
Jack HellerHuntington, IN, United States
Jan 26, 2017
Friends,
Please call Governor Eric Holcomb's office today to offer your support of a pardon for Keith Cooper:
317-232-4567
Besides on this petition site, I have shared this effort with everyone at the university where I teach and on all of my social media sites. I hope that this effort has a big impact, and you can help it to. Please do.
People have often commented on where Keith Cooper should look for a lawyer. In fact, he has had a lawyer all along in this effort, one who practices law in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky for both the Exoneration Project and the Innocence Project. He recently had a big success in Kentucky, but again with a case that the slow wheels of justice have disadvantaged the already disadvantaged. This link is to a letter Keith's lawyer had sent to former Governor Pence laying out clearly and concisely the consequences Keith had experience while in prison and continues to experience today as a wrongly convicted person: http://exonerationprojectblog.org/post/141213896451/pardon-me-governor-pence. Let's make it clear: Keith should be pardoned today. Let there be thousands of us who say so.
Post in the comments about how your phone calls go.
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I have also been thinking about this petition itself recently. It targets Mike Pence, who is now no longer able to pardon Keith. I don't know the rules of this site for editing a petition that has been ongoing for as long as this one has. If I can edit it this weekend, I will to reflect Eric Holcomb as the target of the effort, providing his contact information, and maybe posting a new photo. However, if I am unable to edit this petition, then I think it is time to close this one down and starting a new one directed towards Holcomb. Furthermore, though I know that 113,000 people have signed this petition, I haven't been able to draw upon the help of the thousands in months. I appreciate every signature we've gotten, but we need to revitalize the action. Please call today, and be looking out for either changes to this petition or a new petition.
Cheers,
Jack Heller
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