Clayton County, Ga., Superior Court Chief Judge Matthew Simmons ruled that the local district attorney has the “inherent power to appoint special assistant district attorneys.”

Simmons said precedents cited by defense attorneys claiming that contin­gent fee-based prosecutions were barred by law did not apply in the forfeiture cases at hand, which followed raids against stores running video poker machines.

BANKING
Bank that lost mortgage note may still foreclose
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey chancery judge has ruled that a foreclosure can go forward even though the original lender lost the mortgage note and thus never passed it along when it assigned the mortgage to the bank now trying to enforce the debt.

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