A former Miami-Dade Circuit judge says he's innocent of stealing more than $80,000 in county money intended to help the poor.

Phillip Davis told a Miami-Dade court Monday that he did not use falsified billing invoices to get extra grant money for his Miami-Dade Resident College life skills and pretrial diversion program, which prosecutors say he pocketed, The Miami Herald reported Monday.

Using a Powerpoint presentation on a TV screen and a wooden pointer, Davis attempted to refute the allegations, saying the employee invoices he submitted to Dade County were correct under a long-standing billing agreement between the county and the program, the newspaper said.

Davis was elected as a judge in 1988 and was arrested three years later as part of a corruption probe in which he was heard arranging a $20,000 payoff to fix a case. He co-founded the nonprofit Miami-Dade Resident College in the late 1990s as way to instruct inner-city residents about parenting and vocational skills, the Herald said.