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Darryl Nolan, The Car Jacker Who Brutally Beat Workers' Compensation Defense Attorney Louise Armstrong in January 2010, Gets 16 Years In California State Prison
By Lonce LaMon - September 26, 2011

Darryl Nolan, the assailant who attacked, beat, and carjacked workers’ compensation defense attorney Louise Armstrong on January 19th 2010 in the parking lot of the Anaheim Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, has finally been sentenced to 16 years in California state prison for the crime. 

Nolan was sentenced in Orange County Superior Court on August 29th, 2011.  He is a 43-year-old black man who was once a football player and weighs approximately 270 pounds and stands 6’5” tall.  His substantial prior criminal record comes from Arizona where he had been in and out of prison for most of his adult life.  Most of his crimes were of the fraud type—the forging and passing of bad checks.  Thus, his brutalizing of Louise Armstrong was the first time he ever committed a violent crime; where after he launched into his usual modus operandi by attempting to cash one of her checks at a check cashing place after stealing her purse and her state-owned vehicle. 
 
Louise was employed at the time of the crime over a year and eight months ago and is still employed today by State Compensation Insurance Fund. She is a petite woman of very small stature who is 62-years-old and weighs no more than 110 pounds.  She was clearly overwhelmingly physically overpowered by her assailant, who beat her at her car in the pouring rain after feigning an offer to assist her with the files she was carrying after her morning appearance at the Board.  Nolan struck her with such force and also pushed her against another car causing a skull fracture and bleeding on the brain. 
 
Louise was hospitalized for some days after the attack and then was re-hospitalized in March of 2010.  She now has some permanent damage over her left eye with a lump on her eyebrow. 
 
Darryl Nolan was captured within 12 hours of the attack with the car and the files.  By January of 2011, Louise Armstrong had become very frustrated with the manner in which the case was dragging on and how Nolan got a bail hearing and was released from custody without the court even notifying her.  This was a violation of her victim’s rights under Marsy’s law.

Thus, it was then that she sought out and hired victims’ rights attorney, Todd Spitzer.  She was by now a nervous wreak knowing that Nolan was out of custody.
 
Marsy’s law was made a part of the California constitution in November of 2008.   It was named after Marsy Nicklass, who was a college senior at U.C. Santa Barbara when she was killed by her jealous ex-boyfriend in 1983.  Todd Spitzer was the statewide campaign manager for Marsy’s law.
 
This law now gives victims of violent crimes 16 basic rights.  One of the rights is victims have a right to be notified of all court proceedings.  They also have a right to attend bail hearings and to give input into what the bail should be.  They have a right to be informed of any plea bargaining, and to participate in it.  They have a right to give a victim impact statement in court.  But these aforementioned rights were not offered to Louise Armstrong, therefore her rights were violated.  
 
“There were numerous, numerous rights that were violated,” against Louise, said Todd Spitzer by phone last week.   “We put Marsy’s law into the California constitution because victim’s rights have been trampled on for many, many years.  Louise reached out to me, and once we asserted her Marsy’s rights, the case really started coming forward.  So, I started making appearances on her behalf, representing her as a client-victim.”
 
Todd Spitzer, lawyer-advocate for victim's rights
 
The case started to move towards trial, which was finally set for May 25th 2011.  But, on the trial date, Darryl Nolan was a no-show.  He fled the jurisdiction.  He was apprehended in San Diego about one week later and, subsequently, arrested again.   He pled guilty on July 19th 2011 and was sentenced on August 29th 2011.  He could have gotten up to 17 years and 8 months in prison, but he got 16 years at 85%. 
 
He had two strikes against him for a violent crime and for a no show at the trial, so he can’t get the 50% off his sentence.  Therefore, he will be actually serving a minimum of 13 to 14 years. 
 
“Darryl Nolan was ordered to pay restitution,” Todd Spitzer further informed.  “He’s going to prison so the chances of ever seeing this money are slim; but you never know.  His parents could die while he’s in prison and he could inherit property.  We don’t know.  There’s an order that he has to pay her lost wages, her medical, and her out-of-pocket losses as a result of the crime.” 
 
When this writer asked Spitzer how Louise is feeling and doing now, he said that he believes she is just ecstatic that this whole thing is now behind her.  “She was car jacked; and she sustained serious injuries as a result of that car jacking.  When he (Nolan) made bail in January of 2011, she wasn’t notified that he had been released.  She wasn’t asked to testify about what his bail should be.  She wasn’t asked for input.  The district attorney met with the judge and with the defense on what the sentence could be in this case with a plea bargain without notifying her.” 
 
Spitzer has other victims he is now representing and expressed that, “We’re an integral part of the proceedings now.  We want victims to know they have rights.  And we want victims to know they have a right to counsel.” 
 
Louise Armstrong today is back at work at State Compensation Insurance Fund in Santa Ana.  She advised this writer to contact her Marsy’s rights attorney, Todd Spitzer, for this story.
 
 
 

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