🔵 By Keith David Houston. Photo by lauragrafie.
On a warm August day in 1982 I was 22 years old and married with two children when I was falsely arrested for the murder and rape of a teenage girl without any evidence that I had committed any crimes simply because I had been seen talking to her at a health clinic! I had cooperated with police detectives, and told them I was innocent even providing them evidence of blood, hair, and saliva. I was then released, and believed that I was no longer a suspect when out of nowhere I was once again falsely arrested, and falsely charged for murder, rape, and other crimes I did not commit. The police detectives falsified evidence to claim that pubic hair I had provided to them matched pubic hair found on the victim, and that was not true. I was then booked into jail, and later taken to a justice court, and appointed an attorney out of the public defenders office because I could not afford an attorney. Soon after that my father without even saying a word to me hired some attorney who he had problems with later because this attorney tried to extort him out of his house, land and other property to continue representing me which would later become a complete disaster since this attorney was so incompetent that he failed to challenge that there was absolutely no evidence that I had committed the crimes, and failed to get the charges against me dropped at my preliminary hearing! I was bound over for trial!
In September of 1982 my father fired this incompetent attorney, and instead of getting off of my criminal case this corrupt attorney got himself appointed to my case! He even lied to me about it because at the time I had no idea my father had fired this guy, or why! I just thought he wanted to help me because my father couldn’t afford to pay him when this guy had tried to use extortion to get everything my father owned, and when he failed and got himself fired for it he decided to get some sort of revenge for being humiliated after being fired. I had plead not guilty to charges of a capital offense in September of 1982 at my arraignment, and was facing the death penalty when I was abandoned by my attorney who decided to help the state district attorney in spite of the fact that he knew that I was innocent and the district attorney had no evidence to even bring me to trial because I was innocent of crimes the district attorney had falsely brought against me. I was also never told that my plea of not guilty to charges of a capital murder required a mandatory jury trial that I could not waive under state law when everything turned upside down in my case, and I became a victim!
On January 3, 1983 my jury trial set for January 4, 1983 at 9 am. Stopped under false pretenses of a change of plea, and hearing for a change of plea because my jury trial was mandatory, and could not be waived when I was suddenly brought to court without warning for an unrequested, unauthorized change of plea, and change of plea hearing in spite of the fact that it was impossible in my case! I was literally forced into a falsified plea of guilty in a hurry by a corrupt disgruntled attorney who had made an illegal unrequested plea bargain to help the district attorney who could not even prosecute me because of the fact that I was innocent, and the state district attorney knew he could not legally prosecute and convict me of any crimes when he conspired with my attorney the day before my trial to threaten my life, and force me to sign an illegal plea bargain in a hurry, and forced me out of fear for my life to falsely plead guilty before a biased judge who was connected to the alleged victims father, and was a part of this conspiracy to convict me of crimes I did not commit.
On February 14, 1983 I was illegally and falsely convicted of crimes I did not commit in the state of Nevada, and I was prevented from filing an appeal as a poor person by a biased judge who knew if I appealed my conviction would be overturned! So, this judge made sure I couldn’t by failing to give me an attorney after this other one withdrew at my sentencing after helping the strict attorney, and the judge put me in prison for life! The same judge later denied everything I tried to keep me from exposing what he had been a part of. I am not done, and I won’t five up after discovering new evidence of my innocence.