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governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:

Lincoln fucked up when he failed to send the black animals back to Africa. Fuck that "Accused" shit. The nigger did it.

The man who allegedly plowed through a suburban Wisconsin
Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring 62 others, has
decided to be his own lawyer when his trial starts Monday.

Darrell Brooks is facing 77 charges for the Nov. 21, 2021,
Waukesha Christmas parade rampage, including six counts of first-
degree murder and 61 counts of felony reckless endangerment.
He’s pleaded not guilty.

Each murder count comes with a mandatory life sentence. He’d
originally been hit with 83 counts.

But Judge Jennifer Dorow’s decision to let Brooks, 40, act as
his own lawyer has raised fears the accused criminal’s history
of erratic and combative behavior will throw the courtroom into
chaos.

Brooks had to be escorted out of court in August during a pre-
trial hearing after going on a disruptive tirade.

The accused killer, who has an extensive criminal record, was
arrested three weeks before the parade for allegedly punching
the mother of his child in the face and then driving over her,
leaving tire marks on her leg. He apparently used the same SUV
in that attack as in the parade mayhem.

Brooks posted bail for the domestic incident two days before he
allegedly killed six people in the Milwaukee suburb parade. He’s
also wanted in Nevada for a sex crime, and has been charged with
shooting at his nephew and another person in 2020, authorities
said.

“I just feel like I’m being monster – demonized,” Brooks told
Fox News following the 2021 attack.

His mother Dawn Woods wrote a letter after the parade carnage
saying her son suffered from severe mental illness.

“So many like Darrell that have fallen through the cracks
because of a broken system that no one cared to address, can get
the help they so desperately need,” she wrote.

Judge Dorow said while it’s clear Brooks suffers from mental
illness, he’s mentally fit and has the constitutional right to
defend himself.

“This court has warned Mr. Brooks what he’s getting into,” the
judge said, noting she reviewed his evaluations by four
different psychologists.

“He can be a quiet dude,” Brooks’ Milwaukee neighbor Willie
Bates told The Post last year. “But he can also be a bad dude.”

Brooks originally tried to get the case dismissed, pleading not
guilty by reason of mental illness.

Brooks and the judge have clashed at court hearings ahead of the
trial. Brooks has often interrupted the judge, who told him
she’d likely have to admonish him in front of the jury if he
misbehaves during the proceedings.

At one point during pre-trial hearings, Dorow snapped at Brooks,
saying “stop playing games” as he laughed in court.

“It’s really going to be a challenging trial for the witnesses,” Wisconsin-based criminal defense attorney Tom Grieve said. “You
have a defendant who feels like he has nothing to lose. He’s
going to try to make as big a mess as possible and force a
fumble by the prosecutors or judge and try to force a mistrial
or build an appeal.”

Prosecutors have as many as 300 videos of the attack and a 32-
page-long witness list, including the parents of 8-year-old
Jackson Sparks, who was killed in the attack.

“There’s going to be no question in this jury’s mind what
happened, who was driving, how these people were injured or
killed,” District Attorney Susan Opper said in a court hearing
last week.

Sharon Millard, who witnessed the gruesome death of her friend
Virginia “Ginny” Sorenson, told The Post after the rampage that
“no one ever saw [Brooks] coming.”

“He was going so fast. All I knew is I saw Ginny fly up in the
air and land in front of me. I saw her curled up and blood was
coming out of her like a river. I was standing in blood.”

Jury selection will begin Monday; the trial is expected to last
at least a month.

With Post wires

https://nypost.com/2022/10/02/accused-waukesha-christmas-parade- killer-darrell-brooks-to-represent-himself-at-trial/

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