justice4kenzi

New information!

(sent along from Kenzi's mother):

Dear Ms. Bozonie,

Yesterday morning Magistrate Judge Taylor ordered the United States
to turn over any information gathered by U.S. officials (here or in
Korea) which rebutted the probable cause showing they intend to make at
the hearing. ("Brady" material). The U.S. said that they would need
more time to thoroughly check with U.S. officials in Korea to be sure
they fully complied with the order. As a result, the hearing has been
postponed until July 30, 2002 at 9:30 a.m.

Sincerely yours, Edward H. Weis, Assistant Federal Public Defender

This is a start at justice!! The judge did not have to allow this. Keep
those prayers and wishes and letters flowing. I also wish to send a
letter I wrote to the millitary editorial page:

Dear Editor-

My husband had a Top Secret security clearance with the government for 30
years. As a member of the Air Force for 15 years, the family was
stationed in England (3 years), Japan (2 1/3 years), Italy (5 years), and
Fort Meade, MD (3 years). He then joined the State Department Foreign
Service and the family was posted in Belgium (2 years), Zaire (now the
Dem Rep of Congo) (2 years), he went on a remote to Haiti (3 years),
Bangladesh (2 years), and then he was at the Regional Office in Florida.

Last year my daughter was an international student in South Korea and
while on a sightseeing tour another student was murdered. This spring my
daughter was picked up and put into Federal Jail and is now awaiting
extradition to South Korea to stand trial.

During the hearing for bail, her petition was denied because the Federal
Court system found her a threat because she was an ITINERANT VAGRANT.
Never mind that the evidence does not point to her; never mind that she
is an honors student, an community volunteer, and was an exemplary
employee at a home for troubled youth; never mind that she wanted to
permanently settle in the state she was being held; never mind that the
prosecuting attorney implied the "confession" was a joke..

Does this scare only me? Will your children be more likely to be victims
of the court system simply because they traveled? You may wish to think
about this.

Heath Bozonie

Looks like I may be making a trip to West Va. in the end of July to observe a hearing, as strange as it may be to see a friend for the first time in three years (and the second time ever) in court.

It's relieving that the prosecution has been ordered to turn over any possibly conflicting evidence. It's hard to organize a defense when you have nothing with which to defend, and barely any knowledge of what you're defending against. I'm not sure what the part about the confession being a joke means. Is this along the lines of telling customs officials, "that's not *really* confectioner's sugar, tee hee"?