Calling all Judge Karen Hall defenders
Posted by BrianA Madison county judge on Friday ordered Thomas Erich Durham to serve 30 days in jail on nine counts of indecent exposure.
Thomas Erich Durham, 45, of 1408 Wind River Drive in Huntsville, pleaded guilty to nine counts of indecent exposure when he flashed his genitals at children in the cities of Madison and Huntsville.
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Circuit Judge Jim Smith sentenced Durham to a year in jail on each count to run concurrently, but split up the jail time and ordered him to serve 30 days in jail and the remainder of the time suspended. He will spend two years on probation and pay a $100 fine on each count and court costs.
Smith also ordered Durham to finish a sex offender treatment program and register as a sex offender under the Community Notification Act.
Mr. Durham plead guilty, just like Jerry Wayne Love. Mr. Durham’s offenses, while still bad, were orders of magnitude less harmful than Jerry Wayne Love’s. Judge Jim Smith handed down punishment including probation, a fine, registration as a sex offender, treatment, AND JAIL TIME. When Jerry Wayne Love plead guilty to sodomizing three boys multiple times Judge Karen Hall sentenced him to probation, registration as a sex offender, treatment, and NO JAIL TIME (the Huntsville Times didn’t report that she fined him either).
I’m looking forward to any and all rationalizations on why anyone thinks Judge Karen Hall did the right thing.
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July 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Here is another case where a coach at Lanier was not even charged with anything, after he dropped his pants and exposed himself “several times.”
ASU hires suspended Lanier coach
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/SPORTS/707210363/1002
“Craig Payne, who was placed on suspension by Lanier last year after three football players alleged he dropped his pants and exposed himself “several times” as a motivational tactic, was hired as the Hornets’ director of football operations.”
July 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Oh, this is just the icing on the cake!
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Several hundred members of the Huntsville community have lost their patience while awaiting for justice to be served in another court case which hasn’t been brought into Karen Hall’s courtroom for no apparent reason given the circumstances.
And it does seem that Tim Morgan is not serving his elected position by letting this judge continue to neglect other serious cases, not to mention “no jail time” for a convicted child molester.
When this case is over, more information can be released, but until then, sorry for the vagueness surrounding this complaint. It was quite troubling, to say the least, finding out that this is an ongoing problem with our court system. Hopefully, more members of the community will join in on the efforts and concern to see that this type of gross negligence no longer continues in Huntsville by our elected officials.