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I was convicted of murder where the only direct evidence of my involvement was the self-serving accusation of the first suspect in custody.
This accusation was presented to the jury and its entirety, all while denying me my Sixth Amendment right to confront my accuser through cross-examination. This is one of the many issues currently before the Hon. Kea W. Riggs in the federal district court in New Mexico.
The why and how of my wrongful conviction is certainly convoluted. Groupthink and bureaucratic convenience played a heavy role. Add to this a scathing, unsubstantiated article where I was presented to the world as some kind of white-collar conman – a narrative and accusation never substantiated by the facts, but nevertheless one sharpened and honed by law-enforcement officials to sell a convenient narrative that effectively covered their own incompetence.
As you reconstruct the timeline of the events that led to my wrongful conviction you begin to see just how easy it is for our justice system to fail. Which brings us to why your attention is needed.
The New Mexico Attorney General, Hector Balderas, is asking the federal court to defy SCOTUS, essentially granting the state a license to color-code justice. If today it's the Sixth Amendment, what's to say that tomorrow it won't be the First Amendment?
Martin Luther King, Jr., once said that "the ark of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Well, I am now at the end of that arc and my family and I need help so as to see the "bend" in our lifetimes. Your interest and financial involvement would breathe an enormous amount of life into a case like mine.
As it stands, My family and I have been robbed for 17 years. My marriage has evaporated, my daughter doesn't know me, my only remaining grandparent is almost 90, and my mother is likewise elderly and now without the safeguard of retirement savings because she has selflessly given everything to this fight.
Our situation is strained. With Jason Bowles as our lead attorney we are extremely confident about the quality of work and effort defending our cause, but we need to give him the resources his team needs to prevail and uphold the Constitution.
Which is why we are asking for any assistance you can give to this fight.
Mario Chávez
@Lifeplus25 (Twitter)
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