This site details the 16 years to date and ongoing coverup by our Maryland local government to protect a Black Baptist cleric, Rev. John L. Wright, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Guilford, who has committed perjury, filed false police reports on me, caused me to be falsely arrested, violated my First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and civil rights through his conspiracy, collusion, abuse of authority, abuse of church law process, malicious prosecution, barratry, operating "under color of law" and various other wrongful civil and criminal acts.

THE REASONS WHY THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO ME?

I have amassed overwhelming, substantial court documentation to prove that it was Rev. John L. Wright, a noted local Black Baptist Pastor who was also local and state leader of the NAACP at that time, along with his attorney church member co-horts, committed those illegal acts against me in retaliation for my publicly calling the denomination and NAACP to fiscal and moral accountability and because I had filed an EEOC complaint against the church.

From the early-to-mid 1980s to date, I have spoken out and called publicly for an investigation of the abusive methods used by some clergy of the Black Baptist denomination (National Baptist Convention USA Inc.), the NAACP leadership, and all the Black leadership who have abused their positions of authority and power to harm and get rich quick off the pain of others. At the time, I also included Rev. Jesse Jackson in my complaints. I have letters, news clips, etc. to prove all of this.

I contended that those abusive Black leaders would not have been able to get away with their covert acts, if the governmental, business, and church leaders had not allowed it. But, "(O)ne hand washes the other's," and each one watches the other's back. So, the Pastor and his co-horts had to lie to try to shut me up. They brought false charges against me in a court of law and had me arrested in church. Additionally, the Pastor had me put out of their church permanently by obtaining a seriously flawed court injunction through their falsified affidavit and their perjured police reports, without presentation of evidence to substantiate their allegations.

MERCY SUITS THE CASE ~~ THIS IS MY STORY
Rev. L. Dowell
Columbia Maryland

"Blessed are you when men shall persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake." -Jesus.

I am innocent. I had neither the inclination nor the reputation to cause anyone harm. I had never been in trouble with the police until on Sunday, August 9, 1992, where Rev. John L. Wright, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Guilford, where I served with him as a member and as an Associate Minister for about 10 years, falsely accused me. The church body licensed me as the second woman in the over 100 year history of the church (at that time in 1985). Rev. Wright was the local and state NAACP leader who (mis)used the services of Charles L. Fuller, Esq., employed at the time as a Maryland State Administrator with the Patuxent Institution (state prison) for Men, to have me arrested inside of the church on their false charges of criminal "trespassing on private property" (the church) during the worship/communion service on August 9, 1992. Attorney Fuller is and remains a trustee/member who served, later, as an attorney for Rev. Wright. The church body had nothing to do with anything Rev. Wright alleged about me. It was done out of his vindictive nature used to abuse his clerical and political authority.

In 1992, when Mr. Fuller ordered my arrest inside the church, the police took me from the church while Rev. Wright looked on as he still preached the service from the pulpit on that Sunday, August 9, 1992. The majority of the people in attendance at the service were listening to Rev. Wright preach. They had no idea that either I or the police was inside the church during that time. But, Rev. Wright had conspired with Charles Fuller, Esquire, as a churchmember/lawyer, to go into court the next day (Monday, August 10, 1992), to tell the court that I had disrupted that service and he had to call the police to arrest me. That was not true. Read more about it in here in the newspaper clippings. Contrary to what people may say or think, I am not "defrocked" as a Minister. I remain a member of the clergy with full rights attained thereto since September 22 1985.

In 1992, the police took me in custody outside the church door and arrested me. The officer drove me to booking, where I was fingerprinted, photographed, and held for arraignment based on the church's 911 telephone claim that "We have papers to keep her off the property," but they did not have any court documents (No warrant, restraining order, injunction etc.). Attorney Fuller acted in conspiracy with Rev. Wright (and they later enlisted the aid of another church attorney, Lillie Price-Wesley, Esquire), literally forced the police to arrest me, saying: "I want you to take her down and arrest her for trespassing on private property!" The policeman did not handcuff me, as was their custom to do. When I asked if he would do so, the officer said: "I am not afraid you'll hurt me." All I had carried was my Bible in its zippered case, and he did not even search that or me at any time. [How dangerous could I have been that day?] There were two officers who responded to the 911 call from the church. The one who placed me in his cruiser to transport me and book me had even apologized as he fingerprinted me, saying: "Look at it this way, at least you will have a record that this was done to you." He made me feel at ease by telling me what I could expect to happen when I went before the Commissioner. And, the officer did not place me in a jail cell for which I thanked him.

