We URGENTLY need all persons receiving this email to write and/or fax our State Attorneys. We are following a surge of media attention to ask the State Attorneys to reexamine the case of Florida vs. Alan R. Yurko in light of new evidence.

   The case no. is CR98-1730. Please let us know when you have done so. Sending us a copy via email or mail of the letter would be gr eatly appreciated as we can forward it to our Attorney for file reference. We believe this will get the wheels turning. We want letters and fax es to come from laypersons and professionals in all manners and forms. We must FLOOD them with requests.

   Please get each individual in your sphere of influence to send one and please do so as soon as possible -time is of the essence. We believe this will give us the catalyst to bring this case to a head.

   Please read this recent article: below addresses
and ask members of your organizations to do so as well. We need BOTH State Attorneys to receive the letters (you can use the same letter for both).
Thank You! Most Grateful ~Francine Yurko

Lawson Lamar Office of the State Attorney 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida PO Box 1673 Orlando, Florida 32802 407.836.2400 Phone 407.836.2499 Fax international code (+001) CHoover@sao9.org Charles Crist Office of Attorney General State of Florida The Capitol, Room PL 01 Tallahassee Florida 32399-1050 850.487.1963 Phone 850.487.2564 Fax ag@oag.state.fl.us

Hello Again, I just wanted to touch base to request that if you receive a reply from our State Attorneys, in re the letters you've written on behalf of Alan Yurko, that you forward it to me for our records. We have recently discovered that Asst Deputy Atty General Carolyn Snurkowski is responding on behalf of State Atty Crist and she is basically just blowing us off. We are concerned that our letters may not even be reaching Atty Crist in light of her response. So we need to track any/all responses that we can. Thank You for your assistance ~Francine

Francine Yurko (NMW)
...Alan Yurko was wrongfully sentenced to serve life + ten years for the death of his baby boy as a cover for what has since been discovered to be and can be proved to be medical malpractice. This could happen to any one of us.
Please find out more...get involved!  www.freeyurko.bizland.com

http://www.royalbodycare.org/yurko.asp
Email To: FRANSWRLD@aol.com

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Action plan:
*Read the article below and understand that those who put Alan in prison are extremely vulnerable at this time.
*Write a letter to the state attorney general (address provided below) requesting that case no. CR98-1730, Florida vs. Alan R. Yurko be reopened (a sample letter is provided below, simply download and print one, sign and date it).
*Put letter into a stamped envelope addressed to the Florida state attorney general.

We intend to flood the state attorney general with letters from all over the world and force this case to be reopened and reexamined. We want Alan’s sentence commuted immediately or that he be released from prison pending the outcome of a new trial.

The importance of Alan’s case cannot be overstated. If the machine Alan has built from his prison cell successfully secures his release from prison, it will then be empowered to secure the release of potentially hundreds of other innocent parents currently serving life sentences as a cover for vaccine-induced medical malpractice.

It should also be noted that receipt of hundreds of form letters are often taken more seriously than the same number of individually submitted letters. Those in political office have a tendency to view 2,000 individual letters as 2,000 isolated voices in the wilderness whereas 2,000 copies of the same form letter is understood to be an organized effort that demands attention.

Thank you for your help in this matter. It is my closely held belief that the Yurko case could expose the international mass vaccination agenda and bring an end to the use of human subjects for medical experimentation.

Sincerely,
Don Harkins
The Idaho Observer

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By Bob Whitby
Published 1/23/03

In February 1999, Orlando resident Alan Yurko, then 29, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for shaking his 10-week-old son to death. An autopsy revealed that the baby, also named Alan, had blood in his retina and a subdural hematoma (blood-filled swelling in the brain). Taken together, the findings were offered as proof by the prosecution that baby Alan died from violent shaking. A jury convicted Yurko of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in less than four hours.

Orange-Osceola chief medical examiner Dr. Shashi Gore performed the autopsy that served as the centerpiece of the conviction. It seemed like an open-and-shut case.

But in March 2001, Yurko filed a petition for a new trial. Among other things, he contends that Gore's autopsy report was riddled with mistakes, and that Gore didn't have enough background on the case to determine exactly what killed the baby.

What's surprising about the appeal is that Gore admitted the errors and omissions in court.

At the original trial, Yurko's lawyer, Junior Barrett, questioned Gore on the procedure for diagnosing Shaken Baby Syndrome.

