Free Terrance Kimble from Prison
- by: William Coleman and the People
- recipient: The state of oregon on false prosecutions and corruption
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Evidence Shows Oregon Inmate Was Falsely ConvictedTim King Salem-News.com DNA clears African-American inmate serving 19-year sentence for sex abuse.
Terrence Kimble is serving a 19-year sentence for a sex abuse conviction, but the DNA evidence cleared him, what gives?
(SALEM, Ore.) - Documents in the case of an African-American man serving a 19-year sentence for sex crimes against a child, spell out what may be one of Oregon's more significant miscarriages of justice.
38-year old Terrence Kimble's story is very hard to believe, yet it is a fact that this man has had to live with for almost ten years while incarcerated in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. From the beginning of his ordeal, Kimble has been denied a lie detector test.
At this point the whole thing defies explanation, because the DNA didn't match.
"I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon..."
- Terrence Kimble's statement at trial
How a prosecutor in Lane County, Oregon was able to create a case with no witnesses, a denial of the crime that began with the victim and included an aunt and uncle, who is a psychologist; blood relatives of the girl, is perplexing.
Add to that an emergency room doctor's examination of the alleged 13-year old victim concluding that the girl had not engaged in any sexual activity, and the fact that she was in the presence of family members exhibiting normal behavior at the time of the alleged occurrence, and the fact that a man was sent to prison for 19 years becomes all the more unbelievable, yet it happened, and for Terrence Kimble, it continues every day of his life.
The crime Kimble is incarcerated for places him under the worst imaginable conditions. Questions now surround instructions provided by the judge in the case, as well as possible motives of the prosecutor, who was obviously very intense in his desire to convict Kimble - who never wavered from his position as that of an innocent man - of first-degree Rape.
Lorna Jackson, aunt of the alleged victim, offered this testimony at trial:
Q: Prior to that instance when you saw her on that Friday the 8th, was there anything about her demeanor or her appearance that alerted you that something wrong had happened?
A: No. No. There was nothing.
Ezekiel Jackson, an Industrial Psychologist, is the uncle of Tracy Hoffman. Hoffman is the mother of the alleged victim, Danielle McDaniel, who was 13 at the time and one of three siblings. Ezekiel Jackson and his wife Lorna Jackson were the reason Kimble and Hoffman were in Oregon with their children.
Ezekiel Jackson testified:
Q: At some point in time you learned that there was some trouble with Terrence and one of the daughters, some allegations that were made. Is that right?
A: When? What allegations?
Q: Danielle made an allegation against Mr. Kimble.
A: Such as?
Q: That he had sexually abused her.
A: It didn't happen.
Q: Mr. Jackson, I may have missed -- I may have misunderstood what you said. But are you saying that this couldn't have happened because Danielle was with you all day when it was supposed to have happened?
A: No. Couldn't have happened because Danielle, myself and Tracy talked about this incident and it was stated that it did not happen.
This discussion, according to Mr. Jackson, took place in front of Eugene Police officers there to investigate the allegation.
Kimble said in court, "I can't understand how I was found guilty of sex crimes with no physical or solid evidence. I was found guilty on hearsay.
"From just another African-American who has been railroaded by Lane County, Oregon, no matter how much time I'm sentenced to serve I'm going to continued to maintain my innocence for the crime for which I was found guilty and the crimes I was also accused of. I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon."
Judge Karsten Rasmussen, who was a personal injury lawyer prior to becoming a judge, said: "Mr. Kimble, the jury found what it found, and I confess to you that I would have found you guilty of the more serious crimes in all probability. I found the testimony of the victim in this case, a now 14-year old African-American girl, to be some of the most compelling testimony that I've ever heard in the 20 years or so I've been in this business. I found her completely and totally believable."
Yet the testimony seems simply to not exist.
Daniel D. Dietel M.D. at Eugene's Sacred Heart Medical Center wrote:
"The patient denies any injuries."
