BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—An Alabama man serving time for having sexual relations with a teenager was released from jail early after a fake judicial order somehow made it into the court system, prison officials said Thursday.
Bobby Campbell Jr., 37, of Clio was transferred to the Barbour County Jail from Fountain prison on Nov. 17 based on a supposed court order, said prison spokesman Bob Horton. Campbell was freed the same day by jailers, as a judge seemed to mandate.
But that document apparently was a fake, Horton said, and officials are trying to determine how it made it into the court system. Prison officials didn’t discover Campbell’s release until Wednesday during a review of the inmate’s file, Horton said.
Inmate Bobby Campbell Jr. AP Photo/Alabama Department of Corrections
