My name is Tina Lynne Wagoner, but you may call me Lynnely.
After 10-years, I was recently released from prison with only the cloths on my back and while I am appealing my wrongful conviction. The Cattaraugus County Department of Social Services has graciously but temporarily put me up at the Moonlight Motel and for that I appreciate them more than words can say. However, I cannot rely on DSS to provide me with the money I need to sustain my daily life, like a home, apartment or studio, to call my own, clothing and other amenities which make life bearable, and I need money to meet court demands that fall outside the minimal provisions of poor person or IFP relief.
I started a petition on change.org which suitably explains court room dilemma. It reads:
“Over 2.2 million inmates were institutionalized throughout the United States in 2014. Out of that number, approximately 2 percent to 8 percent were wrongfully convicted. The conviction brings with it to the innocent person a burden of shame and embarrassment that did not belong to him/her—or me in this case. It is a devastating, life altering burden from which the only remedy is the reversal of that conviction.”
Your investment in this case, in me, shall yield, by a signature of support on change,org or by financial donation on this site, a vastly priceless social profit. The potential to reverse a false conviction and/or to assist in the restoration of stability and provision of opportunity to make a difference in my life and the life of many others.
Either way, your investment yields life giving power to restore the balance to a judicial system which has been running in the red for the past decade in my case.
Your signature is essentially a Prayer filled request that the Cattaraugus County District Attorney, Lori Pettit-Rieman take swift and decisive action to correct a long overdue, life-damaging mistake by moving the court to reverse and vacate my conviction; and to support my offer to apologize for my role of playing the accuser rather than acting to understand the prosecutors position in this dilemma, and most of all, to forgive my past stoking of her ire by my failure to understand the pressure and demands of her office, or to realize that while she is the face and front-line of attack when any mistakes are made, the mistakes or errors in judgment may not belong personally to her.
I did not know that when my case landed on her desk that she took in good faith a social worker’s judgment on medical evidence or that at trial, when you discovered the error, she might have acted under her own volition to correct it, had I not persisted with claims of fraud and misrepresentation of the bottom-line on medical fact: that my daughter’s posterior hymen ring was not thin.
That meant that there was no evidence from which to infer that E**** was sexual abuse multiple times or that she had sexual intercourse multiple times. In fact, my 12-year-old scored a Tanner-4 on the pubertal scale which was normal for her age and the hymen had redundant tissue to it which is a normal finding; and any other anomaly noted was easily explained along with similar injuries recently sustained in the head-on-collision in which she almost died, if not for the swift action of the medical expert attention from the doctors who provided her treatment—the 6-hour surgery to reconnect her severed-bile-duct, a shattered spleen which nothing but could be done but pray about, a surgery to repair her broken back and a surgery to implant two-12-inch titanium pins in her right femur—life threatening injuries sustained only months earlier than Dr. Salman’s gynecological exam after being released from Buffalo Children’s Hospital.
I am in need of all of the offers of assistance, whether by your signatory vote cast on behalf of my quest to exonerate myself at change.org or by financial support made here on go-fund-me, I thank you for investing your time to read about me and how I hope to garner your support to restore my life to its former glorious routine days but better.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Tina Lynne Wagoner
