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</font><font face="arial" size=4><b>North Carolina Justice<br>
Syndicated by Eddie Hatcher, Native American Political Prisoner<br>
© 2004<br><br>
</b></font><font face="arial" size=2>Nineteen years. What is nineteen
years? How much is 19 years of life worth? Rephrase - how much is 19
years of your life worth? Whatever your answer may be, it’s not enough.
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>What if you had to include in the 19
years, things like living through 19 years under the strongman racist
tactics of prison guards; dictating every single move you make;
constantly badgering you; talking down to you; threatening you;
destroying what few personal items you may have; forced to eat slop you
wouldn’t feed your dog; all of this, day after day after day, for 19
straight years. Nineteen years of living in a real modern day torture
chamber. Now, back to the third question, how much is 19 years of this
worth? The answer remains - not enough. Millions! Tens of millions!
Hundreds of millions! What?<br>
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Well, the state of North Carolina, if it’s governed by anyone with the
least bit of decency, the least bit of integrity, the faintest whisper of
Godliness, the smallest tiddle of their mother’s raisings, should open
the state’s checkbook and begin writing all of the zeroes it can, to
follow the largest digit to pay Darrell Hunt. Still, the state of NC
could never reimburse Darrell for the hell, the vile, unimaginable hell
this state has forced him to endure.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>In 1984 Debbie Sykes, a copy editor for
The Winston-Salem Journal and only 25 years old, was raped and killed.
Darrell was quickly picked up and charged even though there was no
evidence whatsoever implicating Darrell to the crime. Racist attitudes
being what they are in NC, especially in a city like Winston-Salem, it
was not a difficult process for Forsyth County Prosecutor Tom Keith to
get a conviction against Darrell. He was sentenced to life in prison, all
alone proclaiming his innocence.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>The NC Court of Appeals found some
Prosecutorial Misconduct in his trial, albeit refusing to call it that,
and gave Darrell a new trial. This time, the trial was moved to an even
more redneck locale, Catawba County, home of Hickory, NC. Prosecutor Tom
Keith, not wanting to take any chance for an acquittal, dreamed up a new,
bizarre scenario claiming before God and the jury that Darrell had had
two accomplices, thus, the reason there was no physical evidence linking
Darrell to the crime. The jury quickly swallowed that larger than life
turd and again, convicted Darrell. He was sentence to Life still
proclaiming his innocence.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>I know Darrell. We were housed at SCI
back in 1991. It didn’t take a brain surgeon to know this man was
innocent. It was written all over him. He appeared innocent, was
innocent, but what makes this so disgusting is that Prosecutor Tom Keith
knew as well Darrell was innocent. <br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>In 1994 with the arrival of DNA Darrell
filed to have the semen found in Sykes to be tested with his DNA. After
lengthy and countless court battles where NC judges adamantly fought to
block the DNA tests, the test was finally allowed and guess what? The
semen found, the only semen found, in Sykes was without a doubt not
Darrell Hunt’s. Since 1994, practically ten years now, even while knowing
Darrell’s DNA was no match, Prosecutor Tom Keith fought tooth and nail to
keep Darrell in prison. Now, according to Keith, Darrell was not
the one who raped Sykes, he just murdered her. For ten years Keith and
the NC government placed obstacle upon obstacle in Darrell’s path,
constantly putting up roadblocks, these racist, debased judges, refusing
to allow the semen DNA to be checked against the state’s database.
Eventually, just recently, the test finally happened and a match was
found.<br>
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The match led to a man who Winston-Salem police had suspected in a rape
in 1985, the year after Sykes’ murder. This past week the suspect
was arrested for the rape and murder of Sykes, and upon his arrest he
willingly admitted that Darrell was not even present when he raped and
killed Sykes. You’d think Keith and judges across this state would be
breaking their necks to get to the courthouse to order Darrell’s release.
But the opposite ruled. Now, Keith said just because the suspect said
Darrell had nothing to do with Sykes’ murder didn’t make it true. You may
need to read that sentence again then think of all the so-called
confessions Keith has jumped on in his career.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Being the forthright, upstanding man
that he is, Keith submitted and agreed to Darrell’s release on Christmas
Eve, stating, “He would have been up for parole in a few months
anyway.” He would continue to investigate until the February
hearing to determine whether to re-try Darrell. But, Keith must have done
a Christmas Day investigation as just days later Keith now wishes to meet
and talk with Darrell about how sometimes mistakes are made.<br>
No, no, no, Keith doesn’t need to talk with Darrell, somebody, like God,
needs to talk to Keith. God needs to visit this evil, inquisition man in
his sleep, knock him from his bed and explain the difference between a
mistake and an outright malicious, spiteful, racist act like knowingly
doing all of this to Darrell. He needs to understand how he used his
office of public trust to obsessively seek out and slaughter an innocent
man. God needs to tell him his children will suffer his evil. Then God
needs to visit these judges and remind them of all the years they
rubberstamped Keith’s sickening, destructive behavior and tell them they
will now suffer the fate they allowed.<br>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>Are we suppose to be expected to have
faith or respect for the judicial system in this state (not that I do,
but there are some)? Are we suppose to have respect for these thieves who
crept in the night like common street thugs to steal 20 years of
Darrell’s life? I think not. Only when these very culprits have been
beaten into the dirt and equally treated, mauled, badgered, will the
justice minded people of NC ever consider giving the slightest semblance
of respect to the so-called judicial system in NC. Just us, the NC
motto.<br><br>
<b>Eddie Hatcher<br>
</b>#0173499<br>
PO Box 215<br>
Maury, NC 28554<br><br>
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