SupportChris

We have sentencing early next month and need to make up a bit to cover the legal payment prior to that. If you can have the means to help widdle that down ot would be greatly appreciated. 

Sentencing is tentatively set for Thursday February 12th at 9:30am. We need all the community support we can get that day, please spread the word and come out.

We have $750 in trial fees due this week, please share some bread as you are able 

 

Three more charges handed down almost three years after the fact.. its giving desperation. After learning of this indictment and subsequent pocket warrants that were issued, Chris surrendered to the Tarrant County Jail among dear friends and family. 

We will be back in court next week to attempt to wade through the sludge of the injustice system and move this process forward.

Chris owes $750 to a wonderful saint that fronted bond money, and a $750/month payment at the beginning of September for attorney fees. All donations will be utilized for these two purposes and any surplus will be put towards paying previous debts to his former attorneys. Please keep sharing amd telling Chris's story, all visibility to the cause is invaluable! 

 

 

 

An update we had hoped not to have to share: 

 

We are due back in court in two weeks on the announcement docket, most likely for the state to announce they are ready for trial on the misdemeaner. We had half-heartedly hoped this would go away as the charge so ludicrous and transparently manufactured but that was not to be. The state purposefully chose to try both charges individually to draw this out and make this as difficult and costly as possible. 

 

 

Unfortunately, the trial lawyer that assisted in the first trial will be motioning to withdraw due to the fact that another $7500 trial fee is nearly impossible to come up with at this juncture. There are no hard feelings, the team fought hard to earn the first acquittal, this is just a byproduct of the difficult situation the state has created. 

 

In Tarrant County you do not have a right to have an attorney appointed. The threshold for indigent council is a maximum income of $29,000 for a household of three to qualify for a public defender. This has left the future quite uncertain as we navigate what the next steps will be without an attorney but until August 6th we must hurry up and wait. 

 

In the meantime, repression has increased for everyone in DFW. Right wing propagandists have baselessly worked to smear anyone and everyone who's name is in the system to try to tie them to the Prarieland 15. This has led to visits from the FBI, who have been turned away, and being intermittently followed. 

 

We urgently need to raise $1500 to pay down the balance owed to the former lawyer for trial work and will likely need to raise more in the coming month but unfortunately all we can do is wait for the court to rule. Thank y'all for all the love and help.