YOU Can Be Sent to a State Mental Hospital for Refusing the Services of a Public Defender!!!

Written by Dr. Hal Williams
Friday, 10 August 2007

Martin is a litigative and political gadfly. Unlike Socrates he refuses to “drink the hemlock”. What would you do?

Martin has been at the Missouri state mental hospital at Fulton (FSH) almost two years and locked up for longer than that. There are no facts in support of a hotline allegation made against him. There are only vague references to criminal activity alleged to have taken place at some time within a several month period, YEARS AGO.

You, too, can now be sent to FSH for refusing the services of a public defender! If accused of a crime you did not commit, and you want to defend yourself... you must be nuts! Nevermind the fact that the Public Defender’s services are overburdened, if not incompetent, plea bargains to a lesser charge being their stock in trade.

So, the judges in Newton County will send you to FSH for a 96 hour “evaluation” and order you to be kept there even after being “certified competent” and discharged! You will not need to be formally arraigned on the original charges. You can be kept at FSH indefinitely in a “pre-trial” limbo status for months and months... YEARS! Your contact with family and friends will be severely curtailed. Your phone conversations and mail will be monitored.

While at FSH all mental disorders and illness will be ruled out, but in order to keep you there and keep you quiet you will be diagnosed with a “psychosis not otherwise specified” (NOS) and FORCED to take mind-altering drugs that you have no need for and do not want to take. You will be kept from doing any legal research in defense of the original charge or for stopping the continued abuse of the system within the confines of the mental hospital. You will not be allowed to develop a legal file. You can not receive newspapers, magazines, or hard cover books. You will be surrounded with violent, psychotic “clients” and felons and given a bad report if any of them attack you!

So much for a “fair and speed trial” in Missouri. So much for your “rights”. So much for “innocent until proven guilty”.
Martin needs your help. You need your help. Remember you can be accused and locked up, just like Martin. Martin needs a good private attorney and does not have all the funds necessary to initiate his defense.

If you care to help put a stop to this injustice and protect your own future please contact Dr. Williams at saleboat2@yahoo.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or write to Martin c/o 208 W. Sexton Rd. Columbia, MO 65203.