Topic: In an astounding paperwork prison break that has sent shockwaves across Florida.
Syntax started this discussion 13 years ago #32,125
Not just once but TWICE http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-killers-loose-orlando-florida-20131017,0,900122.story
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Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry's signature was forged on a pair of fraudulent orders that freed two Orlando-area killers — both lifers — in an astounding paperwork prison break that has sent shockwaves across Florida.
Authorities are hunting for Charles Bernard Walker and Joseph Ivan Jenkins, both 34, after they left the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle within two weeks of each other because of fabricated documents authorizing their release.
Ninth Judicial Circuit court officials said the phony paperwork contains the forged signatures of at least two judges and members of the State Attorney's Office — including State Attorney Jeff Ashton.
"I strongly believe they had some help," Perry told the Orlando Sentinel today. "It is unlikely [the documents] were produced by the inmates."
At least three investigations — including a criminal probe — are underway to figure out what happened.
The orders to release the inmates were filed with the Orange County Clerk's office and were carefully crafted to appear legitimate, complete with the county seal, letterheads and outlined in a format common to documents filed regularly at the clerk's office.
It is unclear how they were filed. Law officers said they think at least one killer may be in Orange County.
DOC: Everything seemed normal
Joseph Jenkins went free Sept. 27.
He was serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder of a father of six in Orlando committed in 1998.
Charles Walker walked away Oct. 8.
He was supposed to be locked up for life for a second-degree murder conviction in 1999.
Officials at the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle were duped into thinking the men's sentences had been reduced because of the counterfeit paperwork, state investigators said.
"Everything came the way it normally comes," said Misty Cash, Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman. "Our department followed every protocol and did everything we are supposed to do."
When prison officials received Jenkins Walker's release information, they verify the orders by accessing the Orange County Clerk of Courts website or calling the office.
Corrections officials didn't realize the paperwork had been forged, said FDOC spokeswoman Jessica Cary.
Once the information is verified, officials run the inmates' names through a database mining for any outstanding warrants or probation violations. If the names clear, they prepare release paperwork and the inmate is immediately released, state officials said in a statement.
The documents in question were motions to correct a so-called "illegal sentence" that was supposedly written and filed by a prosecutor in the State Attorney's Office.
Walker's Oct. 7 motion argued that he should never have been sentenced to life imprisonment because he was only found guilty of third degree murder not second degree.
He asks for a 15-year sentence and the forged documents granted it.
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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 20 hours later[^] [v] #450,100
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Syntax (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #450,102
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I waz wondering if this simple and it was a VERY simple scheme - ever was thought of for a book or movie in the past. Genius really. So simple. Copy simple forms off the internet and fake a signature.
Cost of postage not so much. Probably does not help to end up with photos all over web and on TV.
The Judge by the by is well known.. Judge Belvin Perry...Casey Anthony trial judge.
I waz wondering if this simple and it was a VERY simple scheme - ever was thought of for a book or movie in the past. Genius really. So simple. Copy simple forms off the internet and fake a signature.
Cost of postage not so much. Probably does not help to end up with photos all over web and on TV.
The Judge by the by is well known.. Judge Belvin Perry...Casey Anthony trial judge.