Notorious Jackson hoodlum Vidal Sullivan still sits in the Hinds County jail awaiting trial. However, the District Attorney could send him back to the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for violating his probation but has yet to do so. JJ reported on March 29:
Vidal Sullivan was on probation when he was arrested and indicted for armed robbery. He was convicted of aggravated assault in 2006 and sentenced to serve ten years in prison. However, he was released from prison on November 15, 2012 to serve probation for three years. However, Sullivan stopped reporting to his probation officer, thus "stopping the clock" on his probation sentence. He has approximately four years of his prison sentence to serve if his probation is revoked.
A Hinds County grand jury indicted Vidal Sullivan on February 23. His bond was set at $300,000. The indictment states that Sullivan used a gun to separate one Johnny Smith from his wallet and $200 on November 12, 2016. The indictment also seeks classification of Sullivan as a habitual offender. It states that he has the following convictions:
Aggravated assault in Hinds County (March 13, 1996)
C/S Possession of Cocaine in Hinds County (May 11, 2000)
Aggravated assault in Hinds County (November 6, 2006)
Sullivan achieved quite a bit of notoriety back in the 1990's and 2000's. He was accused of kidnapping two women but the grand jury did not indict him. He was known as one of the Wood Street Players that attracted so much of Frank Melton's attention.
The case is assigned to Judge Jeff Weill. Sullivan is currently in custody on a $300,000 bond.
However, the old crimes are assigned to Circuit Judge Bill Gowan. The District Attorney's office has not yet filed a notice of revocation with the court. Thus Mr. Sullivan sits in the Raymond Detention Center awaiting trial when he could be both serving a four-year sentence at Parchman and awaiting trial for his latest crimes. Not quite catch & release but close.
Kingfish note: Come on, D.A., do your job and send him back to prison.
8 comments:
Guess someone saw a "Vidal Sasoon" shampoo ad shortly after giving birth !!!
Learn the law, king fool
Gowan, Peters, R.S. Smith and now Vic Mason. What more needs to be said?
Dude! Where my Visine?
I wish Hinds county could be annexed by Rankin and Madison counties. Their D.A. has the balls to do his job
I was in Madison County Circuit Court once and there was a guy that should have been violated for a new crime committed while on probation. I remember how that Judge got all over the Probation Officer for not filing an affidavit and seeking a warrant for a a probation violation. See KF this defendant is being supervised by the MDOC not by the District Attorney's Office.
3:06 said it best- Learn the law, king fool
Then you can bitch about it but please bitch about it to the right agency- And maybe while you are 'still waiting', you can study the law
11:35, I'm sure you also know that the probation officer can recommend or present revocation paperwork to the Judge only after it is approved by a supervisor. Deputy Commissioner Kristi gungtherx does not permit officers to do this except on rare occasions. Officers must get treatment for probat8oner, give another chance, counsel probationer, keep offender in the community to save money. Etc... . I'll bet you also know she has never been a law enforcement officer and has no idea what a probation officers job is or should be. If she had any brains she wouldn't have officers acting as bill collectors instead of probation officers.
I was told by one bunch that the DA has to do it. I was told by another it was MDOC.
When javarius chambers had his revoked in Madison County, it was guests office who handled it. Same for Rollins in Hinds although MDOC probation officers were there and testified. Randy Harris handled it.
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