Army Rejects Enlistment from Falsely Accused Man
AnotherPat sends us an injustice that reminds us of the Kavanaugh Hearings. One argument, advanced during this hearing, was that his accuser should be believed despite lack of evidence. They tried pushing this mantra even when her witnesses rejected her account.
Unfortunately, this isn’t restricted to the Kavanaugh Hearings. We’ve heard, or read, of cases where people were falsely accused of crimes that they didn’t commit. Their lives ended up being turned inside out. Then, we learned that their accusers were wrong. They made a false accusation.
Christopher Precopia is no stranger to false accusations. He went to the recruiter’s office to apply for enlistment. Then, he received the bad news. The Army wasn’t going to let him enlist due to a violent offense from his past. Except, he didn’t commit that crime.
From The Washington Post:
In oral and written statements to police, his accuser detailed how Precopia had forced his way into her home, pushing her to the ground before punching her in the face and slicing her with the box cutter.
The cops arrested him. Since this was a phony charge, he didn’t have any idea on why he was being arrested. He had a warrant for his arrest in another county, one that he couldn’t name. He was even told to “Not act like he didn’t know”.
His accuser claimed that he assaulted her in her home, which was 70 miles away from where he was actually at. This costed him a day in jail, money required to post a $150,000 bond, emotional pain, as well as resources and man hours to clear his name.
Turned out that his mom had a group photo done, that included him, taken during the time of the alleged attack. He was looking at serious prison time for an act that he didn’t commit. This is enough to give his family, and him a shudder thinking about what could’ve happened had that picture not been taken.
You could read the details in the above link, or here.
The above photo is from the Washington Post.
How a selfie saved a Williamson County man from 99 years in prison https://t.co/5NLeEY1hEh pic.twitter.com/l0WcHFAFk7
— KVUE News (@KVUE) November 13, 2018
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As I wrote in the other thread about this, I hope the lying sack of shit has money. She’ll need it just to pay the atty in the civil suit that’s coming. And there will be the judgment. I hope she’s working. The victim needs his justice by the first of every month for the next 30 years.
Attorneys, plural. Hers, and his. Loser pays, right?
No, in the US the losing party is not liable for the winner’s legal fees absent a statute providing otherwise.
She has a house, sounds like that means she can afford to pay him whatever the cost is. She deserves to live in her car, if not in a prison cell for what she’s done.
No, she deserves to live in a 1992 Plymouth minivan that burns oil at the rate of a quart a week and has 4 bald tires…
Bitch.
She should go to jail for the length of time he was going to serve if he was convicted and THEN move into the minivan…
He’ll need another lawyer to expunge his records- she should pay those fees as well.
As a former Texas LEO (unless Texas has changed the rules of expungement since I was a LEO) the young man cannot get his record expunged until a certain period of time has passed (I forget the proper term used).
My opinion is this: charges are dropped by the DA, expungement should be automatic. But then some lawer would lose money.
Maybe a meteor will strike the bitch…..
There is another problem highlighted in this story. The NACLC done to seek law enforcement records is worthless because the agencies do not keep the records accurate.
I can bet that in this case, the LE agency was johnny on the spot to report the arrest, but never cleared the record of the charges later to ensure accurately reporting that the arrest was bogus.
The years I spent as SEL at the Army’s CCF taught me that almost nothing in government records is trustworthy because almost no on the government is ever held accountable.
This is local news to me.
Unfortunately for him, while the woman is an “unnamed accuser”, this is something that this man will have to live with for the rest of his life. Even if his arrest is expunged…which doesn’t always happen in Texas…once you’re in NCIC you’re never out of it.
Hopefully he’s able to enlist. If he does, or ever requires a security clearance, or ever wants to work in public safety / public trust, or rent an apartment, or any other thing that most of us take for fucking granted…he’ll have to explain this arrest forever.
Meanwhile, his accuser walks free and likely will never face charges, nor appear as defendant in a civil suit. Because #believeallwomen.
“Unfortunately for him, while the woman is an “unnamed accuser”….” Good point. Pass that Equal Rights Amendment! She won’t be anonymous for too very long. She won’t be a Jane Doe in the civil suit. Man arrested for rape/sexual assault/domestic violence/ and that man is always named. He is deemed guilty automatically and, when the charges are dropped, rarely is that reported. It’s one of my numerous pet peeves.
If she filed a false report, provided a false statement, etc., with the police, then she should be in jail and/or awaiting trial for committing those felonies. If she’s out walking the street, I seriously question WTF that DA is doing.
Then again, he’s a white heterosexual male so it’s okay to ruin his life, or something.