"History obtained by the nursing staff indicates no previous history of pelvic examination or vaginal intercourse."
"No bruising and no injuries are noted. Vaginal introitus was a normal appearance."
"Quiet speech, answer questions with short answers initially. Little eye contact initially, improved throughout interview. OCC smiling when approp. Approp. behavior for age."
The girl's blood pressure was 109 over 70, very low.
Coleman says there is one thing very clear, "He is built like a horse, if that man had sex with that girl he would have seriously hurt her. I'm telling you, I worked the shower room and I can tell you a few things about that. 200 to 400 men in the shower at one time."
The DNA states that there is no connection between Terrence Kimble and the 13-year old girl, Danielle McDaniel. The girl initially claimed having been raped, but then a medical team found no evidence of a sex act. The girl told the doctor she was not raped, she told her aunt and uncle she was not raped, and her demeanor did not reflect that of a person who had been violently violated.
William Coleman says he looks forward to seeing 'Mr. Kimble' emerge from his ordeal as a free man very soon
Aug-05-2010 06:57 Evidence Shows Oregon Inmate Was Falsely ConvictedTim King Salem-News.com DNA clears African-American inmate serving 19-year sentence for sex abuse.
Terrence Kimble is serving a 19-year sentence for a sex abuse conviction, but the DNA evidence cleared him, what gives?
(SALEM, Ore.) - Documents in the case of an African-American man serving a 19-year sentence for sex crimes against a child, spell out what may be one of Oregon's more significant miscarriages of justice.
38-year old Terrence Kimble's story is very hard to believe, yet it is a fact that this man has had to live with for almost ten years while incarcerated in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. From the beginning of his ordeal, Kimble has been denied a lie detector test.
At this point the whole thing defies explanation, because the DNA didn't match.
"I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon..."
- Terrence Kimble's statement at trial
How a prosecutor in Lane County, Oregon was able to create a case with no witnesses, a denial of the crime that began with the victim and included an aunt and uncle, who is a psychologist; blood relatives of the girl, is perplexing.
Add to that an emergency room doctor's examination of the alleged 13-year old victim concluding that the girl had not engaged in any sexual activity, and the fact that she was in the presence of family members exhibiting normal behavior at the time of the alleged occurrence, and the fact that a man was sent to prison for 19 years becomes all the more unbelievable, yet it happened, and for Terrence Kimble, it continues every day of his life.
The crime Kimble is incarcerated for places him under the worst imaginable conditions. Questions now surround instructions provided by the judge in the case, as well as possible motives of the prosecutor, who was obviously very intense in his desire to convict Kimble - who never wavered from his position as that of an innocent man - of first-degree Rape.
Lorna Jackson, aunt of the alleged victim, offered this testimony at trial:
Q: Prior to that instance when you saw her on that Friday the 8th, was there anything about her demeanor or her appearance that alerted you that something wrong had happened?
A: No. No. There was nothing.
Ezekiel Jackson, an Industrial Psychologist, is the uncle of Tracy Hoffman. Hoffman is the mother of the alleged victim, Danielle McDaniel, who was 13 at the time and one of three siblings. Ezekiel Jackson and his wife Lorna Jackson were the reason Kimble and Hoffman were in Oregon with their children.
Ezekiel Jackson testified:
Q: At some point in time you learned that there was some trouble with Terrence and one of the daughters, some allegations that were made. Is that right?
A: When? What allegations?
Q: Danielle made an allegation against Mr. Kimble.
A: Such as?
Q: That he had sexually abused her.
A: It didn't happen.
Q: Mr. Jackson, I may have missed -- I may have misunderstood what you said. But are you saying that this couldn't have happened because Danielle was with you all day when it was supposed to have happened?
A: No. Couldn't have happened because Danielle, myself and Tracy talked about this incident and it was stated that it did not happen.
This discussion, according to Mr. Jackson, took place in front of Eugene Police officers there to investigate the allegation.
