Ellen Thomas and Thomas
                         P.O. Box 27217
                     Washington D.C.  20038

                        February 8, l990

Gloria Lopez
02749-000 Numen
330l Leestown Road
Lexington, KY  405ll-8799

Dear Gloria:

We received your papers about three weeks ago.  Please forgive our
delay in writing to you, the only excuse is that we have been
involved with our own troubles and solutions.

Thomas sent the originals of your papers to your husband's address
a couple of days after we received them from you.  We have retained
copies to study.  We asked that your husband contact us but we have
not heard from him yet.

Thomas studied your papers and has some questions:

     l.  Initially it looks as if you were sentenced to a minimum
of eight years, which would have made you eligible for parole in
January, l996.  Then Steve Kiersh, who it appears was appointed by
the court to represent you, filed a Motion for Reduction of
Sentence, that was granted, thereby making your parole eligibility
date January l8, l994, or six years - less jail time - from your
sentencing date of March 28, l988.  There is also a letter from you
to Mr. Kiersh, dated July 28, l988, expressing appreciation for his
assistance.
     QUESTIONS:  Is this evaluation correct?  If not, what is my
mistake?

     2.  Your letter to Edward Paylor, dated July 5, l989, ends
with a hand-written notation, "I never got any answer about my new
face sheet."  Yet you also included a face sheet, dated August 29,
l989, which appears to reflect that your sentence had been
recomputed, in accordance with Judge Morrison's Order of a year
earlier (August 29, l988) reducing your minimum from 8 years to 6
years.
     QUESTIONS: Is there some question as to the validity of the
Lexington face sheet of August 29, l989?  If "yes," what is the
question?

     3.  From the papers you sent it appears that you rely for new
evidence primarily on a letter in which Jose Arevalo asked your
forgiveness and expressed a desire to assume full responsibility
for the murder.  Unless I am mistaken you did not send Mr.
Arevalo's original letter, but only a translation.  It seems that
after you received the letter from Mr. Arevalo, Steve Kiersh made
several efforts to contact Mr. Arevalo by and or through his
attorney Santha Sonenberg.  There is also a Motion to Withdraw as
Counsel, filed by Mr. Kiersh on May l5, l989, which mentions
letters sent to Mona Asiner.  It seems there are some missing
links.
     QUESTIONS:  Did anyone ever contact Mr. Arevalo?  If "no," why
not, and what is Mr. Arevalo's address and ID number.  What went
wrong between the time you wrote Mr. Kiersh the complimentary
letter of July 24, l988 and May l5, l989 when he made the statement
that he was "not interested in being evaluated, judged and
criticized by Ms. Lopez?"  What happened with regard to Mona
Asiner?  Has she tried to assist you?  If "no," why not?

     4.  QUESTIONS:  Have you received any response to your Motion
to Vacate Sentence, filed September 7, l989?

                              Your friend,



                              Thomas


P.S.  Gloria, dear, this is Ellen adding a note.  I hope you can
understand the questions.  If not, surely there is someone at
FCI-Lex who can translate them for you.  Please answer them all to
the best of your ability.  Also, please ask your husband to let us
know whether he received the papers, and to call us to set up an
appointment when we can meet.  He may be able to clear up some of
Thomas' questions.

     Love and patience to you, sweet sister.  God keep you safe and
happy.