Vito Russo

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Vito R. Russo
released

DOB: 5-22-1966
(possibly innocent)

Case No: 1619-11-02 WmCr
Date of the Crime: 11-17-2002
Date of Conviction: 4-4-2003
Sentence: 15-21 years for attempted aggravated assault

http://www.justicepursued.com/
Vito Russo's Website

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Note:

One cannot be guilty of a crime that has never been commited.

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SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE OCTOBER 17th 2007 at 8:30am in ROOM 4

RUSSO vs. STATE OF VERMONT DOCKET NO. 295-7-05 WMCV
FOR HIS POST CONVICTION RELIEF TRIAL

WINDHAM SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE

LOCATED AT: 7 COURT STREET, NEWFANE, VERMONT 05345
(802) 365-7979 OR www.vermontjudiciary.org

IN OCTOBER 2002 VITO RUSSO LOST EVERYTHING AT NO FAULT OF HIS OWN. HIS HOME, PROPERTY, BUSINESS AND BELONGINGS. THE UNIQUE VERMONT MOTEL AND GIFT SHOP FRAUDULENTLY TAKEN BY JOHN MCKAY WHO WANTED RUSSO’S FAMILY HOMELESS AND OUT OF HIS WAY, WITH A MILLION DOLLAR MOTIVE. RUSSO’S FAMILY WAS VITO’S ONLY MAIN CONCERN WHEN HE STOPPED AND OFFERED MCKAY $5000 CASH FOR HIS CONCENT THAT VITO’S WIFE AND CHILDREN COULD RESIDE IN THEIR HOME THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS,ONLY 2 MONTHS. INSTEAD RUSSO WAS FALSELY ACCUSED BY THIS SAME PERSON THEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED.

SENTENCED TO 21 YEARS FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT
FEDERAL CHARGES CAME FROM THAT SAME ALLEGED CRIME WHICH WAS DISMISSED RECENTLY AFTER A JURY WAS PICKED FOR TRIAL AND AFTER 3 YEARS OF HARRASEMENT TO RUSSO AND HIS FAMILY. THE EFFECTS WERE DEVESTATING AS RUSSO LOST HIS WIFE THAT ONCE STOOD BY HIS SIDE.

THE EVIDENCE PROVED THERE WAS NO INTENT, THREAT, HARM NOR ANY VIOLENCE… THE ORIGINAL CHARGE WAS ATTEMPTED SIMPLE ASSAULT!
NOW VITO RUSSO GOES FOR A POST CONVICTION RELIEF TRIAL TO PROVE HE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED AND WRONGFULLY CONVICTED …IT IS SAID THAT IT IS BETTER FOR TEN GUILTY TO GO FREE THAN FOR ONE INNOCENT TO SUFFER INCARCERATION.

A COMMITMENT TO THE POOR IS THE MEASURE OF THE SOUL OF A TOWN.
WHERE IS JUSTICE AND WHAT'S OUTRAGEOUS?

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE
AND JUSTICE FOR VITO RUSSO….

Please visit our website at http://www.justicepursued.com

YOU MAY WRITE VITO J. RUSSO at vjarusso@yahoo.com or
CCA-LAC #330696
PO Box 900
Beattyville, KY. 41311

Or to contact attorney
Chris Montgomery for PCR Trial (802) 775-2508

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Proposed Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law

www.iippi.org/pdf/vitorusso.pdf (10 pages)
signed by Chris Montgomery, Esq.
for Vito Russo
on October 29, 2007

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Audio-File of Hearing

2006-258
STATE OF VERMONT v. VITO RUSSO*
Davis, Dan, Esq. Fulcher, Allison, Esq.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2007 at 10:45 AM (10 min. hearing)
http://jwebaudio.synecology.com/feb07/2006-258.wma


http://www.dui1.com/DuiCaseLawDetail612.htm
State v. Russo
10-8-2004

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On Jan. 8, 2008 Vito's lawyer told him that his conviction has been overturned and he should be returned to Vermont as soon as possible.

Finally, after 5 years we are seeing some Justice! We are very excited and waiting his return. At this time he is still being held in Lock Down at Lee Correctional in Kentucky.

Thank you for all your support!

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Conviction overturned for man jailed in 2003

Author: NICOLE ORNE, Reformer Staff
Article ID: 7940922
Date: January 11, 2008
Publication: Brattleboro Reformer (VT)

Friday, January 11 BRATTLEBORO -- The man found guilty in 2003 of chasing a Brattleboro man's car down Marlboro Road, firing shots from a sawed-off shotgun, had his case overturned this week. Vito Russo, 41, of Brattleboro, had been sentenced to 15 to 21 years in prison for charges of aggravated assault, DUI, unlawful trespass and driving with a suspended license.


Following a petition for post-conviction relief, Vermont Superior Court ruled Monday that his attorney, Eileen

Read full text at http://www.reformer.com/archivesearch

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Bail-seeker faces habitual offender charges

March 28, 2008

By Susan Smallheer Herald Staff

BRATTLEBORO — A former Brattleboro resident who was convicted in 2003 of chasing his neighbor in his car and shooting at him repeatedly, tried once again Thursday to be released on bail pending his new trial.

Vito Russo, 41, who has served five years of a 21-year prison term, was recently granted a new trial by Superior Court Judge David Howard on the grounds that his public defender failed to hire an expert witness to dispute ballistics evidence.

