Archive for March, 2008
A mortgage fraud case pending in Athens Georgia for over a year may be close to indictment. The case involves a local real estate developer who allegedly engaged in a scheme to over-inflate the value of a subdivision he had purchased.
We represent an Athens attorney who was initially arrested and charged with fraud in this case. The Athens Banner Herald has the story. I was interviewed and had this comment:
"The delay in bringing an indictment is
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A Cobb County teacher was found "not guilty" of aggravated child molestation earlier this week after a jury trial. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the full story.
Apparently, the teacher (Gregory A. Leontovich) was charged because one of his students told authorities that he sodomized her in a restroom at the school where he worked.
According to the teacher's defense attorney, however, the state's case fell apart once the jury realized that the girl's story was impossible - she could ...
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It's an unusual move, but a great idea. Athens Georgia criminal defense attorney Ed Tolley is trying to get the judge to allow him to question grand jurors before they consider a murder indictment against his client. The Athens Banner Herald has the story. The case is pending in Oconee County, part of the same judicial circuit as Athens.
According to the Athens article, the defense lawyer wants to determine the effect of pretrial publicity on the ...
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"Metro Atlanta may get a little bloodier. Call it a sign of success."
So begins a recent article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about "progress" in the so-called war on drugs.
Federal drug agents are claiming that they have "decreased the quality and raised the price of drugs on the street." As a result, they are expecting more violence between drug dealers, and more crimes committed against average citizens because the drug users need to steal more money to buy ...
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