The next phase in the 20+ year fight for Truth and Justice for Tammy Lohr and Patrick Bradford came on August 31,2012.
Deputy Public Defender Hope Fey filed the Brief of Appellant for Patrick Bradford in the Court of Appeals of Indiana. This is the first step in the process of appealing the decision of Judge Carl Heldt, denying Post-Conviction relief of March 12 ,2012.
The State's response, the Brief of Appellee, is due within 30 days of this filing, although they will likely ask for one extension of time. When that Brief is filed, Ms. Fey will file a Reply brief.
The recent decisions of the Indiana Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of Indiana in the case of Bunch vs. State, 964 N.E. 2nd 274 (Ind. Ct. App. 2012), trans.denied, suggest that Indiana is finally ready to give science its proper place in the determination of Truth in the legal process. But even this beginning was so long in coming that there is no certainty that Science and Truth will prevail here.
Pray for Truth and pray for Justice for Tammy and Patrick.
**The brief is not yet displayed on the Indiana Court of Appeals site, but keep your eye on it (Case No. 82A01-1203-129)
(To those who have voiced the comments "Just give up already and serve your sentence." To you we say --It's hard to beat someone who never gives up.-- We will never stop.)
