From: CJ Robinson, District Attorney
19th Judicial Circuit of Alabama
Corey Oliver, of Thorsby, was sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole by
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Joy Pace Booth on Wednesday. A Chilton County jury
returned a guilty verdict on one count of Rape 1st after two days of trial in July. The charges
stemmed from an incident between Oliver and the victim, whom he was in a dating
relationship with when he strangled, beat, and raped her at knife point.
District Attorney CJ Robinson said, “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. 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 and the Thorsby Police Department)
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.
Corey Oliver had been a menace for my 18-year career. 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. 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 result was an evil
person, who should have been in prison, was free to keep committing crimes and
victimizing women and children. On behalf of every rational person from Chilton County,
we appreciate Judge Booth not hesitating to drop the hammer on Corey Oliver today. Today
was a great day as we watched a serial rapist and child molester be sent away to never
have the opportunity to sexually assault another woman or child again.”
