Free Shankar

08/08/2024

happy birthday pops

20/05/2024

we need all hands on deck

Shanker Patel has been Wrongfully Convicted.

28/11/2023

Cynthia was Usha's best friend.

11/19 happened and truthfully, we didn't have capacity to post. 11/19 is the anniversary of Usha's passing. We created space to mourn, grieve, and honour her. Usha, at the age of 29 accomplished so much and stood her ground. She is a resilient soul.

Usha was murdered in 1991 and 22 years LATER the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) arrested Shanker with substantial evidence. ALL BASED IN FALSE CONFESSIONS.

The LASD head detective on this case, Stephen Davis, was caught tampering with evidence in another case that is now picked up by

03/10/2023

Freedom truly suits Shanker Patel, doesn't it? ✨

It's disheartening to learn that Shanker had no other option but to remove 9 of his implants manually while incarcerated. This act is extremely detrimental because performing self-surgeries in jail or prison settings can lead to severe health risks, infections, and complications. At the same time, he didn't have a choice because the implant screws were losening each day.

Visit www.ShankerPatel.com for more info!

We must advocate 🗣️ for his release.

01/08/2023

As we welcome Leo Season, we acknowledge that Shankar's birthday is such a bittersweet moment for the family. ♌ Celebrating a father, son, brother, cousin, uncle, grandfather can be difficult when they are inside of a prison with no family visitation.

Here are 3 ways you can celebrate and uplift Shankar's life and freedom

1. Write a letter to the Governor!
Attn: Legal Affairs/Parole and Clemency, 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814

2. Email [email protected]

3. Send Shankar a Happy Birthday card.

If you can't do any of these 3 THEN sign & share the petition. Link in bio.

Also, not mentioned in the post, Shankar has requested a medical release. He had to pull out 9 of his implants (teeth) and now has holes in his mouth. CDCR medical does not support folks who have implants (more coming on this soon).

19/07/2023

We have 609 followers, and we want to say thank YOU for being here. In the next week, we will be pushing for Shanker's freedom more now than ever before with intentional CALL TO ACTIONS!

Right now, Shanker is having a hard time eating in prison. His life depends on his freedom.

CALL TO ACTION:

Send a postcard or letter to The Governor of California asking for Shanker's Freedom. ASAP! Every letter must be documented. This will go a long way.

INCLUDE FULL NAME and CDCR #:
SHANKER C. PATEL BC5837

ADDRESS:
ATTN: Legal Affairs/Parole and Clemency,
1021 O Street, Suite 9000
Sacramento, CA 95814

Like, Share, & comment below "WILL DO THIS"

Shanker Patel is Wrongfully Convicted and Will Be Free.

19/07/2023

We asked AI to show me a picture of an Indian man named Shankar getting out of prison feeling freedom surrounded by community and happiness.

Sometimes, the power of technology shows us that the inner technology of our words can truly come alive.

you work for the people. The people are demanding Shanker is free. Shankers health is at risk due to inattentive medical needs that CDCR does not have capacity.

03/07/2023

Last week, Divya and I met for the first Strategy Team meeting and now, we are extending the invitation to YOU. :)

📍Via ZOOM
📆 Tuesday 8:00AM PST | 11:00AM EST
✨ DM for ZOOM link

The truth is we don't have to do this alone.. do we?

The truth is we are supported by community.. aren't we all?

Join. Be of service. Volunteer. Grateful for your YES!

It's time to be strategic AF.

10/01/2023

Do you have any words of wisdom to share with Shankar as he waits and fights for freedom?

02/11/2022

Say it with me, fam.

Photo of Shankar, Usha and two men from the Grand Opening ceremony of the remodeled Glendora Motel.

19/08/2022

Hi beauties,

Free Shankar website is up and running. Check it out.

We're also on Tik Tok now
Instagram

Action Item: sign the petition
Action Item: share the petition
Action Item: pray
Action Item: hug your loved ones!!!!!

We thrive in community. ✨🌊🌀

Welcome to Life Without, a website dedicated to freeing Shankar Patel from life in prison where he has been sent for a crime he did not commit.

19/06/2022

All the dad photos.

A remembrance that mine is so close yet so far
That the system of untruth gets to create this harm
Knowing it's 100 degrees inside of a prison
With no AC
It's all a lot to hold
A lot to feel

Sometimes, it's a lot and then, I remember

How Resilient dad is
How humble
Loving
Caring
And how intelligent he is

And hope is born all over again.

Whatever you are feeling, feel it.

Happy Father's day Pops; we miss & love you!

31/05/2022

Free Shankar 💙💚💛❤️

We've noticed we have gained new followers recently. Thank YOU for being here.

We are the children of Shankar and Usha Patel. Our intention is to Free Shankar ASAP.

