I am an innocent man wrongfully convicted of a murder out of Bridgeport, CT. The murder took place back in February 1996, and I was arrested 1 month after the crime. I was tied into the case because the car the shooter used to commit the murder in witnesses said was mine, but what people had not known was that I had sold the car prior to the murder. My father testified at my trial that he had dropped me at the train station the day of the murder and that I was in New York at the time of the murder. I was not allowed to testify at my murder trial by the special public defender I was represented by. The State's key witness testified at my probably cause hearing and at my trial that his second statement he gave to the police was false. He stated that his identification of me out of the 15-man photo array was told to him to pick my picture and the police would get rid of his drug case he had pending, and in fact, that 2 weeks after his cooperation with the police his drug case was dismissed.

The State's witness stated on the stand I was not the shooter, yet the Judge who presided over the probably cause hearing and who allowed the State's key witness second statement in as evidence under the Whelan issue. This same Judge violated the Code of Judicial Conduct Canon 2 (c) Disqualification. By the Judge a presiding over my probably cause hearing and then presiding over my trial was illegal based on the Judicial Conduct Code Canon 3 (c) Disqualification. (1) A Judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which the Judges impartiality might reasonably be questioned, (A) the Judge has personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding. I have written to several reputable law firms throughout the major cities in CT and none of them won't even touch this issue nor respond to my letters. I have an issue of Jury misconduct. An alternative Juror claimed friends/family members of mine threatened him and other Jurors. This happened the day of Jury deliberations and the Jury was polled by the Judge one by one and asked on question, was any one of the Jurors threatened inside or outside the Court house by anyone? The Jurors said, 'no' and my attorney never asked the Jurors any questions nor did he move for a motion for mistrial. The case went to the jury to deliberate and 55 minutes later I was found guilty. I lost my direct appeal before the CT Supreme Court and after 3 attorneys/public defenders and 6 years on the docket for a State Habeas I lost my State Habeas on issues of ineffective assistance of Counsel and Juror misconduct.

I am currently fighting another State Habeas on the issues of ineffective Habeas Counsel and Appellate Counsel and actual innocence. I have been on the docket since November 2007, and the Attorney that has been appointed to my case since June 2008, hasn't filed an amended petition nor investigated my case at all. I am scheduled to go to trial on October 26, 2010, with this attorney. Regardless of the fact that I have filed a motion of ineffective pretrial attorney on him twice which was denied twice, and my grievance I filed against him was dismissed. Many people don't want to hear that the system is racist, but it is. I admit I'm no saint, but I didn't commit this crime I stand convicted of, and I need any help I can get financially or legally help to fight my case in the Federal District Court on a Federal Habeas Corpus petition.

I have done all I can do to help myself and my family can barely help themselves, so if anyone is willing to lend a man aid and support for his fight for liberation, please reach out. At the bottom are all my Docket numbers you can look up to find out more about my case:

CR96-2116888A
SC. 15801
CV01-449755
AC 29469
CV 07-4002087
CV08-4002129
CV08-4002166

Write to me at:

Abdul-Kareem Jamal Mukhtaar
#245778
Garner Correctional Institution
50 Nunnawauk Road
Newtown, CT 06470

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