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Law.com: Aquitted lawyer claims vendetta by DA

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On Law.com from Fulton County Daily Report: Attorney Says Prosecutors Engaged in Vendetta to Ruin Him / Ga. lawyer acquitted of money-laundering and drug conspiracy charges says troubles started with his zealous defense of drug trafficker by R. Robin McDonald: It was in 2006 that Columbus, Ga., attorney J. Mark Shelnutt first heard from clients that an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Columbus had told them if they needed a lawyer, they better look somewhere else. The reason they were being steered away, Shelnutt said his clients told him, was because he had become the subject of a criminal investigation by federal law enforcement agents. In 2006, the veteran criminal defense attorney was defending the accused ringleader of a drug trafficking enterprise who had been arrested the previous year after the largest drug seizure in Columbus' history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).