A judge has removed the Loudon County’s District Attorney’s office from a burglary case after a prosecutor downplayed a serial burglar’s criminal history.
Loudon County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman ruled on Friday that the county’s Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office must be removed from the serial burglary case for ‘deliberately misleading the Court and the public. In case you have any kind of queries relating to wherever in addition to how to utilize googls, you possibly can e-mail us on our web-site. ‘
‘The Commonwealth is deliberately misleading the Court and the public in an effort to “sell” the plea agreement for some reason that has yet to be explained,’ Plowman wrote in his decision removing the office – led by Buta Biberaj – from prosecuting the case against Kevin Enrique Valle.
Valle, 19, is accused of engaging in a ‘possible 12 burglary crime spree spanning four counties over 10 days,’ and is charged with three misdemeanors for destruction of property and false identification, as well as two felony burglary counts.
But Plowman said Michele Burton – a prosecutor for the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office – offered Valle a six-month plea deal by downplaying his previous criminal history and not including other burglary charges lodged against him.
He claims the plea deal wrongfully stated that the crimes all occurred within a matter of hours last year, rather than 10 days.
Loudon County Circuit Court Judge James Plowman removed the county’s Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, led by Democrat Buta Biberaj, right, from a burglary case
Plowman argued that an attorney for the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office downplayed Kevin Enrique Valle’s criminal history to offer him a plea deal in a serial burglary case
Plowman also pointed out that Valle has previously pleaded guilty to three other felonies, had other pending criminal charges as well as a juvenile record.
Court records obtained by DailyMail.com show he has more than 40 cases against him in various counties throughout Virginia, including for grand larceny, burglary, and for carrying a concealed weapon
‘Biberaj and the Loudon County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is hereby REMOVED AND DISQUALIFIED from further prosecution as counsel of record in this matter,’ he concluded.
Still, Biberaj insists that her office was acting properly and has filed petitions to the State Supreme Court asking for the order to be annulled and preventing the court from removing the office from the case, according to