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Charles Broadus
#900322/23-2A
Criminal: Charles Broadus; black male, drug addict
Crime: Selling 6.1 grams of cocaine
Sentence: 95 years in prison.Criminal: Circuit Court Judge R. Alan Brubaker:
Crime: Dealing in cocaine and sexual tapes that he stole from the evidence room; soliciting sex from a prostitute in exchange for evidence room cocaine; two counts of theft, two counts of official misconduct; evidence, but no charges, of child molestation.
Sentence: Six years in a minimum-security prison.Judge Brubaker was known as "Maximum Al, the Policeman's Pal" and regularly handed out sadistic sentences of 60, 80 and even 100 years to non-violent drug offenders. The judge was "tough on crime" and an advocate of youth. He took troubled teens on weekend visits to his private farm and to the Bible Baptist Church where he was a member. Though never officially charged, allegations of child molestation were whispered throughout the conservative, mid-western county and were finally aired on prime-time television in1994. In July of that year, he was arrested in Boone County, Indiana at a Holiday Inn for offering cocaine in exchange for sex to an undercover police officer who was posing as a prostitute. Brubaker had stolen the cocaine from the evidence room in Howard County where he served as a judge. Judge Brubaker was conducting a sex for stolen drugs scheme while meting out inhumane sentences in a moralistic crusade of putting drug offenders away for life.
Judge Brubaker sentenced Charles Broadus to lifeor death in prison for the crime of selling cocaine to support a drug habit: three consecutive sentences for 70 years and an additional 25 for qualifying as a habitual offender. Exceeding the prosecutor's recommendation by a quarter of a century, Judge Brubaker sentenced Broadus to death by prison.
The defrocked judged is out of prison now, as are many who were sentenced by the "justice" to draconian prison terms. Families of prisoners helped to negotiate or overturn rulings by Brubaker, showing that the prison terms he imposed were grossly disproportionate to the alleged crimes committed.
But Charles Broadus has no family to assist him on the outside. Tragically, he lost his mother in1997 and his father and brother in 1998. He has now served11 years of 95 for selling 6.1 grams of cocaine - twice as long as the judge who sentenced him and who committed crimes far more serious. But Charles Broadus says he "no longer asks for justice in this matter - only mercy." Broadus deserves another chance at life. He has served too many years in prison. He should be released into society where treatment, counseling and a job await him; not forgotten and left to die in an uncaring prison because of drug addiction. "I am left all alone in this unthinkable nightmare that I am living everyday." Broadus asks "anyone who will listen ... in the name of justice for all ... to please help me gain my freedom by any means you have available."
Updated - 3/1/01
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