"Little B" Endorses Elaine Brown For President: Audio From Behind Bars

Who is Little B?
Why should Elaine Brown Be President?

On February 5, 2008...Green Party Voters in California and Massachusetts go to the polls to choose their candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. Listen to the endorsement from Little B…and read Elaine’s campaign platform at the end of this article. Last day to register in California is January 22,2008. Register Green...VOTE BROWN!!!

“Who is Little B?”

Michael Lewis, known as Little B, was arrested at only 13 years old for a murder he did not commit. Michael was tried as an adult in an Atlanta, Georgia, courtroom, convicted and sentenced to life in prison at the age of 14. In a case stricken with lying drug-dealing witnesses, an incompetent public defender, concealed evidence, and racism, this innocent young black man was condemned to life in prison. Born and raised in The Bluff, an impoverished area of Atlanta, Michael was condemned from the beginning of his life. His criminal conviction is a tragic exemplification of our inequitable legal system.

***Michael was tried as an adult under Georgia's Senate Bill 440, which allows for children 13-17 years old to be prosecuted and sentenced as adults if charged with certain offenses known as the seven deadly sins.

***The newly elected district attorney, the first black D.A. in Georgia, Paul Howard, declared at the outset that he would try this boy like a man.

***Though Michael was a ward of the state at the time of his arrest, he was never assisted by child protection services, and he was never read his Miranda rights.

***The only evidence against Michael was the testimony of admitted drug dealers, one of whom, Big E, the state's star witness, was also the original murder suspect. Although Big E was facing 40 years-to-life on his own felony drug-dealing charges, after testifying against Michael and making a sealed deal with the district attorney, he was set free!

***There was no forensic testimony as to the trajectory of the bullets and the probable height of the shooter, the recoil relating to probable weight and required strength of the shooter, or the size of the murder weapon and Michael. This evidence was crucial in the case of a 13-year old suspect who was under five-feet tall and weighed a little over 100 pounds at the time.

***Michaels alibi witnesses were not interviewed or subpoenaed for trial.

***Michaels trial lasted only three days.

***Within hours, the jury convicted Michael and sentenced him to LIFE IN PRISON.

***Within a few weeks, Michael was transferred to Lee Arrendale State Prison, called Alto, a Maximum Security Adult Prison. HE WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD!

***Michaels public defender was not only markedly incompetent, he was facing his own criminal charges, relating to bringing contraband into a prison for a death row client.

***Michael has been in prison for 9 years now, having turned 23 years old this March 2006. He is currently serving out his life sentence at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia.

Many neglected facts and potential witnesses can now be brought forward in the next step in Michaels appeal, the filing of a Writ of Habeas Corpus. We desperately need to raise funds for new legal counsel. You have the power to help this innocent young man while exposing the unjust Georgia state laws that are imprisoning children, especially black youth, as 94% of children tried and convicted as adults in Georgia have been black.
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MICHAEL LEWIS DESERVES A NEW TRIAL

AND A FAIR TRIAL!


The Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee Needs Your Help

to Pay the Legal Fees for Michael’s Appeal!


Please send your contribution to:


THE MICHAEL LEWIS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

4060 Peachtree Road, D324
Atlanta, Georgia 30319


10-Point Campaign Program

ELAINE BROWN
CANDIDATE for 2008 GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION

1. Repeal of the “three-strikes” crime laws
2. Full and free health care for everyone
3. Complete and free primary, secondary and higher education for everyone
4. Complete opening of the borders of the United States accompanied by the institution of a guaranteed minimum living wage of $25/hour for all workers
5. Creation of a base of free or low-cost, decent housing
6. The repeal of all laws that discriminate against or dehumanize people
7. Institution of laws and policies that promote purification and cleansing of the air, water and land and that outlaw polluting, contaminating them
8. The payment of reparations by the United States government to native peoples for the theft of land and to Gullah/Geechee and other African slave descendants for slave labor.
9. Total dismantling of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction by the United States
10. Imposition of wealth taxes and reduction of taxes for poor and working people

“It is my hope to seize the opportunity of being the Green Party presidential nominee to widely advocate for and promulgate this platform among the Marginalized Millions to bring about the concretization of it through election of Green Party candidates in every city and state as well as nationally.” Elaine Brown, November 2008