Public defender's office manager accused of theft.Byline: The Register-Guard COOS BAY Coos Bay (k  s), city (1990 pop. 15,076), Coos co., SW Oreg., a port of entry on Coos Bay; founded 1854 as Marshfield, inc. 1874, renamed 1944. - A veteran office manager of the Southwestern Oregon
Public Defender's Office has been indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. on 20 counts of theft,
fraudulent use of a credit card and falsifying fal·si·fy v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v.tr. 1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent. 2. a. business records. Hollis "Holly" Babb, 51, is scheduled to enter a plea Dec. 1 in the 11 felony and nine misdemeanor counts against her. Babb was arraigned Oct. 27. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the indictment, Babb used the public defender's office credit card to purchase property valued at up to $50,000 over a four-year period, from January 1998 until Dec. 31, 2002. The thefts reached as much as $10,000 in a single six-month span, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors also allege that Babb attempted to destroy or alter business records of the public defenders public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was office between January and June 2002. Public defender Carol Hamilton declined to comment last week, confirming only that Babb worked in the office for 10 years and saying she is to be called as a witness. |
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