Robert McClendon
UPDATE! (court recording)
Also
see
regarding Jose's infidelities with Paula and the
conspiracy to set Robert up for aggravated assault.
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Robert was set up for an
aggravated assault to cover up the disappearance of
Baby Doe. To prove that Robert and Christine
were getting ready for the baby to be born, click
.
The possible theory we have regarding this set up,
is that Paula knew that Christine disposed of Baby
Doe McClendon and held it over Christine's head to
force her to help her set up Robert or Paula would
turn in Christine for disposing of the baby.
Visit Baby Doe's page.
To Christine and Paula: We just want you two to know that it is not over. More has come out, but we are not posting it at this time because we are so sure that you are watching this page. You will find out soon enough. You have a choice. You can wait for the surprise we have for you both, or you can just go and confess. Maybe they will offer you a plea bargain. But with the evidence piling up against you both, and that conviction is evident, then again, maybe they won't. One thing that is for sure, is that the day is coming and justice will be serviced for what you have done to the baby and Robert. Scared? You should be. All your lies are coming out in the open.
If you want more proof that Robert was set up for aggravated assault, read the letter from Jose's wife, Emma. In the letter, it talks about the conspiracy to set Robert up and the affair that Jose had with Christine's daughter, Paula, who was a minor at the time. After Jose was subpoenaed to appear in court to testify for Robert, Paula threatened Jose. Jose got scared and fled to Honduras because Paula threatened to have him prosecuted for having sex with a minor.
( The recording on this page will automatically start. In order to hear one of the recordings, click on the title.)
UPDATE! (court recording)
Phuong and Dung, Robert's Friends in Vietnam
I was convicted in Harris County, Texas
for a crime I did not commit.
Christine and Paula Trent (the dynamic duo)
If you see these two.. RUN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, unless you want to go to jail too.
This man was married, but involved with Paula. He states that he is scared because she threatened to do the same thing to him, that she did to Robert.
Jose left and went to Honduras because he was scared that Paula would go through with her threats to set him up, leaving behind his family. Listen to the conversation with Jose's wife, Emma. Hence, another family destroyed!
That makes this direct quote from the Harris County District Attorney's office...A BIG JOKE!
"The Harris County District Attorney's Office is dedicated to the vigorous prosecution of those who commit crimes within the county. As the chief advocate for the State and citizens of our community in criminal matters, the District Attorney seeks to provide quality legal representation while maintaining the integrity of the criminal justice system. We believe that criminals must be held accountable and that victims be treated with the dignity, compassion and justice they deserve. We strive to sort the innocent from the guilty, and seek justice not just convictions.
To that end, we strive for excellence throughout our staff. We expect not only competence but also professionalism and an absolute commitment to the ends of securing justice without regard to status, race, gender, or national origin, or the prominence of either the victims of crime or those charged with crimes."
Sorry, no more emailing Chuck Rosenthal (EX-Harris County District Attorney). He had to resign his position after a lawsuit was filed to remove him from office. Guess we have to see if the next D.A. will straighten out that office.
(Earlier in the week before my arrest.)
On Saturday September 10, 2005. I was at my
mother’s house with my girlfriend and her two
daughters (Paula and Sara). At the time, Sara was
17 years old and Paula was 18 years old. On that
day the youngest girl, Sara, started going crazy in
my Mom’s house. She was throwing and breaking things
and cursing at everyone, including her own mother,
Christine, and threatening to beat up my mother, who
was about 70 years of age at that time. It got so
bad and out of hand, nobody could stop Sara from
what she was doing. Sara was even urinating
everywhere in the house at will, on the furniture
and the floors.
Ultimately, I found it necessary to dial 911, and
members from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s
Department arrived and they had a talk with Sara
about her behavior. The police officer told me and
Sara’s mother that she was “not right in the head,”
and that she needed psychological counseling. This
is because Sara suffers from spina-bifida, a
congenital condition, and she has water build up on
the brain that has to be controlled with a shunt,
which drains cerebral spinal fluid from the brain.
At any rate, after the police left, Sara’s mother
got really mad and came back in the house yelling,
“That is just great! They are going to put Sara in a
psych ward, and I am going to lose Sara’s Social
Security check!” (Angry because she did not want to
work!) Christine stayed mad at me all day for
calling the police! On Wednesday, September 14,
2005, the oldest girl, Paula, had been having boys
come in through the front window of my mobile home-
consistently one boy named Derek, who, at the time
was only 15 years old.
Anyway, on September 14, 2006 I had had enough of
this boy and other young men coming into my home
through the windows late at night and having the
neighbors talking about it. I, Christine and Paula
took a drive to an Ace hardware store and I
purchased two window locks. Christine and I locked
both inside and outside (storm window) windows so
these young men could not come into my home late at
night anymore. I then took Christine and Paula with
me to go talk to the boy’s (Derek) mother. I told
her that I did not want him coming back on my
property anymore. This boy had been told previously
not to come in through the window and he didn't
listen. I told him “If you want to see Paula then
you are going to have to knock on the front door and
visit her this way, not come through the front
window.” Mind you, this had gone on for so long and
Paula would not behave or listen to either her
mother or me. We did not have any problem with Paula
going out on dates or seeing these boys, I was just
not going to have them come into my house through
the front window and let all the neighbors see and
talk about us.
Picture of Paula Trent's bedroom window that was
locked and sealed by Robert so that she could no
longer sneak men in through her window.
After locking the window and talking to the boy’s
mother, I had called the police on Paula because she
was going crazy after her mother and I secured the
bedroom window. The weekend before I had noticed
that my back door had also been pried open and
someone had tried to break into my home. The office
manager had also told me that the boy Derek and
another boy, also named Derek, had a reputation of
breaking into homes in the neighborhood. I heard
this from the manager on the same day that I had
talked with Derek’s mother. I had had enough! I was
dealing with break-ins, boys coming through my front
window, and Paula going crazy to the point that she
was out of control.
