) - A judge Wednesday turned aside an effort by the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office to dismiss the appeal of a guidance counselor
Meredith appealed to Mobile County Circuit Court, where she is entitled to a jury trial. But the DA’s Office“Other than to blanketly argue the District Court specified a ‘signature’ bond, and that there is no signature, the State cites no law for the proposition that the failure of an appellant to sign the bond renders it ineffective,” he wrote.
Pipes rejected the prosecution argument that Moore’s signature was “simply a menial activity” and is no indication that the district judge wished to amend the bond conditions to allow the defendant to remain free without signing the bond.