A Mother's Story

I am Adam's mother. I was also on the front porch with Jameyea and heard the same story as did several others. Jameyea referred to the killer as Ice Cream. I found it odd that Christopher Lyson was in jail and Jameyea was afraid of Terrence Jackson, her friend.

Witnesses testified that Adam and Jackson scuffled on the ground. The yard on Bunche St. was dirt. Adam had on white shorts. After supposedly rolling on the ground in a fight he didn't have any dust or dirt on his clothes. That was proven at trial.

All of us that heard this story went to Bobby Bland's office. We told him what we heard. He said we were wrong, all of us. It didn't matter that Jameyea told us one story and him another. Her version was the truth. Jackson is a 7 time felon and a police informant. Bland believed Jameyea and Jackson over all of us. He believed them over Adam, two nurses, and a doctor.

I have documents proving that Adam said 4 times at the hospital that Jackson stabbed him. Jameyea told the hospital staff that a friend stabbed Adam. Bobby Bland says that's not true.

Later I found out Terrence Jackson's street name is Ice Cream. Jameyea's mother told me that. She came to my house before the funeral. We were going to hide Jameyea. She said we didn't need to do that, Ice Cream would never hurt her. He was her friend. She buys her stuff from him. I threw her out of my house.

The police made it sound like Adam was the dealer. That is not true. He was buying. Jackson took his money and ripped him off.

Of all the people in custody, the only one with blood on them was Jackson. They did not do DNA on his bloody shirt or the knife in the pocket of the car door. Jackson was sitting by that door. Police said they didn't have equipment to do DNA. Yet they asked for a postponement of the trial. They told the judge they were waiting on DNA. They lied.

Shortly after this, a furniture store on 8th St. was robbed. They stole a flat screen TV, broke the window and cut themselves. They had equipment to do DNA on that blood, but not for a murder.

For the murder case the police thought just a picture of the bloody shirt and knife would be enough. Then they lied about who was wearing said shirt. Bobby Bland assured us he had the right guy. All the evidence pointed to Jackson, but Bland claimed he had the right man.

My sister and I went to Bland and told him we didn't think he should take Lyson to trial. He needed to wait until he had evidence to convict him. If he was the right man, why go to trial and risk him being set free? Maybe try a plea deal? Bland slammed his hand on his desk and told us if we felt that way we shouldn't go into the courtroom. My sister told him we would be in the courtroom. Joe Commander served us with subpoenas before we got to the hallway.

If he had the right man, why not let us hear the evidence? Convince us. He couldn't. Even the jury knew he had the wrong man.

Then I started to notice all kinds of things I found odd. Yolanda Madden was on the news saying she had been set up. She said a criminal informant planted drugs on her. The FBI called her Ice Queen. That's what made me notice. What if all the while they were looking for Ice Cream instead? Due to ebonics, I could see the mistake. Or were they looking for a patsy to cover for Jackson again? It all leads back to the same place.

Tony Chavez lost his license to practice law when he was convicted of international drug smuggling and sent to federal prison. As a matter of fact, that's when Yolanda's troubles first began. When she hired Chavez. The judge that allowed him to regain his law license commented, "I know the Chavez family. I know his boys. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree."

Then his son Brian Chavez and his buddies break in to a home on 36th St. and beat up the people that lived there. Was that a drug deal gone bad? A few months later a few doors down from the house on 36th St., police found a huge amount of drugs. Is that what Chavez was looking for?

A firefighter breaks into Carl and Susan Rogers house. He was so drunk he thought it was his house. He got 9 months adjudicated probation. Bobby Bland commented to Jim Mustian in the OA that the firefighter has it worse than many others. Why? He has to stay sober enough to recognize his own house for 9 months? If I broke into the Rogers house, would I get 9 months probation? Not likely.

It seems in Ector County it's not what you know, but who. Bobby Bland had to recuse himself from the Chavez case because they're longtime friends. Careful Bob, we're judged by the company we keep.

Karen

The Subpoena

As mentioned earlier, Karen and I were subpoenaed and were not allowed in the trial. Chris Lyson's mother, father, and other family members were also kept out. My family was sitting in the courtroom right before the trial began. We were talking with Justin Cunningham and his assistant Maggie Marmolejo. I believe Joe Commander was there but I would not swear to this.