"Isn't it a fact that on the Shaken Baby Syndrome theory, in order to make a determination you have to get [the child's] history from the caretaker?" asked Barrett.

"Yes," Gore answered.

"Caretaker in this case would have been Mr. Yurko, isn't that correct?"

"Yes."

"Did you get any history from Mr. Yurko?"

"No."

Gore also testified that he didn't speak with the baby's mother, Francine Ream, and that he wasn't even sure anyone from his office got the baby's medical records.

"Let's not deal with probability," Barrett asked. "Did an investigator from your office get the medical records of this child's birth from the hospital where the child was born?"

"Yeah, I don't know," answered Gore. "I'm not a hundred percent certain."

In his autopsy report, Gore listed baby Alan as a black infant when in fact both of his parents are white. "Yeah, that's a typographical probably," said Gore in testimony. (The report has apparently been corrected to reflect the correct race.) He also got the circumference of the child's head wrong. According to medical records, baby Yurko's head was 31.5 centimeters a week after birth. A two-month checkup put the baby's head at 32.5 centimeters. But in his autopsy Gore listed the baby's head circumference at 22 centimeters.

The most puzzling discrepancy in Gore's report has to do with the baby's internal organs.

Shortly after baby Alan died, Ream donated his organs. Gore writes about the empty chest cavity in his final autopsy report: "It is noted that the heart, liver with gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, mesenteric lymph nodes and parts of the small intestine are surgically absent as a result of harvesting."

In court, however, he testified that he "removed the anterior part of the entire chest bone and then we removed the heart, lungs and all the organs ... ."

Contacted for this story, Gore agreed that the difference in head measurements between the autopsy report and his testimony is "quite a large discrepancy." As to who removed the child's organs, he stands by the autopsy report. "It is very clearly written here that the organs had been removed," he says.

Gore made headlines in November after an investigation revealed he was doing private work on county time, a practice he openly condemned. County administrators considered firing him, until they realized only the state can discipline medical examiners.

Had Gore checked the baby's medical records, he would have found that Ream's pregnancy was complicated with gestational diabetes and recurring infections. Baby Alan was born premature and underweight, suffering from respiratory problems and severe jaundice. When vaccinated at 8 weeks old, he developed a fever that lasted longer than a week.

An expert witness for the defense, Dr. Douglas Shanklin of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, testified that his examination of the child's medical history and autopsy report led him to conclude that baby Alan died of a long-standing brain infection. "I don't think there is injury involved in the final event," Shanklin said. "I think it is a totally natural process."

Alan Yurko is in prison at the Century Correctional Institution north of Pensacola waiting to hear whether or not he will be granted a new trial. This is his second appeal.

Meanwhile, Ream is spearheading a campaign to free her husband. She has a website, www.freeyurko.bizland.com, and a firm belief that her baby died of complications from the vaccinations. She's convinced Alan Yurko is innocent.

The article above can be found online at
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/story.asp?ID=3801

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SAMPLE LETTER #1

Date:_____________

Lawson Lamar
Office of the State Attorney
9th Judicial Circuit of Florida
PO Box 1673
Orlando, Florida 32802

Reference: case CR98-1730, Florida vs. Alan R. Yurko

          Subject: New evidence, new hearing.

Dear Sir:
I am familiar with the Yurko case indicated above. Yurko claims that an improper investigation into the death of his infant son led to his conviction and subsequent life sentence for “shaking” his baby to death. The original medical examiner himself, who testified for the prosecution, supports Yurko’s claims by admitting that he committed procedural errors and was not qualified to conduct an expert analysis of Alan’s case.

Yurko’s claims are further supported by the published work of world-renowned physicians and scientists who have concluded he is innocent of the crimes for which he is currently imprisoned. Please consider this letter as a request that CR98-1730 be reopened and that the state of Florida provide Yurko with a fair and impartial rehearing of the facts that resulted in the death of Baby Alan. Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration.

Sincerely Yours,
Name
Address
Phone No.
Email

CC: Charles Crist, Office of Attorney General
      State of Florida The Capitol, Room PL 01
      Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050

Same content, different Addresses

Date:_____________

Charles Crist
Office of Attorney General
State of Florida The Capitol, Room PL 01
Tallahassee Florida 32399-1050

Reference: case CR98-1730, Florida vs. Alan R. Yurko

          Subject: New evidence, new hearing.

