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Madison wants guilty plea tossed

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Mike Buffington

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Wednesday, September 5. 2012

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Former Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tim Madison wants to withdraw his guilty plea from 2008. Madison pled guilty in March 2008 to seven counts of theft while serving as district attorney and was sentenced to 11 years — six to be served in custody and the rest on probation. Madison served as DA for Barrow, Jackson and Banks counties before he was arrested in 2008. In a March court filing in Banks County, he claimed he only pled guilty because he was told by his attorney, Ed Tolley, that he would serve his time in federal custody, not state custody. Madison now claims that Tolley “acted deficiently” and that he would not have pled guilty had he known his time would be served in state custody.

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#1 flight1 on 09/05/12 at 12:35 PM [Reply]

Another guilty person trying to Swindle out of punishment for a plea deal that did not go as he wanted. If you Plea Guilty then you must be admitting you are guilty of something. These acts cost Tax payers so much money.

#2 goofball on 09/05/12 at 01:32 PM [Reply]

Won't wash on 2 counts.
(1) Madison is an attorney and is therefore well-versed in the procedure.
(2) Tolley is well-known as one of the top criminal lawyers in the state; therefore, it is highly unlikley that he would have secured anything less than was possible.

#2.1 LADYLUCK on 09/05/12 at 01:56 PM [Reply]

AMEN TO THAT. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING.....

#3 Me on 09/05/12 at 02:33 PM [Reply]

So? He is only doing what a lot of criminals do. He wants it off his record and is figuring that if he wins, the DAs office will not want to prosecute or wont be able to get the same people to testify again. He is playing the courts just as the rest do.

#3.1 DA Idiot on 09/05/12 at 04:48 PM [Reply]

Madison learned more criminal ways while he was in prison. That is the criminal mind for you. IT'S SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!!

#4 a miller on 09/06/12 at 12:41 PM [Reply]

As a DA, he spent years screwing over the victims of domestic violence. Sorry if he feels screwed - it all comes full circle

#5 Roblot on 09/09/12 at 06:37 AM [Reply]

Quit crying and do your time like a man. You blew it all away and now you want pity? What a putz.

#5.1 Sybil on 09/10/12 at 05:55 AM [Reply]

Hope he never needs Tolley again! Madison should be glad the GBI and Feds aren't combing through all his actions over the 20+ years he was in office. You can add whiny little coward to putz.

#5.1.1 Syble Blackstock on 09/10/12 at 03:09 PM [Reply]

Would the person on # 5 please identify herself?
After serving 40+ years working with the Judicial
System in Gwinnett and Barrow County and working
with Mr Madison for 18 months my opinion differs
from the prior comment. There was a GBI investigation of Mr. Madison, there was sufficient
evidence to Indict Mr Madison, he did employ Mr. Tolley to represent him, he did enter a guilty plea,
he did pay his debt to society in the State Prison
System and now as the law allows he has chosen to file a motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
These procedures are rights afforded every individual by our Judicial System. This process is our Judicial System working and to this working system I have no comment.

#5.1.1.1 Bobbie Borke on 09/10/12 at 03:59 PM [Reply]

First, Madison has still not paid his debt to society.
Second, as an officer of the law, he was not punished harshly enough.
Third, it is patently ridiculous to plead to withdraw a plea FOUR years after fact, for the equally absurd reason that his lawyer screwed him.
Fourth, it is highly unlikley that Ed Tolley misrepresented any such thing.

#6 tax, tax, tax on 09/10/12 at 05:22 PM [Reply]

definition of irony -- one lawyer claiming that another lawyer screwed him over !!!!!!

#7 dawgmom05 on 09/12/12 at 08:13 PM [Reply]

Mr Madison should have done more than 2 years for the charges brought against him... He would have had someone on the other side of the aisle, sentenced to 25 years for something of that nature. I think he got off "scott free" compared to what many people he sent up through the years got.
Karma bites back. Don't think that you can run over people and it won't come back to get you, one way or the other.

#8 ????? on 09/30/12 at 06:56 AM [Reply]

Guess the only question I have for Mr. Madison is, Its taken you THIS LONG to realize that you were in STATE CUSTODY and not FEDERAL? WOW!! And you were a District Attny?

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