From Justice for Keith LaMar...
Dear friends/supporters,
Please take a moment to read this VERY IMPORTANT
update in Keith's case: Late last week, court-appointed counsel for
Keith/Bomani filed paperwork requesting the Sixth Circuit Court of
Appeals remove them from his case. We aren't sure exactly on what basis
these requests were made (perhaps they read his book?); nonetheless,
Keith is happy at this news, because he had lost all confidence in his
legal team back in 2012 and hasn't really even spoken to them since (see
below for the explanation why).
Here's what Keith needs from
us, his supporters: We have a slim window of time to appeal to the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund to step in and assume his case,
before the court assigns him new legal counsel who could potentially be
very green and unprepared for what lies very nearly ahead. We have to
operate under the assumption that the courts will allow his lawyers to
come off his case, thus we want to pursue the NAACP now. Perhaps with
our positive pressure, they'll be more inclined to agree to become his
counsel.
ACTION STEP: Would you please commit to sending a letter of encouragement to the NAACP on our dear brother's behalf?
It
does not need to be a long, complicated letter. Rather, it should
simply ask/encourage the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
namely Atty. Christina Swarns, to please consider Keith LaMar's case
very seriously and step in during this most critical stage. You can add
anything else you personally want to say, of course. Here's the address:
Atty. Christina Swarns
Litigation Director
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
40 Rector Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10006
We
thank you in advance. Keith is very much heartened by this latest turn
of events, because his hope is to finally gain a team who will actually
fight for him, something any of us would want for ourselves or our loved
ones.
In solidarity,
Keith and the team
PS--Please
let us know when you have sent out a letter --we'd like to gauge how
much pressure has been applied on the NAACP for proper follow-up. Thank
you!
The Lucasville Uprising was a rebellion against oppressive and racist policies at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, OH. Nine inmates and one guard died during the uprising in April of 1993. Today, many people are serving time or condemned to death by the state of Ohio in relation to the uprising. We demand amnesty for all of these inmates. The conditions at SOCF were (and still are) intolerable and unconscionable.
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