In Episode 6 we discuss the “MOTIVE” police hatched to pin Chad Swedburg’s murder on Ken Andersen. Feel free to contact Ken directly at Jpay.com – Kenneth Andersen – #226526, or write to him at Kenneth Andersen # 226526, 7600 525th Street, Rush City Mn 55069.
New Podcast Coming
A new podcast will begin broadcasting on August 1. This is a weekly podcast that will feature Ken Andersen calling in from prison to tell what happened on April 13, 2007. It will also consist of the police recorded interviews the days after Chad Swedberg was murdered. You will hear details that the courts do not want to acknowledge. New evidence will be presented that continues to reveal Ken Andersen was wrongly convicted. The link to listen to every epsiode was they are released will be available on this blog.
Good News
Ken Andersen communicated with me over the weekend and here are some of the things he had to say: “John, at the hearing the judge wanted to know if my issues in my petition were actually new evidence and if they were, would it get me past the clear and convincing standard of actual innocence which is needed to even have my petition heard. The state said I should have known about the bullet casings at the crime scene as early as late 2014. As such, I only had until late 2016 to use due diligence to find them and file my petition. From time to time an issue can be reasonably raised in a two year period. File after that time, it will be time barred unless you meet some exceptions or the interest of justice requires it to be reviewed. Zach (his lawyer) knew my facts about issues and made a very compelling argument and backed it up with some case law that supported my petition. Essentially he told the judge if you outright deny my petition without holding a hearing he would be abusing the court’s discretion and based on a MN-S-Court’s ruling in State V Wilson, it will get reversed. The judge took a few minutes and asked Zach if he thought we would be able to get my hearing done in a day? Zach thought we could. Long story short, by the judge’s tone and words it very much appeared he was granting my evidentiary hearing. After that I said some things about the missing police reports, cig butts, etc. The judge said would take our arguments under advisement and issue an order. At best he has 90 days to make that ruling. While walking back to my unit, my caseworker (who was sitting in on the hearing) told me that it appeared I was getting a new hearing. All in all, I feel Zach did great and I feel good about the hearing.”
More when I get any updates.
New Appeal and New Evidence: Gun shells, Cigarette butts, and a Red coat
This past week Ken’s attorney filed a new petition in court with new evidence and more proof Ken Andersen is innocent and should be granted a fair trial with ALL of evidence shown to a jury of his PEERS. Read the proof for yourself:
Memorandun of Law in Support of Petition for Postconviction Relief (3-20-2020)
Petition for postconviction relief (3-20-2020)
Andersen Postconviction Exhibits
Ken’s Hearing- Oct 23
On Tuesday of this week, Ken Andersen appeared back in court to introduce new evidence that he is innocent of the crime of murder. I spoke with him on the phone Wednesday, and Ken thinks the hearing went very well. He and his attorney, were able to bring to light many new facts that add to a pile of evidence he is not the person responsible for Chad Swedberg’s murder.
This is a long process and very difficult to accomplish. If any of you are watching season 2 of Netflix’s “Making of a Murderer”, it is easy to have reasonable doubt either of those men committed that crime. In spite of a world wide audience that is convinced of their innocence, they both remain imprisoned. Ken’s situation is no different. Many people want to always give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt, and this is what occurs when all they desire is a conviction at any cost.
Ken outlined the process that is happening now, and believes he should hear an ultimate ruling in about five months. The media was mostly silent this week, except for Kevin Wallevand, at Channel Six in Fargo. Here is the interview he gave with Ken’s mother, Geraldine Bellanger.
New Hearing for Ken Andersen
On October 23, 2018, a court will hear and render a decision, after hearing evidence that Ken Andersen is not guilty of the murder of Chad Swedberg. Let us pray that this leads to Ken’s freedom and exoneration. The sad part will be that the authorities got the wrong person and allowed the murderer to go free. Here is the order for a new hearing.
December 5, 2017
Kenneth Andersen’s latest petition asking the court to at least READ his list of defects of his wrongful conviction and new evidence that was not known when Becker County railroaded him into a life sentence for a crime he did not commit, will appear before the court on December 5, 2017.
Ken Andersen’s Response to the State’s Claims
Below is the response and exhibits of Ken Andersen’s response via his attorney to the state of Minnesota’s claims against giving him a new and fair trial.
The State Responds to Ken Andersen’s New Evidence
After requesting and getting several extensions, the State of Minnesota has finally responded to Ken’s new evidence and motion for a new trial. They title it “RESPONDENT’S MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF ANSWER TO PETITION FOR POST-CONVICTION RELIEF”. I have included the entire 57 pages of the document in this post. It should be called “The state’s inflexible “THEORY” of the same half-truths and ignoring of new evidence in order to keep Kenneth Andersen behind bars because we really don’t know who killed Chad Swedberg and at this point we really don’t want to know and have to admit we are wrong.”
They begin by calling the first section “Andersen’s Murder of Chad Swedberg”. That leaves little room for doubt that they want a judge to believe them and not consider they may have it wrong. As they tell their version of this, notice the “state”, or whoever wrote this, still admits that no one actually saw the murder, or did anyone confess to it. Since they had nothing new, they simply re-tell the same story the original prosecutor did. This is after some notable attempts at intimidation, once again of some of these witnesses.
They still claim the ATV was enough of a motive for Ken to kill his best friend. They repeat once again Ken’s activities the day of murder without ever placing him at the scene. They NEVER mention Leslie Fain’s doubling of her husband’s life insurance the day of the murder.
They still don’t know the caliber of the gun that was used. They suppose everything John MacArthur said is true and everything Ken said to be a lie.Folks, you can not arrive at the truth with this much prejudice. This type of justice will put an innocent man in prison, and let a murderer go free.
They try to squash the fact of the 911 domestic call that morning.
While they admit they wiretapped Ken’s calls to his lawyer, they claim it still doesn’t matter, no matter how illegal it is.
Some of most incredible things in this document is how they claim Al Baker’s statement he saw shell casings and cigarette butts at the scene, by saying “just because he said it doesn’t mean it happened”. They go on the dismiss Stacy Weaver’s statement saying he saw Leslie Fain the morning of the murder ( making everything else she said untrue), by claiming this all comes to late and should not be considered because it is over the time limit.
I plea with the citizens of White Earth to demand a new and fair trial and let a new jury, one with Native Americans, consider the whole truth, not just parts of it, and decide if these facts matter.
Click on the link below to read it.
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Kenneth Andersen is innocent 