DO YOU KNOW on September 14, 2005 Frances Newton a black indigent woman, is scheduled to be executed with the resounding question of he whether or not she is guilty?
DO YOU KNOW Frances’ court appointed trial counsel, Ron Mock head chair and Catherine Coulter, co-council did no investigation of the case whatsoever and had interviewed no one for trial and that co-council has signed an affidavit that Ms. Newton did not receive effective council?
DO YOU KNOW Ron Mock did not even have any contact with Frances for months? - She protested this inadequacy throughout, but to no avail.
DO YOU KNOW no reasonable juror would have found Frances guilty beyond a reasonable doubt had she received competent counsel?
DO YOU KNOW if the jury had known the facts that are presently known, they would not have given her the death sentence?
DO YOU KNOW that the State destroyed potentially exculpatory evidence that would have tended to establish Frances’ innocence, as well as misrepresented evidence in trial they had in their position?
DO YOU KNOW that the State claims that Frances this loving and devoted mother, killed her husband for $50,000 to collect life insurance, killed her 20 month old daughter for additional $50,000 and also killed her 8 year old son whom she loved dearly for FREE?
DO YOU KNOW that Frances originally intended to purchase automobile insurance but the insurance agent succeeded in persuading her to acquire life insurance as a discount savings to the polices, or that the policies were within a 90 day waiting period, therefore not activated?
DO YOU KNOW this absurd motive theory was not challenged by her incompetent council at all, therefore the jury never heard most of these facts
DO YOU KNOW the State, lacking eyewitnesses, admissions, or any confession, necessarily attempted to connect Frances to the shootings?
DO YOU KNOW the state claims that the murder weapon is the same gun that Frances had the day of the murder and took out of the house for fear of trouble with her husband and his supplier which she also voluntarily gave over to the police?
DO YOU KNOW Frances was not arrested for two weeks after the ballistic test was completed by HPD Crime Lab because there was an indication of existence of a second gun?
DO YOU KNOW given what is known about the crime scene and style of shooting, a significant amount of blood would cover the shooter and weapon, and there was no blood on Frances' hand, body, sweater, skirt, gun or car? Though, the detective who processed the scene testified that there was no clean up done in the apartment, which the crime scene photos also show.
DO YOU KNOW that even the state's best case scenario which is recorded from trial only allows 20 minutes for Frances to commit these horrific crimes.
DO YOU KNOW Frances was forth coming with the police and gave them everything they asked her for (i.e. statements, an atomic absorption test on her hands to detect gunpowder residue, which came up negative though it will embed in a shooters hand, her clothing, and the gun that had been in her position).
DO YOU KNOW the state performed a destructive test on the skirt that was only to reveal a small trace of nitrite on the very bottom part of her full length skirt which could have came from several other sources, two of which are fertilizer or gunshot residue?
DO YOU KNOW a non-destructive examination could have been done, which would have also determined the origin of the nitrites? Even still, no trace of blood was found on the same skirt!
DO YOU KNOW an anonymous caller the day after the shooting gave a time of the shooting, as well as the description and license plate number of a truck parked in the drive way of the Newton home on the night of the shooting?
DO YOU KNOW that two independent parties named a man by the name of Charlie as a suspect for the shooting and that one of them offered to show the officers who questioned them where Charlie lived.
DO YOU KNOW that the account of the anonymous caller and that of the two independent parties where never pursued by HPD.