Federal Judge To Set Aside Gary White’s Conviction?
I don’t get this. Gary White’s attorney is objecting now to Judge U. W. Clemon’s decision to move the original trial from Birmingham to Montgomery, which entailed a change of district, and the judge has agreed to set aside the verdict if White will accept retrial in Tuscaloosa.
Clemon noted that Rasmussen did not object before trial to the case being moved to Montgomery. But the judge said the location could be a debatable issue at the appeal level.
White was found guilty of nine counts of conspiracy and bribery for taking envelopes full of cash from an engineering firm seeking county contracts while he was the JeffCo Commissioner in charge of overseeing the county’s Department of Environmental Services.
Changing districts is an appealable issue? Who knew. Attorneys, what do you think of this?
Related posts:
February 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
This gets weirder by the minute. If I were Gary, I think I’d just play the appeal game. But, then, ask me how glad I am that I’m NOT Gary White–oh, on sooo many levels.