Letter from Officer A.Curry

California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Re: Robert McGowan
Case No. CR 07-123 R

To Whom It May Concern:


I met Rob McGowan approximately three years ago when I first started in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In just the few short years I have known him, I have come to know a partner, a good partner for that matter. Rob is one that will always give it to you strait, and won’t beat around the bush. If you ask him a question and he does not know the answer, he will find out and then let you know. He has a talent with his words and the way he talks to people. He can talk to anyone and make him or her understand his point, with just regular conversation. He is always willing to lend a helping hand, and truly cares about the people around him. The times I have heard him talk about his family, he is very involved with his children’s activities, and truly loves his wife and just truly enjoys being with his family. I feel very honored to have met Rob; I have learned a lot of good job skills from him in my short carrier with the department. He has made me feel accepted in the department as a partner and as a friend.


It is very upsetting to me as a friend and a partner of Rob, that we work in a place, that the criminal justice system puts people who commit crimes and we walk amongst them every day, but yet one of them can make false accusations about an officer, who has sworn to uphold the law.


Most people do not want the job of being a Correctional Officer because, the people that are behind the bars, are people most, would not want around their own family (children, husband, wife) and friends. Including the people who have made these accusations against Rob, they too were sentenced to be behind bars and even there, beat up an officer and a sergeant, prior to the false accusations.


How can one judge throw out the case because he believed there was a lack of evidence and then another judge came back and over turn it? It looks like people are feuding and the ones lives that are in turmoil because of it are Rob, and his family and friends, and it seems that they have no regard for this factor. This is SOMEONE that swore an oath to serve and protect, to hold up the law! Not a pawn in a chess game.


Please see the truth about Rob, and that it has already been seen once that he is not guilty of these false accusations. I would like to work with my partner again and continue learning from him and I can guarantee his family (wife, son 10, daughter 3) wants to keep him at home with them continuing to be a great husband and wonderful father.


Thank you for your time and consideration. Again, please see the TRUTH about Rob.


Respectfully and Sincerely,


Amy Curry


Correctional Officer at Chino Institution for Men
(Partner and friend of Rob McGowan)