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wobblerlorri) wrote2010-03-09 12:56 pm
wobblerlorri) wrote2010-03-09 12:56 pm
The letter I'm going to send
Here's the letter I'm going to send with my criminal history printout. Let me know what you think:
To Whom It May Concern:
I would like to explain the entries on my criminal history, and hope you will consider this letter in addition to the evidence on the history.
During the time of my arrests, I was employed by the City of Pensacola, FL as the night shift computer operator. I made good money for the time, and paid for everything by either cash or check, believing that if one didn’t have the money for something, it shouldn’t be purchased.
It was during this time that the automatic teller machines made their debut (around 1981). The person I was married to at the time didn’t enter withdrawals from the ATM in the check; he regularly withdrew $100 at a time and never recorded them. Meanwhile I was purchasing groceries, paying bills, and otherwise trying to be a financially responsible person, writing checks on money that I thought was there, but no longer was.
When the checks would bounce, my ex-husband hid the returned check notices from me, then when they were referred to collections and/or the sheriff’s office, he would hide those notices as well. So the first I would be aware of a returned check was when I would be greeted at the door of my home by officers serving a warrant for my arrest.
The first two arrests I simply paid the fine and made good on the checks; the third one I was able to show the prosecutor that I had written the check in good faith but that my ex had once again emptied the account without my knowledge, and so the charge was nolle prossed, and I made restitution. I have no recollection of the fourth arrest showing on the history; it occurred while I was getting a divorce and making preparations to relocate to Georgia in 1982, and things were very unsettled at the time.
I want to stress as strongly as possible that I wrote all the checks in question in good faith, honestly believing at the time that there was money to cover them; my ex-husband was keeping the fact of their being returned for insufficient funds from me, and I was unable to make restitution in good time because he was destroying the NSF notices from the bank as well as any requests for payment from collections or the sheriff. If I had known the checks were returned, I’d have made good on them immediately.
Since then, I have been a good citizen, have owned several homes free and clear, have good credit, and have not been in any further trouble with the law.
I also want to address the question of the AKA’s on my history. One is under the name Lorraine Harmon, DOB 06/21/1958; the other is under Lorraine Harlan, DOB 07/10/1957. Lorraine Harmon is my maiden name, but the DOB is my ex-husband’s; I have no idea how that happened at all. The other name, Lorraine Harlan, is not a name I am familiar with, and that is most emphatically not my birthdate. I am currently working with the Escambia Co., FL Sheriff’s Dept. to figure out what is going on there.
Thank you for your consideration, and I want to reiterate that I have been free of any entanglements with law enforcement since this sad incident in my life.
To Whom It May Concern:
I would like to explain the entries on my criminal history, and hope you will consider this letter in addition to the evidence on the history.
During the time of my arrests, I was employed by the City of Pensacola, FL as the night shift computer operator. I made good money for the time, and paid for everything by either cash or check, believing that if one didn’t have the money for something, it shouldn’t be purchased.
It was during this time that the automatic teller machines made their debut (around 1981). The person I was married to at the time didn’t enter withdrawals from the ATM in the check; he regularly withdrew $100 at a time and never recorded them. Meanwhile I was purchasing groceries, paying bills, and otherwise trying to be a financially responsible person, writing checks on money that I thought was there, but no longer was.
When the checks would bounce, my ex-husband hid the returned check notices from me, then when they were referred to collections and/or the sheriff’s office, he would hide those notices as well. So the first I would be aware of a returned check was when I would be greeted at the door of my home by officers serving a warrant for my arrest.
The first two arrests I simply paid the fine and made good on the checks; the third one I was able to show the prosecutor that I had written the check in good faith but that my ex had once again emptied the account without my knowledge, and so the charge was nolle prossed, and I made restitution. I have no recollection of the fourth arrest showing on the history; it occurred while I was getting a divorce and making preparations to relocate to Georgia in 1982, and things were very unsettled at the time.
I want to stress as strongly as possible that I wrote all the checks in question in good faith, honestly believing at the time that there was money to cover them; my ex-husband was keeping the fact of their being returned for insufficient funds from me, and I was unable to make restitution in good time because he was destroying the NSF notices from the bank as well as any requests for payment from collections or the sheriff. If I had known the checks were returned, I’d have made good on them immediately.
Since then, I have been a good citizen, have owned several homes free and clear, have good credit, and have not been in any further trouble with the law.
I also want to address the question of the AKA’s on my history. One is under the name Lorraine Harmon, DOB 06/21/1958; the other is under Lorraine Harlan, DOB 07/10/1957. Lorraine Harmon is my maiden name, but the DOB is my ex-husband’s; I have no idea how that happened at all. The other name, Lorraine Harlan, is not a name I am familiar with, and that is most emphatically not my birthdate. I am currently working with the Escambia Co., FL Sheriff’s Dept. to figure out what is going on there.
Thank you for your consideration, and I want to reiterate that I have been free of any entanglements with law enforcement since this sad incident in my life.