Thankfully, many of our guests have been released from prison, either before or after our

coverage has been released, but others have not been so fortunate, including the man whose

case we'd like to highlight again today, James King.

Since our initial release of his story, the California Supreme Court, while providing

no reasoning, denied James's habeas petition after sitting on it for a year.

His attorney, Ian Graham, assures us that he will not give up and is now seeking clemency

for the governor.

Luckily, they've got a very good man in office, Gavin Newsom, who we hope will do what others

have lacked the courage and conviction to do.

Here is his story of how a man's freedom was literally stolen away by the provable

lives of a child at the insistence of her criminal-even-dictive mother.

While renting a room in Salinas, California, a woman named Ruth Ann supported her drug

habit and her 13-year-old daughter Jamie, with welfare and prostitution.

James King previously rented a room in the same house where he still received mail and

maintained friendships, including with Ruth Ann's boyfriend, Eric Barton, and the Landlord

Doug Dobell.

James would come by occasionally to pick up his mail and socialize as he did on August

1, 1997 for the Salinas Air Show.

A few days later, while Landlord Doug Dobell was in Las Vegas, James intervened when he

saw Ruth Ann trying to sell Doug's moped.

Ruth Ann, who had already pawned Doug's TV, threatened James that she would get back at

him if he ever told Doug.

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