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May 25, 2013

Kalamazoo County Officer Rodney Rought

269-383-8821 1500 Lamont St. Kalamazoo, MI 49048

I am writing to you in hopes that someone will listen and help! I have been wrongfully convicted of operating and maintaining a meth lab. I am to be sentenced to prison on April 14, 2014. I have lost one home, my 14 year old daughter tried taking pills to kill herself over this, my mom is losing her mind, I lost my job, and I had to sell everything I own to hire another attorney. I am going to give a brief list of all the things that have happened to me since May 25, 2013 over this case. Everything I state can be easily proven – if not with what I have on my person, then with the trial transcripts we have ordered. Kalamazoo County Sheriff Officer Rodney Rought has had it out for me in a bad way since 1993 when he was an undercover officer. He would harass all my friends about me back then; anyway, he is the main person behind all of what I am about to say. Please, I need help and don’t know what else to do.

1. May 25, 2013 – 911 call from my neighbor, possible gunshot/suicide at my address, possible victim Jason Sears (roommate)

2. State police Officer Dan Lewis and KCP Alan Miller arrive, make contact, verify no injury in my home, and wave off the emergency response team.

3. Officer Rodney Rought shows up and walks right past me into my house and goes room to room. I immediately inform him that the other officers already verified nothing was wrong in my home and that he needed to leave my home and go talk to the neighbors to find out where the explosion came from.

4. A few more words and again I request he leave my home. Officer Rought steps right up in my face and tells me he knows where the explosion came from – me. That’s when I noticed the other two officers had followed us in and I was now surrounded in my own home.

5. For an hour and a half, I was interrogated, searched, intimidated, and harassed with the purpose of trying to make me give consent to search my home. I refused and then I was locked in the back of a police car until he drafted a search warrant up.

6. He lied on the search warrant and said he found a meth pipe on me that I stated I used for smoking meth. In his police report and testimony in court, he calls it an altered pen and says that I never stated it was for smoking meth.

7. He took everyday items from my home, some of which cannot be used for making meth, all in their original containers. Three items were sent to the lab and all came back negative for controlled substances.

8. My home is condemned even though nothing illegal was found in my home – no scales, packaging material, tubing, glass wares, eye droppers, meth, filters, foils, or anything at all related.

9. I was given a ride to pick up my truck from work where my roommate Jason had driven it. Unknown to me, there was a trash bag in the back that had cut matches, empty iodine bottles, 1 empty pill box, a Mt Dew 2 liter, a white shirt, and some cigarette butts.

10. Four adults lived in my home and he did not talk to any of them, nor did he attempt to fingerprint the items or retrieve DNA. Everything that he took, he destroyed by May 29, 2013, leaving me no way to prove my innocence.

11. Between motions to suppress, pretrial, and trial, officer Rought committed many acts of perjury, false testimony, and making up evidence.

12. Prosecuting Attorney Jeffery Gettings was my attorney in 2004 for a similar case.

13. My Attorney Kellie Selleck never met with me about the trial or anything. After the trial started, she informed me that she was sick and forgot to mail out all 8 subpoenas and failed to admit any of my evidence. We never even had a motion of discovery or anything. I was able to get one person on the phone to show up to testify and that was it.

14. I was found guilty. I was in shock and asked my attorney about appeals and she told me she doesn’t do appeals and that the judge will give me a piece of paper at my sentencing.

15. I sold everything I own and hired John Dalian out of Grand Rapids; he filed a motion for a new trial and a Gunther Hearing.

16. Judge Johnson denied them both and simply kept saying what difference would it make if I had witnesses or evidence at my trial. He wouldn’t even listen at the motion to suppress hearing.

17. I filed a grievance against my Attorney Kellie Selleck for insufficient counsel. I have heard nothing on that yet. On March 4th, I sent a request to Prosecuting Attorney Jeffery Gettings informing him of misconduct by Officer Rought, destruction of evidence, my defense attorney’s actions and asked him to please look into it. Again, I received no response.

18. I filed a formal complaint against Kalamazoo County Officer Rodney Rought with Sheriff Fuller and haven’t heard anything from that yet.

19. I am at a loss and running out of time. I have a hard time believing that nobody cares that this is being allowed to happen. If nothing else, the fact that he entered my home without consent, without an emergency, without a warrant, and without probable cause, then surrounded me for 1 ½ hours in my own home against my will, while having me scared for my life. That single act alone I would think would be enough to cause concern.

20. I am pleading with you to please look into it. Everything I stated is easily proven.

Thank you for your time and any help you can give in this matter.

Sincerely,

Patrick E Fredericks

Case #13-4565