Robert Gleason Case
The latest on the Robert Gleason case is that the execution date is still scheduled for January 16, 2013. However, counsel for Mr. Gleason remain hopeful that the execution date will be postponed. We should know more by the middle of the week at the latest and will let you know as soon as we have any further details.
Judge says Va. cannot retry former death-row inmate
Posted: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 4:15 pm | Updated: 6:22 am, Thu Dec 27, 2012.
BY FRANK GREEN Richmond Times-Dispatch
A federal judge today ordered Justin Wolfe freed within 10 days in the 2001 murder-for-hire of Daniel Petrole Jr.
The judge’s order also prohibits any retrial that depends on testimony from the triggerman.
ORDER ENFORCING JUDGMENT, directing that the Commonwealth of Virginia release Justin Michael Wolfe unconditionally
ORDER ENFORCING JUDGMENT, directing that the Commonwealth of Virginia release Justin Michael Wolfe unconditionally, free of all criminal proceedings on the charge of murder for hire of Danny Petrole and the drug charges that were previously tried in state court by the Commonwealth, within ten (10) days of the entry of this order; directing that the Commonwealth of Virginia is hereby barred from reprosecuting the Petitioner on the charges originally tried herein in state court or any other charges stemming from death of Danny Petrole which requires the testimony of Owen Barber in any form.
– Signed by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson; filed 12/26/12