1. The Defendant, Richard Sherman Williams #013568

Richard arrived at the state prison, as a young man, for a relatively small offense.

As you can see from below he ended up staying a lot longer than originally anticipated. He was targeted after winning the strip cell case by the guards and their inmate thugs. Conditions in the prison were exteremely violent back then and Richard testified about the violent conditions in the prison when the Ad Hoc Committe held hearings.

2. The State Attorney, Eugene Whitworth

3. Assistent State Attorney, Kenneth Hebert

4. Public Defender, William Airth

5. The presiding Judge, Theron Yawn

6. State Attorney, Tomas Elwell

7. Public Defender, Mack Futch

8. Doyle Kemp

9. 1980 case presiding Judge, Buzzy Green

10. District Eight Medical Examiner, William Hamilton

11. Current 8th Circuit State Attorney William Cervone

12. Bradford County Clerk of Court, Ray Norman

After a conviction in Florida, one of the first things done is to research and create a Post Sentence Investigative (PSI) report to use at the parole board. This is a copy of Richard William’s PSI.

Post Sentence Ingestigaton Report

As you can see by clicking on the above link, Richard’s PSI was done years later and the information provided by both the trial judge on his case and the state attorney is erroneous. Yet, in the number of years, even decades, that Richard has spent in prison and going to the parole board every five years since — no one has corrected it and his parole decisions are based on it even today.

Sadly, this fraudulent ~ incorrect information was also used in the penalty phase of Richard’s 1980 case in the testimony given by Doyle Kemp, the records custodian from the Florida State Prison. At the time the State Attorney, Tom Elwell, who had (and still has to this day) the correct information in his files did nothing to correct the record.

There is no statute of limitations on perjury or on fraud on the court in a capital case in Florida. Yet to this very day the State Attorney’s Office in Gainesville does nothing to seek the truth or justice. In fact, the state attorney William “Bill” Cervone won’t even return phone calls and totally ignores the fact that Bradford County clerk of court recently lied to him about the status of Richard Williams case files.

This is the fraudulent testimony given by Doyle Kemp at Richard Williams’ 1980 trial. The prosecutor Tom Elwell knew this was fraudulent testimony because his office had the case file containing the body diagram of the 1973 case victim showing that there were not 16 stabs in the back.

The autopsy report done in 1973 confirms this. Yet the state suborned fraud and perjury in the Kemp testimony and the states own files prove this.

Doyle Kemps Fraudulent Testimony

Please click the above link and take the time to read the testimony.

It has been said by numerous individual having had experience with State Attorney Tom Elwell that in the 80’s he was prosecuting his way to the bench and would seek to win convictions at any cost.