Whoops: Soros-Backed Prosecutor in Virginia Mistakenly Freed Murder Suspect
Stone Colburn skipped town to Georgia after Buta Biberaj’s office let him go
Loudoun County, Va., commonwealth’s attorney Buta Biberaj / YouTube Josh Christenson • October 12, 2022 3:45 pm
A George Soros-backed prosecutor in Virginia mistakenly freed a man charged with murder who was apprehended the following day in Georgia.
The office of Loudoun County prosecutor Buta Biberaj (D.) on Thursday dropped second-degree murder charges in general district court for 25-year-old Stone Colburn, who last year was accused of stabbing his brother’s girlfriend to death. Biberaj’s office dropped charges in an effort for the Loudoun County Circuit Court to declare Colburn mentally fit to stand trial. Biberaj said the district court was on the verge of committing him to a mental hospital.
But one of Biberaj’s deputies failed to get those new charges approved by a judge before dropping the old ones, attorneys say, which forced the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office to release Colburn. Colburn skipped town after his release and had made it almost 600 miles away before he was apprehended Friday by police in Chatham County, Ga.
Andrew Kersey, a former prosecutor in Fairfax County, told the Washington Free Beacon the “screw up” was avoidable, and that Biberaj’s team, “in trying to be too clever by half and circumvent the general district court’s ruling, only ended up temporarily mucking up the whole case.”
It is the latest display of incompetence from the scandal-plagued prosecutor’s office. In February, the prosecutor came under fire after it was revealed the office hired a registered sex offender without performing a background check. A Loudoun County judge also kicked Biberaj off a case in June after she did not mention a defendant’s past robbery charges in a plea agreement.
Biberaj is one of three progressive prosecutors who assumed office in Northern Virginia in 2020, along with Fairfax County’s Steve Descano (D.) and Arlington County’s Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.). Soros’s Justice and Public Safety PAC donated more than half a million dollars to each of their campaigns.
Colburn was charged in July 2021 for the murder
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