KINGSTON, Tenn. – The lawyer who successfully defended a Roane County man against charges that he killed a sheriff’s deputy and another man found no bidders as he tried to sell part of his client’s farm.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports attorney Jim Logan says he still hasn’t been paid more than a year after Leon Houston was acquitted in the killings of Deputy Bill Jones and his friend Mike Brown in May 2006.
The deputy was attempting to serve a warrant.
Logan said Houston and his brother Rocky Joe Houston, who also escaped conviction in the killings, put up 80 acres of their farm as security to obtain Logan’s services for Leon Houston.
The lawyer hoped to recoup the $260,000 he says the Houstons owe him, but not a single person showed up at the steps of the Roane County Courthouse to call out a bid Tuesday morning.