Anyone who hasn't been living in an unheated shack a hundred miles north of the Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories knows by now that the American justice system has been badly broken for a while now. We've spent a lot of bandwidth and spilled a lot of pixels (rightly so) on the North Carolina murder of Iryna Zarutska, but in Alabama, an infuriatingly similar case has happened, this time involving a retired Auburn University professor, Julie Gard Schnuelle.
The man police believe killed a retired Auburn University professor was arrested in 2023 and charged with a gun-related felony, but prosecutors later allowed him to plead guilty to several misdemeanors.
Police in Auburn, Alabama said 59-year-old Julie Gard Schnuelle was found dead in a wooded area of Kiesel Park on Saturday with injuries consistent with an assault. Police said officers responded to a 911 call reporting a deceased individual. Schnuelle was walking her dog at the time, which was found unharmed, according to AL.com.
26-year-old Harold Rashad Dabney III was arrested on two counts of capital murder in relation to the death of Schnuelle. In a news release, police said that Dabney was arrested on Sunday following an 8:30 a.m. call reporting a "suspicious person," noting that detectives "made observations that led them to believe Dabney had involvement with the homicide."
Again, a goblin plea-bargained a serious matter away and was released on a misdemeanor rap. And again, an innocent person is dead because of it.
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He was caught with "white pills," a sawed-off shotgun, and a handgun, while sleeping in a vehicle.
He was charged with felony possession or use of a "sawed-off" shotgun and misdemeanor removing or altering serial number or other identification on a firearm, unlawfully carrying a concealed weapon, public intoxication and trespassing.
Court records indicate Dabney pleaded guilty to all misdemeanors while prosecutors dropped the felony charge, which would have resulted in a 2 to 10 year prison sentence if convicted. He was sentenced to 12 months unsupervised probation for the misdemeanors.
Unsupervised probation? Why? This person was clearly a threat to the community. He was caught in possession of drugs, in possession of illegally altered weapons - why was he not tried on the felony counts? Now, a better person is dead because of this leniency.
Schnuelle was a professor emerita at Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine from 2003 to 2021, when she retired, the university said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. She also recently was the Area Veterinarian in Charge with the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Alabama and Mississippi, Auburn University said in its statement.
"The Auburn University community extends its sincere condolences to Gard Schnuelle’s family and loved ones for their tragic loss," the spokeswoman said.
Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle was 59. She was walking her dog in a park. Dabney is accused of her murder and (now, finally) is being held without bond. At least one story described the manner of the murder by stating that Dr. Schnuelle was "hacked to death." According to reports, Dabney is accused not only of her murder, but also of stealing her F-150 pickup, which he used to flee the scene.
Enough is enough. This capricious plea-bargaining has to end. If someone is charged with a felony, they should be tried for that felony. This practice is literally killing people. The voters of these communities need to start holding their elected officials accountable for this kind of horror.
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