Melissa Leigh Poole

*The disrespect failure of ADA Melissa Poole to call me as I requested through the DA's victim advocate. *Justice delayed..! 4 years from crime to Plea. No calls returned by an ADA in that four year period Until MADD stepped in a week before plea. *ADA Pooles' failure to read the case file before ...negotiating the plea agreement. Poole admitted this during our one & only phone conversation a few days prior to the hearing. I asked her to describe the crime scene (which I was familiar with). Being painted into a corner with no knowledge of same she admitted not having read the case file. *ADA Poole's negotiated the plea agreement with defense without knowledge that the defendant had a prior DUI within a year of killing my son. She initially disputed this fact with my other son in his one and only returned call. When she subsequently called me (for the 1st time) she was then aware that def had the prior DUI. *The utter disrespect for my family including our beloved Ryan in not having the decency to return phone calls to the grieving father and brother. Our being kept out of the loop was 4 years of salt in the wound. I have forgiven the defendant, a troubled hound man with a drinking problem, but I have no aspirations of forgiving ADA Poole. Her failures showed an indifference to the one consolation that my family and I had hoped for; justice. Not the def's head on a stick, but competent due process. Go home and look at your children and think of how you would feel if you were denied that which you denied my family and our beloved Ryan. Shame on you! A forever grieving dad,Terrence