On February 14, 1996, when I first became aware of this frame-up, I was stationed with the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment in Hawaii. We had just returned from a six month deployment to Okinawa, Japan in January. The 3rd Battalion is a Marine Corps Infantry Battalion nicknamed America’s Battalion. At that time, I was the oldest Marine in an infantry battalion in the Marine Corps (Enclosure (1). I was 52. In 1996, America’s Battalion was one of the three fastest deploying battalions in the Marine Corps. This Infantry Battalion spent six months on a deployment and a year on station getting ready for the next deployment. For those familiar with Marine Corps Infantry Battalions know that they are fast walkers carrying survival gear and their weapons. My 1996 resume’ is in Enclosure (2) and a view of my Doctoral research completed in 1999 is at http://www.thebullock.com.

The appeals of this frame-up have been ongoing and after eight years have reached the Federal Courts. This was a superb frame-up spearheaded by an organization that is truly the leader in framing Marines and Sailors. That organization is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Undoubtedly these people receive no training in the U. S. Constitution and are unfamiliar with the Sixth Amendment - Rights of the Accused. Yes, the frame-up gained a conviction. The NCIS and others did this frame-up for their political cronies.

Is it okay to lie, to manufacture false facts and false memories, and to withhold evidence to convict someone? The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Alabama fire marshal’s office, Alabama attorney general’s office, and Montgomery County District Attorney dirtied themselves by convicting me in the media before they did anything else. They destroyed my honor and thus my credibility in the Marine Corps with their libel and slander (Enclosures (7 -18). My honor and credibility were my most prized possessions.

Example #1 -- The prosecution tells the court that the insurance company that handled the insurance on the home in 1982 was defunct. The prosecution also said that the insurance company paid a claim. A year after my conviction, I located the 1982 company manager and discovered the company was still in business (Enclosure (70)). It changed its name in 1990. The company has no record of any claim being filed or paid. (Note: My attorney, Rick Williams had informed me that Capitol Fire & Marine was out of business and since I was stationed in Hawaii I relied on my attorney.) The prosecution only provided another false memory (Enclosures (71), (72), (73), (74), (75) & (76)). (Note: In Alabama the Fire Marshal’s Office is under the auspices of the State Department of Insurance.)

Example #2 -- The prosecution withheld the fact that the snitch, Raines, had previously accused another man, Deputy Sheriff and Constable Frank Brown of Route 1, Evergreen, AL, of arson. In October 1999 I attended the Homecoming at the Lonestar Community of Christ Church in Monroe County, AL. A church dating back to 1866. I had the opportunity to talk with a man I had not seen in some years and who lived about a mile from where I grew up. This man was supposed to have been interviewed by my former attorneys. Frank came up to me shook my hand and said, "Well, what does Raines have against you"? Frank said, "You know Raines accused me and a friend of mine of burning a house in Skinnerton in the 1970’s. Had we not have been in Lynwood Sager’s (Then Sheriff of Monroe County, Alabama) office when the fire occurred, we would have been arrested. Raines will do anything for a reward." Note: Raines has a history of lying for his protectors. Raines has been convicted of sexual improprieties but he is not on the Sexual Predator list. Why? The NCIS and Alabama  investigators knew this man (Raines) would lie but hey we're not dealing with honest investigators.

Example #3 -- # 3 is an example of a politically corrupt Alabama Judicial system. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals used information not in the transcript to justify their ruling. As to the Court of Criminal Appeals first ruling in 1998, in the ruling on page 3, the one glaring error is #5. No where in the transcript is there any mention of the front door being open when the firemen arrived and no one had talked to any of the fireman before I hired a private investigator after my conviction. No references are made anywhere, transcript or interviews to the front door being open. (The ruling says the information is on p. 103-105; 126-127, not true).

No one ever said the front door was open in the transcript. Raines in a statement on page 199 of transcript talks about opening the front door but this is not what they reference. Raines did say in a sworn/taped statement to Paulk and Titra, dated March 13, 1995/ugh1996 says that he went in the front door and that he locked the front door when he left. The deputy fire marshal Munger did testify that he never talked to any of the firemen and he did not arrive at the fire until after they had left. How would they have this information? I only received information on the firemen coming in through the front door from the interview of Mr. Jimmy Grubbs (one of the firemen) on April 29, 1998, by Private Investigator, Robert St. John (Enclosure 77). According to Mr. Grubbs, he had never before been interviewed, nor did he know that the fire had been investigated. The only place the information on the front door could have come from was my telephone conversations. No doubt another illegal action by the frame-up artists.

Example #4 -- The Alabama Supreme Court neglected to address the issue of my attorney being under suspension by the Alabama State Bar Association when he represented me at sentencing. Who cares about morals, integrity or civil and constitutional rights? No fair trials in Alabama. It's all about protecting your political buddy. How could the Judge and Jury convict someone when the purported crime could not have occurred as the snitch said? The Judge and Jury were intimidated and lied to in a very vicious and malicious manner. It is my opinion that they were not stupid but wanted to please the political powers.

In 2000 and every year thereafter I have requested the Names of the Officers of the Alabama District Attorney’s Association for the years 1995 through 1999 inclusive. Initially the Directors said that they would send the information but in the other years they have simply neglected to respond (Enclosures 78 - 83)). Why? No doubt this would assist in documenting just how close the ties of the frame-up artists are.

(1) a copy of the Command Directive I was shown on February 15, 1996, to obtain blood and hair samples from me. I now know, there was no unidentified DNA. (2) the chain of custody of the blood and hair samples. (3) the location and storage of any remaining samples of this illegal search and seizure. (4) and the results of any tests done with said samples (Enclosures (84 - 88)). After taking this through the Department of Navy bureaucracy, I was told in effect to take It to Federal Court if I expected anything from them (Enclosure (88)).  

When a so-called crime is physically impossible and no other alternative is offered then it's a frame-up. Spend 3 million plus and you can purchase a frame-up. A criminal, Leonard Raines, with 3 strikes tells lies and receives his freedom for those lies. Raines swore he set a fire but the Montgomery County D.A. will not prosecute him. Yet the Marine Chief Warrant Officer-4 R. S. Bullock (e.g., me) was convicted by Raines' lies when he said I paid him $50.00 to start a fire in 1982, yes 1982. Yet no charges were brought until 1996 when Raines manufactured memories surfaced. The small fire did approximately $2500 in damage, mostly smoke and water. At the time of the fire I was the only one residing at the home. No one ever checked out my whereabouts and no insurance claim was filed but wait 14 years and prosecutors tell the court the insurance company is out of business. Not so (Enclosures (70 - 76).

In my case the lying snitch's story was physically impossible and no other scenario was offered but the 12 people on the jury found me guilty anyway. Certainly, they were provided with false facts, misinformation and false documents. On day 2 of my trial the Alabama Assistant Attorney General, Donald George Valeska II (Enclosure (88a)), walks in the Court Room just as the Judge (Sally Maddox Greenhaw) has declared a break and the Jury is standing up, the Judge says, "Mr. Valeska, why are you here? Don't you have anything more important to do?" Valeska responds, "Judge, the state has a big interest in this case." The day I was convicted, November 1, 1996, Valeska tells a Montgomery Advertiser and they print, "We'll be calling a Grand Jury on Mr. Bullock in February". (Note: The Attorney General can seat a Grand Jury at any time. It is now nine years later and no Grand Jury. Just another innocent man convicted in Alabama. Montgomery County used 3 Assistant D.A.'s, for a small fire that did less than $2500 and caused no loss to anyone except me.)

The NCIS destroys the reputation and credibility of their target. Thus his marriage and relationship with his family are destroyed (Note: Just prior to my arson trial my sister finds several hundred thousand dollars in negotiable securities in her safety deposit box (Enclosure (21)). After the trial, the then editor of the Monroe Journal, Marilyn Handley Culpepper informs my wife with the question, "Did you know there is a contract on your life (Enclosure (87))?."

I was convicted of arson on November 1, 1996, in Montgomery County, Alabama by a jury of 12 for a fire that occurred on January 25, 1982, in Pike Road, Alabama (Montgomery County). The fire cost me approximately $2,500 and no one else suffered a loss. Wait 14 years and the NCIS and Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office misrepresents the facts to frame another Marine.

As a leading appeal attorney wrote me after reading the trial transcript, "The fire could not have started as the unindicted coconspirator said it did and no evidence was presented for any other scenario". Not only have I been libeled and slandered but my civil and constitutional rights have been violated.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and Alabama Firemarshal’s Office framed me, a Marine Chief Warrant Officer 4. Lack of money and the fact that I was stationed in Hawaii  some 6,000 miles away prevented me from obtaining justice in Alabama. In January of 1996, My unit had just returned from a six month Western Pacific deployment. Nine years later and I am still fighting.

There is a threat of terror to our Marines and Sailors. (Note: I was convicted of arson on November 1, 1996, by the impossible false facts (lies) of a multiple felon and a USMC deserter. I have served the sentence and am still fighting in the courts.) That immediate threat is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The overall threat is political cronyism and corruption in the investigatory, prosecutorial, and judicial areas of our legal system. There is a great deal more background and information on those who needed to hide the truth including a former Alabama Lt. Governor, Steve Windom, and his old college roommate, Tommy Chapman, now the D.A. of Monroe and Conecuh Counties in Alabama. Chapman has a long running vendetta against me, my family and my wife’s family. Earlier Chapman was the snitch’s attorney for murder and escape (Enclosure (61) & (62)). Mr. Chapman has mishandled legal actions for my family and my brother had written the State Bar Association about one of those misrepresentations. My wife and I assisted Jim with his letters to the State Bar (Enclosures (65), (66), and (67)). Yes, there was a great need to discredit me. In 1996, Windom was planning to run for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, which he later did. Chapman was expecting to be appointed Attorney General of Alabama if the then Attorney General Sessions was elected Senator. Sessions was elected Senator. Chapman was not appointed Attorney General.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service was allowed to use its millions to frame me and I was forced to pay my own way back and forth from Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii to Montgomery, Alabama to fight this frame-up. No, neither JAG nor the Marine Corps would assist me. The NCIS and Alabama Firemarshal’s investigators and Montgomery County, Alabama prosecution used perjured testimony, withheld evidence and produced false documents and false memories but that seems to be the norm for my home state of Alabama.

Yes, my appeal has just reached the federal court.

There is a threat to our Sailors, Marines and other military personnel in Alabama. (Note: I have served the sentence and am now fighting in the federal courts as my finances allow.) That immediate threat is the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The NCIS only writes down summaries of what they are supposedly told. They do not tape interviews. Why? To frame they must write what is helpful to their frame-up. The NCIS does not allow interviewees to read and verify the interviews. Thus they can falsify large portions of statements without being discovered. This is easily done in the military since members move about so frequently. The overall threat is political cronyism and corruption in the investigatory, prosecutorial, and judicial areas of our legal system.

These scam artists (i.e., Montgomery County D.A.s, NCIS, Alabama Firemarshals) framed me for arson in a very contrived frame-up by manufacturing false memories and hiding evidence from my defense. Example - The prosecution tells the court that the insurance company which handled  the insurance on the small fire, about $2500 and occurred in 1982, was defunct and that they paid a claim. A year after the conviction on November 1, 1996, I located the 1982 company manager and discovered the company was still in business. It changed its name in 1990 (Enclosures (70). According to Mr. Howard Barton’s letter, he was the manager when the name change occurred. The company has no record of any claim being filed or paid (Enclosures (72) & (74)) and the prosecution only provided another individual with a false memory. These scam artists also falsely accusing me of multiple murders. These false accusations regarding multiple crimes did get them a conviction of arson by providing a hostile Judge and Jury. Assistant D.A’s Hitson and Glanzer lied to the court.

A vendetta and yellow journalists, Connie Baggett and Marilyn Handley (now Culpepper), aided with this arson frame-up. Along the way accusations of murder were presented to the news media, to help with the frame-up, and the Editor of the Monroeville Journal, Marilyn Handley, informs my wife with a question. Did you know there is a contract on your life? (Enclosure (89)). The Monroeville Journal is the local weekly paper for Monroe County, Alabama (To Kill a Mockingbird). Also the NCIS not only obtained my credit report but my wife's credit report in violation of federal laws (Enclosures (90), (91), & (92). Dirty tricks were played on my brothers and sisters between November of 1995 and April of 1996.

Raines swore he set the fire but the Montgomery County D.A. will not prosecute him (Enclosure (94)) . Yet the Marine Chief Warrant Officer-4 R. S. Bullock (i.e., me) was convicted by Raines' lies when he testified I paid him $50.00 to start a fire in 1982, yes 1982. Yet no charges were brought until 1996 when Raines manufactured memories of the fire surfaced.

The NCIS and Alabama Firemarshal investigators knew Homer Leonard Raines was lying but continued the frame-up and the conspiracy against me in order to benefit their careers. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office used the Montgomery County District Attorney and Marine Corps’ JAG to harass, haze, discriminate and to frame me for crimes and for occurrences which were not crimes. They knew I did not commit the stated crime of arson, if there was a crime. Also, they knew other preported crimes were accidents. They knew the snitch was a liar, was unreliable and was making up these stories to keep himself out of jail and to please his former attorney. Raines’ attorney, Tommy Chapman, for murder and escape (Enclosures (63) & (64)) is now a political power who has a grudge against me, my family and my wife’s family (Enclosures (3) & (65 - 67)).

Raines began his lies in 1986 when he turned himself in after an escape from prison. Raines had hidden from authorities for some six months. This is the same man who deserted the Marine Corps in 1968 and only turned himself in after President Carter pardoned Vietnam deserters in 1973. Yes, Raines was in a deserter status for five years. As I have been told by a former sheriff of Conecuh County, Raines hid out in the woods and was able to escape from tracking dogs on multiple occasions. Raines is said to have survived in the deep woods around his home with help from his family and his Raines and Cobb Cousins. The same Cobb cousins, that is Dale Cobb, George Lee Cobb and Joel Cobb, who aided Raines with his lies. Homer Leonard Raines told the court that he set the fire for me. Raines has not been charged with the crime of arson for which he confessed to.

Until October, 1999, I was confused as to why Raines said he started the fire for me! Why didn’t Raines just say he saw me start the fire? That way he would not have been involved. Yes, the Prosecution withheld the information that Raines had previously falsely accused another man, Frank Brown, of starting a fire.

 This fire occurred January 25, 1982, and did approximately $2500.00 in damage, mostly smoke and some water damage. No insurance claim was filed and no one suffered loss from the fire but me.

Wait 14 years and the unbelievable lie becomes acceptable. Another Marine framed with the assistance of the NCIS Cold Case Unit (Enclosure (19)). I have served the sentence for a fire (i.e., called arson) which I had nothing to do with. Investigations showed the fire could not have happened as Raines described. However, I was convicted by a jury that was provided false facts, false memories and told of documents that were mentioned but never provided and do not exist. This was another Alabama Jury that wanted to please those power positions that were framing me (i.e., Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, Alabama Firemarshal’s Office, Alabama Attorney General’s Office and the NCIS’s Cold Case Unit).

Raines verified his lies by telling additional lies and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service spent over three million dollars to produce a frame-up (e.g., Fraud, Waste and Abuse) against another innocent Marine. Montgomery County, Alabama provided 3 Assistant District Attorney’s, the State of Alabama’s Fire Marshal sits in the court room with the Prosecution during the trial, and State Assistant Attorney General Valeska comes into the court and announces to Judge Sally Greenhaw as the Jury is being given a break "The State has a big interest in this case, your honor". This is how you influence and intimidate a Jury. On November 1, 1996, the day I was convicted in this arson frame-up, Valeska tell the Montgomery Journal, "This is the shortest sentence he’ll get. We’ll be calling a Grand Jury in February". Nine years later and I am still waiting to talk to a Grand Jury. I am wanting to talk and I am willing to talk but the Alabama Judicial System just wants me to go away!

NCIS agent, Anthony Titra and Alabama Deputy Fire Marshal, Ed Paulk came to Hawaii on February 14, 1996, because they couldn't have pulled off the conspiracy to illegally obtain my blood and hair (DNA) samples in the Courts. First, you must have a sample to compare with and sign documents saying so in the courts. (Fraud, waste and abuse every step of the way) The Navy-Marine Corps justice system's structure is so fragmented that the NCIS can easily forge documents and get away with it. On rereading some notes from previous inquiries I realized that Larry Ikner, District Attorney investigator for Monroe and Conecuh Counties in effect told an investigator in 1997 that there was no unidentified DNA and the then Sheriff, Edwin Booker, of the County in which the crime occurred has verified. Since Military Commanders move regularly and Military members are not very likely to come back and ask the Commander if he actually signed a Command Directive, I am certain the NCIS conspirators knew they could continue to get away with this violation of my constitutional and civil rights. What is the Department of the Navy doing to correct this injustice? Nothing.

The NCIS and Alabama Firemarshals Office began this frame-up by:

1. Telling my Marine Corps Commanders on February 14, 1996, that they would be arresting me for murder and arson in days. Yes, Alabama Deputy Firemarshal Paulk and NCIS Agent Titra stationed in Mississippi received an all expenses trip to Hawaii for Valentines Day.

 2. Manufacturing a Marine Corps Command Directive (Enclosure (95)) to obtain my blood and hair samples to test against the murder of a Mr. Hanks which their lying snitch, Raines, said I did. Based on investigations we now know there was no unidentified DNA. Also, since the Alabama Bureau of Investigation (ABI) hadn't gotten my DNA earlier it is suspicious. Can you imagine NCIS having to work with a fire marshal on a murder? On Feb 15, 1996 I was shown a Command Directive signed by Brigadier General Bice, CG of MCB Hawaii. The agents told me that they could not give me a copy but that my attorney could get one. Well, I and my attorney tried for two years to no avail (Enclosures (96), (97), (98) & (99). It was only after my Board of Inquiry and my civilian attorney for the Board of Inquiry, Carl Freman of Mobile, AL, had the opportunity to meet General Bice. (Note: My wife, Faye, introduced Mr. Freman to General Bice at the Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, HI's Officers Club the evening after a Board of Inquiry had recommended I be discharged because of the Alabama Frame-up. We went to the Officers Club to show that they could not turn me against the Marine Corps nor could they break my spirit.) Some days later the General faxed Mr. Freman a copy of a Command Directive with the signature of my Commanding Officer, Colonel Brendan Kearney. Colonel Kearney was my CO on February 14, 1996, (Enclosures (95)). Colonel Kearney, whose name is on the directive, said in a recorded interview with Private Investigator, Ed Lemler, that he never signed the Command Directive. Understand the blood and hair was obtained to discredit me and to destroy my credibility because there was no unidentified DNA to test against.

3. Also they accused me of murdering a great Uncle, Herman Lemuel Stacey, who happened to leave me and three other nephews in his will. The NCIS used the media to print lies about an accidental death being murder. Anyhow this Great Uncle's death certificate read accidental after an autopsy in 1980 and still reads accidental after a second autopsy in 1996 (Enclosures (100 - 103)). NCIS agent Titra told the court that the NCIS would pay for the autopsy. According to the Coroner of Monroe County, Mr. Farish Manning and the Clerk of the Court for Monroe County, Alabama, Mr. John Sawyer, the NCIS never paid for the autopsy nor did they comply with the court order to return the autopsy to the court. Why?

