What prosecutors Susanne Cohen, Patty Stevens, William Clayton and their cohorts Lorrain Heath and Judge Andrew Klein did to Mark is biblical . . . .

...I did them no wrong, but they laid a trap for me.

I did them no wrong, but they dug a pit to catch me.

…Malicious witnesses testify against me.

They accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.

...But they are glad now that I am in trouble; they gleefully join together against me.

...I am attacked by people I don't even know; they slander me constantly. They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.

...They don't talk of peace; they plot against innocent people who mind their own business.

They shout, "Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we saw him do it!"

..."Look, we got what we wanted! Now we will eat him alive!"

From Psalm 35, David (before he was king), possibly written when he was being hunted by King Saul (1 Samuel 24)

The Lara's

From the police reports regarding the sexual assaults of Lorena and Alejandra Lara.

On the night of Mark’s arrest 9/6/06, reporting Officer Sandra Rodriguez writes. And I quote:

On 9/6/06 at 1705 hours, I was contacted by Sergeant Michael Polombo #4696 of the homicide unit and asked to respond to the main police station. I was advised my assistance was needed in showing photographic lineups to the victims in this case.

After responding to the main police station, I stood by until a search warrant had been obtained and a photographic lineup was created of suspect, Mark Goudeau.

At 2345 hours, I contact Alejandra and Lorena Lara in their home. I advised them I wanted to show them a photographic lineup, but needed to do it individually.

I began with Alejandra Lara at 2347 hours, while her mother and sister waited outside. I read Alejandra the photographic lineup advisement. She responded “yes” to understanding it.  I then showed her lineup #41527, which included Mark Goudeau in the number 4 position.

Alejandra examined the lineup for approximately 3 minutes before advising “no” to recognizing anyone.

At 2353 hours I contacted Lorena Lara, while Alejandra took her place outside with their mother. I read Lorena the photographic lineup advisement and she responded “okay.”  .  I then showed her lineup #41527, which included Mark Goudeau in the number 4 position.

Lorena examined the lineup for approximately two minutes, before advising “No. I can’t remember.”

Neither Lorena nor Alejandra ever identified Mark as their attacker. Not once.  They told this to several officers, not just Sandra Rodriguez.  However, when prosecutor Susanne Cohen dangled cash at the tune of $1,100 a month for a solid year, Alejandra and Lorena changed their tune and decided, well yes, after all, we will point our retched fingers at Mark.

A lot of money for anyone here illegally, working fast food at a mall.  Hard to turn down, especially for people of this caliber. 

Lorena was the first to testify in 2007 and even though she tried her best, she picked out the “third guy” at the defense table.  Problem with that was that Mark was sitting in between his two attorneys.  Lorena Lara picked out defense attorney, Cary Lacky.

Judge Klein allowed this paid testimony in court.

Lead Baseline Task Team investigator, Alex Femenia, calls Mark a N-R and that there would be no surprise of planted evidence. Read the memo from Phoenix Law Enforcement Associations web site here.

Trial update - 7.5.11

DNA Hocus Pocus - Lorraine Heath

Lorraine Heath, crooked DPS DNA analyst who claims her results often were that Mark could not be excluded (never a match) and who said the chances of the DNA in the Lara case (2007 trial) being anyone else’s other than Mark’s was like 340 trillion, or some ridiculous number. Based on her work and nothing else, Mark was arrested. According to idiot detective Mike Polombo, she informed police the DNA was “an absolute match to Mark.”

The likelihood ratio calculations in Mark’s case are based on two DNA databases, the Y (paternal) and STR (more discriminating individual DNA). At the trial last week Heath was forced to admit that the Y DNA database now includes two other Y male profiles IDENTICAL TO MARK’S. These are UNRELATED males, not from the Goudeau paternal line. One is African American, the other Caucasian.

And there are less than 600 profiles in the Y database -and this database will continue to grow! How many more unrelated males will end up in this database whose profiles match Mark’s. How many unrated male matches are there in this Valley? State? Country? . . who will never end up in the database?

