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IN-DEPTH | Court of Appeals affirms all but one of Hubbard’s convictions
Rickey StokesViewed: 3638
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Date: Aug 28 2018 11:59 AM
MONTGOMERY: It took two years of review, but the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has finally made a decision on former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard’s appeal of his 12 felony ethics convictions.
The five-judge panel — down one jurist, Presiding Judge Mary Becker Windom, who recused from the case — affirmed all but one of Hubbard’s 12 convictions, dealing yet another blow to Hubbard and delivering a win to the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Division.
The court wrote in a 154-page decision that there was, in fact, sufficient evidence to convict the former Auburn Republican on 11 of the charges against him that he used the mantle of his office, in a variety of ways, to benefit himself.
“I’m in shock. That’s all I can say,” Hubbard’s lead defense attorney Bill Baxley said, though he added Hubbard’s team plans to appeal the opinion all the way up to the state’s Supreme Court, pending their final read of the lengthy opinion.
Hubbard’s appeal argued that prosecutors used an overly broad definition of the state’s ethics laws, engaged in prosecutorial misconduct and misused former Ethics Commission Executive Director Jim Sumner’s testimony to get the speaker convicted.
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