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Coverage of Alabama Attorney General from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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Amended Complaint Deepened the Ethics Case Against a Suspended Mobile Judge
In July 2007, prosecutors added 15 charges against suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas after most of his colleagues on the bench accused him of pulling cases off other dockets.
Baldwin County
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After a Bruising Loss, Luther Strange Looks at the Attorney General’s Office
Sources said the Birmingham lawyer and lobbyist, whose 2006 run for lieutenant governor ended in defeat, was measuring a 2010 campaign for attorney general against incumbent Republican Troy King.
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Suspended Judge Herman Thomas Adds Mobile Counsel as Ethics Case Stalls
Suspended Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas hired Mobile attorney Billy Kimbrough to help defend him before the Judicial Inquiry Commission as a second round of complaints scuttled plans for mediation.
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Montiel Seeks to Dethrone King: A Mobile Native Files for a Late Run at Attorney General
Montgomery attorney and Mobile native Mark Montiel said he would challenge incumbent Republican Attorney General Troy King in the June 6 primary, calling King unqualified and soft on public corruption.
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Mobile’s District Attorney Hired a Fundraiser and a Media Man for a Run at Attorney General
District Attorney John Tyson Jr. brought on a West Virginia fundraising firm and a Mobile media consultant for his Democratic campaign for Alabama attorney general against Republican incumbent Troy King.
Baldwin County
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Baldwin County’s Longest-Serving Prosecutor Weighs His Options
Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone, three months into a new six-year term, acknowledged in April 2005 that retirement rumors were circulating and that some of them were true.
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Sessions’ Chief of Staff, With Deep Mobile Roots, Moves to a Washington Lobbying Practice
Armand DeKeyser, chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions for eight years and a former executive assistant to Mobile Mayor Arthur Outlaw, joined the government relations group at Kilpatrick Stockton in January 2005.
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Attorney General Declares Freeman Jockisch’s Commission Seat Vacant After Fraud Conviction
An opinion from the Alabama Attorney General held that Mobile County Commissioner Freeman Jockisch vacated his seat upon his federal fraud conviction, leaving the governor to fill the vacancy.