The likelihood ratio calculations are nothing but junk science; hocus pocus crap to confuse the general public who have no idea of all the variables and believe DNA is the magic bullet in identifying suspects.

There are also several (most) DNA results of which Mark is EXCLUDED. But we’ll learn more about that later in trial when she returns.


All and Every Men’s Shoes

Sergeant Mike Polombo took the stand a couple of weeks ago since he was in charge of the searches of our home. I can’t be there and report things first hand, but I am told by others who are there that Polombo was nervous and rambling. He tried to distance himself from the event and facts and even said he was only in the living room, when in fact he had overall responsibility for the search of our home and was likely in every room as he delegated and oversaw assignments.

You may recall that on the FOURTH search of our small home is when they “found” a victim’s ring, completely void of any DNA, in one of Mark’s shoes. On the SECOND search (or FIRST with a warrant) Polombo’s warrant directives were to seize ALL AND EVERY MEN’S SHOES. Oops. Looks like he missed the one men’s shoe out in the open with a baggie of jewelry in it.

If you want to read more about this loser and what little regard Phoenix police officers hold for him, you can at badphoenixcop’s blogspot.  You can use the blogger’s search engine and enter keyword Polombo if you want to read past posts about this creep. There are tons of comments. Warning, the badphoenixcops blogger  and commenters are lewd and much of the language will be offense to many of you.

Here’s another post about Polombo being under investigation.

People Who Lie on the Stand

If you’ve not heard this already, not a single victim has picked Mark out of a photo lineup. Not one person. Most pick out someone else, or say they didn’t get a good look, or simply can no longer remember the face of the suspect.

However, there are some who think it is ok to take an oath not to lie, and then lie on the stand. One guy who was working at a Little Caesar’s during a robbery said he could recognize the robber, although he never told police that. He tried to size up Mark sitting there in court. He said the robber was 6’3” and 250 lbs. Mark is not nearly that tall and about 50 lbs lighter. This guy, who never gave a suspect description to the reporting officer, was impeached on the stand by Mark’s attorney, Randall Craig. It’s just amazing that some schmuck who makes a living working at Little Caesars thinks he’s going to outwit an experienced trial attorney.

Even the jurors asked if these people know that their original statements to police are being used at the trial.

Trial resumes tomorrow.

Ofc Rusty Stuart's Letter on Evidence Hidden in Baseline Investigation

Officer Rusty Stuart, now under protection of an attorney because of retaliation from PPD, has new Terry Wayne Smith evidence and composes a letter to interim County Attorney, Richard Romley.  Rusty goes into detail on how he is told to go away when he brings forward evidence that exonerates Mark and then finally told to put the nearly 200 page report into a format making it virtually irretrievable.  You can read Rusty’s letter here.

Demoted Dic Schoville Takes the Stand 6/29

In an effort to minimize Sue Schoville’s immense screw up in her part of the Baseline investigation, she misstates on the stand that it was her decision to go from detective back to patrol. The truth is Schoville was probably demoted as a result of her unbalanced zeal in investigating and then indicting James Mullins, a Kentucky inmate who falsely confessed to the George Thompason murder after seeing it on a day time TV show. Based on nothing more than his false confession and with interview statements that didn’t add up, Schoville had Mullins indicted and transported to Phoenix, where he sat in jail for nearly a year until someone finally rained Schoville in.

Her ineptness is described by Mullins himself in Phoenix New Times article I Dunnit. "She was very eager," the inmate recalls. "It was like holding a carrot in front of a mule and leading it around. If she would have just looked into what I was saying . . . the shit I was putting out was obviously bullshit."

The article doesn’t discuss Schoville’s demotion, but really Sue, what detective decides to return to patrol? Who voluntarily takes a 50% salary cut? Are you sure this wasn’t a demotion as a result of your egregious work in the Baseline investigation?

Schoville weeped on the stand as she admitted to jurors of her screw ups in the Baseline investigation.
This sloppiness and over eagerness held tight throughout the entire Baseline investigation, even permeating the Phoenix Police Dept, winding up with a rush to charge Mark after bad information from DNA analyst, Lorraine Heath, and absolutely NOTHING that pointed to him as a suspect. Thus leaving detectives Alex Femenia and Mike Mieshlish with having to do damage control a month after Mark’s arrest with no evidence - enter the so-called DNA evidence and a ring after multiple searches of our small home - a ring out in the open, void of any DNA - neither the victim’s nor Mark’s, missed by seasoned detectives time and time again.

