Colorado BLM Activist Who Shot Disabled Veteran in the Head Released From Prison Early After Sweetheart Plea Deal

A Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist who shot a disabled veteran in the head during a Colorado anti-police riot in 2020 has been released from prison after serving only roughly three years of his 11-year sentence. Court records show that James Edward Marshall IV, 33, of Alamosa, has been moved to a halfway house. {snip}

Marshall, an Alamosa defense attorney, was originally arrested on charges including criminal attempt to commit murder, assault, reckless endangerment, felony menacing, criminal mischief, illegal discharge of a firearm, and prohibited use of weapons. He was offered a sweetheart plea deal by disgraced former Alamosa District Attorney Alonzo Payne and pleaded guilty to one charge of tampering with a deceased body {snip} All of the violent charges were dropped.

On June 5, 2020, Marshall shot victim Danny Pruitt, a disabled veteran, while Pruitt was in his vehicle stopped at an intersection near a Black Lives Matter protest in Alamosa, Colorado. Marshall, who was armed with a 9mm Glock, fired a shot into the back of Pruitt’s truck, striking him in the head with a bullet. While Pruitt survived the shooting, he sustained critical injuries {snip}

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Matthew Beresky, an attorney with the Rocky Mountain Victim Rights Center, issued a statement in court opposing the plea arrangement, claiming that it “offends the very concept of justice and does not reflect the nature of the crime or its effect.” He further stated that allowing “James Marshall to plead guilty to abuse of a corpse disregards the fact that Mr. Pruitt is a living human being” {snip}

The plea agreement ultimately led to the 2022 disbarment of DA Payne, who has alleged links to George Soros. {snip}

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