Survival Arts

A case of self-defense using my hand to push someones face away from me,turns into assault with a deadly weapon with intent to inflict bodily injury, all because a Detective of the LAPD is caught in a lie during his "investigation". The initial police report shows a battery with no injuries and now its a felony, still with no injuries, huh?.

Posted by: victim on March 6, 2004 10:54 PM

There is a cop in Anaheim, in which told me to open my door because he could see my face and proceed to enter my house and then searched it finding something that wasn't even mine "drugs" in his report he stated that i told him and his partner Rodriguez and Haung the cops name to come on in and sure search my house, which is a pack of lies. Guess who the judge believes...of course the cops Rodriguez and Haung. I'm now looking at doing time for something that wasn't mine. Let me ask you...what happen to our 4th amendment and why don't the Judges even concern it....after reading several articles and researching my case the judges and D.A.'s are just as much to blame as the cops. Our judical system does not protect our right at all nor is a person innocent until proven quilty.

Posted by: Linda on May 17, 2004 5:18 AM

I WAS TRYING ON A HOLSTER (COWBOY) WITH A FAKE COWBOY TYPE PROP GUN TIED DOWN IN THE HOLSTER, AFTER I WAS ADJUSTING THE BELT PART AT A FRIENDS SHOE SHOP IN MALIBU, CALIFORNIA. A LADY WALKED BY AND JUST SAW A GUY WITH A GUN IN THE HOLSTER, IT NEVER WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE HOLSTER. I WAS LOOKING AT HOW IT FIT IN MY WINDOW OF MY CAR FOR NO LONGER THAN 60 SECONDS, TOOK IT OFF AND THREW IT ON THE FLOOR OF MY CAR. IN THAT TIME THE WOMAN CALLED 911 AND IN MALIBU WE ARE SERVICED BY THE L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF'S. THEY ARRIVED IN FORCE WITH ABOUT 3-4 SQUAD CARS IN FRONT OF THE EXIT AND ENTRANCE TO THE LOT I WAS IN. I SAID GOODBYE TO MY FRIEND, GOT IN MY CAR, BACKED OUT AND DROVE ABOUT TEN FEET WHEN A MINIMUM OF 3-6 OFFICERS HAD DRAWN GUNS ON ME IN FRONT AND FROM THE BACK. THEY TOLD ME TO GET OUT OF THE CAR. I DID AND ASKED WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS. THEY STATED THAT A WOMAN HAD CALLED IN SAYING I WAS WAVING AND POINTING A GUN AT PASSERBY PEOPLE IN THE PARKING LOT (FIRST LIE) BY CITIZEN. AT THIS TIME I HAD AT LEAST TEN TO TWELVE 9.MM GUNS POINTED AT MY HEAD. I WAS ASKED IF I HAD A GUN, I ANSWERED YES IT WAS A MOVIE PROP, A COWBOY HOLSTE WITH A NON FIRING, POT METAL COWBOY GUN SINCE I WAS AN ACTOR IN A WESTERN SERIES CURRENTLY ON TELEVISION. I WAS CUFFED, THROWN INTO THE BACK OF A SQUAD CAR, THE OFFICER WENT INTO MY CAR PULLED OUT THE HOLSTER AND FAKE GUN AND YELLED TO THE OTHER OFFICERS THAT INDEED IT WAS FAKE. HE THEN THREW IT ONTO THE HOOD OF MY CAR. THE INCIDENT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OVER AT THIS POINT. HE THEN WENT THROUGH MY CAR WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, JUST TRASHING IT AND FOUND MY 9,MM BERETTA, FULLY LOADED AND PROCEEDED TO ARREST ME ON A FELONY CHARGE OF A 15 ROUND CLIP, FULLY LOADED IN A FIREARM, WHICH IN FACT IS A "MISDEMEANOR". I SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN A TICKET, HE THEN COULD HAVE TAKEN THE GUN, EXTRA CLIPS AND AMMUNITION AND BOOKED THEM INTO EVIDENCE. SINCE THERE WAS ABOUT 500 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION AND TEN TO TWELVE CLIPS HE MUST HAVE THOUGHT I WAS A TERRORIST. I WAS GOING SHOOTING WITH A FRIEND FROM THE TELEVISION SHOW AND THE AMMUNITION WAS BOUGHT IN BULK FOR $50, WHICH GAVE ME TEN BOXES OF 50 ROUNDS PER BOX FOR A CHEAPER PRICE THAN BUYING THEM INDIVIDUALLY. WHEN I WAS BOOKED HE TRIED AGAIN FOR A FELONY, AND IT WAS EXPLAINED TO HIM BY HIS SUPERIOR IT WAS A MISDEAMEANOR, I WAS GIVEN $25K BAIL, WHICH WAS FINALLY DROPPED AND I WAS RELEASED ON MY OWN RECOGNISENCE (SPELLING). IN HIS REPORT HE STATED THAT MY FRIEND WHO OWNED THE SHOE SHOP SAID I WAS FAST DRAWING, WAVING THE GUN AROUND AND PRETENDING TO AIM IT AT PEOPLE (LIE #2, BUT BY A COP, WHO HAS THIS IN HIS ARREST REPORT). I WENT TO MY FRIEND WHO SAID THE COP HAD MADE ALL OF THIS UP AND HE WOULD BE SUPOEANED OR COME TO COURT AND TESTIFY THAT THIS COP LIED. I BELIEVE THIS CASE SHOULD BE THROWN OUT AS THE COP LIED, WENT INTO MY CAR AND TOTALLY DISTROYED IT, ETC. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY WANTS TO PUT ME IN JAIL FOR THE ONE YEAR AND $1,000.00 FINE, THE GUN, CLIPS AND AMMUNITION DESTROYED. I AM HAVING TO PAY FOR THIS STUPID MISTAKE SEVERAL TIMES OVER. I HAVE BEEN TO COURT TWICE, IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TWICE, IF THE GUN AND CLIPS ARE DESTROYED I LOSE THE COST OF THE GUN AND CLIPS APPROXIMATELY $900.00, WILL STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR A FINE, AND TO REPLACE THE ITEMS IT WILL COST ABOUT $1,250.00 NOW. I SUBMIT THAT THE CREDIBILITY OF THIS ARRESTING SHERIFF AND HIS PARTNERS IS IN FULL VIOLATION OF MY RIGHTS. HE LIED ON THE REPORT, HIS PEOPLE BACKED THIS UP AND NOW I AM PAYING FOR THIS. THIS GUY SHOULD NOT BE A COP AND THEREFORE I BELIEVE THAT THIS CASE IS DEAD AND SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF COURT, AS IT TECHNICALLY WAS OVER WHEN HE FOUND A FAKE GUN AS I STATED. UNLESS THEY HAVE A DASHBOARD CAMERA WITH AUDIO SHOWING THAT I GAVE PERMISSION TO GO INTO THE VEHICLE, THIS CASE WAS FINISHED WHEN HE FOUND THAT INDEED IT WAS A FAKE PROP COWBOY GUN, INCAPABLE OF FIRING ANY TYPE OF BULLET, BECAUSE NOTHING COULD FIT INTO THE FAKE GUN WITH THE BARREL PLUGGED AND IF YOU COULD PUT A BULLET IN IT, THE GUN WOULD EXPLODE TAKING OFF YOUR HAND. THE MAIN ISSUE HERE IS THE COP LIED ON HIS REPORT AND I AM TAKING ALL THE HEAT, WHEN THIS GUY IS JUST OUT IN THE FIELD MAKING UP WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET AN ARREST.

Posted by: CAMERON on January 26, 2005 10:56 AM

one of the government institutions tries to accuse me of wrongdoing and post monetary punishment without talkig to me and having a formal interview and does not have any proof from my side,only bases their story on their so
called investigators.Right now I ca not really disclose the details,however looks like I am quilty until proven innocent.I have a lawyer,who will negotiate ,however the specific amendment is needed to make sure that people who have their salary paid from our taxpayers money ,obey the law,especially if they want to make sure that ,justice is being served.I am seeking help and possible hearing in US Senate after collecting enough signatures and e mails on the website which I am trying to create,and make a change,so people in my profession can safely serve public ,without being being hunted every single day.It is deplorable that we have to be so afraid that ,some of us are leaving our profession ,totally disgusted with the system,which is feeding lawyers and above described state agency.I will not disclose ,which and what profession we are talking abut ,however,I am working on certain amendment or article,which would limit abusive practices of the government,which often reseves the exclusive rights and acts totally out of line.it forces us to go public and give up our precious privacy ,to have our voice heard.However
our country is probably the only one in western world,where we can effectively make a difference.
Stay tuned.