No doubt the NCIS agents and Deputy Alabama Fire Marshal intended to use the blood and hair collected from me to place on the body of my Great Uncle not to test against the murder of Mr. Hanks as the Command Directive Stated. There was no unidentified DNA in the Hanks case. The NCIS agent spent months trying to get the county coroner to dig up the body of my Great Uncle without a court order. Mr. Farish Manning was the Monroe County coroner in 1980, when my Great Uncle Herman Stacey died, and is still the coroner (Enclosure (103)). He is an honest man. Also, Dr. Leroy Riddick, who did first autopsy (Enclosure (100)) was there for second in 1996 (Enclosure (101)). Enclosure (104) is a letter to Dr. Riddick. Enclosure (105) is Dr. Riddick’s response to that letter. No doubt the blood and hair samples gotten from me with a forged Command Directive (Enclosure (95)) would have been placed on his body had the Monroe County Alabama Sheriff, Mr. Tom Tate, not watched the exhumation and had the body followed to where the autopsy was to be reexamined. Also, the Deputy Sheriff, William Gibson, who did the original investigation of my Great Uncle's accident, provided the NCIS with the facts about the death of my Great Uncle (Enclosure (102)). My Great Uncle, Herman Stacey, was 83 when he died. He lived longer than any of his 7 siblings. The investigators disregarded him in favor of their snitch. The NCIS agents and deputy fire marshal did not get the opportunity to plant evidence. The NCIS budget of $110,000,000 (1995) will purchase a lot. Especially with Donald  Valeska in the Attorney General’s office and liars in the Montgomery County, Alabama, District Attorney’s office.

Enclosure (106) explains why the NCIS got blood and hair samples from me in a crime in which I now know there was no unidentified DNA. Prior to 1996/97 FBI Lab Technicians were providing whatever data the investigators wanted for their frame-ups. Can you imagine this fraud, waste and abuse being called flawed science and skewed testimony.

The NCIS' Cold Case Unit was set up to investigate older Naval Personnel (Enclosure (4)). This is a carte blanc process that the NCIS uses to harangue older Naval Personnel and their families with impunity. The NCIS illegally obtained my credit report and my wife's credit report not once but twice Enclosure (90), (91) and (92). The reasons given were to verify SSN and to verify address. Everything in the Department of the Navy is based on your SSN and yes the USMC does know where their personnel reside. This farce is based on the Cold Case plan and looks to aid those with political power by locating anyone who has a grudge or wishes to hide their own crimes by accusing a Marine or Sailor.

2) Alabama Deputy Firemarshal, Ed Paulk, testified at trial he made notes during interrogation of Bullock on 14Feb1996. No report provided to the defense

Prosecution failed to provide Bullock’s defense with the following for his arson trial. They were provided by Marine Corps JAG to Bullock’s Defense just prior to Chief Warrant Officer-4 Bullock’s Marine Corps Board of Inquiry in February of 1998:

3) 14Feb1996 interview with Mrs. Faye Cater Bullock conducted by Naval Criminal

Investigative Service agents

4) 14Nov1995 interview of Dale Cobb

5) 14Mar1996 interview of Dale Cobb

6) 18Oct1995 interview of Judy Ash

7) 8Nov1995 telephone contact with Judy Ash

8) 2Dec1995 (date typed) interview of Judy Ash

9) 15May1982 alleged typed statement of Joseph Van Valkenburgh

10) 22Nov1995 interview Jimmie Alice Van Valkenburg (sic)

11) 18Dec1995 interview Jimmie Alice Van Valkenburg (sic)

12) 5Apr1996 memo of interview with Jim Eddie Jenkins

13) 11Mar1996 alleged photographs of fire damage to Bullock’s home

14) Undated, partial interview of Sharon Brooks

15) 1Nov1995 interview of Homer Leonard Raines

16) 6Feb1996 interview of Homer Leonard Raines

17) 13Mar1996 interview of Homer Leonard Raines

18) 1/25/82 Alabama Uniform Incident/Offense Report (2 pgs.)

19) Jan 2, 1996 Ed Paulk investigative report

  20) February 21, 1996 Ed Paulk investigative report

21) Undated, Larry Miller & Hollis Gandy, Alabama AG Investigative Report

22) July 20, 1982 James Munger ltr to Fire Marshal Thornhill, re Grand Jury No Bill

23) 13Mar1996 Telephone contact with Ricky Kent

24) 15Mar1996 interview of Ricky Kent

25) Bankruptcy Records for Bullock and his Mother, Mabel Stacey Wiggins

26) and 45 other known interviews withheld by the prosecution (Enclosure (5)), which are listed on pages 94 and 95.

In 1998 while my appeal for the conviction of arson was underway in the Alabama Courts, Headquarters Marine Corps determined to hold a Board of Inquiry (BOI) to discharge me based on the fact that I had been convicted of a crime. During the BOI the members were provided with numerous signed and notarized affidavits and evidentiary documents that I had not discovered or documented prior to my trial and were not available to the jurors who returned the trial verdict. (Note: Had the Marine Corps allowed me to return to Alabama before the trial, as I requested, then I would have located the documents that were stored in the Stacey-Wiggins homeplace.) Additionally, the government called NCIS agent Tony Titra and Alabama deputy fire marshal Ed Paulk to testify against me. Based on the evidence provided, the board members refused to find there was probable cause to believe I either committed a military or civilian offense or failed to demonstrate acceptable qualities of leadership. It is important to note that the board members specifically refused to find that I committed any civilian or military offense. Yes, they did find that I had been convicted of a crime. The fact that I had committed no crime was irrelevant to them.

These scam artists used a very contrived frame-up by manufacturing false memories and hiding evidence from my defense (example -- The prosecution tells the court that the insurance company which handled the insurance on the small fire, about $2500 and occurred in 1982, was defunct and that they paid a claim. A year after the conviction, November 1996, I located the 1982 company manager and discovered the company was still in business. It changed its name in the 1990s to correspond with the parent company (Enclosures (70 - 74) ). The company has no record of any claim being filed or paid (Enclosure (74)) and the prosecution only provided another individual with a false

Since Raines lies could be disproved if known prior to trial the only thing to do was to keep the information from the defense until presented at trial and have the prosecution provide false facts to the jury, not legal but this is the NCIS script used by the Montgomery County, Alabama District Attorney’s Office. If this fire had been questioned in 1982 or 1988 by an honest investigator and my whereabouts had been questioned then my now deceased Mother would have been interviewed and Mr. Sean Harribance would have been interviewed. My mother passed away in 1992 but Mr. Sean Harribance lived in Houston in 1982 and still lives there. His telephone number was listed then and is still listed. No one has ever contacted him (Enclosure (46)) about me or my whereabouts on January 25, 1982 (Enclosures (21), (22), (23), (24), (45), & (109)).

I was convicted of arson on November 1, 1996, by the lies of a multiple felon and a Vietnam deserter, Homer Leonard Raines. Raines is a convicted murderer, child fornicator, escapist, Marine Corps deserter, and dead beat dad, who is lying about me and other individuals to keep himself out of jail. NCIS agent Titra has conspired with Raines and assisted a local vendetta by providing false facts to the news media and libeling and slandering me to create this frame up.

NCIS agent Titra and Deputy Alabama Firemarshal Paulk withheld evidence that proved that Raines' false memories increased each time he was questioned. They also withheld previous Alabama Bureau of Investigators' (ABI) investigation of Raines' statements regarding me. I now know that Titra and Paulk had knowledge of an ABI investigation of Raines' statement on me dated in 1987 and earlier. The ABI investigated and found Raines statements to be without foundation and false and the NCIS and Alabama investigators and Montgomery County Prosecutors had this information. By what he did and by what he did not do, NCIS agent Titra convicted me of arson in a small fire that did less than $2,500.00 damage in a fire that occurred on January 25, 1982. He along with NCIS agent Randall Waddell provided false statements about arson and murder to the media and made this small fire sound as if the house burned completely down.

 They can convict me, but they cannot make me guilty!

NCIS agents manipulated my command by providing false facts. On February 14, 1996, my command was told that I was guilty of several heinous crimes and that I would be arrested in days. NCIS agents also told my Commanding Officer, LtCol (later Colonel ) B. P. Kearney that they were concerned about my wife's (Faye) safety and that they were going to our home to inform her of the danger they perceived her to be in. They did go to our home and did interview her. She was never told she was in danger or that I was suspected of crimes. These NCIS agents then went back to LtCol Kearney and told him that my wife was "no help". LtCol Kearney took this to mean she would not talk to them, when in fact she actually talked to them for almost two hours and answered every question they asked. The real truth came out some months later when Faye had lunch with Katie Kearney, the wife of LtCol Brendan Kearney. The NCIS asked Faye questions like "won't you inherit a lot when your Mother dies", "how often does your husband beat you," "does your husband hit the wall with his fist when he gets drunk", and other questions meant to intimidate her, to inflame her against me and to destroy our marriage. I am certain if my wife had not known me since I was six years old, known all my brothers and sister and our families had not been friends then she would have left me. (Note: This woman has stuck with me through all of my tribulations, jail etc). She has been the support of our family since my discharge from the Marine Corps in 1998. The NCIS intended for her to leave me and she would then lie for them. The Department of the Navy allows the NCIS to destroy your home, your job, and your honor with lies and innuendoes. Thus the NCIS can force Marines and Sailors to commit suicide, confess, or resign. Commit suicide to provide for their families, confess so that they will stop threatening and playing dirty tricks on family members, or resign to get away from them.

The information you will read shows that time makes the true facts obscure and hides them. What once would have been widely known to be a lie is now accepted as a fact. The example is that Raines swore I took him to a mall in Montgomery around 12:00 Noon on a Sunday (January 24) in 1982 to get lighter fluid. Today that is accepted as fact because the malls are open on Sundays. In 1982 the malls in Montgomery were closed on Sundays (Enclosure (114)). In 1982 Alabama law kept malls from opening on Sundays. These laws were referred to as Alabama Blue laws.

Also you might wonder why didn't the Alabama deputy fire marshal question the firemen who put out the fire. They were easily available in 1982. Why didn't NCIS agent Titra and deputy fire marshal Paulk question the firemen in 1996 (Note: The fire marshal did not interview the firemen in 1982 either). When you read what the Fireman, Jimmy Grubbs, said about the fire (Enclosure (115)), you will understand that this frame-up is based on false facts (lies) and false memories (more lies) and the truth is not sought and has not been sought.  

On April 29, 1998, Mr. Jimmy Grubbs of Montgomery, AL was interviewed by Private Investigator, Robert St. John. Mr. St. John had been hired by my attorney, Mr. Carl E. Freman, Esq. of the firm of Freman and Kaoui, LLP, Mobile, AL. Mr. Grubbs was one of the Pike Road, AL. firemen that responded to the fire on January 25, 1982. Mr. Grubbs states he entered the house through the unlocked front door and that he remembers seeing and feeling a lot of very hot smoke but no flame. Mr. Grubbs advised that it took longer to get the hose into the upstairs room than it did to extinguish the fire. Mr. Grubbs told Mr. St. John that they (the fire department) did not carry anything out of the house during or after the fire. That no furniture or any household property or goods were removed by the fire department. Mr. Grubbs stated that he did not know that the fire was being investigated, or had ever been investigated, or that charges had been brought against anyone. NO ONE FROM ANY INVESTIGATIVE AGENCY HAS EVER TALKED WITH HIM (Enclosure (115))! This is another example of a person the NCIS and Alabama Legal System failed to interview, because it would spoil their frame-up.

My attorney believed he had the case won because Raines’ false story could not physically have occurred as he swore.

The snitch had been convicted charged with murder and was convicted of manslaughter. He was given a 10 year sentence. This liar served a year. He then escaped and while on the loose his knowledge of crimes materialized. Six months later he turns himself in after his attorney, Tommy Chapman cut a deal. He then served another couple of months and was paroled. The manslaughter sentence went away and the escape was forgotten.

According to a news media quote "The NCIS case against Bullock, local investigators say, is based largely on the word of Bullock's longtime friend, Homer Leonard Raines, a three-time convicted felon who could face charges in the arson case himself."

Homer Leonard Raines and I were never friends (Enclosures (21), (22), (23), (24), (27), & (29)).

I never knew Homer Leonard Raines until I was in the Marine Corps stationed at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. This would have been sometime in 1968. Mother called one day to ask me to pick Raines up at the Jacksonville, N.C. bus terminal and take him back to his unit. She informed me that Raines’ father had come to my stepfather and asked him to call me since he had heard I was at the same base. Mother informed me Raines had gone over the hill (in what the Marines call an unauthorized absence state) and had been declared a deserter. I said, I don't know what he looks like and didn't want to really help him. She then told me what bus he would be coming in on and said to have him paged in the bus terminal. I did as Mother had requested  and was at the Jacksonville, N.C. bus station. Raines did arrive and he asked me to take him back to his unit. I did take him back to his old unit at Camp Lejeune, checked him in and left. Three or four days later I called to check on Raines and was told that he had left again. I never saw Raines between 1968 and spring of 1982.

The question has come up as to why I would associate with Raines? I went to see Raines in the spring of 1982 to see if he was interested in temporary employment. Raines was not the infamous criminal that he later became. Raines is 4 years younger than me and lived 15 or so miles from where I grew up. He also attended school in a different county. Other than knowing Raines to be a Marine Corps deserter, I had no knowledge of Raines committing any other crimes between 1968 and March of 1982. The research on Raines was done by several members of my family and a Private Investigator after 1996.

In April, all of the farm employees were busy with soil preparation and planting corn and in soil preparation for planting soybeans. This is the normal planting time in the sandy loam soils of south Alabama. Of the five or so employees on the farm the only one could drive an 18 wheel tractor trailer was in charge of the planting. Thus I began to look for a qualified driver to work part time.

My Brother, Jim Wiggins had two 18 wheelers and was a long haul trucker and he suggested Leonard Raines as a possible driver as he had observed Raines driving an 18 wheel log truck and he understood Raines was unemployed at the time. Should there have been another person in the area that was available and could fill the needed job, then I would have gone to see them also. However, in an area that had been declining in population since the 1880's there was literally no one in the area that Jim knew, who was not employed full time if they could drive an 18 wheeler.

In April of 1982 when I went to talk with Raines about working for the farm, he had not committed the heinous crimes that he later committed. Certainly, I knew he had been a military deserter, but the farm needed a driver to haul grain to the port of Mobile. This was temporary work that would provide $500 to $1,000 a week additional income to the farm. It would utilize the farm’s 18 wheel tractor and grain trailer that was sitting idle and not productive at the time.

Why would the investigators and prosecutors have to tell so many lies? False facts (lies) are harder to disprove after so many years, so they can just pretend to accept any falsehood without reservation. Although the NCIS and the Alabama fire marshal's office know there is no evidence to prove any of their stories that Raines and I were friends, they manufacture a false pattern of wrong doing and provided false memories as evidence.

This entire covert age discrimination scenario was set up to humiliate me, to disgrace me, to cost me money, to breakup my marriage, to make me disgruntled with the Marine Corps and to get me to commit suicide so that my family would be provided for or to confess so that the NCIS would stop their dirty tricks on family members.

 Major Powell: Let’s go back to Homer Raines for a minute. He also mentioned in one of his interviews with you (DFM Paulk) and it’s hard to keep them all straight because you have talked to him several times, about Chief Warrant Officer Bullock spraying something with a bug sprayer?

Alabama deputy fire marshal (DFM) Paulk: Yes.

Major Powell: Do you remember where he indicated during his interviews with you that said that this spraying with the bug sprayer was going on?

DFM Paulk: The first time that he mentioned the spraying he was indicating a garage area or carport area and then he also, I think, testified at trial that it was all over the house.

Major Powell: So his story sort of grew with the telling?

DFM Paulk: Yes.

Major Powell: He began to sort of embellish his story a little bit?

DFM Paulk: Either that or getting some other fires that he set mixed up with this one.

Note: Raines has never been charged with setting any fire not even the one to which he has confessed. According to a letter my wife received, dated May 27, 1998 from Montgomery County, AL District Attorney, Ellen I. Brooks, she does not plan to prosecute Raines "as there is insufficient evidence to corroborate..." (Enclosure (94)). Yet, Ms. Brooks denies Raines has been given any kind of deal and he has confessed!

DFM Paulk: I have every indication to believe that, yes.

NCIS agent Titra also accepted and perpetuated false facts and false memories that he knew were untrue. He and Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk used intimidation tactics on interviewees to get them to change their stories or to in the least distance themselves from me.

Board of Inquiry - pg 38 - 39

Q: "Let me ask you, there have been some indications that NCIS had some conspiracy to get Chief Warrant Officer Bullock or that you were out to get him somehow. Can you address that for me?"

NCIS agent Titra: "That's a ridiculous notion.... Everything led to this man. That he was responsible for burning his house in 1982."

In an interview set up by my State appeal attorney, Mr. W. Lloyd Copeland of the firm Clark, Deen, and Copeland, P.C. of Mobile, AL and conducted by Licensed Private Investigator E. D. Lemler, Sharon Braden, a woman who has lived with Homer Leonard Raines for the last four or  five years made the following statement: "Raines always made it a point to know where Bullock was at and what he was doing. She has gotten the impression that Raines felt like he had score to settle with Bullock, and that he was resentful of the success Bullock has had. Raines did not like the fact that Bullock was going to be able to retire from the military and have all the benefits, when he himself had problems while in the military....It was her understanding from the conversations that they did not believe they could do anything to Bullock...,but they (NCIS) could cause Bullock "a lot of discomfort, possibly get him kicked out of the military, lose his retirement and the least they could do would be to cost him (Bullock) a lot of money." (Enclosure (116)).

Read the facts. See what evidence the NCIS agent Titra withheld and suppressed. See what false information Titra presented as fact even when, as trained investigator, he had to know better.

Board of Inquiry pg 77

Q: "... Did you ever check out what Raines was about though?"

NCIS agent Titra: "What Raines was about?"

Q: "Where he grew up from?" Who his family was, where he worked?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No sir, I didn't check it all."

Q: "You didn't check his military record either?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir."

Q: "How many times did he go AWOL?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I think he told us three times."

Q: "Three times he went AWOL from the United States Marine Corps?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, sir."

Q: "What kind of a -- do you know what kind of discharge he got?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir."

Judge (Ret) Frank T. Salter was a Superior Court Judge and a Probate Judge in Conecuh County, AL. for 36 years and what does he have to say about Homer Leonard Raines. In 1998 Judge Salter (age 72) says that Homer Leonard Raines (age 48) is a man he has known all of his life and knew Raines' parents. The Judge says Raines is neither  trustworthy nor believable (BOI pg 210 - 212).

Board of Inquiry pg 210

Q: "Mr. Salter, .... If you would, please sir, would you tell us a little history about yourself. Where are you currently residing at?"

Judge Salter: "Well, I live in the city limits of Evergreen. Evergreen is the county seat of the county (Conecuh), and I was superior court judge of the county for 12 years, and I was 24 years as probate judge."

Q: ".... Are you familiar with a person named Homer Leonard Raines?"

Judge Salter: "Yes, sir."

Q: "In what capacity or how do you know Raines?"

