Tonya Craft Found Not Guilty on all 22 charges

[1970 Silver Art]

This has been big news in Georgia for the last 3 weeks and has been in the national news recently.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/may/11/craft-found-not-guilty/




RINGGOLD, Ga. — Tonya Craft has been found not guilty on all 22 counts of child molestation, aggravated child molestation and aggravated sexual battery.

The jury returned the verdict after a day of deliberation.

Ms. Craft, a 37-year-old former kindergarten teacher in Chickamauga, was charged with child molestation based on the accounts of three alleged victims.

During the four-week trial, however, the little girls’ stories were called into question during cross-examination by the defense team.

At times the trial became contentious, with the defense using elaborate timelines on posterboards to poke holes in the case and the prosecution accusing the defense of playing to the media.

Some of the families and friends of the alleged victims waited in a room set aside for them in the courthouse.



The link to this story is here:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/may/11/craft-found-not-guilty/

[Down1]

That is good news.
This guy has been blogging about some of the sleazy stuff the prosecutors and judge were doing down there.
http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/

[Olmstein]

Another travesty by incompetent prosecutors. They, along with the judge, should all be disbarred.

[1970 Silver Art]

That is good news.
This guy has been blogging about some of the sleazy stuff the prosecutors and judge were doing down there.
http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/


This trial was shaky to begin with. Even if there ended up being a guilty verdict on even one of the 22 charges, then it would just easily get overturned on an appeal. I think I heard today that Tonya Craft will go on the news media circuit and tell her story. One of the local news stations will have an exclusive interview with Craft tonight at 11 PM.