The Supreme Court of Georgia has vacated a 12-month jail sentence imposed on a former DeKalb County school superintendent and remanded the case with instructions that a trial court judge decide whether the defendant testified truthfully at a public corruption trial.
In doing so, the state high court rejected rarely aligned arguments by the DeKalb County District Attorney and a defense attorney representing former superintendent Crawford Lewis. They asserted that then-DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker had no authority to decide whether Lewis’ testimony was truthful once the DA and the defense lawyer determined that the terms of the plea deal—for which Lewis was to serve a year’s probation—had been met.
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