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Free Dusty Turner
04/21/2019

Free Dusty Turner

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This June will make 24 years. When will the truth matter? If you haven’t seen Near Genius Films documentary, Navy SEAL: Murderer? Framed? Target of Opportunity? I’m begging you to watch and check out FreeDustyTurner.org for ways you can support our efforts to Free Dusty Turner. #WrongfulConviction #WrongfullyConvicted #FreeDustyTurner ⚖️

04/09/2019
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One can be charged with felony murder when someone dies during the commission of a felony. Even if it is an accident. But what if that felony never happened? Watch this trailer, and please share.
https://youtu.be/BhjUtE4Qxc0

03/17/2019
Fight in Puerto Rico

When people learn that Billy Brown has been confessing to not only killing Jennifer Evans, but then framing his best friend, since 1999. I'm asked "Why? Why would he do that?" There is no way to know, but I did learn about this during the making of the film. https://youtu.be/SGarYEnZiJE

Dustin Turner and Billy Brown had a physical altercation in May of 1995. Turner got the best of Brown. Less than a month later, Billy Brown attacked and kill...

This story will break your heart. A young victim, and then immense disregard for a young man's rights and misconduct by ...
03/04/2019
Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom

This story will break your heart. A young victim, and then immense disregard for a young man's rights and misconduct by police and prosecutors. The amazing Jason Flom interviews Darnell Phillips and Lisa Spees as they
break down this disturbing case. https://art19.com/shows/wrongful-conviction-with-jason-flom

Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.

02/03/2019
Free Dusty Turner

Free Dusty Turner

VBPD spent 48 man hours pulling forensic evidence from Dusty’s car. They found nothing to indicate a struggle and no biological evidence to support the narrative of the crime prosecutors presented in court. *Clip courtesy of Near Genius Films documentary, Navy SEAL: Murderer? Framed? Target of Opportunity?* #WrongfulConviction #WrongfullyConvicted #FreeDustyFACTS #FreeDustyTurner

02/01/2019
Problems with the car

When I read the transcripts from Brown's trial, Detective Al Byrum claimed he had never looked inside the car where Brown claimed Turner had killed Jennifer Evans. How was this possible? The lead detective never checks to see if the car even configured the way Brown alleges in his accusations of Turner? Here is what some others thought about this. https://vimeo.com/252840995

This is "Problems with the car" by JD Leete on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/30/2018
Virginians for Justice - Clemency for Dustin Turner

Virginians for Justice - Clemency for Dustin Turner

Dusty didn’t quit during BUD/S or his other Navy training. He hasn’t quit fighting for his freedom during this 23 year long nightmare. We won’t either. Thanks to everyone for your continued support! *Clip courtesy of Near Genius Films documentary, Navy SEAL: Murderer? Framed? Target of Opportunity?* #FreeDustyTurner

Big news on the film front. It is out on Google Play. Please share with all your friends and write a review. Thanks. jdl...
09/06/2018
Target of Opportunity - Movies & TV on Google Play

Big news on the film front. It is out on Google Play. Please share with all your friends and write a review. Thanks. jdl https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Target_of_Opportunity?id=2osr3Z6q3uM

TARGET OF OPPORTUNITY:In 1995, Dustin Turner and his best friend Billy Joe Brown were in the final weeks of 15 months of training to become U.S. Navy SEALs. On the night of June 18, they went to a nightclub to celebrate and met a young woman named Jennifer Evans. They were the last two people to see...

07/28/2018
Free Dusty Turner

Free Dusty Turner

Billy Joe Brown lied in 1995 and pointed the finger at Dusty. Since 1999 Billy Joe Brown has taken full responsibility for the murder of Jennifer Evans. Dusty’s continued incarceration is not just. *Video courtesy of Near Genius Films documentary, Navy SEAL: Murderer? Framed? Target of Opportunity?* #FreeDustyTurner

Why did the Commonwealth of Virginia DOC prohibit recording equipment into their facilities? Who does it benefit? The pu...
06/12/2018
Virginia Prisons Accountability Committee

Why did the Commonwealth of Virginia DOC prohibit recording equipment into their facilities? Who does it benefit? The public? I don't see how that could be the case if we expose wrongfully convicted inmates and tax payers are paying for their incarceration. Luckily we interviewed all the inmates in the documentary, "Target of Opportunity: The US Navy SEALs and the Murder of Jennifer Evans" before they implemented this draconian policy.

