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Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold

Friday, January 18, 2013

Secretary, Police Testify in Leopold Trial

The misconduct trial of Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold started with emotional testimony from his former secretary.

In an emotional start to testimony in the official misconduct trial of Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold, his former scheduling secretary cried as she described getting on her "hands and knees" to empty Leopold's urine from his catheter bag. Patricia Meglin testified that after Leopold's back surgery in 2010, he asked her to help him change the bag—which was strapped to his ankle—because he couldn't bend over to do so himself. "I was quiet at first because after he said that he looked at me and said 'You don’t have a problem with that, do you, Patty?'" Meglin said. "It was my experience that you don’t tell him no because then he would consider you un-loyal and then you lost your job ... I just didn’t say no because I was scared of…

In this Article:

Lawyers Lay Out Their Cases in Leopold Trial, Leopold Waives Right to Jury Trial, County Executive's Trial Starts in Annapolis (in Anne Arundel Patch), and 4 more ›

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Leopold Waives Right to Jury Trial

The Anne Arundel County Executive will let a judge decide whether he's guilty of misconduct in office.

Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold—who is accused of tasking county police officers with his 2010 campaign errands—has waived his right to a jury trial. He's opting instead to let Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Sweeney decide his fate in a bench trial on four counts of misconduct in office and one count of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary. The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in March 2012, alleges that Leopold used county police officers assigned to him as a security detail to perform a range of tasks ranging from compiling information on his political "enemies" and removing his opponent's campaign signs in 2010 to running interference between his live-in girlfriend and his mistress. The indictment…

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Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (in Annapolis Patch), County Executive's Trial Starts in Annapolis (in Anne Arundel Patch), ACLU Sues County Executive Over 'Enemies List' (in Annapolis Patch), and 3 more ›

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Miker

10:33 am on Saturday, January 19, 2013

Bull . . . he would be put on a pillar . . . and give the Medal of Freedom   more ›

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