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Friday, June 29, 2007
Ind. Courts - More on: Allen County Judge recuses herself in case where son has role
Updating yesterday's ILB entry, Dionne Waugh reports today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:
The U.S. Army says a Fort Wayne attorney was not correct when he told a judge that a recruiter – possibly the judge’s son – misled a woman about the status of her criminal charges.Defense attorney Al Anzini told Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull that his client had enlisted in the Army and left the state for training because her recruiter convinced her the charges had been dropped.
Gull recused herself from the case Wednesday after Anzini filed paperwork that appeared to show Gull’s son – Sgt. Cody Gull – was the recruiter. She had previously refused to do so because she believed the case only involved her son’s recruiting station, not her son.
On Thursday, Mary Auer, public affairs officer for the U.S. Army’s Indiana Recruiting District, said Sgt. Gull was not the woman’s recruiter. She also said numerous background checks, including one by the FBI, showed that the woman had no pending charges.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 29, 2007 08:53 AM
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