Schoville’s screw up with the Baseline investigation was just the beginning of many.

Trial To Begin June 6, 2011

The day has come and tomorrow is opening arguments. We are both nervous about trial and going in front of a jury of Mark’s “peers”, yet happy to finally have the opportunity to have the truth come out in a court of law.

Some of the recent developments include:

**Phoenix Police Fallen Regime --The very regime that the Baseline taskforce operated under is falling apart. County Attorney Andrew Thomas has been investigated (not on this case) and will no doubt lose his license to practice law due to corruption and abuse of power. (Thomas withheld the Terry Wayne Smith 160+ page report from Mark’s defense team.) Also double dipping Police Chief Jack “I Am Not Stepping Down” Harris has resigned after a fraud investigation by the Office of Inspector General. I am told Harris was the ringleader of the burglary of our home last summer in a desperate attempt to find any information that would help their case against Mark. Explains why two computers and a cell phone were taken, nothing else. Only items with “data.”

**Detective Dave Barnes, who was one of the detectives on the Baseline Investigation, will be a witness for us, not the State. As a result, not only has Barnes has been harassed by Phoenix police brass and placed on administrative leave, he also finds himself charged in other matters - all a direct result of this case. Judge Granville asked the prosecutors to give Barnes immunity at the trial, but before he could even finish his question, prosecutor Susanne Cohen’s response was “No!”  (Dave Barnes has information on the Terry Wayne Smith cover up, the disappearance of Mark’s cell tower location records, and searches of our home.)

**Not only did Phoenix Police, County Attorney Andrew Thomas, prosecutors, William Clayton, Suzanne Cohen and Patty Stevens, knowingly withhold the 160+ page report on Baseline suspect Terry Wayne Smith, they had the nerve to file a motion to try to prevent that evidence from being used at trial. Prosecutors lost that motion and not only will Rusty Stuart take the stand, the officer who wrote the report and took it numerous times to the Baseline task team, only to be told to go away, but Terry Wayne Smith will be on the stand as well.

**During jury selection any jurors who understood anything about DNA were removed by prosecutors. Speaks volumes that they wouldn’t want anyone to see what crap their so-called DNA evidence is.

These are only some of the things that have taken place. We hope to shed light on it all at trial.

Stay tuned.

Introducing Lead Detective Alex Femenia

Introducing Alex Femenia, lead detective on the Baseline investigation. Alex Femenia actually came on the case very late into the investigation and, boy, did he make things happen. It was like magic. Magic in a corrupt, racist kind of way.

Below are blogs and comments from the badphoenixcops.com blog. It’s a place where good cops can go anonymously to post about bad cops and all the problems of the homicide department at Phoenix Police. And there are lots of comments and blogs about Femenia. Seems he has few friends, even at Phoenix Police. This isn’t something you’ll see in local mainstream media. They’re not brave enough to report it.


Some of the blogs are ongoing and may not make sense to you, but the cops who post here regularly get it. Most of the comments, though, you will understand. The colorful language is not mine, but from directly from the blog.



 Another Brick Comes out of Jack Harris’ Wall – A Leaked Document From Officer Rusty Stuart on Mark Goudeau and the Baseline Killer Investigation http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/search/label/Alex%20Femenia

What Everyone Knows About the Mark Goudeau Case, But No one Wants to Talk About Because it is an Election Year
There were other suspects in the Baseline Killer Case that were never investigated. One suspect, that we will call "TWS", was from California. Our county attorney Andrew Thomas knows about this, Chief Jack Ass Harris knows about this, and some in the Phoenix Police Homicide Division - Joe Knott, Mike Polombo, Pat Kotecki, Benny Pina and Alex Femenia - know about this, too.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-everyone-knows-about-mark-goudeau.html

