1st Circuit Follow-Up

After posting our story on the sweet plea deal given to Bradford Spells by the 1st Circuit Solicitor's Office we thought it might be revealing to find out what kind of plea deals were given to his co-defendants, Ricky Demarkus Williams and Delani Franklin Simmons. We profiled their previous criminal histories in the original post. We will concentrate on the pending charges they had from 2013 at the time that post was written. At the time these three thugs were charged with shooting up a residence at the Planters Retreat Apartments on Ladson road in July they all had pending weapons charges.

These fellows belong to a gang neighborhood social club in Lincolnville they call Front Street Money Block.

Ricky Demarkus Williams was charged in April of 2013 with Unlawful Carrying of a Pistol and Possession of a Stolen Pistol.






While out on bond on the above weapons charges, Williams was charged with Attempted Murder, Possession of a Weapon During a Violent Crime and two counts of Discharging a Firearm Into a Dwelling. 

The 1st Circuit Solicitor also gave Williams a sweet plea deal. In exchange for a guilty plea to the unlawful carrying charge from April, the solicitor dismissed the attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime charges, and reduced the two charges of discharging a firearm into a dwelling to Pointing and Presenting a Firearm. Judge Maite Murphy sentenced Williams to concurrent YOA sentences not to exceed six years and immediately suspended those concurrent sentences in favor of 18 months of probation, also concurrent.









Maybe the 1st Circuit Solicitor's Office did a better job with Delani Franklin Simmons. Let's see.

In May of 2013 Simmons was charged with Unlawful Carrying of a Pistol.







While out on bond on the above weapons charge Simmons was charged with Attempted Murder, Possession of a Weapon During a Violent Crime and two counts of Discharging a Firearm Into a Dwelling.

He got the same sweet plea deal as Ricky Williams and Judge Maite Murphy gave him the same sweet sentence of concurrent 18 months probation in lieu of a YOA term not to exceed six years.









Do any of you readers wonder if they learned their lesson? Let's see.

Here is a photo of Williams (left) and Simmons after their release from jail on 22 January, 2014 after getting a sweet plea deal and a light sentence. We are pretty sure those FU signs are directed at the police, the 1st Circuit Solicitor, Judge Maite Murphy and the rest of you decent citizens. Note the clothing worn by Simmons.




This is a photo taken that same night that Simmons cropped and used to update his Thugbook profile picture on 23 January, 2014. He's back with his old gang neighborhood social group. Note the guy on Simmon's left side pointing a firearm at you.




Here is a closer view.




And the original wide shot.




Seems like Simmons wasn't out of jail a total of twelve hours before he violated his probation. Of course, finding a probation agent with time to actually follow up and violate him will be a chore. Maybe the 1st Circuit Solicitor can make that a mission.