Al Jessep

Texas Law: with Liberty and Justice for None Al Jessep

Publisher Marketing: Case law biography of a registered sex offender in a frontier-style State that has produced and credited nearly 50,000 of them to their roles. How many of them may be innocent simply due to a type of primitive justice that still exists in America is the question the book tries to answer. Witness the author's six year plight seeking sanity in a State where statutes and rules of the courts are routinely disregarded and abused by the very judiciary ordained to respect and protect them. Where lawyers strive to protect one another at the expense of their client. Where primary courts wantonly ignore the letter of the law, and where appellate courts sanction those abuses of discretion. The case covers six years of hearings, motions and four appeals to the State's highest court, complete with excerpts of statutes, rules and Texas Constitutional amendments, followed by the actual recorded rulings and statements that plainly reveal the State's judicial incompetencies and abuses; a State court system that, lately, has been in the crosshairs of the U. S. Supreme Court and the federal Justice Department for just such deficiencies. Slowly, justice is being implemented in a State that has been at the forefront of noncompliance with the U. S. Constitution since its beginnings; a State that has viewed itself as a sovereign "Republic" totally disassociated from the rest of the United States, merely picking and choosing which laws of the land it wishes to respect. The author's case is but one of many, but shows the results of a system that slams the door upon a defendant and his access to that system and to the protections he was rightly owed. Was he right? You decide.