I believe God had prepared those two policemen who came into the church to respond to the church's 911 call. Those police did not see any reason to arrest me -- nor did they read me the Miranda Rights. They were kind to me, because I was a Minister. One officer told me: "I can see you are a lady." They had witnessed NO disruption or confusion in the church on my part. I spent about three (3) hours at the police booking and, after I was arraigned, I was released on my own recognizance. Then, one officer drove me back to the church parking lot for me to retrieve my car. Several local newspapers reported the story, because I had originally talked to them about what was happening to me at that church. I wanted people everywhere to know what had happened to me at that church. And, I had mailed and hand-delivered copies of the news all across this country to many people. The newspaper had also reported that the church "had obtained an ex parte injunction" against me. I did not know that.

On Sunday, August 9, 1992, I was arrested, booked, arraigned, and released to stand trial on December 10, 1992. But, a few days later, I received legal papers at my home from a process server whose mother happened to be a member of the church. It was initially through her that some of the church members learned what Rev. Wright had done to me. I learned that her son had told her that he had delivered an ex parte order to me on behalf of Charles L. Fuller, Esq., with the statement that I had (less than) 10 days to respond. I had to go to court to represent myself (pro se informa pauperis). One attorney wanted to have me pay him a $10,000 retainer fee before he would consider taking the civil Hearing case. When I went to court on the appointed date in re the civil ex parte order, Judge Cornelius Sybert, instead, held a hearing on the matter of "temporary and permanent injunction," even though I had told him I did not come prepared for that. That hearing took all day in the court. Some weeks later, Judge Sybert ruled for the church, issuing a permanent injunction. He had already verbally ordered me during the hearing to not go on church property.

So many inequities have happened in this case that, if any of the readers are at all interested in going into the details, I will gladly provide them with the documentation to substantiate my claims and to further prove that this testimony ONline is not defamatory or slanderous, because I have full written proof, along with the 911 police tape recording from the church's call. I know the co-conspirators would not challenge my testimonial, because they know they would be brought into a trial where they would have to defend their actions in their initial charges they brought against me. And, they know they would not be able to do that. Otherwise, they would have taken further action against me before now based on the statements I have made.

On the scheduled date of my criminal trespassing trial on December 10, 1992, it snowed so bad that day that the court had to be delayed a couple of hours. I did eventually succeed in having the criminal "Trespassing" charge nol prossed. My family and friends (and some members of the church) had freely contributed money for me to pay an attorney. They wanted me to have one since this charge carried with it a possible jail sentence. That lawyer also did not adequately represent me. I had to continue to fight him to get the justice I was due. Again, I will go into the details, if any one is interested. But, the church did not pursue their criminal charge in court, and they blocked every attempt I made to obtain documentation (evidence) to substantiate their charges against me, because they knew their charges would not hold up in a court of law. They refused to cooperate with the state's prosecution case. And the state had no case. I was falsely arrested based on the church's false police reports and Rev. Wright's and his co-conspirator's false word. Because it was on the day after they had ordered my arrest in 1992, that Rev. Wright and his co-conspirator(s) falsely obtained a civil ex parte restraining order against me basing it on my false arrest the day before. Then they went into court and had the ex parte order turned into a permanent injunction to keep me off of the church grounds and from attending local NAACP meetings where the headquarters is on church grounds.

