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“THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BROKEN “
I would be Exonerated already, legislations even changed the law stating it wasn’t meant to be used against teens, but because I completed my prison sentence and Parole in 2010, I can’t appeal my case like all the others who are still in custody.
"Most People don’t know me as I build by business from scratch after being wrongfully prosecuted as a 17 year old 1998. I was released from prison in 2006 after getting a grant home from the Parole Board.”
In the early 1990’s many laws that went through legislation used the word “anyone” who does this is guilty to this crime and punishment.
That word was taken as it didn’t matter who or how old you are. So prosecutors were able to wrongly prosecute teens like a 15 year old who admits consensual contact with another 15 year old was “anyone” and was “anyone” who has consensual contact with someone under 16 and was guilty of Second Degree Sexual Assault to a Child!! A Felony charge, Punishable to 20 years in prison with Lifetime on The Nation wide Sex Offender Registry! A crime that was written to protect teens from adults having consensual relationships with teens.
Some courts did this to many teens stating that they had to take an “illegal plea agreement”. That they were “anyone” and if they went to jury trial they would lose and be found guilty.
The first teen who hit National news in 2005. Genarlow Wilson went to jury and even though the jury didn’t agree, but he was anyone and they had to and he was sentenced to 10 years.
His case is the case that sparked the Romeo and Juliet bills. When those bills passed in his state in 2006, it didn’t pass retroactive either. But he was still in custody and won his appeal for cruel harsh and unusual punishment and was exonerated!
These bills are going through states so slowly that Wisconsin finally passed the Romeo and Juliet bills in 2018 and still fail to pass retroactive. Which stops the teens who were sentenced over twenty years ago and successfully completed their sentence, not be able to appeal their case and be exonerated due to the legislation law that says if your not “in custody” anymore and completed their sentence that they can’t appeal their case.
Hi, I am Robert Peterson asking for support as I have fought for justice and freedom and hit walls because of the court system as I am also one of the first teens like Genarlow Wilson and "Brian Banks" to go to prison as a teen for consensual contact with another teen.
See "Brian Banks" new movie after being sentenced 12 years for a rape he didnt do at 16 years old. Starring Morgan Freeman, after his lawyer advised him to take a plea bargain. Told him that he will lose in trial that he’ll have an all white jury, and with him being a big black football player that he won’t win. The judge accepted his guilty plea but not the plea agreement and sentenced him to prison.
Genarlow made national news for getting sentenced to ten years after jury trial because it was on video that a 15 year old gave him oral sex when he was seventeen and can clearly see they both consented.
“The 15 year old girl's mother who stated that she forgave Genarlow and was in favor of his release.”
I was sentenced to prison for under age consensual sexual contact to someone who did not attain the age of 16. She was 15 and I was 17. After admitting to a detective after being asked about a blowjob when I was riding in a vehicle in 1999 when I seventeen with three others.
I stated the truth that my friend Darin and I picked up my than 15 year old girlfriend JKR and her friend who was 16, TAG. After riding down the road, her friend, TAG said “ready” and my than fifteen year old girlfriend JKR replied "ready" then she began to unzip my pants and started to give me oral sex. about a month after we broke up, After admitting the oral sex had happed, the detective then stated that JKR claimed I forced her to give me the blow job.
A week or more before the detective showed up at my door, JKR called me at my apartment. At this point we haven’t dated or heard from each other for about 4 months.
She called about having her mom’s money that her mom had loaned me. I stated I didn’t have the whole amount and that I could make a payment plan.
I also stated that I had a decent job and just got my first apartment, even though it would have been my senior year, I was no longer in school, I had dropped out my sophomore year.
I could hear her mom in the backround when JKR told her. I could hear her mom and that’s not what she wanted to hear and was upset.
Almost nine months after the detective showed up at my apartment, I went to court for forced rape 940.225 with the use of force.
The criminal complaint states that Darin, TAG and my statement were consistent that the two females planned this before we picked them up. In the criminal complaint, JKR also claims I forced sex 6 months prior to the blow job. Which I stated that there was no forced rape.
I went into court with a court appointed attorney where you will hear in court that he filed a motion to dismiss the forced allegations, that the two girls had preplanned the blow job and that the 15 year old was the one who was the aggressor. The judge was prejudiced against me and you will hear that they dropped the rape charge to a different charge, 2nd degree sexual assault to a child 948.02 without the use of force. With the same penalty.
