From: Nicholas Chancey
To: CommitteeForJustice@hotmail.com  
Subject: Calvin Solet case 
Date: January 10, 2000



This letter complements those of Vonda Billiot and Ray Pourciau concerning the Calvin Solet Jr. case. I have kept up with the affair since its early days. I am a daily reader of The Courier online, www.houmatoday.com.

I believe this trial was a witch hunt from the beginning. 

The cleanliness of the deputy's uniform when he was found in a drainage canal; the alcohol in the deputy's system, when no tests were conducted to the mud and water; the deputy's inability to swim, when it was well known that he was capable of fording the canal; the ever-so-present "missing gun" that looms over Solet's head; the missing pieces of audio tape … and Solet was found guilty?

If I were to hire Chicken Little to stand on the courthouse square and cry that the sky is falling, would anyone care to join me in pulling up a lawn chair and watching the Sheriff's Office come out with 10-foot poles?

The elements by which Solet was convicted spell out the simple word of conspiracy, a conspiracy by the Sheriff's Office and the district attorney to avenge the loss of a deputy who had potential in the Sheriff's Office.

How many more young lives are going to be lost at the hands of the corrupt? This should be a lesson to Generation X that the power of voting is well worth the two minutes it takes.


Nicholas S. Chancey
New London, Conn.