I came across an interesting video from a channel that I've been a long time follower of called "The Civil Rights Lawyer" created by West Virginia civil rights attorney John H. Bryan. It relates to a massive scandal on the part of the West Virginia State Police. I'll let the video go into the specifics of this very serious issue. It also appears that the WV State Police is involved in an additional problem with their SWAT team and another cover-up, in which Mr. Bryan is representing the victim in that case.
The details on the SWAT team issue is not discussed in the video I've posted here, instead another video explaining the SWAT incident is on Mr. Bryan's channel. It is the second video previous to this one listed here, can’t miss it. Since I haven't posted that video here I'll summarize it.
Mr. Bryan's client was shot within his home by the WV State Police SWAT team while he had been sleeping, though the State Police claimed that the client had attacked them with a hammer despite the fact he was not guilty of any crime and had no reason to attack them. The fact that the blood from Mr. Bryan's client is on the couch the client was sleeping on shows that the man was obviously shot by police while he was asleep - which goes against the SWAT team's claim. The SWAT team appears to be making up a story to cover-up for their own incompetence. This is not an unusual occurrence by far. Police departments have been caught making up charges against someone just to prevent them from filing a lawsuit on the department. Prosecutors in this country are all too willing to go along with this abuse of power and push forward with whatever charges they think will stick. Police and prosecutors all feed from the same trough after all.
In the case brought against me in 2006, Michelle Dickerman (known as Michelle Manweiler during the 2006 case) fabricated and tampered with printed emails she handed to the Charlottesville Police department. I've already gone over the evidence proving this tampering, and it was so blatant that even my incompetent former attorney spotted it right away.
No attempt was made by the Charlottesville Police to ever verify a single email Michelle Dickerman printed up, especially since they claimed that they somehow managed to "severely damage" my computer hard drive - which they said would prevent them from recovering anything from my computer until roughly nine months of repair work was conducted first. Which just so happens to be long enough to conduct a trial and convict me on false charges had I not been railroaded into a guilty plea by both the prosecution and my own attorney. Rather easy to convict when I have no ability to obtain exculpatory evidence due to the fairy tale damage to a perfectly working hard drive.
This lie by police (I do not believe for one second that they ever actually damaged the hard drive) conveniently prevented them from having to obtain the original emails that had actually been sent to Michelle Dickerman, prevented my recovery of exculpatory evidence, and allowed the District Attorney's office to railroad me with the aid of my former attorney into pleading to a felony charge they knew me to be innocent of.
I am accursing the Charlottesville Police and District Attorney's office of having become aware of Michelle Dickerman's fabrication of evidence after they had arrested me. I am accusing them of lying about the destruction of critical evidence, which was done to prevent anyone from finding out that they had been tricked by a rich UVA law school student with a rich UVA alumni father who was the CFO of a bank at the time. I have evidence backing up all my accusations, I just need to actually have someone listen. I fully believe Michelle Dickerman would receive multiple felonies from the evidence in my possession - and she wouldn't be the only one facing a criminal investigation when my case is reported on by the news media.
With the police department's lie of seriously damaging my computer hard drive, and with Michelle Dickerman taking down her Myspace account right after hearing of my arrest which destroyed the original emails on her end (proven on this blog with evidence and admissions by my former attorney, and a lawyer like Dickerman would have known better than to delete evidence), there was no ability to recover evidence of Michelle Dickerman's crimes nor recover evidence proving the situation was not what she claimed.
The only other way the Charlottesville Law Enforcement could have recovered the original emails thanks to the loss of both sources of evidence was by getting Myspace to send the original emails - and Charlottesville law enforcement had no interest in doing this. They could have waited to "repair" the claimed damage to the hard drive which would have been the responsible thing to do knowing that none of the email printouts from Dickerman were ever verified - but of course they wouldn't, given that they lied about damaging the hard drive in the first place.
The entire purpose of the cover-up and my subsequent railroading was to hide their screw up. They got tricked by a lawyer fresh out of law school and would be facing civil if not criminal penalties for their incompetence. Which they wouldn't have ended up in that situation if law enforcement hadn't been motivated by a desire to pull attention away from other scandals happening at the time.
Charlottesville law enforcement rushed to club me over the head and hyped up my case to distract the public from scandals the local court system was facing. Around the time of my arrest a rich UVA student named Andrew Alston was being released early from prison after receiving a slap on the wrist for stabbing a man to death. I noticed less media attention was directed at Alston's early release after I was hauled down to Charlottesville. Another case I was told about was a man being allowed to assault multiple women because the Charlottesville court system kept letting him out on bond. Even the Charlottesville probation officer performing the Pre-Sentencing Investigation said my case came at a really bad time.
The Charlottesville law enforcement didn't do their due diligence because they saw my case as an opportunity to jingle something shiny in front of the public and news media. When they discovered after my arrest that Michelle Dickerman had not only tampered with the evidence but fabricated what the entire case was built upon, the lie about damaging my computer hard drive was put forward to hide Dickerman's crime.
