A retired DeKalb County judge indicted last year on felony charges stemming from her comments in a meeting with the state judicial watchdog agency testified before a legislative committee Thursday that the prosecutor told her he was under “extreme pressure to have a quick indictment and a resolution.”
The Judicial Qualifications Commission pursued ethics charges against former DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker based on her comments to the agency regarding complaints about her rulings in a politically controversial public corruption case. She said that when she agreed to meet informally with the JQC in 2014, she did not know the matter before the commission involved the case, which had ended more than a year earlier but was still on appeal. The criminal charges filed against her a year later stemmed from that meeting, she said.
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