A Christiansburg attorney whose law license was suspended in December was indicted Wednesday on 21 felony counts related to forgery of his clients' legal documents.

Gerard Raymond Marks -- a Blacksburg resident who practiced law from an office in Oak Tree Park in Christiansburg -- was indicted on 11 counts of forgery of public records and 10 counts of uttering, or passing false legal documents to clients and others.

The indictment, stemming from a Virginia State Police investigation into Marks' legal practice, was handed down by a grand jury Wednesday and unsealed Friday.

According to the indictment, Marks is accused of forging several documents including decrees in two divorces and two adoptions for various clients and land-use agreements involving Christiansburg developer Roger Woody.

Marks did not immediately return a phone message Friday seeking comment.

Each charge is a Class 4 felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison on each count, according to Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom.

Branscom was appointed a special prosecutor in the case after Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Brad Finch recused himself.

The indictment shows the alleged actions beginning in 1999 and continuing into 2007. Anyone who hired Marks during that time period should check with relevant courts to verify that their orders or legal documents were properly filed, Branscom said.

These are not Marks' first legal troubles.

In September, Circuit Court Judge Joey Showalter issued an order indefinitely barring Marks from practicing in the 27th Circuit, which includes the counties of Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski and Wythe, and the city of Radford.

The order gave no reason for Showalter's decision.

Three months later, the Virginia State Bar suspended Marks' license to practice law for failure to comply with a subpoena duces tecum -- an official request ordering a witness to appear and to bring specified documents or records.

Just before his law license was suspended, Marks was representing Woody in a land dispute with Larry Shelor and David Hagan of Shelor Motor Mile.