Russo allegedly chased John McKay in his car and shot at him repeatedly in a dispute over a foreclosure that McKay had initiated against Russo. The two men were driving on Route 9 in West Brattleboro.

Full text at www.rutlandherald.com
Contact Susan Smallheer at susan.smallheer@rutlandherald.com.

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In re Russo (2008-070)

2010 VT 16

[Filed 26-Feb-2010]

NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P. 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Vermont Supreme Court, 109 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05609-0801 of any errors in order that corrections may be made before this opinion goes to press.


2010 VT 16

No. 2008-070

In re Vito Russo Supreme Court

On Appeal from
Windham Superior Court

September Term, 2008


David A. Howard, J.

Allison N. Fulcher of Martin & Associates, Barre, and Vito J. Russo, Pro Se, Springfield, for
Petitioner-Appellee.

Tracy Kelly Shriver, Windham County State’s Attorney, Brattleboro, for Respondent-Appellant.


PRESENT: Reiber, C.J., Dooley, Johnson, Skoglund and Burgess, JJ.


1. SKOGLUND, J. Petitioner, jailed for a term of twelve-to-fifteen years on a conviction for aggravated assault, sought post-conviction relief (PCR) on the grounds that he did not receive effective assistance of counsel at his trial. The PCR court agreed, concluding that petitioner’s trial attorney deprived him of effective representation by failing to engage a firearms expert to testify at trial and failing to test-fire the rifle at issue. The State appeals and argues that the trial attorney’s tactical decisions were within an acceptable range of professional judgment and, even if there were unprofessional errors, petitioner produced no evidence showing, within a reasonable probability, that absent those errors the outcome of his trial would have been different. We affirm.

Full text at http://info.libraries.vermont.gov/supct ... 8-070.html

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JUSTICE FOR RUSSO

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE & THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
VITO RUSSO vs. STATE OF VERMONT & THE U.S.A.
WINDHAM COUNTY COURT-30 PUTNEY ROAD • BRATTLEBORO, VT 05301
Jury Call October 18th at 11:30 AM - Call for court information - (802) 257-2800
IN OCTOBER 2002 RUSSO LOST EVERYTHING. HIS LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. RUSSO’S HOME, PROPERTY & BUSINESS, THE UNIQUE VERMONT MOTEL & GIFT SHOP WAS FRAUDULENTLY FORECLOSED ON BY JOHN MCKAY WHO WANTED RUSSO OUT OF HIS WAY WITH A FINANCIAL MOTIVE. RUSSO’S ONLY CONCERN WAS HIS FAMILY WHEN HE STOPPED TO OFFER MCKAY $5000 CASH SO THEY COULD RESIDE IN THEIR HOME JUST FOR THE HOLIDAYS (ONLY 2 MONTHS). INSTEAD RUSSO WAS FALSELY ACCUSED BY MCKAY AND WRONGFULLY CONVICTED.
SENTENCED TO 15 - 21 YEARS FOR A CRIME HE DID NOT COMMIT
“VICTORY 1” FEDERAL CHARGES CAME FROM THIS SAME ALLEGED CRIME BUT WAS DISMISSED AFTER A JURY WAS PICKED FOR TRIAL AND 3 YEARS OF HARASSMENT TO RUSSO.
“VICTORY 2” AFTER 5 YEARS, IN JANUARY 2008 RUSSO WON HIS POST CONVICTION TRIAL OVERTURNING HIS CONVICTION. IT STATED “THE TRIAL WAS SO “SUSPECT & UNRELIABLE” CALLING FOR REVERSAL AND THE VERDICT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF RUSSO HAD EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE”.
Some of the Constitutional violations are the 4th, 5th, 6th,8th and 14th amendments such as Police & Prosecutional Misconduct; Bias/Discrimination; Double Jeopardy; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Abuse of Discretion; Excessive Bail/Sentence; Sentence Enhancements; Cruel & Unusual Punishment; Use of Perjured Testimony; Improper Comments; Inflammatory Summation; Due Process; Equal Protection; Insufficient Evidence; Illegal Search & Seizure.
“VICTORY 3” Supreme Court February 2010 agreed that Russo jailed for 15 years on a conviction for aggravated assault won a post conviction relief on the grounds that he did not receive a fair trial deprived of effective representation. Absent those errors the outcome of his trial would have been different. The Supreme Court Agrees. Now the State’s Attorney holds Russo without bail and is Harassing & Threatening to Re-Try him seeking a Life Sentence! The State is obsessed and won’t let go. Russo now has to prove for the 4TH time he was falsely accused, then wrongfully punished. The case is not fair but Vengeance & Vigilante Justice. The Evidence & Facts established the alleged crime proved no intent, threat or violence. The only possible charge would be disorderly conduct at the most, a 60 day punishment. Russo’s attorney will prove a serious Miscarriage of Justice and Exonerate him. This case is Shocking to the Conscious and Universal Sense of Justice.
After all this Russo is still in jail waiting to see what’s going to happen next.
Show your support for Russo and Justice
We welcome all comments as well as any information you may have on this case or the parties involved:
Please visit www.justicepursued.com or write to
Vito J Russo at
SSCF-64522
700 Charlestown Road
Springfield, VT 05156
Or contact Russo’s Attorney Lamar Enzor at lamarenzor2@gmail.com