Elizabeth

Posted by: elizabeth on January 31, 2005 7:23 PM

Im tryin to beat a case of passing into oncoming traffic.. I made a legal pass and was back in my lane when I saw a cop.. I slowed down as soon as I saw him and I think he got MAD cause he didnt get me for speeding.. I went to court for my inital apperance and the cop wrote in his statement that I ran 3 people off the road including himself and he said I was doing way over 70mph... thats a load of BS.. what am I supposed to do now, He totally Lied and its his word against mine and my buddies.. I gotta be there at 3:00 today for my first trial.. hopefully it will go better than the last time I was there...
Joe

Posted by: joe on June 21, 2005 9:13 AM

June 15 2005
To whom it may be of interest

In your wildest dreams, has it ever crossed your mind that you could be imprisoned
June 15 2005
To whom it may be of interest

In your wildest dreams, has it ever crossed your mind that you could be imprisoned
for life for a crime that you had no part in? Sounds like some sort of bad TV movie,
and so the thought is passed on to something more pleasant. I suppose from time to
time we all experience nightmares but after all we have the police and our judicial
system to protect us, but what if an officer of the law and a ruthless deputy district
attorney decide to frame you for a murder?—Can’t happen? – This is exactly what
happened to my stepdaughter Cheri Lynn Dale. When Cheri was arrested, we went
with a court appointed attorney, after all the family knew of Cheri’s whereabouts at
the time of the crime. She was in our living room sound asleep on our hide a bed,
because her grandmother was staying in Cheri’s bedroom

