Christian Circuit Court Judge John Atkins heard arguments Monday morning regarding a motion to dismiss the case against a Hopkinsville police officer indicted for perjury.
Lieutenant Jefferson Alexander was indicted for first-degree perjury in March 2019 by the Christian County Grand Jury. He is accused of providing false testimony to the grand jury in 2012 in the case against former city councilwoman Ann Cherry, who resigned her city council seat as part of a plea agreement after she was charged with official misconduct, tampering with a witness, and tampering with public records.
Alexander’s defense attorney, Eric Eaton filed the motion to dismiss the case. He argued the perjury indictment under Commonwealth’s Attorney Rick Boling’s was political against former Commonwealth’s Attorney Lynn Pryor, knowing her statute of limitations for official misconduct had expired.
He also stated that Boling’s recent conduct shows he will use the Commonwealth’s Attorney office for political purposes to attack Pryor.
Special Prosecutor James Lesousky argued there was nothing that showed the grand jury abused Jefferson’s rights.
Judge Atkins said when he was a prosecutor a court lacked the jurisdiction to dismiss an indictment without the approval of the commonwealth and he didn’t want that to weigh into his ruling, therefore he will take their arguments under consideration.
Judge Atkins set another pretrial conference for Wednesday morning, May 20th at 8:30.
