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Max Soffar # 000685

Polunsky Unit DR
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, Texas 77351
USA
 
For a first contact MaxSoffar@deathrow-usa.com, please leave a postal address for response. Thank you

  1980                   

2-24-07

My name is Max Alexander Soffar. I have been locked up since Aug. 5th 1980. My family have died since I've come here.

In 2006, I was convicted a 2nd time even tho we now know who the real killer is! My Judge would not let us tell my jury about him, so again I was convicted. 

I'm 5'11 and 220 pounds w/ brown hair + eyes. My 1st love is the Lord! He has given me strength to overcome 27 years on Texas death row now.

I enjoy drawing animals and doing portraits. I like to laugh + am always happy. I'm innocent of the charges the State has placed against me. And there are many people fighting to prove my innocence. All I want is someone to write who really care's.

Hope to hear from you soon.

God bless,

Max Soffar 

 

 

Max Soffar # 000685
Polunsky Unit DR
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, Texas 77351
USA
  

24.01.2007


Mein Name ist Max Alexander Soffar. Ich bin seit dem 05. August 1980 eingesperrt. Meine Familie ist während ich hier drin bin verstorben. 

Im Jahr 2006 wurde ich ein 2. mal verurteilt, obwohl inzwischen bekannt ist, wer der wahre Killer ist! Mein Richter wollte nicht, dass wir den Geschworenen von ihm erzählen, sodass ich erneut verurteilt wurde! 

Ich bin 1,80 m groß und wiege 99 kg, habe braunes Haar und Augen. Meine 1. Liebe gilt Gott! Er gab mir die Kraft, 27 Jahre im Todestrakt von Texas zu überstehen.

Ich habe Spaß daran, Tiere und Portraits zu malen. Ich lache gerne und ich bin immer glücklich. Ich bin nicht schuldig im Sinne der Anklage des Staates und es gibt viele Menschen, die für meine Unschuld kämpfen. Alles was ich mir wünsche ist, dass mir jemand schreibt, der sich wirklich um mich sorgt. 

Ich hoffe, bald von Ihnen zu hören.
Gott schütze Sie


Max Soffar

 

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EX PARTE MAX ALEXANDER SOFFAR

http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/2998002a.htm

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/98/98-20385-CV4.wpd.pdf

Soffar v. State of Texas
Texas Sentences to Death an Innocent Man, the ACLU Appeals

March 29, 2010
A Texas jury, deprived of critical information about the real killer, convicted Max Soffar of capital murder for 4 victims shot in a bowling alley. The jury didn't know that Paul Reid confessed to shooting four people in a bowling alley, that Paul Reid committed a series of armed robberies in both Texas and Tennessee, including multiple-victim robber murders in Tennessee eerily similar to the Houston bowling alley robbery murders.

The jurors saw a police composite of the shooter and a picture of Max Soffar. They never saw the picture of Paul Reid (taken in his then home city Houston only nine days after the bowling alley robbery murders), just like they never heard the evidence of his confession or signature robbery-murder pattern.

http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/soffar-v-state-texas
 
A copy of today's petition is available online at: www.aclu.org/capital- punishment/soffar-v-state- texas-cert-petition

http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/2010-3-29-SoffarvStateofTexas-CertPetition.pdf