Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 7, 2012

After Colorado Springs resident Jarrott Martinez ended a five-year live-in relationship with Sydney Huffman, his ex-girlfriend did her formidable best to ruin his life.

Making expert use of the ?domestic violence? system with the help of a cabal of officers in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Huffman accused Martinez of beating, strangling, and otherwise assaulting her. Huffman?s charges were not supported by witnesses, photos, or video footage, or physical evidence from a medical exam.

On at least two occasions, Huffman admitted to the chief investigating detective that she had lied. For each of the alleged incidents, Martinez could provide an invincible alibi ? including security video footage and receipts documenting that he was miles away from Huffman on an evening he supposedly attacked her.

Nonetheless, Martinez was repeatedly  arrested ? once with the use of a SWAT team ? and spent 60 days in pre-trial detention, much of it in solitary. Martinez was acquitted twice on separate sets of charges.

?I saw a system that didn?t care what it did to people,? Martinez recalls. He once served that system: Until his arrest, he was a police officer, as is his accuser ? who continues to draw a salary despite facing criminal charges of her own.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.