Ghastly sentencing
The LMPD Consent Decree Series, Post 6 - The Ghost of Law-loss Present shows you the court system
In the previous post, the Ghost of Law-loss Past pointed you to current policies that ensure opacity for illegal immigrants. Some had not read Post 3 of this series that explains the plan to cover three scenarios, somewhat like the Christmas Carol’s Ghosts of the Past, Present and Future. Consider yourself apprised.
The Ghost of Law-loss Present asks you to focus on crime, punishment, the courts and the media, with a spotlight on the disappearance of Jamarcus Glover just last week.
Some background
Glover was one of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriends. His ‘traphouse’ would be searched early on March 13, 2020, and her apartment would be, too, because of her ties to him.
He was arrested early that morning for drug possession.
AN ASIDE: The link between Glover and Taylor was established:
In several recorded calls from Metro Corrections, Glover is heard either talking to or mentioning Taylor by name. During a March 13 call, for instance, he tells a girlfriend that Taylor was holding $8,000 for him and had been "handling all my money." - Courier-Journal
Yet, the C-J has repeatedly noted, No money was found at Taylor's apartment after the March 13 raid, according to a property seizure log filled out by police.
Any cash could have been stashed, considering the lengthy knock-and-announce warrant that was served. The false narrative is that the LMPD carried out a no-knock warrant. It is important to establish the truth.
Representative shows a rap sheet (not Glover’s) | Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, floridamemory.com
Glover has a rich history in the drug trade.
Glover, a convicted felon, has been accumulating drug-related arrests since 2008, when he was sentenced to prison for selling cocaine in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
Kentucky court records show arrests dating to 2014 in multiple counties. He pleaded guilty to first-degree possession of a controlled substance in Warren County in 2015 and was sentenced to a year in jail, for instance.
He pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Jefferson County and served 10 days in jail after a 2016 arrest, according to court records. He is facing multiple trafficking charges in Jefferson County and a drunken driving charge in Hardin County.
In a different C-J story, updated in January 2022, we learn:
Prosecutors with the office of Jefferson Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Wine had offered Glover a deal, which he accepted in October, that had him plead guilty to a string of charges mostly related to cocaine trafficking and possession and serve probation instead of an eight-year prison sentence.
Judge Mitch Perry approved the plea agreement and five-year probation sentence Tuesday on two counts of cocaine possession and one count of drug trafficking, while Judge Olu Stevens handled Thursday's sentencing hearing on an additional cocaine possession charge.
Glover was a known drug trafficker with previous charges for dealing in meth, opiates and marijuana and engaging in organized crime, all dismissed as part of the plea deal. He would serve five years of probation in Mississippi, his home state—that is all.
On December 14, 2021, WAVE News reported that Glover had been sent back to Mississippi. Judge Mitch Perry told him ‘that his court will be monitoring him in Mississippi even “more closely” and that his probation would be revoked if he gets a new charge there.’
St. Matthews and J-town are not in Mississippi
WAVE News also found that he was arrested by the Jeffersontown Police Department in January 2022. Did he ever go to Mississippi?
Glover was ONCE AGAIN arrested on September 30— THIS YEAR—IN LOUISVILLE— for drug trafficking charges, including allegations that he sold fentanyl that killed a 13-year-old in St. Matthews and uses juveniles to sell his drugs. He also had a handgun.
He failed to appear in court on Wednesday, October 4. But who would think he might be a ‘flight risk’?
WAVE News reported that three people paid his $20K cash bond, as set by a ‘trial commissioner’ not a judge. It was ‘legal’ ? The trial commissioner was a staff attorney serving in family court, who did not wish to answer questions. Great reporting!
Certain courtrooms and officials seem not to care about Louisville’s youth. The Tiny Tims and Cratchits of Louisville are wondering: What can be done? Will a Consent Decree help? No, cities with consent decrees experience more leniency with sentencing.
You may recall that the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come showed Scrooge his own grave and the Cratchit family mourning the death of Tiny Tim. This last Spirit seems well fitted to this post and the next.
AN ASIDE: On November 4, 2022, Fastzone on Substack posted: Messenger Attorney Clay shot but not dead yet.
That post referenced the Kentucky Bar Association inquiry panel that accused Thomas Clay of a rule infraction that could end his career. We promised to keep tabs on the outcome. The WAVE News story published on October 4 illustrates that Attorney Clay is on top of his game.