{"id":8669,"date":"2014-05-22T20:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2014-05-22T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:54:15","slug":"tales-of-the-ex-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/22\/tales-of-the-ex-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Ex-Prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Greenbacker, you old softie!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altavistajournal.com\/news\/article_8f71f122-e106-11e3-8a2d-0019bb2963f4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Man to serve 5 years for Brookneal robbery<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>I like Big Boards and I cannot lie&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the store&#8217;s open, why did this dumbass smash the glass with the baseball bat? Yes, I know. He&#8217;s a dumbass.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;King wielded the bat and asked the employees in the store for money. &#8221; &#8211; Well, at least he asked for the money and didn&#8217;t demand it like he was robbing the place.<\/li>\n<li>Hmm. This guy&#8217;s from Nathalie. Why wasn&#8217;t this story in the Halifax County newspapers? Did I really have to ask that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But anyway, on to the fun part. This guy hired ex-Halifax County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney John Greenbacker as his defense attorney. You may remember Greenbacker as the not very friendly at times Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney who was usually always pushing for the maximum sentence because every petty thug like this was a Threat To Society. Well, it looks like Greenbacker has now almost got a streak of compassion in him. Look at what he had to say about his client&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>King\u2019s attorney, John Greenbacker, said the testimony on the part of King showed that he was \u201cessentially a redeemable person.\u201d He asked Judge John T. Cook to sentence King at the low end of the guidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awwwww. John must have had a change of heart since he got steamrolled by Kim White in his last election&#8230; or maybe it&#8217;s just a lawyer who&#8217;ll say anything depending on who&#8217;s paying him. That last statement goes for prosecution and defense lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Greenbacker, you old softie!<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halifax-county","category-newscentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2fP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5246,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/07\/jeff-oakes-appeals-his-computer-trespass-conviction\/","url_meta":{"origin":8669,"position":0},"title":"Jeff Oakes appeals his &#8220;computer trespass&#8221; conviction.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"SouthsideCentral has one word about this development...\"WHY?!?!?!\" In related news, John Greenbacker is probably making plans for a luxurious vacation. Former Sheriff Appeals Conviction Um... yeah. The only person that's going to win on this is John Greenbacker. He's going to get his legal fees.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halifax County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halifax County","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/halifax-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5157,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/30\/time-machine-2003-halifax-county-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":8669,"position":1},"title":"Time Machine: 2003 Halifax County Elections","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm thanking Fred for the motivation to go back in time today and look at the 2003 election cycle in Halifax County. So what happened back in 2003? 2003 Halifax County election results So what do those number really mean? Let's do a breakdown. 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(Look for the entries marked\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Halifax County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Halifax County","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/halifax-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8091,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/08\/randomthoughts-the-2013-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":8669,"position":3},"title":"RandomThoughts: The 2013 elections.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"So that happened. The 2013 election season is over and we're now getting ready for the 2014 elections (sigh). Let's do some RandomThoughts about what happened in the SouthsideCentral region and more... These RandomThoughts are in no specific order. That's why they're called random. Duh. Wow. 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I know Mike Freshour & Tracy Martin personally and I know both of them are well-qualified for the office of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Endorsements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Endorsements","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/politicscentral\/endorsements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7818,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/31\/halifax-county-commonwealth-attorneys-race-update-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":8669,"position":5},"title":"Halifax County Commonwealth Attorney&#8217;s Race &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"August 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's election season and we're going to get back into what established SouthsideCentral's reputation... the political scene. Let's get started by analyzing the upcoming election for the unexpired portion of former Halifax County Commonwealth's Attorney Kim White's term... 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