🔵 By Lorenzo Hutson. Photo by lauragrafie.
The current climate declares restorative justice, which entails to encourage all involved parties (both victim and offender) to understand what has brought them to inevitably cross paths in such an unsavory fashion. This idealism was invented to produce healing for the community-including the victims and the offender, as well, however, the notion appears to be one-sided, as well as gender-based to put it respectfully, an explicit double-standard. On April 2009, the author of this writing fell under an induced arrest in connection to the murder of 30-year old Tamara Webb. Aside from the collateral damage of death, and a grieving family, the offender was unknowingly victimized as well. Friends, family members and social media junkies have canceled the author.
A great deal of facts were left out of this unfortunate scenario, some of it important, while other story lines would have painted a much greater picture. For one, this case had a platform of politics, due to theh fact of seven people were murdered along the same stretch of railroad tracks in the year of 2009. This includes a 17-year old girl Kianna Smith twelve days after Webb’s death, and 14-year old Kevin Berrera’s death in September 2009. In February 2012, Central Costa Times reporter Malaika Fraley sat present in the author’s courtroom proceedings during the guilty plea process, however, did not contribute an article to the outcome of the case. Why is that? Because there was much more to the narrative than what the article originally reporter, in addition, political pressure would be insulted with the outcome.
Consequently, the case quietly went away without explanation. The article as drastically impaired the author’s attempt of having a social life, whether, via social media, or on the probability of seeking a prospective pen pal on websites. This is definitely a double standard. In reviewing, women who have been charged, tried, and are held accountable, are still able to seek stability in cultivating relationships through similar applications. In 2023, there was a 43-year old woman from Arizona who was convicted of having unlawful sex with two teenage boys. Who utilized a JPAY video gram and received 500 pen pals! Would that had been the case for a man? Do you believe that Ezra McCandless would possess such a disparity? Especially after stabbing her boyfriend 16 times? Absolutely not.
For hypothetical purposes, let’s add Leilani Simon into the equation, who murdered her 20 month old son, and threw away in a dumpster, whose body was discovered in a landfill. Or the women in Florida who married her stepfather then stabbed him to death, even Casey Anthony who was infamously acquitted of murdering her three year old daughter Caylee Anthony has had a fight in a bar with another woman over a man. In addition, Courtney Clenney, who had stabbed her boyfriend Christian Obumseli, after crime scene photos were taken of Clenney, it had taken four months to indict her (August 2022). Melody Farris, not only murdered her husband Gary, she also burned him, his body was found on the burn pile located at their home, and she as countless significant paramours. Now, the author will display the ethnic disparity of this matter, Scott Peterson, who originally was sentenced to death, but now resentenced to life in prison. Has not only found a woman to marry him, but is currently receiving conjugal visits. This is a man who was ultimately convicted of killing his pregnant wife Lacy Peterson and their unborn son Connor. There were also three teenagers who were previously convicted of beating three seven year old boys to death, one of the assailants were sentenced to death. All three are happily married now, and eventually plead guilty under the Alford Plea, and all three appeared in People Magazine. However, unlike everyone whose names and case factors were mentioned, the author is not Caucasian, he is African-American and was not publicized on Court TV like the others. However, public pressure was a determining factor to keep the author confined quietly. None of the mentioned parties has expressed remorse for their armful actions, but the author has. Through self-help groups, such as Victims-Awareness, Victim-Impact, Restorative Justice, and Batterers Intervention and Anger Management. The author has actively participated in education merits, including College, and is preparing himself for a potential release. What was left out of the story was the element of crime of passion, which was why the author was sentenced to manslaughter, instead of murder charges.
Moreover, the original article never announced that the author was additionally being charged with the attempted murder of a 30-year old Leothurs Futch, parolee, and gang member who is a father of six. An interested or prospective pen pal apparently will not evaluate the narrative identity of the author, rather they would only focus on what’s in a news article. Would it be of great interest that the author is first-time violent offender at 26-years old? Alternatively, that the idealistic culture needs some reevaluation, or judged on a case-by-case basis? If a convicted killer gains insight into his or her causative factors, and exhibits this, by way of a living amends, does he deserve to have a second chance to be happy? At 42-years old, the author is far from the same person he once was, the author’s regrets are endless and will remain so, there will never be enough apologies that the author could offer to make up for the damage he has caused. There is not one day that goes by that I do not thing about Tamara, and how her potential was permanently limited, at the expense of my character defects. Which were a combination of fear, anger, insecurity and dishonestly. The author is anticipating that someone will be strong and independent-minded enough to provide him with a change of getting to know him, and for the ideology of “cancel culture” distributed as needed. There is a cultural bias that it is sciatically acceptable for a person to murder a man than if it is to murder a woman, this bias needs to stop! It is an implicit bias that has subsequently hamstringed the author for 16 years, it is unacceptable to murder anyone, for we all are living, loving human beings who possess a right to be free from victimization and discrimination.
The author was sentenced to state prison for his actions, he was not sentenced to being subjected to being deprived of having a change of friendship of romance. The author was sentenced to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the author has corrected his unruly behaviors, and has utilized the option to rehabilitate himself. This is so that the author will highly unlikely reoffend.
So, the question still remains, is there anyone out there who believes in second chances? Or is it just a fashion statement individuals like to parrot whenever their own family member is unexpectedly imprisoned? On the other hand, that the author is deserving of one (look to attached documents), if so, contact the author at the given address, all entries are acceptable.