Crime & Safety
Former Atlanta Schools Cheating Principal 'Terrified' To Serve Prison Sentence: Attorney
Former Atlanta Public Schools principal Dana Evans asks the judge who sentenced her in the cheating case to remove the penalty.
ATLANTA, GA – A former principal convicted in the Atlanta public schools cheating scandal is asking not to be sent to jail, according to reports.
Dana Evans, one of 11 Atlanta Public Schools leaders that a Fulton County jury found guilty of racketeering in a massive scandal that rocked the city 10 years ago, has exhausted her last appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn her conviction, according to court documents. Evans' attorney, Robert Rubin, has made a plea to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter to give Evans a reprieve from the one-year prison sentence that her efforts at appeal have staved off for nearly a decade, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Baxter presided over the 2015 trial and handed down Evans’ sentence of one year in prison and four years of probation. Rubin told the AJC’s Vanessa McCray that Evans is “absolutely terrified at the potential of having to report to prison.”
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