The POS is finally going to prison where he belongs until his eternity in helll. This one hits home and I'm glad it's finally over. My daughter's friend was one of the young girls that was hit and thankfully after fighting for her life and several surgeries she has recovered remarkably.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/darrell-brooks-found-guilty-first-degree-intentional-homicide-waukesha-christmas-parade-massacreDarrell Brooks found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha Christmas parade massacre
Darrell Brooks Jr. guilty on of six counts of intentional first-degree homicide, Wisconsin jury finds
By Michael Ruiz | Fox News
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Darrell Brooks, the 40-year-old Milwaukee man accused of plowing a Ford Escape SUV through a Christmas parade in nearby Waukesha last year, has been found guilty of six intentional first-degree homicide counts and dozens of other charges – Wisconsin's equivalent of murder – in a trial over the deaths of six and injuries to dozens more.
Brooks made several objections over "subject matter jurisdiction" before the jury returned. Judge Jennifer Dorow invited the jurors back. Brooks made a series of requests for documents, Dorow said they were noted and denied.
The decision came after a 23-day trial which saw the defendant, who was representing himself, ejected from the courtroom multiple times for disruptive behavior.
He attacked the credibility of witnesses on the stand, raised frivolous objections and at one point went on a 50-minut rant asserting that the court had a conflict of interest, and he had not been able to "face his accuser."
The paradegoers who Brooks killed on Nov. 21, 2021 were Jackson Sparks, 8, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Kulich, 52, LeAnna Owen, 71, Virginia Sorenson, 79, and Wilhelm, 81.
"Burn in hell you piece of s---," someone yelled from the gallery before Dorow got to the jury's decision on the third murder charge. The judge ordered him out of the room.
It took Dorow roughly a half-hour to read through all of the jury's decisions. Afterward, she thanked and dismissed the jurors and entered judgments of conviction on all 76 counts.
She set a scheduling hearing for 1 p.m. CT Monday and asked both sides to give estimates for how long they would need to present their sentencing remarks. She said sentencing would come at a later date. Brooks faces a mandatory life sentence in prison.
"No surprise here," the California defense attorney Lara Yeretsian told Fox News Digital after the hearing. "Unless Brooks was delusional, he must have known this trial would not end well for him."
Darrell Brooks appears in a Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Brooks, who is representing himself during the trial, is facing 76 criminal charges: six counts of first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon, 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon, six counts of hit-and-run involving death and two counts of bail jumping, all felonies; and one count of misdemeanor domestic abuse-battery. (Pool via Scott Ash / Now News Group)
Jurors entered deliberations Tuesday evening and requested several exhibits: the map that lays out the location of victims and police officers were during the attack, a picture of Erika Patterson, Brooks' ex-girlfriend, and surveillance video which shows members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies members hit with the SUV in the attack.
Brooks objected. Judge Dorow overruled him.
Darrell Brooks attempts to get the court's attention as he appears via video from an adjacent courtroom due to his continuous interruptions of Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow during his trial Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 in Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha, Wis. Brooks, who is representing himself during the trial, is charged with driving into a Waukesha Christmas Parade last year, killing six people and injuring dozens more.
Darrell Brooks attempts to get the court's attention as he appears via video from an adjacent courtroom due to his continuous interruptions of Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow during his trial Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022 in Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha, Wis. Brooks, who is representing himself during the trial, is charged with driving into a Waukesha Christmas Parade last year, killing six people and injuring dozens more. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
Jurors broke for the evening at 8 p.m. CT and resumed Wednesday morning.
In closing arguments Monday, Waukesha District Attorney Sue Opper said Brooks displayed an "utter disregard for human life" and that "overwhelming evidence" in favor of a conviction had been introduced at trial.
"Not one person had to be hurt that day if he had just stopped driving," she said.
Brooks, in his closing, asked the jury to disagree and let him off the hook.
"One thing that I believe that you have not been privy to is the truth of your rights and your duties being the jury," he said. "The fact that you and you alone, have the power, not well-prepared DAs with well-prepared and clearly rehearsed speeches, exhibits, a lot of theatrics. Frankly, not the judge. You and you alone have the power. You and you alone decide what is truth and what isn’t truth."
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow admonishes defendant Darrell Brooks during his trial in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Brooks, who is representing himself during the trial, is facing 76 criminal charges: six counts of first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon, 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon, six counts of hit-and-run involving death and two counts of bail jumping, all felonies; and one count of misdemeanor domestic abuse-battery.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow admonishes defendant Darrell Brooks during his trial in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Brooks, who is representing himself during the trial, is facing 76 criminal charges: six counts of first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon, 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon, six counts of hit-and-run involving death and two counts of bail jumping, all felonies; and one count of misdemeanor domestic abuse-battery. (Pool via Scott Ash / Now News Group)
Brooks has a history of criminal behavior – and convictions – stretching back to 1999, involving domestic violence, child sex crimes, drugs and more on a 50-page rap sheet.
He is a registered sex offender in Nevada. He was convicted of obstructing an officer in 2005 and 2003. In 2002 he had another felony marijuana charge. In 2010 he pleaded no contest to felony strangulation charges after allegedly attacking a woman during an argument about phone calls. In 2012 he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor bail jumping and marijuana charges. A year earlier he pleaded guilty to felony marijuana charges and resisting arrest.
Nonetheless, a Milwaukee judge freed him on $1,000 just days before the attack after he allegedly used the same SUV to run over his child’s mother in a domestic dispute. At the same time he was dealing with those charges, he was out on bail for firing an illegal handgun during an argument with his nephew. There were no injuries reported in that incident.
Darrell Brooks looks to the prosecution while discussion takes place regarding a Reddit post from someone claiming to be juror posting information critical of Waukesha County officials, during his trial as the jury deliberates in a Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha, Wis., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.
Darrell Brooks looks to the prosecution while discussion takes place regarding a Reddit post from someone claiming to be juror posting information critical of Waukesha County officials, during his trial as the jury deliberates in a Waukesha County Circuit Court in Waukesha, Wis., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
In Brooks’ first remarks from behind bars last year, he told Fox News Digital that he felt "demonized" and "dehumanized" following his arrest.