So I called the police to have a talk with her and
to report the break-in. I did not want Paula to get
into any trouble, and only wanted the officer to
talk to her and tell her what she was doing was
wrong and to take a report on the attempted break-in
at my back door. After the officer left, Christine
(girlfriend) was furious with me and said I better
not ever call another cop on her kids. I told her
that if anymore boys came in through my front window
or tried to break into my home, then I was going to
call the police. Christine looked at me and said
“We’ll see about that!” What Christine was also
talking about was that I was trying to get her 18-
year-old daughter into trouble for having sex with a
15 year-old-boy, and that I was trying to have her
daughter put in jail for consorting with a minor.
I told Christine that I never said anything about
the age of the kids to the police. All I said was
that I didn’t want them coming through my windows
anymore - that’s all. If Paula wanted to date
anyone, I didn’t care as long as they were not
trying to break into the house or come in the
windows. I told Christine that they could come to
the front door and ask for her just like anyone else
would. I told Paula that she was 18 years old and
she was an adult, and if she wanted to have a
lifestyle like that, she could go get her own
apartment and have all the boys that she wanted.
She could have them knock on her own front door and
come in instead of dragging then through the
windows.
(The day of my arrest)
The very next day, Thursday September 15, 2005,
Christine and I woke up. I believe it was about
4:00 a.m. in the morning. Christine woke Paula up
and the three of us went out to do the church run.
We always went every week to go pick up food for
the church to feed the homeless and people that were
not quite so fortunate. I did this and volunteered
my time because the church had done so much for me
in the past. You see, I am disabled from a truck
accident and had to go on disability income, and it
was hard to make it without what the church did for
us.
The church never asked me to do it. I did it
because I did not want to take something without
giving something back. After we finished the church
run and came back home, I had to lie down because I
was in a lot of pain. I was always in severe pain
and, when we would do the church run, I would always
have to lie down afterward.
While I was lying down and went to sleep, Christine
and the two girls went to the girls’ room to play
video games – or so I thought! Christine was back in
the room with them for a long time, and then came
out later that evening. I did not really know what
time it was because I was still half asleep when she
woke me up coming through the living room.
Christine went into the kitchen and was washing
something in the sink. Then the stereo in the girls’
room was turned up real loud. (To let you know, the
girls have never turned the stereo up loud before if
they knew I was sleeping.)
I told Christine to please go back there and have
them turn the down the volume. Christine went to the
girls’ room and told Paula to turn it down because I
was asleep. Then Christine came back through the
living room and went back into the kitchen. Just
then, Paula turned the volume back up on the stereo,
and it was even louder this time. I told Christine
to go back there and get Paula to come out into the
living room.
Christine went back there and got her to come out.
Christine came out and Paula followed her. Christine
went into the kitchen and Paula stopped behind the
living room front door and stood there. I asked
Paula what her problem was. I told her that her
mother already came back there and told her to turn
down the volume because I was sleeping. Then Paula
started screaming at me and was saying that I never
let her do anything that she wanted. I said to her,
“That is not it!” I said, “You can do what ever you
want, but you are not going to have anymore boys
meet you at the front window, and they are not going
to come through the front window either. Not
anymore!” Paula got mad and said, “I’m leaving,”
and opened the front door and ran onto the sidewalk
in front of our porch.
I am still sitting on the side of the bed. (We had
our bed in the front room.) Christine went to the
door because Paula left it open when she ran
outside. Christine ran to the door because Paula
said that she was leaving. I can still hear Paula
screaming outside about not be able to do what she
wanted to do. Christine walked out onto the porch
and was watching Paula screaming and having a fit. I
told Christine to tell her to be quiet and stop her
yelling. Christine would not do it, so I got up off
the bed and went to the door. When I looked outside,
Paula was still yelling and screaming about not
being able to do what she wanted.
I was standing in the doorway and yelled back at
her. I told her to stop screaming and to get back
into the house. She yelled back at me and said,
“No!” So I started to step out onto the porch, and
she began running toward the street. (This was the
last time I ever saw her again.)
I told Christine to go and get her and then
Christine just looked at me and smiled. Then she
shook her head “no.” Christine started walking out
toward the street, and I thought she was going after
Paula. I had went back and sat down in the recliner
chair. I thought Christine was still going to get
Paula. I got up out of the recliner and went into
the kitchen, and just then the maintenance man ran
into my living room demanding my guns. In the next
few minutes I found myself going to jail - I had no
idea what was going on or why.
It was not until after I was in jail did I start to
figure out what had really happened, and still I did
not know the reasons. I was only guessing to myself
– was this is because I had called the police on the
girls twice in one week?
I was released from jail very early in the morning
on Sunday, September 18, 2006. My mother and her
cousin came and got me out and took me home. I was
still crying and confused about what happened to me.
I was still guessing it was because I had called the
police on Christine’s children.
(The day of the protective order hearing)
On my birthday, November 2, 2005, I showed up for
the protective order hearing. This was on the
November 2 and 4, 2005. Since they had a protective
order put out on me and they signed it. It was a
legal affidavit, and it allowed my attorney to put
them on the stand to question them. This caught
Paula and Christine off guard. They thought that
they were going to get the order signed by the judge
and be out of there. It didn’t happen that way.
Both Paula and Christine were separated so they
could each be questioned independently. When each of
them was put on the stand, they each told completely
different stories about what they had made up. They
could not even keep their stories straight. It was
a beautiful thing that they made themselves look
like fools. But when it was over, the judge granted
them the protective order anyway.
