Bamboozled (20 page)

Joey Torrey

C-47554 : B10-15OL

MCSP : POB 409040

Ione, California

95640-9040

CC: Legal Petition

Legal Affairs

K. Alsobrook

A. Bond, CCI

T. Lum, Esq.

G. Cruise

On June 1, 2012, Joey watched other life inmates released on parole who had served half the time that he had. One kid had not even been born when Joey arrived in prison, yet had served 15 years of a life sentence. Each of them had attorneys.

Joey says he spent many years pondering how he could raise $10,000 for a qualified attorney as there was no one to give or loan him the money. Though he did demand it from me over a period of months, but unfortunately, I do not have $10,000 either.

Joey wondered what became of his celebrity friends and why he hadn't heard from them. He remembers having $10,000 dinner bills during his extravagent years in Vegas.

In July Joey was again called for legal mail line and received the following letters:

August 13, 2009

Joseph Torrey

V-21699 B-10-150L

Mule Creek State Prison

P.O. Box 409040

lone, CA 95640-9040

Dear Mr. Torrey:

This is in response to your letter received by the Board of Parole Hearings (Board) on April 29, 2009. Specifically, you requested that the Board's hearing panel take into consideration releasing you on parole at your May 29, 2009, parole consideration hearing.

Unfortunately, the Board was not able to respond to your letter before your May 29, 2009, parole consideration hearing at which you received a two (2) year denial. Your next parole consideration hearing is due in May 2011. At your hearing you were given the opportunity to discuss your issues and/or concerns.

Joey believes the problem is that he refuses to tell the parole board what they “want” to hear. On August 2011, after his last appeal was denied, based on a mental health evaluation, Joey was summoned for a parole board mental health report, and found to be A-1 except for being a narcissist. He says he did not know what it meant to be a narcissist.

Joey, long known for his detective skills, seemed perhaps unwilling to learn or acknowledge they were referring to his selfishness, vanity, pride, and ego—his attitude of
I do what's best for me in any given scenario and then attempt to justify it later.

220 4th Street, Suite 103

Oakland, CA 94607

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Keith Wattley

Managing Attorney

July 12, 2012

LEGAL MAIL

Joey Torrey (C-47554)

Mule Creek State Prison

P.O. Box 409040

Ione, CA 95640

Dear Mr. Torrey:

We are sorry to hear of your recent denial from the Board of Parole Hearings. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to represent clients without a fee. Our fee to file a writ challenging the BPH's denial is $10,000 for all three levels of state court (Superior Court, Court of Appeal, California Supreme Court). Half the fee is due up front, with the balance due 60 days after the petition is filed. If that fee does not work for you, we could charge $3,500 to draft the petition for you and ask the court to appoint us. In that case, the full amount is due up front.

The only way to get a hearing sooner than 3 years is if you petition the Board through a Petition to Advance Hearing (1045a form). Lifers can use a 1045a form to request an earlier hearing if they can show some new information or changed circumstances that make the longer denial (in your case seven years) no longer necessary or reasonable. If you would like us to file a 1045a for you, our fee is $2,000.

If the fee is acceptable to you, please let us know and we will send you a fee agreement that explains what our representation would look like. Please also send us a copy of your parole hearing transcript when you receive it. Thank you again for writing, and we look forward to hearing from you again soon.

Sincerely,

Ritika Aggarwal

Paralegal

The person performing the exam was a short, attractive, 20-something woman. She asked Joey to sit down and then asked if he ever thought about killing himself and why he did not participate in the “A.A.” program. Joey complained to her about listening to child molesters blaming their mothers for not loving them and how he needed a drink.

She smiled and asked Joey what he felt about himself. Joey told her that in order to make it this long in a cell, locked for 23 hours a day, not knowing when or if the next man wants to kill him, that in order to survive, he “must” think “that the sun rises on my ass, and sets on my crotch.”

She asked Joey if he was a narcissist. He says he smiled and asked her why she wears make up, lip stick, and plays with her hair. Joey says “If my only crime after 35 years is that I think awesome [sic] about myself, then wow, the system is truly broken.” While he's quick to contradict himself to claim he was “out there in society obeying all the rules and speed limits,” he seems to actually believe this despite what he wrote of that same time in his own memoir less than five years prior. He's quick to ignore the parts of the story that condemn him and reacts angrily when someone suggests that his story contradicts itself. He doesn't seem to notice that this is exactly why the State of California is so insistent on holding him while they release people convicted of far more grevious crimes (who also generally happen to hire attorneys that costs in the tens of thousands of dollars).