Criminal Justice
Lawyer accused of faking case numbers, defendants and work to get paid $328K is guilty of theft
A suspended Alabama attorney was convicted of theft Tuesday,
The case concerned 246 false declarations the state said Rodney Stallings filed to obtain $328,246 he was not owed for purportedly representing indigent defendants between 2006 and 2012.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Stallings didn’t appear at all in some of the cases for which he sought reimbursement and made up defendant names and case numbers in others, the Associated Press reports.
The Gadsden Times and the Huntsville Times also have stories.
Stallings, who was suspended from practice in 2012, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years when he is sentenced in January in the Cherokee County case.
