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Until then, feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss your case.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

LEGAL
CORRSPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

#Z311

Jalen Kingg

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Mr. Kingg:

I hope you are doing well. I have made repeated attempts to contact you by phone but I have been unsuccessful so I will continue to write you these letters and hope you will respond to them.

We have completed our review of the file on your case and have identified three issues that we anticipate raising in the district court. Having not heard from you, I don’t know what level of detail regarding our representation you’re comfortable with so I’ve just included with this letter various cases and other legal materials relevant to those three issues so that you might familiarize yourself with our expected arguments.

Please call me, or if that’s not possible write me with any issues or facts you believe might be relevant to your appeal and that either relate to the events leading up to your arrest or to the circumstances of your trial and direct appeal. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

#Z311

Jalen Kingg

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Mr. Kingg:

I am writing to inform you that Joseph Ledo has left our office and will no longer be working on your case.

However, Melvyn Toomberg and I continue to work long hours on your appeal and I assure you that we will capably and vigorously pursue every possible avenue to success.

I again urge you to contact me to discuss your appeal in general and any specific information that you feel might prove helpful to us. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

Jalen Kingg #Z311

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Mr. Kingg:

I’m sorry I haven’t written to you in a while but everything is going real well with your appeal and we’re working very hard every day to write the best possible brief for you so that the judge will remove the death sentence from your case.

I’m writing to tell you that I will soon be going to Alabama to visit you so we can talk about your case. Also Mr. Toomberg and I have decided that you should be interviewed by a psychiatrist so he can assess whether or not there is something about your medical condition that could prove beneficial to your case. I will let you know exactly when that is going to happen.

Do you have any questions? If you do, please write me a letter and put it in the addressed envelope I’m including and I will write you back immediately. We will do everything possible to succeed on your behalf, I promise. I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

Jalen Kingg

#Z311

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Mr. Kingg:

This upcoming weekend I will be visiting you on both Saturday and Sunday. While I’m there we can discuss your case and what happened and what Mr. Toomberg and I hope to do to help you.

The visits are already officially and firmly scheduled for those two days so please make sure you are available as it is very important for your case.

I look forward to meeting you soon Jalen.

Sincerely yours,

LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

Mr. Jalen Kingg

#Z311

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Jalen:

How are you doing? You should save these letters and answer them. It was very nice to meet you and I would enjoy receiving letters from you.

And you can write me whenever you want to talk about anything, whether it has to do with your case or not.

The next step is for Melvyn Toomberg and I to retain a doctor who will meet with you and evaluate you as we discussed during my visit. I will let you know who that will be and when you will meet him as soon as I know for sure.

In the meantime, Melvyn and I continue to work hard on the brief that we will soon file on your behalf. We’re doing everything we can Jalen and we hope to have some good news to report to you soon.

Until then, stay hopeful.

Your friend,

lawyer Mr Casi

2330 Broadway

Floor number nine

New York, new York

Casi;

Thanks to you four visiting me because everyone hear says thas whut good lawyers do to to prupare a case for the litegation of trial testymony.

i also agreee about the Maples house because i have never have the oppurtunity to live somewhere like that and i will show the same and simular respect for your doctor or you’re assisstant Mr. Melvyn Toomberg if or when they come to visit me.

So thanks to you agin and i too think the news will be good because of you now been my lawyer.

P.S. “i WiLL KNoW ANSER THE LETTERS YoU RiTE To ME BECAUSE i HAVE MET YoU AND KNoW THAT YoU HAVE MY BESTS iNTERST iN MIND AT ALL TiMES AS BECAME EViDENCE WHEN YoU ViSiTiED ME iN JAiL oN BoTH oF THE DAYS YoU CoME”

LEGAL CORRESPONDENCE: CONFIDENTIAL

Mr. Jalen Kingg

#Z311

Cell 9C-03

Holman Unit

3700 Holman

Atmore, Alabama 36503

Dear Jalen:

I was very pleased to receive your letter and I look forward to more of them in the future. I hope you are doing well or at least as well as is possible under the circumstances.

The latest news is that Melvyn Toomberg and I have retained Dr. Wendell Pegnapper to perform the psychiatric evaluation we discussed. He should be coming out to visit you in the next few days and I will inform you as soon as possible of what he says.

In the meantime the brief that Melvyn and I will file on your behalf is slowly taking shape and should be completed relatively soon. I will give you a copy of it when it is finished.

Lastly, as you may have heard, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case to decide whether it is legal to execute people who are impaired in the manner we think you’re impaired. This decision could have a great impact on your case and Mr. Toomberg, who knows a lot about that court, is optimistic that the news will be good. I’ll let you know what happens.

Stay good Jalen. We’re doing everything we can and there’s reason to believe that things will work out for the best in the end. Write me with any questions or anything else you want to talk about.

Your friend,