Homicide and Their Lies with Andrew Thomas
When the boys in Homicide like Mike Polombo and Alex Femenia found out about this report, they were rumored to state, "If we let this out (the nearly 200-page Terry Wayne Smith investigation) we give a ni**er like Goudeau an alibi." Benny Pina ordered that this report by Stewey Red (Rusty Stuart), be published in Microsoft Word. (Putting the report in Word format makes it’s virtually impossible to retrieve.)
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/03/homicide-and-thier-lies-with-andrew.html

And Now The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For: The Report & Binder from The Baseline Murder Investigation is Now Available Online
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/05/infamous-tws-report-is-now-online-for.html
Is Terry Wayne Smith the Baseline Killer?

We think so. Here is another great article in the Times Publications by Shanna Hogan about Terry Wayne
Smith, the binder and the cover up by Alex Femenia and Benny Pina, and why Mike Polombo is a potato head! (Well...not really on Polombo...we will never figure out why this racist shit-stain remains a cop)
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Now the Phx new times is going after officer Rusty Stuart.
Paul Rubin (what a small, spineless fuck) being used again by Phx PD and Alex Femenia to
discredit people who speak out against Phx PD.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2010/02/press-release-phoenix-police-are.html

Another Brick Comes out of Jack Harris’ Wall – A Leaked Document From Officer Rusty Stuart on Mark Goudeau and the Baseline Killer Investigation
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/search/label/Alex%20Femenia

What Everyone Knows About the Mark Goudeau Case, But No one Wants to Talk About Because it is an Election Year
There were other suspects in the Baseline Killer Case that were never investigated. One suspect, that we will call "TWS", was from California. Our county attorney Andrew Thomas knows about this, Chief Jack Ass Harris knows about this, and some in the Phoenix Police Homicide Division - Joe Knott, Mike Polombo, Pat Kotecki, Benny Pina and Alex Femenia - know about this, too.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-everyone-knows-about-mark-goudeau.html

Homicide and Their Lies with Andrew Thomas
When the boys in Homicide like Mike Polombo and Alex Femenia found out about this report, they were rumored to state, "If we let this out (the nearly 200-page Terry Wayne Smith investigation) we give a ni**er like Goudeau an alibi." Benny Pina ordered that this report by Stewey Red (Rusty Stuart), be published in Microsoft Word. (Putting the report in Word format makes it’s virtually impossible to retrieve.)
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/03/homicide-and-thier-lies-with-andrew.html

And Now The Moment You Have All Been Waiting For: The Report & Binder from The Baseline Murder Investigation is Now Available Online
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/05/infamous-tws-report-is-now-online-for.html

Is Terry Wayne Smith the Baseline Killer?
We think so. Here is another great article in the Times Publications by Shanna Hogan about Terry Wayne
Smith, the binder and the cover up by Alex Femenia and Benny Pina, and why Mike Polombo is a potato head! (Well...not really on Polombo...we will never figure out why this racist shit-stain remains a cop)
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Now the Phx new times is going after officer Rusty Stuart.
Paul Rubin (what a small, spineless fuck) being used again by Phx PD and Alex Femenia to
discredit people who speak out against Phx PD.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2010/02/press-release-phoenix-police-are.html

The Nameplate Witch Hunt Continues as a Class 4 Felony - Entire 4th Floor of PPD Confirmed as Biggest Group of AssClowns in Phoenix
Then through the investigation, feel free to tell them whatever you want just like Snodgrass, Polombo,
Femenia. These folks lie to Grand Juries, hide evidence, and investigate people for no reason and
never investigate the people, who need to be investigated - so do whatever you need; and feel guilt
free.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

Lieutenant Stan Hoover (#3486) Is Fired From PSB, Per Alton Washington - Stan Is Told, "Don't Go Away Mad......But Just Go Away!"
Alton: You've got our vote to replace Grandpa Fairbanks as City Manager. If you want to meet with any members of BadPhoenixCops (we will gladly bring along some good cops and some wives too) we will tell you all about how Mike Polombo, Alex Femenia, Benny Pena and the rest of Phoenix PD homicide hates blacks and calls your race "nigs" and "buckwheats."
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/07/lieutenant-stanton-stan-hoover-3486-is.html