Judge Salter: "I knew him because he was continuously, when he was a boy, in trouble. I don't remember just exactly how old he is, but he's been in trouble in juvenile court and in trouble with the grand jury. He ran from the Marine Corps, AWOL, (deserter) and I remember them turning him back in I know once or twice the sheriff in that county did."

Q: "Let me ask you this question. Based on the number of years you've known Mr. Raines, and that's apparently been 30 or 40 years, is that correct?"

Judge Salter: "Yes, sir. That's right."

Q: "Would you believe any truth of veracity of any allegations he made concerning Chief Warrant Officer Bullock of an arson fire?"

Judge Salter: "I wouldn't believe him at all."

Q: "Do you have anything you would like to add about Homer Raines that I haven't asked you?"

Judge Salter: "Yes, sir. As good a man as I think that Bullock is , he doesn't need to be downtrodden by a person of Raines caliber. He is not that kind of person."

Now lets discuss the felony offenses Raines says he has been convicted of and what a woman who Raines lived with for four or five years says about his character.

Homer Leonard Raines when asked the question: (Trial Transcript pg 182)

Q: "What felony offenses have you been convicted of in this state?"

Raines: "Theft of property, carnal knowledge, manslaughter and escape." (Note: No theft of property shows on Raines’ criminal record. At least not until after 1996. See pages 22 and 23.)

 Ms. Willie Sharon Braden contacted one of my sisters, and my sister in turn contacted me and I turned the information over to my attorney who dispatched Mr. E. D. Lemler, Private Investigator, to contact and to interview Ms Braden.

The following is the basic information of a taped interview on August 22, 1997 and transcribed August 27, 1997:

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{Now let's go to page 45 of the Board of Inquiry and hear NCIS agent Titra's testimony of February 26, 1998 -- The above Sharon Braden interview was on August 22, 1997}

Q: "If you could just tie up the jewelry box and then we will move on to other things that you can corroborate so they can see the tie-in, that you tried to corroborate the story."

NCIS agent Titra: ".....Raines told us that he had sold the linear c.b. amplifier. I don't know the exact equipment. I was never into c.b.'s but anyway he had sold it to a friend of his in Mobile, Alabama by the name of Ricky Kent. So while we were at Raines house, we were

interviewing him at trailer. We asked for Ricky's phone number and we wanted to call Ricky Kent before Raines could have a chance to call him and say anything to him and see if Ricky would corroborate what Raines was saying. So Paulk called Rick in Mobile and talked to him on the phone."

Raines first talks about a linear amplifier in his March 13, 1996 interview with NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk. It took him about ten years after he started his tale about Bullock to remember the linear amplifier, and we know from Sharon Braden's information he already had set Ricky Kent up before he told NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk about Kent. Yet it suits NCIS agent Titra's frame-up scheme to believe all that Raines tells him.

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Now let's examine what Sharon Braden's friend, Peggy Smith told PI. Ed Lemler about Homer Leonard Raines (Enclosure (117)):

RAINES TELLS HOW THE FIRE WAS SET AT THE TRIAL

Raines swore under oath:

"I went in the front door, went upstairs put the lighter fluid on the switch box, struck a match, threw it on it and turned around and left." (Trial Transcript pg 198)

Trial Transcript pg 213 (More Raines sworn testimony - not a Titra interpretation.)

Q: "How big was the fuse box?"

Raines: "Probably 18 inches by 24 inches, something like that."

Q: "How many breakers were in it?"

Raines: "I don't know."

Q: "And this is the same fuse box that you poured the lighter fluid on; is that correct?.

Raines: "Yes, it is."

Q: "Did you open that fuse box to pour the lighter fluid on it?"

Raines: "Yes, I did."

Q: "Did you soak down all of the breakers in that fuse box?"

Raines: "The wires behind the breakers."

Q: "Did you use almost that whole can of lighter fluid on that fuse box and wires inside that fuse box?"

Raines: "On it and the clothes on the floor right at the bottom of it."

In the beginning NCIS agent Titra hung his hat on Raines testimony, with the real truth coming out over time. Marine Corps Board of Inquiry pg 42

Q: "There was some problems with his story; right? About the fire."

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, ma'am."

Q: "What are some of the problems that you saw, you know, based on your investigation...."

NCIS agent Titra: "....Well, we found out there was not a panel box. We don't know at that time if there was a panel box , but there is not one there now in that closet. That's inconsistent with his story."

In the haste to frame Bullock and now to cover himself, Titra is still attempting to suppress and ignore the facts. Raines told a blatant lie that proves he did not set the house on fire and NCIS agent Titra says - "That's inconsistent."

Raines testified he set the fire in an upstairs closet by spraying lighter fluid on fuses and dowsing breaker behind fuses in an 18 inch by 24 inch fuse box, and lighting a match to the fluid in the fuse box. (Trial Transcript pg 192, 198, 212 - 214)

Trial Transcript pg 127 - 128

Q: "Now, after -- In your fire investigation did you attempt to see whether or not there was any damage to any type of wires, electrical, in that house?"

DFM Munger: "The only electrical that was damaged would have been that contained in the closet, which was essentially the light fixture and the light switch."

Q: "Was the light switch and light fixture burned?"

DFM Munger: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Was there any damage to any of the wiring in the light switch?"

DFM Munger: "No, sir."

Q: "Did you look to see if there was any damage?"

DFM Munger: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Did you smell gasoline when you went in the house?"

DFM Munger: "No, sir."

Q: "Assuming that someone would go into the house and spray that house with, say, a gallon of gasoline, let's say four, five, six, maybe eight hours before someone went in and lit a match, what would you expect that would happen if there was a fire inside that house?" DFM Munger: "I would expect the person who struck the match to have been still laying there when the fire department got there."

Q: "Why is that?"

DFM Munger: "Because the gasoline would have vaporized and created a explosive mixture, and at the minimum a flash fire, and the worst a explosion, would have taken place."

How did NCIS agent Titra become so confused. Did all of the interpretive documents of conversations Titra had with Raines and others confuse him or is this what it seems? A blatant frame-up, malicious discrimination because of age, and obstruction of justice.

On page 44 of the Board of Inquiry transcript NCIS agent Titra says: "... and he set fire on some stuff that was on the floor in the house, you know, he struck a match and he lit the fire, the old clothing in the box. That's very consistent with what the house is like and only the person that set the fire would know the details." Titra's interpretations of what Raines said is considerably different than what Raines swore to at the trial. Why is Titra trying to change Raines sworn testimony?

Now we know that it was a physical impossibility for the fire to have started as Raines swore during Bullock's trial, Oct 28 - Nov 1, 1996. But what does deputy fire marshal Paulk swear to?

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 102

Q: "So the fire could have happened exactly the way Raines said it happened?"

DFM Paulk: "It could, yes, without a doubt."

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 123

Q: ".... When you spoke to Munger, Deputy Paulk, did he ever address the subject of the fuse box?"

DFM Paulk: "No, sir."

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 129

Q: "If gas has been sprayed, sprinkled, or poured out on any portion of that house, upstairs, downstairs, or whatever, would Mr. Munger have smelled the gas when he went there and investigated that fire?"

DFM Paulk: "If any quantity had been sprayed, yes, sir, he probably would have, possibly. You're talking after the fire now but I would probably more expect it to have an early involvement in the fire and created havoc at the time the fire was set. Gasoline has a flash point of minus 43 degrees. It produces vapors that will burn when it's extremely cold. It never gets that cold in Alabama, so anytime you pour gasoline out, you're going to produce vapors that burn.  Those vapors will tend to build up. If any quantity had been poured in a house and left for any period of time then for those vapors to become trapped and mixed with available air, it would be easily conceivable that it would reach the explosive limits. Had it been that at the time the fire was set, we would have had a tremendous explosion. We didn't have that. There's no evidence that gasoline was sprayed, no, sir...."

Raines’ Trial Testimony, Transcript pg 213 - 214

Q: "And you lite the fuse box; did you not?"

Raines: "Yes, I did."

Q: "And you watched the fuse box burning didn't you?"

Raines: "No, I didn't."

Q: "You ran as soon as you lit it and got out of there; right?"

Raines: "Yes, I did."

Raines: "Yes, I was."

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The above are all false memories created by an unscrupulous NCIS agent and Alabama deputy fire marshal to manufacture a frame-up of the oldest Marine in Third Marine Regiment. Homer Leonard Raines was a willing participant as he had learned what unethical law enforcement officials and other unethical individuals want to hear from the best criminal liars. Raines learned from accomplished liars and with corrupt law officials who are unethical, morally and politically corrupt, and seek to benefit their careers based on frame ups, he was able to gain the attention of an agent with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation (ABI). The ABI soon determined that Raines was a pathological liar and the lies he was telling about me were for his own benefit. Raines escaped from jail October 21, 1985 with a man named Clarence Roberts, another convicted murderer. According to law enforcement officials, Roberts, has not been seen or heard from since. Raines began his tales because he had learned from his prison mates that lies bring you benefits and a shortened sentence. Raines had learned that you could tell outrageous lies and that these lies would be accepted by investigators and prosecutors, even when all the evidence showed otherwise. After his jail break, Raines was a three strikes criminal, but he had learned how corrupt law enforcement could be manipulated to keep him from being tried for another  murder. Where is Clarence Roberts? Why has he never been located? Did Raines kill him Enclosure (61) & (62)? Are law enforcement officials helping with another cover-up to keep another lying snitch (Raines) available to help them in frame-ups.

After Raines turned himself in from the escape and pleaded guilty, he only served about three more months. Raines' sentence for manslaughter was ten years in the state penitentiary, yet he had only served a year before the jail break. Not even a slap on the wrist - it's not surprising that Raines brags he could do "any damn thing he wants to because "they" (NCIS and Alabama fire marshal) do not want anything showing up on his record when he goes to testify against Chief Warrant Officer - 4 Rodney Stacey Bullock, USMC." (Enclosure (14 & (116)). The present district attorney for Monroe and Conecuh Counties in Alabama, Tommy Chapman, as mentioned in Sharon Braden's interview (Enclosure (116)), was Raines' attorney for both the murder trial and the escape charges (Enclosure (63) & (64)).

If this had been a legitimate investigation then an arrest warrant would have been issued when the arson indictment was issued on April 9, 1996. The NCIS and JAG informed the Alabama Fire Marshal’s office that I had requested leave from June 16, 1996 to July 20, 1996 to complete my doctoral residency requirements in Bloomington, Indiana. My command had granted approval for this leave some months earlier after having denied me permissive temporary additional duty (PTAD) to complete the final three weeks of residency requirements for the degree.

The NCIS and JAG had already informed the Alabama Fire Marshal’s office of my intentions to travel to Indiana. As Indiana does not have a fugitive bond, they conspired to have me detained in Indiana. The NCIS plan was for Indiana keep me in jail at the behest of Alabama for 90 days, with unlimited 90 day extensions granted, until I waived my right to extradition. Their scam was to keep me detained so that the Marine Corps could take action against me for unauthorized absence. Since part of this entire frame-up has been to cost me and my family money, (Note: The prime intent of those initiating this frame-up was to force my wife’s Mother to sell her Alabama properties of which a 700 acre tract joins an 800 acre tract now owed by Tommy Chapman’s brother. The now Chapman land was owned by my wife’s cousin William Cater and had been in his family for generations.) and to do me and my family the most financial and psychological harm, to humiliate and cause me loss of face and to disrupt our lives the most, they waited until I was at school in Bloomington, Indiana to issue a warrant.

I was detained and released in Indiana. The D.A. in Monroe County, Indiana recognized an NCIS frame-up. This D.A. was familiar with the extreme difficulty of becoming a Marine Warrant Officer. I then traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to post a $30,000.00 bond on a fire that did approximately $2,500.00 damage on January 25, 1982. I returned to Indiana completed my summer residency and returned to Hawaii on July 14, 1996. I checked in from leave on July 20, 1996.

 On July 12, 1996, LtCol. T. P. Cook writes me in CMC ltr 5730/JAM01, (Enclosure (51)), "...Additionally, I am aware that you have been arrested by civilian authorities in Indiana and are currently awaiting extradition to Alabama, Accordingly, it would be inappropriate for the Commandant to either comment or assume any role in the matter." This was a false fact presented as truth and no one at in Marine Corps JAG has ever said "we made a mistake". (Note: I was never arrested in Indiana, I was detained and released on bond.) There is no arrest record on me in Indiana, yet LtCol. Cook writes enclosure (51) and also tells the Commandant that I am in jail. A blatant false fact that he knew or should have known to be false. Just more good old JAG libel and slander (Enclosure (51 - 56)). This has all been part of the fraud, waste and abuse that permeates those politically correct/corrupt members of the NCIS and Marine Corps JAG. My response to LtCol. Cook is contained in Enclosure (118) and is CWO-4 Rodney S. Bullock’s letter response dtd July 19, 1996 to Lt. Col. Cook’s letter of July 12, 1996. The man had the correct information but he continued to write lies (Enclosures (51 - 56).

CMC JAG placed a hold on me with the monitors (i.e., Marine Corps terminology for its Order’s personnel) and they informed the monitors that I was in jail. These people have repeated this erroneous, slanderous information to others thus denigrating me before my peers.

The very day I received his letter, I wrote LtCol Cook and informed him of his false facts (Enclosure (118)). He has made no attempt to correct his false facts and he has consistently provided inaccurate data to the Commandant, to the rest of my chain of command and to members of Congress. He has continually attempted to perpetuate an injustice on me by initiating a fraudulent attempt to dismiss me from the USMC by fraudulent means and by double jeopardy. CMC JAG and MCBH JAG have consistently provided false facts and false statements against me to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, my Commanders and members of Congress (Enclosures (51 - 56)).

On November 1, 1996, the jury reached a decision against me in the trial based on the lies of a multiple felon and a Vietnam deserter. This covert age discrimination is consciously and/or unconsciously approved of by the Marine Corps. Lies, rumors and innuendoes were fed to the jury and the news media and the jury findings and the news media stories were based on the false information. These malicious actions have caused me, my wife and my family irreparable harm, both financially and psychologically. My name has been dishonored. I have been denied promotion. I have been shamed before both the military and civilian communities. My wife has had her life threatened (Enclosure (89)). Dirty tricks have been played on family members with the intent to catch them in a criminal act and force them to testify against me (Enclosure (21)). These overt and covert threats of intimidation and overt and covert threatening acts of violence against me, my wife, and my family will not compromise my love of country and my love of the United States Marine Corps.

After the trial Ms. Lisa Williams, questioned the jurors and the following is her sworn and witnessed statement regarding that polling (questioning) (Enclosure (90)). The jury disregarded the facts and reached their decision based on speculation and manufactured false statements. Speculation which previously undiscovered documents now prove to have been falsified.

  I, Lisa Williams, hereby swear and affirm that the following statement is true and correct:

Insurance papers located after the trial in the papers of my deceased Mother's estate prove that the insurance on the home had been increased to bring it in line with the amount of the mortgage and the cost of building the home. (Enclosure 120), (121), and (122)). (Note: Had I have been stationed in Alabama and not Hawaii I would have located these before the trial. Yes I requested Temporary Additional Duty to Alabama and my request was denied.)

Based on information provided by NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk, the assistant district attorney Hitson provided false facts about Bullock's insurance as follows:

 Trial Transcript pg 73 - 74

D.A. Hitson: "Now you're going to hear from a witness named Dale Kocher. Dale Kocher was a good friend of this man right here. Dale Kocher worked for an insurance company through whom the defendant had homeowner's insurance on his home. He's going to tell you sometime around October, November or December, 1981 that the defendant came to him -- came to the insurance company and attempted to raise his insurance in a substantial amount, raise the amount for contents insured on his home."

Now let's review Mr. Dale Kocher's sworn testimony about this. His recollections bring into play manufactured memories. His memory does not match with the actual policy increase from 1980 - 1981 policy to the 1981 - 1982 policy (Enclosures (120), (121) and (122)).

Trial Transcript pg 169 - 170

Q: "Let's go back to the Fall of 1981. You stated that Chief Warrant Officer Bullock came to you to see about increasing his fire insurance?"

Dale Kocher: "He didn't come to me; his insurance was through the company I was with. I was not an insurance agent.

Q: "Did he ever have a conversation with you about that?"

Dale Kocher: "I don't recall."

Q: "So, you don't know what conversation he had with the Capitol Fire and Marine about the increase of his insurance for his residence?"

Dale Kocher: "He had a conversation with someone through the company or through his insurance agent about increasing the value on his home."

Q: "He never had a conversation with you?"

Dale Kocher: "No."

Q: "How did you find out about that?"

Dale Kocher: "I worked for the company and the company asked me because I was a friend and neighbor."

Q: "Did you see any reason why the insurance should not be increased?"

Dale Kocher: "I don't recall."

Q: "Do you know if it was contents coverage or if it was on the actual home itself that he was attempting to have the insurance increased?"

Dale Kocher: "Basically on the value of the home."

Q: "Do you know approximately what the home was valued at?"

Dale Kocher: "No."

 Q: "Would it have been unusual -- Would there have been anything unusual about having an increase in the value of the home?"

Dale Kocher: "Probably at that time it was a value that was more than what we probably figured the house was worth."

Q: "So, the increase in the insurance would have been commensurate with the value of the home?"

Dale Kocher: "No."

Q: "The increase in insurance would not have been commensurate with the value of the home?"

Dale Kocher: "Correct."

Q: "Would the home have been worth less than the amount requested; or, do you know?"

Dale Kocher: "The amount requested would have been a lot more than the value of the home at the time."

Q: "But you don't know what the amount that the request was for increase from the insurance company?"

Dale Kocher: "Not at this time, I don't."

Q: "So, you don't really know whether or not the amount that was requested for increase in the insurance would exceed the value of the home; do you?"

Dale Kocher: "At that time, through the company, we felt that the value requested was more than what it was worth."

Dale Kocher's false memories as to an insurance increase being denied is certainly not factual as per Enclosures (120), (121) and (122).

The amount of the insurance as listed in DFM Munger's report, allegedly written May 28, 1982 (Enclosure (123)) is incorrect. This report lists $114,000.00 on contents (actual amount on contents was $57,000.00 (Enclosure (120 & 122)). Enclosure 124 provides the inaccuracies of DFM Munger’s report. A report which could have easily been shown to be filled with lies in 1982.

Deputy district attorney Hitson stated "he wanted his house burned stood to gain $114,000.00 insurance proceeds..."(Trial Transcript pgs 85 & 574). False testimony/memory from Dale Kocher that Bullock requested and was turned down for a substantial increase in Fall 1981. Enclosure 121 proves Kocher’s testimony to be false. No documents were ever produced to show that I was turned down for any insurance increase or that the insured contents were ever $114,000.00.

The prosecution lies are shown by the insurance papers for the home, Enclosure (120), (121), and (122). These documents were not available to the defense at the time of the trial. Had USMC JAG, as I requested, allowed my command to send me TAD before the trial, then I could have gained access to my brother's residence, formerly my Mother’s, and  would have located these papers before the trial. The actual insurance papers for the home in 1980 - 1981 and 1981 - 1982 prove with factual evidence that the insurance on the home was increased from $90,000.00 to $115,000.00 in October 1981. This information would have proved Kocher’s memories to have been manufactured.