When I looked at the law and my court papers [Stating "no bond is required"] and realized that Charles L. Fuller, Esq. had used his standing as a State Administrator to obtain the civil ex parte order against me for the church without first obtaining the required bond, [Only the state is exempted from obtaining that bond in state matters] then I documented that for the record before Judge Sybert, but he disregarded it. And, then, attorney Fuller tried to back out of the case [I sent him copies of my court filings.] That is when they brought in Lillie Price-Wesley, Esq., to take over; but I would not let them get away with that. Fuller had not even sought approval from the court to leave the case, which has been held up in the Maryland State Court of Special Appeals. The COSA earlier this year told me they had "lost" my case on transport from the Howard County (MD) court clerk's office. I have not heard from either court. UPDATE: Fuller and Price-Wesley (FBCG church lawyers)had my appeal dismissed stating I had untimely filed. But, I am determined to continue fighting to have their illegal injunction dissolved, vacated, removed, and to be vindicated no matter how long it might take ---- because I am innocent and I have told the truth.

So why did this happen to me? Beginning in 1989, I sent forth a letter to the pastor and church members/officers that the Lord had placed me in the Office of Prophetess. I wrote many prophetic letters, as the Lord gave me to send them, I sent them forward. God was calling the church and pastor to Godly repentance and for the church to prepare me for ordination. In 1990, I foretold the downfall of both the National NAACP (in a letter to Dr. Ben Hooks and other national leaders) and, also, the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. (in letters to Dr. T.J. Jemison and national leaders and even to Rev. Henry Lyons before he became president) that those organizations would fall because of their lack of financial accountability and their sexist practices in both organizations. Rev. Wright and some of the national leaders did not believe me. They ignored me. And they made plans to get rid of me. Still, the whole world watched how within this five-year period, both the National NAACP and The National Baptist Convention USA, Inc., in turn, did falter and fall in the eyes of the world and has yet to fully recover their credibility.

In June, 1992, I had forwarded the prophetic letter to Rev. Wright, officers, and members in which the Lord again called the church to Godly repentance and said there would be "death upon death in that church unless he (Rev. Wright) obeyed God's will in my life." And in the letter The Lord said for me to "Stand alongside that coffin . . . and see that man (Rev.) Wright in his suit of rest." Rev. Wright termed that a threat (from me). He said he was afraid of me (even though he had deacons on hand as his security in church since 1987). He knew he had no grounds to put me out of the church. He knew that the church body would not consent to it, because most Christians there recognized that was a Word from the Lord. So, Rev. Wright conspired with Mr. Fuller (the Maryland State Administrator), and Mrs. Price-Wesley (a female member-attorney of FBCG), and others to fabricate a lie (which, to me, was a deadly lie). Wright told the Court, in a perjured affidavit, that I had written a letter to him threatening to kill him. I never threatened Rev. Wright. Any right-thinking, Godly person neither utters threats nor writes threats and sends copies to others across the country, and including to the so-called intended victim. Rev. Wright never did present any such prophetic letter in the court documents for review by Judge Sybert nor was he ever required to place it in evidence or let the Judge see it in open court (if at all). Looking back, I thank The Lord that Rev. Wright had not tried to falsely accuse me of doing something even more horrible, (i.e., child abuse, or stealing). I praise God for that.

Rev. Wright had also told the Court that he called a meeting of the church body which met and voted me out. But none of that ever took place. Even the woman who was church clerk at the time of the alleged meeting (Julia Hickman)eventually admitted to me that she had taken no such minutes. Rev. Wright made her a preacher in the church, and she got sick and almost died, losing about one-half her weight, and was hardly recognizable as the same person. And that year it was unfortunate her husband died from a horrible ailment.

UPDATE! Re: Sunday, July 23, 2000.
A posted fbcg article bragged about Julia Hickman being the first woman in the church's history to be installed as a Pastor. Not true. In fact, the late woman cleric whose "chuch" (sic) Rev. Wright took over was the first woman with that honor and I was the second woman in the history of the fbcg to be licensed to preach. However, neither Rev. Evora Burns' name (now deceased) nor mine has ever been mentioned in any of their church history articles. God have mercy on their lying souls and on anybody who believes a word they say.

