News & Record reports Greensboro resident DeJuan Yourse, who who reached a $95,000 settlement with the city over mistreatment by a GPD officer, is in jail for repeated failure to appear in court over some pretty disturbing charges:
Yourse, 37, faces at least 12 counts of failure to appear as well as charges of assault on a female, assault on an unborn child, assault by strangulation, assault and battery, driving while license is revoked, reckless driving, speeding and habitual felon, court records show. Yourse was also served with warrants on charges of failure to appear and communicating threats out of Alamance County.
What is interesting is the settlement became an issue when Yourse requested a court-appointed attorney before a previous judge:
During his first appearance before Guilford County District Court Judge Jonathan Kreider, Yourse requested a court-appointed attorney, which is paid through taxpayer money for defendants who can’t afford to hire an attorney.
(Assistant District Attorney Howard) Neumann told Kreider that Superior Court Judge David Hall recently determined that Yourse did not qualify for a court-appointed attorney because he had $95,000.
“I settled for $95,000,” Yourse told Kreider, “but I did not receive $95,000. I tried to tell that to Judge Hall.”
Yourse is in jail under a $286,500 bail, which his settlement definitely won’t cover. As I wrote before, I had an attorney frined tell me that one of clients had a lot of bad things, but he didn’t do the one bad thing for which he was being accused. Agreed that Yourse’s incident with the GPD officer and the charges against him do not necessarily have anything to do with each other. But he certainly has punked the social justice warriors who vociferously defended him.