The crime took place on Jan. 25 1990. At approxemently 8:30 AM, give or take 15 minutes, a girl by the name of Susan Denise Taylor had been beaten to death in a house where she had been a guest for several days. According to neighbors, the house was a center for drug trafficking and a hang out for troublemakers. Although the police had been summoned to the residence on numerous occasions, as per a neighbor in a news article, no arrests had ever been made. The news article went on to say that fights in the house were often carried out into the street.
One man, we will call DB, who had been a guest in the house the night before the murder, was a police informant, and had been asked by a detective to go to the house and find out what he could about the set up and the people involved. He said he left the house on the evening of the 24th then returned the next morning, around 9am to bring Susan an ignition switch for a car she was selling to one of the other guys who had been there the night before. He walked in an open door, and down a hallway only to find Susan’s mutilated body, in a pool of blood, in a back bedroom. DB, was a passenger in a van belonging to a man named Pablo. This man followed DB into the house where he too observed Susan Taylor’s mutilated remains, and surrounding environment. Pablo was no stranger to murdered young women, as he had discoverer the remains of yet another local girl, Linda Eveland, several years before . Bob Eveland , Linda”s , dad, was a good friend of mine. Many aspects of that murder were similar to that of Susan Taylor.
Susan was a beautiful young woman. Unfortunately she had made several enemies, due to her drug addiction and self serving ways. She was found to be 16 weeks pregnant and had an appointment to have an abortion. She had been thrown out of a relationship and had called her old boss near Dana Point the evening of the 24th to try to get her old job back. No one was exactly sure what that was. Her x boss was an older man, with whom they say she had a “ Father, Daughter” relationship. He was supposed to pick her up the morning that she was killed, to take her back to his place at Dana Point.
Before I get too far ahead of myself, I’ll give you some background information so you can see how a young woman was set up to take a murder rap and make heroes out of a corrupt cop and an over ambitious deputy district attorney.
My name is Charles Caldwell. I married Cheri’s mother, Connielou, in 1982. Cheri her mother, myself, and my son Fred Caldwell, all lived at the same address. Having already raised one family, I now found myself with another 12 year old daughter to raise.
Cheri was a good kid, fun loving and adventurous. I had to brush up on my jr. high math again as well as other school subjects. I had retired from the furniture moving business and was working for the San Dieguito High School District.
By the time Cheri had reached 16 years of age she had made some really questionable acquaintances. She refused to break off relationship with them so her mother and I packed up her stuff and took her to live with her father. I saw no other choice as my employer would take a dim view of Cheri’s friends, on drugs, being in my house.
Cheri only stayed with her dad a short time. I guess they didn’t see eye to eye on many things. She started living with her friends, first one then another, coming home on occasion. Her visits with us were usually short, but always advantageous for Cheri, as her mother would always spring for some new clothing, boots, or what ever Cheri needed.
From this point on I will use false names for the list of characters in this story, except for our family.
The day before the murder, Cheri had to go to traffic court. She had stayed with us the night before to make sure that she was clean to go to court. On the way home from court she asked her mother to stop by a house in La Costa where she had learned that a telephone she had bought for her stepbrother Fred, for his birthday, had ended up. She had left it at one of her friends house, who in turn had traded it to Lisa Stand for some dope. Lisa was the renter of the house in La Costa Ca. In which only 16 hours later Susan Taylor would be beaten to death.
Lisa didn’t want to release the phone as she said they were using it, but Cheri was insistent and Lisa complied. When Cheri returned to the car, Connielou said she was almost in tears, as the shiny telephone which was shaped like a Porsche auto was missing a wheel and their was no plug on the end of the cord, only bare wires.
On returning home, Cheri left it on my desk so that I could fix it. That night everyone except me, powered out on ice cream and video’s I went to bed. At 5 am Connielou would get up put the coffee on and get ready for work. She worked at Torrey High School and would leave shortly after 6:15 she would always get me up before she left. I would have breakfast with grandma and leave for work shortly before 8am. The warehouse where I worked was only 3 miles away, and in those days I could be to work in less than 10 minutes.
As grandma had been using Cheri’s bedroom since her arrival from Texas, Cheri slept on the hide a bed in the living room, and since our dinning area and living room is one big room, Cheri was in full view of everyone, sound asleep. We were as quiet as possible so as not to awaken her. Fred didn’t get up till around 8:30 am
that morning, but as he can tell you Cheri is still sound asleep as he makes his way to the kitchen for his morning hit of dietary fiber.
Connielou had called home that morning, around 9:15am to make sure that Cheri remembered that they were going shopping at noon. Connielou was only working 3.9 hours at that time. Grandma had answered the phone and said Cheri had just ate two bowls of cereal and was in the shower. Grandma assured Connielou that she would remind Cheri of their shopping trip. Cheri excited about giving her brother Fred his birthday gift wanted to do it as soon as her mother got home before they went shopping. It was a real phone shaped like a red car a little Porche.
By 12:00 noon Connielou and Cheri had left our house on their way to Escondido to that big shopping center in the sky. In those days Escondido was the ultimate shopping experience.
That day however, for me was the same old work a day world, which I loved. When I came home from work that evening, I turned on the television to watch the 5 o’clock news. To my surprise, on the news previews, on a local channel is a murder scene in La Costa Ca. The biggest duck in the puddle is my old friend Richard Castenada who is now detective Castinada of the Carlsbad PD. I loved Richard, as I had had occasion to work with him at a local furniture business when he was just a kid. At that time I had many years of experience in the moving business and tried to help him all I could to learn the business. I was very proud of him when he got on the Carlsbad PD. I called my son Fred in, as he was closing up the shop, to watch the news, because Richard was going to be on.
The story was of a girl who had been murdered in La Costa Ca. Which is within the Carlsbad jurisdiction. First reports were that she had been shot in the head multiple times.
At the same time they aired the story, a picture of the front of the murder house was shown on the tv screen. Connielou, my wife, walked in and exclaimed, “ That’s the house Cheri and I were at yesterday to pick up Cheri’s phone.” As Fred and I were trying to hear the details, because the name “Susan Taylor “ was mentioned Fred became angry for Connielou’s interruption. It is very rare that the name of a victim is mentioned on the first news airing but they flat called out the name Susan Taylor. I had never met her but Fred had her on file at the antique shop, and was very interested to see if it was the same girl. It was. We thought no more about it
A month or so later , word got back to us that Cheri had been hiding in a closet, during a murder in La Costa. In my mind I was thinking Cheri has been blowing smoke or maybe there had been another murder in La Costa that we hadn’t heard about. Understand , Cheri would do almost anything to be noticed, and would never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. Other people had also heard the story that Cheri had been hiding in the hall closet during a murder in La Costa. The whole story had been made up by Cheri to get attention. Not really knowing the time of the crime, Cheri enlarged on the personal experience that she had several days before the murder. At some time on the week end before the actual crime , Cheri had gone to the La Costa house to buy drugs for some friends. Upon arriving she found the front door ajar and a violent fight in progress toward the rear of the house. Not wishing to get involved, she turned and left.
This story became that she was at the house at the time of Susan’s murder, several days later, jumped into the closet, listened to a fight then left. Cheri flat out made this story up. At “NO TIME” however did Cheri mention or say that she had witnessed or heard a MURDER, only a fight, during any of her interviews. That story was made up by the arresting officer, Det. Robert Dick of the Carlsbad Ca PD and assistant DA Thomas Mann.
By the time Cheri told the truth, that she was no where near the murder scene on 1 25 90, the case was being heard in a motion for a new trial. By then of course Cheri’s credibility was in the toilet. Judge David Sill was very adamant about the fact that Cheri was a liar, she had always been a liar and had no credibility. I guess the same went for me and my family, as he referred to us as possessing no credibility, although he knew none of us. At that point I suppressed my overwhelming desire to punch the old man in the teeth.
To say that I have never told a lie, would be a lie, I doubt there is anyone who could say they have never lied about something. Cheri on the other hand had lived with tweekers for about a year. People on any kind of illegal drugs become compulsive liars. I’ve never figured out if it’s the drugs that cause this condition or if it is an acquired habit.
Back to the story, about a year and a half after Susan’s murder Cheri comes waltzing into the house with her new husband, Jeff Filner. We were all stunned, as Jeff had probably the worst reputation in North County. He had a string of arrests that would put a Chicago mobster to shame. Besides selling drugs, his main source of income was SSI. His meth lab had exploded some years back and burned him all over his body, hence the help from our government. Jeff had been stocking Cheri for the better part of a year. Some of his antics included breaking the windows of guys cars who would hide Cheri, he also stabbed the tires of anyone who got in his way, including the local sheriff. He seemed to fear no one where Cheri was concerned. The marriage was short lived, As I recall it only lasted about 6 weeks, just long enough for Cheri to get the hell beat out of her , burned with cigarettes, and stabbed in the arm with Jeff’s knife. One guy that Cheri was visiting shot Jeff twice, trying to defend himself . The 9 mm. slugs went right through his body, and as soon as he left the hospital he took up his relentless stocking of Cheri again. Cheri’s explanation for the marriage was “I couldn’t get rid of him, so I married him hoping he would change”. The last beating She took from Jeff, she was running down the street bleeding and half naked, when a neighbor took her in and called the cops. We still have 2 letters from the former District Attorney offering Cheri help if she would file charges. The only help Cheri wanted was to get out of Dodge.
Connielou took Cheri to John Wane Airport in LA where she boarded a plane for San Antonio, to stay with her sister and her family. Jeff made several calls to the Davis home where Cheri was staying. David Davis, Cheri’s brother in law who happened to be a Bear County Sheriff, taped one of the last calls that Jeff made. In the call Jeff begged Cheri to return to Leucadia, Ca. When she refused he blew his stack. Among some of the threats that he made were that if she didn’t return he would kidnap our little granddaughter, who was staying at our house, Kill her mother and me, and burn our house down, but most of all he told her if she didn’t come back to him, he would hurt her real bad. We still have the taped phone call.
I had tried to stay out of the whole mess as much as possible. The whole scenario seemed like one of those bad dreams that I mentioned at the beginning of this story. One night shortly after Jeff had last talked to Cheri, My wife came into the bedroom, woke me up, and said,” You better get up, Jeff just called and said he was on his way down here to burn our house down”. Well as you can well imagine I became involved real quick. I didn’t know Jeff that well, but I knew what he was capable of doing.
I rolled out of bed, chambered a hollow point on top of a full clip in my old 1911 Colt as I heard his car roaring up to the side of the house. He jumps out of the car and screams,” I told you I was going to burn your house down now here I am”. There I stood in front of the house in my underwear and boots and I yelled back,” Start burnin you son of a bitch”. Very few times in my life had I ever been in that frame of mind but I had had Jeff and the whole situation up to my eye balls. If you have never experienced a man with a can of gasoline ready to burn your home, you may have trouble relating to the adrenaline rush I was caught up in. I’ve never quite figured out why, but Jeff jumps back in his car and spun his wheels getting out of there. I know he wasn’t afraid of me, but that was the last I saw of him till Cheri’s trial.
Jeff made good on one of his threats. Shortly after all of this Jeff was back in jail. While there he calls in a new detective, Robert Dick, to give him some information on the Susan Taylor murder. Sure enough, he tells the law that Cheri was implicated in the murder. There were a couple of items Jeff forgot to mention to the police, one, that he had been stalking Susan for months and, according to a couple of his acquaintances, had threatened to do her bodily harm, because she had him arrested for stealing her van, and two, that she had hung up the phone on him twice the night before she was killed.
Taking the word of a psychopathic, crazy, dope dealing, felon, detective Dick and DDA T. Mann and one other officer, fly to San Antonio to question Cheri.
Now on 3- 6- 90 long before Det. Dick was on the case, , Cheri was questioned at the scene of a drug bust in Cardiff. Long before the police arrived, several of the girls had been pumping Cheri full of Meth. All at the scene were taken to jail, all that is but Cheri. The girls had also been pumping her for information about the murder. She denied to them that she had been at the scene but of course the denial was cut out of the record that was presented by the DA in court 4 years later, as was any exonerating statement or occurrence. The case was given to Dick in early 1992. We have copies of the un Merandised, tampered with interview.
In San Antonio, DDA Mann and Det. Dick questioned Cheri for almost 5 hours. Hair samples and bite impressions and of course fingerprints were taken. This occurred on
6- 11- 92. Cheri’s new boy friend had accompanied Cheri to the police station. On the way there he emphatically told Cheri to be sure to give the same story she had given the officers in her 3-7-90 interview. BIG MISTAKE. Instead of leveling with the officers, she stuck to the story of hearing a fight and jumping in the hall closet. Granted , Cheri had lied in her interview about hiding in the closet, still no where in the interview did she say she was at the house on 1-25-90, the day of the murder, the day of the week, and nowhere did she say she heard a murder. She said she heard a fight. Of course the wording was all changed by Dick and Mann, to suite their case. Cheri, lying as she did, couldn’t hold a candle to the lies the officers told her, and repeated to the court. These facts can very easily be checked out , as we still have transcripts of all interviews and almost all court records.
I’m getting a little ahead of myself. Christmas of 92, Connielou and I spent in Texas. Cheri and her boy friend insisted we stay with them at least one night, to see what they had done to their house. Both of them worked for a remodel outfit and they had taken an old house and done wonders with it. We were very proud of Cheri, she had turned her life around and was working hard to accomplish something. She had given up drugs completely and had a real healthy attitude. She told us all about the Carlsbad cops showing up in June of that year to question her about the Susan Taylor murder. Knowing that they had taken hair samples from her to compare with a rope of blond hair found in the dead girls hand, made me a little nervous. When Connielou asked me why I didn’t like that, I told her, “With Cheri’s hair in their possession, they could very easily substitute the evidence hair with Chiri’s. Connielou said “O they wouldn’t do that”. Boy was she wrong. They not only tried it, they screwed up almost got caught, and had to try another approach to get a conviction. Ill get to that part in a little while.
. The reason for the great interest in Cheri came about on 2-7-92 it was 3 fold.
1- Dick talks to Jeff in prison . Jeff implicates Cheri in the Susan Taylor murder. Dick offers Jeff money to snitch. Its on the interview folks, I’m not making this up. At trial Dick denies this ever happened.
2- Dick searches a house in Leucadia where Jeff tells him that Cheri left a bag of bloody clothes. No clothes were found, just another one of Jeff’s lies.
3- Dick writes a police supplement stating that item number 15 on the evidence list is missing from the evidence room. Item 15 was the rope of blond hair found in the murdered girl’s hand. He sends the supplement to the man in charge. It is now a matter of record.
Now remember, these 3 very important things all happened BEFORE Cheri was interviewed in Texas.
Now we get to the good stuff. Dick, like a good cop, has Cheri’s hair compared to item 15, the long rope of blond hair found in Susan’s left hand, by the San Diego sheriff’s crime lab. Big problem—item 15 is still missing. On 6-26- 92 , the date of the test results.
The Sheriff’s Lab submits a finding, NO CONCLUSION COULD BE REACHED.
Suddenly Dick realizes his timing is bad, as item 15 hasn’t been found yet, so as soon as it was found,{in his unmarked car} by his boss, Dick hurries up and sends the 2 samples back to the same lab for the same test. Strangely enough now a scissor cut lock of blond hair now appears in item 15. Cheri’s hair sample is now shorter than it had been in the previous test by about the same length as the scissor cut locks now appearing in item 15.
Somebody, yes somebody had cut several inches from Cheri’s sample, put it in item#15, the rope of blond hair found in Susan’s left hand. BIG PROBLEM- At that point in time , hair roots were required to test for DNA. SOMEBODY had cut the wrong end of Cheri’s hair. The findings ,NO CONCLUSION COULD BE REACHED. This result was on 12-16-92. Same as it was on 6–26-92. In the arrest warrant the test conclusion had read
“ SIMMILAR IN ALL RESPECTS”, a blatant lie. Little wonder Cheri was indicted.
Did this test result stop Dick and Mann? “O” Hell no, Now they were more desperate than ever to convict Cheri, because being caught tampering with evidence was the least of their worries. Carlsbad had spent too much money on this case and they needed a conviction. Dick sends the 2 samples to Cellmark Lab back East, for a DNA . None of the cops knew that roots were required to do a full blown DNA .They will tell you they did but they didn’t . The DNA test is now possible to be done on the hair shaft but not at that point in time. A full blown DNA test consisted of, DQA,-LDLR-GYPA-HBGG-D7S8-AND GC. Please don’t ask me what the symbols mean, but there are 6 different divisions to take into consideration to get the entire PCR test. They found that Cheri’s and the hair in the hand possessed the same DQA. One sixth of a full test. Just like millions of others do . This along with the lie that Cheri’s hair and item 15, the long rope of blond hair, found in the dead girls hand were “SIMILAR IN ALL RESPECTS” AS WRITTEN IN THE ARREST WARRANT, furnished probable cause to arrest Cheri. These people can lie to a judge and jury with no fear of reprisal. What in the world has become of our justice system?
On 8-23-93 Cheri was arrested in Texas by Dick and Mann. She refused to sign papers to transport her so she was held in county jail in Texas. Upon reading the arrest warrant ,2 weeks after she had been locked up the Judge laughed at the arrest warrant and said “In Texas, we couldn’t arrest anyone with this kind of warrant, much less hold them” He ask Cheri if he let her go if she would go to San Diego and face her accusers. Naturally she agreed to so on her own dime she returns to SD and is almost immediately arrested by Dick and Mann on 9-15-93.
After countless motions to continue, bail reviews, etc, Cheri is released on OR by Judge Rogers, after he was made aware of the material misstatements and just plain lying by DDA Mann and officer Dick. The judge said he wanted to follow this case, and if only he could have it would have not only set Cheri free, but it could have saved our family’s retirement savings.
Instead of a preliminary hearing as we all had expected, Mann slithered to the Grand Jury , who knew nothing of the lies, evidence tampering, etc, and got a hearing. Looking at the tainted evidence the Grand Jury indicted Cheri. Now she had to go to trial. O thank the Lord for our justice system.
Our next blow was we lost attorney Wadler .[real name]. He had done a great job, and was responsible for getting Cheri OR’D for almost a year before trial . The prosecution claimed a conflict of interest.
On5-2-94 the Grand Jury indictment was handed down. On 12-12-94, Cheri’s newly appointed attorney, Michel Barg, for reasons of his own, drops the perjury, and outrages conduct charges that Wadler had filed against Dick and Mann. No one ever figured out why this was done, it was just the start of a series foul ups by Barg. This man listened to no one. He had made up his mind how the case was to be handled. He spent a total of 30 minutes with his client, two 15 minute visits.