One was questioned on November 2, 2005 and the other
was questioned on November 4, 2005. Being able to go
home, one would think that on November 3, 2005 that
they would have conspired to get their stories to
jive, but they didn’t. During the protective order
hearing, they accused me of pulling guns on Paula in
the house. They said that I used multiple guns and
kept changing them out because I could not make up
my mind which one I wanted to use. But still in the
hearing, they kept getting their stories all mixed
up. AS THIS STORY GOES ON, IT ONLY GETS BETTER AND
MORE COMPLICATED.
(The protective
order violation)
This story only gets better. Someone kept coming by
my mother’s house where I had been staying after all
this had happened to me. They kept vandalizing my
mother’s mailbox. The last time the mailbox was
trashed. It had been backed over it with a pickup
truck. Anyway, a tail light lens was broken out,
and it was on the ground by the broken mailbox.
During this time my mother had hired a caretaker
for me because of my disability, and also because of
my mental heath after being traumatized by what had
happened to me.
My brother came over and traced the truck lens to a
Ford pickup truck. The red plastic part had a part
number located on the inside of the lens. My
brother called truck dealers acting as if he needed
to get it replaced and wanted to make sure he got
the right one. The dealers used the part number and
told him the exact make and model of the truck it
came from.
Armed with this info my brother got up on the
morning of Thursday, February 23, 2006 and made his
plans. He knew them (Christine and her family) very
well and did not trust them in any way. He planned a
route before he went over to their house to look for
a pickup truck with a broken tail light. He also
thought if he were seen by them that they might try
to do something to him, but he was one step ahead of
them.
My brother started making cell phone calls from his
house so that the towers would track his movement
and his location. He called his customers and
friends that knew him very well and our mother.
During his route he stopped and purchased gas, and
he used his credit card. While he was doing this, he
made sure he was on the store’s cameras at the
pumps.
After he purchased gas he kept making a series of
phone calls so that the towers still tracked his
movements. He went right over to their house to look
for a truck with a broken tail light. He called
several times before he got there but I was still
sleeping and didn't answer the phone, When I got up
I called
him back and he let me know what he was doing and he
was also letting the cell phone towers keep track of
him. I told him not to go over to the area of their
house, but he said it was too late. He was already
there.
My ex-girlfriend and her mother were standing in
the yard when he drove by to look. They saw him and
called the police. He then went and did a job for
one of his customers and went to a bank and cashed a
check so that his face could be seen on the
cameras. When he left the bank he went to the
Sheriff’s office and visited some friends there, all
the while making phone calls so that the cell phone
towers could track him.
(Several bail bond companies called me.)
Shortly after that he went to look for the truck at
their house - I think maybe a month later. One
morning I had several bail bond companies calling me
to let me know that there was a warrant for my
arrest. When I asked why, they said that I violated
the protective order. I was shocked! They told the
police that it was I who drove by their house. As I
explained, I was at home on February 23, 2006, still
in my pajamas, and with my caretaker when my brother
drove by their house. Both Christine and her mother
said it was I and identified me.
An arrest warrant was put out on me and a $10,000.00
dollar bond was placed on me. My mother and I went
and posted bail, and I walked right out the front
door of the jail house. I never spent any time in
jail.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FUNNY!
I had to go to a hearing for violation of the
protective order. My ex-girlfriend and her mother
were there to testify against me. Again they were
separated and put on the stand. When they questioned
Christine, she said it was I who drove by her
mother’s house. She stated I was driving my
brother’s van. They asked her if she got a good
look at me. She said. “Yes!” The prosecutor asked
her to point me out and identify me. She pointed
right at me in the court room and identified me.
She was asked what I looked like. Christine said
that I had a full beard. But the judge had seen me
every month and she knew that I had always been
clean shaven. Then they asked her if the windows
were up or down. She said she didn’t know. Caught
by my attorney! My brother had dark tinted windows
on that van and had the pictures to prove it! (Lot
of laughs!)
Christine also said that when I got arrested for the
violation of protective order and that while I was
in jail I kept making harassing telephone calls to
her house from jail. My attorney slapped herself in
the face and laughed. You see, I was never in jail
so how could I make such calls! Next: The mother
takes the stand. Christine’s mother also testified
on the stand that it was I who that drove in front
of her house. The prosecutor asked her to identify
me. Christine’s mother pointed at me and said it was
I. The prosecutor asked if I had a beard. She said,
“Yes.” She said I had about a three-day growth.
Now remember, Christine said I had a full beard.
They asked her mother if the windows were rolled up
or down. She also said she didn’t know. Caught
again! Again, the judge has always seen me with a
clean shaven face. (Now comes the good part!) My
brother took the stand. He showed up with all his
cell phone records which was his call log from T-Mobile
and pictures of the van with dark tinted windows.
My brother told the court that it was he that drove
by. My brother always had a full beard.
My caretaker took the stand and told the court that
I was under her care at the time of the incident,
and provided an affidavit as well, stating that I
was with her at my home under her care. (The judge
dismissed the case and threw it out!) (Using the
protection of the protective order to take
everything I owned.) I think it was about the
first part of December, 2005. Christine and her
daughters moved, allowing me to go back on my
property and get my things out of my home. When I
got there, I found that every single thing was
gone.
Christine had taken all my personal identification,
my computer certifications off the wall, including
every single thing of value. I was left with nothing
but trash! She even took all of my clothes and all
of my medical records, medications and all pictures
of me growing up, my children’s pictures as well all
of my fathers pictures. (Which were the only
pictures that I had of me, my children and my
father.) My whole history had been erased! I was
just sick and traumatized over what I saw. They even
trashed my car that was still there.
(The day of the trial)
This trial was so confusing to me since I was still
in trauma. When Christine and Paula started to
testify, their stories changed again. This time
they stated on the stand that I chased Paula out of
the house with a 44 magnum revolver. It is odd they
never said anything like that in the protective
order hearing. (I had never even stepped out of the
house that day after getting back from the church
run.)