The total policy (dwelling, other structures, personal property) was increased as shown by enclosures (120) and (122) from $144,000.00 to $184,000.00 which is a substantial increase and confirms Dale Kocher's memory on this issue as a manufactured false memory.

Now let's examine my sworn testimony about the insurance:

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 138 - 139

Q: "Let me ask you this. The amount of your mortgage was how much."

CWO-4 Bullock: "The amount of the mortgage was around $100,000.00."

Q: "What did it cost you to build the house?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "My estimated cost was $115,000.00."

Q: "You had $115,000.00 in the house. Is it customary now then you take a finance or mortgage something the bank requires a mortgage on it?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Did you have insurance on this home?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes sir."

Q: "Who was the insurance through."

CWO-4 Bullock: "It was through Capitol Fire and Marine."

Q: "Who was your insurance agent?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "My insurance agent was Peggy Barton."

Q: "Peggy Barton was the one you would deal with if you wanted to handle insurance matters, is that what you told us."

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "How much was your insurance-- when you took out the policy you had the building and the contents insured correct?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Do you remember what you had the building insured for?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Well, initially apparently in the estimates of initial building was for

$90,000.00. And initial insurance that I took out on the house, I had requested was for

$90,000.00."

Q: "What about contents?" CWO-4 Bullock: "The contents at that time, I believe as around $45,000.00."

Q: "So you got a $90,000.00 dwelling. You got $45,000.00 on contents?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "That's when you initially built the home?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Was there an occasion later that the home was appraised or that the insurance company ask you, tell you, or otherwise ask to have the -- the house needs to be insured for more--I mean the mortgage company direct you to insure if for more?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Well, the mortgage company became aware of the fact that the house was underinsured, and requested that I talk with the insurance agent and that I needed to get a reappraisal on it and to increase the value at least to the amount of the mortgage."

Q: "All right. Did you or did somebody on your behalf or from the mortgage company call the insurance agent?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "I got in touch with Ms. Barton and requested a valuation of the home?"

Q: "What did you have the insurance increased to?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "At some point the insurance company valued the home at $115,000.00."

Q: "So some time in 1980 (1981) you actually did have an increase from $90,000.00 to $115,000.00."

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

Q: "But that was because the mortgage company required if?"

CWO-4 Bullock: "Yes, sir."

The investigators and prosecution falsely stated that I had gotten Raines to burn the house in order to collect the insurance and that I had shortly before the fire requested an insurance increase which was turned down.

Trial Transcript pg 676 (After jury finding and before sentencing)

Deputy district attorney Hitson: "Judge , we would just disagree that he has not served his country with distinction; we think he has disgraced the United States Marine Corps Uniform. Your Honor, we are aware of the pre-sentence recommendation. We think the evidence in the case paints a vivid picture of a man who not only conspired with another man to set a fire on this  occasion, but who also has committed insurance fraud in the past (A lie based on Raines lies); and, we think it warrants some penitentiary time, Your Honor, and notwithstanding the recommendation, we would request that, and we would also request that a substantial fine be levied. In light of the fact that the insurance company that paid the fine is now defunct, we would recommend $5,000.00.

The Court: "So, there is no restitution per se; is that correct?"

Deputy D.A. Hitson: "The company no longer exists, Your Honor. That's all we have to say"

Two years after my trial I located the 1982 manager. According to Mr. Howard Barton, who was manager of Capitol Fire and Marine Insurance Company at the time of the fire, the company changed its name to Old Republic Union Insurance Company in 1990. Mr. Barton stated that he left the company prior to the name change, but that the company is still located at the same address in Montgomery as it was in 1982 (Enclosure (70), (72 ) & (74)).

Another malicious lie that NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk fabricated. After determining that Capitol Fire and Marine was not defunct, I called the company. As Mr. Barton had said, the company did changed its name to Old Republic Union. I talked with Ms. Linda Arthur with Old Republic. I then faxed Ms. Arthur the information on the policy I had through First Insurance Associates, Inc. (Peggy Barton, Insurance Agent). Enclosure (72) is a response from Branch Manager, Mr. Don Conaughty regarding my request.

In 1999, I wrote, Mr. A. C. Zucaro, the Chief Executive Office of Old Republic Insurance with headquarters in Chicago. In response to that letter, Mr. William J. Dasso, Counsel for Old Republic Union Insurance Company responded with "I have searched Old Republic Union Insurance Company’s records located in Chicago and have not found anything concerning this coverage. As this policy was issued through the company’s Montgomery office, their files would be the sole source of information. Regardless of the phraseology used by our Montgomery branch office in their letter to you , the company does not have any records, here or elsewhere, concerning this policy." See Enclosure (74). If there had have been a claim filed then the Investigators would have gotten a copy in 1982. Wait 14 years and create false memories.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 88 - 89

Q: "Could you set up some -- give us a little background on the State of Alabama Fire Marshal's Office, what your general responsibilities are there?"

 Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 98

Q: "Before we leave the house, I don't want to forget this before we leave the house, I want to talk a little bit about insurance. You know a good bit about the insurance business?"

Q: "Because you all (Fire Marshal's Office) fall under the Department of Insurance?"

DFM Paulk: "We are a separate division. The Department of Insurance encompasses the rate making division and examiners division, who examine insurance companies. We fall as a division of that and we don't have direct day to day contact with insurance companies. We don't work at the behest of insurance companies. But we do talk with insurance agents and insurance adjusters a good bit of the time because many of the crimes we work involve insurance."

I filed bankruptcy on the advise of an attorney, to stop my former wife, Judy Baggett Bullock, and her 16 year old boy toy, Jim Jenkins, from costing me additional money (Enclosure (125 ), to gain time to pay off these unsecured bills and to get a new business started without having all of my income taken up front. I only owed $8,014.45 in unsecured claims. These unsecured claims were bills run up by my former wife Judy and Jim Jenkins after she left me. She left me with Jim Jenkins the week before Thanksgiving in 1981. These two were still running up bills on my credit cards into 1982 (Enclosure (125)). On October 25, 1982 after the house had been foreclosed on and I sold other assets to pay off all other secured interests. The total amount owed under the bankruptcy was $107,942.68 which included a secured claim of $99,928.23 on the home in which the small fire occurred.

The prosecution used my bankruptcy filling against me, but they neglected to tell the jury that the bankruptcy was never finalized. Another of the Montgomery County, District Attorney’s and NCIS's criminal omissions to obstruct justice and prevent a fair trial. Yes my cash flow was nil, but you will note from Enclosures (126), (127) and (128), that I did have other real properties (assets) which I sold and none were foreclosed on as DFM Munger stated in his preported statement dated May 18, 1982 (Enclosure (123)). No properties I or my corporation owned were foreclosed on. Nothing except the house. Please note that none of the properties were sold to those who had claims on them. The properties belonging to my corporation, Bullock, Stacey and Wiggins Inc., were mortgaged. However the land owned personally was not mortgaged. Although I had no cash flow, I was not destitute and continued to press for the best possible sale price for the properties my corporation and I owned.

Letter report by DFM Munger to Mr. Roy L. Thornell, State Fire Marshal, dated May 18, 1982 states on page 3 (Enclosure (123)):

"A financial investigation was conducted and it was determined that Mr. Bullock was experiencing severe financial problems at the time the fire occurred.... Records also indicated that Mr. Bullock had lost several parcels of land to foreclosure in the last several months. Records also indicated that telephone service was discontinued for non-payment and that Mr. Bullock's automobile payments were past due."  If these statements were true then why wasn’t documentation provided to prove the statements?

These people may have destroyed many of the records, which would have proved their manufactured false statements, but there are certain court house records they couldn't destroy.

There were no foreclosures on any property I or my corporation, Bullock, Stacey and Wiggins Inc., owned. Ask any Realtor and they will tell you where to find land records and that they are there forever. Properties owned at the time by the corporation were in Montgomery and Conecuh Counties and personal property was in Monroe County, AL. All real estate transactions are a matter of public record.

To lie and say I lost parcels of land to foreclosure is another of the malicious manufactured false facts.

The District Attorney’s office is supposed to be composed of ethical individuals who will do the right thing and not propagate manufactured false facts, manufactured false statements and manufactured false memories.

The NCIS’s selected target for frame-up is always a Naval Service member without much money or political influence. The NCIS and JAG are able to use the power of their offices, and the monies and influence the offices control to overwhelm and destroy their targets. To them it is a game to justify their existence and to show their power. There is no desire to seek JUSTICE or TRUTH. To them these are irrelevant words that they may mouthe but certainly not words they live by.

In attempting to show the BOI that I had a reason to commit arson, statements were made by Major Powell, MCBH JAG, which were false, were known by the facts to be false, and were presented without any documentation of fact. This lack of honesty and integrity is not in keeping with the traditional ideals of the military or Corps' Values.

Marine Corps Board of Inquiry pg 11

Major Powell's opening remarks:

Nothing other than hearsay has been presented to substantiate Major Powell's statements. The statement from which the above information was gathered also says "Records also indicated that Mr. Bullock lost several parcels of land to foreclosure in the last several months." This can be easily disproven as a lie because land records, to include foreclosures, on any property are on file forever and there were no foreclosures on any properties I or my corporation owned except the house.

 These people make statements that have no basis in the truth. I was behind on the house payments but no other payments when the fire occurred. I even allowed my former wife and her boy toy to utilize my credit cards until my divorce hearing in 1982 (Enclosure (97)). The facts are that I was not behind on any payments, except the house, at the time of the fire. I had telephone service at the home until I requested it to be disconnected before I moved from the home back to the family farm.

Marine Corps Board of Inquiry pg 12

Major Powell's opening remarks:

This is a blatant false fact (lie) presented in a malicious fashion. I made no such statement to Dale Cobb and Cobb's memory becomes alive 14 years after the fact. There was no such statement made by me and this preported statement was made by a former friend who, according to Ed Ash, (Enclosures (48), (49), and (50)), was living in an adulterous relationship with Judy Ash (formerly Judy Bullock) in Auburn, AL. This adulterous arrangement began again in December of 1996. No such statement ever made by me but this is Marine Corps JAG and they have to do what they can to back their partners in the NCIS. There is no fairness, honesty, or integrity here.

Trial Transcript pg 293

Q: "And, sometime prior to that fire, were you and Mr. Bullock having a conversation about, I guess his concerns about his divorce and his finances, and did he make some kind of statement about his house, his residence?

Dale Cobb: "The only thing I specifically remember him saying was that everything was gone up in smoke, and perhaps, "I wish sometimes maybe the house would, put it all behind me and start over."

No such conversation with Dale Cobb ever occurred. Were Cobb's false memories created by his long term adulterous partner, Judy Ash ( in conjunction with her NCIS (Tony Titra) and deputy Alabama fire marshal (Ed Paulk) trainers? Judy Ash was the former Judy Bullock, who has now married Dale Cobb. My Mother informed me in June of 1982 that Judy and Dale Cobb had been having an adulterous affair for years and my Mother had not told me prior to my divorce, because she didn't want to be the one to destroy my marriage and she hoped Judy would change. I suppose I was the last to know. According to Mr. Ed Ash, Judy's 2nd husband, Judy left him on December 25, 1996 and he had at his home two bedroom suites, a dining room suite, and the silver she had from her marriage to me. This is the same furniture and silver that NCIS agents have harassed members of my family about. (Enclosure (49)). Mr. Ash says his former wife, Judy Bullock Ash, has married Dale Cobb and is presently living in Auburn, Alabama.

 P. I. ED LEMLER, INTERVIEW OF ED ASH, FEBRUARY 2, 1998 (Enclosure (50))

Pursuant to investigation, Mr. Ash was telephonically interviewed reference the below styled case. Mr. Ash was informed of the nature of the investigation and the identity of the interviewing investigator, after which he related the following information:

END OF ED ASH INTERVIEW

Continuing on with the JAG prosecutor, Maj. Powell’s opening remarks at my board of inquiry.

Board of Inquiry pg 12

Major Powell: "He started removing possessions from his house during this time period....

Another manufactured false fact that slanders me and damages the ability of the Board to reach a fair decision. As per the Criswell interview, which was given on January 29, 1982 (four days after the fire), I removed nothing from the house except those items used in my day to day  professional career, which was real estate, and the clothes required for my travels (Enclosure (129))..

Criswell Interview of January 29, 1982.

Q: "Did you take anything out of the house the day before the fire?"

Bullock: "Yeah."

Q: "What did you remove from the house?"

Bullock: "Typewriter, some of my personal papers."

Q: "Anything else?"

Bullock: "My adding machine."

Q: "Anything else."

Bullock: "No."

Note: As a farm land real estate broker in 1981, the normal items I carried with me were a portable typewriter, adding machine, real estate forms and information on properties owned and properties working on. If I were in real estate today, then all I would have to carry would be a laptop computer and a printer!

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 13

My former wife, Judy testified the following:

Trial Transcript pg 388 - 389

Q: "Had you taken any things that belonged to you at that particular time?'

Judy Ash: "When we (referring to herself and her 16 year old boy toy, Jim Jenkins) moved to Eastdale, I had taken the washer and dryer, and the dining room suit, the breakfast room table with four chairs, the bed that my grandmother had given me, and then another box springs and mattress, where Jim would have a place to sleep."

Q: "These were things you took from the home place at Foxwood Trace Subdivision; is that correct?"

Judy Ash: "Yes sir."

 Q: "And, when you moved into Eastdale Apartments, that was directly from you having lived with Dale and Jean Kocher; is that correct?"

Judy Ash: "Yes, sir."

Major Powell accuses me of removing possessions from the house when in fact my former wife had already removed most of the furniture. Another false fact by Major Powell.

This house had 3 bedrooms, a study, and two baths upstairs. Downstairs there was a living room, formal dining room, breakfast room, kitchen, large den and 1/2 bath.

After Judy moved what she wanted out of the house to furnish her apartment with, the living room, the dining room, the breakfast room, and two bedrooms were empty. In addition she took a television set, the stereo system, and the washer and dryer. She also took all of her clothes and many hand made quilts and crochet bedspreads and table cloths hand made by my Grandmother Stacey, and other ancestors. Judy moved out before the fire and after she moved the only room downstairs with any furniture in it was the den. The dining room, the living room, the breakfast room and the kitchen were empty. Upstairs there were three bedrooms, a study and two baths. Two bedroom were empty and the study was cleaned out by Judy. So the house was empty but I didn't empty it.

Continuing on with Major Powell's slanderous remarks on page 13 of the BOI Transcript:

"....In fact, there had been things moved to the pump house. I don't know if any of you all are familiar with rural areas or not, but since they didn't have water service because they were out in the country, they had a well so they had a pump house where the pump to the well was located, which was some distance from the house, which would not have burned if the house caught fire. So some things had been moved out to the pump house."

Judy Ash, with the aid of NCIS agent Titra and Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk suddenly remembered in 1995 or 1996 that in 1982 on the day of the fire she had discovered furniture, notebooks, pictures, etc. in the pumphouse. The implication was that I put them there because she had already moved and that this pump house was far enough away from the house that it wouldn't be involved in a fire. No furniture, pictures, paperwork or any other items were reported missing by Judy Ash on the day of fire in 1982. In the 13 or 14 years since the fire, she never advised anyone of her supposed discovery in the pump house the afternoon of the fire. This is another false memory. This whole frame-up has been a malicious presentation of manufactured false facts.

NCIS agents harassed my entire family asking about silver and furniture. Judy Ash had the furniture and silver the entire time. According to Mr. Ed Ash, Judy's 2nd husband, (Judy left him on Christmas Day 1996 which was two months after she and Dale Cobb testified against me) until recently, he had in his home two bedroom suites, a dining room suite and the silver she had from her first marriage to Bullock. Another case of the NCIS assisting in manufacturing false memories.

 Judy Ash testified that she has moved out of the house and furnished her new apartment with furniture from the Foxwood Trace home. Is it believable to think that this woman did not take all of her clothes? Read on. The prosecution asks Judy about what she noted as being missing:

Trial Transcript pg 330 - 331

Judy Ash: "In our master bedroom we had a walk-in closet that we shared."

Q: "Was that the closet where the fire was?"

Judy Ash: "No, Sir."

Q: "Okay."

Judy Ash: "In the --"

Q: "What did the closet look like?"

Judy Ash: "You're talking about our walk-in closet in our bedroom?"

Q: "Right."

Judy Ash: "It was like almost vacant on his side, and all of my clothes were on my side."

Is it reasonable to believe that this woman did not get her clothes when she moved especially since she had already filed for divorce. Another point of manufactured false memories, just as with the silver, china and crystal that she took when she moved everything she wanted prior to the fire. The NCIS agents and deputy D.A.s knew Judy Ash was lying but they figured we'll have our witnesses provide so many manufactured false memories that somebody will believe some of them.

Under cross examination Judy Ash blurted out more of the items she actually took out of the house prior to the fire but note her earlier observations:

Trial Transcript pg 328 - 329

Q: "Okay. And, what did you first do when you walked in; what did you observe when you first entered the house?"

Judy Ash: "I thought things were missing, things had been rearranged."

Q: "What do you mean rearranged?"

Judy Ash: "In the dining room, the china cabinet that had our good china and crystal in it, the every day china that had been in the kitchen, was in the dining room china cabinet. There was some depression ware and just some odds and ends; and then some collection kind of pieces of depression ware, just some crystal things in a breakfast room china cabinet."

How can this be?, when on pg 388-389 of the trial transcript, Judy testified she took the dining room suit which included the china cabinet when she moved before the fire. There is no record of her alleged discovery at the time of the fire January 25, 1982 and she talked to deputy fire marshal Munger on several occasions. DFM Munger and Judy were in contact from as early  as the day of the fire to as late as the day of the divorce hearing in 1982. Munger testified for Judy at the divorce hearing in February, 1982 and testified there was no indication of arson.

Read how NCIS agent Titra tries to make Judy Ash reliable.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 69:

For NCIS agent Titra to say "She is scared of Mr. Bullock..." is nonsense and totally baseless. From the day of the divorce hearing in February, 1982 until she testified at the trial in October, 1996, I never saw my former wife. I never made any effort to contact her or interfere in her lifestyle (Enclosure (49)).

When deputy fire marshal Paulk was asked to describe Judy Ash he said she didn't harbor any ill will. Not according to her present husband Ed Ash, who told her that she did not have to testify and that she could have claimed spousal privilege (Enclosures (48), (49) & (50)).

Deputy fire marshal Paulk: ".... We talked to her at length. Questioned her. Contacted her again several times after that point and she answered every question we asked of her the best she could. She didn't try to just past things off and tell us no. She didn't try to go out of her way to say things derogatory about Mr. Bullock. She indicated that she had been married to him for a long time, at the time of their problems and divorce that she had loved him. They had grown apart and she didn't harbor any ill will and she certainly didn't act like that when we were talking with her.

In the trial transcript pages 346 through 354, the prosecution shows items (photographs, medals and ribbons) that belonged to me and that Judy Ash is preported to have found in the pumphouse on January 25, 1982 and presented to the prosecution as evidence. Yes, the items belonged to me; my birth certificate, my Father's WW II dog tag, miscellaneous photographs and medals and ribbons belonging to me. She still has numerous quilts that were sewn by my Grandmother Stacey and my Great Grandmother Brooks. Why would this woman keep items that belonged to a former husband for 13 to 14 years and never returned them if she was not vindictive or trying to hide something?

