Important Read… Clint Ehrlich
I have a story the world needs to hear. It's about how an American hero, Sgt. Ray Jennings, was railroaded for murder by corrupt politicians and the FBI
And how God used me as an instrument to free him from prison and clear his name. 1/N
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Ray (@Phantm_2020) would never call himself a hero, but he is by any objective definition.
He deployed to Iraq in 2005, where his humvee was hit by an IED.
He survived the blast… but lost his freedom as soon as he returned home to America. ImageImage
While on leave to visit his five children, Ray was pulled over by the police and dragged out of his car at gunpoint.
As he lay face down on the pavement, they told him he was under arrest — for the murder of a girl he'd never met. Image
Her name was Michelle O'Keefe.
She was an 18-year-old college student and aspiring actress.
Five years earlier, she'd been shot to death inside the new Ford Mustang her parents had given her as a graduation gift. ImageImage
Ray had been in the parking lot that night.
While studying to be a U.S. Marshal, he was moonlighting as an unarmed security guard.
It was his second day on the job.
He heard gunshots, took cover, and radioed for help. Image
When police arrived, they didn't treat Ray as a suspect.
If they had simply checked him for a firearm, he could have immediately been excluded as the killer.
Instead, their incompetence would ruin his life.
Weeks after the shooting, detectives asked Ray to come in for an interview.
He wanted to help them solve the murder, so he told them all his theories about how it happened.
==They decided he "knew too much," so he must be the killer. Image
In the blink of an eye, Ray had gone from innocent observer to prime suspect==.
There was no witness, no physical evidence, and no motive.
But it became the police's mission — their obsession — to put Ray behind bars for life.
For five years, the lack of ANY evidence pointing to Ray stopped the DA from filing charges.
But a powerful local politician managed to change that.
His name was Rex Parris, and he was the mayor of Lancaster, the town next to where the murder occurred. Image
Parris wasn't just the mayor.
He was also a trial lawyer.
He signed up the O'Keefe family as his clients, then sued Ray and his employer for wrongful death.
As he later bragged, his plan was to use a civil lawsuit to set up a criminal prosecution. Image
Parris forced Ray to attend two depositions, where he had to answer more questions about the night of the murder.
Because this was supposedly a "civil" proceeding, Ray had no right to a public defender.
He testified without a lawyer — all recorded on video. ImageImage
Parris edited Ray's answers to make them look incriminating, then played the edited video to prosecutors.
The Deputy DA in charge of the case, Robert Foltz, said he "couldn't put [his] finger" on any new evidence.
But after meeting with Parris, he filed charges…..
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