Suggested Letter to Governor Granholm

Below is a suggested letter to Governor Granholm. You may block off and copy the text. Then, after clicking the link to the official site for conveying to the Governor your concerns, you may paste the content into the body, delete whatever portions you do not wish to send, add your own words, and then submit.

After submitting your letter, you are encouraged to write to Michigan Attorney General Cox. Don't forget to multiply your efforts by sharing these concerns with your friends. Also, we ask everyone to sign our iPetition on the way out so we have a record of all who have written to the Governor.

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Dear Governor Granholm:

I write this letter urging you to exercise your authority as Governor to pardon Frederick Freeman, who is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a first degree murder conviction in 1987. Mr. Freeman, who is now known as Temujin Kensu because of his conversion to Buddhism, has served over 23 years for this offense.

After studying the evidence of the case which led to his wrongful conviction, I can only conclude that he is wholly innocent of these charges. I am not alone in this determination. Everyone who has studied the record has come to the conclusion that Mr. Kensu was not involved in the murder for which he was convicted. The people on the list come from a wide variety of backgrounds and occupations: attorneys, retired judges and law enforcement officers, news reporters and people from many other walks of life.

Our system of justice is good but not perfect. In Temujin’s case, a combination of mistakes and improprieties led to a terrible injustice, and he has paid the price with half of his life.

Please allow him to come home to his friends and family and be the law abiding, productive citizen that he is.

Sincerely.

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