Brandon Hughes

A former Alabama prosecutor set for trial on ethics charges next month repeatedly failed to handle office finances properly and should have to repay money, a state audit found. Suspended Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes did not have procedures for handling cash or credit card transactions and failed to...

An audit completed by the State Department of Examiners of Public Accounts found multiple occurences of noncompliance and impermissible expenditures in the Lee County District Attorney’s Office from September 2018 to November 2020, when now-suspended District Attorney Brandon Hughes led the office. The audit lays out seven instances of noncompliance...

The Attorney General’s office announced that Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes has been indicted* by a Montgomery County grand jury on a charge of first-degree perjury. Hughes has been on suspension from his position as district attorney following his previous indictment by a Lee County grand jury on multiple other counts.

A Montgomery County grand jury indicted suspended Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes on a first-degree perjury charge on March 5, according to court documents. Hughes, who was elected as district attorney in 2016, self-reported a possible ethics violation to the Alabama Ethics Commission in 2020. The perjury charge comes from statements Hughes made to the commission regarding a sexual discrimination claim to his office from a former assistant district attorney.

The trial date for the case of suspended Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes was set during an arraignment Wednesday. Circuit Judge Pamela Baschab scheduled Hughes’ trial for June 2021 after the virtual arraignment Wednesday. Hughes pled not guilty to all seven felony charges leveled against him in the county, court documents show.

Sewanhaka District bowler Brandon Hughes was warm. He was so warm that the only way the Carey junior could find relief from the heat during the Nassau boys individual bowling championship was by borrowing a small, personal fan. (That’s not a joke, folks.) Hughes, who was about 100 pins clear...