A federal judge in Brunswick has tossed out a criminal defendant’s 21-year prison sentence and ordered new trials for two others in the wake of disclosures by the U.S. attorney of the Southern District of Georgia that a federal prosecutor and the lead investigating agent in their cases had been engaged in a five-year-long secret affair.
U.S. District Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood ordered the new trials after federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Georgia acquiesced to motions made by a Brunswick attorney who represents defendants Jason Christopher Walker, Johnny Mack Brown and Willie Dante Woody to set aside their sentences. The three men were arrested as part of a long undercover sting operation run by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Brunswick known as “Operation Thunderbolt.”
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