From: Robert A. Pauley

To: fox

Date: 19. september 1999 03:48

Hi,

I heard you wereplanning a show on wrongful convictions. Attached is info

you may be interested in, about death row inmate Paul William Scott, who is

innocent in Florida.

More information is available, if you are interested.

Thanks, Bob Pauley

Paul William Scott is an innocent man now in his 21st year on Florida's

death row. Like so many others he was convicted for a crime he could not

have committed. We have conclusive proof of his innocence, but Florida has

killed innocent men in the past and will undoubtedly continue to do so.

The governor of Florida justifies the killing of these innocents with

clemency hearings and capital collateral regional counsel representation.

Unfortunately, these pseudo-remedies don't have a clue as to the truth-they

blindly follow the statements of biased prosecutors. They place their faith

in "the system" which encourages prosecutors to win their cases damn the

facts.

The prosecutor in Scott's case wrapped his argument around fabricated

evidence (he hid the actual evidence), deception and lies (a common

practice). His star witness has since fully and totally recanted and every

juror except one has signed sworn affidavits acknowledging they were simply

duped in this trial, after learning the truth.

Parishioners of the St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Father Edward McElduff,

Professor Charles Rice of the University of Notre Dame Law School, at least

two Catholic Bishops and Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking, New York:

Random House, 1995) all agree: Paul William Scott is innocent.

Experts in pathology and DNA testing are willing to donate their time and

talent to prove this indigent borderline retarded man's innocence. But, we

are told, Palm Beach County cannot locate the blood or the evidence in Paul

Scott's case. Scott simply had "too many tattoos" an investigator for the

Palm Beach County public defender's office told Bob Pauley, who has written

a 350-page book about this injustice, early into this sham of a trial.

The actual murderer in this case has confessed many times. He is a free man

today after serving 15 years for second-degree murder. Paul had left the

house where the murder took place fully 3½ hours before the crime was

committed. Yet the prosecutor of these more than 20 years still follows

Paul to his every hearing, every trial, every appeal and he repeats his

20-year old ruse to the courts. Why?

The killer's parents had $45,000 for the system to plea-bargain for their

son's life. Might this have had something to do with Paul Scott's

conviction? Could this be the reason the actual murder weapon-an unopened

bottle of Dom Perignon champagne-mysteriously disappeared from Scott's

courtroom? After all, it had the fingerprints of the wealthy co-defendant

whose hand was badly cut from the wire around the cork of the bottle (The

public defender forgot to include him as a witness in Scott's trial).

What politics, power and money do to corrupt our system of justice is

unbelievable. Eighty-two cases of known wrongful death row convictions have

been documented since 1976; and there are many, many more death row

innocents locked away, praying for justice. Isn't it time to end this

legalized murdering of innocent indigents? The fact remains: Paul William

Scott is absolutely, honestly and obviously innocent and must be freed!