Three years after Murray County’s then-chief magistrate judge was accused of using his position to solicit sex in exchange for favorable court rulings, a federal judge in Rome on Wednesday sentenced him to five years in prison for crimes associated with his judicial tenure.
U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy sentenced Bryant Cochran for civil rights violations that included orchestrating the false arrest of a witness who was cooperating with the state judicial disciplinary agency’s 2012 ethics investigation. Cochran resigned as chief magistrate judge in August 2012, but not before he used his contacts in the Murray County Sheriff’s Department, including his first cousin, to arrange for the arrest of state witness Angela Garmley.
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