Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is a name that many of our regular readers are becoming familiar with. I’ve been devastated by what happened to him, especially since I wrote about his conviction and wrongly assumed he was guilty of the charges. I mean, while the system doesn’t work perfectly, most of the time, when someone is convicted of a crime, a crime was committed.
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For Tate Adamiak, though, that wasn’t the case.
Lee Williams at The Gun Writer has done a ton of work on the case, and he agreed to sit down with me for my YouTube channel to talk about what’s been going on and what we can do about it.
I’d love to say that this is a no-brainer and we shouldn’t worry, but the truth of the matter is that Adamiak didn’t do anything wrong. The evidence that Williams has presented on his Substack makes it very clear that he did nothing wrong. That evidence isn’t something Williams dug up from some odd source, either. It’s from the trial. This is what was presented to the court and the jury.
It never should have happened.
The problem is that it did.
On one hand, I want to see him win an appeal and be exonerated in a court of law, but the truth is that he’s spent nearly four years behind bars for something that he didn’t do. Something that no one did.
This isn’t a case of mistaken identity, where a victim identified him in a lineup because he just looked a lot like the guilty party. This isn’t a case like Dexter Taylor, who was convicted of breaking a law he actually broke, but happens to just be an incredibly stupid and probably unconstitutional law.
No, Adamiak did nothing wrong. At all.
Except, maybe, in trusting the nation he served as a member of the United States Navy to treat him right.
The fact that Adamiak would like to go back to serving his nation, should he be freed, is a testament to the character of the man. I sure as hell wouldn’t be willing to under the circumstances. He’s a better man than I to be that forgiving, and I’m a pretty forgiving sort who is generally incapable of holding a grudge.
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However, while I’d like to see him exonerated in court, the truth is that after four years, he should be free. Not freed today, but freed yesterday. Freed nearly four years ago.
Since that’s not possible, it’s up to individuals to call on the Trump administration to issue him a pardon. Williams tells me the Trump administration is familiar with the case, but that’s not good enough. A pardon would put him back on the streets, darn near immediately, which is as good as we can manage, and since the Trump administration listens to social media, we can rally behind Adamiak and make a difference.
Williams also notes that Adamiak is owed money by the government for what happened, which is infinitely reasonable in my book. No one who gets as royally screwed over as him by the government should have to settle with just being freed. He should be reimbursed for literally everything they tried to take from him.
