Cops Plead Guilty to Helping Plant Drugs on Woman Sexually Harassed by Judge

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http://www.alternet.org/drugs/cops-plead-guilty-helping-plant-drugs-woman-sexually-harassed-judge



With a plot out of a Hollywood movie or a gripping Lifetime TV show, a mesmerizing drama of sex, power, frame-ups, planted drugs, and lies unfolded in real life in Georgia when two Murray County sheriff's deputies recently pleaded guilty in federal court for their part in a scheme to send an innocent woman to prison. Now both deputies await sentencing on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury stemming from an FBI civil rights investigation into the odd goings-on Down South.

The woman in question, Angela Garmley, had filed a complaint with the Georgia Judicial Qualification Committee alleging that Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant Cochran solicited sex from her in return for legal favors in her pending divorce. Shortly after Garmley filed her complaint, she was arrested on August 14, 2012 in sleepy Chatsworth, Georgia, and charged with possession of methamphetamines.

"My client was set up and framed with methamphetamine drugs by Judge Bryant Cochran, whom she had accused of soliciting her for sex in exchange for legal favors in a case she had in Cochran's court," attorney McCracken Poston told the Chronicle.

Poston, a former Georgia state representative from nearby Ringgold with a reputation as a crack attorney, is representing Garmley in a civil lawsuit against Murray County. And Garmley isn't alone. Since this scandal broke, three women who worked in Cochran's court have filed a separate lawsuit against the judge and the county claiming Cochran sexually harassed them while county officials negligently failed to protect their rights.

[SamKnause]

1. Criminals

If you are a

policeman
policewoman
prison guard
judge
prosecutor
attorney
district attorney, or
politician

When you are found guilty of a crime, it should be mandatory that your punishment and fines are double !!!!!!

[customerserviceguy]

2. I would imagine that prison time is tougher on those on your list

With the exception of attorney and politician, of course.

[Uben]

3. Judge should do life in prison.....

.and the deputies should each do five years for their part. I don't give a fuck if they survive it or not. When those who we trust to protect us turn against us, they should suffer......immensely!

Judges should not be allowed to hold that position for more than 5 yrs. Too many of them get the big head and think they are untouchable. When they break the law, they should be made an example of, and suffer dire consequences.....you know, the same thing they tell criminals when they are sentencing them.

[marmar]

4. Disgusted k/r

[DCKit]

5. TV would have us believe that all psychopahs are genuises...

That has now been disproved.

[Laelth]

6. Sadly, police plant evidence far too often.

They mean well, most of them, I think, but in their zeal to "catch the bad guys" (whom they believe are far too shielded by that inconvenient Constitution of ours), they take short cuts to get the conviction that they feel is just.

I am glad to see that justice is being done in this case. Sadly, this case is an exception.

-Laelth