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It was Halloween 2009; Shannon Paul Brewer, a young husband and father, was arguing with a Florence man, Daniel Jackson. Brewer stabbed Jackson and reportedly fled. Authorities say Brewer claimed self-defense when apprehended, and Jackson refused to testify against him.
Now Brewer has "repeatedly" stabbed a second victim and again claims self-defense. As we understand it, the previous arrest cannot be used against Brewer at his trial. It does help us to understand why Shannon Brewer fled the scene, stating he would never be taken alive.
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We won't be taking any more comments on the Shannon and Jerry Brewer arrests due to thinly veiled threats by the family. It's sad anyone would bring others into the mix, others who have nothing to do with this blog. It's also sad that the Brewer family sees nothing wrong with the behavior of the two brothers. Lack of responsibility seems to be at the root of this family's problems.
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We will touch on a previous comment concerning state appointed defense attorneys. Many, if not all, are on a level with any other attorney who does not take such cases. To claim otherwise is an insult to those who give much more than they receive in defending those who don't have funds to pay so-called dream teams.
For someone to say any defendant using a public defender doesn't get a fair trial is an insult not only to the attorneys, buy also the judges who hear these cases. We have no doubt the Brewer brothers will receive a more than fair trial. Will they nevertheless be convicted? We'll say yes to that also.
Shoalanda
Apparently you haven't had much experience with court appointed attorneys. A few years ago, also in Florence, my mother was falsely arrested for possession of marijuana. What she actually possessed was Bugler tobacco and the papers that came with it to roll tobacco cigarettes. However, the crooked Florence City Police still arrested her because they could not find my brother who they had a warrant for. Well the lab took their precious time getting the results back to the court and my mom's court appointed lawyer told her she had no other choice but to plead guilty for possession of marijuana. She told him to shove it and represented herself. The lab results finally cam back and she was freed of all charges. So that's how court appointed lawyers work in this area. They have no motivation to fight for their defendants, nor do they even care to find out whether they are innocent or guilty.
ReplyDeleteYou left out the salient point of how your mother came to be charged with possession. Care to tell us? Also, please elucidate us as to how the FPD are "crooked."
DeleteYou obviously don't read your comments thoroughly. I previously stated that the police were looking for my brother who they had a warrant for. my mom had already told them he wasn't there and allowed them to freely search the house for the second time that day. My mom told them she didn't know where he was, which was 100% honest. As I previously stated my mom had Bugler tobacco and the Bugler papers that cam with it because she rolled her own cigarettes. The cops decided to take her cigarette butts and arrest her for possession of marijuana. But like I said before, the lab results came back as tobacco and she was cleared of all charges. And I could give you many reasons why the FPD are crooked. They refuse to arrest crack dealers and users. They refuse to do anything to prevent the death of an innocent child by a crack dealer. They rule a murder as suicide without even the slightest investigation, which is supposed to be required by law. They falsely arrest innocent people because they can't find what they want. Do I need to continue?
DeletePay Attention has posted another comment on court appointed attorneys telling us how ignorant and inept they are. We could not publish it since it contained a vulgarity, but we will be glad to publish it if he will edit it.
ReplyDeleteI do not recall any vulgarity but if there was I apologize. No intention in doing that. I was simply saying that a court appointed attorney usually does not have the knowledge or experience necessary to defend a murder trial not that they are inept in general. And I would love for you to explain your outrageous claim that court appointed attorneys have the experience & motivation to defend such a case. You consistently draw conclusions from what I state rather than what is said. I'm not that simple minded nor should you be.
ReplyDeleteBefore I officially comment, are you speaking of just the Shoals area, Alabama in general, or the entire U.S.?
DeleteThat just common knowledge .
ReplyDeleteAnd I never made any statement about court appointed attorneys being incapable of handling trials. But....this is a murder case. Only a court appointed attorney would take on such a case without being paid high dollar. And the only reasons they take such cases is : (1) because they get paid regardless of the trials outcome (meaning there's no incentive to really put in effort to win while other cases pile up on them as ct apps usually have huge workloads) & (2) because they are told to take the case. Although I agree there are a few that become lawyers to help people, most lawyers are simply there for the money like mercenaries. That too is common knowledge. Now I would also like to say regardless of the guilt or innocence of the Brewer brothers, writing blogs and stating opinions that imply negative taunts toward their family is in repulsive taste. Although you did not commit any form of slander, your mocking holds slanderous implications, which is also in bad taste. You write smut about people when they're at their worst. It's disgraceful. Gossip ended in grammar school, time to wake up and grow up. Now Im done
ReplyDeleteSome of these issues, we plan to address in blogs; however, we'll say that none of the material on the Brewers is gossip. We have spoken with a two sources and the stabbing of Mr. Jackson is on record. The DA apparently decided not to prosecute the case. I'm really not sure what "taunts" have been presented here. Our opinion holds that anyone who has committed assault twice on two different hosts has a lot to be desired in social skills as a guest.
DeleteAnd do you know anything about this Mr. Jackson? Because if you don't, then there is no reason for you to be drawing any conclusions from this previous event that happened over 3 years ago.
DeleteI wrote a pretty leanthly post on this blog a couple days ago. For some reason It did not get posted possibly because I was not logged in?
ReplyDeleteIt was mainly focused on the stabbing murder of Greg Wright in January of 2007. The three culprits in that case all plead guilty. Greg Nard plead guilty of capitol murder and was sentenced to life without any chance of parole. His dad( I forget his name) plead guilty to murder and received two life terms. The third, who was only an accessory to the murder was sentenced to twenty years, as soon as he gets out he will be going to another state who wants him for being an habitual felon.
For some reason this current crime has brought back the memory of the murder of my friend
Greg Wright. I am curious what led to the murder of Mr. Dishon, these two crimes seem familiar to me.
We didn't get your earlier post, but we have changed our comments to allow any Google log in, not just Blogger. Our main intent is to eliminate the use of "anonymous" labels in posting.
DeleteI agree the two crimes seem similar. Here's a link to the Shoals Blog on Mr. Wright's murder: http://shoalscrime.blogspot.com/2009/10/greg-wright-murdered-for-seventy.html