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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 338
US Attorney Robert Merckle stated: “It is a result oriented process today, fairness be
damned.... A federal prosecutor is a political animal, his boss is politically ambitious, he is being
pressured for budgetary purposes to get statistics and that causes them to prosecute absolutely
bogus cases to get those statistics.”
Former US Prosecutor Thomas Dillard stated: “For it to get to the point where
prosecutors honestly believe that they are immune from state ethical standards, honestly believe
that purchasing witness testimony at any cost and they honestly believe that a grand jury is their
own little forum, all that is bizar.”
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Purchasing testimony leads to the conviction of the innocent. Judge Napolitano says that
not only do prosecutors regularly purchase testimony but they sometimes use it to convict people
they know are completely innocent law abiding citizens. While they convict and put law abiding
citizens away for long prison terms they let drug dealers, murderers and hit men go free.
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Prosecutorial misconduct has often been sited by individual judges and appellate court
panels as a factor when dismissing charges at trial, reversing convictions or reducing sentences.
An exhaustive study of prosecutorial misconduct across the United States conducted by Steve
Weinberg, a veteran investigative journalist, working closely with Attorney Neil Gordon, writer
Brooke Williams and a team of researchers with the Center for Public Integrity, found that at
least 2,017 such cases occurred since 1970. The nature of this misconduct includes:
Courtroom misconduct (making inappropriate or inflammatory comments
in the presence of the jury; introducing or attempting to introduce
inadmissible, inappropriate or inflammatory evidence; mischaracterizing
the evidence or the facts of the case to the court or jury; committing
violations pertaining to the selection of the jury; or making improper
closing arguments);
Mishandling of physical evidence (hiding, destroying or tampering with
evidence, case files or court records);
Failing to disclose exculpatory evidence;
Threatening, badgering or tampering with witnesses;
Using false or misleading evidence;
Harassing, displaying bias toward, or having a vendetta against the
defendant or defendant’s counsel (including selective or vindictive
prosecution, which includes instances of denial of a speedy trial);
Improper behavior during grand jury proceedings.
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But while over 2,017 cases have been overturned, most misconduct goes undiscovered,
unchallenged, or uncensured. In 1940, former Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice,
Robert Jackson stated: “The federal prosecutor has more power over life, liberty, and reputation
than any other person in America.”
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This power has resulted in a 98% conviction rate for federal indictees.
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Terry Reed
learned this fact when he was defending himself against a federal indictment in which he had
been framed by the federal government. He was a contract CIA agent and after he discovered the
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