Wright, Finley ( 2015 )

Trial Court too.1334182
COA Case'No. 01-13-00838-CR. sip 011W
PD-0284-15
Date 8-31-2015
From :
$ Finley Wright
IlN THE TEXAS COURT OF CRI - ? *°^79^9° ..
HINAL APPEALS |
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3899 State Hwy .98 Q«
§ New Boston, TX 75570
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Emergency Request To Be Granted Until Dec. 15th, 2015 To File
The PDR hue To Unlawful Interference With My Access To Courts
By Telford Unit Law Library Employee(Ms. SharpJ/ & Repeated
Lockdowns That Prevented The Pro-Se Petitioner From Filing The
PDR
To The Honorable Judges Of The Texas Court Of Criminal Ap
peals:
I; the Petitioner, Finley Wright, humbly and respectfully
request the above said extension to file my PDR based on the
reasons stated in the title.
I currently have step 1 grievances filed against Ms. Sharp
based on a denial of my constitutional rights to "meaningful
access to the courts. Although this honorable Court has granted
me the last extension to June 1st, 2015, Ms. Sharp of the Tel
ford Unit Law Library has consistently denied me access to the
courts before,and every day after that date. Specifically:
.1: I was housed in medium custody, prior to June 1st, 2015
and unable to attend the law library unless I was gi- ;
ven a pass to go . I can not just leave medium custody
to go to law library without out violating prisons po
licy. And becoming a security risk.
2: Every day I sent I-60(reqoest slips) to the law library
seeking permission to go to law library.
3: Instead of processing my request fulfilling her mini
sterial duty to provide me access to the courts., and
a pass to go to the law library, SHE SIMPLY REFUSED BY
THROWING MY REPEATED REQUEST IN ThIe GARBAGE.
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4. Which resulted in me never being granted access to
to the law library in order to obtain the knowledge
to file the PDR well before June the 1st, 2015.
5. The blatant denial by Ms. Sharp continues. She did
lay me in once to argue with me about why I am threat-
ing to file a §1983 against her. Which is in the
process now. I must first go through the Step 1 & 2
grievance system to exhaust institutional remedies
prior to filing the §1983 against Ms. Sharp.
Also prior to June the. first and leading up to June the first
there was a administrative lockdown due to a riot that broke
out on 8 building where I was housed at the time. In that si-v
tuation the law library staff(Ms. Sharp) is supposed to bring re
quested law library material(law books, case law, etc.) to inm
mates upon request. Ms. Sharp entirely refused to bring me any
thing thonigh surveliance cameras display her bringing legal ma
terial to certain other inmates on those days. That lockdown
was caused by a white inmate being stabbed by a mexican,and then
the white guy stabbed the mexican who may or may not have died.
The administration kept that secret to prevent more gang war.
As a result the mexicans on B-side 8 building decided to attack
all the whites which resulted in white guy getting jumped on by
about 10 mexicans in 8J-2 section on B-side. I lived in that
section at that time in 8J-31Top Bunk. The entire section was
locked down . I still sent request to law library but all access
for me was denied by Ms. Sharp. It was not long after that that
on another section of this unit an officer was killed by a crazy
Spanish inmate which resulted in another extended lockdown. That
murder was the first in TDCJ of an officer for many years and
became national news. Thus access to the courts was further im-
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peded. Back to back problems on this unit due to no fault
of my on. The riot only affected B-side. The death of the
officer caused a disciplinary lockdown for both A, £ B side.
All the time I was denied access to.the courts.
I have been moved to A-side, yet Ms. Sharp still repeatedly
denies me access to the courts . When she did lay me in to ar
gue with me about complaining on her and making repeated attemj-i
pt to write her up, she angryly told me "I'm tired of ya'll
guilty people trying to overturn ya'll convictions/ I think a
few of ya'll innocent, maybe 4 or 5 out of a hundred, but the
rest of ya'll deserve to be here and access to the courts was
not made for guilty people like you. So if you don't like it
then write a grievance."
The sad part is I am innocent, and have a right, the same
right a guilty man has to meaningful access to the courts. See
Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817,828(1977).
Prayer
My grievance is before the grievance board against Ms . Sharp
yet over the lastl5 days she has answered none of my request
to go to law library, since the officer was killed here they
have recently changed both Wardens. I await an answer on my
grievances and have requested the remedy to my grievance be i
that I be granted entry into the law library, and that I be al
lowed to make up for all of the lost law library time, by being
granted the right to do extra time every day. Still no response.
Please in the interest of justice grant me until Dec. 15th, 2015
to file my PDR. I will file it the best I can as soon as I am
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allowed access to the law library. THANKYOU . At minimum please
notify me quickly of your decision to grant or deny this reque
st . So that I can take whatever action I shoeld to satisfy
this court- Sorry that I am going through this, yet it is not
my fault;- The fact of my pending grievance against Sharp, as >, c
well as verification of the lockdowns explained above can all be
verified by calling this Unit and reading them what I have
written here. I thankyou in advance for whatever decision ybu
make .
Respectively Submitted,
s
A
Finley (fright
#01879190
Telford Unit
3899 State Hwy .98
New Boston, TX 75570
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