When Coweta Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge William “Billy” Lee learned that a case from which he had recused had been settled with a deferred prison term for the defendant, he summoned the lawyers involved in the plea deal to his office.
There, he informed them that he had reassigned the case to himself, claiming that it was his prerogative as the circuit’s chief judge to do so, according to a motion to recuse Lee filed later by the defendant’s counsel, Donald Samuel of Atlanta’s Garland, Samuel & Loeb.
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