Colo. Carter refused a deal of 10 years, Carter remains caged to this day. Boulder Judge Richard McClean recently denied Carter's self-written appeal after nine months of inaction. Carter believes, as do other appellates to the Colorado Supreme Court, that the lower courts procrastinate to prevent administrative exhaustion and thereby prevent review of higher courts. Carter listed selective prosecution, a sleeping juror, judge and prosecutor misconduct and ongoing ineffective assistance of counsel by Boulder attorneys in his appeal. With such procrastination comes yet another level of people-processing.
Innocent people serve needless sentences, guilty people serve sentences of needless length.
The state builds more prisons, the state hires more employees, taxes are raised. Taxes short change the government's ability to protect the general welfare of excluded groups and the deprivation-cycle repeats. Reaching through prison walls, Carter was the only prisoner to contact this reporter through Alienated Parents Association, founded in Boulder, Colo., when the Denver Post identified custody corruption in the Boulder District Court. Colo. When this reporter attempted to visit Carter, the officer on duty claimed to not know his whereabouts. Carter was moved to a private prison in Appleton, Minn., a few hours after the media contact.