The Fannin County Superior Court true bill of indictment returned against Fannin Focus Publisher Mark Thomason and his lawyer, Russell Stookey, should never have been in the hands of Appalachian Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee or the grand jury to which she presented this ham sandwich.
A request made by a journalist to inspect government records under Georgia’s Open Records Act, codified at O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq., is hardly a suspicious event giving rise to an inference of criminal intent. The fact that this DA convinced a grand jury that probable cause existed for the commission of identity fraud, a felony under the laws of the State of Georgia (see O.C.G.A. §16-9-121), just proves what members of the criminal defense bar have known since Babylon crouched between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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