He and his investigator did pay a visit to our house, on 3-7-95. He became enraged when he found 2 certified return mail receipts laying on the piano. They were from 2 other attorneys who I had contacted trying to get them to take Cheri’s case, as we had no confidence in Barg’s ability to try a murder case, or for that matter any case.
Ironically, the phone rang while the 2 were there, and it was attorney James Dix from his home in Del Mar. He said that he would be glad to take Cheri’s case, as he had talked to Wadler, and became interested in it. Barg gets all huffy and tells us that it is to close to trial and that the Judge would never permit a change of attorneys. Apologies were made to Dix, as it looked like we were stuck with Barg. Later on, long after Cheri was convicted, the State swore that we never made any attempt to fire Barg, but we have a signed declaration from Dix that says otherwise.
Many other suspects had been questioned by the prosecution, and when ever possible their parents were also interviewed. Hear Cheri is almost ready to go on trial for murder, and none of her family have had as much as a phone call from the Carlsbad PD or the DA’S office.
Finally we called the DA”S office to try to tell him what was going on with one of his deputy’s and a Carlsbad Cop who had never contacted any of Cheri’s family members, and who were spinning out of control on the case.
The family had no idea that District Attorney Paul Spanks was so proud of his 98% conviction rate that he would allow any of his deputies to do anything in their power to get a conviction. He refused to talk to us but did send one of his investigators to our house to individually interview myself, Connielou, Fred, and grandma, Artheldra Hanawalt.
We all told about the same story but it cut no ice with the DA . After all if he was to be reelected he would need all the convictions he could get. Don’t get me wrong, I had never been anti law enforcement I had belonged to the Fraternal Order of Police in my home town, and had been a charter member for years, of California Sheriff’s Association. I don’t belong to any of those clubs anymore. After I witnessed what the California Court did to Cheri, I wanted no part of the system.
I’m going to throw this in at this point in the story. The first forensic test done in this case was done in March after the murder in January of 1990. It was a hair comparison test between the hair of Mike Barns and the rope of blond hair found in Susan’s hand –NO MATCH, then Item #15, the rope of blond hair, was compared to the hair of the victim.- NO MATCH. Susan had brown hair according to the autopsy report and Susan’s drivers license. Please keep this result in mind. This test was done long before Cheri was a suspect. From this you will get just one more of the lies made up by the prosecution.
After having been caught with false forensic tests, Doctored interviews, and outright lies in the arrest warrant and at the grand jury, Dick and Mann needed to get completely out of the hair evidence business, so Mann announces in the news paper that further forensic tests had proven that the hair found in the murdered girls hand was her own. This was 180 degrees opposed to the first forensic comparison. The article was published 3 days before the test at Cellmark was final. How could Mann have the results of the test before the Lab finished the test? Obviously “SOMEBODY” had replaced the long rope of BLOND hair found in the dead girl’s hand, evidence # 15, with a few short brown hairs from the victim. These were just a few of the misconduct shenanigans pulled by the State in Cheri’s case.
If the judge had half a brain he could have seen through all this deception, but he was so distraught finding that Cheri had lied in her interviews, his mind was made up from the git go. The trial was a train wreck for Cheri. Barg had promised 2 things to the family First , that he would not put Cheri at the scene, and second that at least one of the family would get to testify for Cheri. Well neither of these things occurred as they would interfere with his ingenious plan.
DDA Mann paraded a seemingly endless array of witnesses to the stand. , they all had one thing in common, No proof that Cheri killed anyone or for that matter that anyone had even seen Cheri that morning . The front of the murder house had been observed by 14 people that we know of, through their interviews. None saw Cheri or for that matter, any woman beside Lisa, approach the house on the morning of 1 25 90.
By contrast, 3 people reported seeing a Hispanic man arrive at the residence at between 8: 05 and 8:15am, in a burgundy colored car, California license plate no. 2cmg523, and go to the house . This had to be within minutes of the murder. His license plate number had been copied and it turned out to be a guy we will just call George . George had been one of the males at the house the night before the murder. Twice he had said to his buddy Robert, “Lets hit this bitch over the head and rape her” referring to Susan. The Carlsbad Police waited 2 months to interview George although they had all the information of his whereabouts on the night of I-24- 90 , and the morning of 1-25-90 . These facts provided several of the unanswered questions of investigative procedure of the Carlsbad Ca. Pd.
George was never served notice to testify for one very good reason, after his interview, he split for Mexico. As far as I know he is still there.
DDA Mann disqualified George as the murderer for the following reasons: George has a thick Mexican accent, and he supposedly left the murder house with Robert at 8:15 am.
What possible bearing on the case could George’s accent have, since DDA Mann has Cheri coming in through a window of a locked house, where there is only one occupant, Susan Taylor? The DA keeps mixing up his story, First he is disqualifying suspects because of their voice quality, that Cheri said she heard when she was at the front door, and heard a fight, then he has her breaking in while Susan is alone. This is only one example of DDA Mann getting it both ways.
O yes when Robert was first interviewed he said he and George left the house shortly after 6:am. This would provide ample time for George to drop Robert off in Vista and still allow George time to return to the crime scene at 8:05 as he was reported seen by 3 neighbors. At trial however after extensive coaching by Dick and Mann, Robert changed his departure time to around 8:15am. This of course could have been easily shown to be a lie if only Cheri’s attorney Barg, had asked Robert who the 2 men were in the blue van with an out of state license plate that arrived at the house at 7:00 am. The van reported by a neighbor who lived across the street, who just happened to be observing the murder house that morning. She gave the police 3 license plate numbers of vehicles arriving there between 7am and 8:30 that morning. The cops supposedly lost them.
James Babbot was eliminated by the prosecution because he said he wasn’t at the house.
James is a rip-off artist who had occupied the room where Susan’s body was found. He had been in Arizona several days before the murder. He had gone there to make some sort of drug deal. While there, he was arrested, and put in jail. Through an error at the police station, he was released, two days before the murder. He quickly returned to Carlsbad and found out that Susan had sold a very expensive electronic meter, which belonged to him. He was furious but the Judge, at trial, would not allow this information to be heard by the jury.
Although James was a full blown suspect, The defense never called on him. According to Bryan Stan, his daughter turned James away from her door early the morning of the murder. He wanted to come in and take a shower. He had fresh scratches on his face. The daughter was never called to trial by either the defense or the prosecution.
The prosecution never called on James for a very good reason. He could shoot down the state’s entire story of the events leading to the death of Miss Taylor.
The story which was made up by Det. Dick and DDA Mann was that Cheri had been at Gerri Mc Govern’s house since 5 am, where a meth party was in full swing. The morning of 1-25-90. Between 7& 8am Cheri was sent to La Costa to buy more drugs while everyone else waited there at the party for her return. This story was spoon fed to Gerri by Dick and Mann. At first she told them she couldn’t remember as it had been over 4 years. After the officers had repeated the story to her over and over, she finally got the message of what they wanted her to say. Gerri was facing big time in prison on mail theft charges so I guess she didn’t want to get on the wrong side of the law so she more or less went along with the prosecutions made up story.
As I said before Babbot wasn’t called to testify because in his interview he had told police that around 7am on 1-25-90 he stopped at Gerri’s to fix a bicycle tire. NO ONE WAS HOME AT GERRI’S except her dad. No Gerri , No big meth party, nothing but the old man who helped him fix a flat bicycle tire. Gerri, her baby, and her mother had gone out of town.
Babbot is such a liar that I would never have believed his story, but the old man gave the same story to the cops. I still have his interview. As you can plainly see if either of these guys would have testified at trial is would have shot big holes in the lies told by Dick and Mann.
Let’s move on to Jeff. Jeff was dropped as a suspect because he said he wasn’t at the murder house that day. He forgot to tell the cops that he had been stalking Susan for months wishing to do her bodily harm. He told this to several people, he even bragged to a couple of his friends that he had killed her. This was all denied at trial. Officer Dick also testified that he had never made an offer of money to Jeff for information on people he was associated with. This lie is very easily spotted as it appears in one of the interviews.
Jeff told of being at home with his mother and father and some relatives on the morning of the murder. He neglected to tell that his mother had left for work and that his dad had taken the relatives to the airport on his way to Pacific Beach where his business was located. All were gone from the house in plenty of time for him to get to the murder scene.
According to Gary Worker, who was left at Lisa’s to answer the phone while she was out, on the night before the murder, Someone named Jeff had called for Susan a couple of times without success, a few hours before Susan’s death.
Jeff contended that he was without a car, but there was a red Ferrari in the garage, which Jeff was forbidden to drive. This is a joke as Jeff did what ever he desired. His family was scared to death of him and had no control whatsoever of his coming and going. A lot of people think Jeff did the murder. Although he should be considered a prime suspect, I have my doubts about Jeff
The only fingerprints found at the scene were those of an Oceanside man who we will call James Mc . His print was found on the screen which had been removed from the window through which it was said the killer entered. James was dropped as a suspect because the prosecutor claimed that he was in jail at the time of the crime. One officer told them that James was not put into jail until several days after the crime, so the prosecutor changed his story that James was at home with his wife when Susan was murdered.
Mike Barns, the guy who bought Susan’s El Camino that morning, several hours before the murder, was the guy with whom she had been arguing most of the last 6 hours. For some reason after selling Mike the car, she hid the ignition keys. A violent argument had followed.
Mike was dropped as a suspect because he left the house at 6am, broke down in Oceanside and had witnesses that he was there on a side street. Some guy helped get him started on his way to San Clement. When the cops searched his apt. they found blood stains and a roofing ax . The blood was supposedly that of a dog, and his hair sample didn’t compare to that of the hair found in Susan’s hand . Of course this test was done at the same time that Susan’s own hair was found to be different from the “rope” of blond hair in her hand, evidence item #15.
Richard Ano had been squiring Susan around for several weeks before her death. He claimed to be in love with her. Susan was reportedly afraid of Richard as he carries guns and is a big time dealer. She would however borrow his car or use him in other ways.
Upon learning of Susan’s death, it was reported that Richard became violently despondent to the point that no one would ride with him.
Richard was eliminated as a suspect because he said he was in Vista at home at the time of the crime. At that, his story changed several times as to his whereabouts that morning.
Robert Ano, Richard’s brother was eliminated as a suspect because he said he had left the murder house before Susan was killed. Robert left with George, but the time line kept changing. First Robert tells that he and George left shortly after Mike, who had left at 6:00am. By the time he got to trial, with a little coaching from the state, the departure time was closer to 8:15am. As I said before, this couldn’t be true for a couple of reasons.
First, when Worker called Susan from Oceanside at 7:45am that morning, she told him that everyone had gone. This phone call is on the record. Next, two men showed up in a blue van with an out of state plate, shortly before 7: 00 am. We don’t know who they were, but they were not described by George or Robert. This is another fact that never surfaced at trial.
I guess it’s time we talked about Lisa. Lisa was the renter of the drug house. At trial she said she was doing $8000 a week gross, drug business. She was going with a guy we will call Kevin B. To try to put her story and time line together, according to her interviews and trial testimony is like trying to put 3 jigsaw puzzles together when all the pieces were mixed and half were missing. In her first interview she told police the last time she saw Susan alive was at 5:00pm on 1-24-90. While she was in prison a little while later, she leveled with Dick and Mann and told them that she last saw Susan at around 4:am the morning of the crime. At the grand jury the time became 8:oo pm on the evening BEFORE the murder although the prosecutor knew this time line was wrong. Time lines were reinvented throughout case, from arrest to conviction, to suite the prosecutor. Mann and Dick were determined not to let the truth stand in the way of a conviction. I couldn’t figure out why these guys would lie about seeming trivial times and events, at the start of the trial. Later on the purpose started to become clear, these smaller things would later back up times and events of their cooked up stories soon to be reviled.
Lisa was in and out of her house several times the night before. Around 4:am the morning of the murder, she and her friend Kevin B went to a friend’s house where they were supposed to spend the night. At 8:am the next morning Lisa called her house to talk to Susan. This call was the prosecution’s bench mark for other things to follow. One big problem, Lisa had told so many lies in several interviews, How can we depend on this time as a bench mark?
According to Lisa she talked to Susan about the events of the night before. Lisa, Kevin, and their friend Sandy, who they were visiting, all had something to eat, and Lisa decides to go back to her house to retrieve a newspaper which she had marked off some apartments for rent. All of Lisa’s furniture had been put in storage, so she was looking for another place to set up her operation. God help her new land lord.
At the grand jury, Lisa testified that she left Sandy’s house at 9: 45 am and that she only made one trip to her house. At trial it was confirmed by 2 neighbors that they saw Lisa arrive at her house at 10:38am. PROBLEM- One Carlsbad cop testified that he had gone by Lisa’s house at 10:05am and the overhead garage door was closed., Lisa, on the other hand made a point of telling that when she arrived at 10:38am that she found the overhead garage door open between 3 and 4 feet, and closed it. Somebody was mistaken.
Lisa had reported that she called 911 at 10:50am. Another problem, NO ONE ever reported seeing an ambulance or a fire truck at the scene. On any 911 call around here, the paramedics and fire truck nearly always arrive before the cops. Could Lisa have somehow called the police dept. and had the call patched through to a friendly cop? The cop arrived in less than 5 min.
We could go on all night about little Lisa, and the twisting of facts, but I believe that just from what you have read here, you have an idea of her credibility.
Several questions about the wholesomeness of the local constabulary. How did the one cop know that there were 2 phones at the house? The morning of the murder, there was only one---You see Cheri had picked up the second phone the afternoon before the murder. Did he have prior knowledge of the house? Next Why did pictures [of which dozens were taken] fail to show tools “scattered all over the garage” This was alluded to numerous times by DDA Mann at trial.
No pictures of tools were ever produced. Bryan Stan said he had taken all of his tools, and another cop said that he specifically looked for tools, and saw none in the garage. Next,--- The officer in charge of the investigation said there was no sign of forced entry. No pry marks on the window. How do you pry open an aluminum frame window which is kept locked at all times and has a stick on the inside slide, without leaving pry marks? Why was no mention ever made of the broken striker plate on the bedroom door jam. It would take a pretty hefty man to break into a locked room with Susan obviously trying to hold the door shut. Check the body position. ---Next How come only one of the three license plate numbers that were copied down the morning of the murder, by a neighbor, surfaced from the police? Could the other two have been cops who were friendly with Lisa ? Next,--- The bite marks. Much ado about nothing. These marks were seen by two people on Susan’s arm, several days before she was killed. The Coroner said they could have been made day’s before the murder, These facts were totally ignored by everyone, including Cheri’s attorney.
One other very interesting aspect of the case was the way Cheri’s interviews were changed by the prosecution. Out of the dozens of interviews of people connected to the case, none were found by our family to be tampered with. The defense investigator told us that when he tried to compare Cheri’s interview to the tape recording he would keep getting lost. This raised a red flag. My son Fred spent over 1 month staying up almost all night playing the tape of Cheri’s interview and comparing it to the written transcript. He found that not only had Cheri’s words been changed, but some 30 pages had been transposed and numbered as though they were in the correct order One example was , Mann asked the question,
“When you went to the front door THAT morning, could you hear Susan talking on the phone?” At the top of the next page Cheri’s answer was ”NO” So another page was selected by the prosecution that had a “YES” at the top of a page and was substituted for the previous page and was numbered as though it belonged there
No one picked up on this page shuffling, not Cheri’s attorney not the investigator or of course the Judge. Cheri had been found guilty and locked up for quite some time before the shuffling of pages was discovered. Portions of the video taped interview were played for the jury. Naturally, any exonerating statement made by Cheri was deleted from what the jury heard. At breaks in the tape while Detective Dick was on the stand, the prosecutor would ask leading questions, and like a good cop everything would be verified by Dick. The judge explained that he had not read the interview, but that the prosecutor’s version was good enough for him
Back to the broken striker plate on the bedroom door where Susan was killed. NO ONE, not the prosecution, nor the defense ever mentioned it. To me, this is one very important aspect of the case. Cheri weighed about 110 pounds. I’m not saying that she would not be able to break out the striker plate, by throwing her full weight against the door, but if she did it would defiantly leave some very obvious marks on her upper arm and shoulder. Two days after the murder Cheri was driven to Los Angles, about 100 miles, to be a model for a skin care seminar. There were 4 other women in the car with Cheri. None saw any marks on Cheri’s arms or shoulders. She wore only blue jeans and a tank top.
Actually, as I said before, It would take a good sized man to break out the striker plate and over power Susan holding the door shut. From the pictures of the position of her body, this is exactly what happened.
Among many questions the family was asked was “ If Cheri didn’t do it why didn’t you get up there and tell them?” This is a perfectly logical Question. The family was not allowed to testify at trial although we had been promised that we would. The ingenious attorney Barg saw to it that Cheri’s side of the story was never presented to the jury.
Last , but far from least, according to a jury member , the reason she was convicted was because she said she was there. Among the dozens of letters I have written to people in power, was one I wrote to William Wood,[real name] Asst. Attorney General. I asked him to show me in any court record or interview where Cheri said she was at the scene of a murder or at 2441 Torrejon Pl. on 1-25-90 or that she was there on a Thursday, the day of the murder.
He had asked for proof of falsified forensic tests, perjured testimony by the prosecution and arresting officer and evidence of tampering with Cheri’s interview, so I sent the proof to him.
This was his response :
Dear Mr. Caldwell:
I have received letters you wrote to me [dated2-14-00] Mr. Scones dated [2-15-00]and judge Gill[dated 2-22-00] Based on their content, I feel I should caution you in two respects.
First you should understand that in considering the allegations, you have made and the materials you have sent, it is not my intent to disprove your allegations to your satisfaction.
Second, while I appreciate the priority you attach to the case due to your relationship with the defendant , I have a very large on-going case load which limits the time I have for reviewing your materials. Until I have had the opportunity to complete my review of your materials, as well as the relevant portions of the appellate record, your efforts to draw inference from the passage of time are misguided.
Sincerely
Bill Lockyer
Attorney General
William Wood
Supervising Deputy Attorney General

