Thread by @socialistdogmom

tyler davis is in cville general district court this afternoon facing class 3 felony malicious wounding charges for the assault on deandre harris on A12.

other assailants in the deandre harris assault have trials later this spring in cville circuit court: goodwin 4/30-5/1 (class 3 felony, malicious wounding), ramos 5/2-5/3 (class 3 felony, malicious wounding), borden 6/5-6/6 (class 3 felony, felonious assault)

it’s a beautiful afternoon to spend in a dreary courtroom! my hand is already cramping up in anticipation of furious notetaking. perhaps this is as good a time as any to plug the patreon link in my bio — you can help support my efforts to document this & other ongoing cases.

long afternoon in court. davis’ prelimary hearing took nearly two hours, with another 20 minutes or so for his bond hearing. the felony malicious wounding charge was certified & goes to grand jury monday morning. he’ll go home to florida with an ankle bracelet soon after.

so here’s some highlights of today’s hearing. CPD had no interest in tyler, who had not yet been identified, until elmer woodard, atty for another assailant (goodwin) insisted they look into the man he called “boonie hat”

remember this from goodwin’s december preliminary hearing?
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this seems to be both davis & goodwin’s trial strategy: i didn’t hurt him near as much as those other guys! but with ACA antony pursuing this as concert of action, it doesn’t really matter.

judge said it’s a matter for trial, but it does appear davis’ “single blow” was the one that split harris’ head open so badly. regardless, downer ruled that davis’ actions were malicious. striking an unarmed man struggling to rise to his feet while being kicked is malicious.

during the nearly two hour hearing, we watched a lot of videos we’ve all seen before - at goodwin, ramos, & borden’s prelim hearings, at harris’ trial... judge downer seemed bored by it. what no one expected though was for davis’ atty to present evidence downer had NOT yet seen

davis’ atty (whose name i admittedly didn’t catch, but it sounded like engel? can anyone confirm that for me?) said he had video of the assault deandre was recently acquitted on, the incident with harold crews, that definitively proved DH caused the injuries to crews’ face

i was unable to see much of the video evidence from the gallery, but downer did confirm at several points that he was seeing (and surprised to see) evidence that had never been presented to him before, despite the growing # of cases he’s heard on this incident.

so why would an attorney for league of the south member tyler davis not turn over this very important evidence that could’ve assisted in the case of league of the south chairman harold crews’ charges against DH? that trial was only a month ago. the tape isn’t new.

y’all, considering i have no job, i sure did spend at least 12 hours working today. and i think i’m getting carpal tunnel from notetaking and tweeting. what if i just recorded myself talking about the notes i took?