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NEWS RELEASE
September 18, 2014
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Luther Strange
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
Alabama Attorney General
Claire Haynes (334) 242-7351
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AG STRANGE, DA GREEN ANNOUNCES CONVICTION OF
HUEYTOWN MAN FOR VIOLENT SEX CRIMES IN 2009 COLD CASE
(MONTGOMERY)–Attorney General Luther Strange and District Attorney
Arthur Green Jr. of the Bessemer Division of Jefferson County announced the conviction
yesterday of a Hueytown man for violent sex crimes in a cold case. David Wesley
Campbell, 37, pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, first-degree
sodomy, first-degree robbery and attempted murder on the third day of his trial in
Jefferson County Circuit Court. The crimes were committed in November of 2009
against a 40-year-old woman who was attacked in the 200 block of Eureka Place in
Hueytown. Campbell was sentenced to life in prison for each of the charges, to run
concurrently.
David Campbell and his brother, Jason Lee Campbell, 32, were indicted for the
crimes on January 29, 2013, by a Jefferson County grand jury. Notice of the indictments
was served on the defendants at the Jefferson County Jail on March 4, 2013, where they
have been incarcerated. The Campbell brothers were formerly charged for these crimes
by warrant in the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court. Jason
Campbell is scheduled to stand trial for the crimes on November 17, 2014. If convicted,
he faces penalties of life imprisonment for each count with which he is charged, all of
which are class A felonies.
The charges against the Campbells are a result of an investigation by the
Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit. The Cold Case Unit is operated within the Attorney
General’s Office, in partnership with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, to
investigate violent sexual crimes that previously had been closed due to lack of
investigative leads. This program is funded by a grant from the U.S Department of
Justice.
“I am pleased that, with this conviction, we deliver a measure of justice for the
victim of these horrendous crimes,” said Attorney General Strange. “I am proud of
what our Cold Case Unit has been able to achieve, working together with other law
enforcement.”
Attorney General Strange commended the Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit
and others involved in handling this case, noting in particular District Attorney Arthur
Green Jr., Assistant District Attorney David Michaels and the Bessemer Division District
Attorney’s Office for Jefferson County; St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles and his
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Investigative Unit; and Hueytown Police Chief Charles Hagler and his Detective
Division for their excellent work in this case.
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