That Middleton Man

If You Haven't Heard It In Awhile, The Kenneth G. Middleton Story, That Innocent Man Who Was Accused Of Murder, Then Convicted Of It, Is Making News Again, It Seems A Local TV Station There In KC, Has picked Up The Story Of That Middleton Man, It Was On After The 2019 Super Bowl, It Was A Good Piece, Spot On Investigative Reporting, A Review You May Read, Although With Limited Time, And A New Revelation, This Case, This Story, Could Use Its Own Nelson Rating Certification, A Mini-Series Allocation, Keep In Mind It's Been Unfolding Nearly 30 Years And Counting, For Gods Sake, This Man's Time In The Pen, Under A Wrongful Conviction, Is A Year More Than Mandela's, As Long As Joplin, Morris, Hendrix, And Dean's Existence, This Case Is About To Explode Into National Headlines, To Think What It's Been Like To Survive In Prison, For A Man Tagged A Wife Killer, The TV Coverage That Just Aired, That Middleton Man's Story, Failed To Mention, Along With That Alford Plea He Rejected, That The Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney, At That Time, Whose Name Is Mike D. Sanders, Who Held That Office Of Jackson County Prosecutor, If It Wasn't Mentioned, Began Serving A 27 Month Sentence In A Federal Facility, This Past November, 2018, More On That In A Minute, But Back To That Alford Plea Offered Middleton, In 2004 I Do Believe, Immediately Following His Evidentiary Hearing, Not Too Certain That The State Would Fair Well, Against That Middleton Man, Sanders' Alford Would Have Protected The County By Stating Middleton Isn't Innocent But Saying The Evidence Was Enough For An Incarceration, Although The Letter Or Plea Would Provide That Middleton Man An Opportunity To Go Free, But Not Get Paid For Any Time He Didn't Agree, Or Maybe Thought To Harsh A Penalty, But More Importantly It Would Hold The State, More Importantly, The County, Harmless, That's Right, Hold Harmless, For Any Suit Or Proceeding In Court, If That Middleton Man Should Ever Think His Rights Had Been Violated, To Any Degree, Most Importantly The Letter Read, Or Demanded An Immediate Release, A Deal Any Other Man Would Agree To, A Deal Worth Taking, Considering The Time Already Served, Just The Thought Of Time That The Sentence would Conclude, The Judge Read It So Elegantly  Or Should I Say nonchalantly , "Your Natural Life Plus 200 Additional Years On Top" Just To Pound The Sentence Home, Overwhelming To The Man Who Would Ever Get Such A Sentence, But In Addition, I Reckon, His Family Must Have Fallen From What's Called Grief Stricken, To Sanders Disbelief, Middleton Scoffed At The Plea, I Picture Him, That Middleton Man, Standing Taller And With Holler, "I'm An Innocent Man, Who You, The State, Convicted Of First Degree, Murdering My Beautiful Wife, Because You Refuse To See, While Just Putting Away My Gun, A Task Completed 100 Times, Or More, Before, This Time The Gun Juggled In Her Hands, An Accidental Self-Inflicted Wound, Scientific Tests Would Have Proven, But That Police Department In Blue Springs, So Eager For A Homicide, (Testimony Years Later Would Reveal), Lost The Gunshot Residue Test, Taken Off The Left Hand Of Mrs. Middleton, Could Have Been Destroyed, I Say So Because Someone On That Force Tried To Cover-Up, That A Test Was Ever Taken, I Believe They Poured Whiteout On The Document That Stated, The Left Hand Had Been Tested, Even If They Can't Recall, If It Was Or If It Was Not, An Officer's Report Of That Day Remarks, There Was Tests Taken, But It Didn't Matter, They Never Surfaced, The Crime Scene Photos Neither, All But Destroyed Before Court, As Well, Can You Believe, They Claimed Human Error, That Middleton Man Was Railroaded, That's For Certain, The Gun Was Taken Apart Too, "It Can't Be" You Say, Before Testing? A Big No No, Of Course, Because That Would Prevent Accurate Testing Similar To The Day In Question, Just One More Thing, The 911 Recordings Were All Erased Before Trial, But The Prosecutor Read Them Off Transcript, At Trial, Monotone With No Emotion Or Expression, Must