A 2022 deposition in an unrelated case revealed that Missouri State Troopers were sent by Superiors to warn Weinhaus to stop criticizing Missouri Highway Patrol.
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Bonne Terre, Missouri. April 20, 2025. When Lysander Spooner University last wrote about the Jeff Weinhaus case, there was newly discovered evidence that the Missouri cop who shot and testified against Weinhaus was previously diagnosed with extreme PTSD and tested positive for mind-altering drugs immediately after Weinhaus’ shooting; yet prosecutors hid this information from Weinhaus’ defense lawyers. And the officer, Henry Folsom, falsely testified at Weinhaus’ trial that Folsom was mentally sound and NOT under the influence of any drugs when he shot Weinhaus.
Weinhaus is wrongly serving a 30-year sentence in the Missouri State Prison system for a crime he did not commit. Weinhaus was gunned down at a western Missouri gas station by State troopers in 2012. After miraculously surviving four gunshots to his face and chest, Weinhaus was prosecuted for “assaulting” the troopers who shot him.
The case has outraged observers for years. Weinhaus is widely regarded as one of America’s most obvious cases of injustice and wrongful conviction. A number of high-profile media outlets have considered producing major movies or TV miniseries about the Weinhaus case. However, Weinhaus has lost every appeal and habeas petition.
Most recently, the Missouri Supreme Court denied Weinhaus’ latest habeas corpus petition–with little explanation. (Missouri’s “law enforcement community,” and the (mostly) Republican Party establishment, strongly opposes all inquiries into the embarrassing Weinhaus matter.
But Weinhaus’ local supporter Matt Thompson recently discovered a deposition of (former) Trooper Henry Folsom, filed in an unrelated lawsuit, by another wrongly imprisoned inmate named Donald Nash. (Nash was exonerated after spending 12 years in prison for capital murder–and Trooper Folsom had been an investigator in the Nash case.)
Trooper Folsom Admitted that Supervisors Ordered Troopers to Intimidate Weinhaus over Weinhaus’ Political Newsletter.
Significantly, during (former) Trooper Folsom’s sworn deposition in the Nash case, Folsom said that “superiors at the highway patrol” had ordered him to “see” Weinhaus to “make him stop making YouTube videos that talked about Patrol staff in a bad way.”
Folsom said he had told his superiors that such things were outside his normal duties; but that the supervisors ordered him to chill Weinhaus’ speech. (Weinhaus was known as “the Bulletin Man” at the time, because his “Bulletin” newsletters and political rants exposed corruption in Missouri politics.)
Matt Thompson’s discovery of the Folsom deposition in the Nash case threatens to unravel Weinhaus’ wrongful conviction. Jeff Weinhaus has long thought that his 2012 shooting by Trooper Folsom in 2012 was a set up in retaliation for his anti-government writings and videos.
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