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Judge wont drop charges against Marsh PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Monday, 16 August 2004
By NORM AREY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A judge has refused a request to dismiss hundreds of the criminal charges against the former operator of a north Georgia crematory where 334 bodies were found. Superior Court Judge James Bodiford denied several motions from former Tri-State Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh. Marsh's attorneys wanted 122 charges of burial service fraud and 439 charges of theft by taking or criminal attempt of theft by taking to be dismissed.

Marsh faces 787 state criminal charges stemming from accusations that he neglected the bodies he was supposed to cremate at the crematory's 16-acre site.

The corpses were discovered strewn across the grounds of the crematory. Tests later revealed the crematory gave some families cement dust instead of ashes.

Marsh's attorneys had argued that he was not charged with a crime under the laws of Georgia, that dead bodies are not property that is subject to the state's theft laws, and that relatives of the dead don't have a legally required fiduciary relationship.

Bodiford rejected all of those claims in orders signed Wednesday.

He also scheduled a hearing for Aug. 19 to discuss sequestering the jury during the trial. Citing extensive media coverage, Bodiford previously ruled that jurors would be selected from Lee County.

Also on Aug. 19, the defense's motion to disqualify District Attorney Buzz Franklin from further participation in the case will be heard.

The rulings are in preparation for a planned trial for Marsh in Walker County on Oct. 11. Officials say jury selection could take a week and the trial could last for several months.

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
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"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“Of comfort no man speak Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills.”

King Richard II, Act III, Scen

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Lector, Si monumentum requiris circumspice! (Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you.)

Sir Christopher Wren
(architect and permanent resident of St. Paul's Cathedral)
 

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