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To: GOVERNOR, SENATOR,HIGHER APPELLATE COURTS
FREE TABORIS JONES
I WOULD LIKE FOR MY SON TO BE FREED FROM PRISON. HE WAS ARRESTED FOR SOMETHING HE DID NOT DO AND THE OFFICERS DID NOT SECURE A WARRANT BEFOREHAND. THE POLICE WERE IN REGULAR CLOTHES WITH THEIR POLICE UNIFORM UNDERNEATH IT. HE HAVE NEVER SOLD DRUGS, NOR BEEN CHARGED WITH SELLING DRUGS, BUT DOING A MANDATORY 15 YEAR SENTENCE FOR MERELY DRIVING THROUGH A SCHOOL ZONE AND STOPPED WITHIN 36 FEET OF THE SCHOOL ZONE. OR I WOULD LIKE FOR HIM TO BE GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE WITH A DIFFERENT JUDGE. THE COURT IN MOUNT PLEASANT THREW THIS SAME CASE OUT AND THE COURTS AND COLUMBIA TOOK IT UP AND HIS PAID ATTORNEY TOLD HIM THAT THEY HAD TO PROVE THAT HE WAS INA SCHOOL ZONE SO MY SON TOOK IT TO TRIAL. IT WAS NOT UNTIL HE WENT TO PRISON THAT HE FOUND OUT THAT MERELY DRIVING THROUGH THE SCHOOL ZONE WILL GET YOU THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE AND NO WAY TO FIGHT IT. MY SON WAS MIS INFORMED AND MISREPRESENTED. JASON LOVETT AND JOE PARKS NEVER CALLED DISPATCH AND ARRESTED HIM WITHOUT A PROPER WARRANT.
Why is this important?
TABORIS MET HIS DAUGHTER AT 10 YEARS OLD AND NOW SHE IS 13 YEARS OLD. AND HE MISSES HER DEARLY AND LONG TO GET TO KNOW HER BETTER. I BURIED A SON IN 2010 FROM ASTHMA AT 17 YEARS OLD AND IT SEEMS LIKE TABORIS IS GONE AS WELL/BURIED IN A PRISON CELL WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO BE A PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN. IT IS OF UTTER IMPR IS IMPORTANCE THAT HE COMES HOME WE NEED HIM TO HELP KEEP THE FAMILY TOGEHTER FOR BONDING AND FAMILY TIME HE NEED TO BE OUT TO BE A GREAT FATHER, SON, UNCLE, AND BROTHER. WE HAVE NO OTHER FAMILY IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEAN. ONLY MYSELF-HIS MOTHER AND HIS DAUGHTER AND 3 SIBLINGS. I JUST HAD OPEN HEART SURGERY-LIVING WITH THIS CONDITION FOR 51 YEARS AND DIDN'T KNOW I HAD AN ABNORMALITY WITH MY HEART. MY SON HAS TO LIVE WITH THE AGONY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE IF I AM OKAY AND TOUCH ME, KNOWING THAT I HAD TO FIGHT FOR MY LIFE. HE ALSO LOST A GRANDMOTHER AND UNCLE DURING THE COURSE OF HIS IMPRISONMENT. SEEMS AS IF LIFE IS TAKING MY FAMILY THROUGH MANY TRIALS.. I STRESSED A LOT OVER TABORIS BEING IN PRISON AND ALWAYS FEAR FOR HIS LIFE ( MY OWN INSECURITIES).TABORIS HAD A FULL TIME JOB WORKING IN THOMPSON STATION, TN AS A HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR FROM THE EARLY MORNING HOURS SOMETIMES TO THE NIGHT. HE ALSO WAS MARRIED. I BEG SOMEONE TO PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS. HE WAS TOLD BY HIS PAID ATTORNEY THAT IT HAD TO BE PROVEN THAT HE WAS IN A SCHOOL ZONE,. NOT KNOWING UNTIL HE WENT TO PRISON WAS TOLD TO HIM THAT MERELY RIDING THROUGH MAKES NO DIFFERENCE.. TABORIS DID NOT GET A FAIR TRIAL AND WAS MISLEAD A. MANDATORY 15 YEARS IS VERY HARSH FOR ANYONE THAT HAS NO PRIOR RECORD.
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I WOULD LIKE TO EMAIL THE SIGNATURES, AND DELIVER THEM IN PERSON AND STAGE A PRESS CONFERENCE.