Mother-in-law calls for justice in Premo case

Editor:

There is no justice for Tony Premo and his family.

What happened to the legal and due process of the system, that let justice slip through their fingers, leaving many people shocked and in disbelief.

I, Tony’s mother-in-law, ask, "What does this teach my three grandsons and other young people about the judicial system?"

Numerous other people in the community are also questioning the verdict in t his trial.

What happened to the legal system that we swear on the Bible to uphold and trust? The system set up to serve and protect the innocent?

Where did it go? Not for Tony Premo and his loved ones.

One police officer who was one of the first officers to arrive at the scene testified that he saw blood all over the steps, porch, on the ripped off screen door, the door, rug, walls and television.

He also testified he saw a man with a thick towel covering his face. The towel was soaked in blood.

The police officer asked the man to remove the towel. He removed the bloodied towel and the policeman testified the man had no face, even his eye was knocked out.

The lawyer asked the police officer if he could recognize the man, and the officer said, "no."

The prosecuting attorney asked the police officer if he was aware of what Tony Premo looked like? The police officer said, "Yes!"

He also testified that the bloody man was Tony Premo and that he couldn’t believe it.

Tony died three times that early morning: once with his son with him in the ambulance and two more times in the trauma bay at the hospital. He slipped into a coma for three weeks. Every bone in his face was broken. The surgeons taped his face around his mouth to get the life support tube in.

The neurosurgeon was also sworn in on the stand. He sowed Tony’s CAT scan and the MRI to the court. He explained to them and pointed out all the trauma and broken bones in Tony’s face. He also explained about Tony being blind in his injured eye and how it is sinking into the back of his head. Tony needs three more surgeries.

The neurosurgeon explained the plastic surgeon’s have to break his face again, remove his face, use a special mesh to cover his face and put in three rods in order to put his eye back in and stabilize it.

Tony still has three air pockets on his brain and is left with severe headaches, severe head tremors. His right hand cramps to a claw at times.

Also the doctor said Tony could still die.

Some people say he should have called the police. But they didn’t have a phone. A neighbor phones the police. Some say he came out with his fist raised. He didn’t. Travis Meisinger testified he tore the screen off. Tony was pushing the screen door open with a flat hand. He wanted to say, "no fight here boys."

But he never got the chance. Travis Meisinger said that he took a swing stance with a solid wood bat. He testified he was going to hit the first person to open the door.

Why, when the argument was over between the boy and his former girlfriend, why wasn’t it over and done with?

Why did Travis Meisinger come back with baseball bats? Why didn’t he just go home?

We need to stand up people of Plattsmouth and Cass County, as well as anyone who can’t believe the verdict.

Nancy Grace and other television people including  20/20 are interested and following the verdict.

Please people of Cass County do the right thing. Write letters to the court. Sign petitions. With permission, picket the court.

Please do not let this evil go unpunished. He needs prison not a slap on the hand.

Let God’s justice be done.

— Brenda Manchester