A February 5, 2010 update from Darold Stenson

I had an interesting surprise ambush visit last Thursday, 01-28-10, here in the true concentration camp that is in the Intensive Management Unit of the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. A couple of the good ole’ boys from the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department, Detectives Cameron and Martins, came here to try to interview me. Apparently they were very afraid that their misdeeds concerning false and faulty statements and absolutely false gunpowder residue evidence were finally, after over 16 years, coming to the public’s view! So, of course, Clallam County sent the very people who falsified and then presented faulty gunpowder residue evidence as fact to conduct this interview!

Neither me nor any of my lawyers were notified of their unethical intentions, surely violating standard rules and regulations on legal interviews that have been in effect for decades. These representatives of the state and Clallam County came prancing in here like Keystone Cops, escorted by a member of the Internal Investigations Unit here at W.S.P.

I was first told that I had no right nor need to have one of my lawyers present because I had brought this action. This coupled with the I&I representatives implied that I had to talk with them. I really was not going for it, but to see how they try to cover up the illegal activities that they had committed and successfully hid for over 16 years, I said that I would check out their interview.

The outrageous manner in which the questions were asked quickly became ridiculous! I watched Cameron start writing as Martins barked out his questions. For a two word answer by me, Cameron was writing a whole paragraph! So I decided then that something just wasn’t going to be right here! This is the age of technology, 2010, and these so-called professionals did not have any audio or video equipment with them verify what I said. It was very apparent that they were going to try to do the same thing that they did almost 17 years ago, just write down everything that they wanted to hear, regardless of what I was really saying!

So I halted this surprise ambush but they still persisted in asking me to think about things overnight and that they would come back later the next day for the interview. The next day, Friday 09-29-10, I had a phone conference with some of my attorneys, the Clallam County prosecutor, and Judge Ken Williams. I had spoken with another attorney at the Federal Defenders Office earlier that morning to inform my attorneys to just what the state and county prosecutors were up to. When my attorneys informed Judge Williams of the Clallam County prosecutor’s minions’ attempts to interview me without them in the picture, he ordered the state prosecutor not to commit these actions any longer. So the pride of Clallam County did not get to come back to harass me again that day, but I imagine that they had lots of time to spend visiting Walla Walla wineries on the Clallam County’s pay!

It was nice to see that Clallam County and its prosecutors and sheriffs are so prosperous in this time of cutbacks and hardships for normal working folks that they have the funds to be so wantonly wasteful and single-minded in protecting their conviction!

My attorneys are in the process of filing paperwork to have Clallam County officials admonished for their unauthorized attempted interview, but I don’t really expect too much to come of this. Lawyers and judges seem to look out for each other and their profession when it comes to disciplining themselves!

To make sure that the courts and the politicians know that the public is watching them, I urge friends, supporters and all citizens who feel that justice should reign in our courts—not politics—to write, call, or email the Washington State Supreme Court and Judge Ken Williams of the Clallam County Superior Court and demand that they look at the actual evidence this time and then demand a new trial by held where I will have access to true defense attorneys who will help me to show my actual innocence!

I think that my court-ordered reference hearing to determine if my evidence is real or not, will start in Clallam County Superior Court on March 8th. This is so that the judge has time to come to a decision on what to do with my newly discovered evidence that had been so successfully hidden up until January of 2009, when one of my investigators discovered the existence of the pictures of Monte Martins wearing my pants at a Portland lab without any gloves on to protect from contaminating evidence. Then in May of 2009, when the FBI finally released the evidence that shows outright deceit by one of its agents when he testified at my trial in implying that he had conducted the tests that revealed gunpowder residue when he did not. Then we discover that the person who did the tests didn’t do them right! The Washington Supreme Court has demanded an answer before March 30th, 2010.

What is so bizarre is that the state isn’t even trying to dispute my newly discovered evidence in any way! They are only claiming that the truth should be a moot issue now, because I should have discovered that evidence that they and the FBI successfully hid for over 16 years. Supposedly, I should have somehow discovered this evidence over 12 years ago when my death sentence became final! Because I was not able to present this evidence according to their timetable, they claim that the truth should be either procedurally barred or time barred. An immediate execution date would then beset for me! Legally they could get away with this, if you let them! Please don’t let them. Use the contact numbers listed on this site and demand that this new evidence be allowed to be presented to the Supreme Court and then demand a new and fair trial be held for me as soon as possible. Thank you!