Paula said that I chased her and caught her out by
the street, but still in the driveway. She told the
court that she was curled up, and I was pointing a
revolver at her. (There were several homes in front
of our trailer in which people are home all day.)
Christine also said the same thing when she was put
on the stand. But - here is the funny part! The
prosecutor had a picture of my driveway on a board
so all could see. The prosecutor asked Paula where
on the driveway this happened. Paula pointed at the
far end of the drive out by the street. When the
same question was asked of Christine, she said it
was up by our sidewalk, but still on the driveway.
This was a discrepancy of about 30 feet in
difference from what each one of them said. And not
only that, there was a car parked in between both
areas that they had pointed out! My attorney came to
court armed with the transcripts from the protective
order hearing. When the prosecutor found out he
wanted them thrown out because he did not have a
copy.
The judge allowed the transcripts to be used anyway.
During the questioning of Paula and Christine they
were asked some questions and their answers to them
were different from what they said in the protective
order hearing. When Christine was asked a question,
my attorney pointed out how different it was from
the transcripts. Christine after that started crying
and said “You are getting me confused!” Christine
could not answer the question for well over a minute
- maybe a minute and a half went by. Yes! She was
confused alright! She was caught in a lie.
The same thing happened to Paula. Paula started
crying and getting confused because my attorney was
showing her how different her story was after being
compared to the previous transcripts. Paula stated
on the stand that she had red marks on her neck for
a week. (Any red marks that would last a week would
be considered a bruise.) If any police officer had
seen marks then, they would have taken pictures and
then sent her for medical treatment. I can’t
remember which one it was (I think it was
Christine), but she said that they got me calmed
down out in the drive way and got me to come back
into the house and lock the door.
After that, Paula said that she later went back
outside to the gazebo. She said that I followed her
out there and was still mad. She said that I picked
up a big glass ashtray and threatened to hit her
with it. She said that after I did that, that was
when she decided to take off running to get some
help. To repeat myself, I had never gone outside
the house that day after getting back from the
church run.
Another thing that was brought to my attorney’s
attention was that out of three guns that were
suppose to be in evidence against me, there was only
one that was used in the trial. This was because my
ex-girlfriend went to the station and signed a paper
stating that she was my common-law wife, and the
officer released and gave back two shotguns to
Christine. This happened on September 29, 2005,
almost two weeks after they arrested me. The police
were not supposed to do that because they were to be
used as evidence at my trial. She signed the paper
stating that she was my common-law wife. However,
she was still married to another man, and I was
still married to another women.
But later on in the protective order hearing,
Christine was asked on the stand if she was my wife
or just my girlfriend. She stated to the court that
she was only my girlfriend. So she lied and signed a
document stating she was my common-law wife but
later in the hearing, she told the truth and told
the court that she was only my girlfriend.
While Paula was on the stand testifying, Christine
was put in a soundproof room so she could not hear
what Paula was saying. (This was by the front door
of the courtroom.) When Paula was talking, my
brother, Roger, started to go into the hall and
noticed that Christine was standing in the doorway
of the soundproof room with her foot propping the
door open. She was trying to listen to Paula’s
testimony so she could keep her story straight when
it was her turn to take the stand. Roger went and
got the bailiff to come see. The bailiff told the
judge what she was doing, and the judge ordered
Christine to come into the courtroom. She was
severely reprimanded, and then the judge then
ordered her back to the room and told her to stay in
there and not to open the door. My attorney asked
for a mistrial based on what happened and the judge
refused it.
During closing arguments my attorney pointed out all
the lies and inconsistencies of the testimonies of
Paula and Christine. She also pointed out that they
could not keep their stories straight, and that
their stories were all over the place. There was
absolutely no evidence against me and the police did
not do their job to investigate the alleged crime.
Paula was not sent for medical treatment, and there
were no pictures of her taken to show any signs of
red marks or bruising. All there was were the
complaints filed by Paula and her mother’s story.
Everyone knew that their stories were all mixed up
and nothing matched. All the prosecutor had was a
pistol that he waved around like some kind of
trophy, and the other two shotguns were never
brought into the courtroom since they were released
to Christine on September 29, 2005.
The prosecutor said that the officer that testified
on my behalf was a disgrace to the force by saying
that he found both girls not to be truthful, and
that there was no validity to their story. When the
trial was over the jury came back and found me
guilty anyway. I was given 5 years probation
since I have never been in trouble before. I asked
for an appeal but was denied for reasons that I
cannot talk about now.
Some things happened in the court room that should
not have, which later caused a situation that
allowed my appeal to go through. I was
informed that my conviction was affirmed. A
Petition for Discretionary Review has been filed and
I am waiting on the decision. The
discrepancies on this website were attached to the
Petition for Discretionary Review. Hopefully,
those judges will actually read the Petition and see
that Christine and Paula committed Aggravated
Perjury. Later that same month of the
trial, I ran across two people who were in the
audience during my trial. They said that I had
gotten “screwed over.”
(The police man that arrested me takes the stand)
From what I understand from the officer’s story, he
never would have arrested me if it had not been for
his superiors. His superiors had contacted the DA’s
office before my arrest, and the DA’s office told
them to arrest me.
The police officer stated on the stand that he found
Paula and Christine to be untruthful or as he said
it, their stories had no validity at all, and they
were not credible witnesses. He said that there
were no red marks on Paula that day, and found her
not to be telling the truth. He also said that
Christine was also not telling the truth either.
The officer said that when he arrived on the scene
that I was normal and only seemed confused as to why
they were there. (I was convicted anyway) It
just goes to show you that you do not have to leave
your home to get into trouble. When I was arrested,
I was still in my pajamas and wearing a back brace.
