"It's all connected"

On his website Karl states that, “Nashville is celebrating 16-year lows in some crime statistics, but our rates of violent crime are still too high.” If that is true, then why has Dean repeatedly gotten violent criminals off of the hook?

In Alphonso Bradford vs. Tennessee Dean was called to the bench as the defenses only witness. There he testified that he became involved in the case because there was “a real possibility that the State would seek the death penalty or life without parole for the defendant.” Alphonso was charged with first degree murder, and entered a guilty plea to second degree murder. Again this plea got this criminal a lighter sentence.

The moral of this story is that Dean got involved not because he wanted to try to defend the man, but because he was afraid his sentence would be too harsh. This is yet another case of Karl helping to get violent criminals back on the streets faster. Violent criminals commit violent crime. Someone should tell Mr. Dean that “It’s all connected”

Public Defender?!?

“Better schools, safer neighborhoods” is Karl Dean’s rallying call. Be this as it may, let’s examine Mr. Dean’s record with public safety. Karl’s specialty as a public defender in Nashville was the defense of murderers and child abusers. While this alone is not necessarily a fault, as it is a public defender’s job to defend those who can’t afford council, the manner in which Mr. Dean performed his duty is in question.

In the Billy Ray Maupin case Mr. Maupin was charged with first degree murder for stabbing a man to death with a knife. Good ole Karl was there to work out a plea, in which Maupin pleaded guilty to second degree murder. Because of the plea he received only a 39 month sentence for killing a man. After his release, Billy Ray has been convicted more than 20 times for a vast array of crimes including assault with a deadly weapon. A person like that on the streets sure does help with the safety of our neighborhoods.

Many more cases where Dean was the public defender ended in the same way and I will continue to post examples of these. The question of an informed Nashvillian would most likely be, “Which public is Karl Dean really defending?”