This is Judge Gail Horne Ray, of the 19th Judicial District Court in Louisiana. She’s the mother of Nelson Dan Taylor, Jr., an admitted serial rapist who raped six girls between October 1995 and April 1996.
That might be bad enough, but Judge Ray vacated the conviction of Donald Ray Link, a man who was sentenced to life in prison in 1972 for using a butcher knife in the course of a rape. That conviction was affirmed by the Louisiana State Supreme Court in 1974.
Nevertheless, Link implored Judge Ray to reduce his sentence to parole. Judge Ray did Link one better: she threw his conviction out entirely, even though she was not an appellate judge and the trial court did not “possess the inherent authority to ignore proper legal procedures and consider whatever it wants, whenever it wants,” as East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore noted when he appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court to overturn Judge Ray’s decision.
The Louisiana Supreme Court reversed Judge Ray’s ruling, thereby ensuring that Donald Ray Link never saw the light of freedom. The Court also noted that Judge Ray erroneously ruled that the jury instructions in Link’s original trial were improper, due to the fact that the rules concerning jury instructions were different at the time of Link’s trial. Diversity, equity, and inclusion will never be confused with competence!
“I write separately to express my concern about a district court judge engaging in such a patent abuse of discretion in response to an order from this Court. In this case, the district court judge had delayed ruling on defendant’s motion to clarify sentence for an inordinate time despite repeated instructions to act. This Court’s remand order was clear. It simply directed the district court judge to rule in a timely manner or show cause why she should not be held in contempt. The district court judge’s ill-conceived response to the order was to issue a grossly erroneous ruling that had a retaliatory if not contemptuous tone and, incredibly, resulted in the fashioning of an illegal remedy that even defendant had not requested.” -Associate Justice Scott J. Crichton
Back to Judge Ray’s son, admitted serial rapist Nelson Dan Taylor, Jr. He receive 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of forcible rape, one count of aggravated burglary, and two counts of aggravated rape and another four counts of aggravated burglary. He appealed, but the Court of Appeals upheld his convictions and his sentences.
Taylor committed the following crimes:
He raped a 15 year old girl on November 15, 1995, orally sodomizing her and vaginally raping her.
He attempted to rape a 17 year old girl on November 17, 1995, but her father heard the commotion and interrupted the rape. He brought a gun and a sheet to restrain his victim to the scene.
On March 12, 1996, Taylor raped a 16 year old girl, orally sodomizing her and vaginally raping her at knifepoint.
He broke into the bedroom of a 16 year old girl on April 17, 1996, but she screamed and he fled. The police found a knife and a roll of mailing tape at the scene.
Taylor was a student at Baton Rouge High School at the time, and he argued that he could not enter a plea agreement as a minor on appeal. Because his crime was aggravated rape, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana held that Taylor’s case was automatically removed from the juvenile court’s jurisdiction.
Years later, his mother Judge Ray would make national news for her efforts on the part of Donald Ray Link. That in turn would generate scrutiny of her decision to reduce bail for De’Aundre Cox, who allegedly raped a preteen girl. Originally, Judge Ray set bail for Cox at $300,000, only to then reduce bail to $100,000. Judge Ray didn’t tell the victim or her family before setting Cox loose on a reduced bond.
As legendary pitchman Billy Mays would say if he were still alive: “But wait! There’s more!” In the annals of Government Sex Predators, there is always more.
On January 15, 2023, four young men allegedly raped LSU student Madison Brooks, and followed that up by throwing her out of the car, where she then hit by an oncoming vehicle. One of the suspects was caught on a cellphone recording laughing and saying, “They finna rape her.”
Crimes against grammar and humanity!
Judge Ray is the judge handling the case of the four young men who allegedly raped and murdered Madison Brooks. One of the suspects, Kaivon Washington, has additional charges in another rape case. It’s all in a day’s work for Judge Ray, who managed to raise one rapist and currently ensures that rapists who come before her courtroom get leniency and leeway!
In Illinois, Judge Robert Adrian of Adams County was not to be outdone. Eighteen year old Drew Clinton was found guilty in Judge Adrian’s courtroom on one count of criminal sexual assault in October 2021. By January 2022, Judge Adrian decided that 148 days behind bars was enough of a punishment for Clinton, and decided to change his own verdict.
As if that wasn’t enough, Judge Adrian then sat for an interview with Dan Abrams of NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live” where he proceeded to accuse Clinton’s victim Cameron Vaughan of lying about the sexual assault. Judge Adrian blamed Vaughan’s parents rather than Drew Clinton. The Illinois Courts Commission decided to remove Judge Adrian from the bench after it found that he had “engaged in multiple instances of misconduct.” The law mandated a four year sentence against Clinton, but Adrian refused to impose the mandatory sentence on the grounds that doing so was “not just.”
Drew Clinton cannot be retried or resentenced under the Fifth Amendment, which prohibits double jeopardy.
You are not safe from the Government Sex Predators on the judicial bench, who enable the likes of Drew Clinton, Kaivon Washington, De’Aundre Cox, Nelson Dan Taylor, Jr., and Donald Ray Link to evade culpability for their rapes and sexual assaults. Rape: it’s as American as apple pie, and so is leniency or a lack of enforcement where the law is concerned.
As a final salvo, I give you this screenshot from the Washington Post:
Who says rape doesn’t have a culture? Not us here at Government Sex Predators! Our government has rape culture like a Petri dish has bacterial cultures!