![]() Clarke because Leroy was to testify against Russell Peeler in the May 1998 slaying of Ms. B.J., who relatives said wanted to be the first Black president, was expected to testify about the drive-by attack at Russell Peeler’s trial for Snead’s killing. The police say two other suspects, Russell Peeler and his brother, Adrian, plotted to kill Ms. ![]() had identified Russell Peeler to police as the person who shot and wounded Snead in a 1997 drive-by attack that Snead survived, when B.J. as a witness against Russell Peeler in the 1998 killing of Clarke’s boyfriend, Rudolph Snead, a rival drug dealer.ī.J. Authorities said the brothers wanted to eliminate B.J. and Clarke in their Bridgeport home on Jan. Prosecutors have said Peeler, at the direction of his older brother, Russell Peeler, gunned down B.J. in my life today, I can say with a One hundred percent certainty that my life will still never be the same.” “A monster like that has no place in society, no type of rehabilitation can help him. “The evil of Adrian Peeler is senseless and I will never be able to understand how a grown man could heartlessly kill an eight year old,” Clarke’s cousin, Janet Gordon, wrote in a letter to the judge. and his mother are joining prosecutors in opposition to Peeler’s sentence reduction request. ![]() because of the state’s abolishment of the death penalty. A state judge in Bridgeport on Friday is expected to resentence Russell Peeler Jr. A message seeking comment was left for Corradino, the state prosecutor. crash day after 18th birthday, police say. attorney’s office declined to comment for this story. Peeler’s federal public defender, James Maguire, and the U.S. Now I would just like the opportunity to give back in a more meaningful way.” I realize, sadly, that I stole a lot from my community. He added, “The truth is that I no longer see the world at 43 in the same way that I saw it at 22. “I give no reasons for, nor do I make any excuses for the choices that I have made,” Peeler wrote in a letter to the federal judge considering the First Step Act arguments. ![]() He also submitted letters of support from college professors and fellow inmates praising his efforts to educate himself and mentor other prisoners while behind bars. Peeler argues in court documents that his federal sentence is only for dealing drugs and is exactly the kind of lengthy drug sentence targeted by the First Step Act. It is not clear when the judge will rule. If successful, Peeler, now 44, would be a free man in a year. But he is asking a federal judge to reduce the federal sentence to time served in state prison and change it from consecutive to concurrent with the state sentence. Peeler’s 25-year state prison sentence in the killings of Karen Clarke and her son, Leroy “B.J.” Brown, ends in January 2022 and he is scheduled to be immediately transferred to federal prison to begin a 35-year sentence for drug dealing. ![]()
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