In the wake of last year’s indictment and guilty plea of former Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby for violating his oath of office and invasion of privacy related to the placement of a recording device in the county jail’s interview room, an attorney is asking the Georgia Court of Appeals to allow his client to withdraw his guilty plea and void a 25-year sentence for aggravated child molestation.

Hobby—who was first suspended from office and then indicted in 2017 over a mass search of Worth County High School school students that ultimately led to a $3 million settlement with the county—pleaded guilty to three oath of office violations last July and served six months to resolve the charges in both the search and recording cases.