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Lawyer acquitted in federal court in Georgia

Friends of the blog, Tom Withers* and Craig Gillen, walked a lawyer (Mark Shelnutt) today in Columbus, Ga. Shelnutt was charged with money laundering and drug offenses. The judge read 36 not guilty verdicts:

At 2:45, Land began to read.
?Count One, conspiracy to launder money,? the judge said. ?Not guilty.?
?Count Two, aiding and abetting a conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Not guilty.?
?Count Five, money laundering. Not guilty.?
Then the judge?s words, cadence and diction took on a lyrical quality. The chorus, time and again, was ?Not guilty.?
Thirty six times Land read a charge and followed it with not guilty.
By the time Land was finished, Shelnutt?s supporters, a combination of family and friends, many of them connected to St. Luke United Methodist Church, were cheering.

I'm sure Ben Kuehne and his legal team have been following the case...

*Tom runs his own blog here.

Full post as published by Southern District of Florida on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).