Gary Helman: His Story Part III
(EDITOR’S NOTE: StaceyPageOnline.com has made an Open Records request to Indiana State Police in an attempt to get the video of April 9, 2009, which Helman felt would exonerate him from criminal charges.)
Claiming he never signed a plea agreement but instead demanded a jury trial in Kosciusko County Superior Court I over the April 9, 2009, incident, Gary Helman contested to the end that his rights were violated and that he committed no criminal act.
“I never signed a plea agreement or nothing!” he said. “They were lying!”
Helman filed a Post Conviction Relief order that is still pending in court.
On Nov. 25, 2013, Helman and his mother, Atta, said the actions of state police officers ultimately cost Mike Helman, 58, his life.
Gary Helman described how police used a flash bang device to take out the front door of the home and charge in, but he said there were no warrants to serve that day.
Helman described the events in his own words:
Claiming he was denied medical attention for three days while at the Kosciusko County Jail, Michael Leroy Helman, 58, passed away Monday, April 7, 2014, at IU Health Goshen Hospital. Ultimately, Gary and Atta said was the officers actions that resulted in Mike’s death, but they said the hospital in Goshen refused to do an autopsy and the Elkhart County Coroner declared liver cancer as the official cause. “They said he took chemotherapy and he never took chemotherapy,” he said. “I was with Mike 24/7. He didn’t have no liver cancer.’
Helman asserted that he had no idea why police were at the house that day in November 2013. “They didn’t know what to charge me with,” he said. “Come to find out Mike’s charges were resisting arrest, but we still don’t know when he was arrested. And mine were well, they couldn’t decide what mine were.”
The last confrontation the Helmans had with Indiana State Police, they said, was on June 3, 2014. Atta said two officers disguised in wigs came and knocked on the door asking about the “For Sale” sign in the front yard. “They asked about the neighborhood and asked if I lived alone. I said, ‘I have people come and go; not exactly.” Atta continued, “I gave them a price and they took off.”
But they did not go far, claimed Atta. “They parked down the road.” After an exchange with a family friend outside, the officers were told that, if they had a warrant, they should go in the house. She recalled, “They were banging, ‘Open up the [expletive] door!’”
In 2010, disgusted with the legal system, Helman revoked his U.S. citizenship. “Whenever you [label yourself] a U.S. citizen, you put yourself under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which makes you a slave. A lot of people don’t know that … you’re a citizen of the land your father was born in. We belong to the United States of America the Republic.”
Of the courts and police, Helman said, “They have no jurisdiction over nobody expect by consent … we don’t give them consent here at all.”
“I live under God’s law, Maxims of Law, that is what I operate under,” said Helman.
Although Helman said there were no weapons in the house, he noted the “Castle Doctrine” stickers on the entrances of the home at 9174 Doswell Blvd. “In Indiana you have a law called Stand Your Ground. And you also have a right to Castle Doctrine … We’re a commonlaw jurisdiction and we have a right to stand our ground.”
Was the Castle Doctrine what ultimately cost Helman his life and wounded his twin brother, Larry? Recovery agents were issued an Order to Produce by the Kosciusko County Courts for Helman who skipped out on bond. On Monday, Aug. 25, they attempted to serve that order on Helman, but it would be his last interaction with those he viewed as people who only wanted to silence him.
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Gary Helman: In His Own Words