![]() Under cross-examination by State’s Attorney Jonathan C. The grandmother of 24 and foster mother of 36, Bush said some in her circle have found their way through the court system. She conceded that she is used to vouching for young men in trouble. “He wouldn’t pay nobody, because he’s too cheap,” Bush said. was to have been a witness in the Snead case.Ī bit too colorfully for even some of Peeler’s supporters, Bush discounted trial testimony that Peeler had offered to pay a man to kill Clarke and B.J. Russell Peeler, 28, already is serving life in prison on a federal drug conviction and 105 years for killing Rudolph Snead Jr., a drug associate who was Clarke’s fiance. “I’m here to tell you, you got the wrong kid,” Bush said. 7, 1999, to keep the boy from testifying against him in another murder case. ![]() She left no doubt that she did not accept the jury’s conclusion that Peeler ordered his younger brother, Adrian Peeler, to kill Clarke and B.J. ![]() She said, “To put it in words, he was like a mama’s boy.”īut the plain-spoken Bush seemed to make the bigger impression. and his mother led to a revamped state witness protection program named after them.Manning told the jury that her nephew had been extremely close to his mother, a police officer who died of cancer in 1993. He also was sentenced to 105 years in prison for killing Snead. But he was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release in 2016 because the state abolished the death penalty. Russell Peeler was convicted and sentenced to death for ordering the killings. Despite Adrian Peeler being the alleged shooter, a jury only convicted him of murder conspiracy and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on the charge and five more years on other charges. 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.īoth Peelers were charged with capital felony and murder and faced the possibility of the death penalty for the deaths of B.J. 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. A message seeking comment was left for Corradino, the state prosecutor. 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. ![]()
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