Muncie Witness Bribery Allegation Update
Alexander maintains innocence is the title of the follow-up piece in the Star Press on Michael Alexander’s arrest:
“I did not conspire to bribe any witness and I never conspired to bribe a witness in my entire career, ” said Alexander, who has practiced law for 33 years. “There is no reason why a defense attorney ever would.”
The article has additional background on Alexander’s investigator, Jeff Hinds, who was subject to an investigation in relation to a guy who was killed outside of Alexander’s law office in 2000:
Henry County Prosecutor Kit Crane - appointed special prosecutor in that case last June - eventually concluded “that Jeff Hinds was justified in using reasonable force against Scott Bartlett to protect himself from what Jeff Hinds reasonably believed to be the imminent use of unlawful force.” Police raided Hinds’ Hamilton Township home in February 2005 and said they seized approximately a half pound of marijuana, several vials of steroids, $10-$15,000 in cash and several guns. Charges stemming from the raid were ultimately dismissed after a judge ruled the raid had been improperly conducted.
Story sort of reads like a Nero Wolf novel gone wrong. . . .
