After sitting for a week on a prosecutor’s motion to drop felony charges against a North Georgia publisher and his lawyer stemming from their efforts to obtain county bank records, the judge assigned the case has taken the rare step of setting a hearing instead of granting the request.
On Thursday afternoon, Senior Judge Richard Winegarden informed lawyers for Mark Thomason, publisher of the Fannin Focus in Blue Ridge, and Hiawassee lawyer Russell Stookey that he will hold a hearing Monday before deciding whether to dismiss an indictment charging both men with identity fraud and attempted identity fraud and Thomason with making false statements to a public official, lawyers for the two men confirmed Thursday.
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