Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard forcefully rejected allegations that one of his prosecutors had violated professional ethics in his handling of a child molestation trial, even though his office signed off last week on a consent order mandating a new trial in the case.

Howard’s comments came in response to a letter that a Georgia State University professor sent to the State Bar of Georgia seeking an investigation into whether an assistant district attorney should be disciplined for allegedly withholding exculpatory evidence from defense lawyers during the March trial.

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