Taylar Nuevelle (pictured) — the ex-girlfriend of D.C. Superior Court Judge Janet Albert, who found Nuevelle unconscious in her attic with food and an ice bucket from a toilet after overdosing on pills — was sentenced to five years in prison for stalking and breaking into Albert’s home. Albert reportedly pleaded with Judge Russell F. Canan to hand down the maximum sentence. He did. And how did Nuevelle’s attorney Latif Doman respond to the sentencing? “The lesson of this is don’t have a bad break up with a lesbian judge. It means you go to jail for five and a half years.”
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Samwise
Well of course her attorney’s going to say something like that. Doesn’t mean there’s no truth to the story.
This part confused me: “who found Nuevelle unconscious in her attic with food and an ice bucket from a toilet after overdosing on pills” What does that even mean? I’m picturing a toilet with an ice crusher on the front, like a refrigerator.
Smartpants
I know you can’t give out awards for worst writing on Queerty because — well, where to begin — but this write up is exceptionally bad even by this site’s often lax standards.
For everyone else who was confused, here’s the story from the newspaper article when Nueville was arrested:
“Days after D.C. Superior Court Magistrate Judge Janet Albert broke up with her girlfriend, the judge found her former companion unconscious in her attic, above her bedroom, with some food and an ice bucket fashioned into a makeshift toilet, authorities say.
Investigators said Taylar Nuevelle had climbed into the attic through a door in Albert’s bedroom closet and had been there for almost 24 hours, listening to Albert’s telephone pleas to friends for help.
Now, Nuevelle is on trial on charges of burglary, unlawful entry and stalking. Prosecutors allege that she began stalking Albert and harassing with her with hundreds of phone calls, threatening e-mails and text messages after the two ended their year-long relationship in 2008.”
So the ex-girlfriend was convicted of stalking, breaking and entering, and making threats against the judge and the judge’s 9-year old child. It sounds to me like she got off lightly.
the crustybastard
Thanks Smartpants. I couldn’t make heads or tails of that article either.
“English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?”
mulletkitty
The concept of vindictive exes as judges is amusing, but the more accurate version of the story (thanks, Smartypants) makes it clar that this was a domestic violence case based on a documented history of stalking and harassment.
Bad form, Queerty.
Tallskin
This must rate as one of the worst written pieces I’ve ever read, and on Queerty that is saying something. Obviously you guys were not employed for your writing ability
Which leads to the question- just why were you hired by whoever hires/employs on Queerty?
1) we can discount writing ability – which is odd, cos you’d think that would be the most important aspect of this job
2) Are you all Pretty boys, who suck cock well ? Dunno, it might be a possibility though – since you boys cannot write so you must have some skills in some areas, surely?
3) Queerty has been taken over by dumb blond fashionistas who live only to eat canapes, get freebies and bitch about the latest fashions, like Patsy in Ab Fab. This is possible.
4) The owners of queerty have decided to treat queerty as a freebie news sheet, the sort of shitty freesheet you get from your local council/supermarket. So, the news is irrelevant and the advertising is ALL. The number of clicks made is what counts. Now, this would seem to be the truth. Queerty has seriously declined in all ways over the past two years.
jeffree
@Smartpants: Thank you !
@Tallskin: Thank you, too !
Top reasons to think Qty is a sinkin’ ship:
1) Infrastructure is no longer maintained:
site no longer has a version for those of us who access it via mobile. Recent comments are no longer displayed, the Reply To function no longer works.
2) The reason why authors of each thread include the “words by: (name) is because the writers are trying to “build their book” which is to say, boost their portfolio of published articles.
3) Copy-editing is a thing of the past. If even a stooopid learning-disâbled guy like me can find typos in 75% of articles, then we got a problem !
4) Fact checking has left the building! London pride was cancelled? No it was not. Head of state is confused with head of government, despite in-the-know posters asking the site to fix that gaffe.Repeat photos on “morning goods” show up time & time again.
5) Adverts are getting more scarce.
6) Spamalot gets through but decent posts are sent to mood-er-ation for weeks on end. We’re losing some of our best commentators
7) Qty doesn’t reply to email, doesnt act on hot-tips, and doesn’t fix mïstakes.
This is sad, because we have the best comment section on any LGBT site.
I’m gonna miss u Qty!
Tallskin
Jeffree
perhaps we ought to form our own and new version of Queerty. I’ve actually thought of doing this before, cos here in the UK we only have a rather old fashioned (although excellent for sheer news content) http://ukgaynews.org.uk/latest.htm and less exciting and equally old fashioned Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
But it’s such a shame that queerty has declined to such an extent that we’re thinking of bailing out.
In this case the ship is leaving the sinking rats of queerty
jeffree
@Tallskin:
I take no delight in watching this decline.
I think we have some wonderful, thoughtful posters here, but many of my faves have moved on. Qty has some very talented writers on board, but without editing, fact checking or standards, it’s looking more like a highschooler’s blog.
Minus the rants on acne!
We have commenters here from all over, and when Qty is provided tips on breaking news, they disregard them.
Thanks for the links. I read Qty’s sister site Yagg [French] almost every day and haven’t see the same signs of gloom !
If you do start up a blog, I’ll find you. Meanwhile, please keep posting.
Deneen White
I Knew her .. she used to live in takoma park.. ran with her son and violated a custody order .. I believe it was 1999, The washington city paper did a story on her kidnapping her son..