• Our father is wrongfully convicted
• The Deputy DA on the case was Eugene John Monaghan - a cop with a history of shooting Jose Perea, a person of color.
• No substantial evidence exist. Non at all.
• New evidence shows Shankar's innocence.
• The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD gangs) targeted a sting operation on Okha, Shankar, Kartik and failed. In fact, the head Detective never showed and was known to plant false DNA in other cases.

🫂 Check out the website

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Love,
Divya, Kartik, and Okha

08/03/2022

Manoj is our mother's only brother. I, Okha, recently felt called to visit him to begin a dialogue of forgiveness. My siblings were so proud of me. It ended with Manoj laughing & yelling at me and I was not able to speak. Now, I will speak through words on a post w support from my siblings.

Manoj, I feel my mom’s presence is all around me, I think because I was meant to go with her to pick up my sister (the day she was taken away from us). She has a strong will to protect me and I feel it. In this moment, she protected me from yelling back and kept me calm. I know she is utterly disappointed in her siblings. The most important thing to her was me, my sister, and brother -hands down and she was vocal about that as she was many things. In this instance, she would have been very vocal as to how to treat me and Manoj, you and I both know that is not how she would want you to have addressed me.

Do we (Div, K, and me) blame you? We think you are naive and got convinced of things that aren’t factual. For sometime to start the first conversation we ever had off to be “Don’t you dare blame me” means you probably blame yourself. You did have a hand in this as you had nothing bad to say about my dad after this happened to my mom, it was only now that you made all these false claims. Also, your dad had a $150K policy on my mom and had been arrested in Africa for robbing trains. He was known as a shrewd corrupt businessman and even you were scared sh*tless of him, with all the threatening calls to him about paying up and that and this would happen to another daughter, you would never think to look into him and his dealings, I'm sure out of fear.

I came with the intention of forgiveness and to start dialogue.

My mom is disappointed in you. You had a hand in mentally hurting her children and taking away the kindest man they know away from them and for that I think you do blame yourself cause deep down you know the truth.

With Forgiveness and Strength,
Divya, Kartik, Okha

16/02/2022

It's Feb 15th, 2022. ⛈️

Nine years ago exactly, Shankar was arrested for a crime he did not committ.

Today is a difficult anniversary of a day that created so much pain + trauma. Little did we know what we were in for.

Within 9 years, we spent 189 days in court. Shankar was woken up at 2AM every day to attend court - the process is exhausting mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

⚠️ Someone who spends time behind bars is 300% more likely to experience PTSD. These cages create trauma. ⚠️

🌐 9 means the end of a cycle.
We are hopeful and determined.

Divya, Kartik, and Okha will never give up. In fact, they have more hope than ever before. 🙏🏽

21/01/2022

When our father was arrested, he was flying back from India with our stepmother, Jaagu on February 15th, 2013. I remember this day so clearly.

I was driving from Tuscaloos, AL heading to the airport to pick pops and mom up.

I remember Jiju, Divya's husband, telling me that dad was arrested. I was confused. I wanted to know everything. I wanted every single piece of paper.

The investigators went onto the plane and arrested dad before anyone could get off the plane.

👋 Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD).
Let me tell you about the largest national private organization. These people (who I pray experience mother ayauscha to heal) have gangs within their own department.

🗨Google LASD Gangs.

They arrest dad with NO substantial evidence at all. Nothing. My father has no criminal record - not even a speed ticket.

Throughout all the ups, and low low lows - this woman has stood by us. She has seen us cry, wake up at 5am day after day, week after week, and month after month heading to trial, go from feeling NO faith to ALL the faith.

She's come thru for us in so many ways. 💓

This woman is a spiritual warrior. Thank you for being you, for healing, for rising up, for your strength and COURAGE, for your spirit, your tears and sweat. We are grateful for your Leo energy. All of us. 🦁

giving up

10/12/2021

What do you mean I can't meet grandpa?

The grandchildren are getting older and having to share these hard truths isn't okay.

Our children's children deserve better.

We deserve better.

More systems of healing & abolish system created of fear now

And, free these people





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All I did was type @ and free and so many, too many people inside that don't need to be.

FREE THESE BEAUTIFUL SOULS!

I pray these souls fully experience freedom and are cut off from the dark dark system.

Now.

Xoxo-
People that miss their loved ones

05/12/2021

A letter to Santa and a beautiful photo of my mother, surprised, on Christmas.

Credit to on the data.

justice 🔓

19/11/2021

Amazing!

30/09/2021

The pain & suffering that the system creates is deep & dark.

I remember when I had no tools. I remember how angry and frustrated I was regularly. I remember trying to get as much done, and always feeling like the universe was against me and my family.

With the support of my angels, I began to heal through different healing modalities that literally saved my life. Healing modalities such as:

Yoga
Grounding Meditations
Reiki
Yoga Nidra
Setting Intentions
Breathwork
Tapping

My intention is to continue to create safe spaces to share these modalities and tools with people who have been impacted by the system to create abundance in all forms that are high vibrational, and for their highest potential self.

