Time: Fri Aug 22 14:19:54 1997 by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12778; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:13:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:12:17 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Freemen Jailed Woman Health Problems (fwd) Dana Dudley is a former client. When the Freedom Center stiffed me for 18.5 days of professional work, they stepped between me and her, to prevent any more of my work on her behalf. /s/ Paul Mitchell http://www.supremelaw.com <snip> > >Source: http://www.sltrib.com/082297/nation_w/124.htm > >Friday, August 22, 1997 > > Woman Jailed in Freemen Standoff Claims Health > Problems > > BY JACK HORAN > KNIGHTRIDDER NEWS > SERVICE > CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former North Carolina resident Dana Dudley spends >her days in > a Montana jail studying law, filing motions and making colored-pencil >drawings of her family > and of nature scenes. > Dudley was a participant in last year's 81-day standoff at the Freemen >ranch in Montana. > She was jailed 14 months ago in Billings when the standoff ended. This >week, she was > transferred to a jail 200 miles away in Boulder, Mont. In interviews >before the transfer, > Dudley told The Charlotte Observer she is seriously ill and, without >nutrient supplements and > a proper diet, could die in the next few months. Jail officials disputed >those claims. > Dudley considers herself a political hostage, maintains her innocence >and says she will > handle her own defense in her trial next May. > ``I'm going to make [the government's] witnesses squirm in their seats >because they're > liars,'' Dudley said from Billings. > Dudley projects a defiant tenor. > She said the media vilified the Freemen. > ``I didn't do anything wrong. . . . I'm a political hostage. The >government threatened my > life. . . . I didn't create the problem at Justus Township [the Freemen's >name for the ranch]. > Is it worth it? What's the price of freedom?'' > Dudley is in her middle 40s -- she won't reveal her exact age. > She is the wife of Russell Landers, whom the FBI identified as a >leader of the > anti-government Freemen. The couple lived in Johnston County, near >Raleigh, N.C., for > several years. > Landers was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges in >Raleigh in February in > connection with two vehicles bought in North Carolina for the Montana >Freemen. He is > scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday. Dudley portrayed herself as exerting >a calming > influence during tense times during the standoff. > ``Ultimately, there could have been lives lost. The government had the >intention of taking > lives. There was never anybody [among the Freemen] who threatened the life >of anyone. > They want the government to obey the laws the people obey,'' she said. > An undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Freemen ranch testified >during Landers' trial > that the Freemen were armed during the standoff. The Justice Department >said it went to > great lengths to avoid bloodshed. > Dudley first raised her health issues in federal court in January >after jailers took away > nutritional supplements she has used since 1991. > Lt. Dennis McCave, who is in charge of the Yellowstone County >Detention Center, said > he removed the supplements because she had no valid medical need for them. >``There's 300 > people here, and they all want something,'' he said. > In late April, Dudley was examined by Margaret Beeson, a Billings >naturopathic > physician. In a May 9 letter to McCave, Beeson wrote that Dudley suffers >from hepatitis C, > chronic liver inflammation, dehydration, protein malnutrition and >potential tooth loss. > Dudley said she was examined by a gastroenterologist in July. She said >she mailed the > doctor's report to The Observer on Aug. 1, but it hadn't arrived as of >Wednesday. > Dudley read the doctor's report over the phone: ``She appears to have >chronic hepatitis > C'' and ``inadequate protein intake'' and possibly a zinc deficiency; a >biopsy would be > needed to determine if she has cirrhosis of the liver. > Dudley said her religious beliefs don't allow invasive examinations. >She refused to be > examined by the jail physician. She said her symptoms include hair loss >and fatigue. > ``If the jail does not provide me with the supplements I was taking, I >could not survive six > months,'' she said. > McCave disputed Dudley's claims. > ``She's in good health right now,'' he said. > McCave said that while he couldn't divulge jail medical reports, he >saw nothing to indicate > that Dudley is ill. > McCave said the jail cooperated by providing a modified diet. > Dudley said the diet, which includes two pieces of raw fruit or raw >vegetables daily, often > was lettuce with shredded carrots or thawed pie-filling apples. > Dudley faces charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and interstate >transportation of stolen > property taken by fraud (a van and an RV driven to the Freemen ranch). Her >mother and a > brother live in Franklin, in Western North Carolina. Her youngest >daughter, Ashley Taylor, > 17, attends college in Eastern North Carolina. > She has three adult children by a previous marriage. > > > © Copyright 1997, The Salt Lake Tribune > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. 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