An appeals court has reinstated an indictment against a former Alabama sheriff, paving the way for him to go to trial on ethics and campaign finance charges.
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The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday reversed a judge’s decision that dismissed an 11-count indictment against William Ray Norris, the former Clarke County sheriff. The court ruled that a judge erred in dismissing the charges based on Norris’s understanding that a state official promised he would not be prosecuted if he resigned.
An Alabama appeals court reinstated the charges against former Clarke County Sheriff William Ray Norris.
Norris’s attorney has said the former sheriff had reached a verbal agreement with the attorney general’s office that Norris would not be prosecuted if he resigned.
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The attorney general’s office challenged that characterization, but a circuit judge ruled that Norris and his attorney “reasonably believed that the settlement existed and that Norris had relied on that belief to his detriment by resigning as sheriff,” the appellate judges wrote. in Friday’s opinion.
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The appeals court ruled that “the mere belief that immunity had been granted” was not enough to dismiss the case against Norris.
