My name is Celeste
and I have been convicted of a crime that I did not
commit.
I have always been a good-hearted and gentle-natured person,
and
generosity has always marked my life. I love people and
animals and I
love my family. I also loved my husband very much. My
daughters were,
and will always be my world and I did the best I could to be a
good
mother, I labored them into the world and nurtured them to the
best of
my ability. Whatever mistakes I made along the
way were not made out of
malice, but out of imperfection and inexperience. Please
understand,
that have made many mistakes, both as a mother and a
wife,
but this crime was
not one of them.
I am quite certain that many people incarcerated with life
sentences may
say whatever comes to mind to gain their freedom, but I'm not one
of
them. I did not commit this
crime and the facts
indicate that I did not commit this crime.
And, if I would
have had a fair trial, I would not be incarcerated
today.
I am imprisoned and although that is a victory for the prosecution,
it is
an injustice to me because I am absolutely innocent of having
any
involvement with this crime. I was very naive to the legal
process in
the past, but I have since educated myself to understand the many
gross injustices
of my trial and how a
square peg was forced into a round hole.
I encourage you to read my story to get a sense of who I am, who I
was, and if you can help,
it would be
greatly appreciated. If you cannot, that is okay, too.
In these past 10 years, I have experienced myriad emotions and
most were
negative. I have even been angry with God to the point of
blaming Him
for my circumstances. As I have slowly come around
full-circle, I
realize that even behind this razor wire, I am actually
blessed.
Many assumptions
have been
made in my name.
I am not a wealthy
woman. Any money that
I've had
rested with my defense team almost a decade ago.
It has
also taken me over 11 years to understand that nothing bad comes
from the truth,
and
nothing bad ever comes from forgiveness.
My
case has
been profiled extensively in the national media and
without
exception, I have
been vilified. This website imparts only a mere
handful
of the events and issues surrounding important details
involved
with this
case. There are simply too many to address within
this
forum. It is
written in third person for ease of the reader. It
just
states
the facts causing the blame to shift back to where it
belongs-
with the
killer, "Tracey Tarlton"
(who currently is a
free woman,out of
prison
and on parole).
