User profile: Tonja

pt 2. As members of the Indigent Defense, you speak so well of not wanting to see any innocent person wrongfully convicted, however, when the wrongfully convicted is brought to your attention you turn a blind eye to the truth, thereby protecting the bad acts of officials under the color of law. On June 24, 2009 I asked that you adopt a policy by sanctioning and or disbarring those prosecutors who cover up evidence and lie to the Pardons Board. Again, you do nothing. But, when it comes to your family or friends you do everything to protect them, such as, Justice Hardesty did when he wrote a letter to a Federal Judge on behalf of one of the co-defendants in one of the largest LSD drug Bust in Reno's history. This co-defendant received approximately 6 months in a federal prison. Pretty nice when compared to those drug traffickers who have appeared before you. And let us not forget that years ago Justice Hardesty knew that there were on going problems with the missing DNA in Mr. Kleins case. Missing DNA was presented to this Board when Mr. Klein appeared before you and you denied him a Pardon. On September 20, 2009 an INNOCENT MAN, NOLAN KLEIN, who was wrongfully convicted DIED in prison because of these ILLEGAL acts. The cover up still continues when I on September 8, 2009 filed with the Attorney General's Office the documents that were found in the DA's file that support Mr. Klein's claims that are pending within the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. At the Board of Prison Commissioners meeting AG Masto and Governor Gibbons were provided with documentation showing that other evidence was found within the file in Mr. Klein's case. Instead of placing Mr. Klein on the Agenda for a Pardon for Exoneration, AG Masto and her staff are attempting to have his case dismissed. On the June 24, 2009 Agenda you list considering hearing cases of those who maintain their innocence, yet, again you turn a blind eye to the truth. Why? I made a promise to an innocent man that I would do whatever it takes to bring the truth out and if it means exposing the corruption then so be it. We will be filing a Petition for Exoneration and if it means taking it all the way to the United States Supreme Court we will do it. In the meantime I pray that there will be a federal investigation into the Washoe County District Attorney's Office and if it means that in order to protect the innocent that the guilty go free, then so be it. It falls on this PARDONS BOARD'S MEMBER'S HEADS. Tonja Brown

pt 1. The following was read on the record before the Pardons Board. Chief Justice Hardesty stomped out of the Pardons Board when I exposed him for writing the letter to a federal judge. "On June 24, 2009 I appeared before this Pardons Board to bring it to your attention the ILLEGAL acts within in the Washoe County District Attorney's Office. I presented you with the documentation, the hand written notes that former ADA Ron Rachow made on the Motion for Discovery 21 years ago. Mr. Rachow violated BRADY V MARYLAND by withholding all of the Materiality and Exculpatory evidence that showed another person was responsible for the crime in which my innocent brother, NOLAN KLEIN, was convicted of. Not only did Mr. Rachow withhold the evidence that would have cleared an innocent man, several employees within the Washoe District Attorney's Office knew about this AND SAID NOTHING OVER THE LAST 21YEARS!! In fact, ADA John Helzer appeared before this Board on October 29, 2008 stating he looked in Mr. Klein's file. He looked, he saw and HE SAID NOTHING ABOUT THE OTHER SUSPECT, Mr. Zarsky to you. The Sparks Police Department's theory was that Mr. Zarsky was responsible for this crime as well as other crimes in which those other victims cleared my innocent brother, Nolan Klein. ALL OF THIS WAS WITHHELD FOR 21 YEARS IN VIOLATION OF BRADY V MARYLAND and EVERY MEMBER OF THIS PARDONS BOARD KNEW IT AND CHOSE TO DO NOTHING . What this Board should have done was placed Mr. Klein on this Agenda for a Pardon for EXONERATION. You did not. Instead you chose to CONDONE THE WRONG DOINGS OF THE WASHOE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE LAST 21 YEARS.

Karen, Thank you very much. Nolan is at last free from the pain, but, not from the wrongful conviction. We will be filing a Petition for Exoneration in Washoe County. All the member's of the Pardons Board were made aware of what Ron Rachow and several other DA's and ADA's have done over the years. The Pardons Board members are no better than what these DA's have done. I made it known at this Board of Prison Commissioners hearing that all the documents that were given to them the Pardons Board will be turned over to their opponents. Then they can run with the corruption of our State Officials. The Gov, AG and all of the Supreme Court Justice are telling us the taxpayers that they condone the actions of the Washoe County DA's office when they refused to place Nolan for exoneration on the upcoming November's Pardons Board Agenda. Instead they would rather WASTE THE TAXPAYERS MONEY TO DEFEND A LOSING FIGHT. END THE END, NOLAN WILL BE EXONERATED!

WE WILL BE FILING A SUIT AGAINST NDOC FOR WRONGFUL DEATH. NDOC DID NOT TREAT NOLAN FOR A LIFE THREATNENING DISEASE, HEMOCHROMATOSIS, THAT IS A PREVENTABLE AND TREATABLE DISEASE IF TREATED. THEY WAITED 20 MONTHS AFTER HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH IT. HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE TODAY AND OUTSIDE THE PRISON WALLS IF THEY HAD TREATED HIM. THE BOARD OF PRISON COMMISSIONERS WERE MADE AWARE OF THIS FACT TOO.

Also, Nolan Klein died an innocent man in prison. The day I received the call from the NDOC's Chaplain that Nolan had passed away. I had immediately called his attorney's who were in the process of filing that day a Motion for Bail and a MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDNECE THAT RON RACHOW HAD WITHHELD THE EVIDENCE THAT CLEARED NOLAN KLEIN OF THE CRIME. OUR STATE WANT'S THIS TO ALL GO AWAY. SO THEY ARE FILING MOTIONS TO THE ALL OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS ARGUING THAT NOLAN HAS DIED AND HIS CASES SHOULD BE DISMISSED. CALL YOUR REPRESETATIVE AND TELL THEM TO STOP THE COVERUP. WE MUST PROTECT THE INNOCENT!
Thank you, Tonja Brown