The judge who blasted a Fulton County prosecutor and the Atlanta Police Department for long delays in granting murder defendants’ discovery requests about a confidential informant faced a similar complaint Monday when defense lawyers said they’d just found out more material had been missing.
Superior Court Judge Wendy Shoob said she understood defense lawyers’ protestations, that the government should have provided much earlier a video of an East Point Police interview with the informant, but rejected defense bids to bar the informant from testifying at this week’s trial, noting that doing so would be “akin to an acquittal.”
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