Two North Georgia judges have staged an apparent coup to unseat the new chief judge of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit by changing the rules and then voting her out, according to a series of court orders posted on the circuit’s website.
The series of Oct. 3 court orders that resulted in Superior Court Judge Kristina Cook Graham’s removal as the circuit’s chief judge only five days after she was appointed by the retiring chief also included one permanently recusing the circuit’s two remaining judges from hearing any cases associated with the law firm owned by Graham’s father, renowned trial lawyer Bobby Lee Cook that, according to the firm’s counsel, has threatened to bring its pending cases to a standstill.
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