A Fulton County jury has found that veteran CNN Headline News anchor Charles “Chuck” Roberts bore no liability for a wreck that left an Atlanta woman badly injured four years ago.
According to Roberts’s lawyer, plaintiff Melissa Hughley went through several attorneys before taking the case to trial pro se. Key to the verdict, said Cruser & Mitchell partner J. Robb Cruser, was testimony from an Atlanta police officer that a copy of his accident report had been altered to make it appear that Roberts was at fault, rather than Hughley. Hughley presented the altered police report, first in her traffic case in Municipal Court of Atlanta, and later in the State Court case, according to Cruser. “It was an interesting case, because we had an eyewitness and the police officer who testified that, when they appeared at traffic court after the wreck, he was handed a new police report that said she was not at fault,” said Cruser. “He was kind of surprised, but the eyewitness was back home in Kentucky so she Hughley beat the traffic ticket, then decided to sue Chuck.
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