Letter to Denise Brown, Sister of Nicole Brown, Deceased

March 14, 2008

Re:  Hattie Neal and Mary Neal v. The (Johnny) Cochran Firm
United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Div;  Civil Action No. 1:07-cv-1935-TCB;

Legal Malpractice, Fraud, Contract Fraud, Breach of Fiduciary Duty;

Jury Trial Demanded – $30 million demand – 1/3 per defendant below;

Filed: 8/15/07 (pro se — to protect the 4-year statute on contract fraud);

Hattie Neal and Mary Neal – 20-year residents of Atlanta, GA metro area;

Defendants Served: Cochran Cherry Givens & Smith home office- Dothan AL; Cochran Firm Memphis Office (contract was signed); David McLaughlin, Esq. (Neal’s atty., as an individual); Diversity Action – different state residence among defendants and plaintiffs

See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Also, just type “Cochran Firm Fraud” in your web browser, and just type “wrongful death of larry neal” in your web browser without adding the prefix “http://” and do not put the “.com.”

Re:  Secret Incarceration and Wrongful Death of Mentally Ill Heart Patient in Shelby Co., TN Jail and Cover-up by The Cochran Firm While Under Contract to Represent the Deceased’s Elderly, Grieving Mother

Hello, Ms. Brown:

Thanks to The Cochran Firm, another family has suffered the wrongful death of a loved one while the culprits go free.  But this time, The Cochran Firm won’t get away with it.  People have said to me that we should have known better than to contract with The Cochran Firm after their representation in the Simpson trial.  All I can say to you, Ms. Brown, is that I beleived the glove evidence, and I regret the decision to contract with The Cochran Firm with all my heart.  I want you to know how The Cochran Firm uses the wealth and power it gained by defending O. J. Simpson to defraud my family and to silence the media regarding its criminal and unethical wrongs.

My brother, Larry Neal, was a mentally ill heart patient who was secretly arrested in Memphis, TN in mid-July 2003.  While my family and his social worker searched for him everywhere, he was under secret arrest in a jail where he had landed many times in the past due to his unstable mental condition.  Shelby County Jail repeatedly and falsely denied having Larry under arrest during the entire 18 days he was “missing” until he died of a heart attack, apparently caused by lack of his heart drugs.  Immediately afterwards, Larry’s mother contracted with The (Johnny) Cochran Firm to bring a wrongful death suit against the jail.  We were never told that the managing partner of The Cochran Firm’s Memphis office was himself a 20+year member of the Shelby County Commission, the entity that owned and operated the jail where Larry suffered and died.  The Cochran Firm proceeded to bury our lawsuit on its shelves, holding it inactive for 10.5 months while the TN statute of limitations ran (only 12 months statute in Tennessee).  They committed fraud against us to protect the jail partly because the facility was already under federal overview for violations of the civil rights of detainees, especially handicapped persons.  My website explains all at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com.  Documentary evidence is on the website under the Documents tab.

When we sued The Cochran Firm for its fraud in Georgia Superior Court, we served suit to the law office we initially contacted about my brother’s euthanasia by the jail — the Atlanta office of the law firm.  This so-called Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm went to court and denied it was any such thing — it denied that identity in court despite prolific advertising of the Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm on television, public transportation, legal search engines on the Internet, and The Cochran Firm’s website.  The law office at 127 Peachtree Street disclaimed any affiliation with The Cochran Firm, and Judge Wendy Shoob dismissed our suit on that basis!  Surprisingly, the firm was allowed to go right ahead advertising the Atlanta office of The Cochran Firm until I threatened to sue the network television stations for carrying those ads.  Now, there are no Cochran Firm commercials in Georgia, as far as I know.  That was Step 1.  Step 2 — we proceeded to sue them in United States District Court (see the case style above).   

The media will not report this story, Ms. Brown, because the media makes so much $$ running The Cochran Firm’s ads for 20 its offices across the nation.  This is why you never heard of the lawsuit that The Cochran Firm would rather deny its existence in a major city than to face.  I hope you will take the time to visit our website, http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com. 

We have established a foundation, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (“AIMI”) to help other handicapped people like Larry, who spent 20 years in a mental institution until he was turned out in the 1970’s, with no conception of how to behave according to the laws of our land.  Like many mentally ill people, Larry committed many misdemeanors (talking loud, panhandling, etc.), and was arrested frequently until police apparently became weary of their roles as psychiatric caretakers to this sick man, my brother.  I learned from you and others like you,  Ms. Brown, to turn my pain into an avenue of  assistance to other victims like Larry.  I now advocate for the mentally ill prisoners in America, who comprise approximately 30% of all incarcerees.

Please write to me and give me any advice you may have — I need your encouragement.  If you write to me and I do not respond within 24 hours, please assume I did not get your e-mail.  My electronic mail has experienced numerous problems since I sued The Cochran Firm.  My phone number is xxxxxx, cell no. 770-896-2722.

Blessings,

See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.comMary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
P.O. Box 7222
Atlanta, GA 30357
mln@wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
mneal000@yahoo.com

HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DAY TO AMERICANS – THE STRONGEST PEOPLE ON EARTH!

