In my words
After the verdict, my lawyer left the case. I was forced to go forward on my own, with an advisory lawyer beside me. I was sentenced on October 25, 2024.
Donyell Dewayne Holland
- June 20, 2024Defense motion asking the court to consider whether Donyell should proceed pro se, or let counsel withdraw.Rule docket; motion
- August 16, 2024Order granting counsel’s motion to withdraw. Docket: “appointing attorney: pro se.”Rule docket
- August 2024Jay Underwood appointed advisory counsel.Order
- September 13, 2024Derik Brown’s federal plea agreement is filed in U.S. District Court (see Chapter 13).Federal case 1:21-cr-00001
- October 25, 2024Judgments entered on all counts. Sentence: life plus fifty years.Judgments
- November 21, 2024Order appointing David MacNeill “nunc pro tunc” (backdated) to April 10, 2024, and a motion to find the case “extended and complex.”Rule docket; motion
The judgments
Social Security number and date of birth blacked out. Nothing else changed.
Five records, five different sentences for one 1995 conviction
Five official records give different descriptions of the sentence for the April 11, 1995 conviction. One judgment form leaves the sentence blank. That conviction is used to support an additional twenty-year firearm sentence.
Full report on the sentencing discrepanciesJudgment pageSentencing pageIn pictures
