So -- is Gale Buckner, the chair of GA Pardons & Paroles, a real jerk?

[struggle4progress]

I wrote to her about six months ago, asking for her to reconsider the decision to deny clemency for Troy Davis, since one witness against him was also a suspect and other witnesses against him later recanted

I recently got several "unable to deliver .. unable to connect to destination server" messages from my mail service -- every one bouncing back this six month old email. Now, I'm 99.9999% sure my mail service hasn't suddenly given up after forlornly trying for six months to deliver an email to Gale at GA Pardons & Parole. I've seen messages like this before -- but usually within a few hours and never more than about a day after the failure to connect -- and I hadn't gotten any prior traffic at all on my Troy Davis note. If my email service had been trying to deliver this for six moths, I'd have heard about it before

So here's what I think happened: Gale decided to clear up her mail backlog and she's hitting "bounce back to sender" on everything that references Troy Davis


L. GALE BUCKNER CHOSEN AS BOARD CHAIRPERSON
May 5, 2008
... Parole Board Members .. have Georgia’s only statutory power to commute a death sentence ... http://www.pap.state.ga.us/opencms/opencms/press_releases/2007_press_releases/news_0075.html

GA PAP Contact Information
http://www.law.emory.edu/index.php?id=4413

Contact
http://www.pap.state.ga.us/opencms/export/sites/default/index.html?page=index.html

[Laelth]

1. I'd recommend a certified letter. That's harder to ignore.

It has, traditionally, always been difficult to get results from the Pardons and Parole Board.

Good luck.

:dem:

-Laelth