2010 Kentucky – Criminal Conviction – R. Cletus Maricle, Douglas Adams,…

Eight defendants (including a former circuit judge, a former school superintendent, a county clerk, a magistrate, and a former Democratic election commissioner) were convicted of vote-buying, mail fraud, extortion, and money laundering for checking lists of voters to identify those who would take bribes and for organizing people to drive them to the polls, where complicit precinct workers made sure they voted correctly and gave them a ticket to redeem for payment. After a lengthy appeals process, and after all 8 had served 40 months in prison, their sentences were reduced to: William Morris – five years, six months; Debra Morris – three years, four months; Stanley Bowling – five years, six months; Maricle, Stivers, Adams – 100 days’ home incarceration, two years’ supervised release; Freddy Thompson – two years’ supervised release. Charles Jones has not yet been sentenced.