Tanya Sue Simpson Des Moines Iowa

07/26/2023 Justice For Lincoln

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It is now twenty-five years an innocent young many was accused of rape in the Lake Okoboji area. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The young man was innocent, I was with him on Big Spirit Lake with numerous other witnesses watching fire works.

His accused an 18 year old who traveled to the lakes area to “party” with her friends. According to their statements they had been drinking and were planning on going to the Ritz. Now these were all young women from the Fort Dodge area and were all below the legal drinking age in Iowa. They were sharing rooms at the Inn.

TSR (the alleged victim) was drunk, her friends left her at the Inn and traveled to the Ritz. TSR claims she started out walking to the Ritz from the Inn. She claims a guy in a white car stopped and offered her a ride. She climbed right in and off they went. As they moved from Lake Shore Drive to Highway 71, they chit-chatted. They turned onto Hwy 71 south bound where the young woman clamined the driver locked the door and began to fondle year. She stated she tried to get out of the car but they were going 45 miles an hour.

Folks the Hwy 71 at the bridge was one way on a stop light due to contruction. In fact just as it is right now 25 years later. Drive down there, see if you can travel at 45 miles per hour. She gave other misinformation in her statement. She states they traveled south to the stop light and turned left. The only stop light in Arnolds park at that time was at the intersection of Broadway and Hwy 71. This street goes east bound and around the East Side of East Okobji, past Camp Foster and into Spirit Lake and to Center Lake.. This girl’s testimony was there were lights all around and they did not go through any towns. SHE IS A LIAR. To get to Center Lake from the park on the route she testified to, they had to travel throught the city of Spirit Lake.

SHE is a LIAR. She is on her second husband, she accused the first husband of raping her. Wonder of Wonders and it was reported before she turned 18 years old she had accused two other young men of rape.

My nephew is in jail for life, and this drunken liar roams the streets. The Story continues.

10/01/2021 Justice For Lincoln

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Celebrate October 2021 by signing the petition to reduce or eliminate mandatory minimums in Iowa.

To quote the title of a book by Eric Morris, “A Second Chance at Life: Repairing the Damage You Have Experienced in Your Lives”

Free the innocent and give them a second chance. Give these folks a second chance to repair the damage done by a judge who did not take his wife’S advice and have Rob Robinson come in to testify to juror misconduct at a hearing where the accused was not present, a jury who believed if the accused was arrested he was guilty, incompetent lawyers who were too lazy to do even a competent job, a DCI Agent who mishandled evidence and a DNA testing lab out of Missouri which was only two months old and not even certified!

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

GIVE SECOND CHANCES TO RECOVER THEIR LIFE

Petition · Reduce or Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Sentencings in Iowa · Change.org

https://www.change.org/p/kim-reynolds-reduce-or-eliminate-mandatory-minimums-sentencings-in-iowa

03/04/2017 Justice For Lincoln

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Letter to the Editor

February 20, 2001

Over the past three years, I witnessed many miscarriages of justice and I have not been silent.

I participated in a criminal trial as an alibi witness for my nephew, Lincoln.  I learned quickly the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution exists only in a museum and it is a bastardized version of these documents the real world practices.  A prospective juror, a TEACHER in the Jefferson school district told the defense attorney during voir dire,

“…it is up to the defendant to prove himself innocent…”

I spent a year and a half fight for truth, fighting dirty law enforcement and struggling to keep my family whole.  I spend a week in the Woodbury County Iowa Courthouse; during that week I watched Iowa DCI agents and the alleged victim’s boyfriend have coffee and donuts in the jury room with the jury present.  I waited for the defense attorneys to do something, I waited for the Woodbury County Iowa Deputy to do something–finally I did something.  The Iowa DCI Agents Terry Klooster and Dan Moser described me as confrontational.  When I was finally allowed in the courtroom to testify (alibi witnesses were sequestered), I was subjected to a search.  Ever have one of those?  Most people have criminal courtroom experience only via entertainment television, so they have no concept of the sitting silently waiting for a jury to deliver a verdict.  They cannot feel every hair on their body stand on end, feel the tentacles of cold despair radiate into their soul, hear the screams of their sister rip across the silence or the intense person pain emanate in tsunami-like waves from their brother-in-law as he grips their hand while the jury foreman makes the pronouncement,

“guilty”

My nephew was with me that fateful night, yet he was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole at the age of 19.

