recently, there has been a deluge of media criticism regarding governor huckabee and the wayne dumond case. there have been countless news programs and news articles detailing governor huckabee's so-call responsibility and involvement in this case. unfortunately, ALL THE FACTS OF THE CASE HAVE NOT BEEN ACCURATELY REPORTED.
below is an article written by brian cherry of 'the new media journal'. in it, mr. cherry presents details of the case that have not been widely reported in the main stream media. mr. cherry presents the history and background of the case. he also explains commutation, pardon and parole in the state of arkasas, and specifically, governor huckabee's role in this case.
here a few excerpts: (note: this article contains colorful commentary and graphic details.)
"...Wayne Dumond’s journey to freedom started when Bill Clinton’s liberal Democrat successor to Governorship of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, commuted Dumond’s sentence from life plus twenty years to a total of 39 years. Thanks to Tucker this dangerous predator became eligible for parole in 1994 instead of being locked away from society forever. Huckabee inherited this issue when Guy Tucker was convicted of corruption associated with the Whitewater investigation and forced to resign.
In 1999 the parole board took a vote regarding the release of Dumond, and the majority cast their lot in favor of letting him out of jail. Portraying this democratic vote to parole a convict as a gubernatorial pardon is about as accurate as describing the landslide victory of Ronald Reagan as a great moment in the history of despotic power grabs.
Ever since the release and subsequent crimes of Dumond, the members of the parole board responsible for his freedom have used the occasion of a Huckabee election cycle to rush to any available microphone and claim that the Governor forced them to parole the rapist.
Every member of the parole board that freed Dumond was either appointed by Bill Clinton or Jim Guy Tucker; both liberal Democrats and opponents of Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee was never shy about his intentions regarding Dumond, he leaned heavily to the side of seeing the man released. The parole board saw it this way, too. The reasons for this were because compelling evidence shed light on the possibility that Dumond was actually not guilty. Any good Governor or parole board would do their ethical best to err on the side justice.
The case was politically charged in the state of Arkansas because the victim in the rape that sent Wayne Dumond to prison for life plus twenty years was Ashley Stevens, a teenaged cheerleader and cousin of Bill Clinton.
Let’s ignore the sympathy for Dumond that was inspired when he was assaulted in his home, hogtied, castrated, and his testicles displayed in a jar on the desk of Sheriff Coolidge Conlee. According to Steve Dunleavy of the New York Post, Conlee even put a note under the body parts that stated "That's what happens to people who fool around in my county." Sympathy isn’t evidence, even though it may sway the sort who participates in the politics of really bitter tears, we shouldn’t release criminals because we feel sorry for them. In the case of Wayne Dumond his release was partly due to the fact that the victim’s account and the evidence were at odds.
One of the most emotionally charged moments in this continuing saga was when Ashley Stevens went nearly nose to nose with Governor Huckabee and said, "This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond, and I will never forget his face, and you will never forget mine. He's the one that raped me." Oddly enough, according to NewsMax, she couldn’t remember the eye color of the man whose face she would “never forget”. When giving a description of Dumond she got this basic fact wrong along with a botched description of the vehicle he was driving.
There are other problems with this case that are on a genetic level, and when we say “genetic” we don’t mean the foggy memory that seems to kick in whenever somebody with Clinton DNA has to answer questions. We mean that the DNA from the crime scene didn’t match that of Wayne Dumond.
Dr. Moses Schanfield, who heads the Analytic Genetic Testing Center in Denver, took the semen sample left on Ashley’s jeans, and tested it to see if it matched Wayne Dumond at a genetic level. After the results of the test were in, Schanfield told New York Post reporter, Steve Dunleavy, that "This case was a disgrace" and that sperm found on the girl's jeans could not “in a million years” belong to Dumond. Moses Schafield testified to this fact during one of Dumond’s appeals.
In the end Wayne Dumond was sent to, and kept in jail based on nothing more then the word of the victim, a botched description, and DNA that was a negative match for his.
People can speculate all they want on Huckabee’s involvement in this issue and the parole board members can continue to try to blame him for the vote that they made of their own free will; that’s just the politicized world we live in today.
We can also ask questions like did the criminal castration and imprisonment of an innocent man turn him into a monster, or was Dumond already a monster who got framed for a crime he didn’t commit? All this is open for consideration. The fact that cannot be contested is that Dumond was paroled by a vote of board members that were all appointed by liberal Democrats, not pardoned by Governor Huckabee who happens to be a Republican; these are two completely different things.
The parole board is an independent entity that used its constitutional power to secure Dumond’s release. In Arkansas, the Governor has no vote or say in this process. Huckabee’s only legal action in this case was to deny Executive Clemency. These are facts that ABC not only didn’t present, but distorted either by incompetence or design.
the entire article can be found here.
it is frustrating and pathetic, that the media can distort the facts so purposefully. they have such power to wield. simply a headline accusing governor huckabee can mislead the public, leading to foregone conclusions.
despite the media's intense "spin" on this case, governor huckabee continues to graciously and consistently address the issues presented, with the truth. that's all he can do.
friends, let's pray for governor huckabee. pray that God will sustain him, as he perseveres through the media and opponents' attacks. and pray that americans will see past the 'spin', and seek and see the truth.
prayer is our weapon... for we serve a mighty God!
"the weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. on the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds." 2 corinthians 10:4
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