A pilot program aimed at streamlining the case-flow for Fulton County’s courts has hit a bump with the withdrawal of one judge from a three-judge division focused on criminal cases. The change means that a judge in the court’s companion civil division must also drop out of the program, at least temporarily.
The Fulton County Superior Court bench voted earlier this month to allow Judge Marvin S. Arrington Sr. to return to a mixed docket of civil and criminal cases, effective Feb. 15. Arrington began complaining last year that he had not been assigned enough prosecutors to handle the double allotment of serious felony cases he was assigned as member of the division.
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