These two attorneys were either appointed to "defend" Bramblett
because of their inability or because they agreed to throw the case.
Someone left the following comment on the Guest Book:
When I was on jury duty several
years ago in another case defended by Terry Grimes the other jurors
actually made fun of Mr. Grimes. I think that speaks for his incompetence
as a trial lawyer.
When Bramblett first asked me to look into his case I wrote both
Doubles and Grimes. Grimes called me when he got the letter and wanted
to know who I was and all about me. I, of course, thought they would
welcome anyone trying to help their client but it was the very opposite.
Grimes said he would have to check with the Virginia State Bar
Association and sent me a copy of the letter. I talked with Grimes a week
or so later and he told me the Bar Association had said I shouldn't see the
files. This was a LIE. The Bar Association never told him any such thing,
but he continued to tell other people that same lie. Even though I had a
perfectly legal right to see Bramblett's files, Grimes continued to hold
them from me.
The first time I had a chance to inspect any of the files was in
the habeas attorney's office and All the discovery evidence
had been withheld. Grimes either destroyed the discovery evidence or
kept it. Grimes happens to be a liar and a two bit crook as well as a
very incompetent lawyer. There should have been interviews with the lady
that saw the truck, interviews with the witnesses in trial that the police
had conducted and most everything else the prosecution was going to use
in the trial. None of that was forwarded to the habeas attorney.
The habeas attorney, Will Lindsey, and later joined by Jennifer
Givens, of the Virginia Capital Resource Center, never requested this
information and filed all Bramblett's appeals without it. Rather than
criticize another attorney, they would rather work around the missing
information. Is it any wonder Bramblett was murdered? I furnished Lindsey
with the FBI-FOIA material, and most of the information in the habeas appeal
was some of the information I had gathered and shown Lindsey. After I left
the Roanoke area Lindsey would not call me back, the same as he did with
Earl Bramblett's brother. I can understand how I have a lot less to lose
than the attorneys. They live in the area and Burkart is now a judge and
they have to deal with him as well as the other attorneys, but why take
the case if you aren't going to do the right thing, and use the things that
will show your client's innocence?
I was the one that contacted the jail house snitch. I was the one
that told Lindsey of the firearm evidence being a lie. I showed them
about the testimony about the lights not installed where the old lady
said she saw the truck. I gave them the FBI-FOIA files. Most of this
stuff they totally ignored. This was Lindsey and Givens, the second set
of lawyers. I could expect that from the "traffic ticket-dog bite" type
lawyers, Doubles and Grimes, but not from people I was helping.
Doubles has stayed far away from the case and let Grimes
do all the dirty work. Doubles did all the dirty work in trial, accepting
all "experts" as such before even hearing their qualifications, asking non-sequitur
questions of witnesses, and asking the exact same questions the prosecution
had just asked. It was pathetic to the point of being embarrassing.
These attorneys are guilty
of murdering Bramblett
Earl Bramblett was innocent
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