Court upholds guilty verdicts against former Alabama sheriff

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The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denies former Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely’s appeal of his convictions on two felony charges of theft and abuse of power. The state court also rejects his request for a new trial.

that held money belonging to people incarcerated in the county jail he oversaw as sheriff. Blakely’s attorneys argued that none of the people in the jail were ever deprived of their money.

At trial, the former jail clerk testified that Blakely routinely asked her to give him cash from a safe that held money belonging to people in the county jail. She told the jury that each time she gave Blakely the cash, she scribbled an IOU onto a post-it note and put it in the safe.

 

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