The Georgia Court of Appeals revived claims against the Fulton County sheriff and four staff members accused of allowing a deputy with a lengthy disciplinary record to retire instead of being fired, allowing him to get a job as a security guard where he shot and paralyzed a man.

A Fulton County judge threw the case out last year, ruling that Sheriff Ted Jackson and three co-defendants were protected by official immunity and that there was no way they could have foretold that ex-Deputy Michael Carroll would shoot Alexander Ray after leaving the department.  

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