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Clay County’s Circuit Court Clerk has been indicted on new charges.
64-year-old Susan Beth Birdwell indicted on five additional charges by the Clay County Grand Jury. That is in addition to 11 charges by the Davidson County Grand Jury in November.
The crimes revolve around alleged forgery and tampering. Birdwell accused of submitting false documents to the TBI to erase criminal records. Birdwell was suspended from office on Thursday.
According to a State Comptroller release Friday, Investigators determined that Birdwell circumvented the judicial process by photocopying a judge’s signature on expungement orders in at least 117 cases without the judge’s prior knowledge or approval.
Birdwell then filed the expungement orders with the TBI for processing. Investigators could not determine the legal sufficiency of the expungement orders due to a lack of documentation remaining in the individual cases.
