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These three women were escorted from their place of employment at the Williamson Co. Circuit Clerk’s office in Marion August 5, 2013; it took more than a year to bring charges. From left, Kelly Trammel, Marsha Sue Davis-Dickinson and Cheryl Cundiff.
WILLIAMSON CO., Ill.—The three women, formerly Williamson County deputy clerks, who have been charged by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office on Theft and Official Misconduct counts made their first appearance in Williamson County circuit court today.
Marsha Sue Davis Dickinson, represented by her attorney Robert C. Bateson; Cheryl Cundiff, represented by the law offices of Murphy & Murphy; and Kelley Trammel, represented by Ted Hampson from the Patchett law firm, appeared in Williamson County court earlier today (Friday, October 10) before Circuit Judge Mark Clarke.
Each one of the ladies waived formal reading of the charges and waived arraignment. Attorney G. Pat Murphy asked for 60 days for each one to confer with their clients.
The women are all free on $2,000 cash bond and are due back in court on December 5. Prosecuting the case is the Attorney General’s Office out of Chicago.
The ladies are the subject of an article that goes in-depth into the case and is found in this current edition (October 2014) of Disclosure leading the Egypt section. Here’s a snippet, for your Read the Lead for the evening, of Deputy clerks finally charged in Williamson:
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WILLIAMSON CO.—After more than a year’s wait, the three women who were escorted out of the Williamson County Courthouse and away from their employment at the circuit clerk’s office as deputy clerks have been charged and arrested for allegedly stealing public funds from their office.
Marsha Sue Davis-Dickinson, 49, formerly of Marion (now of Kentucky); Cheryl Cundiff, 58, of Herrin; and Kelly Trammel, 43, of Marion, were walked off the premises of the courthouse on the afternoon of Monday, August 5, 2013 after lengthy interviews by agents from the Illinois State Police.
There was no movement in the situation despite the very public parading of the three from their office. No comment emerged from then-state’s attorney Chuck Garnati’s office; the only comments to arise from the situation following it came from one Williamson County commissioner’s meeting a couple of months later, and that was merely acknowledgment that there was an ongoing investigation.
Without continuing information on the case, many in Williamson believed it was “over” and would never go anywhere, as some investigations into public officials do.
However, on September 18, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office announced that multiple charges had been filed against the three deputy clerks, this in state court and not on the federal level as was previously anticipated.
It’s unknown why, at this point in time, Madigan’s office decided to file, unless it had to do with the resignation and censuring of former state’s attorney Garnati (which occurred a few days before the announcement of these charges). New state’s attorney Brandon Zanotti is not handling any of the cases against the former deputy clerks…
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