HELP SAVE INNOCENT LIFE OF A TEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED

HELP SAVE INNOCENT LIFE OF A TEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED

Started
November 21, 2022
Petition to
Commutat Oklahoma pardon and parole board and
Signatures: 26,267Next Goal: 35,000
162 people signed this week

Why this petition matters

Started by Shanoa Mitchell

19yr boy sentenced to DEATH BY INCARCERATION as a first time offender for a crime that he did not do! Convicted of a home invasion style robbery where no life was lost, No women or children were harmed and most importantly there is NO evidence putting him at the scene

 

 

18yr walters

 

 

 Winston Walters was just a teenager who had never been in trouble before when a home invasion robbery took place in Oklahoma. Both victims identified their own nephew (winston is NOT their nephew) immediately after crime took place, to this day the victims have never identified winston. Their nephew was identified! had motive! and his evidence was found at the crime scene. To this day the victims have never identified Winston, but Winston was brought into this case by coerced statements from career criminals who all got deals to save their own lives! Winston had his life taken based on lies and circumstantial evidence, this poor kid was railroaded by the system

*Victims identified their nephew with 99.9% certainty based on his height, voice, and mannerisms not to mention the perp knew his way around the home and knew about their phones. the nephew's motive is clear, they had just repoed the nephew's truck and he had been kicked out of their son's home. (nephews jimmy kit and pill bottle were found at the crime scene)

  • One of the lead investigators on this case had just been fired from another county for illegal activity, rehired, and able to work this case.
  • The lead investigator lied to the local news
  • Evidence at trial was INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE STATES' BURDEN OF PROOF
  • The Trial Judge had a bias from the start, a few years before this case his father-in-law was murdered in a similar manner (home invasion) not knowing this fact until AFTER the trial, Walters was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial Trial, TRIAL JUDGE IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS
  • improper handling of evidence, undocumented evidence was allowed in court although no one knew where they came from and when asked at trial the statements were contradicting to one another. while investigators agreed to mishandling the evidence and improperly documenting evidence
  • All of the states "witnesses"  used to attempt to place Winston at the crime were clearly coerced and had criminal records, all were looking at time and 99% of them got NO TIME thanks to their testimony. EVEN THOUGH ONE WAS LITERALLY PICKED UP FROM A COLORADO JAIL AND BROUGHT BACK TO OKLAHOMA. All of these people stood by Walters's innocence until lengthy interrogations were done and the opportunity to save themselves was thrown in their faces. one of these ppl went to court and was looking at 100yrs while maintaining Walters's innocence, after being on suicide watch and on record for saying he "would rather die than get a whole bunch of time" his story changed and brought Walters into it.
  • None of the state's witnesses told the same stories, they were all seen lying and contradicting one another IN BIG WAYS (the truth doesn't  change much in a story no matter who is telling it.)
  • IN VIOLATION with the 6th and 14th AMENDMENT Walters received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel. Walters was never able to TESTIFY ON HIS BEHALF. A teenager listening to what his lawyer told him to do. To this day it's been one of his biggest regrets 
  • Walters would receive multiple punishments for a single course of conduct
  • The court's decision to run sentences CONSECUTIVELY was an abuse of discretion and constitutes an EXCESSIVE SENTENCE. 
  • Lack of jurisdiction, Walters is a member of the Comanche Nation, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over this case and much more not listed. PLEASE help save his life! This case needs to be reexamined from an unbias lens we are DEMANDING he be freed immediately or be retried by his tribe! His release date is 2107! This is a disgusting abuse of power from the Oklahoma court system. Oklahoma leads the nation in mass incarceration and excessive sentences in cases that don't call for it. WE CAN'T STAND BY AND LET HIM BE ANOTHER STATISTIC TO A CORRUPT SYSTEM! This is not the story of a 19 TEEN-year-old career criminal who was so terrible he needed to be locked away forever, this is tragic proof that the judicial system still needs ALOT OF WORK, to stop our Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and other minorities from being a victim of it. Helping one is a step to helping us all. Even incarcerated he's spent the past 10 years trying to better himself, going to college and making handmade leather crafts, so that one day when he is free he will be a positive impact on society.

" Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others." Coretta Scott King.

 

 

 

cast of MudCats, country boy Walters seen in the cowboy hat with in bottom row

 

 

We are asking that Winston be freed IMMEDIATELY,  10yrs of his life has already been taken by the prison system. He deserves a chance to live before more decades are lost. Time is the most precious thing humans have, I don't understand how people sleep at night knowing they took his life from him before he ever got a chance to actually live.  PLEASE BRING WINSTON HOME 

 

162 people signed this week
Signatures: 26,267Next Goal: 35,000
162 people signed this week
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Decision Makers

  • Oklahoma pardon and parole boardCommutat
  • Calvin Prince IIIOklahoma pardon and parole board
  • Mrs. Cathy StockerOklahoma pardon and parole board
  • Judge Richard A MillerOklahoma pardon and parole board
  • Dr. Edward KoniecznyOklahoma pardon and parole boar