Mugshots should never be publicly released until AFTER someone is convicted. Now days, as soon as your pic is taken it is released within minutes and on the internet forever.. No one should be entered into whatever database until AFTER conviction….. and with that, this problem is solved.. For the rest of his life his mugshot and “crime” that he didn’t commit will be the first thing that pops up on a google search.. I feel for this dude.
Precopia’s accuser has not been charged with a crime, KVUE reported.
She should be charged with a crime ASAP. A false report of a crime is not to be taken lightly.
I’m partial to the school of thought that says a false accusation should carry the same sentence as the crime falsely accused. See how many skanks want to cry rape over their poistcoital buyer’s remorse then.
Sounds like a chickenshit DA who’s afraid of backlash from code pink and others.
The local cops dropped the ball hard with this case. He had a legit alibi that was easily verifiable. The charge never should have been filed in the first place. He should sue them for a refund of his bail money, 30-40 mil on top of that for good measure, and the jobs of the investigating officers and ADA, as well as seeing what he can do to press charges against the liar.
Arrest was in September 2017 and the charges were not dropped until June 2018. Why did it take that long, the first step should have been asking where the man was the night of the alleged incident. That should have been easy to prove without even a selfie.
TOW answered your question luddite. The local cops dropped the ball, plus, probably her attorney’s delaying tactics. Lawers are paid by the hour remember. I spent 3 nights and 4 days as a guest of the county system on false trumped up DV charges. Felony here, looking at 10 years plus loss of everything. Totally false. Ex had a buddy with a buddy that was a popo sgt. Cop that took me in knew it was BS but was out ranked. Took from Feb till Sep for it to wade thru the system, divorce granted, charges dropped, bank account depleted. Tho my record was to be expunged, took forever and they are never completely expunged. It will always be there in the system somewhere. Had to jump thru hoops several times to keep my CCW. Unfortunately that #believeallwomen is true. You are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
He does not need the selfie. If he used his smartphone’s cellular data 70 miles away, then the carrier has the location logged.
A fake charge should net the accuser 2X the punishment that the accused would have received had it been true.
Need to lock her up…behind bars as well sued…
So glad this made National news. And oh, BTW, where is Ford Whats-Her-Name, Afraid To Fly, Two-Door House these days…
She’s got a million bucks in the bank and she’s just taken a flight to Bora Bora to lay on the beach, mission accomplished victory celebration and all that.
This is so wrong.
How can we fix the system?
This isn’t absolute, as it could work either way. But, when it comes to man versus woman on issues of assault, where there isn’t real evidence supporting the charge, the cards are generally stacked against the men.
It’s like that incident in 2015, where a guy punched a woman in the bar. The full video shows that the guy was minding his own business, trying to get to the bar. The woman gets confrontational, and even raises her fist. The Guy tries to prevent her from assaulting him, but she assaults him with her other fist. He punchers her back.
CNN played that video, leaving out the part before the punches her. What does the DA do? Press charges against the guy, who was dismissed from the team that he was on. The woman? No charges were pressed against her in the aftermath of this incident.
The sympathy was for the woman. A lot was said about what the guy should’ve, or could’ve, done, but holding the woman responsible for her own actions, and contributions, not as much attention.
There are men’s rights groups, and others, trying to bring attention to the problem, but they’re trying to travel upstream of poop creek without paddles.
No, she deserves to live in a 1992 Plymouth minivan that burns oil at the rate of a quart a week and has 4 bald tires…
Bitch.
She should go to jail for the length of time he was going to serve if he was convicted and THEN move into the minivan…
This summer A female SSG entered a crowded 7-11 store with no head gear …as a senior NCO I corrected her, she told me to get the fuck out of her face and became belligerent….at this time I immediately called my CSM as she was ranting and raving and acting like a nut…CSM advised me to put paper on her in the morning….two hours later I was notified that I was being titled for abusive sexual contact, although i was never more than two arms lengths away from her…I refused to give CID a statement , so when the dust settled the CID report said there was no propable cause for sexual assault , but propable cause for assault….chain of command stood by me and I ended up with a letter of concern, while the outstanding SSG ended up making the 2018 SFC ….no UCMJ , no punishment for her. I reached out to my congressman (Bob Latta)and my senator Rob Portman asking for help and these 2 pieces of shit didn’t even reply to my request for help…only thing that saved me was my 15 yr old daughter was standing next to me….7-11 refused to release the store video that would of exonerated me and the sales clerk that witnessed everything did not want to get involved….I am now working to get my title for sexual assault removed from the ALERTS system and getting my clearance incident report cleared up…..army SHARP program is a steaming pile of shit 8 out 10 reports are fucking false reports!!