Suspended Jefferson County District Attorney Charles Henderson on perjury charge: 'I didn't do it'
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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Jan 18 2017 11:43 AM
Charles Todd Henderson on Tuesday denied he lied during testimony he gave at a trial last year.
Henderson was prevented from taking office Tuesday as the next Jefferson County district attorney because he was indicted Friday for first-degree perjury at that trial involving a divorce case.
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon Henderson said that everyday someone is indicted and their lawyers say they didn't do it. "Well I'm standing here today and I'm telling you I didn't do it. I look forward to my day in court and I hope that day comes soon," he said in a brief statement.
Henderson was surrounded by a few dozen supporters at the press conference.
The indictment charging Henderson with first-degree perjury, which was publicly released this morning, states that at a Sept. 26 hearing before Circuit Judge Patricia Stephens in the divorce case of Charbel Akl v. Yareima Carmen Valecillos Akl did "swear falsely and such false statement was material to the proceeding in which they were made."
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