Posted on 07/16/2021 12:07:40 PM PDT by Red Badger
Quantavius Brown was hoping to get a degree in accounting and business management when he was 21 years old. That all changed the night of August 3, 2018.
Brown was drinking at a local bar in Copperhill, Tennessee, when he met up with a woman he had met two years earlier, an acquaintance of his then-girlfriend. The two had previously been involved in a court case, and got into an argument about it, WRCB reported.
Later, the woman – who has not been named in media reports because female accusers are always protected, even if the accusation was false – told the Polk County Sheriff’s office that Brown raped her at her home after he forced his way inside. Police noted injuries on her face and a scratch on her neck as evidence of the alleged attack.
Brown was picked up by police officers and taken in for questions. He was never able to leave the Polk County Detention Center.
For the next three years, Brown awaited trial on charges of aggravated burglary, rape, and “retaliation of past action,” WRCB reported. His family was unable to afford the $500,000 bond to get him out of jail, and his trial was delayed due to the pandemic and changes in legal counsel.
His third court-appointed attorney, Tim Hewitt, got to work quickly.
“There wasn’t much work that was done before so immediately I realized we needed an investigator in this case,” Hewitt said, according to WRCB.
The investigator hired by Hewitt quickly discovered that the woman’s landlord and her son, both of whom lived in the same building as the accuser, were home the night of the alleged attack and rape but had not been interviewed.
The landlord told the investigator that she heard Brown and the accuser talking quietly before her boyfriend burst into the apartment.
“Up until that point, all we had was the state’s side and the state’s side was this one woman who was willing to lie,” Hewitt told WRCB.
Hewitt was able to uncover additional evidence that the woman had lied about the rape. Forensic evidence showed no signs of rape. In addition, the landlord said the injuries on the woman’s face were older than police assumed.
Brown was acquitted at trial and finally freed from jail.
“I consider myself blessed that the truth did come out in the sense of that. Yeah, I do,” Brown told WRCB.
District Attorney General Steve Crump, whose office prosecuted Brown’s case, told the outlet: “I do disagree in this case with their judgment but I totally respect it and appreciate their service. They did what they thought was the right thing.”
The outlet also reached to Sheriff Steve Ross to try to learn when the evidence that showed Brown was innocent wasn’t discovered by deputies. Ross declined to comment and instead told the outlet to speak to Crump.
“I don’t know that it would have made a difference in terms of whether or not the case was brought or how the case was handled prior to it but obviously it [interviewing the landlord] was something that had to be taken to account once it was received by us,” Crump said.
It should be noted that Brown is black, while his accuser was not, in a county with a 0.7% black population, though race was never mentioned in the case file.
After being released, Brown took a landscaping job and is hoping to return to school. He and his attorney are trying to get his record expunged.
I love the South but some places were very dangerous back then. It’s much better now.
I believe she was and is “president”...in a way. She probably has so much dirt on Obama and Biden...they would do anything she says. Probably still has operatives in deep state who could arrange for enforcement of her wishes.
Don’t think she plays by the rules.
I thought Grady Judd was the sheriff of Polk County Florida. When was he replaced by Steve Ross?
Ignore previous post. Tennessee rather than Florida. Sorry
The article says he was acquitted at trial. That means it got all the way to a jury, and would have survived a motion to dismiss, which means that a judge (probably a Polk County racist like other posters have described) found that there was probable cause for the case to proceed, even with the exculpatory evidence. To sue for malicious prosecution, the plaintiff has to prove that there was no probable cause for the charge. Mr. Q has a tough row to hoe to prevail on a case against the accuser. It’s different than the Duke boys in NC, they were released by the state after investigation found a corrupt prosecutor essentially fabricated the charges.
I’ve heard about Polk county.
There is also a Polk Co. Florida.
so he went to trial and was found “not guilty”.....does not mean the woman made up the story just that there was not enough evidence......
No but I did have an opportunity to explain to her how somebody else was arrested for doing the things he did to her and 18 other women. And she never took the time to apologize.
There are 12 counties in the USA named Polk.
Ten named after James Knox Polk.
Polk County, Missouri, named after Ezekiel Polk a colonel in
the American Revolutionary War
Polk County, North Carolina, named after Col. William Polk
who fought in the American Revolutionary War (first cousin
once-removed of James K. Polk)
To be fair, she was not lying, there were five men whose names she gave to the police who she thought we’re going to do these things to her. So I was just one of five men who she thought hated her enough to want to harm her. It really struck me that back then wore my bouncer days and I could not tell you 5 men’s names that would want to get even with me for throwing them out of a bar but this girl can think of five men’s names whose Parts she broke or made false promises of love to and then dumped them and that there were five who she felt would be that negative towards her to want to harm her.
I knew a woman like that waaay back in the 70’s..................
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