01/31/2018
Hello Friends,
It seems that after many years of pro-se filling I have finally won a hearing for re-sentencing.
Many recall that I was convinced for participation in 3 bank robberies and providing a stolen car for a jewelry store robbery in Maine during 1994.
During trial the government relied upon cumulative circumstantial evidence and presented; 1) the testimony of "jailhouse informants", several of whom were found to have given perjurious testimony and whose criminal histories were much more significant than my own; 2) the perjurious testimony of an FBI Agent concerning Comparative Analysis of Bullet Lead ("CABL") science found to be an unreliable "junk science" in an FBI Laboratory "scandal" in 2003 and which was abandoned as a testing method in 2005 jeopardizing thousands of convictions; 3) the written statements of the eye-witness placing me at the crime scene (who refused to testify) to which I stopped the trial to object to their admission. By comparison, my entire testimony was stricken for refusing to answer a simple question regarding ma*****na sales which had nothing to do with the robberies or those named in them.
I received a 293 month sentence followed by a consecutive mandatory minimum sentence of 45 years. It rates as one of the longest sentences ever given in the states history for any crime except murder. Of 6 people named suspects in the crimes only myself and 2 others were charged. Although I did not directly physically participate in the jewelry store heist, I received nearly 4 years more for that crime than the statutory maximum penalty allows, yet one of the actual perpetrators of that crime received 5 years. I have served more time than both of the others convicted for the crimes combined. Although the crimes I have been convicted for are serious offenses no one was injured or harmed during their commission.
Additionally, I have never committed a violent crime or harmed anyone in my criminal history of auto theft related convictions, after being imprisoned I have served nearly a quarter of a century in federal penitentiaries, more then most defendants convicted for murder.
My re-sentencing hearing will enable the court to consider all factors in determining what my new sentence should be. It will be very helpful to my judge, Honorable D. Brock Hernby, if he could hear from you concerning my character, the way the disparate sentence has effected you and how you feel the public opinion is effected by it as a whole and whatever opinions you can offer.
Of course the court is always conscientious of the Publics opinion and must be assured that the public has faith in the integrity of its proceedings.
It would also be helpful if you could share with the court whatever opportunities I may have available to me relating to housing, employment or other support in the event of my release.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to right the wrong of an unjust, disparate sentence. I implore you to write in support of my release and help to free me and bring me home.
Thank you for considering me, I look forward to hearing from you, May blessing be, hold my faith
I remain
Thomas J. Bartelho
#03361-036
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