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By Carey Reeder | Managing Editor

In the case of State of AL. vs. Corey Oliver, a Chilton County Grand Jury indicted Oliver on the charge of first-degree rape on June 25 after a three-day trial. The jury returned the guilty verdict for the Thorsby resident after the trial that began on Monday and concluded on Wednesday.

The 41-year-old Oliver had been in a dating relationship with his victim when he strangled, beat and raped her at knife point. 19th Judicial Circuit District Attorney CJ Robinson issued a statement on the verdict.

“Corey Oliver is a menace. He has more than 10 prior felony convictions and approximately 40 total arrests that began with drugs and property crimes and escalated to sexual crimes of violence. For my entire career (nearly twenty years) I have seen his name over and over and over on dockets,” Robinson said. “Corey Oliver was a direct beneficiary of the hug-a-thug policies of prison reform that plagued Alabama citizens for nearly ten years. Thank God we have come to our senses recently and started empowering our law enforcement, DA’s, and judges to protect the public. In his previous cases, the prosecutors, the judges, the probation officers… Everyone did their job according to the law and the end result was an evil person, who should have been in prison, was free to keep committing crimes and victimizing women and children.”

Sentencing for Oliver is set for Aug. 6 by Circuit Judge Joy Booth.

“Oliver slithered his way out of several previous charges when we suspected he intimidated victims as they routinely refused to follow-through with charges or changed their statement(s) during legal proceedings,” Robinson said. “Here, in the course of a separate investigation of sexual assault on a different victim, District Attorney Investigators (working alongside the Chilton County Sheriff’s Office) identified the victim in this case and connected her with other DA Office personnel like our Victim Service Officer and our Assistant DA’s who did an amazing job fighting to ensure Corey’s Oliver’s path of destruction is finally over.”