Chief Calf’s attorney, public defender Scott Spencer, tried to focus the jury’s attention on inconsistencies in the statements of two brothers – friends of the defendant – who witnessed the fatal shooting. But jurors found surveillance video and the defendant’s own admissions more persuasive. ⇒
Coming out of hiding to link to three articles on Billings Municipal Court and its supervised probation and pre-trial supervision practices. The first attempts to give a big picture overview. The second focuses on one person who was subjected to the injustice of pretrial supervision for a misdemeanor DUI charge. And the third examines who is making money from the court’s regular practice of requiring citizens to pay for “supervision” for a multitude of misdemeanor offenses.
This isn’t the first time this court has received this kind of criticism (see also), and it won’t be the last.
image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace