Shelby Co. (ECWd) –
The failures are stacking up in the Shelby County State’s Attorney office, and since the locals are no longer “bird dogging” what takes place in that office we must once again point to the record as the failures are stacking up.
Carlos Oberg was charged with 33 criminal counts, mostly felony charges surrounding child sex related charges including traveling to engage in unlawful sexual conduct with a child, child porn, grooming, and numerous other charges. The charges, as initially filed, only provided concurrent sentences rather than consecutive ones, with 5 years being the maximum as charged. It was set for a speedy trial in July 2024, so there would be no continuance. Woolery took office on May 10, 2024, and, by all indications, failed to review prior court transcripts that indicated certain charges were to be amended, making sentencing on those charges consecutive, which is why the former SA Robert Hanlon offered 20 years.
Woolery accepted a plea deal rather than go to trial which resulted in yet another sex offender getting a minimal sentence and could be back on the street in a whopping 1.9 years.
DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO COUNTS 1-24; ON COUNTS 1-24, DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 5-YEARS IN IDOC, DAY FOR DAY CREDIT TO APPLY; UP TO 12-MONTHS OF M.S.R. CREDIT FOR 201-DAYS SERVED; DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO COUNT 25-28; ON COUNTS 25-28, DEFENDANT SENTENCED TO 3-YEARS IN IDOC, WITH DAY FOR DAY TO APPLY; CREDIT FOR 201-DAYS SERVED; TOTAL FINES OF $23,000 PLUS ASSESSMENTS; FEE WAIVER TO BE GRANTED UPON SUBMISSION; ASSESSMENTS WILL REMAIN; DEFENDANT TO REPORT TO SHELBY COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERK WITHIN 30-DAYS OF RELEASE FROM CUSTODY; COUNTS 29-33 DISMISSED PURSUANT TO PLEA; SEE ORDER FOR ALL OTHER TERMS; DEFENDANT REQUIRED
(5 years = 1,825 days, divided by 2- day-for-day credit (912.5 days) – 201 days for time servied = 711.5 days which is 1.94 years)
Read what he was charged with at this link and ask yourself, is this what you expected from your State’s Attorney’s office?
Communications Woolery received by the former State’s Attorney in a separate FOIA speak to Woolery’s failure in the Oberg case.
“BTW-you got bamboozled on the Carlo Oberg case. The concurrent section applies only to one subsection of the CP statute. I’m sure Brad pointed that out as he was obligated to do. My guess he said “as charged” in the 402 conference. Judge Kibler had to have known what you should do, but in a 402 he can’t tell you to amend that would be having his thumb on the scale. Did you think I offered 20 years because I didn’t understand? It was just the opposite. The charges Nicole filed repeated the same statute 34 times- (probably because it was a big case and we all make those kind of mistakes drafting a document that large.) all you needed to do was amend counts 1-6 with a new citation to several other applicable sections with the same facts and you would have easily gotten 30 years for that pedophile POS. But you were quick to bite the hook of a prudent defense attorney not knowing the simple solution. I previously told the Court and Brad that the charges needed to be amended, but that became your job and you didn’t understand it was that simple.”
As if the above is not disturbing enough, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for key records pertaining to the above case has once again resulted in FOIA violations by the State’s Attorney. Of the records she produced, she failed to redact private information yet denied other records citing it was sensitive information regarding the identity of a minor victim. Is the minor victim’s date of birth not sensitive information? Are we to understand other private information is not subject to the appropriate protections? We made every redaction seen on these records because what she produced were unredacted copies.
Things she failed to redact:
- Date of birth of the child victim
- Signature of Judge Ade – Harlow
- Signature of Judge Brian Kibler
- Signature of Circuit Clerk Kari Kingston
- Signature of Sheriff Brian McReynolds
- Signature of Under Sheriff Danial Greuel
- Signature of former ASA Denise Ambroziak
- Signature of Notary Kayla Garman
- Signature of Agreement Administrator
- Signature of former State’s Attorney
- Signature of Public Defender Brad Rau, Jr.
The Attorney General Public Access Counselor is reviewing our request for review after she refused to provide properly redacted police reports related to the above convict. She has already acknowledged she failed to identify who the FOIA officer was responsible for the denial of records. Other violations include failing to cite the applicable exemptions she was attempting to use to justify her denial. We will update you when the PAC provides its final determination.
We can only assume that her failures are tied to her prior failure to comply with the appropriate FOIA training as exposed in this article.
I wonder how many criminals would love to have the signatures of Judges, Sheriffs, Prosecutors, Public Defenders, Agreement Administrators, etc. Taking those signatures along with key public records one could have a field day forging records for all kinds of devious purposes.
Stay tuned for exposure of how asking Constitutionally protected questions won’t be tolerated and is perceived as harassment in the eyes of SA Ruth Woolery.
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