Pate, Paul
Pate, Paul
Opinion
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112 EAST LlNE STREET, SUlTE _310 AusTlN REEvE JAcKsoN TYLER, TExAs 75702 - BoARD CERTlFlED CRlMlNAL LAw 903-595-60 0 . -7 9 MAY 2014 BoARD CERTlFu-:D CRlMlNAL APPELLATE LAw FAX 866-387-0152 ' TExAs BoARD oF LEGAL SPEclAi_leTloN Mr. Paul Pate lnm_ate 1909266 1700 N. FM 87 Bonham, TX 75418 Re: 6 May Letter Mr. Pate: l have today received your letter dated 6 lviay and Would like-to offer this responses l.
First, I assure you that there is no conspiracy between any of the judges and me to ensure that innocent people are Wrongfully convicted. F or the past decade l have devoted myself to standing for the constitutional rights of citizens against the government and have been successful in overturning convictions obtained in violation of the law including convictions in Judge Kennedy’s court.
You are not actually innocent. The record in your case supported a legitimate, but Weak, argument that the State failed to prove that you actually possessed the methamphetamine recovered. Therefore, that’s the argument l raised and I stand by the cases with which l raised'it. Interestingly, despite complaining in your letter to me about my argument and those cases l cited, I noticed that in the writ you filed you copied both my argument and those same cases. So between choosing to be frustrated that you criticized me or flattered that you copied me, I’m electing to take the latter.
Now, you make a valid point in your writ and in our prior discussions that if you didn’t have a history - with Officer Mallory he probably Would not have stopped you that night. That’s likely true. If it had been any one of 100 other people he likely Would have paid them no attention that night. But here’s the problem: The history about which you complain is exactly what made you stand out. It’s like the old saying says, “If it looks like a drug user, swims like a drug user, and quacks like a drug user, then it’s probably a drug user.” Just in Smith County, you’ve got a criminal history going back almost twenty years. You can’t repeatedly choose to make poor decisions and then be surprised when people, right or wrong, presume you’re probably continuing to make those decisions We are what we do; nobody can escape that.
Which leads me to my final point. You say you are concerned about justice. Well, a big part of justice is accepting responsibility for our actions. Start there. Use this as an opportunity to commit yourself to owning up to your past wrongs and begin to lay a foundation for making better decisions in the future. This sentence sucks; I get that. But it doesn’t have to be the end of the world unless you let it. Choose to see this as an opportunity to redirect your life towards the greatness for which you were made. We all have a task laid before us that we are meant to accomplish; we all have ways in which we are called to serve. Find yours and go after it with all your heart.
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