The legislation wording “anyone” who has sexual contact with someone under the age of 16 which has the same punishment for felony up to 20 years in prison. The wording “anyone” which is now being changed to “anyone who has attained the age of 18" but actually 19 or older.
The Romeo and Juliet bills that passed in Wisconsin March of 2019 the age of consent was changed from 18 to 19. So anyone who was 18, can now get off the registry. So many 18 year olds are seniors in high school who dated their high school sweetheart and many are married today.
In court My lawyer raised that JKR was the aggressor and that she should be charged for a misdemeanor for someone who has sexual contact with someone under the age 18. Me being the one under 18. This is how my first plea was designed. Many teens have plead to this charge even though they were underage.
The judge wasn’t trying to hear my lawyer and said I had to take a plea. That JKR can’t be the actor and me be the victim. That I was 17 and should have stopped her and told her no.
Judge states he would not just drop the case, told my lawyer “you know how it works” and that I had to and must take a plea.
I than went to court with an illegal plea, but had to take it.
The next court hearing I was ready to take the plea, but before the hearing, the DA wanted to change the plea. That she wanted Me to take a different plea. So in that hearing you’ll hear that and they set another plea hearing.
I went to the next court date and was forced to take the second illegal plea agreement.
An illegal plea agreement that I appealed while in prison. My lawyers filed on the grounds of an illegal plea agreement. The court of appeals agrees but made it aware because the legislation wording, They stated if they reopened my case that I would easily be found guilty in jury by my statement that she had given me oral sex. The appeal courts only corrects court mistakes that are raised, not the legislation wording and prevented me from proceeding my appeal.
An illegal plea agreement with two filed and incorrect, 1/2 filled out plea questionnaires, the second plea agreement is not filled out all the way and in it, I never plead no contest to the theft, and no box checked for the plea on the second degree sexual assault. No boxes checked for plea of guilt in which I ended up getting sentenced to eight years in prison. During the hearings you never hear anything of getting sentenced to prison. In fact, you will read in my plea questionnaire that i would not be sentenced no more than one year in county jail. I’m now almost 40 still fighting for my Justice and identity!
This case is so messed up that you’ll clearly see that the judge was prejudiced against me. No one else was charged, not even the driver of the vehicle who was 18 and was never prosecuted for letting a 16 year old give him oral sex which would have been the crime of a misdemeanor, having sexual contact with someone who was not yet 18. With no more than 1 year of jail penalty.
Now that I know there are others and how Genarlow overturned his case. Because I am not “in custody” meaning in prison, jail, probation/extended supervision. That it’s very difficult for anyone to be able to appeal their case. But I did find that in other states legislation‘s, that there are bills that states have adopted that if you’re on the sex offender registry, you’re “in custody” so I Can appeal my case once that would happen. So for me to do that, I have to get that bill into Wisconsin legislation. Wait for it to be passed so I can appeal my case and after that finally get my Felony and theft off my record and off the registry. Which will take years at this rate! This system isn’t right. I should be pardoned now or fast tracked.
The Romeo and Juliet Bills straightens some of the issues, but not all, many states the bills missed other areas where they also need to be changed. The most important one to me as I’m waiting for it to be retroactive! They didn’t make it retroactive to teens who were charged before 2018 when the Bills were signed by governor Walker in Wisconsin.
I have many accomplishments that is unbelievable and am standing up to help me and others to get the legislation wording fixed in every state ASAP.
The bills have not yet been reintroduced and I’m still waiting!
In the court transcripts, you will see how the judge treated me with cruel harsh and unusual punishment like the first teen who made national news for getting sentenced to prison for ten years in 2005. I was released in 2006 -than he was released in 2007 when his case went to appeal for cruel harsh and unusual punishment.
Why is it taking a lifetime to change the legislation wording in every State! And to change them right now and help those who struggle the label on the registry that doesn’t even tell you what or why they are on the registry. “The 15 year old girl's mother stated that she forgave Genarlow and was in favor of his release.”
Genarlow Wilson
Genarlow’s case is what started the Romeo and Juliet bills in 2007 and is taking forever to get to states and we have to stand for it to happen as our voices and efforts haven’t been enough.
See all the court documents with actual court transcripts for proof in our tabs.
Read more of my story as I continue to build this website. And as it builds it will get into all prison records, achievements before during and after along with many efforts with community support. How my business goals and outstanding achievements for awards and even becoming inventor #10,501,943 B1 for a utility patent for systems and methods for installing natural wood flooring where I showed non-obviousness and an inventive step in prior art that promoted the progress of science and useful arts. Patent #10,501,943 B1