The trial is set to start July 14 for Pike Circuit Judge Howard Keith Hall who is charged
with mail fraud and theft of government funds.
On Friday Hall pleaded not guilty to the charges in the U.S. District Court in Lexington.
The Appalachian News Express reports Hall was indicted in April by a federal grand jury on allegations that when he was the Pike County attorney, he hired an attorney that did no actual work for the County but received more than $440,000 in government salary and benefits.