MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Two and a half months after backing out of a plea agreement, a former Mobile County sheriff’s sergeant indicated Wednesday that he plans to plead guilty to federal fraud charges.
Daniel E. Holifield had been set in August to plead guilty to one count each of bank fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. But the 52-year-old Mobile man changed his mind and hired a new attorney, Dennis Knizley, who is representing him in a related case in Mobile County Circuit Court.
Knizley told FOX10 News that he took a fresh look at the federal case and that he and his client determined that pleading guilty was in the defendant’s best interests…