The True Story of How a Series of Lies Sent an Innocent Man to Prison
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that Steve’s first attorney, Roland Mathis, within his first six or seven months, had been paid $7,500 by Newbold and Vanderhoop (N&V), our mother’s lawyers, and that money was borrowed against Steve’s eventual inheritance. Within nine months that amount had risen to $27,928. Steve and Robin paid N&V …
A Trip to Florida Portions of this post also appear in Aggravated. In the chapter of Aggravated called, The Long Wait Before the Trial, I talked briefly about a trip Steve took to Florida to earn some money. Here’s a more detailed account of what he did. Parts of this post were used in the …
Portions of this post also appear in Aggravated. The first I heard about Steve’s financial situation was when he contacted me during the summer of 2004 and told me, without going into any detail, that he was having a legal problem, and asked about the possibility of borrowing against his inheritance. If you’re wondering why …
Portions of this post also appear in Aggravated. Steve and Robin were making decent money at the time the charges were filed. Robin was working as an engineering tech at a manufacturing firm, and by 2004 had been with them for twenty-four years. Steve seriously pursued a career as a club DJ after high school, …
Parts of this post were used in Aggravated. Influence on Hanna As you saw in a previous post, I believe that Ada Dixon’s book is clearly much more a Christian-centered religious text than a self-help book for victims of abuse. My biggest concern, though, is that large parts of it could also have been a …