The three-way race to replace retiring Cobb County Superior Court Judge J. Stephen Schuster has resuscitated interest in an unusual opinion in which a divided Georgia Court of Appeals overturned two convictions after ruling a prosecutor’s discomfort with a black juror’s gold teeth did not justify striking him from the pool.

That prosecutor—who had also argued that the rejected juror had a criminal record—is Senior Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Jason Marbutt, who is also a candidate for Schuster’s slot.

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