By JIM BUTLER

Whatever the verdict ends up being for former state trooper Michael Satcher II he’s undeniably guilty of poor judgment at best.

Satcher’s next court date, a pre-trial conference, is scheduled May 8. His most recent was April 25, when he asked for bail reduction and the state petitioned for probation revocation.

He remains in jail though an apparent rebooking has occurred.

The booking record shows bail as $275,000. Four charges filed anew last week total $50,000 of that.

Satcher was arrested in December, charged with an assortment of violent domestic actions involved his estranged wife and children.

At the time he was three months into probation on an abuse case involving his then-dating partner from December 2020.

Listed charges from the 2023 case:

Aggravated domestic abuse child present 3 counts, domestic abuse battery serious injury 2 counts, domestic abuse battery 2nd degree 2 counts, possession firearm/concealed weapon by person convicted of domestic abuse battery, kidnapping 2nd degree, aggravated domestic abuse battery strangulation, aggravated assault home invasion.

Allegations in protective order depositions filed by the women involved as well as Satcher’s first wife paint a familiar yet shocking picture – alcohol, short-fused temper, violence.

Satcher, a trooper first commissioned in 2009 and subsequently assigned in early 2019 as an Area Support Unit pilot, was sometimes referred to by peers in his motorcycle patrol days as “Playboy.”

He resigned from LSP a year after the December 2020 incident, a misdemeanors and felony case ultimately resolved with a plea deal, no jail time,  almost four years later, in September 2023.

The Attorney General’s Office handled the matter. DA Phillip Terrell asked for the intervention, citing friendship with Satcher.