Kimble said in court, "I can't understand how I was found guilty of sex crimes with no physical or solid evidence. I was found guilty on hearsay.
"From just another African-American who has been railroaded by Lane County, Oregon, no matter how much time I'm sentenced to serve I'm going to continued to maintain my innocence for the crime for which I was found guilty and the crimes I was also accused of. I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon."
Judge Karsten Rasmussen, who was a personal injury lawyer prior to becoming a judge, said: "Mr. Kimble, the jury found what it found, and I confess to you that I would have found you guilty of the more serious crimes in all probability. I found the testimony of the victim in this case, a now 14-year old African-American girl, to be some of the most compelling testimony that I've ever heard in the 20 years or so I've been in this business. I found her completely and totally believable."
Yet the testimony seems simply to not exist.
Daniel D. Dietel M.D. at Eugene's Sacred Heart Medical Center wrote:
"The patient denies any injuries."
"History obtained by the nursing staff indicates no previous history of pelvic examination or vaginal intercourse."
"No bruising and no injuries are noted. Vaginal introitus was a normal appearance."
"Quiet speech, answer questions with short answers initially. Little eye contact initially, improved throughout interview. OCC smiling when approp. Approp. behavior for age."
The girl's blood pressure was 109 over 70, very low.
Coleman says there is one thing very clear, "He is built like a horse, if that man had sex with that girl he would have seriously hurt her. I'm telling you, I worked the shower room and I can tell you a few things about that. 200 to 400 men in the shower at one time."
The DNA states that there is no connection between Terrence Kimble and the 13-year old girl, Danielle McDaniel. The girl initially claimed having been raped, but then a medical team found no evidence of a sex act. The girl told the doctor she was not raped, she told her aunt and uncle she was not raped, and her demeanor did not reflect that of a person who had been violently violated.
William Coleman says he looks forward to seeing 'Mr. Kimble' emerge from his ordeal as a free man very soon
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Evidence Shows Oregon Inmate Was Falsely ConvictedTim King Salem-News.com DNA clears African-American inmate serving 19-year sentence for sex abuse.
Terrence Kimble is serving a 19-year sentence for a sex abuse conviction, but the DNA evidence cleared him, what gives?
(SALEM, Ore.) - Documents in the case of an African-American man serving a 19-year sentence for sex crimes against a child, spell out what may be one of Oregon's more significant miscarriages of justice.
38-year old Terrence Kimble's story is very hard to believe, yet it is a fact that this man has had to live with for almost ten years while incarcerated in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. From the beginning of his ordeal, Kimble has been denied a lie detector test.
At this point the whole thing defies explanation, because the DNA didn't match.
"I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon..."
- Terrence Kimble's statement at trial
How a prosecutor in Lane County, Oregon was able to create a case with no witnesses, a denial of the crime that began with the victim and included an aunt and uncle, who is a psychologist; blood relatives of the girl, is perplexing.
Add to that an emergency room doctor's examination of the alleged 13-year old victim concluding that the girl had not engaged in any sexual activity, and the fact that she was in the presence of family members exhibiting normal behavior at the time of the alleged occurrence, and the fact that a man was sent to prison for 19 years becomes all the more unbelievable, yet it happened, and for Terrence Kimble, it continues every day of his life.
The crime Kimble is incarcerated for places him under the worst imaginable conditions. Questions now surround instructions provided by the judge in the case, as well as possible motives of the prosecutor, who was obviously very intense in his desire to convict Kimble - who never wavered from his position as that of an innocent man - of first-degree Rape.
Lorna Jackson, aunt of the alleged victim, offered this testimony at trial:
Q: Prior to that instance when you saw her on that Friday the 8th, was there anything about her demeanor or her appearance that alerted you that something wrong had happened?
A: No. No. There was nothing.
