They Weaponized the Judicial System Against Me — And Here Is the Proof

Written by Carl Edward Frank  |  Connolly Unit, Kenedy, Texas

Google my name — Carl Edward Frank — and you will find an elaborate misinformation retaliation attack on my character. It began because I got one of Vidor, Orange County, Texas's bad, bullying white sheriff's deputies in trouble for harassing me at my deceased father's house, which I inherited from him back in 2004.

Background: How This All Started

Vidor is a small, all-white KKK — Ku Klux Klan — redneck town in Southeast Texas where my father had lived since the 1960s. When I moved into his house, I had to call 9-1-1 on a bad cop who was harassing me on the property. The bad cop's sister-in-law, Ms. Acacia King, who also hates me, had called him on me. That bad cop abandoned his patrol jurisdiction to come and intimidate me, cursing at me like a wild, out-of-control redneck. That is what got him in trouble — and that is what got me targeted for retaliation.

Pay no attention to all their misleading, exaggerated allegations and deceptions — they are professional liars. It is their devious way to confuse the public and get everybody thinking the way they want you to think. The Assistant District Attorney, the DA's Office, and the Sheriff's Office launched an all-out attack on my character to make me look like a real bad guy. So now everybody hates me, and now they felt it was acceptable to fabricate a bogus aggravated 45-year kidnapping case against me — making a deal with a desperate 36-year-old career criminal prostitute as their key witness, offering to dismiss her enhanced prostitution charge (which would have sent her back to jail) in exchange for her lying against me in my two-day, railroading trial that was closed to the public. Nobody was actually kidnapped.

They Weaponized the Judicial System Against Me

They weaponized the judicial system against me. Words used throughout my trial by their witnesses include: "maybe," "I think," "might," "probably," "could be," "feasible," "can be" — and on and on. District Judge Dennis Powell should never have allowed such speculative testimony, and the Judge showed clear favoritism toward the DA and police.

If you look only at the actual facts in the court record I am presenting to you, you will see this is a retaliation case — because I got one of their redneck, foul-mouthed, bullying bad cops in trouble.

Do not believe what they are saying. I am not changing my story — I am adding true facts from the court record to support the real truth, not their made-up misinformation. The court record clearly shows the DA perjuring herself to the grand jury to get me indicted, and again in my trial. For example: police claimed I flipped off one of their officers with my middle finger — but where is any real evidence showing that actually happened? It is more lies to make me look bad to the public.

It is acceptable for them to lie about me, but if I lied about them, they would throw the book at me. That double standard alone shows I am actually telling the real truth. They are proven liars — so why should you believe anything they say?

What They Told the News — And the Truth

They told Beaumont, Texas NBC Channel 4 News that I kidnap women and kids, take them to my house, torture them, murder them, and bury them in my yard — none of which is true. This campaign started on September 23, 2007 — one day after my arrest — and they kept it going all the way through my trial, repeatedly showing pictures of the house.

Debunking the Lies on Google and in the Beaumont Enterprise

The Statute of Limitations Violation — 7 Days Over

They changed the date of arrest in the indictment from 09/22/07 to 09/29/07 so that it would appear to fall within the 180-day statute of limitations. But the indictment was true-billed on 03/26/08. The actual arrest date of 09/22/07 to 03/26/08 equals 187 days — they ran out of time by 7 days.

The Key Witness: A Deal Made With a Career Criminal

They got a desperate 36-year-old career criminal prostitute named Shawna Louise Hutchins (DOB 02/11/71) to lie about the real time and reason why she was with me at my house on my 52nd birthday, 09/22/07. The reason for changing the timeline: the DA's extraneous offense — which does not involve me — was taking place at the same time SH was with me, so the DA had to shift the timeline in order to use the extraneous offense against me.

Consider the timeline: Was SH really at my house that Saturday morning around 7:00 AM to clean up my house, spending two hours doing so — as she testified? Or was she actually at my house that Saturday evening around 4:30 PM, to party with me for money on my birthday, 09/22/07?

SH is clearly perjuring herself, as established by the two criminal investigators who searched my house with a search warrant and found it was not cleaned up. And look at the photo evidence of the dog chain in my house — you will see black dog hair on the white floor around the chain, proving two things: the house was not cleaned, and the chain was for an outside dog, not a captive person.

The Extraneous Offense: Wrong Van, Wrong Man

The DA told the grand jury and the trial court that two teenage girls had accurately described my van, down to the way the doors open and the door handles.

"You have to push the button to open the door." — First teenage girl, Trial Transcript, Volume 4, Page 68

"On the back there was the doors where you had to push the button to open one side and then the other side." — Second teenage girl, Trial Transcript, Volume 4

The girls are describing an old-model white van with sideways chrome push-button door handles. But my van is a newer-model, shiny white 2003 Ford E150 van with black, up-and-down pull-out door handles on all doors. There are no push-button door handles on or inside my van anywhere.

