Comment: This article appeared in the Fort Myers News-Press the day after my bomb threat trial resulting in a hung jury. My lawyer, Mr. Hendry, was of course well aware that I did not consider the paper I had written a threat to anyone and that there were moreover any number of problems with such an interpretation of my writing.

Furthermore, if it was a threat why was I held in jail for almost a year without being offered a plea bargain or given a trial? Why did the prosecution have to falsify the charges? Indeed, (even with his deceptive representation, refusing to address all the crooked dealings) the jurors having seen WHAT I HAD WRITTEN could not reach a verdict that it was a threat; resulting in a hung jury.

As well, the clear duty of a defense attorney is to portray his client in the best possible light. Thus in stating to the newspaper that my writing was "reprehensible" and "may have been designed to influence the county to help him build a road to his property" Mr. Hendry was blatently crooked and deceiptful intent on destroying my image with the public and future jurors in order to appease the good old boys who expected him to get a conviction, while I sat in jail, unable to talk to the paper myself.

Indeed his clear obligation to me was to tell the newspaper that there was no question that it wasn't a threat with no qualifications. Furthermore he should have been telling the paper about all the crooked dealings-- falsified criminal charges, falsified affidavits, keeping me in jail for a year without trial, etc. However there was not a word about any of that, either at trial or to the media. Contrast that to the O. J. Simson trial where the prosecution was accused of endless foul dealings.

If I could have afforded out of state lawyers that were not beholden to the Fort Myers or Florida legal establishment I might have found such representation. Of course the good old boys knew that if they held me in jail until all my property went into foreclosure, I wouldn't be able to hire such an attorney. Indeed, my property went through foreclosure (in December, 1994), only a month before I was finally offered A VERY CROOKED PLEA BARGAIN and my freedom from jail.

Indeed, justice for the rich and the poor is far different. Those with money such as in the O. J. Simpson murder trial can buy justice but those without money are readily sold down the river by corrupt legal and government authorities carrying out their own agendas with the support of corrupt cops, psychologists and other professionals.

And, in reading this article, the public and any future jurors must have thought my writing to be very bad indeed in view of the general public perception from such trials as the Simpson trial that defense lawyers go overboard in defending their clients.

In summary, this newspaper interview is indicative of Mr. Hendry's divided loyalties and lack of dedication to my representation before trial and in my defense at trial, leaving many issues out of my trial defense that would have exposed a host of crooked lawyers and government people and established my innocence.

After two hours of jury deliberations, Judge William Nelson declared a mistrial Tuesday in the criminal case of Robert Allston, who is accused of threatening the lives of public officials.

The six jurors couldn't come up with a unanimous decision and a new trial is expected in late May.

Allston, 59, has embarked on a two-year campaign of civil disobedience since he was arrested for describing how easy it would be to blow up the Lee County Attorney's Office in a philosophical tract to assistant county attorney David Owen and other public officials.

His defense attorney, John Hendry of LaBelle, said it wasn't a threat at all and fell within Allston's First Amendment rights, though the lawyer added that he felt Allston's reference to a bomb was "reprehensible" and may have been designed to influence the county to help him build a road to his property, which Allston since has lost to foreclosure.

"The basic defense is nobody was really threatened," said John Hendry, Allston's attorney."

"We're ready to go again and I could see six jurors saying this is a terrifying threat and another six saying it wasn't a credible threat at all."

Allston has been arrested several times since the threat charges came down, for trespassing on the State Attorney's Office and the Lee County Jail. And he's in jail now after he was arrested at the Lee County Justice center on Monday for violating probation of a previous trespassing charge.