Help For my Friend

Pam · #1 05-03-2002, 01:13 PM

I need everyone's help please. This is a letter that I have sent to the Governor of Alabama. We need this help desperately. Danny was given an execution date last summer but is currently under a stay until the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta rules on his civil suit that was filed due to the lost or destroyed evidence. This is where to send it to. http://www.governor.state.al.us/office/email/email.html
Thanks everyone for your help.

Honorable Governor Sieglman,
I am writing to you pleading for your help with the case of Danny Joe Bradley. Mr. Bradley is under a stay of execution at this time. I am pleading with you to intervene in this case. I believe that if you think back you will remember this case since you were in the AG's office at the time of the first appeals. This case has been mishandled from the very beginning.
Due to the mishandling of evidence and the loss of the most important evidence in the case I beg you to commute his sentence to a life sentence.
Mr. Bradley has been incarcerated on death row since Aug. 1983. There has been a DNA test done on a sheet and blanket that were taken from his residence, but this evidence was mishandled. Before testing was ever done there was evidence from a totally different case found inside the bag that contained the articles that were tested. I am sure that this did not contaminate the evidence but other things over time I am sure have.
There was a match on one stain that said it was semen from Mr. Bradley mixed with fecal matter from Miss Hardin. According to Mr. Bradley, long before the DNA was done there was an accident in the home that night where the commode overflowed and the blanket in question was used to clean it up with and then placed in the washing machine to be washed at a later time. This would explain the fecal matter of Miss Harding being on the blanket if she were the one to use the bathroom before the accident. If there was a semen stain from Mr Bradley on the blanket then the water from the overflow could have mixed the two stains together making them appear to be comingled.There was also two almost identical stains on the blanket and sheet. If the blanket and the sheet were placed in same bag or laid one on top of the other with the blanket being wet/damp, it could have "bled" on to the dry one leaving the same stain. Also, nowhere is it proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the murder and the rape both occured at the same time. The house where she lived and where police say the murder occured was never roped off as a crime scene. The discrepancies go on and on.
Now, Your Honor, I am not saying that Mr. Bradley is innocent nor am I saying that he is guilty. I was not there and I do not know, BUT with all the discrepancies and mishandling that was done, I feel that the State of Alabama would be making it's biggest error ever in executing this man for a crime that he has maintained his innocence on for 19 years. The State Forensics Department losing or destroying the only evidence that could link him 100% to her rape, (Still not to her murder) is to me so irresponsible that something needed to be done about this. The mere fact that another man confessed to killing this little girl is another factor. There was a lot of evidence that has been dug up over the years that the jury never got to hear and I believe that if I were a juror and I had heard all this information I could not in any way convict this man. Not beyond a reasonable doubt.
I just again ask that you please consider what is happening here in our great state and dont allow an injustice like this to occur.
A man from the same town was convicted of shooting a man and then literally cutting his head off with a chain saw and throwing his body in one location and his head in the river and the man got a 25 year sentence. Danny Bradley had never been convicted of a crime against another individual other than burglary. He had never harmed anyone in his life and was given the death sentence. Another case of injustice in sentencing in Alabama, my son was convicted of third degree burglary here and was given a 5 year sentence. My daughter was raped at the age of 14 by a 23 year old and he was charged with 2nd degree rape and given a 5 year sentence. Something is just not right here.
I appreciate your taking the time to read these emails and respond to all of them in some way or another. I also appreciate your attention to this matter and would be glad to sit and discuss this matter with you or one of your advisors at length. Please feel free to contact me at anytime and we will be glad to show you and share with you all information we have located. Thank you again.
Respectfully,
Pam Elliott

Friend of Bradley Family.

Pam · #2 05-03-2002, 01:14 PM

Duh, Guess I should have said this is a letter telling what is going on and asking for your help with letters to the governors office too. Thanks

Budwoman · #3 05-03-2002, 03:34 PM

E-MAIL HAS BEEN SENT TODAY....

DONNA

Joy · #4 05-04-2002, 08:51 PM

Same here.....It's nice to be able to send a LONG E-mail. The ones I have tried to send to Texas is very limited...Guess Texas doesn't want to give you a chance to express yourself.

nighthawk_75253 · #5 05-05-2002, 07:22 AM

Pam,mine is also on the way.Hang in there girl.God Bless you ..........................................Spencer

sherri13 · #6 05-05-2002, 09:59 PM

PAM-MINE IS ON THE WAY TOO

Pam · #7 05-08-2002, 02:58 AM

I thought that it might be nice to allow you all the opportunity to read about this case if you like. You can find Dannys located at Http://dannyjoebradley.tripod.com and another one at http://www.cuadp.org/people/Bradley,_Danny_Joe.html and the victims site is at http://www.murdervictims.com/Voices/Rhonda_Hardin.htm
Perhaps this will help people to decide to write a letter for him asking the governor for some sort of justice for them both. Again thank you.

torrey · #8 05-08-2002, 08:34 AM

Sorry this has nonething to do with your topic but I was Just wondering about something.

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There were DNA test preformed by the Innocence Project that showed on first page that there was a commingled stain of Danny's spermatozoa and Rhonda's DNA on the blanket. This makes Danny look rather guilty. When you read further over into the report you see that is was Danny's spermatozoa mixed with Rhonda's fecal matter. This sounds rather damaging also BUT Danny has said for years that the toilet overflowed on the same night that Rhonda went missing. That this blanket in question was used to clean up the overflow. IF Danny's sperm was on the blanket and Rhonda had been the one to use the toilet when it overflowed, cleaning it up with the blanket could have made the two stains placed on blanket at different times, mix and appear to be commingled. There is a civil suit pending in 11th Circuit Court and the stay is still pending at this time.

Why is his sperm on the blanket?

Pam · #9 05-14-2002, 11:35 AM

Because the blanket was in his home and I am quite sure that it would not be uncommon for vaginal secretions or spermatoza to be found on bedding in my home too if someone were living here that was sexually active.

Pam · #10 05-14-2002, 11:37 AM

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all that have helped with the writing of these letters. Danny's family and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts. He does as well.

gard12 · #11 09-27-2005, 01:27 PM

I am trying to find Pam, a friend of Danny's. I have heard some rumors that bad news is coming out of Alabama and trying to find the truth. If any of you know Pam, have her contact me. Or if you know the status of Danny's case, just post it here.

Thank you.