Hello. My name is David Annarelli, Virginia Department of Corrections, number 1853637. This piece is entitled “All on the Record”.
On September 24, 2016, I was the victim of Floyd County Deputy Alicia Akers, who came onto my property and into my house unannounced at night. No crimes committed, no emergency existed. By her own admissions, under oath, December 15, 2016, dispatch ordered her to violate the law, verified by dispatch minutes. Worse, Deputy Rusty Stanley, of Floyd County, admitted under oath on December 15, 2016, that it was too dark to identify his fellow officers when he also illegally trespassed on private property at night, kicked open the door to the house and blindly fired at the back of an innocent man, myself. No crimes, no emergency. Trespassing, breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, and aggravated attempted murder are among the criminal acts they are admittedly guilty of under state law. Deputy Alicia Akers was promoted. Deputy Rusty Stanley received a medal of heroism, both for attacking an innocent man in a mental health crisis in his own home, unannounced at night. All of this is on record.
Also, on the record is the severe beating delivered after my arrest. At sometime between 3am and 5am on September 25, 2016, Floyd County and Virginia State Police beat me within inches of my life. A brief note, on record, mentions a hospital visited about 4am but no other details. Six booking photos from the New River Valley Regional Jail – two of the forearm, two of the upper arms, one back, one face – show severe bruising. Also, a note from the jail’s intake nurse simply states “covered in bruises.” It was also reported that six walnut to fist sized lumps line the back of my skull, and concussion symptoms lasted 10 days. It has recently come to light that vision problems, double vision, are directly related to head trauma – Dr. Fenton, Neurooptometrist, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia – the back regions of the brain being where visual stimuli are processed. All of this is on the record, public and medical, and has been reported to every office in Virginia, as well as federal agencies. Justice delayed, justice denied.
William Eric Branscomb, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney of Floyd County, covered up all of the above with deliberate intent. He withheld and ignored exonerating evidence, put forward false evidence and statements and, possibly to a grand jury, to secure indictments; used hearsay as well as clearly inadmissible and manufactured evidence and a number of other nefarious acts. He also committed acts of fraud upon the court and allowed major jurisdictional issues to be ignored. Every bit of this is on the record, evinced by his own words and the state’s own documents. As with everything else, it has been reported to every office in Virginia and several federal agencies, but also detailed for well over 100 defense and post conviction attorneys in Virginia. Every one of them, quote, “too busy for truth and justice.”
The Virginia Department of Corrections can be readily accused of collusion in this documented corruption. For years, we have documented the delayed and denied medical care, specifically related to the head trauma, a traumatic brain injury and subsequent hits. They have only recently relented, and now we have MRIs showing injury related anomalies exist. These add to, and compound, the already available exonerating evidence, which by this time is extensive and stunning. The Virginia DOC on record, in open violation of state and federal patient right laws such as HIPAA, have refused to provide any of my medical records, especially the MRIs, to myself or my designated Power of Attorney representatives. This, I accuse, is because they know this constitutes new medical evidence, about which I am quite vocal, which basically guarantees my return to court.
Collusion in a cover up? It appears likely, and it is within the VA DOC wheelhouse. It would seem that in Virginia, wrongful convictions are business as usual, a 20% rate, the highest in the U.S., approximately 4800 captives as of right now, according to a recent Pew Charitable Trust survey. And it would also seem that truth and justice are much less common, as is the courage of Virginia’s politicians and attorneys where correcting such errors of consequence is of concern. This is all on the record. Further, just recently, it has broken the news for the third time, that a Robert Glenn Ford, previous detective in Virginia, [is] serving federal prison time for his acts of collusion, bribery, withholding evidence, manufacturing evidence, etc. This level of corruption spreads across the entire state, and it is time for real investigations. My name is David Annarelli. You can read more at davidannarelli.wordpress.com . My Instagram is @david_annarelli and I’d like to thank you for your time.
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