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Dear Mr. Carl O. Sherman and STATE OF TEXAS

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Cornel Jackie Drummer #00619316

John B. Connally Unit

899 FM 632 Kenedy, TX 78119

Mr. Carl O. Sherman

Texas State Representative

CAPITOL P.O. BOX 2910 

AUSTIN, TX 78768-2910 512-463-0953

Dear Mr. Carl O. Sherman:

     I am in receipt of your letter dated June 27, 2023. I do appreciate you for taking out the time to respond to my letter, in which you have mentioned that I encouraged House Bill 782, relating to authority of a court to reduce or modify a defendant's sentence. This corresponds with HJR - Bill 53, a companion bill that would allow a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for district court to reduce or modify a sentence imposing a term of imprisonment for a person who has served not less than 10 years of the term. Thank you for taking out the time to review the contents of my letter and for submitting it to the Texas State Senate Judiciary - House Committee for their consideration as a House Bill. 

    Accordingly you encouraged me to reach out to the Conviction Integrity Unit to seek a recommendation from that legislative department to recommended to the trial court judge to reduce or modify my sentence. While I do appreciate your encouragement in this regard, please know that - based upon the facts leading up to my arrest, indictment and convictions under cause numbers 1991-CR-1948A (Murder) and 1992-CR-1231 (Delivery of Controlled Substance) - I have diligently complained to all city, county, state and federal officials to conduct an independent investigation - including the Conviction Integrity Unit.

     I am being told that where a thorough review and investigation of my case was conducted, I do not have enough evidence to support my claims of being wrongfully convicted as a result of an evidence fixing scandal. A scandal which has since been identified as being connected to a more widespread "pay-to-play" judge donation campaign, DA favoritism, indigent defense court appointed attorney double billing, grand jury racketeering, racial jury misconduct, and Court of Appeals rubber stamping scandal operation that is responsible for the sending of thousands of innocent men and women to prison and death row for crimes they did not commit. My complaints, however, have been continuously denied. 

    With this in mind, it has been discovered that the Legislatively Enacted (Grant) Conviction Integrity Units have limited their review of an individual case to In House Review Only. That allows them to give only an opinion - not supported by facts - that one's claims are not supported by evidence.

     In the instant case - under trial court NO# 1991-CR-1948A (Murder) - it has long been my complaint that S.A.P.D. Criminal Investigators and Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office (Chief M.E. and Technicians) intentionally, knowingly and deliberately conspired, in a combination with the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney's Office, and made available known falsified government documents, a warrant affidavit, ballistic report, autopsy sketch diagram, fabricated ballistic evidence and false trial testimony known to be false, all of which were designed to corroborate the state's manufactured case against me to make me a party to murder. And mind you, said testimony was the trial coerced trial testimony of a prosecution lone witness whom prosecutors and Criminal Investigators knew was not at the crime scene to witness any of the events he claimed to have witnessed to the racially empaneled jury of 3 white men, 3 white women, 3 Hispanic men and 3 Hispanic women . . . and whose testimony was nothing more than hearsay.

    Pending in the Bexar County District Clerk's Office are two properly filed motions: (1) Motion for Grand Jury Investigation in the Alternative Evidentiary Hearing Based on Newly Discovered Evidence - (evidence fixing scandal) (CR:27-38) filed on August 7, 2007 and (2) Motion for New Trial Based on Lost or Destroyed Records and Exhibits (CR:39-66) filed August 8, 2007 (Trial Court No# 1991-CR-1948A Murder). No actions have been taken by trial court nor the Conviction Integrity Unit.

Under Writ of Habeas Corpus Application No# 15,103-16, it has since been discovered that immediately after my June 12, 1992 conviction, S.A.P.D. Criminal Investigators knowingly destroyed the evidence weapon and its bullet contents to prevent the weapon from being retracted. And, more importantly, according to SAPD Evidence Property Room computer file investigation, the evidence weapon at State's Exhibit #1 had not been released to anyone of an outside agency, including the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office Ballistics Division, to be test fired or compared to State's Exhibit #29 the alleged bullet slug recovered at the autopsy.

And, on October 12, 1994 - two (2) years after my conviction - a former San Antonio Assistant City's Attorney Mr. Chuck Weir sent a MEMO to the S.A.P.D. Criminal Homicide Detective Alvin C. Brown, to meet with him at his office. At the meeting, Mr. Brown was shown the original ballistic report used by Richard F. Stengels on June 10, 1992 - was advised that - such document did not have a bullet slug to the Inside Container portion of form to confirm the test firing comparison of a certain bullet slug to a certain weapon. With this in mind, the Homicide Detective was allowed to use a black/dark permanent marker element to place a DOT to the Inside Container portion of the ballistic document. Furthermore, he was allowed to copy the altered and falsified government document off onto an S.A.P.D. copier machine so that said document would show something to the Inside Container portion resembling a bullet slug.

