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Dear Editor;
My name is Anthony Stokes, and I’m imprisoned on a 10-2 non-unanimous jury verdict. I hope District Attorney Steve Tew sees this letter because I write him but his ADAs seem to screen his mail. Often they answer and not him.
I was remanded back to the fourth district for an (illegal sentence) being I was a juvenile at the time of the offense.
Assistant District Attorney Geary Aycock manipulated the courts and now I’m back in Angola fighting the 4th judicial district about false imprisonment La.C.Cr.P.R.S.14:46.
I was never indicted, tried nor convicted for first degree murder but was sent back to the penitentiary under its custody. The 10-2 verdict was for second degree murder, which Bethany Samhan, an attorney is now working on.
If DA Tew does anything, I’d like to see if my sentence and penalty are valid, being I was a juvenile at the time of the offense and my verdict was the result of a non-unanimous jury verdict which the Supreme Court has overruled.
I’m asking the DA, not his assistant ADA Aycock, look at my case and see if I qualify to come home. Before I can come home Pastor Wright, wide is the road to destruction and it be many that go there, but narrow is the way and it be few that find it.
Thanks,
Anthony Stokes
