Photo of Larry Neal

THE PHOTO ABOVE IS LARRY NEAL - See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

This is not the HOUSE ON TN DEATH ROW article, but only a first draft of the article.  Much has happened since this first draft - good news about Mr. House and other Tennessee death row inmates.  Please see the full article and the updates at this link.

UPDATED - Paul House:  Innocent and Handicapped on TN Death Row
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/updated-paul-house-innocent-and-handicapped-tn-death-row

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FIRST DRAFT OF HOUSE'S STORY IS BELOW -

Attached is an article about a man on Tennessee's death row, and despite the high court ruling that he is probably innocent, Tennessee apparently intends to have itself an execution!

Before you read the about accused killer, multiple sclerosis victim, Paul House, consider this:  Ex-Chief Medical Examiner O. C. Smith, of Memphis, Tennessee, seemed to go to great lengths to cast doubts on his sworn testimony in the trial of a Mr. Workman, a man who had received the death sentence largely off Dr. Smith's testimony regarding bullet trajectory.  In 2005, time was running out for this Tennessean who was facing the death penalty for murdering a policeman.  The accused claimed the victim was actually shot by another policeman while Mr. Workman was trying to escape police after a botched robbery attempt).  (See links below.)  Other witness testimony used to prosecute Mr. Workman also lost its ring of truth during the years following his murder conviction. 

Despite Dr. Smith's alleged antics (which may have been geared toward withdrawing his own testimony against Workman without coming right out and saying "I lied about the bullet trajectory"), Mr. Workman was executed by the State of Tennesseein 2007.  

If Dr. Smith did indeed stage his own kidnapping, no one can say that he did not try to cast doubt on his testimony against Mr. Workman and save the likely innocent man.  If Dr. Smith did what his indictment alleged, he even went so far as to tie barbed wire around his head and strap explosives to his person along with notes wherein the good doctor ACCUSED HIMSELF OF LYING TO FAVOR POLICE in Mr. Workman's murder trial.  Dr. Smith was indicted by the feds for charges related to his alleged faked kidnapping, etc., but not sentenced.  See his indictment on the website regarding the alleged wrongful death of Larry Neal at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com.  It is under the DOCUMENTS tab.  Reports said that several USDOJ attorneys who tried to prosecute Smith were dissatisfied with the outcome of his conviction and quit the DOJ after these events.  

Interestingly, Dr. Smith was also Chief Medical Examiner in 2003, when my Larry Neal’s body went to that facility for autopsy.  Larry Neal died in the custody of Shelby County Jail, where he had been held under secret arrest for approximately 18 days until death by heart attack, presumably without his heart drugs.  Since Larry's family has been denied all reports and any investigation in the ensuing 4.5 years, this writer cannot say definitely what was done to Larry Neal, 54-year-old mentally ill heart patient.  His family feels strongly that there cannot be an acceptable explanation for Larry's secret arrest and jail death, or reports and an investigation would not be withheld from his family.  If the Ex-Chief Medical Examiner is found to be a man who lied in favor of police (as it would appear he may have done in Mr. Workman's case), should Larry's autopsy report say, "Death by Taser," or "Death by Restraint Chair" or "Death by Strangulation," or "Death by Starvation and Dehydration," or just plain "Murder"?

Unfortunately, Larry's family contracted with the (Johnny) Cochran Firm as their wrongful death attorneys following Larry's demise, and the managing partner of that Memphis office was himself a Shelby County Commissioner.  The law firm kept that secret from Larry's family members, of course, and conducted no discovery regarding Larry’s death, which would have necessitated an explanation by Shelby County Government regarding what happened to this life-long mental patient, which the jail had falsely denied having incarcerated until his death.  When Larry's family attempted to sue this law firm, bringing suit in Georgia Superior Court, Judge Wendy Shoob dismissed their fraud case against the law firm, upholding a Motion to Dismiss filed by the advertised Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm wherein it denied being any part of the (Johnny) Cochran Firm!  However, neither this representation in court nor judge's order ever stopped this Atlanta law office from representing itself as a member of The Cochran Firm to the American public.

Read in the second link below what is happening now regarding Dr. O.C. Smith -- perhaps a doctor with a delayed sense of justice. (On the other hand, maybe there really is a mad, kidnapping bomber still on the loose!):

BACKGROUNDONO. C. SMITH’S "KIDNAPPING ORDEAL”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/18/48hours/main688910.shtml

 . . . it was front-page news when Smith was brutally attacked by a phantom assailant as he was leaving work in June 2002. Now, as Correspondent Troy Roberts reports, the medical examiner is at the center of a bizarre mystery that would puzzle Memphis for years.

FRESH NEWS!

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=35378
. . . the attack on O. C. Smith is the ultimate Memphis cold case.  But it shouldn't be. The case, which was once the top priority nationally of the BATF, should be reopened because only two conclusions are possible, and neither is acceptable: Either Smith was attacked by a mad bomber who is still at large and apt to strike again against Smith or some other public official. Or a medical examiner who gave key testimony in hundreds, if not thousands, of criminal cases had severe mental problems, sent investigators on an expensive wild goose chase, and endangered the lives of the men who disarmed the homemade bomb around his neck.

Here is another man -- this one handicapped by multiple sclerosis -- on Tennessee's death row TODAY despite strong possibilities of his innocence!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080528/ap_on_re_us/death_row_limbo  

Tenn. man on death row despite high court ruling
By ROSE FRENCH
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 28, 2008; 2:51 AM

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. -- Multiple sclerosis has Paul House in a
wheelchair. A tenacious prosecutor has him on death row, deemed too
dangerous to be released two years after the U.S. Supreme Court said
he likely isn't guilty.

SUBMITTED BY:  Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Website:  http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
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