Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is someone we’ve talked a good deal about here at Bearing Arms. His plight is a troubling one, in short, because the ATF’s own evidence shows just how badly he got steamrolled by the prosecution.
Now, he’s set to spend decades in prison for not just a crime he didn’t commit, but crimes that no one committed.
He should be exonerated by the courts, but that could take years, and Adamiak has spent longer in prison than he should have already. So, as Lee Williams–who has been covering this from the start–notes, Adamiak is asking the president for a pardon.
Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been behind bars in a New Jersey federal prison for almost three years, but he still has 17 years left of his 20-year sentence even though he says he did absolutely nothing illegal or even wrong.
Adamiak recently sent a personal letter to President Donald J. Trump seeking a presidential pardon, which is one of the very few ways he has left to obtain his freedom. He has written letters to other politicians, but his letter to President Trump is special. It is far more private than anything he’s written before. The former sailor got very personal, especially about his mother’s death.
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He was very clear about why he sent the letter to President Trump.
“I sent it because if he was made aware of what actually happened, he would do the right thing,” Adamiak said. “This would never have happened under his leadership. I hope he’s willing to fix another Biden-era disaster.”
A Presidential pardon may be the only route left to obtain his freedom.
“We’re still on appeal, but that’s been getting kicked down the road for three years now,” he said. “There’s been no decision on it. We’ll still continue to appeal. We can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but there’s only a .02-percent chance they’ll take the case.”
Let’s understand that none of what the ATF called machine guns were, in fact, machine guns. None of what they called destructive devices met that definition, either. Absolutely nothing the ATF used to land this guy in prison was what they told the courts it was.
He shouldn’t have been convicted.
There are people who get jammed up for things they actually did, but that shouldn’t be illegal. Those people are victims of injustice, to be sure, but at least there were laws there that were broken. What we have to address there are the laws themselves.
But Tate Adamiak isn’t one of those cases. He’s one of those rare examples of a truly innocent man. He didn’t cross the line between lawful and illegal in any way. Yet the ATF, which seemingly was desperate to make a case, misrepresented literally everything, all of which is still available for lawful sale here and now, by the way.
I know I don’t have the ear of the president, but if I did, I’d urge him to grant the pardon as soon as possible. Innocent people don’t belong in prison. Especially when there was this much misconduct carried out by the law enforcement officer in question.
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