Immediately thereafter, the Assistant City's Attorney sent me the altered ballistic report to use in challenging the legalities of my confinement. And, knowingly removed the entire S.A.P.D. Criminal Investigative files from the open records division and sent them directly to the Office of the Texas Attorney General with permission to withhold from public review. (See: Civil Rights Complaint No# 5:23-00389OLG [Cornel Jackie Drummer V. Ken Paxton ET.AL - U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, at San Antonio.

Let the record reflect, pending in the office of the Bexar County Conviction Integrity Unit is a request for a recommendation to the 144th Judicial District Court Judge to recommended to the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles to grant me a favorable decision FI-1 for immediate release pending further investigation. In support of this request, let the record reflect, in 2014 - under the DA administration of Nicholas Lahood, the Bexar County Conviction Integrity Unit made a recommendation to the District Court Judge to recommended to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant Yurtman a favorable decision FI-1 for immediate release pending further investigation. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles complied with the court's recommendation and granted Yurtman FI-1 immediate release pending further investigation.

In the instant case, the Conviction Integrity Unit claims, however, that I do not have enough evidence to support my claims of being wrongfully convicted due to an evidence fixing scandal.

With this in mind, let the record reflect, without any Legislative Oversight Review Committee into the function of the Conviction Integrity Unit, a lack of integrity and transparency overshadows the Legislative process into the proper functions of its established Conviction Integrity Units statewide. It is this process that opens the doors for some and shuts the doors on others under the same and/or similar circumstances. This same reasoning applies to an Application for a Commutation of Sentence - where certain applications are submitted for judicial review and others are not.

    With this in mind, it is my request to you, and all Texas State Representatives and Senators alike, to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the Bexar County Conviction Integrity Unit's discretionary recommendation to the Convicting Court in the case of Ursan Yurtman where it recommended to the Texas board of Pardons and Paroles a favorable decision FI-1 immediate release, and to make an inquiry into the case of Cornel Jackie Drummer into the Conviction Integrity Unit's refusal to conduct an investigation into the facts herein and to make the same recommendation to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant me a favorable decision FI-1 for immediate release, based upon the facts and circumstances of my case of being victimized by the Bexar County evidence fixing scandal.

If you have any questions concerning this matter please don't hesitate to contact me.

For further information go to DA Crew Podcast (Queen of Collaboration: Angela Thomas Smith).VVFree Texas Campaign..We Are The Change We Desire (FreeTexasCampaign@gmail.com). Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,

Cornel Jackie Drummer

TDCJ & STATE OF TEXAS ............. Depression Behind Prison Walls

  Mental Health

Mental Health in T.D.C.J. seems nonexistent. Sure they have some people with clipboards who publicly come by their "patients" to talk to them or check up on them, but this is public. A lot of the guys don't want to be embarrassed by their "Issues" so they don't really engage as they should. Sometimes the people with clipboards pass out some crossword puzzles - Great! Now all our mental problems will go away if we complete this puzzle.

Personally, I counsel some of these guys, my peers. Oftentimes a lot can be talked about when a person knows they have someone they can rely upon to listen to them. For felons, prisoners, convicts, we are only seen as a number to officers. When things become crucial we are then reclassified as Animals - if it escalates even more, Monsters. We are dehumanized so much the actual concept of rehabilitation to reenter society as law abiding positive productive citizens seems to be a mockery.

A problem I've viewed is lack of care. Most people in the realm of prison who are not prisoners wish only to collect their checks and "do their time": Oh, you're depressed are you, well take these "Dan Dans," you will sleep easier and I can move on to the next one. That stuff, whatever it is, numbs the emotions, but one can still access the emotions. That's not helping. There is no care to understand. This same lack of care is reciprocated back into the prisoners. Who have issues. None care so why care? This brings up one of the major. Mental Health Issues in prison. Depression.

Depression is defined by the Webster's Collegiate dictionary as "A psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, and extreme feelings of sadness, dejection, and helplessness." I think everybody I know in prison - officers and staff included - has experienced a little depression. It's so common to us that we don't recognize it when we are going through it. So here we are supposedly rehabilitating prisoners to return to society and be positive productive members??? Inmates come in broken, dwell where more broken people are and become even more broken, only to return better broken to society?!! That seems like a setup for recidivism.

