Recently, John Molchan talked about his career in the PNJ. In all his pridefulness, he neglects to talk about the fact he is instrumental in the biggest fraud on the Pensacola justice community; the prosecution of innocent people in the Billings murder case. Molchan likes to be in front of the cameras, like Sheriff Morgan, and really doesn’t care about how he gets there. While he may have occupied a seat in an office that had some amount of dignity, his lack of integrity in this case, shows how indifferent and incompetent he, really, is. To that end, I’d like to use this time to talk to Mr. Molchan

John (I am usually a lady and address people as Mr. or Mrs., but that doesn’t apply here),

This open letter to you is not meant to hash out all your errors of judgment, but it will take the feather out of your cap in reference to the murders of Byrd & Melanie Billings. You had the opportunity to stand up for justice in this case. You opted out. I’m here to tell people how you flushed your reputation by failing to do the right thing and not going along with this bullshit narrative put forth by your boss, Country Boy Bill Eddins. I am here to put you on the shelf with washed up men like David Morgan who is as insignificant as Joe Blow in the community. Your legacy is one of lack of character; lack of give a shit; lack of integrity. The community is better off with you in the rear view.

While you are one of many people who conspired to prevent justice in this case, (and I’m sure many more) you are someone who could have stopped the insanity, but you did not and you can’t be the man you would want kids to look up to; you chose the easy route. When you bullied Rakeem Florence by meeting his recantation with threats of more jail time, (even though you were the author of his false confession), you put yourself at the front of the line in the 8th circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. You are a “False Counselor”, doomed to be “wrapped in individual columns of flame”. Does it bother you that you gaslighted this kid? In your Motion to Appoint Counsel, these are your words:

On May 17, 2021, the undersigned Assistant State Attorney received correspondence from Rakeem Florence stating that he gave false testimony in previous proceedings.
Counsel should be appointed to represent Florence to warn him of the possible legal consequences of recanting his trial testimony, including the State prosecuting him for perjury in a capital case.§ 837.021 (2), Fla. Stat. (2021) (providing whoever “makes two or more material statements under oath which contradict each other” in capital proceedings commits a second degree felony). Use immunity does not preclude perjury prosecution. State v. Mitrani, 19 So.3d 1065, (Fla. 5th DCA 2009) (explaining that use and derivative use immunity precludes the compelled statements, and any information derived from those statements, from being used against the witness in any subsequent prosecution, except for perjury committed while giving the compelled testimony and noting that testimony compelled by use and derivative use immunity must be truthful); State v. Richards, 457 So2d 1124 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984) (explaining that witnesses granted use immunity were not entitled to immunity from any prosecution for the commission of perjury). Florence could be facing a 15 year sentence for his recantation. This Court should provide Florence an attorney to advise him before he potentially commits perjury.

This is the motion you filed after Rakeem said this:

Rakeem Florence was 16 years old and was involved in a crime against a white couple in a capital case. He could not be more of a poster child of false confession. His life hanging in the balance, sitting in front of men who threaten to make sure he dies in prison or receives the death penalty, he would have said anything. The proof of that is the inconsistencies of his statements in the trials in which he took the stand. In the second trial of Donnie Stallworth, Rakeem Florence’s testimony was impeached by Stallworth’s attorney on every aspect of his “confession” and subsequent retelling of the narratives.

 In fact, Florence tried to withdraw his plea on April 27, 2011. So the recantation should have been expected. But I’m sure you probably conferred with Florence after his testimony led to a hung jury in the second Stallworth trial. Your failure to put him on the stand in the third Stallworth trial, acknowledges his impeached testimony.

This kid wasn’t there. One of the other tip off’s that you coaxed him is his reference to Patrick as “Junior” and Lenny as “Senior”. These two men met less than 10 years before the crime. Patrick was known as Patrick Poff for more than 25 years. At the behest of his grandfather, Dick Gonzalez, Patrick agreed to change his name to reflect he was Lenny’s son. No one EVER called them Junior and Senior except the police and State Attorney’s Office. On paper, Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. and Sr. caused some confusion but anyone outside this investigation would have never known they were Jr. and Sr. It wasn’t who they identified as to ANYONE. Their relationship was not like that in any sense of the word. Your office didn’t know that and because of that, this differential designation was used. To reduce confuse in your own bullshit story, you chose to identify them in that way; so when testimony comes up with those references, it reflects coaxing by you, specifically, according to Rakeem. You should have taken queues from anyone who knew the two men. But you didn’t and no one seemed to notice except for people who knew either one of them.

Consistency in testimony and actual names of the people involved, especially as they relate to each other are the things you incompetently failed to recognize. Now if you were a new attorney or had less time in your position, those errors would not be so glaringly of a rookie mistake. And again, being this was a capital case, one might think the ASA would want to be SURE of the relationships and the continuity of a state’s witness, but recklessly, you did neither. Why do you think that is? Lack of give a shit or lack of people who had the clout to call you on this bullshit? Maybe. Either way, your legacy, in this case is shoddy and absolute dog shit.

Again, you had may chances to correct the ethical and legal errors in this case. Your lack of action, speaks volumes. None more so than your lack of action when the DNA report came back showing Patrick being excluded from key evidence like the DNA under Byrd’s nails, knowing he fought his attacker. FDLE developed a DNA profile for that DNA that was found on other evidence. It matched no one arrested. How do you explain that? There is DNA on important evidence that matches none of the victims nor the people accused of their murders. One singular DNA profile that is established on several DNA evidentiary items. I’m not a forensic expert but that tells me someone else was there who may have been the shooter. Doesn’t that mean, you goofed in narrating this little farce? Yes, it does. What about the long haired man seen outside the window of Adrianna Billings? He is seen in one frame of the surveillance footage.

The most interesting thing about this long haired man is the fact that Deanna Morrow and Kathryn Colbert mention this man in the meetings, prior to the murders A deposition of Tama Barber, an investigator with the ECSO, mentions this.

So we have DNA of the shooter, someone who was unquestionably there, that IS NOT in jail currently, and this elusive long haired Caucasian man seen outside the house in front of the getaway van. Neither of these things are mentioned by anyone prosecuting this death penalty case and both contradict the official narrative. How do you explain this, John? Oversight? Well that would be a lie if you claim you didn’t know someone else’s DNA was under Byrd’s nails.

Those are your initials at the top of the report. You did that so it was known you saw this report. I hate to say this but I have to assume you are normally this sloppy, John, right? Is there anything more to be expected in the sub-mediocrity legal system? But please, accept my fond “Bon Voyage” to someone who must have proud of his accomplishments. Ignorance is bliss, John. No one else is going to be ignorant to your “sterling” career.