CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) -- A man federal authorities say has knowledge of the disappearance and alleged murder of Brittanee Drexel is again being released from jail.
A federal judge Thursday reinstated bond for Timothy Da'Shaun Taylor, who had been in jail since November 2017 for a parole violation.
Taylor was charged in 2016 a second time for a 2011 armed robbery of a Mount Pleasant McDonald's, this time by federal prosecutors.
Taylor already had been convicted of the robbery and served time for it in state prison when federal authorities announced their charges.
FBI agents have admitted they are seeking a second prison sentence against Taylor in hopes of getting information from him about the Brittanee Drexel case. Drexel disappeared from Myrtle Beach in 2009, and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
Taylor has never been formally charged with any crime related to the Drexel case, but the FBI claims Taylor has knowledge of Drexel's death, and may have been there the day Drexel was supposedly killed,
The FBI says a prison informant told them Taylor was present the day Drexel was reportedly raped and murdered at a so-called "trap house" in McClellanville in 2009.
Taylor himself has vehemently denied the allegations, and attorneys for Taylor have presented evidence he was in class at Lincolnville High School when Drexel was supposedly killed.
A judge ruled in July 2017 federal prosecutors were allowed to seek second prosecution of Taylor for the robbery without violating the Constitution's double jeopardy clause, which prevents people from being tried for the same crime twice.
The judge's rationale was based on precedent set by decades old Supreme Court rulings holding the United States and its individual states were separate sovereign powers with overlapping jurisdictions that could each try criminals independently.
As such, Taylor in July 2017 was left with no choice but to plead guilty again to the robbery charges. Three months later, Taylor was arrested after traveling out of Charleston County for work without notifying his parole officer.
Taylor has been in jail ever since, but his attorneys asked Judge David Norton to reconsider bond after sentencing was delayed indefinitely in January 2018.
It has since come out that the delay is related to a Supreme Court case challenging the very same "separate sovereign" rule that has allowed federal authorities to re-prosecute Taylor.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments in the case of Gamble vs. United States in early 2019, Taylor's attorneys believe. If the high court strikes down the separate sovereigns case law, the federal government may be forced to abandon its case against Taylor.
As part of Judge Norton's decision Thursday to reinstate Taylor's bond pending the outcome of Gamble vs. United States, Taylor will be released under house arrest, and required to wear an ankle monitor
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Randell Taylor, aka Randall, is the older brother of Shaun Taylor and Da'Shaun Taylors Uncle. Taylor Family members / associates who are connected to missing white girls in South Carolina.
Shaun Taylor and his son Da'shaun Taylor Kidnapped, Raped, Sold for Sex and Murdered Brittanee Drexel. Then fed her body to gators in a nearby gator pit. Several witnesses ...
The Taylor gang and their mob have gotten away with various crimes for years. Drugs, Kidnapping, Sex trafficking, Murder, etc.
In February 2001, Shaun Taylor's brother, Randall Keith Taylor, was one of five men arrested and charged in connection to the death of a missing 19-year-old from St. Stephen, SC.
Shannon McConaughey was last seen leaving the Cracker Barrel in North Charleston on Jan. 29, 1998.
Her car was found burned in some woods near Awendaw two weeks later, and her body was found in March of that year in some woods near McClellanville.
( Brittanee Drexel Cell Phone Last Pinged in this Same Area ... )
( Brittanee Drexel Cell Phone Last Pinged in this Same Area ... )
Eventually, the charges were dismissed against Taylor and the other men because of what defense attorneys described as a lack of evidence. ( 2 Confessed WTH ... )
Sources on the Brittany Drexel case have also raised eyebrows at the mention of a fourth woman, Crystal Gail Soles, who vanished just miles from the McClellanville area in 2005. Soles was last seen leaving Shaw's Corner store near Andrews, and officials think she was abducted.
"There are just too many young, white girls going missing (with a connection to that area)," one source close to the case said.
Please Write and or Call your Congressman and Representatives
Have Them to Tell the DOJ to Investigate and Put These Animals in Prison ...
2 Confessed in writing. Come on already ...
Also Several Witnesses ... To These Disgusting Crimes ...
How many more girls must go missing before the DOJ gets involved ??!!
