Disreputable DA to
Free Innocent Prisoner
By: Sandra Feigley
Publisher/Cofounder
Charles T. Dubbs was convicted of 2 notorious rapes in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was innocent. Just about everybody knew he was innocent. Even after another man, a serial rapist, Wilber Cyrus Brown, confessed to the sexual assaults, the Lancaster DA, Donald R. Totaro, one of Pennsylvania's many Mike Nifong-like prosecutors, refused to have the innocent man released. His catty Nancy Grace-like deputy persecutor (and I do mean persecutor), Heidi Eakin, asserted that it wasn't her job to free the innocent man. Her job was apparently only to railroad the innocent man. Pennsylvania is rotten with very bad and unjust prosecutors / persecutors. To them, guilt is not really important. What's important is if they can nail someone (anyone) for a crime. As long as their records look good and somebody goes to jail, DAs of the Heidi Eakin type don't seem to really care if they get the right guy. They often don't get the right guy. When the proper Lancaster County authorities failed/refused to meet their legal obligations by petitioning for the release of the innocent victim of their incompetent bungling, Charles Dubbs (called "Tex") had to struggle along as well as he could on his own. With help from jailhouse lawyers in state prison, he filed a so-called Post Conviction Petition. Such petitions never succeed. They're intended to fail. It's part of Pennsylvania's phony "justice" system. Pennsylvania thrives on hypocrisy in place of justice. Through much of this injustice, a reporter, Pete Shellem, seems to have realized that Mr. Dubbs wasn't guilty. He pressured Lancaster authorities. They didn't like being exposed for their disinterest in getting the person really guilty of the sex crimes. They just wanted it to look like they'd done their job. Pete Shellem is a long-time reporter for The Patriot-News, the right-wing rag in Harrisburg, the Unfriendly City, capital of Pennsylvania. Mr. Shellem is one of the very few good things that can be said about the Patriot and its conservative ("Alabama of the North") staff. After a very tentative start, Mr. Shellem has proven himself to be a remarkable force for correcting legal injustice. He overcame his regrettable exploitation of sensationalism and has become a genuine conscience for justice.
In every case, the prosecutors, district attorneys and cops fought to keep the innocent persons in prison. They didn't much care that the guy was innocent. Persecutors such as Eakin and Totaro are common in Pennsylvania. Conviction, not justice is apparently their main interest. The Pennsylvania courts are corrupt. That's especially true of of the criminal courts. Crooked prosecutors with crooked courts is a recipe for injustice. Who can respect such a system? With sexual crimes such as rape, it's essential to remember that women lie and, of course, girls lie even more. There are many false rape accusations. But sexual crimes are sensational and sleazy. They're ideal for exploitation by the media. It's like masturbation, sexual fantasy. Like others, Pete Shellem had a fixation on sexual crimes, the juicier, the better. Something happened, maybe his sex life improved and he didn't need the vicarious thrill of other persons' sexualities to knead his libido. What even happened to Mr. Shellem, Charles "Tex" Dubbs and other Pennsylvania prisoners, not to mention this webside, appreciate his efforts and successes. Too many people actually believe the myth that the justice system works, that cops and prosecutors are decent, honest people. Once Mr. Shellem got over that fiction, he started to see some of the corruption and injustice as it really is. More persons have to realize that, like any big business, the business of law enforcement only works when the public keeps it honest. Again, in behalf of all prisoners, www.prisoners.com thanks Pete Shellem.
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Many prisoners are not guilty of the crimes for which they're
in Pennsylvania prisons - MANY, about 1 in every 7 is not really
guilty. Mr. Shellem has managed to free a number of those innocent
prisoners including 3 who were doing life for murders they didn't
commit.