PASTOR JOHN M. OTIS of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Corpus Christi, Texas will address the theme: "AN INNOCENT MOTHER FACES LIFE IN PRISON! The Hannah Overton Story".A very gentle and loving mother of 5 was sentenced on September 12, 2007, for failing to act or provide medical attention for her son, whom, unknown to her, had ingested something that would ultimately kill him. Nine months of CPS investigation could not find her guilty of child abuse. Ten months of the DA’s investigation and 8 days of testimony could not convince the jury that she purposely poisoned this little boy... Now five children are without a mother... (Excerpted from this website ).
According to our guest, Pastor John M. Otis, "It is my opinion together with a group of local pastors in Corpus Christi that Hannah Overton is the victim of a judicial system gone awry in our city. Various local pastors have expressed great consternation over this jury verdict, and they are determined within a godly framework to bring public awareness to this travesty of justice on a national scale. The consensus of these Bible believing pastors is that this event is revealing some serious problems in our city’s legal system and that Satan is viciously attacking the Christian community. The District Attorney’s office was determined to paint Hannah as some kind of sinister, religious sociopath. For months the local media was being fed slanted information, stirring very negative public sentiments against her. One only had to read the blog site set up by the local newspaper regarding the case to see the public animosity. In many ways, she was tried and convicted in the media, which obviously was not privy to all the facts. Presently, the public is virtually unaware of the facts of the case.
A website, http://www.freehannah.com/, has been created by friends in her church, Calvary Chapel Coastlands, to inform the public of this injustice and to rally national support for an overturning of this verdict in upcoming appellate courts. In the meantime, this Christian mother sits in jail with a life sentence without parole! Sometime in mid January (2008) her husband, Larry Overton, is scheduled to be tried for the same offense, and it is conceivable that he too will be given a life sentence without parole, leaving five young children to be permanently without their parents. Once one learns about some of the details of the case, the godly reaction is one of righteous anger.
This is the motion for a new trial.
Motion for Arrest of Judgement
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