delshon is my oldest son, he has two brothers Damien and Dontae. My sons traveled around with me as I served in the Army. They were young when we were in Schweinfurt, Germany. We left Germany in 1991, and I then served at Fort Hood in Texas. Delshon and Damien graduated from Kemp High School in Kemp, Texas. Delshon, Dontae, and I moved from Kemp, Texas to Louisiana in the summer of the year 2006. Slidell, Louisiana is where I grew up, where I graduated high school, and where I enlisted for military service in 1974. Dontae finished his last year, 12th grade at the school where I attended, Salmen High School. He then went on to college at Southeast University in Hammond under a scholarship to play basketball. Delshon was trying to find work in Slidell, but work was scarce or slow, due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. There was violence and chaos for years after Katrina. Delshon was 21 when we arrived in Slidell, LA. When he was sentenced to prison he was 27 years old. The people of Louisiana don’t deserve the fowl leadership that we get coming in and out of the government of Louisiana, and I would even suspect that a lot of its institutions are just as fowl. The crime that Delshon committed was to hold up a pizza delivery person with a pistol. That was completely out of his character. That’s why I believe the crime was drug-induced. I believe Louisiana is just another sanctuary for drug dealers. The job situation is inadequate, the justice system is inadequate, the politicians are inadequate, and even the education system is inadequate. The people who live here deserve better. My son, and many others in prison in Louisiana are victims of an inadequate system, and the minorities, especially black men and women are victims also of racial discrimination. It Has been this way for as long as I can remember. The worst part is the colonization of people here all over Louisiana. When people are afraid of change, they implement laws that oppress and suppress the things that they are afraid of. The people who are in power call this strangling of the people, power or control, but I call it fear and incompetence. I hired John Thomas, an attorney to represent my son when he first got arrested. I didn’t realize John Thomas was a failed attorney, and a racist bigot until during my son’s jury trial John Thomas allowed the prosecutor to badger and threaten my son with 99 years in prison. John Thomas said nor did anything to intervene or allow for a trial that could analyze the condition my son was in and offer a way to help correct his behavior. His trial could have allowed for a condition for a first-time prison sentence with less time rather than one that takes away the entire life of a young man. That’s exactly what racist bigots do. They seek to destroy rather than to assess the problem and implement a solution that could have allowed for rehabilitation. Either that was too much work or it didn’t align with their interest. The prosecutor and the lawyer knew that according to Delson’s record, he didn’t know anything about that kind of pressure and that he would not make it through the entire process to get a verdict from the jury. I filed a complaint to the Board about John Thomas’s ineffective and deliberate form of counseling. The other villain in my son’s trial was Judge August J. Hand, in my opinion, because he just sat there through the trial as though it was a show and not a legal process in a court of law. The other powers of law that hurt my son’s case indirectly were the Governor, Bobby Jindal, Walter Reed the District Attorney, and Jack Strain the Sheriff. Walter was later convicted of 19 different counts of racketeering, mail fraud, and other criminal activity. Jack Strain was also convicted of crimes and is still serving time in prison. I said all that to indicate what a foul system we live under, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I refuse to let Delshon stay in prison for the time he has been sentenced to. I turn 70 years old next month, (February), and in the same month, my son will spend another year in prison. I am taking college classes right now to study law at Regent University. I started in January of this year. I am determined to fight this case with everything I have in me. I am asking you to help us, My sons, their mother Cowanius Zackery, our Grandchildren, and Delshon.

Very Truly Yours

Charlie Monroe Square Jr.