At this point in time almost 6 years have passed. I have become smart enough to realize I will never hear from any one in this sorry office. Several years ago I was asked how many people I had written to get help for Cheri. At that time it was over 40. The response in each case was very similar- “It’s Not MY Job”
Although I know I have a slam dunk case against the state of California, Trying to get help to reverse Cheri’s conviction seems next to impossible. After over 10 years of trying I am still butting my head against a stone wall. Occasionally we do get a glimmer of hope.
None of the local attorneys want to buck heads with the establishment. I presented Cheri’s case to our local Innocence Project. I was turned down flat. Come to find out several years later, Asst. DDA Mann, is an alumni of their law school, and Judge Gull [who was chosen for the case by DDA Mann] was an instructor at the same school. Talk about a stacked deck.
I don’t have too many years left on this earth, but this miscarriage of justice is now an obsession. I still have a couple of avenues to follow up on. Any constructive suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Charlie Caldwell
1234 N Coast Hwy 101
Leucadia, Ca. 92024
[760] 944-7350
“E” mail chuchon101@aol.com
for life for a crime that you had no part in? Sounds like some sort of bad TV movie,
and so the thought is passed on to something more pleasant. I suppose from time to
time we all experience nightmares but after all we have the police and our judicial
system to protect us, but what if an officer of the law and a ruthless deputy district
attorney decide to frame you for a murder?—Can’t happen? – This is exactly what
happened to my stepdaughter Cheri Lynn Dale. When Cheri was arrested, we went
with a court appointed attorney, after all the family knew of Cheri’s whereabouts at
the time of the crime. She was in our living room sound asleep on our hide a bed,
because her grandmother was staying in Cheri’s bedroom