The Goudeau Home is Robbed on Wednesday – Or Was It a Ruse Constructed By Public Safety Manager Jack Harris and Phoenix Homicide?
(July 2010 Mark and Wendy’s house was burglarized while Wendy was out for an hour. The blogger of badphoenixcops.com received four phone calls from four active members of Phoenix police telling him that the burglary was staged and ordered by Jack Harris, Chief of Police, in a desperate attempt to find anything that can help them in their case. They took two computers and an old cell phone, anything with data, and a bowl of costume jewelry.)

When the officers arrived, they appeared aloof. One is rumored to have called Alex Femenia, which can be easily confirmed with a cell phone trace. Is it standard to call Alex Femenia on this case, while he works for the County Prosecutor’s office? That just seems to be an odd phone call to make. (note: we better request those records now or they may be lost – like Mark Goudeau’s were that proved he wasn’t in the area of at least several murders.)
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2010/07/goudeau-home-is-robbed-on-wednesday-or.html

Comments section:
In response to the anonymous poster – Neither is Polombo, Mieslish or Femenia incapable of lying and
planting evidence. They do it all the time as another poster pointed out. They were just stupid enough to do it on such a high profile case (Baseline case). Mark is just a Nigger to them. He’s disposable and a convenient sucker they could use to relieve themselves of the pressure to solve the crimes. Come on. Seriously? It took them FOUR searches to “find” a ring when they had already taken shoes from the same area on the first search? Idiots.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2010/10/is-mark-goudeau-really-baseline-killer.html

Goudeau Ruling – Baseline Killer Trial to Proceed with The Inclusion of TWS Report and Rusty Stuart Testimony.
A Key Win For Those Who Think the Phoenix PD Administration is A Bunch of Corrupt Shitbags!
We hear Suzanne Cohen, one of the prosecutors in the Goudeau case is pretty pissed at this ruling and we
can’t figure out why? We also know Alex Femenia testified and naturally thought Goudeau committed every murder and every crime; when Rusty Stuart’s report, victim testimony and cell tower records prove
otherwise.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

A Open Message From Officer James Holmes - A Phoenix Cop Recently Demoted to Work in Patrol
Looks like a very loyal, african-american employee (or as Mike Polombo and Alex Femenia would call him - a nig) was given the ax recently due to his relationship with PLEA.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2010/08/open-message-from-officer-james-holmes.html

We all find it kind of interesting how all these lying cops, end up in FIB....No?
Is FIB the Island of Misfit Toys in the PPD? Then Homicide must be the land of racists with the likes of
Polombo, Knott and Femenia.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/03/disciplinary-review-board-logs-and.html

To single out a few names known on the blogs here, let’s start with Andy Anderson, better known as Road Rage Andy or Middle finger Andy. Andy loves to intimidate woman (including wives, daughters and PLEA PR reps), and he got $2,400 in bonus. This is the guy who was in charge of the investigative division for the last few years with Ass Clowns like Joe Klima, Joe Knott, Potato Head Polombo, Alex Femenia, Boy Wonder Pat Kotecki and all the other ones responsible for the big cover up in the Baseline Killer case
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/06/city-bonus-handed-out-in-midst-of.html

Recently indicted judge Gary Donahoe
We don’t have any kind words for this effeminate douchebag, Donahoe. This is the judge who signed off on the search warrant of Barnes and our blogger and was known as the go to guy in the Phoenix PD to get your bogus warrants from creeps like Polombo and Femenia.
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/

We here at BadPhoenixCops know this judge well and think he should have been thrown in jail a long time ago. Gary Donahoe is friends with everyone in Phoenix PD homicide –especially Potato Head Polombo and Alex Femenia. Sources tell us that both Mike and Alex have worked with this corrupt judge for years, and he was their “go to guy” to obtain any kind of warrant they wanted -and it didn't matter if the warrant was surreptitiously obtained. Gary Donahoe gave them away like candy!

