The Fulton County judge overseeing a legal malpractice lawsuit against Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani declined to strike the firm’s defenses as a sanction for text messages alleged to have been deleted that the plaintiff, comedian Terry Hodges, said could help prove his case. 

State Court Judge Eric Richardson said he was troubled by the defense’s “problematic” explanations about the texts but that there was not enough evidence that they had been intentionally destroyed—or even existed.

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