Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Charlotte Durante's Personal Letter to Family & Friends (revised)

August 3, 2011

From: Charlotte G. Durante
Palm Beach County Jail
Cell#Dorm-West-2-C
JKT#0406805
P.O. Box 24716
West Palm Beach, FL  33416

To:       Family & Friends:

This e-mail letter was handwritten by me and mailed to my daughter Lori for her to type and email to you for me.

On July 14, 2011, I completed writing another communication to Judge Kastrenakes.  This communication to Judge Kastrenakes is a critically important one.  It took me about 3 ½ months of daily writing efforts to complete that communication.  During my attorney’s most recent visit with me on July 13, 2011, he informed me that the depositions that he is doing in preparation for my defense and trial are nearly finished except for 3 or 4 more that he has added that he wants to do.  There are about 90 witnesses that have to be deposed based on the way the Prosecution Team and cohorts from my obviously politically powerful enemies have purposely and strategically structured the case that they filed against me. In a visit that my attorney made to me in March, he told me that of those depositions that he had to do, there were only a few left and those were primarily due to invalid contact information that had been provided by the Prosecution Team but updated information was going to be provided to him.  Since so much time has passed since last year, May 2010, when the case against me was filed by the Prosecution, that it’s quite logical and very probable that some people moved, changed contact information, etc.

For some of the topics that I wanted to write to Judge Kastrenakes about, I wanted to wait until after the depositions were basically finished for those nearly 90 individuals that my politically powerful enemies had recruited, coaxed and mislead to allow their names to be a part of the case that my enemies schemed to file against me.  With the depositions nearly finished in March 2011, I began writing the communication dated July 14, 2011 to Judge Kastrenakes knowing that my slow pace of writing due to arthritic condition in my fingers (which has gone from mild to very significant since being here in jail) that it would take at least a couple of months for me to finish writing the communication.  And, by then, all of those depositions remaining to be done would be in previous communications to Judge Kastrenakes because I wanted to wait until after the depositions. Since I am the accused/defendant, my communications to the Judge become a matter of public record and there are some issues that I purposely wanted to wait until after the depositions were taken before I addressed them.  This was proof that I did not write things to influence the deposition.

Legal experts from across the country have informed my family that there are some definite, very excessive, most unusual and suspiciously strange tactics used in structuring the case against me and some definite, very excessive, most unusual and suspiciously strange requirements for my bond.

Legal experts have told my family that it was obvious that part of the strategy used by the Prosecution Team and cohorts from my obviously politically powerful enemies is a tactic to make my case a massive amount of legal work and huge amount of legal time for the preparation for my defense, thereby, making the cost for my defense preparation so very expensive that I would not be able to pay the cost for adequate defense.

Legal experts have told my family that my case was strategically structured by the Prosecution Team and cohorts from my politically powerful enemies so as to logistically require a long period of time for my case to be ready for trial. 

Plus, the Prosecution Team and cohorts from my enemies have strategically engineered bond requirements for me that are practically impossible for me to obtain so that I would have to remain in jail while waiting for a trial for a case structured so that it is logistically impossible to adequately prepare the defense in a short period of time.  Just the sheer number of depositions alone that the Prosecution Team structured into my case was a strategic scheme to make sure that my case would require a time span of many months and many hours of legal work.

The Prosecution Team and cohorts of my politically powerful enemies know very well that with me being in jail it would severely hinder my ability to prepare for my defense because:

  • Being in jail severely limits my opportunities to see and speak with my attorney;
  • Being in jail makes it logistically impossible for me to see, read and review the 3 boxes of documents that the Prosecution Team was required to release to my attorney;
  • And, being in jail makes it very impossible for me to access and gather documents from my storehouse of files to give to my attorney to refute the alleged charges against me.
The Prosecution Team and cohorts from my politically powerful enemies have done a world wide slander of me; have recruited, coaxed and mislead people to be a part of the false charges that my enemies schemed to file against me but I have not yet even had the freedom nor opportunity to access any of my file documents to present to my attorney. However, under the circumstances, my attorney has been doing an amazing job and he is confident of my innocence and this is not from me filling his head, hands or mail with much from me but he has researched and gathered from other sources and from the items that the Prosecution Team used to manufacture the false charges. My files that I cannot access because I am here in jail which are files that would have made my attorney’s work in preparing for my defense a much faster process especially for the part of gathering some of the documents needed.  This would have certainly reduced some of the cost of my legal defense.  There is still some information that would be helpful documents for him that are in my storehouse of a lot of information that I have.  I need to be able to see those documents the Prosecution Team was required by law to give to my attorney. This will let me know what the Prosecution Team used to twist the truth, tell part of the facts to purposely be misleading, to create theories and to manufacture blatant lies. Then I would get my documents to show the complete picture and to refute every lie that the Prosecution Team and my enemies manufactured. However, as of to date, with me being held in jail by a strategy engineered by the Prosecution Team and cohorts of my politically powerful enemies, I have not yet had the opportunity nor freedom to see the 3 file boxes of documents from the Prosecution Team and I have not had the opportunity nor freedom to access my storehouse of information.  The Prosecution Team and my enemies know that their charges against me are manufactured lies and theories.  That’s why they wanted to be sure that I stayed locked up in jail so as to make it difficult for me to refute their lies.