Have Played Right, Because Those Jurors Didn't Take Notice, As The State Shifted The Burden Of Proof Onto That Man Middleton, A load Too Great For His Attorney, Robert Duncan, Yes, You See, That Attorney Bypassed The Opening Statement, Forgot To Depose The States Witnesses, Ill prepared For Cross Examination, In Addition He  Never Called A Witness, Of His Own Will You See, Deemed Ineffective Counsel Four Times On File, 1988-1992, Most Attorneys Will Have An Entire Career Without One Such Blemish, This Man Had Four In As Many Years, It Is Fair To Note, That The Other Cases That Deemed Duncan Ineffective, All Had Their Convictions Vacated, Because Of His Representation Or Lack Of, All Except That Middleton Man, If I Hadn't Read That All As Fact, I'd Have To Take It All Back, A Work of Fiction Would Be Exact, I'm Not Through, The Prosecutor On The Case, Who Was Known As Doctor Death, All His Death Penalty Verdicts Had Made Him Famous, His Father, An Honorable Man Who Happened To Be A Retired Judge Was Acting As Special Counsel For The Law Firm Who Slapped A Civil Wrongful Death Suit Against Middleton, But If That Law Firm Should Be Victorious, Wouldn't His Kid, The Prosecutor Trying The Case, Get That Money Eventually, Some Often Say, Within Those Circles, Things Run Down Hill For Certain, Inheritances More Specific, So Said Our Man In Arkansas, Certainly Creating A Conflict Of Interest, It would Seem, That Question, With Several Others, Were Presented To A Judge, When The Law Firm Won The Proceedings In The Civil Matter, The Appeal Was Denied In That Civil Setting, Because That Judge Saw No Conflict Of Interest, But This Should Be Noted, The Judge Who Made The Decision, Was Too A Former Partner In That Same Law Firm Years Before, The Same One, Where That Judge Was Special Counsel, I Can't Begin To Tell You How That Was A Big Conflict Of Interest, Maybe The Biggest Of All, In The History Of All Court Proceedings, But All Those Happenings Or Mishaps, Were In The First Phase Of It, It Can't Be True Again, That Middleton Man Got Screwed Again, This Middleton Man's Dire Predicament, Oh Lord We Pray That He Gets His Day, Fast Forward 12 - 13 Years, Back To The Prosecuting Attorney Serving 27 Months As Of November 2018,  Mike D. Sanders Meets Cliff Middleton, At A Local Eatery, For Dinner At Cascone's, They Agreed, Italian Would Be The Flavor, Like Old Mob Movie Flare, An Old Gangster Matinee, Sanders Sits With His Back Against A Wall, You Get The Picture, Pick Any Movie With A Gangster Lead Role, A Godfather Movie I'd Prefer, Sanders' References A Few, As If He's Playing A Part, Unfortuntately It's Not, A Real Man Is Caught Up In This Drama, Whether He Believed It Or Not, It's During This Dinner That Sanders Pokes Fun At The Brief, The Brief That The Middleton Man Plans To File, A Piece Ripped Off The Back Of The Brief, I Suspect Was Enough For Him To Laugh, Made Sanders Reference The Jailhouse Lawyer Theme, Want To Be Good With The Briefs, I Think He Blurted Out, Only Quickly To Suggest The Direction Cliff Should Go, If He Wanted Relief, A Chance, At Getting The Results That He Could Grant, No Questions Asked, Middleton Was Anxious At The Chance, Of Setting His Dad Free, Once And For All, Going On His 13th Year Of Wrongful Incarceration, A Time Span, That Would Have Eaten Up Most Men, So When The Jackson County Prosecutor Suggested A Plan, The Right Man To Re-File, That 29.15, Post Conviction Relief, It Was All Cliff Could See, The Middleton Team Wasted No Time, Connecting With That Suggestion, They Were Hopeful That This Nightmare Was About Over, Regardless If Those Briefs Would Cost Nearly Three Times The Norm, It Was For Freedom And The Results Were More less Guaranteed, Written On The Wall, But They Couldn't Have Predicted What An SOB, Sanders Could Be, More Serious Than A Campaign Kickback Scheme, Most Defiantly If You Were To Ask Me, The Ramification, If One Was To Look, Is That A County Prosecutor Can't Serve Two Masters, His People and His Pocket, I Think It's Been