They were telling us about their trial strategy. We were really nervous because they said it would be difficult to win. I asked if they had discussed a plea bargain? Wouldn't that be better than letting him walk if they didn't think they could win?

Within minutes, my entire family was escorted into Bobby Bland's office. He was hysterical, almost irate. He was banging his hands on his desk. I don't remember what he said about the plea bargain but he mentioned (loudly, I might add) that someone in our family trashed him on the internet. I told him I had commented on my personal blog about him, but I did not trash him. I told him I wondered why he assigned this case to an ADA when he told us he tried all murder cases himself. There were 13 murders in Odessa in 2008. There was a story in the newspaper about it. I assumed he assigned some cases to assistants to clear the backlog. A copy of the story is on this blog under the "News Articles" tab titled "Homicides up in Ector County."

We were told that Karen was subpoenaed to testify for the state. Who better than a mother to tell the jury who Adam was, she was told. I was subpoenaed to testify for the defense. I was shocked. At that point I assumed Christopher Lyson was probably guilty. I asked why on earth the defense would call me as their witness? I was told that Dusty Gallivan had googled Lyson's name, found my blog, and knew my name. They said it was common practice to subpoena family members to keep emotion out of the courtroom. We were informed then that Lyson's family would be subpoenaed as well. They actually laughed about it. They thought it was very funny. Thinking Joe Commander was the court bailiff, thinking he was on our side, I told him I had not been served and I would be in the courtroom. Within minutes, Joe Commander served us our subpoena, the subpoena he personally signed on November 9.

That day I read my subpoena and noticed it didn't mention Dusty Gallivan or anything about the defense. It did say "in behalf of the State." I didn't think much of it at the time. Karen and I waited nervously to testify. Neither of us were called as witnesses for anyone.

Since then, I have researched TX law on issuance of subpoenas. They did not attempt to serve me as required by law. My subpoena is dated November 9, 2008. I was served November 17, 2008, within an hour or so of the beginning of trial. They had my email address, acceptable with acknowledgement of receipt. I had no opportunity to quash the subpoena. What if I had not driven to Odessa for the trial? Law states the testimony of a witness must be material for the state or the defense. What material testimony could I possibly have for Lyson? It must not have been very material since they didn't bother to attempt to serve me. Most important, the law clearly states the subpoena must identify the party at whose instance the subpoena is issued, and the party's attorney of record.

They lied. The prosecutors subpoenaed me, not the defense. This is not my opinion, this is fact. Bland knew it. Cunningham knew it. Commander knew it. Everyone was in on it except Adam's family.

This is only one small piece of the puzzle. Put this lie with everything else, and one must question the intent of the Ector County District Attorney's Office and the Odessa Police Department. Is this just inept police work and inept prosecutors? Or did they intentionally "frame" Christopher Lyson for murder? Did they intend to put an innocent man in prison to protect one of their criminal informants? These are questions that MUST be answered.

Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Subpoenas
http://law.onecle.com/texas/criminal-procedure/chapter24.html

This is a c/p of the post from my personal blog that so upset Bobby Bland. It is titled "Finally a Trial Date."
November 17, 2009 Christopher David Lyson will stand trial for allegedly murdering my nephew, Ryan Adam Moon. Today my sister Karen met with the assistant district attorney that will try the case. Initially she was apprehensive as he is very young and this is his first murder trial. Karen felt good about him though. In the past the DA has tried ALL murder cases in Ector County but I suppose due to the bad press he has decided to farm some out to his assistants. I wonder why this one? We have so many questions for him. I'm trying to put them together in some type of cohesive format. There is so much we (or the ADA) don't know yet. I think the answer lies in the murder weapon. Was it a knife or a screwdriver? The ADA wasn't aware of a screwdriver until Karen brought it to his attention. I personally mentioned it to Detective Barbosa. Didn't he take notes? There are 2, maybe 3 more people that need to go to jail for this, yet they are free. They are witnesses. Unreliable witnesses according to the ADA. I'll bet if they were arrested for murder, and truly innocent, they would sing like a bird. Maybe then we could get to the truth. I have researched TX law. They are all guilty. I see it all the time on A&E's "The First 48. If for nothing else, they ran with the killer and hid him out from police leaving Adam to die on the street. I do believe in the American justice system. I think it's the best in the world. I have faith the truth will come out.