Comment #: WY9
Rating:1.0
Comments:
Judge Dawnessa Snyder was a prosecutor for a dozen years before she received a political appointment as judge for carbon county from Gov Matt Mead. As part of a PSI before sentencing the form provided an area to 'address the judge directly to present your side of the story.' Because my attorney had failed to vigorously defend me, I attempted to defend myself by writing in my PSI a 30 page letter to Snyder that included 20 pages of discovery documents that clearly and factually showed that plaintiff had lied regarding a felony charge of 'neglect of a vulnerable adult.' Officer Bifano's notes also showed that plaintiff story was "roaming all over the place" and that he couldn't establish "a timeline" due to her confusion. (Plaintiff was legally insane at the time of these allegations and was addicted to pain killers; she was dosing 180 mg of Oxycodone per day. I recently received communication from plaintiff's family that stated they knew she had lied regarding alleged neglect charges.) Bifano's notes revealed that her story had changed 8 times over the course of several weeks. At each interview she altered her story that evidenced deceit yet Bifano forwarded a highly biased affidavit to DAs office that omitted facts that would have exonerated me. At sentencing judge snyder who showed obvious hostility towards me called the PSI I submitted "excessive." Whether she read the PSI is unknown. If the PSI violated the 'ex parte' rule then why does the Wyoming PSI offer a chance to address the judge directly? This seems to be a confusing paradox. Calling a document that was crying out with fact and undeniable truth based upon witnesses and police statements to be "excessive" suggests that the judge was prejudiced and not interested in the truth but rather only in a conviction. I took an alford plea as I was innocent of this charge. Nevertheless the judge ignored the DAs recommendation and added an extra year to my probation. I did not receive justice from snyder. I did receive a biased prejudicial and unfair sentence from this judge.