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Richard Carman,

P.O. Box 1000 Otisville, NY

#L4528-424

10953

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Nov 2 5 2020

THOMAS G. BRUTON November t6, 2O2O

Judge Ronald A. Guzman

Federal District Judge

United States Oistrict

219 South Dearborn St.

Chicago, IL 50604

IN RE: ues t for A

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CIERK, U.S. DISTHICT COURT

Court

20th Floor

intment of Counsel to File a

Release ffifinement Under

Dear Judge Guzman:

f'hope this letter finds you and all the members of your court

in best of healths and spirits.

Following a conviction for RICO resulting in a Homieide and

92aG) in June 2005, I was sentenced to a term of 60 years in your

court. Ever since, for the past approximately 20 years, I have

remained in the prison.

Judge, owing to. my poor family upbringing ln an ltnpoverished

neighborhood as I had lost my father at a tender age of eight.

I wis practicaly raised by the rough streets of Chicago. Seeking

for social acceptance and safety, I was sucked into the street

gangs and was moulded by the culture of Eang and crime. For years,

evei in the prison, the gang culture dominated mer 8S a result I

got thrown around from one bad situation to another.

Howeverr |our words during my sentencing kept-coming back to me.

You had slia that I had spend 27 years 'visiting harm and pain o!

other people'and that I barely had_another half of 100-years left.

And thht r'if I had any caPac.ity to feel the pain-and suffering of

others then I would know what I had done. You also told me that

if it was of any importance to me, I could start to do so_mething

different and ULtteL about it. It took me LL years to fu1Jy realize

what I was doing was wrong and to see the depth and wisdom of your

words.

So, in 2OL3, I took a very bold step, knowing it very well it could

one day cosi me my life. I finally told the prison authorities

that I was done with all my affiliations and connections with my

gang. As a direct result of my decisigtt, my gang plaeed a b_ounty

6n riy head. If any member of my gang is ever to see me in the

futuig..hg-is-under- orders to immediately ki11 me without any
Ou"rtions. But this does not rleter me, for I am resolved because

yotrrwords continuedto resonate in my heart. And Yes! Judge. I

am determined to finally tdo somethingr and everything about it

as I can now'feeI the pain and sufferings of others.'

Immediately after I dropped from the gang, the gang members stormed

my home and tried to murder my two sons right in front of my

Mom's house and accidentally shot and killed my 28 year oId sister.

Now. in spite of her mental issues and bad health, my mom has to

take care of my dead sisterts children. Judge, for the sake of

my mother and nieces and my two sons--who I am afraid will also be

sucked in into the same life which devovred me--I want to qo home

and redeem myself as I have learned the lesson of my life. Just so

that you know that I am not offering you a lip service, I want you

to know that after turning a leaf and renouneing the gangs in prison,

I have completed many, many high value prison programs knowing

it too well that there will never be an occasion where they could

help me get out of the prisonl like: GED, Anger Management, Criminal

Thinking, Rational Thinking, and many others. However, I am ,proud.

to have'completed the most respected- PODS (Positive Outlook Determinq

Self ) program which is exclusively of feEed to galg drop--outs-like me

and is an year long tedious program. After completing the PODS,

I was designated to be the fascilitator of this proqram, where in

I guide and counsel other similarly placed gang dropouts on the

problems and solutions they face after they have dropped out of

their ganqs. A letter of reference from my prison program coordinator Ms. Dariotis is included in mv proqress-report

Judger 8s long as I was in Max Prisons and had not dropped out of

Lhe ganBr I eontinued:. to get in trouble. As a. result, I have garnered

aL least t.wo. serious incident reports dr:ring the period of my

incarceration. But there after I have maintained a relatively clear

conduct for the past 10 years.

I write this letter to you in the aftermath of Covid t9 outbreak

and request you to kindly appoint me an attorney who could file a

good compassionate release motion and/6.r: homeconfinement under

the Cares Act and 18 U.S.C. S35S2(c)(1)(A)(i) in your court as

I have some of the many health risk factors, like: High Cholesterol,

and Low Vitamin Deficiency, etc. If released, I will be staying with

my fiancee Ms. Tess Baron, at 35th St. 2L-28 #4, Astoria,

NY 11105, Tele No. (gZg) 254-89L2.

Sincerely.

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