Per legal experts, also a part of the strategy by the Prosecution Team and cohorts from my enemies is that of keeping me in jail to cripple the preparation for my defense as well as to use every means possible to make a time consuming and expensive process to prepare for my defense is that it would be beyond my financial ability to adequately prepare for my defense.  The expense of my defense is very much a part of the Prosecution Team and my politically powerful enemies’ tactics against me.

Legal experts have told my family that the case against me with all of its very excessive most unusual and suspiciously strange components has clear signs for hatred against me written all over it. All of the several South Florida Bond Agents who have spoken to my family have also expressed the same sentiments as the legal experts about the excessive, unusual and strange requirements for me for my case.  Invariably, legal experts and Bond Agents have all said that there must be some prominent political people who hate me and are out to get me and have been able to get away with the excessive, unusual and strange actions, components and requirements in the case against me.

The July 14, 2011 communication to Judge Kastrenakes is quite lengthy and it addresses various topics of importance to my situation.  The communication is 152 handwritten pages and includes a table of contents to help make it easier to locate the various topics that I have addressed in the letter.  There are a total of 32 topics.  The length of the communication is such that for loading in to the website, it will be divided into 2 parts or possibly 3 parts.  Click Here for Charlotte's Letter to Judge Kastrenakes. I know that it will be quite a task for anyone to read the communication because in addition to being lengthy, it is handwritten which is the only mode of written communication available to me here in jail. Our generation has almost lost the skill in handwriting and spelling too because we’ve got the spell check feature on the computer and then there is the texting where you don’t spell the word, you must use some kind of initials.  By the way, BTW is the only one of these initials that I know and understand what it means.  The LOL one I really don’t know what it means. Although the letters stand for Laugh Out Loud, is that the same meaning as what I write as (smile)?

It’s amazing the amount of great wisdom and great literary works that got written in the past centuries when handwriting was the only mode of written records. The Bible, which is the greatest writings of wisdom, history and literature, actually it is the greatest of all written documents ever written, was done by handwriting for all these centuries of its existence in the B.C. years and the A.D. years until the invention of the printing press in the 1450s AD.

It is my hope and wish that you will have the time to eventually read the entire communication. Since there is a table of contents listing topics and page numbers, you may choose the order in which you read some topics.  However, all 32 topics dove-tail together for a composite picture painted by the communication.  That is why it is very important if you can eventually read the entire communication.

Some of you have sent letters to Judge Kastrenakes sharing a bit about your knowledge of my character and behavior and that those alleged charges do not fit the type of person who I am and that you believe my innocence.  My heart is overjoyed by this support from you. I thank you so very much for sending the letters to Judge Kastrenakes. Some of you sent a copy of that letter to Lori who then sent a copy to me. Here in jail, mail distribution time is a highlight of the day - it’s wonderful to get mail. Your letters have truly been uplifting to my spirit. Thank you for providing a copy to Lori that she used to make a copy to send to me. I have been enjoying reading them (each multiple times!!).  I understand that more of you have indicated that you plan to write to Judge Kastenakes. In case you are wondering if there is still time to do so, YES, the letters can still be sent.

Thank you so very much to many of you who have contributed financially to the legal fund established for me. Without your help, it would have been impossible to afford the progress that has been made so far in the preparation of my defense.

Many, many thanks to you all for your interest and most of all thanks and praise to the LORD for your prayers.

If you want to write to me directly, my address is below.

Please continue to keep me as well as my family in your prayers as we weather this storm of my incarceration. One of the many Bible Scriptures that I refer to in this ordeal is “Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.” (Psalm 37:7).

CHARLOTTE DURANTE
JKT# 0406805
Location: West 2c
Palm Beach County Jail
P.O. Box 24716
West Palm Beach, FL  33416

Effective, September 17, 2011 the Palm Beach County Jail has new rules regarding mail.  Here they are:
  • Mail in envelopes will not be accepted
  • Only postcard mail can be sent
  • Postcards have to be a solid color with no photos, no designs.
For information about Charlotte's Legal Defense Fund, visit CharlottesLegalDefenseFund.org or charlottedurante.org