Alabama Cop Posts Bond, Walks Out of Jail After Murder Conviction

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Alabama Cop Posts Bond, Walks Out of Jail After Murder Conviction; Mayor, Police Chief Slam Jury’s Unanimous Guilty Verdict

Alabama Cop Posts Bond, Walks Out of Jail After Murder Conviction; Mayor, Police Chief Slam Jury's...
The mayor, the police chief, and the defense slammed the verdict.
lawandcrime.com
5:59 PM · May 7, 2021

https://lawandcrime.com/police/alabama-cop-posts-bond-walks-out-of-jail-after-murder-conviction-mayor-police-chief-slam-jurys-unanimous-guilty-verdict/

An Alabama jury on Friday convicted Huntsville Police Officer William Darby of murdering a suicidal man in April 2018. That man, Jeffery Parker, 49, was holding a gun to his head in his own home while talking to another police officer, according to a report by local CBS affiliate WHNT-TV.

Parker told a 911 operator that he planned to kill himself, the report said. Darby maintained that he fired on Parker to protect his fellow officer from a dangerous situation.

Prosecutors disagreed. They maintained that Darby was the aggressor. The jury agreed with the government.

Deliberations began in Madison County on Thursday but needed to resume anew on Friday morning, the station said. A juror with a medical issue had to be replaced by an alternate. The final jury reported about two hours before issuing a guilty verdict.

Jail records cited by The Huntsville Times and reviewed by Law&Crime indicate that Darby left the Madison County Jail after posting a judge-ordered $100,000 bond at 2:15 p.m. Friday — two hours and eighteen minutes after he was booked. Such a post-conviction, pre-sentencing release is contemplated by Alabama’s bail rules, even in murder cases.

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[Rustyeye77]

1. Only in Alabama.

Nice people...stupid government.

Roll tide.

[msongs]

2. the "stupid government" is voted in year after year by the "nice people" nt

[Rustyeye77]

4. I know very well.

Trying to get them to think in the 20fh century is difficult.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

3. WTF

I never heard of someone being convicted of murder (or any crime) and then being able to post bail....isn’t that normally done for arrest and pre-convictions

[dsc]

7. It does happen with some crimes some of the time

the Enron guy for instance, but I have never heard of it for murder.

[Atticus]

8. "The land of the boll weevil where laws are medieval". nt

[Storybook612]

5. Unbelievable! And I grew up there!

Huntsville is my hometown, but since the days of John Sparkman as US Senator, it has literally run down the rabbit hole to become rabid conservative. Mo Brooks of January 6 infamy now represents most of my former city. This used to be the scientific capital of Alabama with one of the highest percentages of Phds per capita in the Southeast, surpassed only by the NC Research Triangle. That was a few decades and several Republican tax cuts ago. Now there is so little money for the public universities (except Alabama and Auburn athletic departments), unemployment insurance, childhood education and Medicare that taking care of anyone who isn't rich is no longer a priority statewide. So the dumbest of the dumb keep getting elected to state office and the legislature, taking their belligerent conservative cultural ideologies with them.

But back to the Darby case---why let out a convicted murderer on $100,000 bail? Flight risk anyone???

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

6. Since the OP posted, I have reading more about this case

The city council actually voted to have the city pay for his defense

Wondering if the paid for his bond, too

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2018/08/taxpayers_to_pay_for_defense_o.html