The crime took place on Jan. 25 1990. At approxemently 8:30 AM, give or take 15 minutes, a girl by the name of Susan Denise Taylor had been beaten to death in a house where she had been a guest for several days. According to neighbors, the house was a center for drug trafficking and a hang out for troublemakers. Although the police had been summoned to the residence on numerous occasions, as per a neighbor in a news article, no arrests had ever been made. The news article went on to say that fights in the house were often carried out into the street.
One man, we will call DB, who had been a guest in the house the night before the murder, was a police informant, and had been asked by a detective to go to the house and find out what he could about the set up and the people involved. He said he left the house on the evening of the 24th then returned the next morning, around 9am to bring Susan an ignition switch for a car she was selling to one of the other guys who had been there the night before. He walked in an open door, and down a hallway only to find Susan’s mutilated body, in a pool of blood, in a back bedroom. DB, was a passenger in a van belonging to a man named Pablo. This man followed DB into the house where he too observed Susan Taylor’s mutilated remains, and surrounding environment. Pablo was no stranger to murdered young women, as he had discoverer the remains of yet another local girl, Linda Eveland, several years before . Bob Eveland , Linda”s , dad, was a good friend of mine. Many aspects of that murder were similar to that of Susan Taylor.
Susan was a beautiful young woman. Unfortunately she had made several enemies, due to her drug addiction and self serving ways. She was found to be 16 weeks pregnant and had an appointment to have an abortion. She had been thrown out of a relationship and had called her old boss near Dana Point the evening of the 24th to try to get her old job back. No one was exactly sure what that was. Her x boss was an older man, with whom they say she had a “ Father, Daughter” relationship. He was supposed to pick her up the morning that she was killed, to take her back to his place at Dana Point.
Before I get too far ahead of myself, I’ll give you some background information so you can see how a young woman was set up to take a murder rap and make heroes out of a corrupt cop and an over ambitious deputy district attorney.
My name is Charles Caldwell. I married Cheri’s mother, Connielou, in 1982. Cheri her mother, myself, and my son Fred Caldwell, all lived at the same address. Having already raised one family, I now found myself with another 12 year old daughter to raise.
Cheri was a good kid, fun loving and adventurous. I had to brush up on my jr. high math again as well as other school subjects. I had retired from the furniture moving business and was working for the San Dieguito High School District.
By the time Cheri had reached 16 years of age she had made some really questionable acquaintances. She refused to break off relationship with them so her mother and I packed up her stuff and took her to live with her father. I saw no other choice as my employer would take a dim view of Cheri’s friends, on drugs, being in my house.
Cheri only stayed with her dad a short time. I guess they didn’t see eye to eye on many things. She started living with her friends, first one then another, coming home on occasion. Her visits with us were usually short, but always advantageous for Cheri, as her mother would always spring for some new clothing, boots, or what ever Cheri needed.
From this point on I will use false names for the list of characters in this story, except for our family.
The day before the murder, Cheri had to go to traffic court. She had stayed with us the night before to make sure that she was clean to go to court. On the way home from court she asked her mother to stop by a house in La Costa where she had learned that a telephone she had bought for her stepbrother Fred, for his birthday, had ended up. She had left it at one of her friends house, who in turn had traded it to Lisa Stand for some dope. Lisa was the renter of the house in La Costa Ca. In which only 16 hours later Susan Taylor would be beaten to death.
Lisa didn’t want to release the phone as she said they were using it, but Cheri was insistent and Lisa complied. When Cheri returned to the car, Connielou said she was almost in tears, as the shiny telephone which was shaped like a Porsche auto was missing a wheel and their was no plug on the end of the cord, only bare wires.
On returning home, Cheri left it on my desk so that I could fix it. That night everyone except me, powered out on ice cream and video’s I went to bed. At 5 am Connielou would get up put the coffee on and get ready for work. She worked at Torrey High School and would leave shortly after 6:15 she would always get me up before she left. I would have breakfast with grandma and leave for work shortly before 8am. The warehouse where I worked was only 3 miles away, and in those days I could be to work in less than 10 minutes.
As grandma had been using Cheri’s bedroom since her arrival from Texas, Cheri slept on the hide a bed in the living room, and since our dinning area and living room is one big room, Cheri was in full view of everyone, sound asleep. We were as quiet as possible so as not to awaken her. Fred didn’t get up till around 8:30 am
that morning, but as he can tell you Cheri is still sound asleep as he makes his way to the kitchen for his morning hit of dietary fiber.
Connielou had called home that morning, around 9:15am to make sure that Cheri remembered that they were going shopping at noon. Connielou was only working 3.9 hours at that time. Grandma had answered the phone and said Cheri had just ate two bowls of cereal and was in the shower. Grandma assured Connielou that she would remind Cheri of their shopping trip. Cheri excited about giving her brother Fred his birthday gift wanted to do it as soon as her mother got home before they went shopping. It was a real phone shaped like a red car a little Porche.
By 12:00 noon Connielou and Cheri had left our house on their way to Escondido to that big shopping center in the sky. In those days Escondido was the ultimate shopping experience.
That day however, for me was the same old work a day world, which I loved. When I came home from work that evening, I turned on the television to watch the 5 o’clock news. To my surprise, on the news previews, on a local channel is a murder scene in La Costa Ca. The biggest duck in the puddle is my old friend Richard Castenada who is now detective Castinada of the Carlsbad PD. I loved Richard, as I had had occasion to work with him at a local furniture business when he was just a kid. At that time I had many years of experience in the moving business and tried to help him all I could to learn the business. I was very proud of him when he got on the Carlsbad PD. I called my son Fred in, as he was closing up the shop, to watch the news, because Richard was going to be on.
The story was of a girl who had been murdered in La Costa Ca. Which is within the Carlsbad jurisdiction. First reports were that she had been shot in the head multiple times.
At the same time they aired the story, a picture of the front of the murder house was shown on the tv screen. Connielou, my wife, walked in and exclaimed, “ That’s the house Cheri and I were at yesterday to pick up Cheri’s phone.” As Fred and I were trying to hear the details, because the name “Susan Taylor “ was mentioned Fred became angry for Connielou’s interruption. It is very rare that the name of a victim is mentioned on the first news airing but they flat called out the name Susan Taylor. I had never met her but Fred had her on file at the antique shop, and was very interested to see if it was the same girl. It was. We thought no more about it
A month or so later , word got back to us that Cheri had been hiding in a closet, during a murder in La Costa. In my mind I was thinking Cheri has been blowing smoke or maybe there had been another murder in La Costa that we hadn’t heard about. Understand , Cheri would do almost anything to be noticed, and would never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. Other people had also heard the story that Cheri had been hiding in the hall closet during a murder in La Costa. The whole story had been made up by Cheri to get attention. Not really knowing the time of the crime, Cheri enlarged on the personal experience that she had several days before the murder. At some time on the week end before the actual crime , Cheri had gone to the La Costa house to buy drugs for some friends. Upon arriving she found the front door ajar and a violent fight in progress toward the rear of the house. Not wishing to get involved, she turned and left.
This story became that she was at the house at the time of Susan’s murder, several days later, jumped into the closet, listened to a fight then left. Cheri flat out made this story up. At “NO TIME” however did Cheri mention or say that she had witnessed or heard a MURDER, only a fight, during any of her interviews. That story was made up by the arresting officer, Det. Robert Dick of the Carlsbad Ca PD and assistant DA Thomas Mann.
By the time Cheri told the truth, that she was no where near the murder scene on 1 25 90, the case was being heard in a motion for a new trial. By then of course Cheri’s credibility was in the toilet. Judge David Sill was very adamant about the fact that Cheri was a liar, she had always been a liar and had no credibility. I guess the same went for me and my family, as he referred to us as possessing no credibility, although he knew none of us. At that point I suppressed my overwhelming desire to punch the old man in the teeth.
To say that I have never told a lie, would be a lie, I doubt there is anyone who could say they have never lied about something. Cheri on the other hand had lived with tweekers for about a year. People on any kind of illegal drugs become compulsive liars. I’ve never figured out if it’s the drugs that cause this condition or if it is an acquired habit.
Back to the story, about a year and a half after Susan’s murder Cheri comes waltzing into the house with her new husband, Jeff Filner. We were all stunned, as Jeff had probably the worst reputation in North County. He had a string of arrests that would put a Chicago mobster to shame. Besides selling drugs, his main source of income was SSI. His meth lab had exploded some years back and burned him all over his body, hence the help from our government. Jeff had been stocking Cheri for the better part of a year. Some of his antics included breaking the windows of guys cars who would hide Cheri, he also stabbed the tires of anyone who got in his way, including the local sheriff. He seemed to fear no one where Cheri was concerned. The marriage was short lived, As I recall it only lasted about 6 weeks, just long enough for Cheri to get the hell beat out of her , burned with cigarettes, and stabbed in the arm with Jeff’s knife. One guy that Cheri was visiting shot Jeff twice, trying to defend himself . The 9 mm. slugs went right through his body, and as soon as he left the hospital he took up his relentless stocking of Cheri again. Cheri’s explanation for the marriage was “I couldn’t get rid of him, so I married him hoping he would change”. The last beating She took from Jeff, she was running down the street bleeding and half naked, when a neighbor took her in and called the cops. We still have 2 letters from the former District Attorney offering Cheri help if she would file charges. The only help Cheri wanted was to get out of Dodge.
Connielou took Cheri to John Wane Airport in LA where she boarded a plane for San Antonio, to stay with her sister and her family. Jeff made several calls to the Davis home where Cheri was staying. David Davis, Cheri’s brother in law who happened to be a Bear County Sheriff, taped one of the last calls that Jeff made. In the call Jeff begged Cheri to return to Leucadia, Ca. When she refused he blew his stack. Among some of the threats that he made were that if she didn’t return he would kidnap our little granddaughter, who was staying at our house, Kill her mother and me, and burn our house down, but most of all he told her if she didn’t come back to him, he would hurt her real bad. We still have the taped phone call.
I had tried to stay out of the whole mess as much as possible. The whole scenario seemed like one of those bad dreams that I mentioned at the beginning of this story. One night shortly after Jeff had last talked to Cheri, My wife came into the bedroom, woke me up, and said,” You better get up, Jeff just called and said he was on his way down here to burn our house down”. Well as you can well imagine I became involved real quick. I didn’t know Jeff that well, but I knew what he was capable of doing.
I rolled out of bed, chambered a hollow point on top of a full clip in my old 1911 Colt as I heard his car roaring up to the side of the house. He jumps out of the car and screams,” I told you I was going to burn your house down now here I am”. There I stood in front of the house in my underwear and boots and I yelled back,” Start burnin you son of a bitch”. Very few times in my life had I ever been in that frame of mind but I had had Jeff and the whole situation up to my eye balls. If you have never experienced a man with a can of gasoline ready to burn your home, you may have trouble relating to the adrenaline rush I was caught up in. I’ve never quite figured out why, but Jeff jumps back in his car and spun his wheels getting out of there. I know he wasn’t afraid of me, but that was the last I saw of him till Cheri’s trial.
Jeff made good on one of his threats. Shortly after all of this Jeff was back in jail. While there he calls in a new detective, Robert Dick, to give him some information on the Susan Taylor murder. Sure enough, he tells the law that Cheri was implicated in the murder. There were a couple of items Jeff forgot to mention to the police, one, that he had been stalking Susan for months and, according to a couple of his acquaintances, had threatened to do her bodily harm, because she had him arrested for stealing her van, and two, that she had hung up the phone on him twice the night before she was killed.
Taking the word of a psychopathic, crazy, dope dealing, felon, detective Dick and DDA T. Mann and one other officer, fly to San Antonio to question Cheri.
Now on 3- 6- 90 long before Det. Dick was on the case, , Cheri was questioned at the scene of a drug bust in Cardiff. Long before the police arrived, several of the girls had been pumping Cheri full of Meth. All at the scene were taken to jail, all that is but Cheri. The girls had also been pumping her for information about the murder. She denied to them that she had been at the scene but of course the denial was cut out of the record that was presented by the DA in court 4 years later, as was any exonerating statement or occurrence. The case was given to Dick in early 1992. We have copies of the un Merandised, tampered with interview.
In San Antonio, DDA Mann and Det. Dick questioned Cheri for almost 5 hours. Hair samples and bite impressions and of course

