At a hearing Monday over whether DeKalb Superior Court Judge Gail C. Flake should have disqualified herself from a case, two witnesses indicated the judge had acted as a pass-through for bribe money. Also, a lawyer accused a former district attorney of filing a “misleading” affidavit and another lawyer called a hearsay ruling “ridiculous.”
It was all in a day’s work-in front of television cameras, news reporters and Judicial Qualifications Commission investigator Richard Hyde-for DeKalb Superior Court Judge Courtney L. Johnson. The rookie judge apparently drew the short straw in case assignment and now must decide whether her colleague on the bench should have recused from a matter that has been bouncing between the superior and appeals courts for seven years.
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