We at vapac agree with the reporter's committee that audio and video recordings should be allowed as it is critical to unveil the conditions #Prisoners experience behind the walls of the VADOC and its secrecy (Quote) Almost a year after the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press sent a letter urging then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Virginia Department of Corrections to change the department’s policy to allow journalists to use recording devices during prison interviews, the restrictive policy remains the same. (Unquote)

05/26/2018

The Navy SEAL Left Behind
A Memorial Weekend Reminder

By J.D. Leete

Navy SEAL Dustin Turner has spent more than half his life behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. A former junior deacon at his church and Eagle Scout, his pardon appeal can go before the Virginia governor at any time.

I felt it was fitting on this Memorial Day — when we are thinking of those lost in action—to bring attention to the one Navy SEAL left behind, how I have always viewed Turner, as if he had been abandoned while conducting some clandestine mission.

My involvement in this case stems from, “Target of Opportunity: The Navy SEALs and the Murder of Jennifer Evans”, the documentary I produced in which the person who committed the murder confesses on camera: my camera.

Turner, a SEAL trainee who had completed his training, has spent 22 years of an 82-year prison sentence in prison. Another Navy SEAL trainee, Billy Joe Brown, has admitted he killed Jennifer Evans. First, to me; and then in a Virginia Beach court hearing.

In the words of Dustin’s mom, Linda Summitt: “Dusty is the type of boy any mother would be proud to have. He is the type person who would have died in battle to save others and for his country. There is one man who can release Dusty after so many years. That’s Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. He can pardon my son.”

In 1995, Turner was about to receive his Trident insignia for completing SEAL requirements. He had received orders to Central America. Then, his world was turned upside down.

Turner was a 20-year-old kid at the time. Now, at 43, he faces the real prospects of never walking out or the Virginia prison system. This is a story the US Navy would prefer go away.

The story of Dusty Turner is both complex and simple at the same time. My involvement is as a former Navy Special Warfare Combat Crewmember (SWCC). I was on active duty in 1995 when I heard the circumstances surrounding the case. It never made sense to me.

It cried for justice, and since retiring, I have spent a decade of my life on the documentary and efforts to get tell the actual facts of this tragic case.

Dusty Turner should have been freed when the real killer, Turner’s colleague in SEAL training, Billy Joe Brown, confessed to the crime. However, a high court over-turned the lower court’s decision to free him.

Under Virginia law at the time, Turner has no possibility of parole, only a gubernatorial pardon. This injustice in the law has since been corrected, but too late to help Turner.

The story’s synopsis goes like this:

Ms. Evans, 21, met Turner in a Virginia Beach, VA club during a vacation in June 1995. Evans disappeared and police zeroed in on Turner and his “swim buddy” Brown. Swim buddy is a designation whereby two SEALs are teamed together.

Both men were convicted, but in 2002, Brown confessed to the crime, saying he could no longer allow an innocent man to pay. It goes without saying that Turner was not blameless.

As Turner’s mother, Ms. Summitt told me, “I’m not saying Dusty is blameless. He made mistakes. He’s paid for them. He adhered to a Navy SEAL code to stand by his colleague, his swim buddy. He was so young, he didn’t know how to react after all they’d done to him”.

My documentary is an attempt to focus attention on the true story of Dusty Turner, a young man once on the verge of proudly displaying a SEAL Trident but now spending his life in prison.

In prison, Turner has been a model inmate, improving the prison system’s environmental management procedures and becoming involved in dog training to help people with disabilities. He’s quiet, respectful, amazingly resilient and hopeful.

This Memorial Day weekend, while we pause to remember our fallen soldiers foreign and domestic, I appeal to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to also remember one more, Navy SEAL Dustin Turner, left behind not on a battlefield, but behind bars for a crime he simply didn’t commit.

It is time for Dustin Turner to come home.

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Filmmaker and Navy veteran J.D. Leete is a retired Navy Chief (SWCC/FPJ) and decorated combat veteran turned documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, film editor and screenwriter.

