So, Mr. Saul, you followed up a story about the indictment of a woman who killed her ex-husband in an act of self-defense with an obituary written by his family and friends — good ol’ Doug, family man and the best fisherman around.
What about the pesky little fact that Ms. Cole was the victim of years of terror and domestic abuse at the hands of this man? She took out several protective orders against Doug Hutcheson, and he was arrested on domestic violence charges, but his buddies on the bench always let him go.
He was also a corrupt politician, who was found guilty of falsifying information and was removed from the County Commission shortly after being elected. And while he could’ve been slapped with a $5,000 fine or sent to prison for five years, the judge declined to adjudicate him guilty, and ol’ Doug once again got off Scot free and was even able to run for office again.
Doug Hutcheson was a man who acted with impunity. He was part of the Good Ol’ Boy network in Okaloosa County, and he used his position as an attorney and his contacts within the legal system to repeatedly abuse his wife (and then ex-wife) without consequence
But you don’t have the journalistic integrity to do an inkling of research and report on the facts. Who’s pulling your strings?
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So, Mr. Saul, you followed up a story about the indictment of a woman who killed her ex-husband in an act of self-defense with an obituary written by his family and friends — good ol’ Doug, family man and the best fisherman around.
What about the pesky little fact that Ms. Cole was the victim of years of terror and domestic abuse at the hands of this man? She took out several protective orders against Doug Hutcheson, and he was arrested on domestic violence charges, but his buddies on the bench always let him go.
He was also a corrupt politician, who was found guilty of falsifying information and was removed from the County Commission shortly after being elected. And while he could’ve been slapped with a $5,000 fine or sent to prison for five years, the judge declined to adjudicate him guilty, and ol’ Doug once again got off Scot free and was even able to run for office again.
Doug Hutcheson was a man who acted with impunity. He was part of the Good Ol’ Boy network in Okaloosa County, and he used his position as an attorney and his contacts within the legal system to repeatedly abuse his wife (and then ex-wife) without consequence
But you don’t have the journalistic integrity to do an inkling of research and report on the facts. Who’s pulling your strings?
Beatrice,
It sounds like you have information that I was not able to obtain. Would you be willing to go on the record with an interview about the subject?
It would be nice to share both sides of this story.
You said he was unarmed? Wrong
He’s a wife beater and a criminal with multiple arrest for domestic violence and was fired from his elected official position for fraud.
Do your research
Jimmy,
It sounds like you have information that I was not able to obtain. Would you be willing to go on the record with an interview about the subject?
Christopher… The history of Mr Hutchenson’s domestic battery — slamming a woman’s face into concrete on at least one occasion — I would suggest, after reading your article based on absolutely no journalistic investigation, that you research both sides of an issue before you knight this woman-beater as some kind of hero.
It appears he was not. There are multiple public records of him being arrested and rearrested over and over for battery on a woman. Being an attorney and an elected official only gave him cover and privilege in court for his extreme violence against women and his corruption in public office, for which he was removed from the county commission. You make it sound like he was without flaws of any kind.
And now his victim, this poor woman, Ms Cole, who has never had an arrest nor any issues with law enforcement, who says she had to defend herself from this man again, is made to sound like she had no cause at all for doing what she did. You left that part out, and this kind of tainted journalism is beneath the dignity of your readers.
It’s easy to take others work and write a one-sided article without any of the relevant facts. When it’s journalism, you investigate and report the real truth. This is a PR campaign to clean up the victim’s reputation, but you’re perpetuating lies.
Craig
Craig,
It sounds like you have information that I was not able to obtain. Would you be willing to go on the record with an interview about the subject?
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