Here is a video regarding Negro Spirituals and perhaps the most celebrated song ever written by a white songwriter:  http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=DMF_24cQqT0
What an emotional presentation!  I could not stand to listen as Wintley Phipps began humming the non-lyrical version of Amazing Grace — the melodic moans that John Newton heard filtering up from the slave pit on his ship and later used to pen this most amazing song celebrating God’s forgiving and loving nature. My God!  What we have endured!  Have you ever considered the scientific theory “survival of the fittest” and its implications for Africans who were transported on those slave ships across the ocean during months of rough seas?  If one believes in that theory, then people who descended from those Africans are indeed the strongest people on the planet.  During the months at sea, many died and their bodies were eventually dumped overboard.  Some of the women were pregnant or became pregnant after rapes, and some of these babies held fast in their wombs to be born on this continent.  The food was atrocious, the brutality beyond imagination.  Plenty died, half naked, chained in putrid air in the bottom of the slave vessels.  Some may have been killed, if they got too sick, allowing more food and room for the healthy cargo to fetch the highest price at the slave markets.  Therefore, Brothers and Sisters, only the fittest survived.  Descendents of Africans who survived on those slave merchant vessels went through such a horrible process of weeding out the weakest through the arduous journey that only the strongest survived, and they are our ancestors.  Our genes are derived from the genetically superior future slaves who did not lose their minds or much of their health, or their determination to survive!  The journey across the Atlantic was then followed by centuries of enforced servitude under cruel circumstances, during which these Africans who were from various nations across that continent were forced to learn a new language, new survival skills, and develop a new common African American culture.  What a people! 

The Jews who survived Hitler’s concentration camps are another group of people who went through an even more depraved type of weeding out of the weakest among them.  At least African slaves were a commodity.  As such, there may have been limitations on the amount of bodily injury their capturers and masters wanted to inflict, although the mental abuse went on for centuries and continues.  Jews had no such protection.  The ratio of survivors of the Holocaust may have been only one out of thousands!  Did you ever see pictures of the emaciated people the Allied Forces took out of the death camps?  Imagine the degradation!  Most Jews who escaped capture by the Germans nevertheless were unwelcome in other countries of Europe and even America during and after WWII, and great was their suffering.  Yet, the strongest Jews survived, and many of their strong offspring became part of the American-Jewish population. 

The first European settlers on this continent included tough Pilgrims and later, thousands of people who were transported from European prisons as indentured servants.  These early white settlers also went through a rigorous weeding out process.  The weakest of these people died under the tough conditions on the early vessels facing poor nutrition, lack of medical care, overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions during months of sea travel.  Their journey to America was followed by years of war, various plagues, and many died.  Later, only the strongest frontiersmen survived during the Western expansion.  Later still, America’s European immigrants of the early and mid-20th century had already survived poverty, world war, and political injustice before crossing the sea on ships, daring to step out on faith to seek a better existence in America. 

Consider Native Americans!  Only the strongest among them survived the diseases brought to this continent by early European explorers to the mainland, Hawaii and Alaska!  On the continent, this weeding out of the weakest among Native Americans by disease was then followed by years of war and such atrocities as the Trail of Tears.  But the strongest survived! 

Orientals from China and other nations in the East lived on ships sometimes for months, some as stowaways, before reaching American shores.  Upon arrival, many of the earliest Eastern immigrants became little more than slaves, and they helped to build America’s railroads and performed grueling menial tasks.   Plenty of the Mexican immigrants of yesterday and today had to survive hell getting across the border — many of whom died on the short journey.  Determination and sure grit got them here.

That, my Brothers and Sisters, is why America is comprised of such tough people!  Strong people — strong wills, strong constitutions!  Most of us on this continent who call America home came from ancestors who went through survival tests that killed the weakest members of each group.  Wouldn’t it be awesome if we Americans could actually come together and celebrate and embrace our differences!  “Wouldn’t that be some ‘um!” as my grandma used to say.   What’s really stopping us from coming together — skin hues?  Old, stupid prejudices, perhaps fueled by a power structure that fears our unity?  Lack of understanding that one God made and loves us all?  Do you actually LOVE anyone who is of a different race from yours?  Do you believe that someone from a different race can really love you?  Are you loved by anyone who does not share your religious beliefs, ethnicity, or nationality?  I’ve lived in the South all my life, so this idea is a relatively new for me.  However, the closer I draw to the Father, the more I consider such things as brotherly love across all social and racial and national and cultural and economic barriers.  What might we accomplish in this world if we actually come together in love and mutual respect and work together to solve the problems of our common home, Earth?  Would our news headlines then change?  Might they read, “World Peace Declared?”  “World Hunger Ended!”  “Global Warming Conquered!”  “Many Diseases Wiped Out!”  What accomplishments have we forfeited over the years by our failure to come together and work for the common good of all peoples? 

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.  Genesis 11:6 

These might be good things to consider as we celebrate the upcoming Holiday, in honor of a man who shared with us his dream for harmony among all peoples. 

HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING’S DAY! 

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
P.O. Box 7222Atlanta, GA  30357
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com