He wrote, produced, edited, scored and directed the documentary of the Dustin Turner case “Target of Opportunity: The US Navy SEALs and the Murder of Jennifer Evans”. It is available free for Amazon Prime members and for just 99 cents from iTunes and other digital delivery systems this Memorial Day weekend.

We have published the website dedicated to the documentary Target of Opportunity.www.targethemovie.comlet us know what y...
01/27/2018
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We have published the website dedicated to the documentary Target of Opportunity.
www.targethemovie.com

let us know what you think. There are some clips that aren't in the film under the video tab

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09/18/2017
Free Dusty Turner

Free Dusty Turner

48 man hours were spent collecting evidence from #DustyTurner's car. None of it was used by the prosecutors who tried his case. Why? Because what that evidence proved did not fit the narrative the prosecutors created to try him. Also, by not using the forensics evidence they didn't have to turn it over to the defense. Dusty and his family asked his lawyers to provide a forensics expert of their own, those requests were denied. Is that justice? This clip is courtesy of Near Genius Films documentary Navy SEALs: Target of Opportunity. #FreeDusty

09/11/2017
Power of Prosecutors

Anybody that knows me, knows I think our two party political system is a hoax. But voting in prosecutor elections is vital. Here is why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrgvlx7MnqA&t=

Prosecutors have the power to end mass incarceration today. Learn what you can do to hold them accountable. Brooklyn votes Tuesday September 12! Over 1000 el...

08/21/2017
Wrongful Conviction

Wrongful Conviction

For the Season 3 finale, @itsjasonflom goes behind bars at Wende Correctional, a maximum security prison in Buffalo, to conduct a searing interview with Andrew Krivak, who was wrongfully convicted with Anthony DiPippo of raping and murdering 12-year-old Josette Wright in 1995. His attorney, Professor Adele Bernhard joins them. No forensic evidence connected Andrew Krivak to this crime, in fact it pointed to Howard Gombert as the killer. Governor is currently serving a long sentence for numerous similar crimes. Mr. Krivak passed 3 separate polygraph tests but the polygrapher lied at the behest of the cops. During the interrogation he was beaten and choked by an officer who was later indicted for doing the same thing to other innocent people. Ultimately, creating for his life he signed a confession that he did not write or even read. Although co-defendants, Mr. DiPippo and Mr. Krivak were convicted in separate trials in Putnam County Supreme Court in 1997, based on the incentivized testimony of a single witness, a crack addict who was threatened with arrest and then offered a deal, and each was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. In 2016, Andrew Krivak’s legal team sought to introduce newly discovered evidence that ultimately led to the acquittal and release of his co-defendant, Anthony DiPippo, but the motion was denied, largely due to his false confession. In July 2017, the state Appellate Division in Brooklyn said it would hear Mr. Krivak’s appeal of that decision, opening a pathway for a new trial for Mr. Krivak in the coming months. He is currently serving his 21st year. Listen to this explosive season finale now! #wrongfulconviction

Free Dusty Turner
08/21/2017

Free Dusty Turner

Tune in to Nightline now to see Jason Flom talk about his work in the wrongful conviction community. So thrilled that #DustyTurner has his support! #FreeDusty

Free Dusty Turner
08/20/2017

Free Dusty Turner

Want to learn more about #DustyTurner's wrongful conviction? Check out Near Genius Films documentary Navy SEALs: Target of Opportunity on iTunes, Amazon Prime Video and Vimeo. #FreeDusty

Link to watch the documentary for free online: https://vimeo.com/143034674/21eed7bd0f

Amazon Prime Video: https://www.amazon.com/Navy-SEAL-Murderer-Framed-Opportunity/dp/B01LZHH8D5/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485566809&sr=8-1&keywords=Target+of+opportunity

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/navy-seal-murderer-framed/id937936629

06/16/2017

Bollywood Lawyer podcast has John Floyd on to discuss his investigation for the Navy. Check it out

06/16/2017

Bollywood Lawyer had John Floyd on to discuss his investigation of the case. Check it out

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Isn't it interesting that the AG would object to this testimony and stop it before it gets started? Brown is explaining why he made up his story to blame Turner; and when he gets to why Turner would cover for him the state objects. Why? Wouldn't this be important? What do they not want us to know?

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