The Dolores Markee Story

The letter below is written by Dolores Markee.
Contact: PATRICK CRUSADE HEADQUARTERS
P.O. Box 1891
 Alabaster, Alabama 35007
taoss@worldnet.att.net

My name is Dolores Markee. I am a 36 year old mother of two writing this letter from prison. The following is a brief synopsis of the circumstances that brought me here.

On January 6, 1993, I killed the sexual molester (George Paouris) of my daughter then age 3. Ten months later, I was tried, convicted and sentenced to 58 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. I have never been in any kind of trouble with the law prior to this in my entire life. I was charged with murder for the shooting of my daughter's sexually abusive father. I am not just another convict asking to be released; the circumstances surrounding my deed, are anything but typical.
 
 

I married George Paouris, decedent, in 1984. George was in the Greek Navy. During our marriage, we lived in several places in the United States and then moved to Greece.
 
 

George's behavior deteriorated with heavy drinking, verbal abuse, and jealousy. I returned to the United States, in ill health, to await the birth of our daughter, Raquel. George came to visit the United States for a few days for the birth of Raquel. He refused to pay the hospital for her birth. I was unable to return to Greece due to my son's father (from my first marriage) prevailing in a court hearing, that required me to remain in Texas with my son, or relinquish custody of him. George wanted me to flee the USA with my son, new baby, and return to Greece. I chose to follow the law of the courts.
 
 

After two years, without sending us any support, George returned to the United States after being terminated from the Greek Navy. He expected our marriage to pickup where he had left it. Our marriage deteriorated as George became more and more obsessive, orally and mentally abusive and physically abusive to our daughter Raquel. After many incidents, we separated in November 1990.

George and I divorced in March 1991, with me receiving Full custody of Raquel.
 
 

In May 1991, at the end of one of my daughter's visits with George, I discovered evidence of sexual abuse. I observed my child (32 months old) "touching" herself in a sensuous and seductive manner. My daughter told me that "daddy showed her how to do that." Raquel also told me that her "daddy" had "kissed" her "all over" her body, including her word for her "private parts" and her bottom. I took my child to the hospital and they reported the incident to the police department. My daughter and I were referred to Child Protective Services, and the District Attorney's Office.

I was advised to withhold visitation to protect my child. Subsequently, George filed for reinstatement of visitation. The District Attorney's Office decided not to proceed with the case involving the May 1991 allegations because my daughter was "not old enough to testify." I withdrew my sponsorship of his petition for citizenship.

George remarried in July 1991, one week before his time to be deported. Visitation by George resumed in September 1991, and I learned that the allegations of sexual abuse had been rejected by the District Attorney's Office.
 
 

The court ordered; visits for George be supervised by his spouse. When George had visitation in October 1991, my daughter once again described in tears how her father had sexually abused her. Again we went to the hospital. The doctor noted "swelling and irritation to vulva is consistent to sexual manipulation." The doctor continued, "Child states her father did it and that it happened before."

I was instructed by the District Attorney's Office to withhold visitation, once again.

In November 1991, the court ordered visitation resumed but with supervision by an independent agency. The District Attorney's Office reviewed the case again and after the child had met with District Attorneys and District Attorney's Advocates, the case was presented to a Grand Jury for indictment.

George was indicted on 16 counts of aggravated sexual assault of our daughter Raquel. After he was indicted, he filed to change custody, at the advice of his attorneys, "A good defense is a strong offense."

Incredibly, in July 1992, I lost custody of Raquel to her abusive father, George. Judge Carlton Spears said, in his opinion, the sexual abuse did not occur, and because George was "just under indictment" that, could not be used against him. The Assistant District Attorneys were not allowed to testify on my behalf due to the pending criminal charges against George.

The District Attorney's Office reviewed the transcripts of Judge Carlton Spears' decision, and did not change their opinion regarding the strength of their case against George. However after George got custody of Raquel her whole personality started to change and she would not talk to the District Attorneys about the sexual abuse even after repeated efforts by the District Attorney's Office.

