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An Aberdeen man has admitted to misrepresenting debts on a property to obtain a loan.
Eric J. Brenner, 36, pleaded guilty to felony grand theft by deception, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine.
Brenner admitted the charge last week at the Brown County Courthouse before Judge Richard Sommers as part of a plea agreement with which additional charges of grand theft by deception, grand theft by obtaining services without paying, grand theft by obtaining property without paying, grand theft by insufficient funds and forgery were dismissed.
Sommers delayed sentencing until additional information could be obtained about Brennerâs assets. While several charges were dismissed, Sommers clarified that restitution will be ordered in connection to all charges.
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It may not entirely accurate to say a trial in fictional Maycomb, Ala. in the 1930s would go on to launch Steve Ellis’ 44-year legal career decades later.
But it came close.
Seated in his office off the 35th Judicial District Courtroom in the Brown County Courthouse, Ellis fetched a jacket that held a DVD of the movie “To Kill A Mockingbird.”
The late Gregory Peck’s portrayal of small-town lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie inspired Ellis, who saw the movie at a Waco drive-in when he was an impressionable junior high school student.
“I knew no lawyers,” the 69-year-old Ellis said. “No one in my family was a lawyer. I never thought about being a lawyer. I was intrigued by this and it just was an inspiring story.”