Dear Sir:
I am familiar with the Yurko case indicated above. Yurko claims that an improper investigation into the death of his infant son led to his conviction and subsequent life sentence for “shaking” his baby to death. The original medical examiner himself, who testified for the prosecution, supports Yurko’s claims by admitting that he committed procedural errors and was not qualified to conduct an expert analysis of Alan’s case.

Yurko’s claims are further supported by the published work of world-renowned physicians and scientists who have concluded he is innocent of the crimes for which he is currently imprisoned. Please consider this letter as a request that CR98-1730 be reopened and that the state of Florida provide Yurko with a fair and impartial rehearing of the facts that resulted in the death of Baby Alan. Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration.

Sincerely Yours,
Name
Address
Phone No.
Email

CC: Lawson Lamar, Office of the State Attorney
      9th Judicial Circuit of Florida
      PO Box 1673
      Orlando, Florida 32802

Orlando, FL Circuit Judge Alan Lawson granted a 60 day extension for The State of Florida to rebut the appeal of Alan R. Yurko, convicted of 1st Degree Murder in the death of his son. Yurko claims that bad vaccines and massive hospital drug overdoses given to his premature, ill-healthed son caused his death in late 1997. Yurko further claims that his son's autopsy was crossed-contaminated with data and tissues from another case and has an armada of medical experts and records to prove his innocence. Additionally, numerous trial errors are cited in Yurko's Motion For Post Conviction Relief.

Ironically, a recently released internal investigation of Shashi Gore, MD, District 9 Chief Medical Examiner, who performed Yurko's autopsy, found that hundreds of cases have been cross-contaminated dating back to 1994, and that Gore has not been a board certified forensic pathologist since 1996. Click here for details: Shashi Gore Investigation .

Assistant State Attorney Dick Juknath asked the courts for the extension citing the voluminousness of Yurko's appeal and a "barrage" of materials and letters sent from hundreds of Yurko's supporters worldwide. Juknath has until May 14th, 2003 to file The States rebuttal.

Meanwhile, The Yurko camp gains momentum in the media and medicolegal arena whilst continuing to help other families faced with false allegations. The Yurko website posts all appeal updates and exhaustive details of the case and medicolegal issues that surround it. The YurkoProject urgently needs your financial assistance now to help pay for the massive costs of justice -Every Bit Counts!

Stay Tuned For More To Come...

March 27, 2003 - Update -
Important Case Development. The Yurko Project Orlando

In brief, The Orlando /Orange County Medical Examiner that has come under scrutiny for over twenty discrepancies and irregularities as well as falsities, including the cross-contamination of tissues and data in the Yurko case, is under greater scrutiny by county and state officials. Dr Sashi Gore is responsible for the cross-contamination and mix-up of hundreds of other cases according to a recently released internal investigation. It appears that the autopsy errors in the Yurko case are par for the course as far as Gore is concerned and the Yurko case is far from an isolated incident. The Yurko appeal is now before the courts: http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/appealupdates.html

To read a professional toxicology/pathology review which details the Yurko autopsy errors see this link:
http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/albayati1.html

Anguished family requests new trial
March 27, 2003

Anguished family requests new trial

By Amy C. Rippel | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 27, 2003

An Orlando man serving a life sentence for shaking his infant son to death is seeking a new trial, saying Orange County Medical Examiner Shashi Gore blundered the child's autopsy -- including misidentifying the child's race and age.

Alan Yurko, who is gaining international supporters, suggests the sickly 10-week-old boy, Alan Ream-Yurko, died in 1997 after an adverse reaction to a routine vaccination.

Gore's autopsy found that the child died from shaken-baby syndrome.

Yurko, 33, has filed a motion for a new trial in Orange County, partially based on what Yurko said are mistakes made by Gore. Earlier this month, a judge ordered prosecutors to outline their position on the issues in the motion. The response will take at least two months.

In the autopsy report, Gore, among other things, described an organ he never examined and misidentified the baby's race and age, according to court transcripts and the autopsy report.

Yurko's allegations are the latest to hit the beleaguered medical examiner, who earlier this year faced ethical questions for doing work for private clients while being paid by taxpayers in Orange and Osceola counties.

Yurko, convicted in 1999, has maintained his innocence from the start.

Francine Yurko, Alan's Yurko's wife and the baby's mother, and a group of international supporters calling themselves The Free Yurko Project insist the man did not kill the baby. Orange County courts haven't determined whether Yurko will get a new trial.

"If I thought for one second that man could have done something to my child, he would have been lucky for the police to get to him first before me," said Francine Yurko, 32. "I know Alan like I know my own kid. Alan can't lie to me. There's no way he could have kept this from me."

