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Judge Perry: Mistakenly-released killers 'had some help' in forging paperwork
Inmates forged orders granting their release from life sentences, authorities say.
Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry's signature was forged on a pair of fraudulent orders that freed two Orlando-area killers both lifers in an elaborate paperwork prison break that has sent shockwaves across Florida.
Authorities are hunting for Charles Bernard Walker and Joseph Ivan Jenkins, both 34, after they left the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle within two weeks of each other using fabricated documents authorizing their release.
Ninth Judicial Circuit Court officials said the phony paperwork contains the forged signatures of at least two judges and members of the State Attorney's Office including State Attorney Jeff Ashton.
"I strongly believe they had some help," Perry told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday. "It is unlikely [the documents] were produced by the inmates."
video at link:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...loose-orlando-florida-20131017,0,900122.story
Inmates forged orders granting their release from life sentences, authorities say.
Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry's signature was forged on a pair of fraudulent orders that freed two Orlando-area killers both lifers in an elaborate paperwork prison break that has sent shockwaves across Florida.
Authorities are hunting for Charles Bernard Walker and Joseph Ivan Jenkins, both 34, after they left the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle within two weeks of each other using fabricated documents authorizing their release.
Ninth Judicial Circuit Court officials said the phony paperwork contains the forged signatures of at least two judges and members of the State Attorney's Office including State Attorney Jeff Ashton.
"I strongly believe they had some help," Perry told the Orlando Sentinel Thursday. "It is unlikely [the documents] were produced by the inmates."
video at link:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...loose-orlando-florida-20131017,0,900122.story