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I ag ree that applicant should be g rante d relief

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have been raised. This was a witch hunt from the beg inning. The alleg ations in the indictment wer e 1



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applicant’ s day -ca

re f acility , was in thera

py for numerous psy cholog ical and behavior al issues. I n

acc using applicant, she asser ted that applicant had come to her house and had cut her dog ’s vag ina

with a chainsaw unti l it bled, that she was taken to a cemeter y , wher e, after a person dressed li ke 2



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n threw a person in a hole, Danie l Keller shot the pe rson who had be en thrown into the

hole and c ut up the body with a chainsa w while all the childre n helped, and that she ha d been put 3



## into a swimming pool with sharks that ate babies. She also alleg ed that applicant serve d blood-lace d

Kool-Aid, forc ed the children to have videotaped sex with adults and other chil d re n , s o m etimes 4



## wore white robes and lit candle s befor e hurting the children, an d fo rc ed the children to watch or

participa te in the killing and dismemberme n t o f ca t s , d og s, and a cry ing baby

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complainant, bodies wer e unear thed in ceme teries and new holes wer e d u g t o hide fre shly killed

animals, an adult passer -by was shot and dismembered with a chain saw, Fr ance s Keller cut off the 5



## fing er of a g orilla at Z ilker Park, and applicant had perf ormed a satanic bone-r eplac ing ritual on one 6



## child. And the children wer e taken on sever al plane trips, including one to Mexi co, wher e they wer e

sexually abused by

soldiers befor e returning to A ustin in time to meet their pare nts a t the day -ca re

fac ility

. I n spite of such fanta stical claims, which should have p ro duced total incre dulity in the

police investig ators and pr osecutors, c harg es we re f iled.

The complainant’s bizarre acc usations wer e supported at trial by the testimony of a six -y ear

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O n e w o u l d e x p e c t a t l e a s t o n e o f t h e o t h e r c h i l d r e n t o h a v e m e n t i o n e d s u c h a n a c t i v i t y t o a p a r e n t

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T h i s p r o b a b l y i s t h e s a m e p e r s o n w h o w a s t h r o w n i n a h o l e b y a p e r s o n d r e s s e d l i k e a p o l i c e m a n

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T h e r e i s n o z o o i n Z i l k e r P a r k

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old who insisted that his teddy bear was alive and could talk, that applicant g ave the children at the

fac ility drug s, that Go d talked to him often (a claim he rec anted)

, and that his pare nts and the

prosec utors talked to him about the ca se 21 times.

The state pre sented a

witness, Randy

Noblitt, who claimed to be an e x pert on sata nic cults

and rituals and who testified that the complainant had de scribed suc h rituals. Applicant’s brief on

appea l noted that Noblitt had parla y ed his testimony into a business opportunity

, g iving lecture s and

writing a book on the evils of ritual abuse, and that pointed to “a Noblitt-sponsored 1995 confe renc e

as providing an ey e-ope ning look into h i s world view.” That confe renc e included speake rs who

“re veale d” the FB I ’s cover -up of a satanic cult in Nebr aska that had Whit e House ties, the exis tence

of more than 500 satanic cults conducting eig ht sacr ificial murders a y ear in New York City

, and that

then-Preside nt Bill Clint on was the a nti-Christ.

I t was not just Dr. Mouw who was too quick to believe. I f he is to be blamed for the failure

to provide applicant with a fair trial, the missteps of other persons and entities need to be examined

also. We do not lear

n from our mistakes unless and until we are require d to acknow ledg e those

mistakes.

I concur in the judgme nt of the Court.

Filed: May

20, 2015 Do not publish