I was convicted with absolutely no evidence and only
a story made up by two people who could not even
keep their stories straight and kept repeatedly
lying.
All it takes in
Texas is for someone to say you did something - then
the rest of your life is ruined!
Then they tried to have me arrested on more false
charges later, and still I was at home. (Christine
taken to small claims court.) Because of Christine
and her family took advantage of the protective
order, it allowed them to take all of my property
(including all personal property of mine) and they
wiped me out! We filed in small clams court to try
to recover some of my things. We went into a hearing
first. In the hearing Christine openly said to the
judge that I (Robert) was the one who got my brother
Roger to drive in front of their house. My brother
jumped up and challenged her saying, “Wait a
minute”. “You (Christine and Barbara, mother of
Christine) said in the protective order violation
hearing that you identified Robert as the one to
drive in front of your house. Now you are saying it
was me (Roger)?”
Once again Christine’s story had changed, and she
slipped again! When in court, Roger proved that it
was he who drove in front of their house. Why she
slipped like that, we still don’t know. (There is
much more to this story yet to be heard, and more
will be written later!)
Paula’s premeditated plan to have me arrested
My mother had a yard man named Jose. He is married and has several children. He
had worked for my mother for about three years. Chris and her two girls and I
went to my mother’s house almost every weekend to visit and to help her a little
around the house.
During the last two years that Chris and I were still together, Paula had
developed a crush on Jose. Paula always talked about Jose and how cute he was.
Chris and I did not pay too much attention to Paula since we did not see Jose
as a problem. During the last year of my relationship with Chris Paula started
getting very serious about Jose, and several other young men as well, and her
behavior began to change. Jose was about 35 years old and Paula was 17 at the
time.
There are two large pieces of land that are side by side. Jose always had a crew
of four, which included himself. We started to notice that Jose and Paula would
disappear at the same time somewhere on the property and would reappear at the
same time. They were just never together when they showed back up. It seemed
like Paula was always following him everywhere he went while he was doing his
work.
After awhile, Chris and I told Paula to stop following Jose around the yard.
She would quit for awhile and then resume her previous behavior. Jose then knew
we started to get suspicious of the two of them always talking together. I asked
Jose if she was bothering him and he said no. He said, “But she follows me
everywhere I go.” I told Jose if she did it anymore to please tell her to go
somewhere else. Anyway, that didn’t work.
We asked Paula repeatedly not to bother Jose or any of the other men while they
were working. That didn’t work either. Paula’s mother, Christine, would tell
Paula only every now and then to stay away from Jose, but she never really enforced
this with Paula and pretty much left her to do as she pleased.
After Paula turned 18 years old she really started to get out of hand. She
stayed mad at Chris and me because she could not do everything she wanted to
do. Her mother allowed her
to go out on dates after she turned 17, but she was not allowed to bring boys
into our
home to stay or to spend the night.
(My mother is going out of town )
My mother was leaving town in a couple weeks and needed someone to stay at her
house to keep a watch on things and feed the pets. She asked if Paula could
do that, and she would be paid for doing this. (Paula did not like coming to my
mother’s house at unless Jose was going to be there.) I had noticed that she was
getting overly excited about the idea of staying at my mom’s house, knowing that
she was going to have the house to herself for a few days. I thought it was
strange until I thought about it. Some how I knew that she was going to try and
have Jose stay over. I went and had a talk with her mother and told her what I
was thinking, and that she needed to have a talk with Paula. Paula already knew
about my mothers rule about not having strangers or anyone else on her property.
On the morning of June 27, 2005 we were getting ready to take Paula over to my
mother’s house. I saw Paula going through and checking all of her makeup.
She never wore makeup that much, and that got me to thinking that she was up to
something. She knew my mother does not like people in her house when she is
gone.
Immediately I had the idea that she called Jose to make plans and was going to
have
him come over. I went and had a private talk with Chris and told her what I
thought she was up to something and to tell her that no one was allowed to come
over. She had a job to do and that was to take care of my mother’s house and the
animals.
While we were driving the 40-minute trip to my mother’s house, we told Paula
no one was allowed to come over, and she was not to go anywhere. She was
getting paid to do a job and that was it. We told her it was okay to call her
friends if she wanted to talk to someone but there would be no company allowed.
She agreed and said it was okay.
There was a program on my mothers computer that recorded all incoming and out
going phone calls. we had an idea that Jose would be calling her there. After
we went back home we called Paula later that evening to check on her and she
said she was doing fine.
On the morning of June 28, 2005. We called to check on Paula and see how she was
doing. For some reason she sounded strange and her voice did not sound right.
After getting off the phone, I told Chris that we needed to go over there. We
got into the car and went back to my mother’s house. Before we got there, I told
Chris to take her off into another room or take her outside so I could check the
computer for any calls.
When we got there Paula was very surprised to see us. We asked her if everything
was okay and she said it was. Then we asked her if anybody had been here, and
Paula said, “No.” I said, “Are you sure?” Again she said, “No.” Christine
took Paula off to talk to her. I went to check the computer and, sure enough,
Jose had called. He called on the evening of June 27, 2005 at 7:36 p.m., and the
call lasted only 33 seconds.
When he called Paula he was already sitting out by the mailbox. When Paula
answered the phone, he changed his voice and told her his name was Alex. He was
making sure that no one else was in the house and that Paula was alone. Then he
told her to come outside to meet him. Paula got excited and said she’d be right
out. Then she hung up the phone.
He knew he was not suppose to be here. After checking the computer we got Paula
back in the room. I asked her again, “Did anyone come over?” She said, “No.”
I said, “Are you sure?” Again she said, “No”. Then she started getting
nervous. She then knew that something was not right.
I told her she was “cold busted” and she lied to me and her mother.
I told her that Jose was here yesterday evening and she went out and got him.