Ruled, Nor would One Deny That If You Were Caught With Your Hand In The Cookie Jar, As Far Back As ‘03, There's A Good Chance That There Were Other Discrepancies, Before That Too, Indeed, Because Any Man Who Can Appeal A Judge's Ruling, To Vacate A Wrongful Conviction And Sentence, Like Everyone Could See, Under The Guise Of Standard Review, As He Did, Appealing  Messina's Ruling, Regarding Middleton In 2005, Then Immediately Hide Behind A Conflict of Interest, Turn It Over To The Attorney General, All After Offering That Same Man, You Appealed, An Alford Plea, With An Immediate Release, Nearly Two Years Prior, That Alford Plea He Reckoned Would Prevent An Even Greater Short Fall, In That There County General Fund, A Fund He Would Come To Control, All Too Well, Manage In The Near Future As Jackson County Executor, Without That Alford Plea, That Six Million Shortfall Could Have Been Up In The Air, Greater Indeed, Knowingly And Consciously Holding A Human Being In Captivity, Like That Middleton Man, They Have, For 28 Plus Years, It Makes Me Wonder, When Sanders Appealed That Messina Ruling, Did He Know That It Would Appear In Front Of Three, The Three Judges, The One Who Wrote The Opinion, Agreeing With The State, That Messina Based Her Judgment On Erroneous Review, When She Didn't Have Jurisdiction, It Seems, That Judge I Speak Of Today, Can You Believe, Is Mike D. Sanders Lawyer Today, So I Read, I Can Vividly See Sanders Stating His Case, Personally To The Judge, His Friend, That If Middleton Got Out That Day, "Ronnie He'll Bankrupt The Government, That Of Jackson County. So If You Care For The County, The Office Too, That Of The Executive, My Friend, Do What’s Right, At Any Cost, Don't Let Middleton Out, For The City Will Fall, The Judicial Branch Isn't Immune, To The Things Middleton Can Do" If Found Out He's Been A Prisoner Of War, It's Amazing That The Federal Agents Investigating Violations, Which Produced Campaign Fund Irregularities, Had Peeked A little Harder, This Case Would Be In The State Department's Hands, They Would Have Seen Human Rights Violations, Civil Liberties Atrocities, Right In Front Of Them, Closer Than It Would Seem, Especially If One Was To Tie Those Super Expensive Briefs Back To A Thief,  That Offered The Alford Plea, Ken His Freedom, But With Certain Conditions, A Plea Agreement You See, Would Have Kept Ken Middleton From Suing Anyone It Seems, So When He Didn't Sign, It Must Have Irritated The Future Executive, So Much In Fact, That He Had No Qualms, Of Sending Middleton Back To A Cell, To Rot And Wither, I Can Hear Him Say, "I Made Him An Offer He Couldn't Refuse" But Buddy Ole Pal, You Forgot Just A Thing, It's That Tough Middleton Man, You Thought You'd Just Throw Away, Funny How Things Come To Be, He's On His 28th Year, You Just Got 27 Months, How The Media Reported How You Begged For Mercy, It should Have Been 27 Months In A Cell Next To Middleton, Then You'd Know What No Mercy Means, A Sentence By You To Kill One Man, Only Made Him Stronger, More Fight For The Man, And One Son Stronger, This Truth Will Be Revealed, That’s For Certain, This Is Only My Opinion, What I Just Presented, But If One Should Question If I'm Familiar, Or Not, Maybe Not As Versed As All Of The Team Members, Team Middleton, I'd Say A Close Second To Any, A Friend Of The Family, I've Always Been, Who Wrote This All Down, For The Record, Try Doing It Yourself, It's No Easy Feat, But I Suppose It Won't Be Noteworthy, What Most Don't Get, That The More Material You Have Floating Around With Your Cause And Your Case, Is Best For Optimization, A Term That Most Won't Hold, Please Step Up And Give Your Sample, Your Writing If You're Able, If Of Legal Voice, Than Make It A Decree, Whatever The Case, I've Already Had One Cease And Desist From Nine years Prior, I Did Mention I'm A Family Friend, Please Hurry Up You See, There’s A Man Who’s Been Waiting For Nearly 30 Years, Waiting For The Key, To Set Himself Free. 
Michael Quijas 

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