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Please help us contact:

The Governor of Kentucky https://governor.ky.gov

The President https://www.whitehouse.gov/

To Vacate or set aside his conviction.

Doug Vance has been in jail since October 13 2022 for non violent offenses We are trying to get him home until his sentencing date please help us by signing this petition and emailing the Senator and Governor on his behalf.  Thank you all so much. 

In mid 2020 my husband was indicted in the Eastern District of Kentucky for two counts of conspiracy and four counts of wire fraud 

case# 5:20-CR-063-DCR

He was arranged on July 22 2020 where he pleaded not guilty. On may 25 2022 he appeared in court for communicating with a potential witness. His conditions of release was amended and he was put on home detention and made to wear a GPS monitor on his ankle.The potential witness was never called to testify in the criminal proceedings yet he remained under the amended conditions until October,13 which was the last day of the trial and the day he was taken into custody. During this time many Jury members would see him enter and exit the Courthouse daily. 

Trial started on October, 4 2022. Of the 16 witnesses 7 gave false statements. 1 answered questions relating to charge 5 for a witness that wasn’t even in court and only 5 was directly related to the charges and or money transactions.

A key piece of exculpatory evidence was not allowed to be admitted (denying the Jury the chance to see this critical piece of evidence relating to his innocence) the evidence was a letter given to him by the co-defendant in November of 2018 saying he knew nothing of the events that had taken place. His co-defendant requested he give it to his attorney and decide what to do from there.

On December, 19 2018 in a recorded call with the FBI agent and himself he told the Agent about the letter he said he would let the prosecutor know and get back to him after the first of the year to schedule a site down with himself, prosecutor, my husbands attorney and my husband (Doug) but none of that ever happened.

To the best of his memory this was the last time the letter was mentioned until the criminal proceedings when the agent was asked about the letter by the prosecutor he replied he never got it so at this point they both alleged my husband had lied.

When his Attorney tried to present the letter the court ruled it not admissible despite the fact the co-defendants willingness to testify she did in fact draft the letter.

On October, 13 2022 my husband was convicted and sent to jail to wait on sentencing February, 2023. I’m told it is very rare that a person convicted of non violent white collar crime goes to jail before sentencing. 

Of the 16 alleged victims the prosecution has listed, 4 was customers, 6 told agent they was not victims, 2 are listed multiple times on the potential victim list. Of the 6 charges he was indicted on, 3 are based on transactions to and from accounts he was not even part of.

Had the co-defendant been given the opportunity to testify about her letter she could have and certainly would have cleared my husbands name of all charges.

I have mentioned only a few of the many discrepancies that took place during the investigation and trial but there are many more I will be sharing. We will fight hard to gain his freedom and get him home to his family that love and miss him very much.

My Prayers are that enough people will come together and enable us to do so and that someone with authority will take a better look at this case exposing it for what it truly is.
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Thank you all so much for your help!