Status of Appeal 2/8/09
Hello Everyone,
The only word we have on Brandon's appeal is that we should know in a couple of months whether or not the request for oral arguments will be granted. As soon as we hear anything, we'll let you know.
Brandon's birthday is on February 17th. He will be 32 years old. It doesn't seem possible that this much time has passed. In May, he will have been incarcerated for 14 years.
There is a link on this website to a letter from Brandon. We've had the one he wrote in 2005 posted there for a long time. He's wanted to update it but finds it hard to know what to say when nothing changes. However, if you check the link today, you'll see that there is a new letter from him. The message isn't cheery - it isn't meant to be - but it's real.
None of us, in our lives, are always upbeat but we do have resources to lift ourselves up by our bootstraps (family, hobbies, exercise, counseling, medicine, change of scene). These resources don't exist in day-to-day prison life. Still Brandon has managed so many times to pull himself up and start again with renewed hope and focus. He'll do that again this time too. The one message, he wants to send loud and clear is that even though he has worked very hard to be strong in the face of an unjust sentence, he hates living in a prison. As much as you want him to be free, he wants it a thousand times more.
Please keep that strength and hope coming as we head into this final stretch.
Regards,
Gene and Janice Hein
The only word we have on Brandon's appeal is that we should know in a couple of months whether or not the request for oral arguments will be granted. As soon as we hear anything, we'll let you know.
Brandon's birthday is on February 17th. He will be 32 years old. It doesn't seem possible that this much time has passed. In May, he will have been incarcerated for 14 years.
There is a link on this website to a letter from Brandon. We've had the one he wrote in 2005 posted there for a long time. He's wanted to update it but finds it hard to know what to say when nothing changes. However, if you check the link today, you'll see that there is a new letter from him. The message isn't cheery - it isn't meant to be - but it's real.
None of us, in our lives, are always upbeat but we do have resources to lift ourselves up by our bootstraps (family, hobbies, exercise, counseling, medicine, change of scene). These resources don't exist in day-to-day prison life. Still Brandon has managed so many times to pull himself up and start again with renewed hope and focus. He'll do that again this time too. The one message, he wants to send loud and clear is that even though he has worked very hard to be strong in the face of an unjust sentence, he hates living in a prison. As much as you want him to be free, he wants it a thousand times more.
Please keep that strength and hope coming as we head into this final stretch.
Regards,
Gene and Janice Hein
posted by Gene and Janice Hein at 3:30 PM
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