A five-year-old dispute over who inherited a $1.2 million Druid Hills home could have to be retried due to a state Court of Appeals decision saying Judge Gail C. Flake may have needed to recuse from the matter because one side was represented by the man who prosecuted her then-husband.
At issue is attorney J. Tom Morgan, who as DeKalb County’s district attorney in 1999 successfully prosecuted for corruption Flake’s then-husband, former DeKalb County Sheriff Pat Jarvis.
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