Posted by: Charles Caldwell on September 15, 2005 3:07 PM

On suspicion of DUI, I consented to go to a police station to take a breathalizer test, I knew that the 1 oz shot I had 1 hour previous would put me under the limit. Upon arriving at the police station, the breathalizer machine was not functional. The officer released me but later testified that the machine was functional and that I had refused the test. I served 30 days in the County Jail because of his false testimony.

Posted by: Anonamous on November 9, 2005 12:51 PM

WHAT TO DO NEXT;

FILE A CITIZENS COMPLAINT immediately,
FILE A CITIZENS COMPLAINT now,
FILE A CITIZENS COMPLAINT...

WRITE DOWN EVERYTHING AS IT OCCURRED AS SOON AS YOU CAN GET A PEN & PAPER!
WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN & HOW...

This is documentation and is considered seriously when you file your complaint, time is a factor act immediately!
I have been to court for refusing to take a breath test and blood test these are lies written by CHP officer Abel Hernandez Los Angeles County Lancaster and I have been to court fifteen times because of his lies as well as the loss of my driving privileges and the inconveniences of not having transportation and relying on others and cab fares for more than a year, this occurred September 22, 2004.

During Discovery (an informal hearing with the judge before trial for discovery of facts) Hernandez continued his lies on the stand so I confronted him, outside the courthouse and he pointed and said, "you take care of yourself"

Almost a year after the incident one of my attorneys asked if I filed a CITIZENS COMPLAINT I said I didn't know that I could and I DID 22 PAGES of my statement and evidence as to the truth about the occurence and the actual events that are factual. 6 months later I still have heard nothing back as to the outcome of my complaint it goes through as many as 6 different levels of investigations, either way it goes, the complaint will remain in his file for five years, yippie!

Everyone who has had their rights violated by an officer of the law, PLEASE FILE A CITIZENS COMPLAINT IMMEDIATELY! if everyone does we stand a better chance of stopping the abuse that officers who are sworn to uphold the law who lie and abuse their authority will think twice!

My trial is next week January 10, 2006 and I pray that the jury will see and hear the truth and that I am allowed to speak on my own behalf although my attorney said at my last appearance I may not be able to, what kind of a justice system is this?

Best regards and good luck to all who are in need,

Isis Richards

Posted by: Isis Richards on January 5, 2006 2:40 PM

Junk Forensics in San Diego - The Cheri Lynn Dale Story

By Charles Caldwell

Edited by Laurie Solomon, JD Editor

Justice:Denied magazine, Issue 25, page 6

Cheri Lynn Dale in 2002

The date was Jan 24, 1990. Cheri Lynn Dale and her mother Connielou Caldwell had just left traffic court in San Marcos, CA. Cheri asked her mother to please stop by a house in Carlsbad CA. She had bought a small red telephone shaped like a Porsche as a birthday gift for her brother Fred Caldwell. The phone had ended up at Lisa Stanton's house at 2441 Torrejon Place. Lisa reluctantly handed the phone to Cheri through a slightly opened front door.

Cheri returned to the car almost in tears as the gift was missing a wheel and the plug was gone. When the two arrived home, Cheri showed me the damaged present and I assured her I could fix it. My name is Charles Caldwell. I am Cheri’s stepfather.

After supper, we all watched TV till bedtime. The next morning Connielou quietly fixed breakfast trying not to wake Cheri. Connielou, Grandma and myself all ate, talking as little as possible, as our dining room and living room are connected. Cheri was asleep on the hide-a-bed.

As Connielou was leaving for work at 6:30 a.m., a friend of Cheri's, Jason DeVoid, inquired if she was home. He was asked to please not wake her as she needed her sleep. I left for work at 7:45 a.m. while Grandma was doing dishes. When I departed, Grandma, Fred and Cheri were left at home. Fred woke up before Cheri and walked through to the kitchen, seeing Cheri still asleep on the couch.

At 9:30 a.m. Connielou called home to remind Cheri they were going shopping. Grandma said she would remind Cheri. At 11:45 Connielou picked-up Cheri at home at 1234 N. Coast Hwy 101, in Leucadia, and off they went to Escondido shopping. Prior to leaving the house, Cheri presented the birthday gift to Fred.

Shortly before 5 p.m. I arrived home from work. As I turned on the 5 p.m. news previews, I see an old friend at a murder scene. It was Richard Castenada, now a Detective for the Carlsbad PD. I brought it to Fred's attention that Richard was on the news.

My wife and Cheri arrived home at the same time the news report aired. Connielou walked in first, approaching the TV and exclaiming, “That’s the house where Cheri and I were yesterday!”

Between 8 and 9 a.m., Susan Taylor had been bludgeoned to death. She had been a guest at the Torrejon residence at that time. The house had been under surveillance for some time by a narcotic’s team. It was well known to the neighbors to be a drug house and hangout for trouble-makers.

When Cheri saw the news report about an hour later on a rerun, she made a hasty departure to see if any of her friends had any details on what had happened at Lisa's house.

On Saturday, 1-27-90, two days after the murder, Cheri was driven to LA with 4 other women to be a model for a skin care seminar. She wore jeans and a tank top. There were no bruises or scratches on her body according to Delores Entzminger and Joan Hall who were with her and her mother.

On 3-7-90, Cheri was interviewed at the scene of a drug bust by officers Sutt and Presley. I didn't see Cheri for some time after that. She had been staying with friends. The next jolt I recall is when she came walking in one evening in June of 91 with her new husband, Jeff Hilner. We were all shocked; Jeff was a drug dealer and town bully. She exclaimed to her mother that she couldn't get rid of him so she married him hoping he would change.

He had cut the tires and broken the windows of many of Cheri’s friends’ cars, anytime she was hiding from him. Jeff had mental problems. After he had nearly killed Cheri, we sent her to Texas to stay with her sister.

Jeff called her in Texas begging her to come back. He became violent when she refused and swore he would hurt her “real bad.” The conversation was taped by Cheri’s brother in law; David Davis, a Bear County Texas Deputy Sheriff. Jeff’s next move was to call my wife and inform her that he was on his way to burn our house down. I was very concerned, for I had knowledge that he had previously set two house fires. Sure enough, here he came spinning his wheels and yelling “I’m gonna burn your house down!” By now I had all I could take from this man, so I met him in the front yard and he decided to leave. Thank the lord we saw no more of Jeff until Cheri’s trial.

Three relevant actions occurred on Jan. 7, 1992. First, Jeff gave a voluntary interview to Detective Robert Wick of the Carlsbad PD in which he implicated Cheri in the Susan Taylor murder. Second, Detective Wick searched a residence in Leucadia where Jeff told him Cheri had stashed a bag of bloody clothes. Neither of these things could be proven simply because they were not true. The third and probably most regrettable action taken by Detective Wick; he reported to Detective Presley in a police supplement that evidence item #15 which was a rope of blond hair found in Susan Taylor’s left hand, was missing from the evidence room. Remember this date.
On 6-11-92, Wick, DDA Thomas Manning and officer Presley flew to San Antonio, Texas to interview Cheri. They interrogated her for 5 hours. Fingerprints, teeth impressions, and hair samples were collected.

On 6-26-92, Cheri’s hair was compared to the hair from the clutched fist of the victim by Rosemarie Neth of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Crime Lab. Detective Wick would later misrepresent Ms. Neth’s conclusion in Cheri’s arrest warrant.

On 9-29-92, the missing hair sample was found in Det. Wick’s undercover car by his boss Sgt. Spencer. This is the same hair sample that furnished probable cause to arrest Cheri. Remember; the hair was reported lost almost 8 months prior. Then it was sworn to have been compared to Cheri’s three mo. before it was found. You think that's odd? Check this out;

On 12-16-92, the same comparison test was done again by the same Lab. Now item #14 & #15 both contain a scissor cut lock of blond hair. #14 was bits of hair found by the dead girl’s arm, but the best part is Cheri’s hair sample is now about 4" shorter than it had been in the previous test. It had lost the approximately the same length as the scissor cut locks of blond hair now appearing in the present test of #14 and #15. According to the arrest warrant written by Detective Wick, the results of the 6-26-92 test and the 12-16-92 test showed that Cheri’s hair and the hair in the dead girl's hand were “Similar in all respects”. This conclusion was an outright lie.

The game that the prosecution was playing is starting to become painfully obvious. Later on, a grand jury and a trial jury was not made aware of the false forensic conclusions contained in Cheri’s arrest warrant.

On 8-2-93, the DQA portion of the DNA of Cheri’s hair and the victim's comparison test was reported to the Carlsbad PD by Cellmark Diagnostics, Maryland. Paula Yates swore to the Grand Jury that Cheri “Cannot be excluded as the source of the DNA found in the hair in the victim’s left hand.”

On 8-23-93, Cheri was arrested in Texas by Detective Wick and DDA Manning.

On 9-12-93, Cheri is released by Judge Gus Strauss to fly to San Diego at her own expense to face Manning & Wick in court.

