Questions were popping Monday at the Georgia Supreme Court where a husband-and-wife law firm were trying to convince the justices that a trial judge had no authority to bar them from making a copy of a court reporter’s audio recordings of courtroom proceedings.

Ashleigh and John Merchant sued Douglas County Superior Court Judge David Emerson after he refused to order his court reporter to provide copies of tapes from three hearings in two criminal cases.

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