Life is happening THROUGH us not TO us.

You are Loved.
You are Supported.
You are Needed this World.
You and all your Talents are Needed.
You are Radiant.



♥️,
Okha

10/09/2021

Every Monday, I will be hosting a Prayer Circle to pray for my fathers freedom + requested prayers + more with a Special Guest each Monday!

A collective shift is happening. 🤲🏽

Collective energy magnifies healing. 💫

I pray source guides you to be your highest potential self and all beings everywhere are happy & free.

If this feels calling, DM me for the link!

Drop any prayer requests 🙏🏼 😌 in the comments.

I love you!

01/06/2021

On September 1st 1991, Shankar and Usha sold The Glendora Motel to Dipak and Nina Patel (not related-Patel is a very common Indian surname).

Dipak testified and said, "After the papers were signed. We asked Shankar and Usha the question - WHY did they want to sell?"

Dipak shared Usha's answer: "USHA WANTED TO SELL TO GET AWAY FROM HER FAMILY [PJ PATEL]."

[PJ Patel received threatening calls before & after mom's murder. One call said, "We killed one of your daughters. I lost 3. Pay up or we will kill another." After mom's death, PJ received a bomb threat where bomb squad came out. The Bomb threat had a note: "Pay 50K or else" - none of this was looked into. In fact, the investigator on this case was buddy-buddy with PJ and even said that she felt like she was PJ's personal detective...a Los Angeles Sheriff Detective said this. ]

$$$ What happened to the proceeds of The Glendora?
Great question! Usha & Shankar took the 1.2 million proceeds of The Glendora Motel and put it in an Escrow (so they wouldn't be taxed).

$$$ They put a down payment on a little 6 unit motel >>walking distance

01/06/2021

Shankar and Usha bought this boarded up 9 unit motel, cleaned it out, and started renting rooms and providing support in the year of 1980.⁠
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In 1985, they renovate it to a beautiful two story hotel with whirlpool bath Suite.⁠
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25/05/2021

I remember the day of my sentencing clearly. It was March 3, 2017. We were gathered in a courtroom in Pomona, California. I had been in prison for four years without a conviction. It was a moment of life and death. The jury was to decide whether I was guilty of planning my wife’s murder twenty-six years ago.

I could not wait to go home. I know that someday I will go home because I am innocent. I told everything I knew about what had happened. My three children had worked for four years to help my lawyers with all the information needed to show the truth.

The main prosecution’s witness, Garcia Sr., had recanted his testimony because he was upset at the prosecutor for reneging on his deal. Their new witness, Stanley Medina was part of Garcia’s fake story for his deal, a criminal with prior murder and r**e charges, who was also making a deal to go home. His story was inconsistent and false. I had never met him before these trials. Surely, the jury would see the truth and let me be free.

On the other hand, the jury asked Judge Dominguez, “If we don't believe Stanley Medina, can you still convict Shankar Patel?”

The judge answered, “Yes.” 

Then, the judge read half of the reasonable doubt jury instructions and stopped. The jury did not hear the most important part of the instructions which was, “In deciding whether the people have proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt, you must impartially compare and consider all the evidence that was received throughout the entire trial. Unless the evidence proves the defendant’s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, he is entitled to an acquittal and you must find him not guilty.”

- Chapter 1, The End and Beginning
www.Life-Without.org

Pictured: A photo of Shankar Patel holding a cup of coffee. He is located in the lobby of the hotel he built, Best Western, in Enterprise, AL.

21/05/2021

Okha: What should I make the caption? 👀
Divya: Last picture with Mom. ♥️

05/05/2021

Praying for India, my father, and the millions of other People inside. ❤

28/04/2021

The first of many Podcasts.

The narrator from says this case is so dynamic that it could be a movie.

It's true.

I cried after listening to this 15 minute minisode because I know it's the beginning. Then, I meditated and came outside to be supported by Mother Earth.

One day, my father will be free even though though today he is facing Life Without Parole.

20/04/2021

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08/04/2021

I turned 30 last month. My mom wasn't able to see 30. My mom was 29 when she had me on 3/25/1991. I will spend my life honoring her by living, learning, and loving. ♥️ Universe, I ask you to continue to watch over us and bring and millions of others home.

07/01/2021

In 1991, a loving mother, Usha Patel, was brutally murdered. Twenty two years later, the father of her children was arrested.

However, a disparate set of events were twisted while others were completely fabricated. Then these disparate events were put together by a murderous prosecutor like a collage of unmatched pieces to create a fake story of a murderer.

And then an innocent father was taken away from his children. he is innocent.

Follow and read the story to discover the corruption of Pomona and others who helped who set up an innocent man.