Failure frequently leads to depression. Obviously all criminals have failed at being positive productive members of society. This needs to be addressed on so many levels. "How did you get to this place - What events led up to this - What thought process did you use - etc." A lot of individuals in prison do not take responsibility for their actions, they have never been taught or what they have been taught mimics what we see on our everyday media - I digress -

According to Albert Bandura there are three self regulatory subfunctions of dysfunctional depression. Self Observation, Judgemental Process and Self Reactions. First, during Self Observation, people misjudge their own performance or distort their memory of accomplishments. Depressed people tend to exaggerate their past mistakes and minimize their prior accomplishments. This perpetuates or adds fuel to their depression.

Second, with the Judgmental Process, depressed people are likely to make faulty judgments. They set their standards unrealistically high so that any personal accomplishments will be judged as a failure. Even when they achieve success in the eyes of others, they continue to berate their own performance. Depression is especially likely when goals and personal standards are much higher than their perception to achieve them.

Finally, the Self Reactions of depressed individuals are very much different from those of non depressed people. Depressed people not only judge themselves harshly but they are also inclined to treat themselves badly for their shortcomings. Hmm. In prison many can't see past the numbers or letters in their sentence so goals are never set. Many can't see that their choices were wrong so no morals can be set. Many lack the support - positive support of people who wish them to do and be better. Many do not know what to do upon release from this prison so they revel in what they knew, distorting reality with fanciful dreams. Many experience loss and have no outlets. All of this perpetuates depression.

I'm not licensed or anything, I've picked up a few books but I'm far from an expert... I do see a rehabilitation problem though. I do see recidivism ratios explained. I don't see actual care from a system that should be rehabilitating or at least identifying a problem. Medicine only works if used properly. Listening and communicating has rarely failed. Just saying though!

Andrew Lee Beard

To: All Elected City and County Officials:

To: Elected Officials of the 

City of San Antonio,

County of Bexar, Texas

 In re: Complaint and request for a thorough and independent criminal investigation into a joint SAPD/Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office Evidence Fixing Scandal, under case assignment No# 90673179, M.E.# 1726-90, Trial Court # 1991-CR-1948A [Murder] The State of Texas V. Cornell Jackie Drummer, Civil Action No# SA-23-CV-00389-OLG Cornell Jackie Drummer V. Ken Paxton.

 To: All Elected City and County Officials:

     In reference to the above complaint and on behalf of the citizens of San Antonio and Bexar county, Texas, despite complaints being filed with City, County, State and Federal authorities, it has been brought to our attention that a massive evidence fixing scandal and corrupt judicial operation has been playing out in your City/County for more than three decades without an independent investigation. And, it has further been discovered that this operation is also associated with bribery, DA favoritism, indigent defense court appointed attorney double billing, grand jury racketeering, racial jury misconduct, and a "Pay-to-Play" judge donation campaign. 

    Because this corruption has been going on for far too long, and the people of the City of San Antonio and Bexar County, Texas deserve better justice and accountability, we are calling on elected City and County Officials to launch an immediate investigation into the corruption within the Texas Judicial system that has undermined the confidence and integrity of the Bexar County Judicial system. This investigation should be conducted by the Department of Justice, and should be headed by United States Attorney General Merrick Garland.

     We believe that he is the appropriate authority to investigate this matter, as he has the necessary resources and expertise to uncover the truth. We also urge the city and county officials to present this matter to the United States Attorney General so that he may take swift and decisive action to ensure that all individuals responsible for the corruption are held accountable. We must ensure that justice is served and that all individuals are treated fairly under the law. 

`   In furtherance, we call on our legislators to address any and all corruption that has been going on within our Texas Criminal Justice system and that has been left unchecked for far too long. We urge our representatives to take action and pass legislation that will help to end this corruption. 

    We believe that the Texas Attorney General should also be responsible for addressing this issue. He should work with legislators to craft a plan of action that will help to eliminate this problem within the Texas Criminal Justice system and ensure that the people of Texas are protected from the corruption that has been taking place. We trust that he will take the necessary steps to ensure that justice is served and that the people of Texas can trust their government.

     Should you have any questions regarding this matter please do not hesitate to contact me. 

For further information go to DA Crew Podcast (Queen of Collaboration: Angela Thomas Smith). 

Free Texas Campaign... We Are The Change We Desire. Thank you for your attention. 

Sincerely, Cornel Jackie Drummer 

TDCJ# 00619316

 John B. Connally Unit 

899 FM 632 

Kenedy, Texas 78119