Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Justice for Khyrii

She called herself Ulla Trouble Couture, the pseudo name aptly chosen.  She struck up a social media friendship with a young black man adopted as a child from Cleveland, Ohio and brought by a couple who had adopted numerous other children to rural Montana.  By now, Kyrii was a father, living with an elderly friend in a trailer park in Missoula. He was on probation for a non-violent crime.  His elderly friend, convinced that the color of his skin had worked against him in court had promised that when he was on his feet the trailer would be given to him as a gift. Shortly after meeting on social media, Trouble drove from Minnesota and showed up at his door. A romance ensued, but it soon became apparent that Trouble was afoot. Trouble and Kyrii made immediate plans to be married. The trailer had become crowded. Since marriage plans were in the works a deal was struck. Trouble would pay for half the value of the trailer. Kyrii would be gifted his half, and the elderly friend would move out and leave the happy couple to themselves.
The trailer title was signed and notarized by the owner, Trouble took the document to the Court House to have the title transferred, but failed to add Kyrii's name. She was now the single owner of a trailer purchased for half the value. The elderly friend did not file a fraud complaint. Kyrii was distraught. Trouble wanted him out. Fights ensued and with each incident, Trouble would contact his probation officer and report abuse. A probation revocation hearing was set. Kyrii protested to his attorney that Trouble initiated the violence, and his actions were only defensive. On the stand at the revocation hearing she admitted this was true.  
Nonetheless, his probation was revoked, he was remanded to the county jail, charges of domestic abuse were filed and a trial was set.  Her admission from the revocation hearing was not allowed at trial. One of Kyrii's friends waited to testify that when Kyrii fled to his house, Trouble followed him, demanding from the street that he come down and talk to her.  When he did, she hit him in the chest knocking him to the ground. The Public Defender never called him to the stand.  Another friend testified that Trouble had visited the welfare office and returned with a banquet of benefits, saying, "I told them I was pregnant" -a lie. It mattered not.  Kyrii was convicted of several domestic abuse charges and sentenced as a habitual offender to over 60 years in the state prison where he remains today.  A boy without a father, an elderly friend defrauded out of her property and another young black man locked up for life. This is justice in America. Investigators and lawyers say it should all be overturned, but to do that they need money.  Kyrii's friends have exhausted their resources, and are asking for your help to hire a professional team to appeal. Can you help?
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