My story continues . . .
In 1992, Rev. Wright also stated in the court documents that I had come into church and disrupted the services, and that since I trespassed they called the police. But people sitting in church did not even know that the chairman of the deacon board had ushered two policemen in full uniform into the middle left-hand side of the church where I was standing (Charles Fuller would not allow a young man to give me his seat as he had wanted to do.) The church is not that large. Also, a copy of the tape recording of that morning sermon would disprove Rev. Wright's claims (if he has not already destroyed it). The Chairman of the Deacon Board at that time, has now relented and is more loving towards me, as are the other deacons/elders who at first believed Rev. Wright and went along with his story by their silence. Many of them, too, have since left the church to go elsewhere.

Much of the prophetic Word the Lord had me to send forth has come true in that church. And many congregants and preachers have borne witness and confirmed that to be the case. In 1992 and 1993, following my August 1992 arrest in church, there were many more deaths in that church. Young and old people, including Rev. Wright, were stricken and taken out of the church in ambulances during Sunday worship services. In December 1992, one female preacher (young woman) in the church who had spoken against me was stricken on one Sunday in the church and died suddenly at her home the following Sunday. The majority of the males who had placed their hands on me in a church service to try to keep me out of the pulpit in June 1992 (Father's Day), were stricken with serious diseases (about seven of them during one period). Many, many members have left the church. The coffers are almost empty by comparison to how they used to be full. The church is dead and it looks like a dark cloud is hanging over it, literally. Court records and congregants prove that on the day they secretly obtained the ex parte injunction against me and at the exact time Judge Sybert signed it on Tues., Aug. 11, 1992, a bolt of lightening struck the church and blew out the church air conditioning system. They had to pay to have it repaired. After that, I was told that somebody came onto the church property during one Sunday service and damaged some parishioner's cars on the parking lot. Lightening has struck several trees on the property and they had to be cut down. Rev. Wright has now placed a flimsy dime store "No Trespassing" sign on a post leading into the driveway of the church property. Rev. Wright has no joy in him. He looks evil and acts evil towards people. (I can show you his photograph to prove it.) I fellowshipped with Rev. Wright in other preacher's churches -- conversing with him and shaking his hand; and he is not afraid of me, as he said to the court. Many well-known, Godly preachers have turned away from him knowing he did not tell the truth about me. He has lost credibility and respect in the state, community, and church baptist denomination, where he headed the local Baptist convention and served as past president of Ministers' conferences and as the past president of both the local and state NAACP. I remained a member, since 1986, of the ministers' conference and was well received among the brethren (male and female).

In summary, the FBCG permanent injunction that I am still a victim of was based on Rev. Wright's and his co-conspirators' false allegations leading to my arrest on Sunday, August 9, 1992. As of December 1997, I was still trying to have that falsely obtained civil injunction dissolved so that I could go back to my home church (FBCG) and into the local NAACP meetings (on church property). Many local, state, and national political officials and church leaders have never acknowledged my letters calling for an investigation and to have the permanent injunction issued against me dropped. I still do not know until this day what conversation Mr. Fuller had with Judge Sybert to convince him to issue that injunction against me. Neither the court records nor any of the correspondence files show anything to substantiate their allegations.

Rev. Wright went before the state legislators to seek funds to support his efforts to tear down the church and build a reportedly $10 Million Community Building, stating that the property would be for everybody. A quick perusal of the grounds would show that it is not a $10 Million site nor could it become one. The appropriate number of legislators nixed that by their votes. When I read about it in the paper, and about how much debate it had caused among the legislators, I began another round of letters. I believe Rev. Wright thought he could quietly slip that state funding bond legislature for his church past the community, because of his close relationship to Governor Parris Glendening and certain of the state and local legislators. [BUILDING AND COSA UPDATES!] Howard County had tentatively approved plans for Rev. Wright to build a larger complex of a church despite the legal objections chronicled by a local Guilford community association - no longer online. Their extensive up-to-date records showed how Rev. Wright has continued to falsely embellish his business reports, with impunity. I am appalled that Rev. Wright has been allowed to get away with these kinds of actions for so long!

