Second Chance-At age 18 Ms Copeland was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole |
Please read the story of Karen Copeland at Karen Copeland htm link. |
Karen Copeland-Second Chances |
Contact Ms. Copeland at; Karen Copeland D.O.C.# 308478 Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women PO Box 26 St. Gabriel, La 70776 |
COULD KAREN RECEIVE A FAIR TRIAL UNDER THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: 1. VICTIM'S RELATIVE WAS ON THE CITY COUNCIL 2. VICTIM'S RELATIVE WAS PREIDENT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD 3. VICTIMS WAS A DESCENDANT OF THE VOODOO QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS 4. VICTIM'S RELATIVE WAS MAYOR OF THE CITY |
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Karen also needs assistance from any Law Students, Paralegals or Attorneys who can offer Pro Bono services or who offer some form of pay arrangements-Please contact Yeruba@earthlink.net or Karen Copeland # 308478 Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women-PO Box 26-St.Gabriel, La 70776 (libra division) |
Karen was convicted of second degree murder. Had her trial been fair she should have been convicted of manslaughter or acting under diminished capacity. She paid her lawyer $25,000. She was the only defense witness called. The court failed to introduce the following information. 1. Between the age of birth to seventeen, she was placed in over 13 different homes/facilities. 2. From the age of 11-13 she was sexually abused by a close relative. 3. At age 13 she was placed in a home for neglected/abused children. 4. She attempted suicide twice, because of the sexual abuse and then because she was abandoned by her mother and granfather. 5. At age 15 she was placed in a juvenile facility for the mentally ill, during this time she was placed in solitary confinment for forty days. 6. At age 16 she was placed in a group home for girls, where she stayed until she was released, because of overcrowding. 7. None of this was information was introducd at the trial. 8. No psychiatrists, social worker or foster mother of Karens was called to testify about her mental condition or her abusive childhood. |
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In November of of 2001 the Louisiana Legislation will be considering several new bills. At least five of them deal with allowing persons convicted of 2nd degree murder to be eligible for parole after twenty years, another will allow parole after fourty years. Please help support this by wring to the Louisiana congress encouraging them to pass these bills. |
