Standefer Stll A Free Man; Editorial

Article Monday after I pull documents This is just one step towards a dismissal or conviction

I don’t go to every trial and hearing but Mr. Standefer’s of Dunlap Tennessee stood out. A convicted violent rapist, allegedly caught with a gun, drugs and violating the sex offender registry, he  seemed like a poster child for people that can’t obey the law and have no regard for judges, the laws that prevent felons from having deadly firearms or any persons safety but his own. It all reminds me of the definition of a dangerous scenario building. A story later about another rape or murder that could be prevented.

When Mr. Standifer was in the “box” where defendants sit he was visibly shaken,  his eyes were welling up and he was shaking and bouncing his legs like a paint shaker. Was this the man several of his neighbors had told me they feared so much? He seemed like an effeminate nervous schoolboy, trying to avoid a paddling by acting like he was sorry for his actions. I almost felt sorry for him and then his victims flashed in my mind.  How much had they shook and how many tears they must have cried?

So far the sex offender registration was dropped and it was said it was because everyone knew he was a sex offender. Everyone could know someone has a house full of drugs but that shouldn’t hinder a prosecution for drugs. I am the first to admit I know little of the Tennessee judicial system and may have missed something in all this. Continue reading →

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The Sequatchie County High School is failing and as always trying to point the finger of blame or sow the seeds of mutual culpability to the citizens. If the parents have a school alternative, I suggest they take it. We have no public school alternatives.

More evidence of failing local school below. Continue reading →