Happiness Is Having a Spy in the Klink (Bill Windsor)
The Latest Law Lecture from Inmate 14-1898
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB

This is a follow-up to my Dec 27 article about the incarceration of Bill Windsor. I have now learned that he was set free on Dec 19, 2014. We citizens have all gained immensely from his 53-day “visit” to jail. Nobody can match Bill as a stickler for legal procedure, so undoubtedly many an imprisoned person will benefit from his latest expose’s.

Bill’s website, lawlessamerica.com, seems to blink on and off, so I have captured a short text to post here, from “the man in the fluorescent orange boots”:

“It was old pro se me against The Ellis County District Attorney Patrick Wilson. Patrick Wilson is the main man. He’s probably typical of many small county district attorneys – not that sharp. Patrick Wilson is bald and always wears what appear to be Walmart suits that have pants that are too tight and a suit coat that is way too short. Sorry to be rude, but this does paint the picture – wouldn’t want anyone to think I was up against a super attorney or a sharp dresser.
I didn’t feel that under-dressed in my orange-striped prison jumpsuit and my orange fluorescent rubber shoes. I had filed a First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in regard to my wrongful “arrest,” wrongful incarceration, wrongful denial of bond, and wrongful failure to release me after 30 days. I made sure Judge Cindy Ermatinger had it, and I went through an explanation of how each law in Article 51 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure (extradition statutes) had been violated ….
The only argument that Ellis County Texas District Attorney Patrick Wilson could make was to try to claim the law is other than the statute and case law establish as to what date was the starting point for counting 30 days. He had already blown that one by using the correct date on his count for when 90 days would be up. I enjoyed cramming that down his throat.”

Bill believes he was treated gently in jail because he was identified as “media.” Yay!

And Yay for legal procedure, too!

-- Mary W Maxwell was awarded a law degree, mirabile dictu, by The University of Adelaide in 2011. Her recent comments on the Sandy Hook massacre and the Beantown Marathon are linked below.