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March 13, 2012 [Rev. 9/5/2012] One of the things I regret most is having been so completely rattled by learning that Ross Overall had beat up my daughter that I did not raise hell with the ER doctor at Huntsville Hospital (Women’s and Children’s). Despite being told that she had been recently beaten and strangled, […]
September 5, 2012
December 29, 2011 [Rev. 9/5/2012] It’s been four months now since I started learning what I have about the criminal justice system in Alabama. These are the issues I want to look at more closely — someday. 1. Recognition of serious and protracted psychological suffering as comparable to serious bodily injury. Why do assault statutes […]
September 5, 2012
December 1, 2011 [Rev. 9/5/2012] This is all I wanted, expected — deserved? — to find in place for my daughter: “[a] legal system and social structures [that] support each person’s right to live free from violence” “[a] legal system and social structures [that] do not condone violence but also do not discard youth either” […]
September 5, 2012
December 1, 2011 [Rev. 9/5/2012] It’s bad enough having to deal with the juvenile justice system in Alabama from the victim’s perspective. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a falsely accused, or even for that matter a guilty, defendant. Actually, both parties share some of the same problems. I haven’t […]
September 5, 2012
December 17, 2011 [Rev. 9/5/2012] Monday afternoon I had a callback from the Alabama Attorney General’s Office which I had contacted via its website over the weekend. The woman I spoke with did a good job of answering my questions about what crime victims should expect. First, I knew I should have received more paperwork. […]
September 5, 2012
December 16, 2011 [Rev. 9/5/2012] When I signed the petition against Ross Overall on August 31, 2011, the charge was domestic violence — 3rd degree. Here’s the Alabama definition: (a) A person commits domestic violence in the third degree if the person commits the crime of assault in the third degree pursuant to Section 13A-6-22; […]
August 30, 2012
December 5, 2011 [Rev. 8/30/2012] Monday Morning: I arrived a little past 8 this morning at the Madison County (AL) Courthouse. First stop: 8th floor, Judge Sherrod’s recording clerk in her courtroom. So that I can be sure it doesn’t go astray, I hand deliver my letter asking how the restitution order works […]
August 30, 2012
December 4, 2011 [Rev. 8/30/2012] So here I am, nearly three weeks after the consent agreement of Ross Overall, and I’m still trying to deal with the Madison County’s DA’s office, The Office of Robert L. Broussard. One condition of the creep’s consent agreement was that he pay restitution for medical expenses not […]
August 29, 2012
December 13, 2011 [Rev. 8/29/2012] A few days after Ross Overall beat up my daughter, I started the process of seeking justice. First stop: the Robert Neeves Center, or D [detention]-Home. I dreaded this. I can’t watch prison movies. Because of the actors (Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman) I made an exception for The Shawshank Redemption […]
Aftermath of an Assault in Huntsville, Alabama 
September 5, 2012
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