(7/2/24):
Within the previous month or two I became aware of a change in laws. A change that will not only allow me to clear my name in court, but will also allow me to finally hold the guilty parties accountable legally.
With me being railroaded into pleading guilty via threats from both the prosecution and my own former attorney in 2006, my options previously for fighting this charge were extremely limited. That's the reason why they threatened me into pleading to the charge. My legally available options to resolve this situation were almost non-existent in fact due to the railroading, even if I had been able to afford hiring a lawyer in previous years. It has come to my attention however that this issue of being limited in options is no longer the case.
In 2020 the Virginia Supreme Court changed their criteria for Writ of Actual Innocence Using Non-Biological Evidence. Previously you could not use this option if you plead guilty. Thankfully, the court has cited the fact that people are threatened into plea deals all the time as being the reason behind their change to the criteria. My having plead guilty because of threats against me is no longer preventing me from having my day in court.
I will be moving forward with challenging the false felony charge now that I have both the legal means and the financial means to do so. Given the evidence in my possession, the behavior of authorities and lawyers involved, and the extremely corrupt events of 2006, my chances of having the felony charge vacated are very high. This will be a serious problem for Michelle Annette Dickerman and the other guilty parties. People will be criminally charged. People will be sued.
It would be in the best interest of Michelle Dickerman, and the best interest her family if she remotely cares about them at all, to heavily consider the ramifications of her future actions from this point forward. The legal consequences she is facing are severe if the felony is vacated. This challenging of the felony is happening. Period. There is a very high chance I will be successful in my court case.
When that felony is vacated both Dickerman and her parents become open to some very serious legal consequences. Thanks to Joseph Platania freely admitting in emails as to their involvement, I can prove that Dickerman's parents had just as much of a role to play as their daughter did. I will definitely call for a criminal investigation of her father, since I believe he may have taken potentially illegal actions to manipulate the legal case in 2006. I certainly have more than enough to justify bringing civil action against Gregory & Carole Manweiler for the harm they pushed law enforcement for on behalf of their daughter.
A "taxi meter" has been running since June of 2006 and the bill is going to come due. We're approaching 20 years worth of damages here. Think about just how bad that's going to be. This is going to get very ugly for Michelle Dickerman and that's just the civil side of it. We're not even talking about the criminal prosecution side of it yet.
Before Michelle Dickerman tries any games she should ask herself how her actions from 2006 and onward will appear to a jury in a civil trial - or a jury in a criminal trial. She should also ask herself how her future actions will look to a jury. Not to mention how it will look in the court of public opinion. Especially since people in authority will likely throw Dickerman under the bus as an act of appeasement.
If they make an example out of Dickerman by going after her in criminal court, the public will be more likely to move on and not ask some very uncomfortable questions of the Charlottesville law enforcement. Publicly conducting the courtroom equivalent of "putting a head on a pike" with Michelle Dickerman for public appeasement will be an incentive for law enforcement. Someone will need to go down legally for all of this, and you can bet they don't want it to be them. The same people who covered for Michelle Dickerman in 2006 will happily wreck her life just to save their own butts. It's what they did to me after all in 2006.
How Dickerman responds once she becomes aware of what's coming will carry just as much weight on the damages she's facing as her past actions will. She can lie about seeing this update on the blog and website - but what she can't lie about is the court summons she'll get from Joseph Platania. Because the prosecution can't remotely win in court against me without her testifying on the stand. Once she gets served a summons, at that point Dickerman can't pretend to not be aware of what's coming.
Testifying is also a really bad thing for Michelle Dickerman. As I'm going to go into in a blog post I'm prepping - anything Dickerman says at my appeals hearing can and will be used against her in both a civil trial and a criminal one. One slip up and she could even face perjury charges. Make no mistake - Platania will give Dickerman a court summons and call her as a witness. He doesn't even have a hope of winning otherwise.
The public and the media will look at how Dickerman responds to my attempts to get my life back. They will look to see how much she supports this evil. They will want to see if she's remorseful or not. If Dickerman tries to fight the restoration of my life, that's really not going to be a good look for her in the end. Not a good look for the media and not for a jury. If the criminal justice system decides to come for her, Michelle Dickerman would do well to not have tried fighting against me getting my life back. Nobody will feel an ounce of sympathy for a woman who has shown no remorse for her evil actions.
I have a friend who is pretty certain he can get a reporter to sit in on the hearing. Not to mention that I've been told court reporters are present in the courtroom anyway since this is the Supreme Court of Virginia. So this entire corrupt affair is going to be made public and there is nothing Michelle Dickerman can do to stop that. So she should really start thinking about how she wants to be viewed in the court of public opinion. Because people will be looking at her behavior and actions from this point forward and she will be judged for it.
