An unusual alliance of a criminal defense lawyer and a DeKalb County prosecutor on Tuesday sought to persuade the state Supreme Court that a DeKalb County judge had no authority to decide whether former school superintendent Crawford Lewis met the terms of his plea deal before sentencing him.
Lewis’ lawyer, Michael Brown of Alston & Bird, and DeKalb Assistant District Attorney Anna Cross argued that only the district attorney and Brown had the right to decide whether Lewis—in keeping with the terms of a deal in which he would serve only a year’s probation— had testified truthfully against his two former co-defendants in a 2013 school public corruption trial.
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