By Gary Lloyd
BIRMINGHAM — A trial date has been set in the 2013 case of The Basement founder and youth evangelist Matt Pitt allegedly impersonating a peace officer in Grayson Valley.
The case is set for April 20, 2015, at 9 a.m. in Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Tommy Nail’s courtroom.
Pitt’s lead attorney, Carmella Penn, said the trial date was set today at a pre-trial conference.
“There is no plan at this time to make any kind of a plea,” Penn said.
Pitt pleaded guilty in Shelby County in 2012 when he was charged with impersonating an officer after Calera police pulled him over for allegedly flashing blue lights on Interstate 65.
Pitt served about eight months in Shelby County Jail for violating probation after he was arrested for impersonating a peace officer for a second time, in June 2013 when he allegedly showed a badge to two men in the woods in Grayson Valley and claimed to be with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
Pitt was arrested on the charge Aug. 20, 2013, then spent about eight months in Shelby County Jail on the probation revocation from the Shelby County case. He was released on Palm Sunday earlier this year.
“I think he’s gone back to work with his ministry, and he just wants this over,” Penn said. “Let’s try to get it over with.”
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