Sirs: You have asked for my comment in regards to the articles that have appeared in your newspaper and on social media sites pertaining to my conclusion of the judicial proceedings in the 89" District Court of Wichita County. I ask that you print this response to your request in its entirety or that you provide me space in your paper for the entire contents of this response which will be paid for by me as a letter to the editor or in any other way so long as it is reproduced in full and unedited. A clearer understanding of the court’s ruling in this case would be more obvious if all of the facts of this case had been given to your newspaper by the district attorney’s office. Thave had 2 electronic monitors for the preceding 809 days which check for and report any violation of the use of alcohol regardless of how small that use might be. These very sophisticated electronic monitors test my blood every 15 minutes of every day and my breath at least once every 30 minutes that I am in my vehicle. These devices report findings immediately to the court system’s personnel if there exists any alcohol at all detected in my breath or blood. There have been well over 77,000 tests by these devices in the last several years and there have been zero detections of alcohol because I have not consumed alcohol since this incident. Your paper reported that I was followed by police officers after my vehicle was observed swerving erratically on a roadway. Actually, court testimony verified that I was not pulled over by police officers at all. I was parked in a parking lot and I was out of my truck when an officer drove by. I was never observed driving by police officers. Earlier in the day I had called a friend to come drive for me and he testified that he picked me up and drove my truck for me. At some time during the day I believe that I did drive my vehicle and I admitted to doing so but there existed in my mind a legitimate dispute as to whether or not I had driven to the parking lot on 5" Street where the police officer observed my parked truck and me outside of it. The court heard undisputed testimony that I have not consumed any alcoholic beverage in over two years. I have committed myself to my Lord, my work, my family and my abstinence.I will never consume alcohol again. I was ordered to begin a jail sentence regimen that begins this week and will continue for the next 8 months. In addition to many alcohol related programs the court ordered me to a program for alcohol related issues and ordered that I attend that program every day for the next 4 years. Judge Bernard assured me in open court that the slightest violation or variance by me of any of his orders will result in an immediate 8 year prison term. I know now that I have been an alcoholic for almost 25 years. This may be difficult for your reporters and your subscribers to understand, but I know that the police officer that arrested me in that parking lot, the Judge of the 89" District Court and my family and supporting friends have saved my life and have given me ‘an opportunity to make for me and my family a clean and productive life. The involvement in this matter by my family and friends and the willingness by the Court to see my sincerity and then to allow me to continue to demonstrate that I have overcome a desire to consume alcohol will not ever be shown to have been a mistake. I swear to the Court and to this community that I will never break the trust that has been given to me. ‘Thanking you in advance for your consideration, I am respectfully your, Chad Wilson.