     I have spent the past years researching law, working for the appeal and waiting through the everlasting nightmare that has become normal life for my family.  I have been in constant contact with my nephew in prison, in each conversation I have with him we discuss the things we did wrong and the things we did right.  Upper most in each conversation, is we allowed public opinion to cow us and intimidate us into not fighting as strongly as we should have.  On January 3, 2001, I went to Des Moines to listen to oral arguments in the Iowa Appellate Court for my nephew’s appeal.  (ironically the same dimwitted judge who presided over the initial trial had been promoted to the appellate court)  Imagine your whole life balanced on the best argument (?) your attorney can make in fifteen (15) minutes.  On February 7, 2001, we received work the appeal was granted to my nephew, Lincoln, so we go back to trial—(only to have our hopes dashed later).

     During  the past three years, my attitude has undergone a catharsis.  I will never stand silently allowing an innocent individual be railroaded by misinformation, untruths, by cowards who let others take blame for their actions or people too lazy to investigate the truth whether it is in Spirit Lake, Iowa, or here in Alcester, SD.  To my critics, same comes from continuing to perpetuate a wrong on a good man when he has been proven innocent.  If divisive means one faction fighting to restore a man’s good name while a second faction continues to perpetrate the wrong, YUP  we are divided!  If airing the dirty laundry is the only way to clean it, get the clothespins ready and the clothesline wiped down!  I come from a line of fighters from the Revolutionary War to present.  I am confrontational, I am pit bull tenacious, I am obdurate, but I AM NOT A QUITTER! (Keep that in mind marcus@crazy.com)

TO THE COWARDS WHO MAIL ME THE UNSIGNED, ANONYMOUS SOPHOMORIC DRIVEL, WHICH PASSES FOR YOUR OPINION–I DECLINE YOUR INVITATION!   I AM HERE TO STAY, SO BRING IT ON! 

FOR NOW

     This is one little woman who will not only be seen but be heard.  I will no longer silently sit back, hoping truth and justice will prevail.  I will fight, annoy, push, shove, bully, harass and antagonize to ensure justice has a chance.

I am more than willing to, as the title of the jazz song suggests,

‘FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE!’

Justice for Lincoln 02/28/2017

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(Photo used by permission of Rick Krebsbach-Marnin Burk Photography)

MEET LINCOLN BELKEN, a victim!

Lincoln became a victim in August of 1998

  • He became the victim of Spirit Lake Police Officer Greg Weaver, when Lincoln chose to fight a traffic ticket.
  • He became the victim of Spirit Lake Chief of Police, Dan Thomson.
  • He became the victim of Dickinson County (Iowa) Edward (Ned) Bjornstad.

09/29/2016 Justice For Lincoln

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John L. Sandy, Spirit Lake, IA, attorney and arbitrator states in recorded telephone conversation with a friend concerning his ‘arbitration’ of Iowa Administrative Judge Susan Ackerman,

“…It went perfectly well for me. I get paid…in fact, I got paid to drive three and a half hours this morning that I didn’t drive…”  

Heitshusen, Sonya, “Attorney Caught on Tape Raises Ethical Questions”, whotv.com, May 19, 2016, pages 1 & 2, Web, August 17, 2016.

  “…but the real indication of a political motivations by Sandy (who upheld the firing of Iowa Administrative Judge Susan Ackerman) came in a telephone conversation he (John Sandy) had after the hearing on Ackerman’s case…accused Ackerman of ‘badmouthing the new administration’ and said he (John Sandy) had read of her case in the newspaper, which could give him a preconceived opinion on how he should rule.  At the hearing he (John Sandy) claimed to know nothing about the case.  He (John Sandy) also boasted of being paid to drive three and a half hours, which he said he had not driven…”

      Rekha Basu, “State Worker Firing Raise Questions of Political Bias”, Des Moines Register, August 19, 2016 7:02 p.m.CDT, pages 1-3, Web, August 22, 2016.

 

The family of Lincoln D. Belken knows all-too-well the ‘money-oriented ethics’ and mediocre to abysmally poor legal skills of John L. Sandy of Spirit Lake, IA. We know all-too-well John L. Sandy’s failure to adequately represent his innocent client. The family knows John L. Sandy literally threw his client Lincoln D. Belken under the proverbial prison bus. Through John Sandy’s courtroom incompetence or perhaps something more sinister, he ensured all alibi witnesses were discredited by not allowing them to testify to the truth.

More to Come

Vickie A. Larsen

So who was the friend John Sandy was talking to?*

 

*John Sandy, Spirit Lake Attorney/Arbitrator was disciplined and suspended for six months arising out of his actions regarding Iowa Administrative Judge Susan Ackerman by Iowa PERB (public employment relations board).