Florida
Lee County Court / Twentieth Judicial Circuit Multiple Lee County Judges (Pending Full Identification)
Lee County, Florida
- Case on record
- 1
- Ended in a killing
- 1
- Prior arrests across these defendants
- 24
Background
Wisner Desmaret accumulated 24 arrests in Lee County over nearly two decades without a felony conviction. Each release was a judicial decision; cases were derailed by mental-illness rulings, evidence problems, and underfunded prosecution capacity. Florida State Attorney Amira Fox publicly criticized the pattern after Desmaret shot and killed Fort Myers Police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller.
Cases on record
111
days after release
Murder in Fort Myers, Florida
Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller, 29
Released April 1, 2018. Terms: Multiple pretrial releases / case dismissals over years.
Jobbers-Miller responded to a report of a stolen cellphone. Desmaret struggled with him, took his service weapon, and shot him in the head. He died of his injuries five days later. Desmaret was found competent to stand trial in 2022 and convicted of first-degree murder in 2023. Sentenced to life without parole.