Following prosecutors’ plea that the Georgia Supreme Court reconsider its ruling on a district attorney’s conflict of interest, three justices have backed away from the opinion issued in the case, but the result remains.
The July 11 decision said then-Douglas County District Attorney J. David McDade’s personal interest in a child molestation case took away his assistant DAs’ authority to try the case. The court upheld a habeas corpus ruling that vacated the defendant’s convictions on the ground that the defendant’s lawyer on direct appeal should have raised the conflict of interest issue.
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