Darrell Brooks found guilty of 6 counts of 1st degree intentional homicide

Darrell Brooks was found guilty of dozens of charges related to his crashing a Christmas parade. Included among these charges are six intentional 1st degree homicide counts. Brooks represented himself during the trial, at times showing more interest in being argumentative and combative rather than engaging in normal trial conduct. There were times during the trial when he had to be removed from the courtroom for improper conduct.

From Fox News:

It took Dorow roughly a half-hour to read through all of the jury’s decisions. Afterward, she thanked and dismissed the jurors and entered judgments of conviction on all 76 counts.

She set a scheduling hearing for 1 p.m. CT Monday and asked both sides to give estimates for how long they would need to present their sentencing remarks. She said sentencing would come at a later date. Brooks faces a mandatory life sentence in prison.

“No surprise here,” the California defense attorney Lara Yeretsian told Fox News Digital after the hearing. “Unless Brooks was delusional, he must have known this trial would not end well for him.”

Jurors entered deliberations Tuesday evening and requested several exhibits: the map that lays out the location of victims and police officers were during the attack, a picture of Erika Patterson, Brooks’ ex-girlfriend, and surveillance video which shows members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies members hit with the SUV in the attack.

Brooks objected. Judge Dorow overruled him.

Jurors broke for the evening at 8 p.m. CT and resumed Wednesday morning.

In closing arguments Monday, Waukesha District Attorney Sue Opper said Brooks displayed an “utter disregard for human life” and that “overwhelming evidence” in favor of a conviction had been introduced at trial.

“Not one person had to be hurt that day if he had just stopped driving,” she said.

Brooks, in his closing, asked the jury to disagree and let him off the hook.

“One thing that I believe that you have not been privy to is the truth of your rights and your duties being the jury,” he said. “The fact that you and you alone, have the power, not well-prepared DAs with well-prepared and clearly rehearsed speeches, exhibits, a lot of theatrics. Frankly, not the judge. You and you alone have the power. You and you alone decide what is truth and what isn’t truth.”

Brooks has a history of criminal behavior – and convictions – stretching back to 1999, involving domestic violence, child sex crimes, drugs and more on a 50-page rap sheet.

He is a registered sex offender in Nevada. He was convicted of obstructing an officer in 2005 and 2003. In 2002 he had another felony marijuana charge. In 2010 he pleaded no contest to felony strangulation charges after allegedly attacking a woman during an argument about phone calls. In 2012 he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor bail jumping and marijuana charges. A year earlier he pleaded guilty to felony marijuana charges and resisting arrest.

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