I read with interest the Jan. 30 article, “Service issue is break for rapper.” The article is timely, inasmuch as the Georgia Association of Professional Process Servers (GAPPS) is in litigation in Fulton County Superior Court with seven metro Atlanta county sheriffs over just this subject.
Defense attorney Thomas Reynolds Jr., in noting that “[Proper service is] one of the first things you check,” understands what too many trial attorneys do not. That is that the existing situation regarding service of process in Georgia is confusing; each county has its own rules regarding service by private process servers, with some refusing to make permanent appointments pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4(c), while those counties that do make such appointments each have entirely different requirements.
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