Trial Transcript pg 327

Q: "Now, where were you when you learned that the house, your house, had caught on fire?"

Judy Ash: "I had just gotten to school." Q: "And, what time was that if you recall?"

Judy Ash: "Around 7:30, I think, because we had to leave early in order to get to Eclectic. We had to leave Montgomery early in order to get to Eclectic by 7:30.

Judy Ash: "Jean called me."

Now let's examine who Judy says was at the house when she arrived.

Trial Transcript pg 328

Q: "Going back to the day of the fire, do you recall about what time you arrived at the house?"

Judy Ash: "It was still early, maybe 8:30 or 9:00."

Q: "How long did it take you to get from Pike Road up to your school."

Judy Ash: "About 45 minutes to an hour."

Q: "And, what did you see once you got there?"

Judy Ash: "Jean and Dale had been taking furniture out of the house. There had been a fire, and there was water damage, and --

Trial Transcript pg 133

Q: "What time did you say you got out there that day."

Here we have Deputy Fire Marshal Munger getting to the fire scene at 8:00 as per his report (Date and Time of This Report) filed January 26, 1982 and Judy Ash testifying she couldn't have  arrived until 0815 at the earliest. According to DFM Munger's letter narrative to the State Fire Marshal dated May 18, 1982 (Enclosure (123)) , "Present at the fire scene when I arrived were Montgomery Sheriff's Deputies John Pravelec and Jim Denson, Montgomery Sheriff's Investigator David Bryan, Ms. Julia Bullock and Dale Kocher.

Judy Ash testified that Jean and Dale (referring to Jean Kocher and Dale Kocher) had been taking furniture out of the house when she arrived. Yet Jean Kocher is not mentioned by DFM Munger as being present when he arrived.

In 1982 the roads from Pike Road to Eclectic were mainly two lane, with the four lanes also having red lights and stop signs. Also from the residence the easiest and shortest route to Eclectic was to go Vaughn Road into Montgomery, then around Montgomery to US 231 to Alabama 14 then up Alabama 63 from Claud to Eclectic. Note that Judy Ash is coming from Eclectic and she is coming through Montgomery during rush hour traffic. The mileage may be only about 35 miles but the stop and go is and was considerable. But read on about the phantom friend who brought her home after the phantom telephone call.

Trial Transcript pg 327

Q: "Now where were you when you learned that the house, your house, had caught on fire?"

Judy Ash: "I had just gotten to school."

Q: "And what time was that, if you recall?"

Judy Ash: "Around 7:30, I think, because we had to leave early in order to get to Eclectic. We had to leave Montgomery early in order to get to Eclectic by 7:30.

Q: "What did you do once you found -- How did you find out?"

Judy Ash: "Jean called me."

Q: "And, what did you do once you found out that news?"

What is she talking about here? Judy Ash rode with other teachers in a car pool. Judy Ash had to get this teacher to either bring her directly to the house or carry her to her apartment or to where ever her car was parked. Get this, now two teachers leaving school without making any arrangements. No way!! They would have had to make some type of arrangements for someone to look after not one but two classes and the Principal would have to have been involved. What we are talking about here is the time element. In an emergency we are talking 15 minutes bare minimum for Judy Ash to possibly make arrangements to leave school and an hour to an hour and a half, in rush hour traffic, to drive to the house from Eclectic. So if in fact Judy Ash had received the call at 7:30 as she stated and it only took her 15 minutes to setup to leave and an hour to an hour and a half to reach the residence then the earliest she could possibly have arrived would have been 0845 and the latest 0915. DFM Munger's Alabama Uniform Incident/Offense Report (This report was withheld from my arson trial and was only received in January , 1998 prior to the USMC Board of Inquiry) with the date of the report showing as January 25,  1982 and the time of his report as 0800. So how was Judy Ash already there when DFM Munger arrived. Did she have a premonition about the fire and just stay home from teaching so she could be there to welcome all or was this another false fact by Munger?

Now what does Jim Eddie Jenkins tell in a Memorandum of Interview by DFM Paulk, dated April 5, 1996 (Note: This memo was withheld from my arson trial’s defense and not provided to me until January, 1998 and my Marine Corps Board of Inquiry - more conspiracy on the part of the NCIS and Alabama fire marshal’s office.) (Enclosure (131)). Jim is the 16 year old who was in Frank Lee Youth Center when I got him released to my custody in the fall of 1981 and with whom Judy Ash had an affair. Paulk’s narrative states: "Jenkins stated that he was with Judy Bullock on the night that the fire happened and they did not learn of the fire until later in the day, after the fire had been extinguished. Jenkins could not provide any details of the fire or its origin, except his opinion."

Is 0730 now later in the day? Was Judy Ash at school or was she with Jim Jenkins, her teen boy toy?

Trial Transcript pg 386 - 387

Q: "When you moved to Eastdale apartments, you moved in with Jim Jenkins; didn't you?"

Judy Ash: "Yes, sir."

Q: "At that particular time, was this a one bedroom apartment, or two?"

Judy Ash: "Two bedrooms."

Q: "And, you continued to live with Jim Jenkins; didn't you?"

Judy Ash: "For a short period."

Q: "And then you got divorced from Mr. Bullock, isn't that correct?"

Judy Ash: "(No audible answer)"

Q: "After you moved into an apartment with Jim Jenkins, then you later divorced?"

Judy Ash: "I had signed the divorce papers a week after I left from the house at Pike Road and moved in with Jean, that very next week."

 Q: "At some point, you did have a romantic relationship with Jim Jenkins; didn't you?"

Q: "You were about 18 years older than he was at that time?"

Judy Ash: "Well, no -- Let me think."

Q: "Well, he was 18 at the time?"

Judy Ash: "Right; and I was 33, so you do the subtraction ."

Q: "He was a former student of yours; is that correct?"

Judy Ash: "Yes, he was."

Let’s continue with Major Powell’s lies. Board of Inquiry pg 12

Major Powell: "You have a statement from -- it's kind of an interesting statement and of course you can decide what weight to give to it, if any weight, which is another key point as I go through here. You can decide that certain evidence you have before you, you just don't believe it and you are not going to consider it. Or you can decide to consider whatever you want to consider. But you have a statement in there from a Joe Van Valkenburgh and that statement was given back to Alabama Deputy Sheriff or law enforcement officials sometime back in May of '82, not long after the arson took place.

At the time of the trial, in '96, Mr. Van Valkenburgh had already been dead eight years or so, so he wasn't available to testify at the trial. So you have his statement, the statement the jurors didn't have. Essentially his brother-in-law told the police that he had gone to the police and talked to the police about some concerns he had about his brother-in-law. And he said, "You know Stacey" which is Warrant Officer Bullock's name, what everybody calls him and what you will hear him referred to, that Stacey brought some things to his house, some silver and things that were valuable and had him take it to their house before the arson. And even mentioned in his statement, which is to me one of the most telling things about this arson, is that how convenient it was that he got some of his possessions out and all of a sudden there was a fire. But what wasn't convenient about it, was that the house didn't burn down. So he took these things to his brother-in-law's before the fire." (Not so according to his wife (Enclosure (21)).

Where did the NCIS get the alleged Joe Van Valkenburgh statement? NCIS agent Titra, in testimony before the BOI, (Transcript p. 50) swears:

"I had obtained an entire copy of the ABI file to start going through information in there and it was not in that file and I did not know it existed. However, I’m trying to think, I got the  information from an ABI agent that was in Montgomery. He told me there was a statement taken by a retired ABI agent in Montgomery that had some information about some issues, an arson and some other things. He faxed me a copy on 27 November ‘96, I want to say. No, it was -- it couldn’t be ‘95. I think it’s ‘96..."

Major Powell and the NCIS is again showing a lack of ethics and honesty. Please read the preported transcribed statement of Joe Van Valkenburgh. There is no valid evidence that Joe Van Valkenburgh ever made such a statement but this prosecution accepted and perpetuated false statements and false memories known to be untrue. Read Jimmie Alice Van Valkenburgh's signed and notarized Affidavit ( Enclosure (21)) . She says, "I was asked questions by Deputy Fire Marshal Paulk referring to a statement they (Paulk and NCIS agent Titra) said was by my deceased husband Joe Van Valkenburgh. The remarks that I read in the statement were not true."

This statement in and of itself makes the whole document questionable since you cannot use statements by a deceased person in a court of law and a State Trooper would not have made such a ridiculous statement as "Request this tape not be used in court, unless Mr. Van Valkenburgh becomes deceased,...". Oh and by the way the alleged Joe Van Valkenburgh document was transcribed from a tape that cannot be found and thus cannot be verified. No there is no signature on the document. Major Powell knew the Joe Van Valkenburgh document was a false fact and without validity but she adds to the reliability of a lie. Truth and justice are no longer in the realm of MCBH JAG prosecutors, we must convict and it is O.K. if we present lies as truths.

Jimmie Alice Bullock's Affidavit says on page 3 of Enclosure (21), "The investigators asked me questions as to whether or not my brother brought furniture to my house in Hope Hull to store. No, he did not. My brother had a small fire in a house he owned back in 1982. It is my understanding he received no insurance money from the fire, only his ex wife Judy Baggett Bullock did".

 Ed Ash swears the following in his affidavit dated April 30, 1997 (Enclosure (48)) "At some time during the 9 years of our marriage, Judy told me she had an affair with Joe Van Valkenburgh. Van Valkenburgh is the deceased husband of Jimmie Alice Bullock Van Valkenburgh, sister to Rodney Stacey Bullock".

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THE ABOVE STATEMENT WAS CERTIFIED, AFFIRMED AND NOTARIZED ON MAY 5, 1997. (Enclosure (21))

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The NCIS and Alabama fire marshal’s office believed they could intimidate and force my sister, Jimmie Alice Bullock Van Valkenburgh, to lie because they considered her vulnerable. They thought they had secured their position by placing negotiable items in her safety deposit box.

Read all of Jimmie Alice Bullock Van Valkenburgh Affidavit above.

I am a widow. My husband Joseph Bradley Van Valkenburgh,III died in a diving accident in the Bahamas on November 11, 1989, and I live alone with my daughter. The barge stayed tied up across from my house for almost 2 weeks. Needless to say, I felt as if we were under surveillance. This incident was very intimidating and frightening. That incident had caused me great psychological stress as I

worried about what someone might do to my 14 year old daughter and me. I was told by the investigators not to tell anyone about the interview and visit to my home." (Enclosure (21)).

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Now let's see what Ed Ash, the 1996 husband of Judy , said about her and my former friend Dale Cobb.

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Major Powell: "So you have at least evidence of insurance fraud involving a stolen boat in the 70s involving Chief Warrant Officer Bullock and this character Raines". Another blatant falsehood told by Major Powell. In late 1971 I did have a boat , motor and trailer that was lost/stolen. The boat did not have insurance on it when it was stolen therefore I did not collect insurance on it. The false statements made to that effect are all manufactured. As per my insurance agent from 1969 to 1973, (Enclosure (48)), "Bullock had insurance with me on a boat until 1971. However when he moved to Montgomery in late 1971 and stored his boat, he did not continue the boat insurance. Bullock never filed a claim with me for a stolen boat. I continued to be his insurance agent until 1973, when my insurers informed me that I could no longer carry a policy that far out of the area."

On pages 77 and 78 of the Board of Inquiry Transcript, NCIS agent Titra testifying about the alleged boat theft says: "Factually? I only know what Raines told us...".

There is no police report on the boat theft, Raines has no conviction of theft, only manufactured false memories by Raines assisted by DFM Paulk and NCIS agent Titra.

In an effort to show prior 'bad acts' by Bullock, NCIS agent Titra and Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk had Homer Leonard Raines testify he had stolen a boat belonging to me. Raines further swore he was arrested and convicted of that theft in Wilcox County, AL. He testified he stole a boat at my request so I could collect insurance. Raines testified he told no one of my involvement when he was arrested.

Trial Transcript pg 182 -

Q: "What felony offenses have you been convicted of in this state?"

Raines: "Theft of property, carnal knowledge, manslaughter and escape."

Let's see what NCIS agent Anthony Titra had to say about his star witness:

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 42

Q: "Can you give us a word picture of him? We don't have the benefit of having him here to see how he expresses himself. Can you kind of tell us?"

NCIS agent Titra: "He's a good ole boy from Alabama. He's probably not well educated. He's the kind of guy that you see working on cars, trying to fix an alternator, put a new radiator in and hangs out with country people. He's probably not well educated. I don't even know if he's finished high school." (Note: This agent is only interested in someone who will lie about Naval Personnel - Can you imagine not checking Raines education?) "He's been in trouble before, several times (Note: Stealing, rape, murder and escape rate a he’s been in trouble.). When I sat down to talk to the man, I sat there and I started to ask him some of the information that we had obtained about some issues and it's not like you sat there and talked to the man and he was sitting there going well, let me think, it was this way. The guy just started talking and he just told the story. The story that he was telling us is the same story he has told on some issues since '85, '86, '87 and '88 and he reiterated the information and it was the story he told. (Note: All of Raines suppossed interviews differ from his testimony to the court. Perjury?)

 It was a conversation that I had when you interview someone, you would ask him questions and he would tell us. He would offer something else."

Trial transcript pg 182:

Q: "Okay. You mentioned some type of theft of property?"

Raines: "Right."

Q: "Do you recall when, about, that was?"

Raines: "'72"

Q: "Are you sure of the exact date?"

Raines: "No."

Q: "Would it be fair to say it was in the "70s?"

Raines: "Yeah, it was in the '70s."

Q: "And, with regard to that case, would you tell me what that case was about?"

Raines: "It was about a boat, fishing boat."

Trial Transcript pg 186

Q: "What did you do with it?"

Raines: "I disassembled it and sunk the boat and gave the engine away."

Q: "Where did you sink the boat?"

Raines: "In Wilcox County in a pond."

Let's examine what marvelous frame-up techniques and manufactured false memories that were presented as fact. The false memories of the boat theft emerged in 1995 or 1996 in an interview with NCIS agent Titra and Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk. Raines' interviews make no mention of a boat theft prior to these dates.

I did have a boat stolen in 1971, that was stored in a barn at my grandmother's in Skinnerton, AL (Enclosure (130) is a picture of that homestead. No boat, no motor, and no trailer was ever recovered. I never collected insurance on the boat because there was no insurance on the boat at the time of the theft. I had dropped the insurance when I removed the boat from the water. My insurance agent at the time still has records of this (Ed Ash affidavit dated April 30, 1997, Enclosure (48)). The Sheriff of Wilcox County, Prince Arnold, has lived in Wilcox County all of his life, has been sheriff for approximately 20 years, knows of Raines and has never heard of Raines being involved in a boat theft or anything about a boat being sunk in any pond in that county.  Now lets examine Raines new found memories and a mistranslation of a preported taped recording. Why don't these Investigators allow the interviewee to see and verify an interview? Is it because this would not be conducive to a frame-up? As with other evidence that would prove all these allegations false - oh they no longer have the tape when it doesn't verify their frame-up.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 46 - 47

Major Powell: "How did you all connect -- can you explain to us about the boat?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Okay."

Major Powell: "About how the boat connection to this whole situation?"

NCIS agent Titra: "When we interviewed Mr. Raines, we were talking about the arson and some other things. He mentioned that he also stole a boat for him and we said, well, what was that about and he said that was back in the 70s, I believe he told me. I asked him what the boat looked like. He described a mahogany Cris Craft boat with a Chrysler inboard/outboard motor on it. I think he even said if was 18 foot. I am not sure if he said that or if his wife (means former wife, Judy Ash) told us that. I would have to read the actual information I have. He said that Bullock could get more from it than he could sell it out right and that it was parked in his grandma's barn at the time, which would have been his mother's I guess. And that he stole it from there and sunk the boat in a pond called Donald's pond in another county, Wilcox County, I think. I am not positive on that either, but I know the motor was given, this is what he said, to another man, a black male and he said that black male had it in a corn field, that it was eventually discovered when some people came in or some revenuers looking for bootleggers. They found the engine, when they found the engine, they ran the numbers and found out that it had been reported stolen I think in '71 and he was arrested in '72 when they found the engine. So Raines tells us this information while we are just talking to him about doing the arson, doing this, done the boat thing and he describes this boat. In interviewing Judy Ash again, she did say yes, she did own a CrisCraft boat. It was wooden and it had a green engine, is what she described and it was stolen from the mother's barn at the mother's place. She said they collected insurance on it or she thought they collected insurance on it?" (Note: No such interview by Judy (Formerly Bullock) Ash was provided my defense or has been provided me. Was this another lie by Titra.)

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 77 - 78 Major Powell: "Back in 1970, let's go back a little bit about the boat you brought up. This is where, again, he's trying to get himself -- he's trying to implicate that Chief Warrant Officer Bullock has done something wrong with a boat. Now, he described that or your investigation interviewing him, he tells you that Chief Warrant Officer Bullock wanted him to take a boat and dispose of it; is that correct?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, sir."

Major Powell: "Where was that boat located?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I believe he (Raines) said it was in the grandmother's barn."

Major Powell: "In the first interview or when he first told us?"

NCIS agent Titra: "It was a wooden boat, mahogany CrisCraft inboard/outboard Chrysler engine, I believe is what he said and he took the motor out, gave it to a man and sunk the boat in Donald's Pond and I think Donald's Pond is located in Pineapple, Alabama and then the engine was recovered by revenuers who linked it back to Mr. Bullock's reported stolen boat."

Major Powell: "Did they run a NCIC 1029 on the boat and it come back being registered to who?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Mr. Bullock".

Major Powell: "Chief Warrant Officer Bullock?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, sir."

Major Powell: " Was the boat ever recovered?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Not that I am aware of, sir."

Major Powell: "Nobody ever found the boat?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir. We checked records and NCIC, found out Raines was arrested for receiving stolen property in Wilcox County and that's where the engine was recovered."

Note: No engine was ever recovered. No boat was ever recovered. No trailer was ever recovered. There are no records that show Raines was tried for stealing a boat, motor or trailer or for receiving and concealing a boat, motor or trailer. Also there was no insurance on the boat when it was stolen, but this is over 25 years later and JAG and the NCIS can tell any lie they want. They can do this because the hard target does not have the financial resources to pay private investigators to fight their lies.

Q: "Well, let me ask you about that. Your records show that he had a receive and concealing stolen property charge; is that right?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Uh--"

Q: "Answer the question."

NCIS agent Titra: "I think so."

Q: "Would you say?'

NCIS agent Titra: I would have to look at the NCIC, but I believe so."

 Q: "You don't remember?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Receiving stolen property, I think is what it was."

Q: "Receiving and concealing stolen property. That the Alabama charge; is that not correct?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I don't know the Alabama law, sir."

Q: "How come?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I think Paulk tried to find that and we couldn't find it."

Q: "So we got an allegation, we got an NCI thing, a report that says he's convicted for receiving and concealing stolen property in '72?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Uh-huh."

Q: "But you all don't have no police report that goes with that?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir."

Q: "How come?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I think Mr. Paulk looked for it and he couldn't find the report."

Titra blames the nonexistence of the report on Paulk, yet Titra and the NCIS were leading the investigation .

