Jeffrey
Dicks, the son of an impoverished Tennessee Mother, languishes on death
row for a robbery he didn't commit and a murder he didn't even see. A
Mothers Torment, by Jeff’s mother Shirley is the tense, personal and
highly moving true story of the bloody crime of which eighteen year old
Jeffrey was accused of. His family was unable to afford a competent legal
defense.
At the trial, they watched in horror as VITAL evidence was never presented
to the jury. Jeff, who had no history of violent or criminal behavior was
convicted of a murder and sentenced to die in Tennessee's electric chair.
His mother is fervently pursuing an appeal, but TIME is running out Strong
bonds between mothers and their children, especially their sons, is the
emotion that grabs the READER, and squeezes him in a stranglehold read
on in a crescendo of heartbreaking pain until the bitter end And a
bitter end it is for the author, fighting to save her innocent son in
any way she can, as the legal clock ticks toward the final hour.
Jeffrey Dicks is one of the many victims of our legal system
who became trapped in the over burdened and insensitive cracks of our
time.
Without the weapons of MONEY, Savvy, or Connections, Jeff was defenselessly slaughtered by an obsessed police inspector and a judge who
disallowed pertinent testimony that would have proven him innocent.
A
poor but law abiding family, the mother was forced to break the law to
raise money for her son's defense…writing checks to buy merchandise, and
then selling it at flea markets, and finally in desperation trying a jail
break to get Jeff out of the jail they were holding him into. She finally
had to go on the run with her eleven year old son and Jeff’s baby
daughter.
Fighting the system while running from the law, living on the lam, and
trying to keep mind and family together, Shirley Dicks own story is as
heart piercing as the one she tells of her son. Shirley continues to
fight for her son's life and the abolishment of capital punishment. Her
warning of petty crime and getting involved with the wrong people is
something every young person should read.
Read the prologue by clicking below.
Prologue
HERE
Poem by Don Caruso
HERE
Lies convicted Jeff of
first-degree murder of which he received the death penalty. The book
covers both trials, including testimony from trial transcript, word for
word. It shows how testimony was changed at Jeff’s trial, from Strouth’s
trial, it shows how the prosecution changed the way the victim was
killed to suit their purpose at Jeff’s trial, how Detective Keesling who
is now chief of police in Kingsport lied under oath.
“If there was any justice in the world, these detectives
would be made to take truth serum, or a polygraph about the night in
question. I would gladly take a polygraph, as would my ex husbands,
Nelson and Donald who were there that day in question. At one time F.
Lee Bailey had a show called, Lie Test and we were to be on it, however,
the show was cancelled that year before we got our chance.
None of
the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Everything I’ve said
is true so I’ve left the names as they are. This is what happened to my
family and me. I lived it, and I want it told. I want my son's name
cleared before I leave this earth. I hope it will help some
of you out there who may be facing the same thing I was. I hope you are
smarter and learn by my mistakes. Money is the only thing that talks in
this country and without it you are at their mercy.
I still
have hopes of clearing Jeff’s name, I’m still hopeful that somehow,
some way that proof will surface and be brought to the public.
See also, The Choice Is
Yours www.thechoiceisyours.org