Then she started crying and having a fit. Just because she was 18 years old and
legally an adult didn't mean she could bring strangers into my mothers house.
She could do anything she wanted to. She was just not going to do it in my
mother’s house. She said Jose did not come into the house and that he tried to
rape her outside. She said that Jose grabbed her wrist and dragged her behind
the house and then pulled her clothes off of her. I said that we needed to call
the police and report it. Christine and Paula both
said they did not want the police called. They kept telling me to just forget
it. The following weekend came, and Jose still did not know that I found out
about the situation.
Jose came over with his crew to work, and I told him to leave.
After I told Jose to leave, Paula got very angry with me. Here is the question
that got me. If he raped her or tried to rape her, why would she get mad at me
for running him off? Beats me?! There seemed to be more to this story than
what I got.
(Here is the best part of this story. In just under three months, Paula had me
arrested.)
It appears that Paula wanted to have me arrested for quite awhile. It wasn’t
until I had to call the police on Paula and her sister, that her mother decided
to get involved. (The police were called because of some very intolerable
behavior on the girls part.) They made up their plan together, but they had no
idea that they would get caught off guard and put on the stand in court. This is
when they realized they did not have a plan to where their stories matched.
After I was arrested and moved to my mother’s house a short time later in
October, a lady showed up on our property. None of us knew who she was. She then
introduced herself and said she was Jose’s wife. (Her name is Emma) She came
out to our house and said she had a story to tell us. It was about Jose and
Paula going to have me setup and arrested. She said that she was a Christian
lady, and felt she had to do the right thing by telling us what her husband did.
(This part of the story came from Emma.)
After I was arrested, Paula kept calling Jose’s cell phone. When Emma answered
Jose’s phone, Paula told Emma that she was pregnant, and Jose was the father.
Paula made several phone calls harassing Emma. Emma confronted Jose wanting to
know about the affair that the two had been having. Jose told his wife that
Paula is crazy and he never had any affair with her. He said she was only a
trouble maker.
Then Emma had a talk with Victor, Jose’s cousin. Victor told Emma about Jose and
Paula seeing each other. I found out later that Victor was with Jose on the
evening of June 27, 2005 when Jose came out to see Paula. Victor also said he
knew about Jose and Paula talking to each other about having me set up to get
arrested. Victor also said that back when Paula was still 17 years old. Paula
and Jose were making plans to have me arrested. That way they could run off to
another state and get married and that Paula thought that I was influencing her
mothers decision to keep her at home until she turned 18.
(Emma talked to Jose again.)
Emma again asked her husband about his affair with Paula and having me
arrested. Jose denied any involvement with my getting arrested or having an
affair with Paula, but he did say to Emma that Paula said she was going to have
her father arrested because she could not do what she wanted to do. I found out
later that all of the other yardmen had known about Paula’s plans and never said
anything to me about it.
(We now know that Paula accused Jose of rape just so she could get out of
trouble)
In an attempt to gather more information about my being setup and arrested,
my brother called and apologized to Jose and invited him to come back out to
our house. My mother started letting him do work again. Then Jose started
telling all
of us about Paula’s plan to have me arrested.
(Now I need Jose to go to court and testify about what he knew about the setup)
After talking to my attorney and telling Jose that I needed him to go to court
with me,
Jose got afraid about testifying. He was still worried about him getting put in
jail
because of Paula’s rape allegation. I told him that there was nothing that she
could do,
but he got on an airplane and flew to Honduras to stay with his mother for
awhile until things cooled down.
(The letter from Emma to the district attorney)
Emma has written an eight page letter to the district attorney explaining about
Paula’s actions and plans to have me arrested. It is all in Spanish and we have
not had it translated yet. Emma explained that she had to write it all in
Spanish because it was easier for her. She just wanted to make sure that there
were no misunderstandings.
(Emma divorces Jose )
Emma had to divorce her husband because of his affair with Paula and his
involvement in getting me arrested. Now, because of her divorce, it caused her
to lose her ministry with her church. The church said she could not have a
ministry because she divorced him.
(Next comes the story of my missing unborn child)
My girlfriend was over 8 months pregnant with my child . Over the last year that
we were together, and during her pregnancy, she started drinking very heavily.
She would go through a gallon of wine every two days, and she was drinking vodka
along with it. I tried to get her to stop because of her being pregnant and was
doing damage to the baby. She refused
to. My whole family tried to get her to quit and she wouldn’t. During her
pregnancy I could not even get her to do any prenatal checkups. She would not go
and see a doctor of any kind. My mother gave her money to
pay for a doctor and she spent the money on liquor instead. She started having
severe kidney pains and I had to take her to the hospital. During her exam, they
gave her a pregnancy test. She was confirmed six weeks pregnant by two different
tests.
During her eighth month, she started hurting and bleeding profusely. I tried to
get her to go to the hospital, but she refused. She just stayed drunk instead.
On the third morning,
she could hardly get up, and she was hurting so bad she was crying. Then I had
to make her get up so I could take her to the hospital, otherwise she
would refuse to go. When I got her there they put her in the delivery room
because They thought she was going to deliver right then. The doctor gave her an
ultrasound and found no baby. But the doctor did say that she had fetal matter
in her and it had “collapsed.” The doctor gave her a business card and told her
to make an appointment to see her at her office as soon as she could. Then they
released her from the hospital. After we got back home she refused to make an
appointment. She stayed in pain and did nothing but drink vodka. Almost a week later I
noticed that her pain was going away, and she was getting thinner. When I would
ask anything about the baby, she would get mad and not want to talk about it.
(Read baby
"Doe's" story.)
It wasn’t till after Paula had me arrested that my mother and my brother said
that she probably aborted it and did not tell me. My family thinks that if she aborted it and that she might have disposed of it to cover up
the matter. The first time I saw her in court on November 2, 2005 she was very
thin then. I have never found out what happened to the baby. My family and I
tried to get law enforcement personnel to investigate and find out what happened
to the baby but the police would never do anything about it.