NCIS agent Titra: "Factually? I only know what Raines told us and then we checked NCIC and that's all we know. And then we know that he reported a boat stolen when he talked to Criswell.

Q: "Receiving and concealing stolen property, was he (Raines) convicted under a misdemeanor or a felony?"

NCIS agent Titra: "You would have to talk to Mr. Paulk. I believe it is a felony. You would have to talk to him about it."

Q: "He's (Raines) convicted for stealing a boat; is that right?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, sir."

 Q: "Stealing whose boat, his (Bullock's) boat; is that right?"

NCIS agent Titra: "That's what he (Raines) told us."

Note: Titra comes back and covers himself. No evidence of Raines stealing a boat, no evidence of Bullock having insurance on the boat, but hey they've got Raines testimony.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 80 - 81

Q: "Well, you are speculating he did. Do you have any facts that he collected insurance?"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir."

Q: "Do you have any documents that showed he made a claim on the insurance?"

NCIS agent Titra: "He wrote Criswell questioned him and in the Criswell interview it talks about if you had any other losses and he said yes."

NOTE: Criswell's question was - have you had any other losses and my answer was - I lost a boat. Criswell’s report is a partial transcription of a taped interview I gave in my attorney’s office, January 29, 1982, four days after the fire. Criswell was an adjuster for Capitol Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Enclosure (126)).

Q: "He said he had a loss, but answer my question, please, sir?"

NCIS agent Titra: "The way----"

NCIS agent Titra: "No, sir."

This might be a good point to discuss Homer Leonard Raines. MCBH JAG prosecutor Major Powell and her cohorts place their full faith and confidence in Homer Leonard Raines. She, the NCIS agents and Alabama deputy fire marshal believe Raines to be an individual and she and they accept every thing Raines has said as gospel. Raines has continually lied, but this is what the conspirators in a frame-up want. They want someone who will profess any story they manufacture.

The Chief Investigator with the Conecuh - Monroe County District Attorney's office, Mr. Larry Ikner has consistently said that Raines is not a believeable witness. Mr. Ikner says, "I don't think he was credible then and I don't think he is credible now".  Judge (Ret) Frank P. Salter was a superior court judge and a probate judge in Conecuh County for 36 years and what does he have to say about Homer Leonard Raines. (BOI pg 210 - 212).

Board of Inquiry pg 210

Q: "Would you believe any truth of veracity of any allegations he made concerning Chief Warrant Officer Bullock of an arson fire?"

Judge Salter: "I wouldn't believe him at all."

Q: "Do you have anything you would like to add about Homer Raines that I haven't asked you?"

Judge Salter: "Yes, sir. As good a man as I think that Bullock is , he doesn't need to be downtrodden by a person of Raines caliber. He is not that kind of person."

NOW LET'S DISCUSS THE JEWELRY BOX AND ELECTRIC RAZOR THE NCIS ADDED TO THEIR FRAMEWORK OF LIES

If you can imagine gold and silver being the same color and a purple razor case and a beige razor case being the same color then you are qualified to join Titra as one of the NCIS's frame-up agents. These are items that I allegedly gave to Raines. These items supposedly came from the house where the fire occurred and were left there by Judy Ash (formerly Judy Bullock) when she abandoned our marriage and our home.

Read the Sharon Braden interview where she reports Raines contacted his former common law wife, Sharon Brooks, and "informed her the police had questioned him about the arson and for her to make sure she didn’t tell them (law enforcement) anything other than what he had already talked to her about." (Enclosure (116))

Trial Transcript pg 220 - 222

Q: "Ms. Brooks, I want to ask you a couple of questions. I asked you a few moments ago if you had received any unusual property around the time of early 1982?"

Sharon Brooks: "Yes, sir."

Q: "Can you remember that property for us."

Sharon Brooks: "Okay, it was a jewelry box, and it was like made, you could see through it, made like from wire, ....and a round case with a razor in it, that was purple, the case."

Q: "Now, was this an ornate type of --

Sharon Brooks: "Excuse me?" Q: "Was this an unusual type of design on this jewelry box? Can you describe it in a little more detail, the legs, or the --

Sharon Brooks: "It had four legs, and it stood up about that tall (Indicating), like it had a little curve to sit on."

Q: "Are there any other details about it?"

Sharon Brooks: "Like it was hard, made out of brass; but it was wire, and you could see through it."

Q: "What color was the wire?"

Sharon Brooks: "It was like silver, silver looking."

Q: "And it had lining in it?"

Sharon Brooks: "It had lining in it."

Q: "What color was the lining in it?"

Sharon Brooks: "Maroon, maroon color."

Q: "And, you referenced a razor. Was there anything unusual about the razor?"

THE COURT: Was it in the jewelry box?

Sharon Brooks: "What is that?"

THE COURT: You made some reference to a razor; was it in the jewelry box?

Sharon Brooks: "That was given to me too. It was in a round purple case, the razor was. It was just a little bitty jewelry box."

Trial Transcript pg 341 -342:

Q: ".... Did you have any personal items that you discovered at some time that were missing?"

Judy Ash: "Well I had a razor, just a lady's electric razor."

Q: "Anything else."

Judy Ash: "A jewelry box that a student had given to me for Christmas."

Q: "Judy, I'd like to ask you to describe the jewelry box that you just referred to, the best you can, in the most detail you can."

Judy Ash: "Okay. It was metal, the outside was a wire, kind of meshy wire thing, and it had small feet that kind of curved, and just an open lid, and then it was kind of a purplish-burgandy velveteen, that you could kind of see around the velveteen on the sides of the mesh; but it was kind of like in the middle."

Q: "Could you see through any part of it?"

Judy Ash: "Through the outside. The velveteen area didn't go all the way to the edges, so there were places, yes, that you could see through."

 Q: "Do you recall what color it was on the outside?"

Judy Ash: "I believe it was goldish. I'm sure it wasn't gold; but it was goldish."

Q: "What about that razor that you referred to a moment ago; do you remember anything about that?"

Judy Ash: "It was purple."

Q: "Was this--"

Judy Ash: "It was a lady's-- You know, it was a lady's razor; had kind of a handle for a woman. It was electric."

Q: "Electric razor?"

Judy Ash: "Uh huh."

Q: "Do you recall what color it was?"

Judy Ash: "Purple."

Q: "Do you remember whether or not it had a case?"

Judy Ash: "It had a case. I can't remember the case; I believe it was beige."

Mr. Williams: "Object to what she believes."

Judy Ash: "Excuse me; it was beige."

Sharon Brooks had a silver jewelry box and a razor in a purple case while Judy Ash had a goldish jewelry box and a purple razor in a beige case. This was an attempt to insinuate I had given a metal jewelry box of some description and a ladies razor in a case to Raines. Items which Raines' then common law wife Sharon Brooks could remember he gave to her. Since these investigators had no evidence except manufactured false memories and innuendoes based on misstatements and false interpretations of interviews and preported interviews, they bamboozled a gullible jury. NCIS agent Titra did not produce either item to show the jury.

Even though any honest and reasonable investigator would question the jewelry box and razor evidence presented at trial October 28 - November , 1996, NCIS agent Titra did not and forged on. Titra testifies under oath at Bullock' Board Of Inquiry hearing on February 26, 1998 as if he can fool all of the people all of the time. More of the techniques from the NCIS's Cold Case script used in conjunction with Marine Corps JAG to frame older Naval Personnel.

Let's continue with NCIS agent Titra and MCBH JAG, Major Powell, as the spin doctors work their magic.

Board of Inquiry pg 42 - 45

Major Powell: "What are some of the problems that you saw, you know, based on your investigation, what are some of the problems with his story and some of the things that you saw with his story that sort of fit with all your evidence?" NCIS agent Titra: ".... So it was a very believable story. But we didn't stop there, we went into other things to corroborate what Mr. Raines was telling us."

Major Powell: "What did you do to try to corroborate his story?"

NCIS agent Titra: "We talked to his ex-girlfriend that he had been living with at the time. He had lived with her for several years. Her name was Sharon Brooks."

Let's move on to another of NCIS agent Titra's manufactured false facts based on Homer Leonard Raines preported taped, transcribed and sworn statement dated March 13, 1995 uuh '96.

Raines says that Bullock gave him a linear amplifier and a power mike Johnson 123.

Now let's finish NCIS agent Titra's response to the above question.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 45:

Major Powell: "So that was right there while you were interviewing Raines?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, ma'am. And talked to Ricky Kent and Ricky Kent says, yeah, I remember that. It was in the fall of '80 or '81. He wasn't sure about the dates, but it was in the fall during hunting season. He talked about the fact that yeah, he don't have it but he gave it to his brother-in-law and he still has it. It was just sitting wherever it was sitting. We told him, "Well, you need to hang on to that because it might be needed by us." and we were going to come down and see it. And we eventually went down there to see him and we got the amplifier that was taken or given to Mr. Raines by Mr. Bullock to burn his house down, one of the items. We got that and it was used as evidence in the trial. I think it was identified by the wife (former wife-divorced in Feb., '82) as that looks like the one we had. It was similar, Kim (sic)(Jim) Wiggins' brother, I think, even mentioned that it was similar to the one they had, but he didn't think Bullock had it at his house. It might have been at the mother's or grandmother's place. That was a little bit of corroboration on the Linear.

Lets discuss when Raines swore he obtained the c.b. linear amplifier.

Trial Transcript pg 195 - 196:

Q: "You mentioned earlier that there were some things loaded up in the carryall; what did you load up?"

Raines: "I loaded the TV, the CB radio, the linear, the guitar."

Q: "Was anything loaded up by Stacey Bullock?"

Raines: "He had a saddle."

Q: "All right. Do you recall anything else being loaded up?"

Raines: "No, I don't."

Q: "Did you have any discussion with Stacey about when he wanted to burn the house?"

Mr. Williams: Judge, I'm going to object to him leading this witness again.

The Court: Overruled. You can just answer that yes or no.

Raines: "Yes."

Q: "Did you come back to burn that house at some time?"

Raines: "That night."

According to deputy fire marshal Munger's report of fire: It was discovered at 0640 on January 25, 1982 (Enclosure (120)), and had only burned an hour and a half to two hours. 

Trial Transcript pg 197:

Q: "What time do you think you arrived back, if you recall ?"

Raines: "Around 10:00."

Q: "Okay."

Raines: "At night."

Q: "You arrived back at Stacey's house around 10:00 that night?"

Raines: "In Montgomery, yes."

According to the information above, Raines says he received the linear amp from Bullock on the day prior to coming back and setting fire to the house that night. This would have been January 24, 1982, since the fire was discovered by Dale Kocher at 0640 am on January 25, 1982.

Trial Transcript pg 530 - 531:

Q: "Let me show you what has been marked into evidence as State's Exhibit No. 7, and ask you to come down off the witness stand for just a minute and examine State's Exhibit No. 7. Do you recognize that, sir?"

Jim Wiggins: "It looks like the one we owned. And, when we built our new house in '75--"

Q: "Just tell me if you can identify that."

Jim Wiggins: "It looks like it."

Q: "And, was there anyone in your family that used C.B.'s quite a bit?"

Jim Wiggins: "No, except us on the farm when we had the farm."

Q: "Where do you remember seeing that CB at the earliest time?"

Jim Wiggins: "The last time I seen it we had took it to the old house, over at my grandmother's."

Q: "When would that have been?"

Jim Wiggins: "That would have been in '78."

Q: "Do you know if that CB is still in your grandmother's house any more?.

Jim Wiggins: "No, they tore down my grandmother's house."

Q: "What happened to -- When was your grandmother's house torn down; do you know?"

Jim Wiggins: "Sometime in the '80s it was tore down?.

Q: "Would it be fair to say is would have been prior to 1990 then?"

Jim Wiggins: "Right." Q: "Do you know whether or not any property you had put into your grandmother's house came up missing?"

Jim Wiggins: "Yes, it has."

Q: "Do you remember when that might have occurred?"

Jim Wiggins: "No, it has been, you know, a long time ago."

Q: "What kind of house was this that your grandmother had?"

Jim Wiggins: "It was a old wood frame house."

Q: "Was it secure?"

Jim Wiggins: "No it wasn't."

Q: "Would it take a key to get in the door?"

Jim Wiggins: "All you had to do was raise up the window and go in."

Q: "Do you know how many break-ins you had at that house?"

Jim Wiggins: "I know of three."

Q: "Now, do you know a Leonard Raines?"

Jim Wiggins: "Yes."

Q: "Do you know whether he had any relatives that lived in the area where your grandmother's house was?"

Jim Wiggins: "No, I don't." (Note: Two years later we were told that yes Raines had a Grandmother that married a man who lived within a mile. This man returned to the area sometime after I had left to attend Auburn University in June of 1962.)

The old home referred to as the Grandmother’s is shown in enclosure (130). This is an aerial photo the local newspaper had taken in 1955. After 1966 or 1967, when my Grandmother moved in with my Mother, no one lived in the home. My Grandmother, Eula Bae Stacey died in 1969. The old home was torn down in 1985. After my Grandmother moved the house was used for storage. The out buildings shown, barn and machinery sheds were still used for storage of some items even though they were not completely secure and as you see no one lived close by. This old home was where the linear amplifier was stored in 1978 and one of the large machinery sheds is where the boat was stolen from in November/December 1971.

On December 7, 1996, after the trial, my wife, Faye, and I found in my deceased Mother's papers a receipt for an Apollo Amp (Enclosure (131)) proving that this linear amp was purchased by Wiggins Farms in February, 1974 and according to J. M. Wiggins, III was placed in storage in 1978 at his Grandmother's old home. According to Jim this amp was taken out of use when the farm purchased a Motorola VHF radio system on October 14, 1978 (Enclosure (132)). This linear amp never belonged to me and was never in my possession.

Trial Transcript pg 242:

Q: "Could it have been as early as 1980 that you received that." Ricky Kent: "No, sir."

Q: "It was somewhere close to the time you started hunting?"

Ricky Kent: "Yes, sir."

Q: "And you don't remember the month?"

Ricky Kent: "No. I can tell you it was in the fall right before hunting season came in."

According to Raines, he received the linear amplifier from Bullock the day prior to the fire which was January 24, 1982. According to Ricky Kent, in sworn trial testimony, he received the linear amp from Raines in the fall right before hunting season started in 1981.

Deputy district attorney Hitson tells the jury on page 619 of the trial transcript:

"Let's talk about this thing (indicating the linear amplifier). We've got Mr. Kent saying , "I believe it was about the 1981 hunting season that I got this". Well maybe that's true; but then he (pointing to Bullock) says, "It's one of the things missing from the fire". Can he have it both ways?"

NOTE: I never made any statement about a missing Linear amplifier. Mr. Hinson is providing another of the many lies to the jury. No doubt he was told this by NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk. Hunting season for Monroe and Conecuh Counties, Alabama in 1981-1982 was November 20, 1981 to January 18, 1982. These dates were documented with the Alabama Fish and Wildlife Department. Therefore the fire occurred after hynting season.

Raines did not get the linear amplifier as he swore. It is probable that Raines stole the linear amplifier prior to the fire, since it would have been another of those physically impossible occurrences for him to have received the linear amp on January 24, 1982 and swapped it to Ricky Kent before hunting season or even during hunting season in 1981. The narrative interview of Ricky Kent purportedly done by NCIS agent A.R. Titra on 15Mar96 lists hunting season as 25 Sep through 15 Jan -- another falsehood.

The transcription of a taped statement, (Enclosure (126)), I gave to Insurance Adjustor Criswell on January 29, 1982, four days after the fire, is missing specific information given to him regarding Jim Jenkins. This transcription is not completely accurate. (Note: The tape is missing. It seems everything that was not conducive to the frame-up has been destroyed.) However on page 6 of the transcription we read:.

Q: "When you returned to the house, was everything there as you left it?"

R. S. Bullock: "Well since you know there had been a fire you know it hadn't been. The only things that I can see that are missing without and you'll have to check with my wife was what some of the things that might have been cause the television that's missing ah, portable radio  and a Midland C. B.. Those are the only thing that I have noticed. You need to contact my wife to find out what might have been in the closet and what might have been in ....

Q: "Okay, so you’re saying a T.V., radio and a C. B. were not there when you returned that were there when you left."

R. S. Bullock: "Correct." (Enclosure (126))

No linear amplifier was ever stated as missing as Prosecutor Hitson fabricated.

Note: The house was left open by the fire department, after they put out the fire on January 25, 1982 and the doors were still open when I arrived back there on January 27, 1982. Everyone had unlimited access for two days.

(Enclosure (114)) Microfiche Montgomery Advertiser , January 24, 1982)

Raines Testimony, Trial Transcript pg 196

Q: "Let me go back for just a second. Did at some time while Stacey was there in the house with you , and after you loaded up the carryall vehicle, where did you go?"

Raines: "When we left his house we went to a mall."

Q: "Do you recall which mall you went to?"

Raines: "No, I don't."

Q: "Do you recall any road or highway that Mall might be near?"

Raines: "Southern Boulevard."

Q: "Okay. What did y'all do when you got to the Mall?"

Raines: "We went in the mall and I bought a can of lighter fluid."

Earlier in a transcribed sworn statement from "March 13, 1995 uuh ‘96" to NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk, Raines said: "It was in the mall and we had to wait out a little while for it to open."

 In 1982, malls were open from 10:00 AM to 09:00 PM, Monday through Saturday but closed all day Sunday. Another physical impossibility. In 1982 malls in Montgomery were closed all day on Sunday (Enclosure(114)). Read NCIS agent Titra's sworn testimony before the BOI on how he verified mall times so that it tied into the false facts he wanted to present.

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 58

Q: "Now, he tells you the story that he and Warrant Officer Bullock went up to this house Sunday morning."

NCIS agent Titra: "Yes, sir."

Q: "10 or 11 o'clock; is that not correct?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Bullock said they left at 11 or 11:30."

Q: "When did they arrive?"

NCIS agent Titra: "Sunday, the 24th." (referring to the 24th of January, 1982, the day prior to the fire)

Q: "What time did they arrive?"

NCIS agent Titra: "I don't know what time. He said they went up there in the morning, but they did go to the mall and had to wait at the mall because it wasn't open yet and that was after they had left the house. He said they left the house about 12, went to the mall and that's where they bought the lighter ----

Q: "----just answer the question though. He didn't tell you? You never took a statement from him what time they arrived?

NCIS agent Titra: "In the morning is what he told me."

NCIS agent Titra: "Mr. Paulk does and he told me, so that's what I am telling you. On Sundays, he said they don't open until 12 o'clock."

NCIS agent Titra ran the cold case scam under the direction of his boss Randall Waddell. You may think this is incompetence, but read NCIS agent Titra (BOI Transcript pg 37) description of his background:

 NCIS agent Titra: "I have been in law enforcement for 25 years. I was a military policeman in the Army. I was a police policeman in the Army from '73 to '76. I was a police officer in Florida for almost 11 years and then I came with the NCIS in '87 and have been with them ever since."

Now let's examine Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk's background and where he was in 1982. Would you believe this man was working with the Montgomery, Alabama police department in 1982?

Board of Inquiry Transcript pg 89:

Q: "While we are on the subject, why don't you tell us a little bit about your background and training?"

