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FREEMAN v. BARNES

No. A06A1627.

640 S.E.2d 611 (2006)

FREEMAN v. BARNES, et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 14, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Ware, Allison K. James, Office of the County Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.

Rosser A. Malone, George B. Spears, Atlanta, for appellees.

BARNES, Judge.

On March 11, 2005, Judge Rowland Barnes was murdered while on the job in his Fulton County Superior Court courtroom. Barne's widow sued Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman and eight deputy sheriffs in her capacity individually as the judge's surviving spouse, on behalf of his children, and as executrix of his estate. She sought damages based on "gross negligence and conscious indifference amounting to wilful and wanton misconduct" by Freeman and the...

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