Former DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker has accused the state judicial watchdog agency of basing ethics charges against her on “numerous misstatements of fact and law” that suggest “a profound misunderstanding of the underlying facts” of a high-profile criminal corruption case she handled.
In a formal response to charges filed by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission in March, Becker denied that she made false statements during a meeting last September with the JQC, which she said was described to her as an informal “personal conference.” Instead, Becker said she was blindsided at the meeting by questions—for which she had not prepared—about her decision nine months earlier to sentence former DeKalb County school superintendent Crawford Lewis to a one-year jail term instead of probating his sentence, per his plea deal with county prosecutors in exchange for his truthful testimony in the public corruption case.
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