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Posted on August 17th, 2007 in News, Politics, True Crime

Joel Montgomery Mugshot A special prosecutor dropped charges this morning against Birmingham City Councilor Joel Montgomery, after Montgomery promised not to sue the city. The District One councilor was arrested April 7 in a Five Points South parking lot, where police found him bloodied and belligerent. He was charged with public intoxication.

Montgomery’s lawyers have insisted that Montgomery fell from a small retaining wall in the parking lot where he was found and that he had been disoriented from the fall.

The councilor did not return to Birmingham City Hall for almost two months after his arrest.

While Montgomery has agreed not to sue the city, he will take legal action against the owners of the parking lot, his lawyer Tommy Spina said.

Montgomery left the city courthouse without comment.

— Kyle Whitmire

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