Former Hall County Solicitor-General Stephanie Woodard entered a guilty plea to unprofessional conduct Friday, just over two months after she was indicted on 24 counts of theft by taking and false statements.
Hall State Court Solicitor indicted (wgtjradio.com)
The plea deal calls for Woodard, who resigned earlier this month, to pay restitution totaling more than $2,000 to Hall County and the Prosecution Attorneys Council of Georgia.
Woodard resigns (wgtjradio.com)
During a court hearing in Gainesville Friday morning, Woodard admitted that she had made some mistakes.
Not long after she was indicted, her attorney declared “she absolutely committed no crime”: ‘She absolutely committed no crime’ (wgtjradio.com)
Woodard had served as Solicitor General the past 16 years.