The white van the girls saw also had no back license plate — but my van had its back license plate clearly visible on the right side back door for everyone to see.

Look at the photo evidence of my van — the same photos my court-appointed attorney Bryan Laine, the DA, and the Judge had, but made sure nobody else saw.

Judicial Misconduct: The Mustache

I always wear a mustache. Look at all of my driver's license photos, and at my jail booking photo in Beaumont, Jefferson County, on the day of my arrest, 09/22/07. But on the morning of my two-day railroading trial, District Judge Dennis Powell ordered the jail guards to make me shave off my mustache. Here is why:

"No facial hair on the man in the white van." — Trial Transcript, Volume 4, Page 58, Line 24

This proves that Judge Dennis Powell intentionally assisted the DA and police against me — constituting judicial misconduct and judicial corruption.

Newly Discovered, Untested DNA Evidence

In the extraneous offense involving two teenage girls that the DA used to get me indicted, hair found on a beer can was not DNA tested. A DNA test on that hair would definitively show it is not me.

The DNA test results are not even listed in the index of the court records — they buried it. But look at the Clerk's Record, Volume 1, Pages 62 and 63. The last paragraph on Page 63 states: the unused portions — the hair on the beer can — were not tested, while everything else was tested. Why? Additionally, there appears to be a blank space on Page 62 at the bottom of the results where it looks like two or three sentences have been removed — yet the rest of the test report contains no such blank spaces. This untested evidence can also prove it is not me in the extraneous offense.

The Search Warrant: A Staged Crime Scene

On my 52nd birthday, 09/22/07, I was in jail with a hold placed on me by Judge Dennis Powell. Criminal investigator Thomas Ray, aka Tom Ray, had the keys to my house and gates overnight — giving him the opportunity to stage and plant highly incriminating crime scene evidence, including little girl panties, KY lotion, and locks placed around a dog chain, all designed to make me look like an evil kidnapping suspect.

The next day, my two mean guard dogs — who would not let anyone into their yard — were gone. My younger, friendlier dogs were still there. Someone let those two mean guard dogs out during the night so that Thomas Ray could sneak into my house and stage his phony crime scene.

As for the KY lotion — it is a lubricant used for sexual purposes — but in my case it was planted outside in my front yard, on a small table, to insinuate I was engaged in an indecent act in broad daylight where neighbors could supposedly have seen me. Nobody saw any such thing. And for what it is worth — I am not circumcised. I would not need Thomas Ray's planted KY lotion for anything. There is no logical or ethical reason for that lotion to be outside on a table — only the intention to frame me.

This is more misinformation proving that all of this is made-up lies, and Tom Ray is a totally dishonest, corrupt bad cop.

"Nigger-Loving Child Molester" — What They Called Me for Refusing a False Confession

Bullying criminal investigator Thomas "Tom" Ray called me a "nigger-loving child molester" because I would not sign his typed-out false confession. This was his all-out attempt to make me look like an evil child molester to make the public hate me — despite there being no actual child-molesting victims.

I was knocked unconscious three days before my two-day railroading trial by a white redneck jail inmate who also called me that same slur — apparently a friend of Tom Ray's.

My court-appointed attorney, Bryan Laine, told me that if I testified on my own behalf, they would put me back in the jail cell with the inmate who knocked me out to finish the job and beat me to death — and then lie and say I started the fight that got me killed. But I have been locked up for over 18 years with no fights in prison.

Fact-Finding Inquiry: What I Am Requesting

I am requesting a petition seeking a review of my trial conviction based on:

• New, untested DNA evidence (the hair on the beer can)
• Key witness Shawna Hutchins perjuring herself — proven by two criminal investigators' testimonies
• The prosecutor perjuring herself to the grand jury and in my trial
• A change of venue to get a fair trial in Houston, Harris County, Texas — because I cannot receive a fair trial before an all-white jury with a white prosecutor and a white Judge

This is critical evidence compelling enough to produce reasonable doubt in the minds of a fair jury. The verdict was contrary to the law and the weight of the evidence. The prosecutor relied on speculation and inference to build the case, and the Judge showed favoritism toward the prosecutor and police throughout the trial.

I have requested help from multiple attorneys, but the all-out attack on my character — with all of their lying — drove them away.

The Horrors of Texas Prison: You Need to See This

I am in the horrible Texas prison system with all of its human rights violations and cross-contamination: bad food, no screens on the windows to keep out blood-sucking bugs like mosquitoes, gnats, flies, massive 3½-inch flying cockroaches, scorpions, spiders, bats, rats, mice — and far worse.

