In an attorney discipline case that explores the boundaries of when private sexual misconduct renders a lawyer unfit to practice, and for how long, a Georgia practitioner says he was…
A Georgia magistrate judge is fighting to keep his job despite ethics charges that describe a panoply of alleged misconduct ranging from marijuana use to playing with a gun in…
A judge in southern Georgia is speaking out after a critical episode of the popular public radio program This American Life called into question her drug court procedures.
Linda Carter, the former DeKalb, Ga., superior court clerk, claims that she has Alzheimer’s disease, and last month was tricked into resigning from her position by a woman who is…
A reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found a bloody knife at a home on Monday, just hours after police completed an investigation of a triple murder there.
The district attorney in Cobb County, Ga., plans to appeal a judge’s ruling tossing an indictment because it was handed down in a courtroom that hadn’t formally opened to the…
U.S. Attorney Sally Yates says she won’t oppose new hearing requests by defendants sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jack Camp when he was using marijuana, cocaine and a prescription opiate.
A former senior federal judge was sentenced today to 30 days in prison and 400 hours of community service after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting a felon in the…
Former senior federal judge Jack Camp should be treated “like every other similarly situated criminal” and sentenced to prison time, federal prosecutors say in a sentencing memo concerning his guilty…
A law graduate who sent a snarky note to a court clerk and offered an unusual defense in a traffic appeal is eligible to become a lawyer in Georgia, the…
Former Alapaha Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Brooks E. Blitch III was disbarred in a Georgia Supreme Court opinion (PDF) that also sent a cautionary message to the state’s…
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