Bloom Where You Are Planted

This blog was created March 11, 2015. The contents of this blog contain correspondence between Chuckwa Don Crabtree and Gina Gillispie.

Although the two have never met, they became friends via mail when Gina, editor of an online news site, first reported Chuckwa's story.

When Gina saw his arrest photo, there was something that tugged at her to believe this person had a story to tell.

She mailed her first letter September 7, 2012 and they have been writing ever since.

After several years, Chuckwa decided he wanted to begin to tell his life story and send a message of hope to those who still have choices to make...his goal is to spend his time doing good things and good work right where he is....

Chuckwa has decided...to bloom where he is planted.

The posts that you will read will be a mix of old letters, stories about his everyday life in the James V. Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas and stories from his boyhood growing up along the creek in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

He signs his letters...."The Callisburg Kid"

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY

Mitchell Gassaway & Jones LLP: James M. Mosley

**An effort was made to contact Mr. Mosley for an interview.  No contact has been made to date.

"I got railroaded due to the fact of not having any money for an attorney.  My attorney didn't try to help me at all.  He knew the deck was stacked against me.  NE WAYZ I wasn't an easy win 'cause of the emotional state I was in at the time.  I was under a great deal of duress.  I just wanted it to all be over with so I took the easiest way out.  I think the truth would never be heard nor was it ever searched for.

They questioned me on the day of the event 'till I finally got tired of messing with them and told them OK,  I shot the guy because he called my mom a bitch can I go lay down now?

I kept telling them I didn't know what happened and they kept telling me you'll feel better if you just tell us .  I threw up in the trash can and the kept questioning me.

They shouldn't have been questioning me in the state I was in and my attorney should have gotten all that scratched.  But his wife was pregnant during all this so he didn't have time for my case as he was busy tending to her.  She had her baby right around the time I was due to go to trial.  He told me I better take the 40 years or would end up with life and 20 years stacked on.

I've thought a lot about tryin' to change my plea agreement...if nothing changes, I will come up for parole the 1st time in 2030.  

I am not a murderer or a liar or a thief and I am truly remorseful."
Lamentations 1:20

"See, O LORD, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death.

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