175 Progress Dr.
Waynesburg, PA 15370
You don't have to be a resident of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, to have seen national news coverage of the (six)
corrupt police officers of the 39th district who were convicted and sent to prison for the beating and robberies
and the frame ups of hundreds of inner city black poor.
Even the elderly were not safe from this corruption, Sister Betty Patterson, a fiercely religious elderly
grandmother who never had as much as a traffic ticket, was subject to this corruption and was only freed once
this corruption was brought to justice!
She was hurt so bad she moved out of the city she once loved for so many years, in this climate of injustice, it is
not difficult to understand how a young poor 24 year old African American man ended up on Pennsylvania's
death row.
In '1995' I was awarded $85,000.00 dollars in an out of court settlement from the city and its police department,
after a cop pumped five 'bullets' into me in the streets of Philadelphia and then lodged countless bogus charges
against me for which I was acquitted.
Three months later on September 1, 1996, I was arrested for the shooting death of two men in a bar in
Philadelphia, I was arrested two hours after the murders, the police seized my clothes, checked my hands for
gunshot residue and they found none!
On the night of this crime, and when the memory of the eyewitness are most fresh, they gave statements that the
shooter was a 'bald headed' male, they repeated this statement under oath, the culprit was a 'bald headed' male.
Numerous police officers, in reference to police officer Jessie Staten, Detective Fetters and Detective Picc all
testified that I did not have a 'bald head' on the night of the crime, and further testified I had a full head of hair.
Can a totally 'bald man' grow a full head of hair in two hours?!
There was no motive given for this senseless double murder nor did the prosecutor ever attempt to establish
one. The more egregious officer Charles Jackson seized the clothes of his brother Bernard Jackson and another
victim Randall Rogers and took those clothes home for two days without official authorization or any official
reason given for the brother officer Jackson to disappear with a 'bullet', forensic evidence and bloody clothes
essential to a murder investigation.
This should've moved up the chain of custody, but every single police procedure was violated and official
protocol in this case and around the nation. This evidence needed to be tested for gunshot residue in light of
witnesses testifying the shooting was at close range firing, or was that the case?
A .357 magnum produces a powerful explosion and gunshot residue, but there's not a single trace found
anywhere on me. The 'bullet' extracted from the body of Randall Rogers was conclusive proof I could not have
committed these murders, but the 'bullet' was withheld by the prosecutor Bill Fisher for well over a year.
In spite of a flurry of defense motions, the prosecutor refuses to turn over exculpatory evidence, saying 'I will
not turn over this 'bullet' because it will help your case'. So why did my lawyer put forth a flimsy and idiotic tale
about self defense? and forfeit my sixth amendment right to be tried by a jury of my peers and argue my case
before alone sitting judge? A judge who sentenced me to death?
I told my lawyer I was innocent and the police set me up. A fair minded jury could have found a mountain of
reasonable doubt to acquit me of this double murder, but young Timothy Rice never got the chance!
P.S. I would love to hear from anyone who reads my story that can help, your help may save the rest of my
young life!
Timothy Rice.
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