Medical Neglect and Overdose

The medical prison department — UTMB, University of Texas Medical Branch — is not treating me properly, and I no longer trust them. About two years after I was put in prison, the medical department informed me I had contracted the Hepatitis C virus — a virus I did not have before I was incarcerated. They told me they were not going to treat it because the medication was very expensive and my "score" was not high enough.

I spent over 14 years begging them to treat it, until I began looking and feeling terribly ill — it appeared they were trying to kill me. Finally they treated my Hep. C. But by then my kidneys, liver, and lungs were already destroyed from waiting so long. Then they overdosed me with Sofosbuvir 400 MG and Velpatasvir 100 MG for 90 days with no blood tests to monitor whether I was being overdosed — resulting in severe nerve damage, nerve pain, and severe double vision. Most of the time I now have to use a walking cane and double-vision eyeglasses to keep my balance, as verified on 01/30/25 at the RMF at the Estelle Unit.

They wanted to operate on my eyes, hands, and feet. I said absolutely not — because inmates are sent to the UTMB Hospital in Galveston to be operated on by college medical students who are practicing on them. I have seen inmates come back looking like monsters after surgeries at the Estelle Unit during the four years I was there. We, the inmates, are required to sign release forms so the hospital faces no liability. I do not trust any of them. I am genuinely fearful for my health and my life.

I was then sent to the McConnell Unit from 09/15/25 to 12/04/25 — 80 days — and forced to drink water with white flakes floating in it. That is when my left kidney began hurting worse. I cannot trust the medical department, and I don't know where to turn for honest health care in the Texas prison system.

There are good and bad people in the medical department. The bad ones use forged refusal forms and false documents with misinformation to cover up what they have done to me and other inmates. The good ones don't stay long — they quit because they see what the bad ones are doing and want no part of it.

I am 70 years old. I am scared to death of these dangerous people. I have no one to stand up for me. My left kidney is really hurting me now. I also have Advanced Liver Fibrosis.

This is not hard to investigate: talk to the medical staff who quit, and ask them why they left. It is because they saw what the bad people are really doing, and they did not want to be part of it.

The K2 Drug Scandal: Cockroach Poison They're Calling "Drugs"

I have informed Governor Greg Abbott about all of this starting July 4th, 2018 — through multiple certified letters and emails — but he will not respond, and he will not do anything about the K2 drug smoking scandal in his horrible prison system, TDCJ — or the prosecutorial misconduct that resulted in my aggravated 45-year kidnapping conviction.

The truth about K2 in his prisons: it is not actually a drug. The K2 is really cockroach poison and chemicals used to operate the prisons. The working inmate-trustees figured out how to mix and dry out these chemical poisons into a substance they can smoke to get high. They then sell it to other inmates in exchange for commissary merchandise — coffee, cookies, candy, chips — as payment for the hard work they do to keep these old, run-down prisons functioning. If the prison staff do not allow the trustees to sell their chemical poison, the trustees will stop working — and that will shut down Governor Abbott's entire prison system.

Is the state of Texas receiving federal funding to stop the K2 smoking — while actually knowing it is cockroach poison and chemicals, not drugs? This is lying to the tax-paying public, intentionally misinforming you, and endangering the health of every person in these prisons — including me. And Governor Abbott does not care. The only thing he cares about is his money and his reelection — while boasting about having over $125 million for his campaign.

I witnessed an inmate kill himself — suicide — around 8:30 PM on September 9, 2023, at the Estelle Unit, a few cells from mine in HS-H108. He hanged himself because of all the poison smoke driving him out of his mind. I was called to the Warden's/Major's office on 09/12/23 and asked what happened. I told them I didn't really know the inmate, but I witnessed him flipping out, holding his head, yelling and screaming "Help me" before he hanged himself. Look at the Estelle Unit medical and security records for 09/09/23.

The annual prison inspectors are not doing their jobs — they are looking the other way from all the smoking. There are no window screens on most of the prison windows to keep out blood-sucking bugs that cause cross-contamination. This situation is completely out of control, and Governor Abbott does not give a damn.

I am 70 years old with severe COPD of the lungs. I cannot smoke anything, and all of this chemical smoke is making me sick — real bad headaches, dizziness, double vision — making it extremely difficult to function.

This is not hard to investigate. Talk to the prison and medical staff who quit. They should tell you the truth — because that is why they quit: they saw what the bad people are doing, and they wanted no part of it.

I wonder: did the medical department intentionally overdose me so that they could operate on me and let medical college students practice on me? It appears that UTMB — University of Texas Medical Branch — has to pay Governor Greg Abbott's prison system for their inmate patients. Go back to the section titled "You Need to See This" to understand what I am talking about.