Ryan — 
November 24, 2008 @ 12:17 PM — 
On Sunday, the the editorial board of Florida Today called for Governor Crist to look into the actions of the Brevard County District Attorney’s office, which reek of misconduct and corruption. They called for:
A state probe ordered by Gov. Charlie Crist into possible repeated miscarriages of justice at the State Attorney’s Office, including in the cases of Dillon and Wilton Dedge, convicted of rape in 1981 but freed in 2004 after DNA evidence proved the Port St. John man’s innocence… And of Juan Ramos, who was tried and sentenced to death for rape and murder in 1983 in Brevard, although no physical evidence linked him to the crime. Ramos was acquitted in 1987.
The editors added: “Prosecutors’ mishandling of the cases follows an ugly pattern of incompetence and impropriety that cries out for investigation.” Florida Today correctly observes that there is “overwhelming justification” for a probe. But the evidence goes beyond justification to the creation of an imperative: It would be negligent at this point for the Governor to ignore his duty to the public to make sure that the laws and the Constitution are faithfully enforced.
Today, reasonable people are making the conclusion that Brevard county systemically engages in corruption and collusion. We previously called for an investigation when Dillon was granted a new trial. Governor Crist ought to step up and call for a thorough investigation of those practices that put Dillon and other innocent people behind bars. Justice demands it.
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Whoever does the investigation should note how many DUIs of the mid-1990s were due to a .15% blood alcohol level.
I got pulled for a burnt out taillight in 1995 after drinking ONE BEER. The State Trooper smelled the beer and asked me to perform a field sobriety test, which I did. He said I passed the test, but he wanted to take a breath test. I said, “No problem”. Two Deputy Sheriffs drove me out to a power generator station and gave me the test. I blew a .15.
I went to the States Attorneys Office and requested all the information they had on the testing equipment. They told me that information was not available to the public. I called (then) Governor Bob Graham who in turn called their office. They reluctantly gave me paperwork to File For Discovery, which I did.
According to the equipment manual, if the machine is used within 50 feet of a power source, such as a generator, it would register a .15 “even if the subject had zero blood alcohol content”.
I got to see my Public Defender for the first time fifteen minutes before the trial. He had been on vacation. He asked me how I got all the information I had. He told me I was going to jail if convicted. In walked seven State Troopers and two equipment “experts” to tesify against me. I had no choice but to accept a plea bargain.
The whole ordeal cost me my job, my girlfriend. and a couple thousand dollars in time and fines.
IN 2006 my friend Rolando Torres came from Cuba for organ donor, and his roomate was under prescription and drunk ,hullucination when his ex husband came to her house and argument with her but she was confuise and my friend was arrest after that the Tampa court give him LIFE because she declared all her bad dreams but he is innocent and we not going to stop help him we know is too mush ,corruption in 13 Judicial Cout. that not doind the investigation in his case.
In 1992 I was wrongfully accused of driving a car involved in an accident in Brevard Co., I had been drinking but not driving. A woman on the scene heard the drivers side door slam shut (after I kicked it shut) and looked up and saw me standing there and assumed I had just got out of the car. When the police showed up she told them I was the driver, I was arrested and my life pretty much ended that night. The guy that was seen driving minutes before the accident left the state to avoid prosecution a few days later. When asked to point out the driver, the woman pointed at me and said, ” I saw him just like this’ (holding her hand in front of her face). My attorney asked no questions at this time and told me I would go to jail if I didn;t plead no contest. He said ” plea no contest and “we’ll file an appeal”. No appeal, instead, my life has been hell ever since. All because of one womans assumption,
In 2007, My Husband was the victim of being accused of being a DUI driver that sent himself and two other victims to the hospital with serious injuries. There were people seen directly around the the accident scene and yet nowhere to be found or interviewed (the driver was in the mix) My husband was not the driver. Police reports were falsefied compiled “evidence” against him was also falsefied. There is a lot of information that is not being used and false information is being used against him. My Husband has been locked in jail for the past two years his bond was originally set at $ 500.000.00 for a DUI case.
I trusted the police until what I seen on the police report was false and then I look at the injuries of my Husband. The photos that I have can verify that he was in the passenger seat. until almost a year after his arrest that I got to listen to the Officer interviews with the people involved and the 911 calls is also a conformation of his innocents. We are getting the iron fist of the corruption of Brevard County. My Husband is still in jail if found guilty he will get 20 + years for a crime he did not commit.
Please help us
Im glad someone has created a forum to expose the Brevard County Sheriff’s office for what it is. Brevard County lost a PHENOMENAL teacher because of the BCSO. Bad for Brevard, great for Miami-Dade.
FRY THESE BASTARDS!!