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Decision could come soon on crematory trial date PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 30 May 2004
DA hopes case will go to court by end of year

05/27/04 Eric Beavers

Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Herbert “Buzz” Franklin said he hopes to try former Tri-State Crematory operator Brent Marsh this year. Cobb Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge James Bodiford, who will preside over the case, is expected to decide soon whether to dismiss some charges against Marsh, name a location to pick a jury, and set a trial date.

“The judge is probably going to make some decisions, I would think, in the next week or two,” Seventh District Court Administrator Jody Overcash said. “I don’t know exactly what he is going to be telling everybody, but obviously the timing of the case is going to be coming up.”

Marsh faces 787 felony counts, including burial service fraud, abuse of corpses, theft by deception, and making false statements.

Earlier this year, settlements totaling $39.5 million were reached in the Tri-State civil case.

Bodiford has ruled although Marsh’s trial will be heard in the Walker County Courthouse, the jury will be selected from another part of the state.

“There are issues concerning venue,” Bodiford’s law clerk Leann Dolin said.

Bodiford has been embroiled in another high-profile case, Cobb County’s so-called “antifreeze murder," which had to be moved to Perry. Lynn Turner was convicted this month of using engine coolant to poison her husband.

Franklin said he predicts, now that the Turner case is over, Bodiford will be ready to discuss the crematory case soon.

“We’re just waiting to hear from Judge Bodiford,” Franklin said. “Most of the preparation (to prosecute the case) was done when I was preparing the indictment. As I told Judge Bodiford in court, we wanted to go to trial in February, but he had that other case scheduled. It’s just a matter of scheduling.”

Scheduling a trial “is a little more difficult when you’ve got an out-of-circuit judge to handle the case, and he has had a busy schedule himself,” he said.

Marsh’s lead defense attorney, McCracken “Ken” Poston of Ringgold, said he has heard nothing new from Bodiford’s office, but is working “slowly but surely” to build his case.

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

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