DFM Paulk: "I began a law enforcement career with the City of Montgomery Police Department and attended the Montgomery Police Academy for my initial post - standards training which was 17 weeks. When I went to work with the - while in Montgomery, I had several advanced courses and investigative techniques, burglary investigations. I worked auto theft for a period of time. I worked property crimes and persons crimes as a detective and a detective sergeant. I went to work with the State Fire Marshal's Office in February of '84 and began on the job training under now State Fire Marshal John Robison who was at that time the Assistant State Fire Marshal. I attended the Alabama Fire College, Fire College Determination School. I have also attended the advanced arson Property Course at Glenco, put on by the U. S. Treasury Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. I have attended courses sponsored by the National Fire Academy at Emmitsburg, Maryland. That's basically the education that I received.

While interviewing my sister Jimmie Alice Bullock Van Valkenburgh, the investigators, NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk accused me of murdering my brother in law, Joseph B. Van Valkenburgh, III (Enclosure (21)). I know that Joe died in a scuba diving accident in the Bahamas on November 11, 1989. At the time of his death my wife, Faye, and I were preparing for and attending the Marine Corps Birthday Ball held by the Marine Corps Combat Development Command Quantico, Virginia at the Washington Sheraton in Washington, D. C.. We had the pleasure of sitting at the table of my Commanding Officer, Colonel Henry L. Reed and his wife. My wife and I celebrated the ball and spent the night at the Washington Sheraton. Shortly after we returned to our home in Woodbridge, VA., I received a call from my brother, Sam Wiggins, telling me of my brother in law's death. I immediately called my sister, Jimmie Alice, and told her that I would be down as soon as I could get leave. I called Colonel Reed and  he immediately granted me emergency leave. I then drove from Woodbridge, Virginia to Gulfshores, Alabama to be with my sister and her two children. Two days later Faye flew down to pay her respects and to attend Joe's funeral.

These agents knew their accusations were groundless but they still made them. My brother in law, Joe, was employed by the state of Alabama and the investigators had easy access to all his records. In addition to telling my sister, by the questions asked and the false statements made, that I had murdered her husband, they also told Mr. Dale Kocher the same malicious lie when they questioned him about me in 1987 and 1996.

Until February, 1996, I had never heard of Mr. Lester Hanks. Neither I nor any of my family

(two brothers, five sisters, wife or mother in law) had heard of Mr. Hanks or were familiar with any Hanks in the area . I now know that local law enforcement officials and area residents feel that Mr. Hank's death in 1982 was a hate crime. Local gossip and some of Mr. Hanks relatives told my attorney that Raines and another man killed Mr. Hanks. Raines' motive was to get his money while the other person killed him because he was "messing with his daughter."

On February 15, 1996, NCIS agent Titra produced a command directive with Brigadier General David Bice, CG MCB Hawaii’s signature, requiring me to provide blood and hair samples. I was allowed to read the Command Directive and was told that they would not give me a copy, but that my attorney could obtain one. Brigadier General Bice, has denied my direct verbal FOIA request and did not respond to a letter from my attorney dated August 14, 1997 (Enclosure (96)). Only after a second letter from my attorney dated March 17, 1998 (Enclosure (97)), and after my April 14, 1998 letter to the Secretary of the Navy, did my attorney receive a response from BGen Bice. The letter from BGen Bice and copy of a Command Authorization for Search and Seizure was received by Mr. Carl E. Freman, Esq. on April 28, 1998 (Enclosures (98) & (99)). You will notice the date stamp of April 4, 1998 on the BGen Bice letter, yet it was not received by my attorney until April 28, 1998.

The copy of a Command Authorization for Search and Seizure (Enclosure (95)) sent to Mr. Freman by BGen Bice is a different document from the one I was shown by NCIS agent Titra on February 15, 1996. This is not the same document NCIS agent Titra used to force me to submit to the taking of my blood and hair. The differences are:

1. The document NCIS agent Titra used on 15Feb1996 was signed by BGen Bice

2. The document NCIS agent Titra used on 15Feb1996 specified two vials of blood containing a specific number of cc’s

3. The document NCIS agent Titra used on 15Feb1996 specified 16 head hair and 16 arm hairs

4. The document NCIS agent Titra used on 15Feb1996 did not contain the following statement: "leaving a copy of this authorization and receipt for the property taken."

Where is the original Command Authorization for Search and Seizure signed by BGen Bice? What has the NCIS and MC JAG done with the original document? What has the NCIS done  with my blood and hair samples? What does the NCIS plan to do with my blood and hair? What is the NCIS and MC JAG trying to cover up?

Why did the NCIS manufacture a different Command Directive to send to my attorney?

In a taped (with permission) telephone interview conducted by Private Investigator, Ed Lemler, on June 13, 1998, LtCol Brendan Kearney, USMC states: "...I doubt seriously they (NCIS and DFM Paulk) would have had the order, ( Command Authorization for Search and Seizure) because I do not recall seeing one, I would have refused to sign one, I think because you, again the key thing in this case is that this was an allegations of Officer misconduct...Officer misconduct is handled by the Commanding General (BGen Bice) so I you know, I would listen to what they’re having to say because I obviously have concerns, but, I don’t recall anybody showing me, any Order, or anything like that, that they were asking me to sign."

In response to Mr. Lemler asking: "Were you by chance given a copy of the Directive, ordering the, the taking of samples?", LtCol Kearney responded: "No, no, and it, and that would be highly unusual for them to do that, the Commanding, the Commanding General, the Commanding officer, at any level once he orders that, normally copies are not passed around..."

In response to a question from Mr. Lemler concerning if he was advised or knew what they (NCIS) were specifically going to ask for (with the Search and Seizure order), LtCol Kearney said: "No, I don’t, I don’t, I never saw the authorization, so I don’t know what they would have, uh, what’s on it, or what they asked for, ...I don’t know."

NCIS agent Titra and DFM Paulk lied to the Commanding General, Marine Corps Base Hawaii to obtained a Command Directive for blood and hair samples from me. The Commanding General granted this invasion of privacy and public humiliation supposedly to obtain and test samples of my DNA. The fact that Navy Medical already had samples of my DNA on file and has had then since June, 1995 seemed not to have effected this intent to slander me. If there had been a valid reason for this public humiliation then these people would have used the civilians courts and have provided a court order to the Commanding General and me. Certainly my DNA was available to any law enforcement agency had there been a valid and legal request.

The fact is that over nine years have passed without the NCIS either having me arrested or clearing me. Their actions are indicative of liars who have been caught lying and want to deny their actions. Their actions indicate that there were no blood and hair samples to test against and this was all done to humiliate, dishonor and discredit me.

The NCIS had the Alabama Bureau of Investigation document where Raines made accusations against me to Larry Miller and Hollis Gandy in a Alabama Bureau of Investigation Memorandum Undated and the last date listed is May 17, 1988 (Enclosure (133). This Memorandum states: "On December 21, 1987, a request was made to Special Agent Charles Lee of the Naval Investigative Service in Washington, D. C. to obtain a set of fingerprint cards of Rodney Stacey Bullock, a former resident of Conecuh County and suspect in the Lester Hanks homicide. Bullock is currently stationed with the U. S. Marines in Washington. The cards were received by the Attorney General's Office and submitted to the fingerprint classification section of the Alabama Department of Public Safety on February 17, 1988, for comparison to fingerprints lifted from the dash of the pickup truck belonging to Lester Hanks at the time of his murder. The prints of Bullock and the known prints taken from the truck did not match."

This memorandum was part of many documents that the NCIS had in their possession and withheld from my defense. This was only provided in January, 1998 for the Board of Inquiry, some 14 months after the arson trial. This document adds to the monumental pile of investigative material that the NCIS, MC JAG, Alabama fire marshal’s office, and Montgomery County, AL district attorney withheld from my defense and shows Raines changing his story every time he tells it and that he embellishes it with whatever his questioners suggest.

The NCIS ignored the 1987/1988 ABI investigation that proved I had nothing to do with Mr. Hanks’ death. Part of the 1988 ABI investigation included Raines telling the ABI that he had given me the shotgun used in Mr. Hanks’ death. Raines lies included telling them I had put the shotgun in an abandoned well in a rural pasture. The Conecuh County Sheriff, the Conecuh County District Attorney Investigator, and Alabama Bureau of Investigation agents moved heavy equipment into the pasture and dug up the well that Raines pointed out to them. NO WEAPON WAS FOUND, thus proving one more time that Raines is a liar.

The NCIS used false and malicious reasons to obtain the Command Authorization for Search and Seizure for my blood and hair in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment specifically guarantees me the right to be safe from unreasonable search and seizures. Further the Fourth Amendment provides that Warrants (written court orders) for any of these procedures must be issued with good cause and must describe in detail, the person or things to be seized. If there had been a legitimate lawful reason for the taking of blood and hair, Alabama law officials would have provided a valid search warrant.

Instead the NCIS with BGen Bice’s assistance executed an unlawful search and seizure without authority of law which was a general invasion of my privacy, McClannan v. Chaplain, 136 Va 1, 116 S.E. 495, 498; United States v. Snyder, D.C.W.Va., 278F. 650, 658; Graham v. State, 31 Okl. Cr. 125, 237 P. 462, 464.

I had no defense against the unlawful Search and Seizure (Enclosure (95)) as MCBH JAG had refused me any legal assistance on February 14, 1996. If I had refused to allow the unlawful taking of blood and hair by NCIS agent Titra, I would have immediately had the Marine Corps court martial me for disobeying an order (even through the order was illegal).

Additionally, the NCIS violated the written instructions of the Command Authorization for Search and Seizure and my constitutional rights when NCIS agent Titra refused to give me a copy of the order as a receipt for the items taken.

Raines, NCIS agent's Titra and Waddell and DFM Paulk have accused me of murdering my Great Uncle Herman Lemuel Stacey even though his death was ruled accidental. My Great Uncle died from a fall on October 18, 1980. While out walking at night as he was known to do, he fell into an uncovered concrete catch basin at the end of a road culvert. This solid concrete catch basin was approximately six feet square and six foot deep. His death certificate read accidental after a thorough investigation including many photographs and an autopsy in 1980 (Enclosure (100)). After a second autopsy (Enclosure (101) paid for by the NCIS in September of 1996 and much unfavorable publicity about me generated by the NCIS, my Great Uncle Herman's death certificate still reads accidental (Enclosure (102)). According to the former deputy sheriff, Mr. William Gibson, he took many pictures and did a thorough report (Enclosure (103)). All of the report and pictures have mysteriously disappeared from the Monroe County, Alabama sheriff's files.

Herman Lemuel Stacey was a brother to my Grandfather Samuel Corinthian Stacey. In 1949, my Grandfather Stacey was attacked and murdered at a cotton gin. Great Uncle Herman had gone to the gin with Grandfather, but was in another area of the cotton gin grounds when my Grandfather was attacked and murdered. Great Uncle Herman always felt guilty, in that he was not with Grandfather when he was murdered. I was five when my Grandfather was murdered. At that time my Mother, three year old sister, and I were living with my Grandparents.

My grandfather Stacey had only one child, a daughter, my Mother, Mabel. When I was born in 1944, I was the only boy in the grandchild, great nephew category. As I was growing up and through the years I was in college, Great Uncle Herman would invite me to eat with him and Great Aunt Robb on Sundays after church and I visited with them often.

Great Uncle Herman had three children, two girls and a boy. All of them were my Mother's age and older. The two girls left home before I was born and never returned. I have never met either of them. They never came to their Mother's funeral in January, 1967 and they never came to their Father's funeral in October, 1980. This should give some idea as to why they weren't major beneficiaries in their Father's will. His son lived here and there while I was growing up. Sometime he would be living in one of his Father's houses and then he would be gone. Great Uncle Herman's son, Herman, Jr., did not marry until the mid 1960s when he was 45 years old and he never had any children. Because he never had any grandchildren that visited him, Great Uncle Herman was especially close to my Mother's children and his only other Great nephew living in the area, William Armour (Skipper) Stacey, III. When Uncle Herman’s wife, Great Aunt Robb, was in the hospital and seriously ill, Uncle Herman would only allow the families of his deceased brothers, Sam and Armour, to help her. He would not allow his son’s wife to stay with Great Aunt Robb. This job fell mainly to my sister, Lucy, of whom Aunt Robb was especially fond (Enclosure (23)).

Sometime in 1977, Great Uncle Herman had gone into the hospital to have some cataracts removed from his eyes. During the operation, he had a stroke and during his recovery (he was in the hospital about two weeks) his son, Herman, Jr. had the courts declare him incompetent. I had  been to see Uncle Herman while he was in the hospital and visited him regularly while he was in the nursing home. Soon he recovered his strength and wanted to go home. At Uncle Herman’s request I took him to see his attorney, Mr. N. S. Hare, Sr. Uncle Herman wanted Mr. Hare to have him declared competent. A competency hearing was held and Uncle Herman was declared competent and allowed to resume managing his own affairs.

After the competency hearing, Uncle Herman wanted to go home right away, but since he would be living alone and his drivers license had been revoked and his attorney and my Mother not wanting him to be alone, they talked him into staying with my Mother (his niece) for a few months. At that time my Brother, Jim, and my youngest Sister, Rebecca, were still at home and my other Brother, Sam, lived less than a quarter mile away from Mother. Uncle Herman's home was some five miles distant..

So that Uncle Herman could take case of his business, my Brothers, Jim and Sam, myself and our cousin Skipper Stacey, all drove him around. He was still farming and had cattle and horses right up until his death. In fact he had been on a tractor only two days before his death. Great Uncle Herman was 81 years old when he died and he had lived to an older age than any of his seven siblings.

I tell this because I have been accused, by NCIS agents Titra and Waddell, the Alabama fire marshal and members of his staff, and members of MC JAG, of murdering my Great Uncle Herman just because I was named in his will. Certainly I was not the only one in the will, as he left properties to all four of his Great Nephews, who had been kind to him in his hour of need. He also provided generously for his son, who had no children, by leaving him the home place and some considerable money, and he left cash to both of his daughters and the church. After Great Uncle Herman's death, his daughters, who did not attend their Fathers funeral and had not visited their Father in many years, contested the will which was subsequently settled out of court.

The first publicly printed information concerning any question as to the circumstances surrounding my Great Uncle’s death were publicized by NCIS agent Titra on the front page of The Monroe Journal on August 29, 1996 (Enclosure (7)). The article title: "Was death in 1980 a murder?" was designed to inflame the community and was followed on Friday, August 30, 1996 with a Mobile Register article titled: "New questions arising in 1980 death case" (Enclosure (8)). This article implied I was responsible for my Great Uncle’s death because I was a beneficiary in his will. Read the will and see who else was named to share Uncle Herman’s estate (Enclosure (134)).

Other articles had little to do with informing the public and everything to do with the NCIS, Alabama fire marshal and others in this vendetta attempting to shock and alienate my family and the community. These agents especially planned for these and subsequent articles of an even more inflammatory tone to make my Mother-in-law, Mrs. Lula Dell Cater, distance herself from me and encourage my wife to leave me. It did not work as planned as both Mrs. Cater and my wife continue to strongly support and encourage me (Enclosures (20) and (47)), as do other members of my family (Enclosures (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (33) and (34)). I continue to have  support from many outstanding members of the civilian community (Enclosures (26) through (50), & (102)).

NCIS agent's Titra and Waddell told newspapers that my Great Uncle's death was murder even though his death certificate read accidental and still reads accidental (Enclosure (102)). These NCIS agents disregarded the information from the then deputy sheriff, Mr. William Gibson, (Enclosure (103), who investigated the accident in 1980 and the testimony of the county coroner, Mr. Farrish Manning (Enclosure (102)). Mr. Manning was the county coroner in 1980 and is still the county coroner. After two autopsies, (Enclosures (100) and (101)), both of which State Medical Examiner, Dr. Leroy Reddick, told my attorneys were identical and showed nothing suspicious, NCIS' Waddell continues to slander me in the newspaper.

Examine the Monroeville Journal for Thursday, September 5, 1996 (Enclosure (10)). "Two U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents and a state deputy fire marshal oversaw the exhumation , which was conducted by Coroner Farrish Manning and grave workers Mack Williams and Charles Butts. Sheriff Tom Tate and Sheriff's Department Investigator Bill Stembridge observed the exhumation."

The significance of this is you have two NCIS agents (Titra and Waddell) at a exhumation and a deputy fire marshal. Why is a deputy fire marshal investigating a non-fire related death? Shouldn't the activity which investigates suspicious deaths for the state of Alabama be present? Where are agents from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation? The Alabama Bureau of Investigation will not work with the NCIS. The Alabama Bureau of Investigation has information which proves my innocence and the NCIS has that information, but continues to withhold and suppressed that evidence.

The NCIS played on the guilt Uncle Herman’s daughter, Hazel Stacey Marshall, must feel for her neglect of her parents. The NCIS obtained an affidavit from her in support of the exhumation of her father. This woman left home in ca. 1942 and never returned. She did not attend her Mother or her Father’s funeral. Although the NCIS had the Hazel Stacey Marshall affidavit February 2, 1996, they made no effort to pursue the exhumation until near the time of my arson trial. At that time, the NCIS had the exhumation publicized statewide both in print media and on television in an effort to insure that I would not receive a fair trial. After attempting to coerce the county coroner to exhume the body without a court order, the NCIS did get Judge Sam Welch to sign a lawful order on August 28, 1997 (Enclosure (135)). Judge Welch included in his order a mandate for the NCIS to pay all costs, and to return the results to his court.

MC JAG in collusion with the NCIS consistently provided my command false facts (Enclosure (136)).

SJA 3D MarDiv Case Information states: 6Jul96 - "During Oct ‘96, County Attorney will move for an indictment on 2 charges of murder."

22Oct96 - "Exhumation of SNO’s great uncle accomplished, and AFIP (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology) examiner found that death resulted from a blow to the head. Grand jury trial postponed until Jan 97." (Note: It’s now April 2006 and the lies continue)

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28Oct96 - SNO is also being charged with two counts of murder, for which he is scheduled to go before a Grand Jury.

20Nov96 - State authorities still intend to seek indictment of SNO on two murder charges.

27Aug97 - Command received update on continuing murder investigation (SNO is suspect) from NCIS. One of 2 open cases may go before grand jury in Oct. 97.

The NCIS has made promises to the Marine Corps’ JAG, Alabama deputy fire marshal Ed Paulk, and others that I would be charged with two murders. These promises go back to at least February 13 and 14, 1996, when NCIS agent Titra and Alabama deputy fire marshal Paulk flew to Hawaii and briefed NCIS Pearl Harbor, NCIS Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and my Command.  Look at all the dates of Grand Jury meetings that have passed and still the NCIS has been unable to live up to their promises.

The NCIS has spent millions to manufacture a frame-up against me. As my finances allow I have gotten and am getting Private Investigators to investigate each and every malicious false fact these frame-up specialists have presented as truth. All of the information already gathered proves Raines and the investigators to be liars, and it is easy to see how malicious this was and to identify the NCIS acts of commission and omission.

In their haste to frame me the NCIS and others :

1. Attempted to coerce my sister, Jimmie Alice Bullock Van Valkenburgh, by intimidating her in the most despicable manner. They had her scared to death for her and her daughters safety. Enclosure (21))

2. Attempted to coerce Monroe County, Alabama Coroner Farish Manning into exhuming my Great Uncle Herman’s body without a court order.

