JUDGE SENT TO PRISON
(N. 7.. "reel Attn—Copyright) HUNTSVILLE (Alabama). March R The Madison County General Sessions judge. Thomas McDonald, has been corn i< ted on charges of trading judicial leniency for sexual favours from women, and has been sentenced to three sears in prison. He will appeal. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for four hours before returning the verdict.
The judge faces four more trials on similar charges. Two of the five women who testified against McDon aid said that they had sexual intercourse with him on a couch in the office of a local real estate company; the others said that McDonald had instructed them to meet him at a motel. One woman said that she yielded to the judge to avoid being punjshed for a series of bad-cheaue charges: and an other, that she did so to ensure the withdrawal of i charges against her broth er
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 15
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