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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Thomas Lakin</p>           A civil sexual assault lawsuit against Thomas Lakin will remain in St. Clair County, ruled Associate Judge James Radcliffe III on Thursday afternoon.<br /><br />One week earlier, Radcliffe ordered the suit be moved to Madison County following a hearing on a defense motion to transfer.<br /><br />At today's hearing, Lakin's attorney, Clyde Kuehn, said he and his co-counsel agreed \"not more than 10 seconds\" after Radcliffe's ruling that letting the case go might create a problem.<br /><br />Kuehn said attorney Rex Carr, representing co-defendants Bradley Lakin, Kristopher Lakin and the Lakin Law Firm, thought the case  might end up in front of \"some judge from far off land.\"<br /><br />Radcliffe admonished Kuehn because plaintiff's attorney Thomas Q. Keefe raised the issue during last week's hearing.<br /><br />Keefe had argued, \"You're not going to find a judge\" in Madison County to take the case, and it would be \"impossible\" to get an impartial jury in a county where some 150 witnesses may be called.<br /><br />Radcliffe told Kuehn he should do his \"strategizing\" before coming to court. <br /><br />Keefe was curious about Kuehn and Carr's motive for changing their minds. He said if the defense motion to transfer was denied, defendants would have had an automatic appeal. <br /><br />He said the petition to withdraw the motion to transfer \"further delayed\" the case, which was filed in June.<br /><br />The suit claims Thomas Lakin had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy. Kris Lakin also is accused of childhood sexual abuse against minor plaintiffs.<br /><br />The Lakin Firm is accused of covering up Thomas Lakin's sexual relationship with a minor.<br /><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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