How many discrepancies (lies) can you tell in a Harris County Criminal Court (and the Prosecutor or Judge won't stop the trial) and not get charged with Aggravated Perjury? (See answer below.)
(PO is for Protective Order Hearing, Trial is the actual trial where Robert was prosecuted.)
Answer: As many as you want, because if this wasn't enough, I don't know what is...
You know what is REALLY funny about all this? And to think that a woman, and her daughter, with virtually no education, made fools out of people who paid thousands of bucks to go through law school!!
This email was sent to the Harris County D.A.s Office, to the temporarily assigned D.A. after Chuck Rosenthal resigned, so now they know what happened. Now, let's see what they do.
Okay, McClellan questioned why I deleted my personal email from the website and not his. I explained that he is a "public servant" and the email I was using to correspond with him was my personal email. For anyone reading this, if you would like to send comments to me, please feel free to send to alenorman@americaswrongfullyconvicted.com. I assure you I will answer, within a reasonable amount of time and I don't "romance" on my business email.
Roger decided to pose a question to Mr. McClellan. Short and to the point. It appears as though we will never receive an answer to this question. It is understandable if there are a few, maybe, let's say 10 or less, but when the number exceeds 100, I think that is more than enough to determine that the state's "star witnesses" are, to say the least, liars.
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Mr. McClellan, In your
well trained, and professional opinion. How
many discrepancies do YOU allow before you
will prosecute for aggravated perjury? I'm
sure this will be easy for you.
Thanks for your quick response
Roger
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Why do you
delete your email address i.e.
XXXXXXXX@sbcglobal.net, when
you post my email responses on your website, but include
mine?
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Mr. McClellan,
Yes, she is looking into the
disappearance of my brother's baby. Her and I spoke briefly
today and I will be speaking with her tonight. As far as
the persons "allegedly" (defined as: Represented as existing
or as being as described, but not so proved.") lying, there
is no "alleged", it is a FACT. If someone, namely Newaz,
would have read the police report and protective order
before going into court, and then listened to the testimony
(that kept changing) he, or you, would have realized that
those people were lying. I pointed all that out in the
discrepancies I sent you. Did you even bother to read what I
sent you? So yes, they are guilty of aggravated perjury,
but no one wants to step up to the plate and prosecute them
for it. AND, when she accused him of violating the
protective order, it got dismissed (5/17/06) because she got
caught lying, but once AGAIN, no one prosecuted her for
aggravated perjury. I don't see anywhere in the penal code
that it says charging someone with aggravated perjury is at
the D.A.'s discretion. It made a DEFINITE outcome in my
brother's life and the trial. The expenses to fight all
these false allegations wiped out my mother's retirement.
And, my brother can't even get a job because of being a
convicted felon. My mother is 72 years old and has to keep
working because she has no money left. Where is the justice
in that?
I'm sorry, but this response does not
answer the specific questions addressed to you, Graham or
Newaz in the first email I sent you. These two "persons"
wrecked my brother's life, disposed of his child, etc.. and
the list goes on.. and, you know, Kelly is a wonderful
person, but it is not her responsibility to clean up the
mess of others. Hers is to investigate the disappearance of
his baby.
So, tell me something. Kelly has the
witnesses, the paperwork that states Christine Trent was
pregnant (and can subpoena the other paperwork that reflects
she had fetal matter in her on 8/23/06, and according to
abortion clinics, who states if she would have had an
abortion, it would not be there, and a doctor told me with
the fetal matter still there, that the baby would have been
born 8/22/06 or early on the 23rd - this means she was 8 3/4
months pregnant), she disposed of that baby (just like the
previous one she had by Denny Cotton) and she and
Paula covered it up, then when Kelly manages to get them
convicted of disposing of my brother's baby, will my
brother's record be cleared, or will he still have a
"wrongful" conviction on his record? It is going to take
that to get him cleared or can't you tell from everything
that it was a set up? Why is it that someone (you or Newaz)
can't admit you were wrong (and I have everything to prove
it, down to recordings) and just get it fixed? Why does
Kelly have to take care of the "baby" issue first? Would
you think that was fair if someone disposed of YOUR child?
No, you would want something done now. We have been dealing
with this for over 2 1/2 years. Someone needs to show people
that you can't do this sort of thing to people and get away
with it, which is EXACTLY what was allowed to happen. AND,
they need to be made to pay restitution for all the
financial damage that they have done to him and all of my
family.
As far as putting your email on the
website and not mine. Well, you are a "public servant", who
is supposed to protect the rights and safety of others, not
make them "victims" of our criminal justice system. Since
you are the "public servant" then, there is nothing wrong
with putting your email up there. Mine on the other hand,
is a personal email address.
If you notice, I have an email for me listed on the website
and people write me everyday. If you prefer, I can write
you through that one and I will be more than happy to
publish ALL of it on the website. Trust me, I don't "hide"
things. I am very upfront and honest and I say exactly what
is on my mind. I'm not saying my brother is perfect, but I
do know that he is innocent. He did not take the plea
bargain offered him (even though it was a pretty sweet deal)
because he is innocent. He may have lost everything, but he
was not going to give up his dignity and plea out for
something he did not do, and I'm proud of him for that. I
would have done the same thing.
Anita
P.S. I'm not a "Mrs.", I'm a Ms.
"McClellan, Lyn" <MCCLELLAN_LYN@dao.hctx.net> wrote:
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Good afternoon gentlemen;
First, I am Robert's sister. He has
given me permission to approach you with the issues I will
mention in this email.
I understand that you have been
informed to expect this email. To begin with, I have spent
many hours going over and over testimony. I have also
reviewed other information and listened to recordings. All
leading up to, through and after the trial of Robert
McClendon for Aggravated Assault.
