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Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Monongalia County) Chief Judge Perri DeChristopher and Judge Cindy Scott hosted Brookhaven Elementary School fifth-grade students in their respective courtrooms for mock trials at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 19.
Former Morgantown council candidate pleads guilty to election fraud count By Former Morgantown City Council candidate Timothy Metz has admitted to falsifying signatures during the 2019 municipal election. Metz pleaded guilty Thursday in Monongalia County Circuit Court to one felony count of falsely filing a certification of nomination The Secretary of State’s Office launched the investigation after being notified by Morgantown officials. The investigation found 21 of the 75 required signatures to get on the ballot were fraudulent, including one signature of deceased person. When Metz with...
CHARLESTON â A Morgantown man has pleaded guilty to forging signatures on a petition supporting his candidacy for Morgantown City Council in 2019. In a plea deal that allows him to avoid prison, Timothy Aaron Metz, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of felony falsely filing a certification nomination before Monongalia Circuit Judge Phillip Gaujot on Thursday morning, according to a news release from West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner. Metzâs plea was part of an agreement with Monongalia Prosecutor Perri DeChristopher, who agreed to allow Metz to enter a pretrial diversion. The...