Health & Fitness
Governor who might Brandon Hein have been?
"The sentencing of Brandon Hein violates the Bible, violates the Constitution, violates the law, violates common sense, and violates common decency." Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Professor.
Governor Brown - who might Brandon Hein have been had he been given the chance to move beyond the phase of what I so often refer to when speaking to my own teenage son as the “dumb and dumber phase?"
That window when parents go from protecting their children from the world to protecting them from their own immature and vulnerable choices. I have tried to understand how everyone from the district attorney’s office to the parents of the victim in this case sleeps at night having participated in the vindictive and shameful sentencing of Brandon Hein and four other teenagers.
Not only did this young man not grasp the consequences of drinking underage and making stupid choices but far more sinister was the consequences of his future being in the hands of prosecutors and a system whose desire to win and exert power over rode any sense of morality and justice, ripping from Brandon precious years that can never be returned and in the process taking away his liberty. Brandon Hein will be in prison over 17 years for a crime he did not commit. I cannot rest knowing this…. The fictionalized charges of robbery trumped up to enable the prosecutors to apply -The Felony Murder Rule- "This is a case that violates the Bible, that violates the Constitution, that violates the law, that violates common sense, and that violates common decency."
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Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Professor. Please take some time to explore Brandon’s story and find out for yourself what the facts are on www.brandonhein.com and write the Governor to grant executive clemency and commutation of sentencing. Brandon Hein has been silenced and so it is imperative that we not remain silent. In Brandon’s last letter he said “everyday I want to go home more than the day before.” Try to wrap your mind around the nightmare that Brandon Hein and his family have lived with and continue to live with every hour of every day. Brandon will turn 36 this year. It is time to make this right....bring him home Governor.
5014 days, 10 hours, 42 minutes, and 19 seconds since Brandon has been in prison.
