After months of pleading with a federal judge to reschedule the trial of two Lexington-area lawyers accused of cheating their clients out of millions of dollars, a defense lawyer now says he will be able to participate in the trial.
Shirley Cunningham Jr. (left), William Gallion (right)
O. Hale Almand Jr. filed a notice Thursday that he’s withdrawing his motion to withdraw from the case. Almand said that a case he had in Georgia that was supposed to go to trial this week was dismissed. It was to last three to four weeks.
Another trial, slated to begin March 9 in Mississippi, was rescheduled so it would not conflict with Almand’s defense of William Gallion.
Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr., are scheduled for trial Feb. 17 on wire fraud charges. They’re accused of defrauding 440 clients out of $94 million in a lawsuit settlement with the company that made the diet drug fen-phen.
Almand had been trying to withdraw from the case because he said he did not have enough time to prepare a new defense for Gallion. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves rejected numerous requests to reschedule the trial so it would not conflict with Almand’s two other cases.
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why worry about it the people who supose to get the money will nerver get some goverment office will
WHY ISN’T STAN CHESLEY ON TRIAL TOO??!! THIS IS BULL CRAP!!
i agree with james lane. but i ll tell you that all them dollars is going to that new president of ares. but look at dem boys over there messing with my chickin poplation. how da heck am i sposed to feed my twin babies n gran babies.