U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson continues to signal his doubts about a federal corruption investigation of the Alapaha State Judicial Circuit that has at its center former Chief Judge Brooks E. Blitch III.
Calling one of the government’s tactics “fundamentally unfair,” Lawson on Nov. 3 overturned a federal jury’s July verdict that had found suspended Clinch County Magistrate Linda Peterson guilty of perjury and making false statements. Peterson had already been acquitted by the jury of conspiracy to commit extortion.
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