Lies, corruption and fabrication of evidence: Danny Lee’s case

Danny Lee was convicted on May 14, 1999 of three counts of murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to overthrow the government and conspiracy to create an all whites homeland on US soil. For each of the murder charges he was sentenced to death. Despite the fact that his co-defendant, the prosecutors alleged “mastermind”, was sentenced to life without parole for the same charges! The inconsistencies in Danny’s case do not end there. As a matter of fact there is so much government corruption and manipulation of the facts that the trial transcripts read at times like a John Grisham novel.

Brown Delivers:

In late June of 1996 the bodies of Bill & Nancy Mueller and their daughter Sarah Powell were discovered in a bayou in Russellville, Arkansas. Each of the victims’ heads were wrapped in a plastic bag and duct taped. Due to the decomposition of the bodies the coroner determined that the time of death occurred sometime between one and eight months prior. However, such a vague timeline just wouldn’t fit the Government’s theory of the case. Therefore the US attorneys’ office decided to use January 11^th as the time of death at trial. How, when a trained medical professional couldn’t pin the time of death down to a single day, could the US attorney who has no medical experience? Believe it or not the government chose to rest its entire case on a failed UPS delivery to the Mueller home on January 11, 1996. The lead US attorney admitted to an NPR reporter years after the trial that, “It was a given that if our timeline was wrong, we didn’t have a case.” January 11^th it is then! Of course this is despite the inconvenient fact that eight witnesses testified to having seen and spoken to the Mueller’s up to 2 ½ months after the government claims they were already dead! It should also be noted that all eight witnesses were close family friends and/or long time business associates of the victims. Some even called 911 to inform the police that the missing persons report in the paper was wrong.

Now – even if the government’s timeline is accurate, there is no direct evidence that Danny could have committed the murders. There is proof that Danny was in Yukon, OK on January 8^th, 9^th and 10^th. There is proof, in the form of eyewitness testimony and calling card receipts that Danny was back at his home in Spokane, WA on January 13^th. Therefore, in order for him to have logistically committed the murders he would have had to have driven 320 miles from Yukon, OK to Tilly, AR, lie in wait for the Mueller’s to return home, kill them, then drive 25 miles from Tilly to Russellville, AR and dump the bodies in the bayou and then drive 1,974 miles from Russellville, AR to Spokane, WA in the dead of winter, on icy slick roads in only 36 hours! The prosecutor’s accused Danny of several things but time travel was not one of them!

Testimony for Sale:

Even though the coroner had the bodies of the victims, no cause of death was ever determined. There were no eyewitnesses to the murders. No forensic evidence was found either in the victim’s home or their vehicle. The only shred of circumstantial evidence linking Danny to the crime were statements from two hearsay witnesses regarding alleged statements made by his co-defendant! In a curious twist, both witnesses were compensated with cash payments in excess of $50,000 for their testimony, dropped charges and reduced sentences for other charges relating to this case. On the contrary, three uncompensated witnesses testified that the government’s own star witness was the actual killer and even boasted about setting Danny and his co-defendant up on murder charges.

American Prosecutorial Resistance…to the facts:

The backbone of the US Government’s case rested on the theory that the Mueller’s were robbed and subsequently killed in order to finance an organization known as the APR. The prosecutor’s claimed that Danny’s co-defendant started the APR (Aryan People’s Resistance) with the intent of overthrowing the US Government. This fact alone moved the case from AR state courts to the federal courts. During a 10 ½ week trial, no proof of such an organization was ever produced. No “alleged” members were ever found. The government’s own witnesses testified that such an organization never existed! In reality the APR was merely a failed newsletter entitled the American People’s Republic. As soon as the Federal Government becomes involved the APR changed from nothing more than a failed newsletter begun by two young adults to a domestic terrorist organization plotting to overthrown the government. Ironically enough even the US Attorney’s office did not believe its own theory. When asked what the motive was for the killings, the US attorney prosecuting the case said, “I think it was money. The APR was just an excuse.”

The inconsistencies and overt fabrication of evidence by the US Government in this case is overwhelming. The transcripts and case evidence alone occupy an entire room in Danny’s attorney’s office. Amidst all the mound of paper and legal documents one simple truth remains – Danny Lee is INNOCENT! With the full weight of the US Attorney’s office being used to murder Danny, our struggle is a difficult one. We need your help to ensure that the truth is revealed and Danny is freed.

Update;

Danny Lee has recently received the lab results (see pdf file) from his DNA test and it was not a match! He has just been excluded. Danny has maintained his innocence from day one, and he continues to do so now. During his trial “only” physical evidence that the government used against him was a single strand of hair, a hair that they successfully sold to the jury as belonging to Danny. It was not his! The test results list the known hairs of “Danny Graham.” (To clear up any confusion, “Graham” was Danny’s stepfather; he took the last name as a child but was never legally adopted.) With this DNA test Danny is a huge step closer towards winning a new trial and finally proving what he has said all along, that he is an innocent man.

- Habeas Petition filed in the United States District Court for Daniel Lous Lee

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