The state Judicial Qualifications Commission has dismissed four ethics complaints filed against its former chairwoman—Appalachian Circuit Chief Superior Court Judge Brenda Weaver—saying it found “no grounds” to discipline her over her alleged role in the indictment last year of a North Georgia newspaper publisher and his lawyer, according to the commission’s report to the Supreme Court of Georgia.

The ethics complaints against Weaver were lodged by Mark Thomason, publisher of The Fannin Focus; Thomason’s lawyer, Hiawassee attorney Russell Stookey; Fannin County Attorney Lynn Doss and the Georgia Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the report states.

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