One day before DeKalb Sheriff Jeff Mann and his lawyer were scheduled to meet with a committee appointed by Georgia’s governor to investigate Mann and his continued fitness to hold office, a Fulton County judge declined to call a halt to the committee’s work.
On Wednesday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Eric Dunaway ruled from the bench that it was too soon to consider whether the committee’s investigation of city ordinance violations—including public indecency and obstructing a police officer—that Atlanta police have lodged against Mann was depriving the sheriff of due process because the committee has not yet stripped him of his post or his salary or recommended that the governor do so.
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