The glare of TV lights will be a familiar sight for Judge James G. Bodiford, the Cobb County jurist tapped Monday to take over the stalled prosecution of accused Fulton County Courthouse shooter Brian Nichols.

Three cases that have drawn national attention stand out among those Bodiford has handled since he joined the Superior Court bench in 1994: the 1997 trial of a former prosecutor charged with a murder-for-hire, the 2004 trial of a woman connected with two antifreeze poisoning murders of men close to her, and the case of a crematory operator accused of abandoning dozens of uncremated bodies around his property.

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