Chapter 1: I Was Arrested Due to Lies and Greed
Logically, there is no way these 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 14th amendment violations could be confused with or even considered a defense let alone a death penalty "trial strategy" by any competent trial attorney! From the start of my trial, the Public Defenders/Penitentiary Deliverers (P.D.s) couldn't even help me simply pick a jury of my peers for a constitutionally "fair trial". All my jurors admitted in jury selection that they had seen media/press (The Press) news stories of my co-defendant Juan Luna (Juan), already convicted in 2007, two years earlier. Though highly incriminating, my Jurors were only given a vague jury instruction to be fair, only judging me by what they hear in trial! On top of that massive bias, Juror A-2 (picked 8-10-09 am) was a hard working family man and restaurant owner just like the Palatine, IL, Brown's Chicken Restaurant (Brown's) owner Mr. Ehlenfeldt who was brutally murdered in his restaurant along with his wife and 5 employees! Mr. A-2 left early in sentencing, in fear of HI-NI swine flu. Juror J-1 (8-14-09 pm) lived in the next town over from Palatine when the murders happened in 1993. He had been researching the case ever since, and more than once expressed that he had formed a strong "GUILTY" verdict BEFORE the trial even started. Mr. J-1 is also a Facebook friend with a States' Prosecutor (ASA) in my court house - he voted for "death". Juror F-5 (8-12-09 pm) is a Cook County Jail guard that is being sued by a Detainee for excessive force - exactly as I was a Detainee in Cook County Jail suing her "Brotherhood" co-worker guard for excessive force (Degorski vs. Wilson 04-C-3367) and getting him fired. She voted for "death". Juror J-2 (8-14-09 pm) is a police lieutenant outside Chicago. As I told my P.D.s, she looked completely disinterested during my witnesses testifying about police misconduct involved in this case. She ended up being the jury Forewoman - she voted for "death". All of these Jurors should have been removed from my jury pool. None of them should have made it on my Jury as they did! To make matters worse, two other biased people we didn't want made it onto my Jury due to "impaneling" confusion. My trial counsel P.D.s NEVER talked to, much less subpoenaed, the correct witnesses to confront my accusers by easily impeaching their obvious perjury, known to many except my Jurors! My Jurors were deprived of these facts in the short Affidavit, so they were unable to fairly weigh credibility of testimony and evidence!!! If I had a competent first chair trial P.D., one who wasn't worried about public opinion polls while trying to be elected to a judge's bench right after my August 31, 2009 - to - October 20, 2009 trial and long sentencing ended (Exhibit A), these Affidavit facts and much more proof of actual innocence would have been brought out long before my trial started. When all is said and done, the only evidence against me is that my P.D.s were negligent and completely ineffective in this case; NOT to be confused at all with being "strategic!"- their go to, loop hole excuse for mess ups! Palatine Police and ASAs relied heavily on their highly incriminating "We just wanted to do something BIG": fabricated Modus Operandi confession collaborations. The ASA used the phrase "Something Big" 18 times in their closing argument alone for journalistic and Jury sensationalism. Many of my closest friends would have testified, if subpoenaed, that I don't even use this phrase to describe playing on a bike, skateboard, or motorcycles, or to describe making cars etc. much faster in my shop that friends hung out in. "My" PRE-1993 former employers had absolutely no security, much BIGGER cash and BIG value products, less employees, and were further from home in a less busy area! As I kept telling my interrogators and my P.D.s, that while working at Irish Fest in Tinley Park and Milwaukee, a boutique owner and many other vendors would walk through the dark parking lots to their cars with a BIG fat roll of cash in a sock or a shopping bag with absolutely NO security except me warning them not to stuff their money into a sock or bag in front of customers. I was trusted at my summer job of stocking and emptying thousands in BIG stacks of cash and BIG bags of change from 40+ vending machines at Arthoff Vending: on a dead end street (less witnesses), in a loud industrial park near O'Hare Airport (gun noise), where other routes bring their vans with safes full of BIG money inside the shop for two smart asses to count all that money with NO security. I was trusted in all of this. While stocking vending machines at I.D.O.T. Toll Plazas, I saw No security as all the BIG cash and change (I collected coins) got dropped off to a money counting room underneath an Interstate Toll Plaza. And I also saw that two men appearing to be maintenance workers were driving an unarmed box van collecting thousands in BIG cash and change up and down I-90/94/355/294 to be counted underneath the toll booth/plaza. While working at the Palatine Jewel Osco that backs up to an easy get away rail road tracks in a dark field, I saw a money counting room with NO security right by the front door. While in the coat/mop room I popped my head over the short partition to see that the loud noise was the front end manager with the safe open counting BIG stacks of cash, which everyone used back in the 80's to buy their groceries, using a loud counting machine. While working at Jake's Pizza Pub with NO security and everything insured, I could have easily pried open the back door, or even stole the keys and overnight cleaned out all the BIG cash on Saturday nights along with bottles of BIG money booze without being seen. While working at Jakes, I used the pay phone next to Forest View Liquor Store; and one of the times warned Mr. Haji, the owner, to be careful. I had just seen him sneaking a lot of BIG cash from under the counter of the unused register and putting it into a plastic bag as he was closing for the night. That was the only liquor store in the area. It was always busy, but run only by Mr. Haji, the skinny owner, with NO security. The store was full of BIG money bottles of booze, BIG cash and backs up to a dark lake. MJM Auto Polishing had NO security while the owner Mark would hide BIG wads of cash in the shop towels or desk top drawer when he was selling or buying show cars, car parts, Dune Buggies, trailors, ATVs, Harleys, etc. He sometimes left the BIG cash in the shop until the weekly deposits that I sometimes made for him at Mt. Prospect Bank. I never worked at Brown's, but knew it was on a very busy intersection, in a strip mall where I knew a lot of people, and knew that Brown's didn't generate a lot of business. Since NONE of 'my' former employers were robbed or murdered by me, it should be clear that I was not involved with planning any robbery, especially Brown's! And the Palatine Police Detective's whole "robbed Brown's to do something BIG" modus operandi is a lie to drag me into this case. With the Palatine Police, Anne Lockett England (Anne) fabricated a lie that one month before the robbery we supposedly told her that we wanted to "do something big" and a month later I called her at Forest Psychiatric Hospital to tell her over the monitored phones the "we just did something big - go watch the news". BUT this fabrication was later completely discredited by the Bonjean Law Group by finding Anne's January, 1993 hospital roommate and her real January 1993 boyfriend - both of which were never investigated by my P.D.s! Eileen Bakalla (Eileen) and her ex-husband Keith's fabricated "something big" collaborations were obvious lies. By evidence, leaving work at 9:30 pm, and with a very simple time line, Eileen's "something big" confession phone call must have been made from INSIDE Brown's during the robbery, or as I proved to my P.D.s - from somewhere else entirely! We all know Detectives checked the Brown's phone records. Keith, hearing "something big and Brown's" in the same sentence would have been a huge deal to him - he had friends that worked at a Brown's in January 1993. If Eileen actually said this in 1998, he would have called the Palatine Police and collected the $240,000 reward he was fully aware of! Palatine Police and ASAs made a BIG impact with their false "something big" collaborations that should have been discredited pretrial so that my Jurors didn't hear this fabricated evidence against me! There was absolutely NO "something big" confession from me! This is a long form text area designed for your content that you can fill up with as many words as your heart desires. You can write articles, long mission statements, company policies, executive profiles, company awards/distinctions, office locations, shareholder reports, whitepapers, media mentions and other pieces of content that don’t fit into a shorter, more succinct space.
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