Any objective, unbiased investigation based solely on the court records and documents will prove decisively that Rev. Wright, Charles L. Fuller, Esquire., and Lillie Price-Wesley, Esquire., among others (co-conspirators) committed Perjury, Obstruction of Justice, Falsified court documents and collaborated towards Subornation of Perjury. I am sure legal minds could find other charges such as Civil Rights and Constitutional violations, etc. Rev. Wright is Black and well known, so the local attorneys; local, state, and national legislators; and local, state, and national government officials have been unwilling to do their job and get involved. I have continued to write and phone and call and visit to request somebody to investigate what happened to me in this county and state of Maryland. Many of them have simply ignored my letters, even refusing to respond by way of acknowledgment. Why? When some of these same leaders knew the facts of my case and still gave me wonderful letters of commendation in 1995 for the Souvenir Journal of my Tenth Ministerial Anniversary.

Judge Sybert has since retired from the bench. Attorneys Fuller and Price-Wesley are still members/officers of the church. Nevertheless, I know that truth will always be true. I know and have stated from the beginning of this case that I am innocent of Rev. Wright's false charges and unsubstantiated allegations he made against me (i.e., trespassing on church property during worship/communion services and threatening his life). As well, Rev. Wright did not like the fact that The Washington Post and local newspapers had called me for quotes about the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. matters and NAACP matters at that time. Nor the fact that I had written strongly-worded letters to the editor and had been getting them into print. I am also known in this community among its citizenry and officials as a long-time community activist. The church and this state and county have sullied my name and my reputation as a peacemaker of The Lord God, but without just cause to do so.

Once an innocent person gets caught up into the criminal justice system (or civil court), it is very hard for them to prove they should not have been there in the first place. It becomes thought to be one of -- "Me thinks thou doest protest too much."

Finally, do I empathize with false reports against citizens? Yes. For the most part, this country seems to have settled upon a doctrine of "guilty until proven innocent, that is, if you are able to obtain an attorney who will take your case." Fighting legally against false charges is costly, time consuming, and devastating for any law-abiding citizens.

Rev. Wright abused the criminal and civil justice systems to try to silence me, kill my faith, my ministries, my family, my life; but The Lord has kept me. My visionary ministries continue to grow through Him. And victory is assured from Him (Almighty God). And I will not rest in my cause for justice until I have obtained that victory in the Maryland courts.

Has any one reading this case ever come across such similar events today? How do you think you would have handled this case if this had happened to you? Would you have seen the hand of God in it? Would you have recognized these events as a means to give God glory? Would you have offered to help the victim or to help the perpetrator(s)? I wonder? It is very easy for people to say what they would have done until they are presented with a particular situation themself. (This is not by any means meant or intended to be a condemnation, merely an observation).

RESOURCES FOR VISITORS:

READ NY Post Article, "The Race Pretenders". Factual about black marches to nowhere. Reprinted.

Recovering from Spiritual Abuse Australia.
A MUST READ Report by Henry Sheppard.

Rest Ministries
A Spiritual Abuse Site by Ron Henzel

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Remember --
I am here to tell you that the Black Woman is NOT the new nigger in town.
God hates a liar and everything else that is ungodly.

Take a page out of Dr. Marjorie Booker's book listed at her site.
The title of Dr. Booker's book is, Please don't call me nigger.

WAIT!! Fellow believers, please don't act so shocked and self-righteous! Don't you know that whenever any Black male (or any male) gets in trouble (whether he is guilty or not), the church leadership will turn out the pews (both male and female) and take them into the streets with loud singing and waving placards in front of the secular and worldly tv and radio crews while calling out for justice for the "brotha" and taking money from anybody and everybody for the "cause". Even I have joined some of them on occasion.

But whenever a Black woman gets in trouble (and even if she is not even guilty), the Black man (i.e., preacher) is quick to say, "oh now Sista' just pray. Let the LORD take care of it!" What's wrong with this scenario?! They even have the nerve to label the Black woman as being a crazy person who is just seeking to get revenge instead of trusting God to vindicate her. Don't get me started. Most people get the press but I learned the Black woman just gets depressed. I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the precious Holy Ghost and I have told the truth. That's why I can be bold. Join me. At long last, from 2000 A.D. and on until victory, be real! Stand up for justice. God loves a just weight. I ask you to pray, with me, that God alone will be glorified in this test of tests. I pray God's blessings on Rev. Wright and FBCG, because I am free and already vindicated in God's eyes!

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