MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A former clerk from Marion, Arkansas District Courtroom, accused of stealing greater than $300,000 in courtroom fines, had her personal courtroom listening to on Friday.
Megan Goudy was fired two years in the past and charged with theft and forgery.
Whereas Goudy was on the Poinsett County Circuit Courtroom, a plea supply and a plea negotiation listening to fell via.
Former clerk accused of stealing $320K from Marion court
“I used to be below the impression she would plea immediately, that we’d get rid of the case. However I anticipated the plea may not undergo for varied causes and it didn’t,” Jimmy Turnbow, Prosecuting Lawyer, Poinsett County.
Goudy allegedly misappropriated over $320,000 in courtroom fines whereas she was a clerk at District Courtroom in Marion Arkansas between 2019 and 2022. A state audit put the quantity concerned nearer to $415,000.
Goudy agreed to plead responsible below Arkansas’ First Offender Act, make restitution, and have her prices dismissed. However the decide stated no, noting it might take twenty years for Goudy to repay a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars}.
“So I then requested the Defendant in the event that they wished to plead not below the “first offender act” and she or he didn’t need to try this,” Turnbow stated. “So we withdrew the plea arraignment and we’re set for a jury trial.”
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Marion’s Mayor was additionally on the listening to anxious for a decision to the case.
“My high precedence is that the residents of Marion, Crittenden County, and the State of Arkansas recoup their cash, nonetheless, that occurs. If Ms. Goudy is discovered responsible in a jury trial, she goes to jail. I hope there’s some restitution concerned,” stated Tracy Brick, Mayor of Marion, Arkansas.
“If we will’t recoup it, she will be able to go to jail,” stated Chris Crain, Metropolis Lawyer in Marion, Arkansas.
A jury trial is slated for the October jury time period in Marion.
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