Well, it sounds to me as if this man is clearly competent and sane to stand trial.
He clearly knew what he was doing and admits he has no real regrets.
But all that aside, I think it would behove the state to look into the allegations made against the parole officer.
To see if he/she was indeed monkeying with the rules and making the guy late for work everyday. That would be fairly easy to verify.
Its not an uncommon complaint at all.
Probation/Parole Officers are fairly well disliked on both sides of the coin, in court and out of court due to their history of shenanigans such as the ones alleged in this case.
I recall one Probation Officer in Georgia during the early 90’s who would issue a flurry of arrest warrants for his more serious probationers and have the cops go pick them up. Just before he was scheduled to take vacations with his family or go out of town on one of those government funded business trips.
He would let them sit in jail for the duration of his trip to ensure that he would not be bothered by them getting into trouble while he was on a beach somewhere sippin drinks.
This went on for about 3 or 4 year until a defense lawyer got wind of it and brought it to the attention of the GBI.
That probation officer is now the one in jail.
I concur.
Not to excuse 'Poison's' actions but many a parole officer are Barney Fife wanna be Cops who failed the grade and it's they who have 'issues'. Their goal in life is to make life miserable for those whose life they now have complete control over because they are the ones who are the failure.
If a study was done on parole officers it may find that they were the ones in school who got noogies, their lunch money taken, and had to do the Algebra homework for the 'bully'. In English - They Were Sissies. So now they're getting even with all the 'school bullies'.
Again, I'm not excusing 'Poison's' actions but his trial could prove interesting.