Last week a county resident came to my office with a concern about whether he was going to be charged with a crime. He showed me a letter he had received from a state agency. The letter said that it had been decided that he had committed a civil infraction by advertising to work without […]

Red Skelton— an American, (quoting his childhood teacher) said in 1969: “Boys and girls, I have been listening to you recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester and it appears that it has become monotonous to you or could it be you do not know the meaning of those words. If I may, I would […]

Last week the office filed charges of a very unusual nature. Terry Lee Verhaag, DOB 10/20/63, has been charged with three counts of Unlawful Removal of Grave Markers. These are felony charges. The discovery of his possession of the gravestones came about as a result of an investigation into another situation. When Law Enforcement officers […]

Here is another example of the fact that even after a person pleads guilty the case may not be over. Rocky Rhodes Kimble pleaded guilty in March of 2000 to crimes of First Degree Rape and Residential Burglary which occurred in 1999. He has filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. He now claims […]