On January 6, 1993, Raquel and I met with the District Attorney. I was informed that the State could not proceed with the case against George because Raquel was, "Afraid to talk."

Back at my home, Raquel told me that George had sexually abused her the previous night, "Daddy put his hand in my pajamas and I didn't like it." "Mommy, I couldn't breath!" I was due to return my daughter to George that same evening.

After seeking all avenues to protect my daughter, with little to no success, confrontation with the abuser, George, was the only thing left.

I went to question George about the abuse, taking a gun because of my fear of him. After a discussion with George outside his house with no results, I turned to leave. Then George told me that he had "solved his immigration problems, the girl (Raquel) would live with him forever, the court was on his side and he could do what ever he wanted to her or me!" I knew what he meant and pulled the gun from my pocket and fired hitting him nine times including the genitals.

I waited for the police to arrive and told them over and over, "He molested my baby!"

This person was killed in a crime of passion. My efforts were to protect Raquel. George molested Raquel. He was going to do it again and again and there was nothing anyone was doing to stop him....

So why was I sentenced to fifty-eight years for protecting my daughter? My daughter and family and I have asked this and many other questions.

Perhaps it was due to me being a female Hispanic. Perhaps it was due to not accepting a 20 year plea-bargain offered by the State. Undoubtedly it was due to the "motion in Limine" filed by the State that prevented my attorneys from questioning witnesses regarding their opinion whether George was the perpetrator of sexual abuse upon Raquel. The motion in Limine prevents anything negative about the deceased being used in court. Without the power to decide what facts, law and evidence are applicable.

JURIES cannot be a protection to the accused. If people acting in the name

of government are permitted by JURORS to dictate any law whatever, they can also unfairly dictate what evidence is admissible or inadmissible and

thereby prevent the WHOLE TRUTH from being considered. Thus if government can manipulate and control both the law and evidence, the issue of fact

becomes virtually irrelevant. In reality, true JUSTICE would be denied

leaving us with a trial by government and not a trial by JURY!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Almost every JURY in the land is falsely instructed by the judge when it is

told it must accept as the law that which is given to them by the court, and

that the JURY can decide only the facts in the case. This is to destroy the

purpose of a Common Law JURY, and to permit the imposition of tyranny upon

the people.

The critical facts in issue: Had Raquel been sexually abused by George? Did I have reasonable belief at the time of the shooting, that Raquel had been sexually abused by George? Was Raquel in continuance of danger. Now, five years later, I still believe it and so does my daughter Raquel, and the rest of our family.

The jury never got to hear the child victim advocates and the three District Attorneys testify about their opinion that Raquel had been sexually abused by George.
 
 
 
 

The jury never got to hear my three sister's testimony that corroborated the sexual abuse of Raquel.

The jury never got to hear Richard Markee's testimony as evidence of the fact that Raquel was indeed sexually abused.

Additional proof of the child's sexual abuse, NOT provided to the jury, includes a police report by officer Peterson where Raquel told the officer that George had molested her.

The jury never got to hear my mother's testimony that she observed Raquel's red and irritated vaginal area, after visits with George. The child also spoke of "games" George played with her and described several incidents of sexual abuse by George after he had custody.

The medical sexual assault examinations were not presented to the jury. The examination on May 1991, indicates several abnormalities, including a thickened hymen and red area. Raquel also reported to medical personnel that George molested her.

The medical examination of Raquel on October 1991, indicates physical findings consistent with manipulation of the genital area, and that Raquel told medical personnel of oral-genital contact by George.
 
 

The Charge to the JURY in the First JURY Trial before the supreme Court of

the United States illustrates the TRUE POWER OF THE JURY. In the February

term of 1794, the supreme (Supreme is not capitalized in the Constitution,

however Behavior is. Art. III) Court conducted a JURY trial and said: "...it

is presumed, that the juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the

other hand, presumed that the courts are the best judges of law. But still

both objects are within your power of decision."

"You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine

the law as well as the fact in controversy."

