Judge Chris McFadden’s controversial stint hearing a rape case in Fayette County isn’t the first time a Georgia appellate judge has stepped into the trenches—although it may be the last.
The national media attention the temporary trial court gig has drawn to McFadden, who in granting a new trial for the defendant said the alleged victim did not behave “like a victim,” is unusual. But the state’s appellate judges have been moonlighting on lower courts since the 1980s. George Carley, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2012, has said he first took a turn as a trial judge shortly after the 1983 state constitution approved such an arrangement, when Carley was a judge on the state Court of Appeals.
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