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Ex-secretary of state Nancy Worley wins victory in state Supreme Court ruling
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| News Date | Friday, September 10, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The state Supreme Court today handed former Secretary of State Nancy Worley a victory in her battle to overturn five felony charges that accuse her of using her office to influence the votes of five employees in her office in 2006.
The high court said the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals erred in not reviewing the evidence under the same conditions that Montgomery County Circuit Judge Truman M. Hobbs Jr., did when he threw out the charges.
It ordered the appeals court to reconsider the state's evidence that led Hobbs to rule on July 11, 2007, that the law under which Worley was indicted was "overly broad and unconstitutional" as applied in her case.
"The trial court evaluated the evidence the state expected to offer against Worley at the state's invitation to do so," the Supreme Court said. "The Court of Criminal Appeals should do likewise."
The appeals court ruled on Nov. 13, 2009, that Hobbs erred in refusing to allow a jury to determine whether the state's evidence against Worley constituted felony charges. |
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