There are a few points and/or
questions I would like to bring out.
1) How many discrepancies in
testimony does it take before a prosecutor realizes that his
witnesses are not being, to say the least, truthful, and the
trial is stopped because someone realizes that they are
prosecuting an innocent man? From what I reviewed, MANY. I
have attached a LIST of discrepancies in testimony. This
list is so long, and these "women" changed their stories so
many times, they just lost track of what they told. Someone
who goes through an experience like this, (and I have)
SURELY remembers the details.
2) Firearms used as evidence.
Christine, KNOWING that Robert was married to someone else,
and so was she, went to Precinct 4, stated that she was his
common-law wife, and claimed weapons that were allegedly
used in the commission of this crime. Precinct 4
released weapons to her WITHOUT a signature from an
authorized person. (judge), but they are still used as
evidence in a court room. (?) (attached Judgment for
Plaintiff) Robert's brother took her to small claims court
and was awarded restitution for these weapons and the judge
made a statement that they were released without proper
authorization. We have a recording of the proceedings.
3) Christine did not file a statement
with the constable officers at the alleged time of incident,
but went to their office after the fact, put in the report
that she was his common-law-wife, and stated that she was
ordered to her hands and knees, while Robert held a gun on
her, while her daughter ran to the office. So, she lied on
the police report too, because if I remember right, this
supposedly happened at the BEGINNING of all this and she
NEVER mentions it at the conclusion of the incident right
before the officers came. (attached)
4) Christine filed for a Violation of
a Protective Order, which was heard and DISMISSED on 5/17/06
because she got caught lying, AGAIN. (copy attached)
5) Paula was having an affair with a
35 year-old man, while she was a minor. This man, Jose
Espinoza, was subpoenaed to court, but because Paula
threatened him with Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, he
ran to
Honduras. (we have a recording from him, when he did
not know he was being recorded).
6) There is a letter (with
translation) from Jose's wife stating the affair, and
witnesses to the affair. (attached)
7) There is a diagnosis from
Tomball Regional Hospital (attached) for Christine.
Now we get down to it. Christine was pregnant. The baby
mysteriously disappeared days before this incident took
place. Robert was devastated and upset with Christine
because he wanted to know what happened to his baby. She
let him know that if he asked one more time, he would regret
it. AND, he did. He was set up and maliciously prosecuted
for a crime he did not commit because Christine knew he
would not stop until he found out what happened to his
baby. There is also a list of witnesses that she was
pregnant attached. You don't have to worry about this
part. I spoke with Kelly Siegler on 2/12/08 at 8:30am
regarding the baby issue and she is going to look into it.
But, there is your
motive for setting up an innocent man, to cover up a
possible crime of murder of a baby.
We are trying very hard to get someone
to listen, that you have prosecuted an innocent man. Not
only have you let this woman, and her daughter, get away
with the disappearance of a baby, you allowed her to set him
up and ruin his life. All he has left is a baby crib in the
attic to remind him of all of this. These two people need
to be prosecuted for Aggravated Perjury, tampering with
witnesses, etc. Kelly Sieger is looking into the baby that
disappeared (and we will work with her on that), but YOU can
fix the rest of this mess. We tried real hard to get a hold
of Chuck Rosenthal regarding this issue, but he was too busy
romancing his mistress..etc.. to do his job. Now, someone
in that office needs to straighten it out.
Thank you for taking the time to read
this.
A
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Mr. McClellan,
That is fine. Thank you, and I am
filing that Writ of Habeas Corpus for him. It is just a
shame that it even went this far and that no one accepts
responsibility to look into the matter, but to pass the buck
and say he was convicted and the Court of Appeals upheld the
decision, but I bet you NO ONE took the time to review all
the testimony and break it out the way I did. I would have
more respect for a person who actually did this, reviewed it
and actually recognized what happened and stood up for what
was right and not pass the buck. All the talking in the
world, doesn't do a bit of good, but standing up and stating
that there was an error, and fixing it, that is a person to
be proud of. I do know, from being a cop, working in the
prison system for many years, etc.. that cases can be
reopened, just everyone wants to count it as a "notch in
their belt" and go to the next poor broke person who can't
defend themselves in a corrupt system.
Do you sleep well at night, KNOWING
that a death of a baby, and the wrongful conviction of its
father, is not vindicated? I know my brother doesn't sleep
and all he has from this fiasco of a "criminal justice
system" is a conviction and an empty crib.
"McClellan, Lyn" <MCCLELLAN_LYN@dao.hctx.net> wrote:
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Just a note: An email was written to Bert Graham (temporarily in charge after Chuck Rosenthal resigned), Lyn McClellan and Rifian Newaz (the prosecutors who maliciously prosecuted Robert for Aggravated Assault) initially on February 22, 2008. FINALLY, I get a response from Lyn McClellan on February 26, 2008, stating that he is preparing a response. Well, today is March 11, 2008, and we finally get a response. Not what I was expecting, but hey, got one.
He has spent longer "preparing" his response, than it took to prosecute Robert. As noticed, it was a "pass the buck" thing stating that the Appellant Court affirmed the decision. These people need to answer why they allowed all the inconsistencies (allowing their "star state" witnesses to perjure themselves MANY times), they KNOW about the baby that "mysteriously disappeared" and Kelly Siegler assured me that she will be investigating the matter, but that still does not explain why McClellan and Newaz prosecuted Robert on OBVIOUS perjured testimony.
So,
why did the Harris County District Attorney let
Christine Trent and her daughter get away with
framing Robert? Because their investigation
was not complete and they rate their success based
strictly on convictions, without determining whether
the person is actually guilty or not. That
means that their investigation was not complete, so
therefore, the jury did not get the complete truth.
