Bryan Porter
Book: Charged Charles Severance with 3 murders - and no real evidence a Kangaroo Court
Used his “FRIENDS” as attorneys
Bryan Porter didn’t charge him with a Capital Punishment crime with a death sentence because just as he wanted to control the narrative of the book - he needed to control every aspect of the evidence to ensure the apparent “SET- UP” worked.
With Capital Punishment you don’t get to control the lawyers. With an indigent in the City of Alexandria you get to control the lawyers they are on the payroll of the City everyday and do as they are told - you don’t need any other work. You make a good living just showing up in the courthouse everyday.
Virginia is the state with the shortest time on average between death sentence and execution (less than 8 years). It has executed 113 offenders since 1976 and has just 2 remaining on death row as of December 2018. ... The method of execution is lethal injection, unless the condemned requests electrocution instead.
Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia
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Author’s (Bryan Porter) Note in the States:
Two months after the conclusion of the serial murder trial that is the subject of this book, I received a call from a local author. during the ensuing conversation, the author informs me that he wanted to write a true crime book about our case. He asked if I would be willing to give him access to evidence, photographs and documents. He envisioned interviewing me in detail about the investigation and the trial.
I was flattered and establish arthor was interested in the case and I said I would consider his proposal. Internet research revealed he was respected and well credentialed, with several popular non-fiction titles to his name. I believed he would do a good job writing this book.
But he had not lived and breathed the cases I had. He had not met the families of the victims. He had not been brought to tears by their grief or owed by their resilience. He had not felt the stress of putting the trial together or the concomitant fear of failure. He had not lain awake at night wondering whether he was up to the task.
There is only one way to make sure the story was told correctly.
I would write it myself.
The “TRUTH” is he had to control the story - to control what was told - as he did the trial with the help of the Judge
Judge Jane Marum Roush granted a motion to move proceedings to Fairfax County, saying the fear the killings generated gave her concern about seating an impartial jury in Alexandria.