A former Tunica County [TN] sheriff's deputy will serve three years probation and pay a $500 fine for a kick-back scheme that put at least four drunk drivers back behind the wheel.Ferrell Hunter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion. Federal documents indicate on at least four occasions between 1997 and 1998, Hunter and former Oxford attorney Joe Gregory Stewart engaged in a conspiracy with Stewart "making cash payoffs to (Hunter) to not file any paperwork or present any evidence to the (Tunica County Justice) Court regarding (Stewart's DUI clients)."
"There were four occasions, and it was in the area of $200-300 approximately each time," says John Hailman, criminal division chief of the U.S. District Court in Oxford.
Details here from Memphis' News Channel 3. (via OverLawyered.com)