Ken Hodges

However, J. Thom grew up in Albany and had a friend.

He was the district attorney, Ken Hodges, whom he had met in 1996.

Hodges agreed to join the prosecution team and provided the opening statement.

Hodges knew his county well and was a familiar face for jurors.

Yeah, we love having you on.

And as I told you when we were talking before, we had Judge Ken Hodges on a couple of weeks ago, and he told us how he won this case for you.

So we felt like we needed to give you equal time here.

Well, the most serendipitous part of this case was that the judge sent it back to Daugherty County, where I grew up and where Ken was the DA.

And then it's been quite a process from there.

And I reached out to a lot of friends to help me.

Lester mentioned Ken Hodges.

He played a big role in this.