Former Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Brendan Murphy is scheduled to be sworn in as chief judge of Magistrate Court at 3 p.m. Thursday, succeeding now-District Attorney Joyette Holmes.

But the court of first resort is a busy place—operating seven days a week, 24 hours a day as the initial stop for all criminal cases, plus many small civil claims. Those shoes needed to be filled. So Cobb County Superior Court Chief Judge Reuben Green went ahead and gave Murphy the oath Monday morning, and the new chief magistrate went to work.

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