And in the comments section:
. . . years ago femenia worked with doanhoe when he was in the prosecutors office. they prosecuted many cases togehter. all shit smells the same. drity cops dirty judges. i hope this guy is in pink underwear in a tent soon
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/2009/12/judge-gary-donahoe-is-charged-with.html

TARGETED - Mark Called Baseline Killer Before Any Investigation Whatsoever!

July 14, 2006, unemployed, mentally unstable, methamphetamine addict, Darlene Candice Fernandez, calls the Baseline task team reporting that she felt Mark was the Baseline Killer. When Darlene didn’t get a call back right away that same day, she escalates the situation and calls the Department of Corrections to try to get them to do something. DOC springs into Keystone Cop action and Todd Gerrish calls the Baseline task team suggesting that Mark resembled the composite and that they had been contacted by Darlene. Todd also misinforms the task team saying that Mark was a level two sex offender. Good job, duh, Todd. Utterly untrue.

Notonly did Darlene lie to police after she was beat up by her boyfriend, telling them Mark was her attacker, she also told police that Mark had raped her. Forensics didn’t support Darlene’s claim of a rape and without physical evidence of a rape, Mark was not charged with rape, never served time for rape, and was not placed on parole as a sexual predator.

The night Darlene was beat up by her boyfriend she was blood tests showed she was high on cocaine so she claimed Mark forced her to snort cocaine.  How do you force someone to snort cocaine?  Darlene has been arrested twice since that night. One of the arrests was a result of her buying meth from undercover cops in a west side bar parking lot - Wonder who forced her to do that. . . . . On another matter when Darlene was being subdued and escorted out of a bar by police due to the owner complaining about her obnoxious insane behavior, she yells on her way out that the owner is a child molester. Seems anyone who crosses this drug addled women is going to be accused of a sexual crime. Darlene then assaults the cop . . . .(look her up at http://www.maricopa.gov/ – case history - Darlene Candice Fernandez).

Darlene lied about the rape, she lied about her drug use, and she lied about who beat her up.

Back to July 14, 2006, Phoenix police reports state that armed with nothing more than an accusation from mentally unstable, meth addled Darlene Fernandez and Todd “duh” Gerrish’s blatantly wrong information (would have taken 5 minutes to research to get the facts!) members of the task team contacted Mark’s parole office that very day asking to violate Mark’s parole and arrest him, calling him “the Baseline Killer.” With no evidence! No evidence! Not a single thing other than a call to the tip line. NOTHING! The tip line received 100s and 100s if not 1000s of tips on other people, of which many, many weren’t even followed up.

Since Mark was in complete parole compliance and could not be arrested, he was then placed on surveillance for two weeks, before it was called off due to “no suspicious activity.”

The exhausted, over worked, task team lead by corrupt detective Alex Femenia (et al) jumped the gun, and rushed to charge Mark armed with tenuous DNA information only. Be mindful that Mark only matched 3 out of the 13 genetic DNA markers – not even sure how he was even been arrested on that.

Left with crappy, inconclusive so-called DNA evidence and nothing more, Alex Femenia was left to do damage control.  No evidence “found” until the FOURTH search of our small home.

Alex Femenia received an award for breaking the case. Curious what he received monetarily. And now a proud double dipper of your tax dollars by retiring from PPD and then being rehired at the County Attorneys office to work on Mark’s case full time, drawing both a full pension and salary.

Darlene Fernandez received the $100,000 reward. Wonder how much meth that will buy.

Terry Wayne Smith Cover Up

For those of you who don’t know about the cover up of Baseline Killer suspect, Terry Wayne Smith, here’s the Reader’s Digest version to get you up to speed.

Prior to Mark’s arrest September 6, 2006, Phoenix police officer Rusty Stuart was nearing the completion of a long, intensive investigation of Terry Wayne Smith. Based on TWS’s sociopathic behavior, his connection to every single Baseline crime scene, blood on his clothing, TWS family members calling TWS the Baseline Killer, and other factors, Rusty is convinced TWS has something to do with the crimes. He compiles his investigation and produces the entire report to the lead dics on the Baseline task force. Rusty first takes his report to the Carmen Miranda crime scene and he is dismissed. He makes several attempts after that to get it to the lead task force dics and continues to be dismissed. Rusty is appalled at lead dic Alex Femenia’s “dereliction of duty.” Rusty, with four other PPD cops and Phoenix Law Enforcement Association members then take the report to the Maricopa County Attorney’s office and present it to Andrew Thomas’s right hand man, Keith Manning. Manning and Thomas continue to hide the evidence and it is never produced to Mark’s defense team.

