State v. Ward

TIMMONS-GOODSON, Judge.

On or about 1 March 1996 criminal summonses issued for defendants Roger Ward, Joel Shirley and Timothy Harvell (hereinafter collectively referred to as “defendants”), indicating that there was probable cause to believe that defendants “did unlawfully, willfully did [sic] promote and participate in a pyramid [scheme].” Defendants subsequently filed a “Motion to Dismiss, or in the alternative, Motion to Remove Prosecutor/Motion to Suppress,” wherein they argued that prosecutorial misconduct warranted dismissal of the charges against them, or alternatively, the appointment…