The judge overseeing the murder trial of accused Fulton County Courthouse shooter Brian G. Nichols on Wednesday sent a forcefully worded letter to the state House committee created to investigate his handling of the case, asserting that the three-member panel’s characterization of spending and other factors “assume as fact many details that are inaccurate.”
In the letter to Rep. Barry A. Fleming, R-Harlem, and his colleagues, DeKalb Superior Court Senior Judge Hilton M. Fuller Jr. defends his early rulings approving the appointment of outside counsel to the case, noting that prosecutors had demanded that Nichols’ first set of state-funded lawyers be disqualified. As to funding decisions, he wrote, the agency responsible for those decisions, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council-not the judge-is mandated by law to set and approve the fees paid to appointed attorneys.
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