Until that is, underground forces surface the report first to me and then Mark’s attorneys. When Randy Craig, one of Mark’s attorney’s, starts shaking trees and making calls to find the entire 180 page report, prosecutor Susanne Cohen coughs it up. Yes, the prosecutors knew of this report since 2006, yet they too kept it under wraps. The grand jury which indicted Mark never heard of Terry Wayne Smith. Prosecutors Cohen and Bill Clayton allowed Mark to go to trial while they hid this evidence.

Well now the cat is out of the bag and only because of good cop, Rusty Stuart, and other individuals the TWS report is now in the hands of the defense team. Had covert sources not brought this information forward, prosecutor Cohen, lead dics Alex Femenia, Mike Mieslish, Mike Polombo, Andrew Thomas, and mayor Phil Gordon would still have had it under the rug. The TWS report was hidden for years.

When Rusty Stuart took the TWS information to Alex Femenia, Alex responded “Why would you want to give this NIGGER an alibi?” Rusty is also concerned, and rightly so, about evidence being planted. You can read more from PLEA’s site - http://www.azplea.com/docs/EEO%20Complaint%20Letter%20to%20Arpaio%20Breakout.pdf%20-%20Adobe%20Acrobat%20Standard.pdf

Flash to August 18, 2010: Rusty Stuart, now under protection of an attorney because of retaliation from PPD, has new TWS evidence and composes a letter to interim County Attorney, Richard Romley. You can read Rusty’s letter here – http://bitsy.me/tx.

Although the prosecutors', lead dics and County Attorney Andrew Thomas conduct is shocking, they continue to try to hide evidence.  Now the prosecutors, Susanne Cohen and Patty Stevens, are trying to prevent the cover up of Terry Wayne Smith from being used at trial. Tobe argued in front of Judge Granville Jan 19, 2011.  Let’s hope justice prevails and this corrupt and dishonest behavior and hiding of evidence is stopped.  I dare to even imagine what other exonerating evidence the State is hiding.

Recent Article on the Baseline Case

Shanna Hogan is a local journalist who writes for Times Publications, a small local news mag. Shanna recently won the prestigious "Journalist of the Year" specifically for her work on the article regarding the cover up of Baseline suspect Terry Wayne Smith by the Baseline task team and our County Attorney's office. You can read about Shanna here: http://www.shannahogan.com/?page_id=15

She recently wrote another article after a jail interview with Mark. As always, she did a fabulous job getting the facts straight and bringing us the true story, not the garbage the police feed the local news media or the swill Paul Rubin with the Phoenix New Times spews out. Really, Paul, aren't you bound by any journalist ethics guidelines AT ALL? Paul does a great job completely misreprenting and omitting  facts, but I digress, read Shanna's article here. http://www.timespublications.com/oct10-feature1.asp

DNA's Dirty Little Secrets - 2010 Article

Most of the BK cases don’t have DNA evidence, the only thing supposedly linking Mark to some of the crimes. (Most of the crimes can’t be linked to anyone.) What DNA is available is in miniscule amounts, degraded, and mixtures, which complicates things (enormously) in interpreting results.

I came across this article - DNA’s Dirty Little Secret -and a lot of it could have been written for Mark. Notice this quote from world renowned Dan Krane, "If you show ten colleagues a mixture, you will probably end up with ten different answers." Dan Krane, a molecular biologist at Wright State University and a leading critic of the government’s stance on DNA evidence, agrees. "There is a public perception that DNA profiles are black and white," he told me. "The reality is that easily in half of all cases—namely, those where the samples are mixed or degraded—there is the potential for subjectivity." Read more and learn how DNA evidence is being misused by law enforcement.