The former Georgia prosecutor at the center of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court argument in a case brought by a Georgia death row inmate has settled an unrelated civil fraud suit filed against him by a former client serving life without parole.

Former Rome Circuit District Attorney Stephen Lanier, who has been in private practice since 1997, confidentially settled a suit last month brought by a former client serving a life sentence for murder who accused him of cheating her out of $150,000 for legal work he never performed.

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