3. Failed to return a copy of the second autopsy of my Great Uncle Herman Stacey to the court as required in the court order NCIS Agents obtained. Enclosures (140))

4. Obtained copies of my wife’s credit report without her permission and without obtaining a court order and providing her a copy of said court order used to obtain the credit report. Enclosure (92))

5. Obtained copies of my credit report without my permission or without obtaining a court order and providing me a copy of the court order notifying me of their action as required by law. Enclosure (90) and (91))

6. Accused my deceased Mother and Sisters of being disreputable. Enclosure (21), (22), and (23)

7. Stigmatized me as a malicious - vindictive cr iminal by presenting statements they knew or should have known to be false as truth.

8. Obtained false statements from witnesses by (asking leading questions) providing the answers expected in the form of questions.

9. Used two separate copies of a Command Authorization Directive to confuse my Command and me as to how they illegally coerced Commanders into ordering me to give blood and hair samples. On February 15, 1996, NCIS agent Titra showed me a Command Authorization Directive bearing Brigadier General Bice’s signature or his facsimile stamp without being initialed and requiring me to give blood and hair samples. I complied with the Directive and provided two vials of a specified number of cc’s of blood, 16 head and 16 arm hairs as specified by the directive. I was allowed to read the directive but was told they would not give me a copy  but that my Attorney could obtain one. This statement was another of the many lies this criminal NCIS agent has told. On 29 April 1996, I received a fax from Mr. Carl Freman, Attorney in Mobile, Enclosures (96), (97), and (98). This fax provided information I had not seen before. This Command Authorization for Search and Seizure was signed by Lieutenant Colonel B. P. Kearney (Enclosure (95)), my Commanding Officer at the time of the actual search and seizure. If I had been shown Enclosure (95) then I would have demanded NCIS agent Titra to provide me a copy as provided in the Command Authorization for Search and Seizure document received by my attorney on 28 April, 1998. This directive states "YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO SEARCH the person and/or place named for the property specified and if the property is found there to seize it, leaving a copy of the authorization and receipt for the property taken." Colonel Kearney says he did not sign a Command Directive.

Commandant of the Marine Corps Judge Advocate General’s officers, Lieutenant Colonel T. P. Cook and others, have:

1. Provided false information by stating that I had been arrested and was incarcerated in Indiana.

(Enclosure (51) and (118)).

2. Provided false data to Congressmen and Senators (Enclosures (51), (52), (53), (54), (55), (56), & (137)).

3. Attempted to manipulate the Secretary of the Navy into Dropping me from the rolls and now the CMC (ARAD) says the attempted dismissal never occurred. (Enclosures (146), (147) and (141)).

4. Distributed an order to hold a Board of Inquiry on me. This order (Enclosure (149)) contained statements of reasons for the request different from that requested by my Commanding Officer. (Enclosure (142)).

5. Disregarded my chain of command and SECNAVINST 1920.6A in holding the Board of Inquiry. Enclosure (140)

Lieutenant Colonel Cook’s letters (Enclosures (51 through 56)), were meant as a continual means of hazing and psychological abuse meant to intimidate me and to create an abusive and threatening work environment by continually providing false facts and false

information to my chain of command and members of Congress. His letters have contributed to manufacturing a financial and psychological burden for me and my family.

This form of covert hazing is meant to coerce Marine Commanders who would normally act in a reasonable manner to act in an unreasonable manner. Commanders who would normally ask reasonable questions are intimidated into accepting unreasonable, illogical and impossible statements as truth.

I had expected a fair and impartial Department of the Navy, not an entity which conducts frame-ups of Naval Personnel. I suppose these people consider frame-ups as a way to protect their jobs. You know I really believed the Department of the Navy would come to my aid when  the overwhelming evidence proved I was innocent and the object of a long term vendetta. The fact that CMC JAG and the NCIS continue to conspire against me is evidenced by their refusal to allow me the balance of the interview statements they withheld prior to the Board of Inquiry. In a letter from Capt. Mark M. Horgan, JAGC, U.S. Navy date stamped June 2, 1998, he wrote: "We contacted NCIS personnel concerning the anticipated completion date for the requested investigation and we were told that at this time an estimate could not be provided." (Enclosure (137)). NCIS has been conducting a so called investigation for nearly three years -- why can’t they conclude the investigation? More recently I have requested the information in a Freedom of Information Act request (Enclosures (84), (85), (86), (87) & (88)) and as you see they are hiding.

The NCIS and MC JAG are criminal as they have taken no action to police themselves. I do not say there are no honorable people in these organizations, however, the actions and inactions of the leaders of the NCIS and MC JAG are like thunder on a clear day. There is none. The political corruption of the NCIS and CMC JAG has been so successful that all honorable individuals have been removed from positions of authority. These people have hazed, harassed and created a hostile work environment for me. They have attempted to scare me by covert and overt threats made to my sisters and my wife. They have attempted to intimidate me by covert and overt threats by accusing me of fabricated crimes based on manufactured false facts and false memories and a manufactured pattern of wrongdoing. Well I certainly will not be scared by these brass less bastards or anyone from the new age of corruption.

Corruption has polluted the NCIS and Marine Corps JAG. These two deviant organizations must be purged of the polluters. Naval personnel should not have to live in fear of these people destroying their honor, destroying their marriages, destroying their finances, destroying their family relations, destroying their psychological balance and destroying their belief in Country and Corps. Justice must be returned to our Naval personnel.

In responding to numerous Congressional inquiries made on my behalf, LtCol T. P. Cook, USMC, has chosen to ignore Alabama and federal law as to lack of finality of sentence and put an illegal slant on those laws. In a letter stamped Apr. 30, 1997, he wrote The Honorable Patsy T. Mink, Congresswoman from Hawaii, that my "sentence has become final" (Enclosure (54)). On May 14, 1997, LtCol Cook wrote The Honorable Sonny Callahan, 1st District Representative to Congress from Alabama, the same erroneous information (Enclosure (53)). On June 23, 1997, he wrote The Honorable Jeff Sessions, Senator from Alabama, that "Appellate status is irrelevant in determining when the sentence is final (Enclosure (56)). LtCol Cook’s misstating the fact of law were designed to get these outstanding, honorable members of Congress to cease their attempts to assist me.

My Commanding Officer has never notified me. Rather the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, JAG notified me on December 11, 1997 by telephone while I was in Alabama on emergency leave. I was on emergency leave to be at the bedside of a critically ill younger Brother, who died on December 17, 1997 while I was at his bedside. Contradictory to JAG's Case Information stating "BOI notifications will be served when SNO returns in early Jan98" (Enclosure (136)), I was ordered by telephone, by a Marine Corps Base Hawaii JAG officer, Captain D. A. Morken, on December 11, 1997 to supply MCBH JAG a fax number in Mobile, Alabama, so they could fax Board of Inquiry Notification to me at once. Following orders, I supplied MCBH JAG with a fax number. The very day I landed in Mobile to see my critically ill brother and within an hour of arriving at my sister's home to freshen up before going to see my brother, I received this call from Captain Morken. He already knew I was on emergency leave and why; however, I explained the situation to him anyway and ask if they could wait until I returned to Hawaii on December 26, 1997, to sign the notification document. In this conspiracy and age discrimination scam they lie about caring when in fact they attempted to psychologically damage me and turn me against the Marine Corps. The NCIS and Marine Corps JAG have been expecting me in the very least to resign or to commit suicide. This is how the Cold Case scam is set up and NCIS and MC JAG are conspirators in this age discrimination against older Marines. The notification documents, (Enclosure (140)), were faxed to Mr. Carl E. Freman, Esq., of the firm of Freman & Kaoui, LLP on December 12, 1997. Enclosure (143) documents that I received and acknowledged the Board of inquiry notification on December 17, 1997, which Mr. Freman then faxed to MCBH JAG.

Almost a month prior to the convening of the Board of Inquiry on Feb 26 and 27, 1998, I requested from the Honorable John Dalton, Secretary of the Navy, a copy of his written denial of CMC ltr 1920/JAMO dtd 4 Apr 1997 Request to Drop me from the rolls of the Marine Corps. This was also requested by my military counsel, Major K. Mahne, prior to the Board of Inquiry and he was denied the written document. To this date I have not received a response to my request. However, Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink received the response contained in Enclosure (138), which states the record of no such action can be found. This reeks of a malicious conspiracy, age discrimination and frame-up against me at the highest level of the Marine Corps. Enclosure (139) was presented to me and an acknowledgment of receipt was signed by me on 21 Apr 97 (Enclosure (141)).

Enclosure (133) is the Larry Miller/Hollis Gandy memorandum to the Office of the Alabama Attorney General (undated but probably completed in late May, 1988). Enclosure (133) states: "On December 21, 1987, a request was made to special Agent Charles Lee of the Naval Investigative Service in Washington, D. C. to obtain a set of fingerprint cards of Rodney Stacey Bullock, a former resident of Conecuh County and suspect in the Lester Hanks homicide. Bullock is currently stationed with the U. S. Marines in Washington.

According to this memorandum the cards were received by the Attorney General's Office and submitted to the fingerprint classification section of the Alabama Department of Public Safety on February 17, 1988, for comparison to fingerprints lifted from the dash of the pickup truck  belonging to Lester Hanks at the time of his murder. The prints of Bullock and the known prints taken from the truck did not match". This documents is proof that the NCIS had information regarding Raines lies and they knew the Alabama Bureau of Investigation (ABI) had investigated and found Raines statements to be lies. If you review Enclosures (57 through 62) you will see the time frame when Raines began his lies. No doubt to please his attorney, William T. Chapman. Chapman was Raines’ attorney for murder and escape (Enclosures (63 & 64)). This is the same attorney with a vendetta against Bullock (Enclosures (21), (65),(66),(67),(68),(69), and (69a).

Since the NIS, now NCIS, had this information, the Department of the Navy and the Marine Corps also had this information as early as December 21, 1987 therefore, the Show Cause authority has knowingly violated SECNAVINST 1920.6A.

Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Judge Advocate General ( JAG) (LtCol T. P. Cook and others) and Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) JAG (Maj L. Powell and others) have conspired with the NCIS and Alabama Fire Marshal’s Office to harass, haze, discriminate and to frame me for crimes and for occurrences which were not crimes. MC JAG and the NCIS knew or should have known I did not commit the alleged crimes and that other preported crimes were accidents. They knew the snitch the NCIS was using was a liar, was unreliable and was making up these stories to keep himself out of jail and to please his former attorney and the political powers who have a grudge against me, my family and my wife’s family.

The NCIS' Cold Case Unit (Enclosure (19)) was set up to investigate older Naval Personnel, particularly those over the age of 40 or those nearing retirement. This is a carte blanc process that the NCIS uses to harangue older Naval Personnel and their families with impunity. They not only illegally twice obtained my credit report , but my wife's credit report Enclosure (90), (91) and (92). The reasons given were to verify SSN and to verify address. This farce is based on the Cold Case plan and looks to find anyone who has a grudge or wishes to hide their own crimes by accusing a Naval Person. The information you will read lets you know that things change and what once would have been easily disproved becomes more difficult and thus a criminal criminal justice system can operate.

The following is a list of persons known to have been interviewed or contacted by the State of Alabama and the NCIS on issues relevant to my case and instrumental to my defense but which were denied me in violation of my constitutional right to a fair trial.

1. Mrs. Hazel Stacey Marshall, Feb 96; other dates unknown

2. LtCol Brendan P. Kearney, USMC, 14Feb96; other dates unknown

3. Maj(ret) Edward Larkin, USMC, 14Feb96, other dates unknown

4. Maj Dave Irwin, USMC, 14Feb96, other dates unknown

5. Mr. Williams Armor (Skip) Stacey, Jr., dates unknown

6. Mrs. Sheila Wiggins Sessions, 13Mar96, other dates unknown

7. Mr. Robert Samuel (Sam) Wiggins, 13Mar96, other dates unknown

8. Sheriff(ret) Edwin Booker, dates unknown

9. Mrs. Lucy Wiggins Colson, dates unknown  10. Mrs. Sue Wiggins Acton, dates unknown

11. Mrs. Shirley Booker, dates unknown

12. Mr. Arzell Steen, dates unknown

13. CWO-2 John Orstroski, USMC, Apr96, other dates unknown

14. LtCol Robert G. Garrison, USMC, Apr96, other dates unknown

15. Mrs. Desiree’ Pace Garrison, Apr96, other dates unknown

16. Mrs. Gayle Whitlock, Apr96, other dates unknown

17. Maj. Joel Estrin, dates unknown

18. Mrs. Dee Estrin, dates unknown

19. LtCol Philip Parkhurst, dates unknown

20. Capt(ret) Raymond Hicks, USMC, dates unknown

21. Mrs. Judith Hicks, dates unknown

22. Mr. Milton Coxwell, dates unknown

23. Mrs. Judy Sloan, dates unknown

24. Mr. Marshall Yaker, Esq., dates unknown

25. Mr. Tony Salter, dates unknown

26. Mr. Farrish Manning, dates unknown

27. Mr. William Gibson, dates unknown

28. Dr. Leroy Riddick, dates unknown

29. Sheriff Tom Tate, dates unknown

30. Mr. David Brown, dates unknown

31. Mr. Joel Cobb, dates unknown

32. Mr. George Lee Cobb, dates unknown

33. Mr. Dale L. Kocher, dates unknown

34. Mrs. Jean Kocher, dates unknown

35. Mr. & Mrs. John R. Fischer, dates unknown

36. Mr. Larry F. Criswell, dates unknown

37. Mr. James G. Munger, dates unknown

38. Mr. Tommy Chapman, dates unknown

39. Ms. Marilyn Handley, dates unknown

40. Sheriff Tom Hall, dates unknown

41. Mr. Albert Nettles, Jr., dates unknown

42. Mr. Robert T. Knott, Esq., dates unknown

43. Mr. John Valeska, dates unknown

44. Mr. John Williams, Esq. dates unknown

45. Mr. Charles Brantley Mixon, dates unknown

Under SECNAVINST 1920.6A CH-2 f. Rights of Respondent., I had "the right to request...appearance before the board...any witness whose testimony is considered pertinent...". Three witnesses were requested who had evidence vital to my case; however, in spite of two witnesses from the mainland appearing for the government, I was only given approval for one. This contributed to materially hampering my case before the Board of Inquiry. Both of the witnesses I was denied were "reasonably available" as required by SECNAVINST 1920.6a , and as required by SECNAVINST 1920.6a Enclosure (9) (c) the "written or recorded testimony" could not "accomplish the same objective". 

The original request for a Board of Inquiry dated 14Nov1996 from Commanding Officer, 3d Marine Regiment (Rein) (Enclosure (142)) to CMC listed only one reason for a Board to consider. That reason being the appealed decision on the second degree arson case in Alabama. The Board of Inquiry order from CMC dtd 21 Nov. 1997 (Enclosure (140)), mandated the Board consider three charges in violation of the original request.

The two additional charges in enclosure (140) and not mentioned in enclosure (142) had no relevance to the Alabama case, my appeal, or the law governing my appeal rights. CMC JAG, LtCol. T. P. Cook, MCBH JAG, Maj. Powell, and others in their continuing effort to libel, harass and discriminate against me added the irrelevant and unrequested charges to confuse the issue and portray me in a negative manner in order to confuse, intimidate and direct the Board of Inquiry to reach their preplanned recommendation. Evidence that CMC JAG and MCBH JAG was using the additional charge of incompetence in an attempt to coerce me into resigning or committing suicide is shown by the fact that Major Powell presented no case to the BOI of any incompetence. Not one single witness was called to testify to any incompetence.

In fact, I had more witnesses available to testify to my ability and competence than the BOI felt it was necessary to hear. Numerous letters from members of the United States Marine Corps attesting to my ability, competence, character, and integrity were presented to the Board of Inquiry members (Enclosures (145) through (169)). Enclosure (170) is evidence of my selection as the Alabama Marine Enlisted Representative of the year for 1978. The BOI was provided copies of all fitness reports (Semi-annual Marine Corps Job Evaluation Reports) (Enclosure (171) containes 26 of my evaluation reports for the years 1979 through 1998. Character letters or affidavits of reference from the civilian community, many from people who have known me all my life, were made available to the Board members (Enclosures (20) through (50)). All letters from military members and letters or affidavits from the civilian community were written on my behalf after the trial. This is strong evidence that the people who know me recognize the frame-up for what it is. This we do what we can get away with effort by MC JAG, negatively influenced the Board in reaching their decision to dismiss me and impacted the characterization of service recommended by the board in violation of SECNAVINST 1920.6a Enclosure (5) 2 (b).

The additional two charges by CMC JAG and the presentation to the Board of Inquiry as conducted by MCBH JAG Major Powell was in effect a court martial, yet I was afforded none of the rights of a defendant being court martialed.

MCBH JAG subjected me to double jeopardy (former jeopardy) by a court martial presentation of evidence that attempted to proved I was responsible for the fire in 1982. Maj. Powell’s opening and closing statements and questioning of government witnesses was conducted in such a manner that she used the BOI to try me a second time for the same offense. This double jeopardy presentation by Maj. Powell is a gross violation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which specifically prohibits placing a person in double jeopardy. Double jeopardy is a second prosecution after a first trial for the same offense or being put on trial for an offense for which he or she has previously been put on trial People ex rel. Rozea V. Warden of Queens County Jail, 43, N.Y.S. 2d 211, 213; Driggers v. State, 137 Fla. 182, 188 So. 118, 120.

 The instructions contained in SECNAVINST 1920.6A Enclosure (8) 3.a is the apex of covert age discrimination in that it discriminates against Commissioned Warrant Officers by not allowing them the same status, fairness, and legal redress as provided Commissioned Regular Officers.

The fact that Commissioned Warrant Officers are denied this avenue of redress is in and of itself a covert manner of age and rank discrimination. The promotion warrants of both Commissioned Warrant Officers and Commissioned Regular Officers are identical in wording, scope and content.

The NCIS investigators and JAG prosecutors knew Raines was lying and consistently manufactured false statements but they continued this "Cold Case" conspiracy and frame-up in order to benefit their careers.

Read Enclosure (172). Hear Major Mahne (now Lieutenant Colonel) tell about the information (i.e., lies) he received from his kiss up kick down associates.Enclosure (173) is a letter of recommendation from Lieutenant Colonel B. P. Kearney (selected for Colonel in 1997).

Why is FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE allowed by the Alabama Judicial System? The answer is for monetary gain and political gain. The attorney’s who started this were then young and were only interested in money. Now they want to maintain their "big fish in a small pond" political empires. Yes the money they made from misusing the trust of their clients is helping to maintain their status quo.

Are frame-ups now legal in Alabama? Check out the civil and constitutional rights violations in this frame-up.

Why are District Attorneys, other politicians in Alabama’s Justice System and their minions (e.g., Alabama Firemarshals and others), allowed to manufactured false facts, false statements, false memories, to withhold evidence of innocence, and to lie to juries ?

"IF WE SUFFER TAMELY AN ATTACK ON OUR LIBERTY, WE ENCOURAGE IT AND INVOLVE OTHERS IN OUR DOOM." Samuel Adams (1771)