The state Judicial Qualifications Commission on Tuesday said that a Catoosa County magistrate who demonstrated erratic and volatile behavior, used illegal drugs and claimed he would have been justified in gunning down the local law enforcement officers who arrested him in Ringgold last year, should be removed from his post and permanently barred from holding any judicial office.
The JQC, the state’s judicial disciplinary agency, recommended to the Supreme Court of Georgia that Magistrate Anthony E. Peters’ volatile and often criminal behavior dictated that he be removed from the bench, despite pleas from Peters and his Rossville attorney, Christopher A. Townley, that Peters be allowed to remain a magistrate following a formal suspension.
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