(State of Georgia vs. Brailsford, et al, 3 Dall 1)

"The JURY has an unreviewable and unreversible power...to acquit in disregard

of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge..." (emphasis added)

U.S.vs Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139, (1972)

Surprisingly enough, people I never met, nor had met me, were allowed to testify that "I was untruthful" because George had told them so.

The prosecutor told the jury "you never heard any testimony from anyone, other than Dolores, that Raquel was molested." How could they? The state did not allow the testimony, by filing the "motion in Limine."

Was killing George a good thing? No! I tried for over eighteen months to get the "system" to help protect my daughter. Was letting George continue to molest Raquel a good thing? Absolutely No! If I did not protect my child from sexual abuse I would be no better than the sexual molester. The difference, I would have been prosecuted for child neglect.
 
 

Only in Texas can you ambush and kill someone for breaking your garage windows, or kill someone for trying to steal your pickup truck; but you cannot protect your child from sexual abuse.

Perhaps another reason I was sentenced to fifty-eight years, the media characterized that the sexual abuse allegations arose "in the midst of a custody fight"; when in fact I had full custody of Raquel.

The Jury failed to consider I had NO previous criminal record. The Court's county psychiatrist, Dr. Sparks, gave his opinion that I was "not dangerous now or likely to be in the future."

I was prohibited from entering evidence whose facts would reveal my maternal instincts took over AFTER the entire system failed to protect my daughter from George Paouris. "By what logic should juries have the power to acquit a defendant but no right to know about the power? The court decisions that have suppressed the notion of jury nullification cannot resolve this paradox."

"More than logic has suffered. As originally conceived, juries were to be a

kind of safety valve, a way to soften the bureaucratic rigidity of the

judicial system by introducing the common sense of the community. If they

are to function effectively as the 'conscience of the community,' jurors

must be told that they have the power and the right to say no to a

prosecution in order to achieve a greater good. To cut jurors off from this

information is to undermine one of our most important institutions."

While I have a loving family and friends, it is crucial for a large number of citizens to help.

You can help by your support and writing letters. To:

Dolores is placed in the Moutain View Unit which is assigned to the Gatesville Board Office:

Gatesville Location
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Gatesville Board Office
3408 S. State Hwy. 36
Gatesville, TX 76528
phone: (254) 865-8870
fax: (254) 865-2629

Juanita Gonzalez, Board Member
Charles Shipman, Parole Commissioner
Elvis Hightower, Parole Commissioner


Austin Location
209 West 14th Street, Suite 500
P.O. Box 13401
Austin, TX 78701-3401
phone: (512) 936-6351
fax: (512) 463-8120

Rissie Owens, Presiding Officer
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles

Huntsville Location
1300 11th Street, Suite 520
Huntsville, TX 77342-0599
phone: (936) 291-2161
fax: (936) 291-8367


thanks, sherry

----- Original Message -----
From: Azuma,Emil Y
To: taoss@worldnet.att.net
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:01 PM
Subject: errata

Dear Patrick Crusade,

The previous email concerning Dolores Markee contained errors in the address for the Gatesville Board Office of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
The correct address is:

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Gatesville Board Office
3408 S. StateHwy. 36
Gatesville, TX 76528
phone: (254) 865-8870
fax: (254) 865-2629



Sorry for the mistake.


Sincerely,

Emil Azum

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do!

Everett Hale

Write your letters or Faxes or personal calls asking, demanding, however you want to state it, to let Dolores Markee out of prison on parole. Please send copies of your letters to me at the address below.

If you know others interested in helping, please feel free to distribute this plea for help everywhere. Only with your help will my family be restored. Our goal is to get nation wide support from diverse communities, that believe our children are the most precious resources, to be cherished and protected.

We as "non-abusive" parents must show that it is NOT okay to harm our innocent children, that There IS a difference between a cold hearted senseless killer and a desperate mother who is left no other course.

Your heartfelt support will make a difference and be deeply appreciated. God Bless You and keep your family safe always.

Sincerely,

Dolores Markee

The following is the current information as of August 7, 2006:

Dolores Markee
#650407
2305 Ransom Road
Gatesville, TX 76528