On 9-15-93, Cheri was incarcerated in San Diego.

On 2-22-94, After countless delays, Cheri appears before Judge Charles Rogers. Her appointed attorney Steven Wadler filed a complaint charging Manning and Wick with Perjury, Falsified Evidence, and Outrageous Governmental Misconduct. After discovering the false forensic information in the arrest warrant, Judge Rogers released Cheri on her own recognizance.

On 4-18-94, Paula Yates the senior molecular biologist at Cellmark Diagnostics swore to the grand jury that Cheri's hair could not be excluded as the source of the DNA obtained from the hair from the victim's hand. After Cheri’s arrest and indictment however, the same expert retracted that conclusion saying “Dale is excluded as the possible source of the DNA” But it was too late, the baseless arrest and indictment already occurred.

On 8-12-94, Steven Wadler was removed from Cheri's case.

On 12-12-94, Cheri's new appointed lawyer Michael Berg dropped the motion to dismiss Cheri case that Wadler had raised along with the Perjury and other charges. He did this without his client's foreknowledge or consultation. As neither I nor any of my family had any confidence in Mr. Berg's ability, we began contacting other sources for help. Mr. Berg became aware of this and informed us that it was too close to trial and that Judge Gill would not permit a change of attorneys at this time.

On 3-23-95, trial starts. The trial was a disaster. Cheri’s alibi was never presented nor were any character witnesses called. Among Mr. Berg’s choice comments in his closing argument was a quote from Adolph Hitler, a reference to Richard Nixon as a crook, and the brilliant remark “If Cheri didn’t kill Susan, who did?”

On 4-25-95, a guilty verdict was reached. David Berman was then appointed to represent Cheri in a motion for a new trial. He did a great job but unlike DDA Manning, he played by the rules and lost.

On 1-11-96, the motion for a new trial started. Now DDA. Manning is defending Cheri’s ex-attorney Michael Berg, and bragging on what a wonderful job he did defending her at trial.

On 1-1-19-96, Judge David Gill of San Diego Superior Court decided that neither Cheri nor any of her family possessed any credibility but Berg and Manning's honesty was beyond reproach. New trial denied.

On 5-8-96, Russell Babcock was retained as Cheri’s appellate attorney.

On 9-9-97, the first oral argument was denied.

On 4-25-98, through the efforts of Ken Culver of the San Diego Sheriff’s Internal Affairs Division, we obtained the missing forensic tests and the missing pages of others. The tests were on:

• 3-3-90, Charles Merritt, Criminologist, SD Crime Lab (revealing his false test conclusion that led to all of the other hair tests)

• 6-26-92, Rose Neth, SD Crime Lab (pg. 3 where she states "No conclusion could be reached" contrary to what Detective Wick swore in the arrest warrant.)

• 12-16-92, Rose Neth SD Crime Lab (pg. 2 where we learn there were scissor cut locks of blond hair in evidence that should not have been scissor cut locks.

• 5-20-94, Paula Yates, Cellmark Lab Test conclusion that was contrary to her conclusions in the arrest warrant and at the grand jury. (Note: Yates was flown to trial and Mr. Berg failed to expose her role in Cheri’s arrest and indictment using her first misleading conclusion.)

Now we had proof of erroneous and/or tampered with forensic test conclusions and that Cheri's Texas interview was also tampered with. We learned last year that her interview is not the first to be tampered with in this way, and it was discovered that DDA Peter Longanbach had instructed his secretary to “shuffle the defendant's interview to confuse the defense.”

Whoever was in custody of Cheri’s transcribed interview, shuffled 34 pages within the text then numbered them as though they were in order, then supplied the transcript to the defense and the court in it’s corrupted state. In at least one place, it turned Cheri's answer from “no” to “yeah” and placed her at the scene of the crime as though she were listening to the victim. But it did a good job confusing the defense because not even our investigator ever figured out why he kept “getting lost” when trying to compare the text to the videotape. Also, pages containing exonerating statements were excised from the transcript. Judge Gill however, chose not to compare the videotape to the transcript for some reason.

The prosecution also misquoted Cheri when they claimed she said:

“I went to Lisa's house on the day of the murder, 1-25-90.”

“That picture of the hair in the victim's hand sure looks like my hair.”

“I saw blood on the ceiling.”

“I could hear Susan on the phone as I approached the front door.”

“I don't know anyone with blond hair.”

“I went down the hallway and saw the blood.”

“I left a bag of bloody clothes at Charles Vary's house.”

“I lied about the voice sounding like Richard Amparano.”

“I lied because Jeff entered the room (in my first interview).”

“She had already been hit and bit before I got there” (The “BIT” in this statement is a product of creative enhancement by the prosecution. The audio on this tape was so bad only a portion was audible. Detectives Sutt and Presley were the original interviewers and neither heard Cheri say “bit.”

These are but a few of the damning statements officer Wick and DDA Manning claimed to a jury that Cheri made. None are true. None were challenged by attorney Berg.

In reading Taylor's autopsy report, I find evidence that Susan had been sexually assaulted at the time of the murder. As per Mary Pierson, DNA expert, the presence of Acid Phosphatase in the victim's mouth, anus and vagina were found, in direct contrast to what Coroner Dr. Eisele's swore at the grand jury and at trial.

All of Cheri’s appeals have been turned down so far, because all the appeal court does is review court procedure. The records however are wrong, because DDA Manning and arresting officer Robert Wick lied at trial and Mr. Berg refused to expose them.

In our San Diego justice system, even after seeing proof of prosecutorial wrong-doing by our Prosecuting Attorney, this wrong-doing is totally disregarded. Justice isn't nearly as important as closing a case, especially one that has the smell of official corruption.

Instead of hearing Cheri’s side of the story at trial that she was sober, with family members, at traffic court, giving Fred a birthday gift, shopping etc; the prosecutor presented a wild story that was not even challenged by the “defense” lawyer. Even at the Motion for a New Trial when physical proof was provided to Judge Gill; the traffic court receipt, the purchases from shopping with cancelled check, Connielou's timecard showing the day she took off work to drive Cheri to traffic court; red telephone that Cheri gave to Fred on the day of the murder. And the testimony of the investigator who said there was “no doubt” that the red telephone was at 2441 Torrejon on 1-24-90 - still judge Gill bought the prosecutor's story that was based on Cheri Dale saying “I went to Lisa Stanton's house on 1-25-90 and overheard an argument.” - a complete lie by the prosecutor. Cheri was never asked when the date or the day was that she had gone there, and at the MNT she had sworn that it was a completely different day that she had overheard an argument there.

I see no relief for Cheri in any type of appeal under these conditions. There must be something we can do. You see, I know Cheri is innocent. I’m an old man and have been through a lot but I have never felt so helpless and let down by my government.

Cheri's address is:
Cheri Dale W60748
CCWF C510-17-3L
Box 1508
Chowchilla, CA 93610-1508

My address is:
Charles Caldwell
1234 N. Coast Hwy 101
Leucadia CA 92024

Posted by: Charles Caldwell on August 13, 2006 6:05 PM

Sgt. Robert Wick was a remarkable civil servant who was reknowned for his expertise, fairness and ability to solve crimes with integrity. His knowledge and wisdom will continue to be remembered for years to come. I trust Mr. Wick worked this case with the upmost integrity, skill and determination to solve the crime.

Posted by: bobwick blessed my life on July 6, 2007 11:19 PM

cops are people too they cannot walk around and expect any other person to think that a cop or any other figure with a badge can do what others dont. cops are not always on duty and they all do not stick together. there are many bad people who take the job of a police officer on and people who let them so they cn help cover and create a diversity of situations till theybelieve everyone does not want to deal a oof many others too situations. they need to stop thinking that they are so popular because people are teaching their children no to trust teachers cops and others because that our society today and i have found out the hard way that trusting any one before or during or after their political view they achieve to take on is not strong in this world any longer. when i was told my side was not worth hearing they kept a open mind not a status to how hard they woulod make it for me or any one else as if rules dont apply to them in our country. they realy should open their minds and for their own safety whether they believe it or not because from the looks of it they wont find to many that will protect them because supposably they are the ones that are liying to do that fro some one and also they are the ones who have been hurt and their reputation is supposably suffering and they are diong so much hard work our government pays fro to protect opur government.
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geese be carefull i know when i step on the dirty cement ground and thats not or is it japanese we all will let those types of i dont see nothing wrong people in our now days just on with that theme and the cops can continue to believe they are the only true answers to this long everything seems ok now bull shit and onle people with religeous names history etc can fail because we supposably have no right anyway be their law and our own.
ms hanewich

Posted by: mary hanewich on January 23, 2008 9:12 AM

cops are people too they cannot walk around and expect any other person to think that a cop or any other figure with a badge can do what others dont. cops are not always on duty and they all do not stick together. there are many bad people who take the job of a police officer on and people who let them so they cn help cover and create a diversity of situations till theybelieve everyone does not want to deal a oof many others too situations. they need to stop thinking that they are so popular because people are teaching their children no to trust teachers cops and others because that our society today and i have found out the hard way that trusting any one before or during or after their political view they achieve to take on is not strong in this world any longer. when i was told my side was not worth hearing they kept a open mind not a status to how hard they woulod make it for me or any one else as if rules dont apply to them in our country. they realy should open their minds and for their own safety whether they believe it or not because from the looks of it they wont find to many that will protect them because supposably they are the ones that are liying to do that fro some one and also they are the ones who have been hurt and their reputation is supposably suffering and they are diong so much hard work our government pays fro to protect opur government.
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geese be carefull i know when i step on the dirty cement ground and thats not or is it japanese we all will let those types of i dont see nothing wrong people in our now days just on with that theme and the cops can continue to believe they are the only true answers to this long everything seems ok now bull shit and onle people with religeous names history etc can fail because we supposably have no right anyway be their law and our own.
ms hanewich

also the fact that once agian they can feed us into being not pure of who we are but some stuped some way .because i dont care..................get lost coppers.

Posted by: mary hanewich on January 23, 2008 9:13 AM

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