A Murray County man has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to distribute illegal drugs after he planted five packets of methamphetamine under the car of a witness cooperating with the state Judicial Qualifications Commission in an effort to discredit her. U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy sentenced Clifford Joyce, 27, of Dalton, to an 18-month term on Friday, according to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.
Federal prosecutors said Joyce, who pleaded guilty in June, planted the drugs in the tire well of a car belonging to Angela Garmley of Murray County, who was cooperating with the JQC in an ethics probe of then-Murray County Magistrate Judge Bryant Cochran. Garmley claimed the judge solicited sexual favors from her in return for the promise of a favorable ruling on a matter pending before him. Joyce lived in a trailer park owned by Cochran.
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