Dear Editor, August 28, 2006 I am writing you this letter to express ...

Dear Editor, August 28, 2006
I am writing you this letter to express my opinion on the judicial injustice I’ve
suffered here on Death Row in Texas. My trail lawyer had serious mental illness and
convinced me to plead guilty, and then he went and killed himself in a suicide gunshot to
the stomach. My second lawyer, my state habeas lawyer was forced to take my case by the
Court of Criminal Appeals, who by admission of three of his own Justices had been
knowingly appointing incompetent state habeas counsel to death row inmates state habeas.
They even appointed one lawyer who had been dead for over one year!
My state habeas lawyer e-mailed a skeletal writ, even after he knew I had hired my
own lawyer; he left out all my legal issues and ultimately got me procedurally barred.
Now the state of Texas gave me a third lawyer. And as Justice Garza of the U.S. 5 th
Circuit Court in New Orleans put it, “failed to expound on legal issues and abandoned
other legal issues.”
On August 9, 2004, Karl Keys of Capital Defense Weekly stated it as plain as can
be, “Texas feels it should execute Matchett for three bad rolls of the dice on incompetent
counsel.”
My execution date is for September 12 th , and all I’ve ever asked for is to have my
legal issues addressed on state habeas.
A Federal Judge sent my case back to the state courts to put in my left out legal
issues, but the Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the Writ as Abuse of Writ. How can it be
abuse of writ, when I have permission from a higher court? This tactic is commonly used to
prevent review.
My case is no different than Ricky Kerr’s who also got a bad state habeas counsel.
The court reluctantly gave him a new state habeas proceeding. The only difference between
him and I is he is white and I am black.
Gentleman, Ladies, I implore you to contact my lawyer, Mr. Anthony S. Haughton
and he will verify all I have stated and much more concerning the misapplication of the law
by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. His e-mail address is: Ashaughton@aol.com
Phone Number: (713) 995-7776 or Fax: (713) 953-7482. Please contact him as soon as
possible.
All I have ever asked of the State of Texas is to give me the opportunity to have my
legal issues addressed, nothing more, nothing less. When a life is at stake, every
opportunity at justice should be afforded to all who face death, but here in Texas, the Court
of Criminal Appeals have twisted the ideology of justice into some façade of what some in
their majority may call justice, while those thru who acknowledged the court’s failings
view is as we see it: injustice.
Thank you for your time and I hope and pray you’ll print this because America
needs to know there “is” a problem with the statutes of Article 11:071 (state habeas), they
are faulty to the point of death.
Sincerely,
Farley C. Matchett
TDCJ# 999060
Texas Death Row

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