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