Alan Yurko's supporters have donated more than $25,000 to pay for lawyers, investigators and experts to build a defense, Alan Yurko said. He also said he has amassed evidence that Gore made several "discrepancies/mistakes and egregious misrepresentations" in the autopsy report and during his testimony at trial.

They include:

Detailing the condition of the child's heart in the autopsy report, when the organ had been donated before the autopsy.

Noting in the autopsy report the child's head circumference was 22 centimeters, when the medical records prior to death show his head size as 37.5 centimeters.

Identifying the baby as a 2-month-old black male. Alan, who was white, was 10 weeks old at death. The autopsy report was later changed to indicate the baby's correct race.

Francine Yurko said neither she nor her husband was aware of the inconsistencies in the autopsy report until after his conviction. Gore referred questions to the State Attorney's Office, which prosecuted Yurko. Randy Means, spokesman for the state attorney, would not comment on the specifics of Yurko's appeal.

"We feel confident with the results of Dr. Gore's investigation, autopsy and his report," Means said.

Francine Yurko said her son had health problems from birth. The baby spent the first few days of life under the close scrutiny of doctors for respiratory and breathing problems, kidney problems and jaundice.

After he was released from the hospital, the problems continued for weeks. The child was diagnosed with "failure to thrive" and apnea, Francine Yurko said.

On Nov 11, 1997, 8-week-old Alan was given six routine vaccinations simultaneously. Within 24 hours, the baby became fussy with a fever and diarrhea. That continued for 10 days, Francine Yurko said.

After Francine Yurko left for work on Nov. 24, 1997, Alan Yurko said the baby stopped breathing. Alan Yurko rushed the baby to the hospital, where he later died. Alan Yurko was arrested days later and convicted of shaking the baby to death.

Once in prison, Alan Yurko -- who is currently at Century Correctional Institution near Pensacola -- began reviewing his child's medical records. After checking databases of adverse vaccination reactions collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, Alan Yurko said he determined that his boy was given a "hot lot" vaccine -- an immunization from a lot that has caused adverse reactions or deaths.

Yurko said the information showed that five other child deaths were associated the vaccine lot given to his son. But a key piece of information -- the number of doses in any vaccination lot -- is not available under FDA regulations. It's considered proprietary information, making it impossible to get an accurate comparison of adverse reactions between the lots.

"If you can't get the number of vials in a vaccine lot; it's very difficult to compare reactively lot to lot," said Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the Virginia-based National Vaccine Information Center.

The FDA, which oversees vaccinations, has the authority to recall problematic vaccine lots, but the lot used on Alan has not been recalled, FDA officials said.

Toxicologist Robin McFee, who is not connected to the case, said vaccines don't cause the same brain trauma seen in shaken-baby syndrome cases. Mostly, children suffer arm pain or swelling from the injection. In more severe cases, there are headaches, fever and seizures.

"People blame vaccines for a whole host of things. Tragic as they [reactions] are, they are incredibly rare," said McFee, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Nova Southeastern University's College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale. "In the world of reality, you would have a hard time proving to me that this vaccine caused this child's death."

California toxicologist Mohammed Al-Bayati, hired by Yurko to review his case, said he has the proof. In a 78-page report, Al-Bayati said the vaccines given to Alan ultimately led to cardiac arrest. The adverse vaccine reaction, he said, was compounded by a number of mistakes made by physicians treating the child in the final hours of life.

"There is no shaken-baby syndrome," he said.

Even before the request for a new trial was filed, the Yurkos were working with dozens of supporters, many of whom are anti-vaccination, to mount a defense. In doing so, the Free Yurko Project emerged. The group's Web site lists dozens of supporters worldwide, including holistic doctors, parents whose children have had adverse reactions to vaccinations and a prison ministry.

There's a link on the site to donate directly from a credit card. And the group is also selling T-shirts that say "Free Alan Yurko" on the front, and "Vaccination: Don't Be A Victim" on the back for $12.

Sandie Carlin, who runs a New Zealand group for victims of vaccine injuries, said she has seen many people wrongly convicted in vaccine-injury cases.

"The fact is there is not enough research into the long-term effects of vaccines, the damage, reactions, how they affect all the body's systems," she said from her New Zealand home. "I do believe him. I just know it inside."

Amy C. Rippel can be reached at arippel@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5736. Hank Curtis contributed to this report.

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