AL estate case shows familiar probate abuse trends
21 Aug 2009
Bell County Legal News Examiner
By Lou Ann Anderson
Texas isn’t the only state experiencing probate corruption and despite diversity in locales, the tactics used in all these cases are stunningly similar. Developments surrounding the $3.2 million estate of Cary Douglas Piper continue to make big news in southern Alabama as an attorney, John Brock, recently plead guilty to third degree perjury for testimony in a probate case which previously led to a conviction for Sherrie Phillips, a former Covington County probate judge, found guilty for the theft of $1.8 million from the Piper estate. The day after Brock entered his guilty plea, an Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied a rehearing request filed by Phillips.
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