Ezekiel Jackson, an Industrial Psychologist, is the uncle of Tracy Hoffman. Hoffman is the mother of the alleged victim, Danielle McDaniel, who was 13 at the time and one of three siblings. Ezekiel Jackson and his wife Lorna Jackson were the reason Kimble and Hoffman were in Oregon with their children.
Ezekiel Jackson testified:
Q: At some point in time you learned that there was some trouble with Terrence and one of the daughters, some allegations that were made. Is that right?
A: When? What allegations?
Q: Danielle made an allegation against Mr. Kimble.
A: Such as?
Q: That he had sexually abused her.
A: It didn't happen.
Q: Mr. Jackson, I may have missed -- I may have misunderstood what you said. But are you saying that this couldn't have happened because Danielle was with you all day when it was supposed to have happened?
A: No. Couldn't have happened because Danielle, myself and Tracy talked about this incident and it was stated that it did not happen.
This discussion, according to Mr. Jackson, took place in front of Eugene Police officers there to investigate the allegation.
Kimble said in court, "I can't understand how I was found guilty of sex crimes with no physical or solid evidence. I was found guilty on hearsay.
"From just another African-American who has been railroaded by Lane County, Oregon, no matter how much time I'm sentenced to serve I'm going to continued to maintain my innocence for the crime for which I was found guilty and the crimes I was also accused of. I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon."
Judge Karsten Rasmussen, who was a personal injury lawyer prior to becoming a judge, said: "Mr. Kimble, the jury found what it found, and I confess to you that I would have found you guilty of the more serious crimes in all probability. I found the testimony of the victim in this case, a now 14-year old African-American girl, to be some of the most compelling testimony that I've ever heard in the 20 years or so I've been in this business. I found her completely and totally believable."
Yet the testimony seems simply to not exist.
Daniel D. Dietel M.D. at Eugene's Sacred Heart Medical Center wrote:
"The patient denies any injuries."
"History obtained by the nursing staff indicates no previous history of pelvic examination or vaginal intercourse."
"No bruising and no injuries are noted. Vaginal introitus was a normal appearance."
"Quiet speech, answer questions with short answers initially. Little eye contact initially, improved throughout interview. OCC smiling when approp. Approp. behavior for age."
The girl's blood pressure was 109 over 70, very low.
Coleman says there is one thing very clear, "He is built like a horse, if that man had sex with that girl he would have seriously hurt her. I'm telling you, I worked the shower room and I can tell you a few things about that. 200 to 400 men in the shower at one time."
The DNA states that there is no connection between Terrence Kimble and the 13-year old girl, Danielle McDaniel. The girl initially claimed having been raped, but then a medical team found no evidence of a sex act. The girl told the doctor she was not raped, she told her aunt and uncle she was not raped, and her demeanor did not reflect that of a person who had been violently violated.
William Coleman says he looks forward to seeing 'Mr. Kimble' emerge from his ordeal as a free man very soon
Aug-05-2010 06:57 Evidence Shows Oregon Inmate Was Falsely ConvictedTim King Salem-News.com DNA clears African-American inmate serving 19-year sentence for sex abuse.
Terrence Kimble is serving a 19-year sentence for a sex abuse conviction, but the DNA evidence cleared him, what gives?
(SALEM, Ore.) - Documents in the case of an African-American man serving a 19-year sentence for sex crimes against a child, spell out what may be one of Oregon's more significant miscarriages of justice.
38-year old Terrence Kimble's story is very hard to believe, yet it is a fact that this man has had to live with for almost ten years while incarcerated in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. From the beginning of his ordeal, Kimble has been denied a lie detector test.
At this point the whole thing defies explanation, because the DNA didn't match.
"I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon..."
- Terrence Kimble's statement at trial
How a prosecutor in Lane County, Oregon was able to create a case with no witnesses, a denial of the crime that began with the victim and included an aunt and uncle, who is a psychologist; blood relatives of the girl, is perplexing.