I was then railroaded into a felony plea agreement under threats from both the prosecution and my former attorney - all to protect a rich UVA student's future and more importantly the integrity of the C'ville court system from yet another scandal. Can you imagine the fallout from law enforcement causing the city to be sued after being tricked by a rich UVA student, right around the time that another rich UVA student was being released early from prison after getting a slap on the wrist for stabbing a man to death? Throwing my life under the bus was just another Tuesday for the Charlottesville law enforcement - and an intentional act of maliciousness by Michelle Dickerman and her parents.
As you can see from the video above, law enforcement cover-ups and scandals are nothing new. They are not even uncommon. Mr. Bryan points out that what we're seeing is merely the tip of the iceberg for what has actually been going on within the West Virginia State Police. Whenever I discuss the cover-up by the Charlottesville police and District attorney's office in my posts, keep in mind the video and the fact that this kind of thing happens all the time. You just don't hear about most of it. It's really easy for law enforcement to hide their fuck-ups when they hold all the cards.
The cover-up in my situation didn't involve some massive conspiracy with lots of individuals involved. While I believe the Manweiler family pulled strings with politicians and UVA administration to ensure that harm was done for the benefit of their daughter, it's likely that most (if not all) of the individuals putting pressure on law enforcement had no idea that there was a cover-up going on. The only people who knew what was actually taking place was the Manweilers, Charlottesville prosecutors Joe Platania and Warner Chapman, Detective Nicolas Rudman and his supervisor, and potentially then police chief Timothy Longo. It's highly likely that my former attorney William Johnson at the very least suspected what was happening.
It's quite probable that Johnson had been brought in on the whole thing, and was working hand-in-hand with the prosecution against his client. Though just as easily he could have only noticed what was going on and just didn't have an interest in stopping it - because then he would actually have to earn the money he demanded upfront. He certainly stopped being my lawyer once he met Michelle Dickerman. That's when he admitted to having a locker room style talk with prosecutor Joseph Platania over the phone when they were both discussing Michelle Dickerman.
William Johnson stated that he and Platania were "discussing Ms. Manweiler's achievements and her 'assets'" and he looks at me with a shit eating grin as he emphasizes the word 'assets'. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what that means, especially when Johnson was a blatant womanizer. When my mother was at a court hearing with my sisters, William Johnson was ogling both my sisters while he was talking to my mother about the case and wasn't ashamed about doing it. While Johnson discussed the subject of Michelle Dickerman over the phone, prosecutor Joseph Platania in turn got so excited during this sexual discussion that he offered to set up a meeting between Johnson and Michelle Dickerman so that the two of them could talk.
Understand what that means: a prosecutor became very excited during an inappropriate sexual talk with defense counsel about a claimed victim that said prosecutor was representing, and that prosecutor attempted to setup a meeting between the claimed victim and the defense attorney. The prosecutor offered to setup this meeting solely because Johnson was engaging in sexual talk about that claimed victim with the prosecutor. Johnson refused this meeting but his motivation wasn't anything noble - he stated that he was too lazy to make the trip to Charlottesville from Matthews County just for that. When relaying this story to me, Johnson was actually mocking Platania as he imitated the prosecutor's inquiry to him on whether Johnson wanted to have the meeting setup with Dickerman. Despite Johnson's clear and expressed interests towards Michelle Dickerman - even he expressed concern over Platania's outburst and meeting offer.
Johnson's willingness to go along with the prosecution's railroading, whether just suspecting the cover-up or going full co-conspirator mode, was motivated due to his own laziness and his continuously expressed (multiple instances, some even recorded) sexual attraction to Michelle Dickerman. As for why he wasn't fired - we tried that and the prosecutor threatened me over it and demanded I keep my attorney or else.
So the cover-up by the Charlottesville law enforcement only involved a handful of people. And it's really easy to commit a cover-up when only a handful actually know about it - especially when all parties involved have something to lose if anyone found out about the issue being covered up.
Nothing about the 2006 cover-up, and my ensuing railroading into charges I was innocent of, is new or unique in the United States. My case is not even new or unique in Charlottesville. I'm not the first person the Charlottesville law enforcement did this to nor was I the last. It happens all the time. The difference is that I have proof of all of it - something that most people don't have since law enforcement is usually able to hide away any proof since they hold all the cards. My problem has never been an issue of having evidence. I can prove everything that happened and I can back up my accusations. My problem is getting someone to listen. All the evidence in the world doesn't mean shit if you can't get it out front of a courtroom or in the public eye. I've grown tired of having the injustice done to me ignored for nearly twenty years. There are many ways to force people to listen, some of which are less desirable than others. We'll see whether I have to make certain choices or not, but I think I've already made my decision on the option I'm going to take.
