Kenneth B. Hodges III has a long list of achievements that he touts from his days as district attorney in Albany, such as being co-prosecutor on the murder conviction of former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey. On the civil side, Hodges has litigated dozens of cases in state and federal courts.
In the Democratic primary for attorney general, however, his rival, state Rep. Robert B. Teilhet, has questioned Hodges’ ethics and effectiveness as a prosecutor. Teilhet has criticized Hodges for improperly pursuing a criminal investigation while he was the Albany DA, as a political favor to an Albany hospital. And Teilhet also has made an issue, through television ads, of Hodges’ role as a special prosecutor on a Columbus case in which a white police officer in December 2003 accidentally shot and killed a black suspect in a traffic stop. A grand jury declined to indict the police officer. In the TV ad, the victim’s mother says Hodges, who was a special prosecutor on the case, should not be attorney general because he didn’t press the case aggressively.
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