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PROSECUTOR’S SEMINAR TRAINING PAYS OFF FOR TWO GREENE COUNTY CHILDREN

Mom and Dad are the divorced parents of two children; a boy and girl.

Dad was ordered to pay $559.18 per month, per child, for current child support, and $249.56 per month toward arrearages.  In 2008, payments stopped.

The Child Support Enforcement Agency referred this case to the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office for enforcement.

The case was reviewed by Assistant Prosecutor Chris Murray, Chief of the Prosecutor’s Child Support Enforcement Division.

In October of 2008, a Motion for Contempt was filed.  The Court set this case for hearing January of 2009.  The Court continued the hearing until February since Dad was in jail on an unrelated matter.  In February, Dad showed for the hearing and requested a Public Defender.  As a result, the Court continued the case until April of 2009.

Attendance at a seminar by Assistant Prosecutor Murray in June of 2007 paid off several years later in relation to this case.  The seminar dealt with qualified domestic relations orders and discussed collecting child support from pension plans.  Furthermore, Murray learned that if the child was the alternate payee of any withdrawal from a pension plan, the withdrawal would be taxable to the obligor. 

Using the information learned at the seminar, in April 2009 Murray reviewed the parties' divorce decree to find out the names of the retirement accounts Dad had.  After searching the internet and obtaining addresses for the various retirement accounts, he issued production subpoenas to the retirement accounts requesting information about current balances and distribution policies.

In May of 2009, Murray received a response from one of Dad’s retirement account holders indicating Dad had more than $38,000.00 in his Retirement Savings Plan.  Furthermore, Dad was eligible to make withdrawals from this account in June of 2009.  

Based on this information, Murray drafted the documents that joined retirement account holder as a party to the case and that prevented the holder from giving Dad any of this money until the Court held a hearing.  In addition, he drafted the restraining order that prevented Dad from withdrawing or otherwise spending any money from his Retirement Savings Plan.  

In December, Assistant Prosecutor Murray filed the qualified domestic relations order that allowed the Prosecutor’s Office to collect the child support arrearage from Dad's Retirement Savings Plan. 

In January of 2010, the Agency processed two payments totaling $28,505.05 that eliminated the child support arrearage.  Assistant Prosecutor Murray’s attendance at the seminar back in June of 2007 certainly paid off for the children in this support case.

CHI Q. DU GUILTY AS CHARGED!

A Greene County Jury returned a guilty as charged verdict to the offense of Attempted Aggravated Murder Thursday evening, March 18, 2010, at approximately 6:15 PM against Chi Q. Du. He was charged with two counts of Attempted Aggravated Murder and pled guilty to the one count involving his girlfriend before the trial started on Monday, and the jury considered the last charge against the male victim.

The Du case involved the horrific stabbing and near homicide of two Wright State students in October of 1997 outside of the WSU Library. Du took off after the stabbings and hid out in Canada for 11 years until he was captured in December of 2008.

A big congratulations for a job well done by Assistant Prosecutors Cheri Stout and David Hayes; Jeannette Adkins who served as Victim Advocate on this case since 1997; VW Director Teri LaJeunesse who provided additional assistance to the team; Sgt. Rodney Myers of the Fairborn Police Department who was one of the original detectives on the case and the State’s representative; our Investigator Mark Adkins for contacting America’s Most Wanted to help find the Chi Q. Du and for locating trial witnesses; the office support staff; Toronto, Canada Fugitive Detective Jason Tomlinson and the government of Canada; and Wright State officers who provided assistance recently and in the past regarding this case.

The facts of this case were compelling for the prosecution, but it was a huge challenge to put the case together after all of these years. We are proud of the effort that everyone put into this case to obtain this guilty verdict. More importantly, we are grateful that the two victims in this case have been vindicated with the guilty verdict and the earlier guilty plea. They deserve a great deal of credit for the courage it took for them to face their attacker and to tell the jury about the reprehensible and evil attack that they both endured.

Thanks to all of you for your dedication to the job and to victims of crime.

This case is proof that tenacity and the truth will win out in the end.

Steve Haller

Greene County Prosecutor