With the presidential race too close to call, Republicans in Southwest Alabama were already trading names of possible candidates to become the next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
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Democrats Rally Around Foster and Nicrosi as June Primary Nears
Don Foster told the county Democratic committee he would stack his record against either Republican. Across town, criminal defense lawyers filled a courtyard for attorney general candidate Michel Nicrosi.
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Foster Would Take the Party Label Off the District Attorney’s Race — and the Bench
The Democratic nominee for Mobile County district attorney says prosecutors and judges should not run under party banners at all, even as he prepares to appear on the November ballot as one.
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Kenyen Brown Sworn In as the Southern District’s First Black U.S. Attorney
Kenyen Brown took the oath as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, becoming the first Black person to hold the post, with a public ceremony expected to follow within weeks.
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A Familiar Face Returns: Tim Fuhrman Expected to Lead the FBI’s Mobile Office
Tim Fuhrman, who once served as assistant special agent in charge in Mobile, was expected to return as the head of the FBI’s Mobile office, succeeding Debra Mack after her early retirement.
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Son of the Late Lambert Mims Offers a Dissenting History of Mobile’s Corruption Years
In a lengthy letter, Dale Mims disputed a published account of Mobile’s era of political indictments, arguing the prosecutions of the 1970s and 1980s were shaped by displaced money and federal politics.
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Intrigue in the U.S. Attorney Sweepstakes, With Mobile’s Slot Still Open
A Mobile prosecutor once seen as the favorite for the Middle District post has watched the speculation move elsewhere, while four names continue to circulate for the U.S. attorney job in Mobile.
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Daphne’s William Wynne Named to Alabama Pardons and Paroles Board
Gov. Bob Riley appointed William Wynne Jr. of Daphne, chief U.S. probation officer for the Southern District of Alabama, as a special member of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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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.