Posted on 01/15/2015 8:13:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
A man was found incompetent to stand trial Thursday in the fatal shooting of a West Virginia sheriff who later was implicated by federal prosecutors in a separate corruption scandal.
Cabell County Circuit Judge Paul Farrell ordered Tennis Melvin Maynard of Delbarton committed to a state mental health facility for life.
Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was killed in April 2013 in downtown Williamson. […]
Maynard and Crum had known each other for years, with Crum previously serving as a boxing club mentor to Maynard when he was a teenager and when Crum was police chief in the town of Delbarton.
Family members told reporters at an August 2013 court appearance that Crum sexually assaulted Maynard several years ago. Mingo County authorities challenged the claims. …
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“Tennis Melvin Maynard”?
Justified!
Memo to self: When arrested, act crazy.
Yet he was competent enough to kill someone.
A Liberal/Progressive Judge will let him off later citing “Cruel and Unusual Punishment”. That’s the problem with Life sentences for Rapists and Murderers. A soft hearted Judge, in the future, can change it.
The sign maker, George White, was told that if he switched lawyers and pleaded guilty to drug charges, he would receive a lighter sentence from Thornsbury, prosecutors said.
Dirty cop got shot. Yawn.
And the “system” is protecting the shooter. So much for content of character.
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