Add to that an emergency room doctor's examination of the alleged 13-year old victim concluding that the girl had not engaged in any sexual activity, and the fact that she was in the presence of family members exhibiting normal behavior at the time of the alleged occurrence, and the fact that a man was sent to prison for 19 years becomes all the more unbelievable, yet it happened, and for Terrence Kimble, it continues every day of his life.
The crime Kimble is incarcerated for places him under the worst imaginable conditions. Questions now surround instructions provided by the judge in the case, as well as possible motives of the prosecutor, who was obviously very intense in his desire to convict Kimble - who never wavered from his position as that of an innocent man - of first-degree Rape.
Lorna Jackson, aunt of the alleged victim, offered this testimony at trial:
Q: Prior to that instance when you saw her on that Friday the 8th, was there anything about her demeanor or her appearance that alerted you that something wrong had happened?
A: No. No. There was nothing.
Ezekiel Jackson, an Industrial Psychologist, is the uncle of Tracy Hoffman. Hoffman is the mother of the alleged victim, Danielle McDaniel, who was 13 at the time and one of three siblings. Ezekiel Jackson and his wife Lorna Jackson were the reason Kimble and Hoffman were in Oregon with their children.
Ezekiel Jackson testified:
Q: At some point in time you learned that there was some trouble with Terrence and one of the daughters, some allegations that were made. Is that right?
A: When? What allegations?
Q: Danielle made an allegation against Mr. Kimble.
A: Such as?
Q: That he had sexually abused her.
A: It didn't happen.
Q: Mr. Jackson, I may have missed -- I may have misunderstood what you said. But are you saying that this couldn't have happened because Danielle was with you all day when it was supposed to have happened?
A: No. Couldn't have happened because Danielle, myself and Tracy talked about this incident and it was stated that it did not happen.
This discussion, according to Mr. Jackson, took place in front of Eugene Police officers there to investigate the allegation.
Kimble said in court, "I can't understand how I was found guilty of sex crimes with no physical or solid evidence. I was found guilty on hearsay.
"From just another African-American who has been railroaded by Lane County, Oregon, no matter how much time I'm sentenced to serve I'm going to continued to maintain my innocence for the crime for which I was found guilty and the crimes I was also accused of. I will continue to fight for my freedom no matter how much time I get or no matter how long it takes. I feel like a political prisoner here in Eugene, Oregon."
Judge Karsten Rasmussen, who was a personal injury lawyer prior to becoming a judge, said: "Mr. Kimble, the jury found what it found, and I confess to you that I would have found you guilty of the more serious crimes in all probability. I found the testimony of the victim in this case, a now 14-year old African-American girl, to be some of the most compelling testimony that I've ever heard in the 20 years or so I've been in this business. I found her completely and totally believable."
Yet the testimony seems simply to not exist.
Daniel D. Dietel M.D. at Eugene's Sacred Heart Medical Center wrote:
"The patient denies any injuries."
"History obtained by the nursing staff indicates no previous history of pelvic examination or vaginal intercourse."
"No bruising and no injuries are noted. Vaginal introitus was a normal appearance."
"Quiet speech, answer questions with short answers initially. Little eye contact initially, improved throughout interview. OCC smiling when approp. Approp. behavior for age."
The girl's blood pressure was 109 over 70, very low.
Coleman says there is one thing very clear, "He is built like a horse, if that man had sex with that girl he would have seriously hurt her. I'm telling you, I worked the shower room and I can tell you a few things about that. 200 to 400 men in the shower at one time."
The DNA states that there is no connection between Terrence Kimble and the 13-year old girl, Danielle McDaniel. The girl initially claimed having been raped, but then a medical team found no evidence of a sex act. The girl told the doctor she was not raped, she told her aunt and uncle she was not raped, and her demeanor did not reflect that of a person who had been violently violated.
William Coleman says he looks forward to seeing 'Mr. Kimble' emerge from his ordeal as a free man very soon
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