Something I want to additionally mention further relates to the other video by Mr. Bryan that I alluded to earlier. When it comes to the claims by the West Virginia State Police SWAT and Mr. Bryan's client, it's essentially his word against the cops - because none of the SWAT team members were apparently wearing bodycams. How convenient for the cops. As Mr. Bryan discusses in the other video, our society has for some reason decided that the word of a police officer is unquestionable in court. As more and more cases of corruption come to light it becomes more apparent that this needs to stop.
A dishonest person doesn't magically become honest when you hand them a badge. Quite the opposite. I ran into this very issue in 2006. I had been interviewed by Detective Rudman and unfortunately I made the mistake of talking to the cops. There were a lot of things that happened during it that I've previously discussed, but one issue is that I never confessed to the charges against me. I told Detective Rudman flat out that I never threatened any form of violence against Michelle Dickerman, thus denying that I had committed the felony charge filed against me.
I had also been informed during the interview, and afterwards, that the stalking misdemeanor filed against me was due to Michelle Dickerman claiming I went to her residence in Charlottesville. Multiple sources stated that Michelle Dickerman made the accusation of Charlottesville visits at the start of the case - which I've demonstrated some of that evidence in my possession on this previously. I've also further proven on this blog that Charlottesville visitations never happened - using Michelle Dickerman's own admission in her Victim Impact Statement (VIS) which proves it never happened. At no point was I ever in the city of Charlottesville until I was hauled from Hampton to Charlottesville at night by Detective Rudman.
Michelle Dickerman said that she was worried that I'd eventually figure out where she lived and worked in her VIS. Well if she was worried that I'd eventually figure out her address, that means she was aware that I had never found out that information before being arrested. So why did Dickerman make those false statements (which I can prove she made) at the start of the case? Both Dickerman and I know exactly why she did of course - it's the same reason the little narcist has spread many lies for years. So obviously I never committed the stalking charge since I never went to Charlottesville, and I told this to Detective Rudman. Doesn't sound like I confessed to all the charges does it?
My refusal to confess to charges I knew I never committed was a bit of a problem for the Charlottesville law enforcement. But they had an answer for that problem. They conveniently "misplaced" the tape of my interview with Detective Rudman. A tape recorded interview that they claimed was so much in their favor just happened to disappear from inventory after the prosecution reviewed the recording. Again how convenient for them. This allowed Detective Rudman and Prosecutor Joseph Platania to make whatever claims they wanted about the "misplaced" interview tapes. Joseph Platania proclaimed throughout the case that I had "confessed to all charges". Detective Rudman intended to testify in court that I had "confessed to all charges". Something they both knew never happened.
Since the Charlottesville law enforcement just so happened to "misplace" the interview tape recording, it came down to my word versus the word of a police officer on what was actually said during an interview that they claimed was so much in their favor. On top of them also claiming to have somehow "damaged" my computer hard drive after Michelle Dickerman deleted the original evidence on her Myspace account - which made her blatantly tampered printouts the sole evidence as the basis of the felony charge.
All of this "loss" of evidence was recorded in my former lawyer's notes and fully admitted to by him on the tape recordings my mother conducted during her meetings with him. I can prove the event of the "misplaced" taped interview just as I can prove the claimed "damaged" hard drive event. I don't believe that the police actually "lost" or "damaged" either of those things, but I can absolutely prove in a court of law that they were claiming that they had lost all this critical evidence.
With it coming down to my word against Detective Rudman's word on what was actually said during the interview (thanks to them just happening to "misplace" the interview tape), you know exactly which person's word would be trusted in court. Because like Mr. Bryan says in his other video, we as a society have decided that having a badge magically makes you an honest person who's word is beyond reproach. I learned the hard way that this belief is absolutely a delusion.
Needless to say - don't ever talk to the cops. No seriously - shut the fuck up when questioned by a cop. Cops are not your friend. Cops are not trying to understand your side of the story. They want to incriminate you so they can file away the paperwork and clock out for the day. Even if you don't incriminate yourself they will find a way to change that if they really want. Just like they did with me. If I had a lawyer present that day the Charlottesville law enforcement wouldn't have been able to pull that stunt. Because another official of the court would be present to have heard what actually went on. But because it was just me and two cops in the room, it all comes down to the court believing the word of a cop or the word of a guy accused of a felony. I'll give you three guesses which one the court would believe without question.
Anyway, I thought the video would be useful in showing any doubters that law enforcement is not the immaculate defenders of truth and justice. Anyone who rolls their eyes at the idea of cops committing a cover-up is either extremely delusional or just fucking stupid. The evidence exists all over and you have to be deliberately refusing to look if you think it can't happen. It happens all the time. What is detailed in the video I linked in at the top of this post is nothing new and it's just the tip of the iceberg. The same can be said about my own case in 2006. I was not the first person Charlottesville has done this to and I wasn't the last either.
