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. Thousands of federal prisoners across the country have been granted sentence reductions under the First Step Act, which aimed to address concerns that too many Americans were imprisoned for nonviolent crimes as a result of the drug war. Attorney John Durham, Bridgeport State’s Attorney Joseph Corradino and prosecutor Susan Campbell cited Peeler’s violent criminal history and said he should not qualify for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2018. State and federal authorities and the victims’ relatives are stridently opposed. Peeler, however, could be a free man next year, if his pending request for a sentence reduction under a national criminal justice reform law is approved by a federal judge. Prosecutors believed justice was served nearly two decades ago when Adrian Peeler was sentenced to a combined 60 years in state and federal prisons for his roles in Bridgeport’s cocaine trade and the 1999 killings of an 8-year-old murder trial witness and the boy’s mother.
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