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Fourth Circuit Upholds North Carolina Sheriff’s Bribery Conviction
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 46
On November 7, 2011, former Buncombe County, North Carolina Sheriff Bobby Lee Medford’s conviction on federal bribery and conspiracy charges was upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision highlighted a scheme in which Medford and his co-conspirators misused their office to illegally profit from the regulation of ...
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Misconduct/Corruption,
Police Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
North Carolina.
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