VIRGINIA

not shocked.

That state got it's name for a reason and their motto never made sense to me: 'Virginia is for Lovers'

really?

Theres more to this story, didn't realize its an older one

Dana William was a sick, nasty, violent piece of human wreckage who had no business walking among us

William now has murdered his former father-in-law and likely his former mother-in-law as well

Woodell “Woody” Brooks, a beloved Richmond-area medic, was tied up and later suffocated — silenced forever — by William on Jan. 21 in Amelia County. William also bound other members of his ex-girlfriend’s family so he could abduct her mother, Olene Brooks, who is still missing

As police closed in on William in Fitchburg, Mass., on Jan. 27, he fatally shot himself in the head.

We can say with some degree of confidence that none of this would’ve happened if William had not been set free last year when the state’s request for a civil “violent sexual predator” commitment was denied by the Chesterfield judge

Virginia Supreme Court documents show that the Attorney General’s Office was in the process of appealing Hauler’s decision, arguing that the judge improperly denied a continuance so the state could bring a previous rape victim to the hearing, as well as improperly ruling a crucial deposition from that victim as inadmissible, the state alleged

The judge (not Hauler) who accepted William’s rape and abduction plea agreement in 2013 clearly didn’t have much choice. The court documents show William called his victim repeatedly from jail, “trying to get her to change her story.”

The victim didn’t want to testify, even though there was plenty of evidence. She apparently didn’t even want him convicted of rape.

Lacking that crucial evidence, the prosecution and the defense agreed to a 40-year sentence with 38 years suspended.

The other rapes attributed to him in Massachusetts — where he was a known problem — were equally awful, but the cases also were legally weak. He was never even charged in the cases, although he certainly was investigated as the main suspect. His victims were intoxicated, unable to pick him out of a lineup or fuzzy on other key details. He apparently was a master at this.

Hauler had all this to weigh as he decided whether to commit a man to incarceration who already had been sentenced and served his time.

Efforts to reach Judge Hauler for comment were unsuccessful. The assistant attorney general who handled the state’s appeal of his decision declined to talk about the case or the judge.

As awful as these attacks were, was there really any strong legal proof against William? And why was he allowed to call his victim from jail, more than 50 times? Perhaps without that intimidation, the victim may have testified and the rapist would be serving a much bigger chunk of his 40-year sentence

I can see why Hauler ruled the state’s case wasn’t strong enough for a civil commitment.

My main question is why he didn’t allow a continuance to let the state try to get the other witness to court.

And reading the reports of the attacks up north, it’s heartbreaking to see how intoxication not only can place a victim in the clutches of someone like William, but also can keep them from helping police and the courts from stopping the next attacks.

And why wasn’t William monitored more carefully — such as with GPS and a microscope! — after his release here? He allegedly was free enough to attack a woman in Massachusetts as well as a juvenile female in Henrico County after his release.

Legal expert Steve Benjamin, a guy I respect, said, “Judges can only work with what you bring them.”

He said Hauler is an excellent judge who sticks with the facts and the law.

“He’s courageous enough to call it the way he sees it, based on the evidence presented to him,” Benjamin said. “I have tremendous respect for the guy.”

Reading through all this history and having some behind-the-scenes conversations, my guess is Hauler — who oversaw the establishment of Chesterfield and Colonial Heights Drug Court — isn’t your typical hard-nosed, lock-’em-up-and-throw-away-the-key judge who is favored in many of Virginia’s Republican districts such as Chesterfield, which may have ruffled some feathers.

He’s also a rich guy who lives on a vast estate, making it a little easier to judge the judge now

https://www.richmond.com/news/local/guest-columnists/holmberg-don-t-blame-the-judge-who-let-rapist-walk/article_3034b7c6-6b11-5056-8c68-cb6680f6eb2e.html

author of story......

Feb 5, 2016

Mark Holmberg’s work can be seen at Richmond.com and WTVR.com. He can be reached at [email protected] .

was this guy trying to head off bad press?

@Factfinder2

here's something on Judge...

found this in search.....

P&W Transfer - Chesterfield, VA - Trucking Company in Chesterfield ...

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and here is what on link

P&W Transfer

Name: Hameed Wilson Job Title: Vice President

Phone: (804) 908-5553

would the judge be the President? his name, even with Hon in it is in search but not on the site

hmmmmmm

@Factfinder2

Name: Hameed Wilson Job Title: Vice President

The "Pitchfork Rebellion" tried hard to oust Judge Hauler in 2009:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101882.html

"The Pitchfork Rebellion, a term for a populist uprising, formed after disgruntled litigants in Fairfax, Chesterfield and Gloucester counties and the Hampton Roads area found one another on the Internet and shared their disdain for the judicial selection process."

...

"But Hauler was later approved by the committees, despite concerns raised by some opponents, including the fact that he filed a libel suit against his circuit clerk when she opposed his last reappointment. In a Feb. 4 letter to the judge, Sen. Stephen H. Martin (R-Chesterfield) wrote that Hauler was reversed or remanded 44 percent of the time, compared with a 16 to 21 percent rate for the other circuit judges. The senator also said that he had received 46 letters from lawyers on Hauler's behalf but heard from more than 100 residents who opposed Hauler."

Everybody has lost their minds!

Courts need to be purged of judges, attorneys, and anything else representing the cabal. They've left common decency behind, but I guess that's the point of being in a perv group that exchanges their own private hand signals.

How utterly cool -- not!

Well of course this IS Virginia after all. Decades ago some men would have dragged him out jog his bed. And that judge , we’ll hr has pedo vibes. He needs to be retired. These are dirty filthy crimes.

Was having trouble submitting, sorry. it took 3 times for it to come up as submitted, deleted the others, sorry

https://archive.fo/4NYJs :

Man who tied up and sexually assaulted 14-year-old girl will not go to jail after US court hears incident was 'consensual' | The Independent

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