A Superior Court candidate’s use of a stock photo featuring two Black men rather than himself in a campaign mailer circulating in Cobb County’s minority neighborhoods is generating criticism that it was intended to mislead voters.

Candidate Jason Marbutt’s mailer also could run afoul of state judicial ethics canons if it was meant to deceive, a former chairman of the state’s judicial watchdog agency says.

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