This also isn't a problem just for Michelle Dickerman. If I were the Charlottesville law enforcement, specifically Joseph Platania since I have become aware that he is still the Commonwealth's Attorney for Charlottesville, I would heavily consider my actions as well. This will end up being the biggest Monell claim and lawsuit Charlottesville has ever faced because of the actions of the prosecution and police department. It will also be the biggest law enforcement scandal in Virginia and will blacken the eye of the City of Charlottesville for a very long time. Platania's entire legacy will also be in the toilet, and a long career will be capped off by serious disgrace and legal action.
I will be publicly calling for the Department of Justice to conduct a criminal investigation into the Charlottesville law enforcement and court system. I will be making accusations of criminal behavior against all law enforcement parties involved in my criminal case of 2006.
I have enough evidence to demonstrate that the Charlottesville law enforcement became aware of Michelle Dickerman's fabricating of evidence. I have enough to show that exculpatory evidence mysteriously grew legs and walked away - or had really convenient "accidents" - in Charlottesville law enforcement custody (in one case proof of such evidence being destroyed by Michelle Dickerman). I have enough to show they railroaded me into a felony charge they knew me to be innocent of in order to hide the crimes of a rich white UVA student. You guys in Charlottesville remember the Andrew Alston case by the way? That case is just one of many coming back to haunt you guys as well. Buckle up.
The actions of Joseph Platania in particular are not going to look good. Especially his locker-room style sexual discussion of Michelle Dickerman (the "victim" he was representing) with my former attorney William Johnson. According to my former lawyer, Platania even tried to set up a meeting between Michelle Dickerman and William Johnson, after Platania became very excited over this sexual discussion. There are other instances of him being witnessed showing inappropriate affection towards Michelle Dickerman.
Not to mention him and his boss showing blatant special treatment for a rich white girl, to the point of even covering up her criminal actions, will not look good at all in our current political climate. If Platania thinks people were coming for him back during his prosecution of counter protestors to the Nazi rally in Charlottesville - buddy you haven't seen anything yet. Not when people see the lengths he and his former boss Warner Chapman went to in order to give special treatment to a rich white girl who blatantly fabricated the very evidence they based their entire case against me on.
My advice for both parties would be to go into damage control mode and resolve this situation quickly and without a fight so that the damages to them will be lessened. The more Dickerman and Platania fight against my attempt to repair the evil they committed against me - and make no mistake everyone sees what you've done as evil - the more the public will call for their heads for all the things they have done.
Additionally, the more they fight me, and the more I have to call them out in the media, the more likely it is that the Feds will step in and start looking at all of their dirty laundry. I'm betting Platania also does not want this to go into discovery. Because you aren't withholding anything from me this time around buddy.
This includes any emails related to Michelle Dickerman's contact with you years after 2006, when she and her parents first saw the plea deal proposal from Johnson posted up on my fairly new blog. You of course remember the time you had Detective Rudman investigate my blog for Dickerman's benefit right? Of course you do. Yeah I still have the proof he was hunting around on the blog on taxpayer dime - in the form of the very username he was logged into on his police workstation. I'm going to be getting all those emails between you, Dickerman and Rudman - and I bet there are things in them that neither you nor Dickerman want to be made public. I'm really, really looking forward to the discovery phase this time around Platania!
The quicker I get to go on with my life with a clean criminal record, the better it will be for all of the guilty parties. I would advise very much that they not let me have to get to that discovery phase.
Because I'm not the least bit happy that I'm going to have to hire a lawyer just to get my life back after what these corrupt bastards did to me. That's money that could go towards something far more useful. It isn't going to be cheap hiring a lawyer and it will take time to work through the system, since nothing in our "justice system" happens quickly. Which means more years of my life going down the drain while I wait for justice to be done. That does mean additional damages I can claim though in the civil suits I will be bringing against everyone. The longer this goes on the higher they raise the costs for themselves at the end of it.
I can tell you this right now - if I am forced to go this route with hiring a lawyer in order to get my life back and I'm successful in having the felony vacated - I will make the legal process as nasty and terrible for all involved as I possibly can. For Michelle Dickerman, for her family, for the City of Charlottesville.
Michelle Dickerman can either do the right thing for once in her life and confess to what she's done to me and my family, or she can pray to whatever God she worships that I'm not successful in court. Because if I'm forced to pay the money to retain a lawyer, there is no turning back for her once money has changed hands. If I have to fight the bastards in court just to get my life back after all these years, there is no negotiating with me afterwards if the court sides with me and vacates the felony. At that point they all better just strap in for the hell that's coming their way.