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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Ind. Courts - Yet more on: "Evansville attorney, prosecutor candidate indicted on sex charges"
Updating this ILB entry from July 14, 2010, Andrea Howe of the Princeton Daily Clarion reports today in a story that begins:
PRINCETON — Gibson Superior Court Judge Earl Penrod agreed Tuesday to allow the Indiana Court of Appeals determine whether his ruling denying a defense motion to have charges against Princeton attorney William R. Wallace III tried separately.The judge agreed to certify the request for an interlocutory appeal, after defense attorney Scott Danks reiterated that he believes a charge of child porn possession is unrelated to other bills of indictment returned by a Gibson Superior Court grand jury this summer and shouldn’t be part of the same trial.
Wallace, a former Gibson County Prosecutor candidate, was indicted on charges of false informing, obstruction of justice, patronizing a prostitute and possession of child porn this summer.
Special Prosecutor Jonathan Parkhurst filed an additional charge of voyeurism in late November.
Police say Wallace had sex with a client in lieu of payment for attorney fees, lied to police during their investigation and tried to leave his house with a DVD and computer drive stuffed down his pants when police served a search warrant at his home. The child pornography charge stems from a police search of his computer seized by police in the search.
The voyeurism charge alleges that Wallace made video recordings of the woman without her consent.
Danks said he plans to file a motion to dismiss the voyeurism charge.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 15, 2010 09:24 AM
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