IN RE JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS COM'N

S15Z1633.

794 S.E.2d 631 (2016)

IN RE JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS COMMISSION FORMAL ADVISORY OPINION NO. 239.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 30, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lesli Nicole Gaither , Thomas MacIver Clyde , Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 1100 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2800, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Hollie G. Manheimer , Stuckey & Manheimer, 150 East Ponce De Leon Avenue, Suite 230, Decatur, Georgia 30030, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr. , Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC, P.O. 5391, Atlanta, Georgia 31107, Sarah E. Geraghty , Southern Center for Human Rights, 83 Poplar Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Neutral Amicus.

Norman S. Fletcher , Lee Barrett Carter , Brinson Askew Berry Seigler Richardson & Davis, LLP, P.O. Box 5007, Rome, Georgia 30161, for Appellee.

Charles S. Wynne , State Court of Hall County Hall County Courthouse, P.O. Box 1435, Gainesville, Georgia 30503-0000, Wayne M. Purdom, State Court of Dekalb County, 556 North McDonough Street, Room 807, DeKalb Courthouse, Decatur, Georgia 30030, for Other Party.


On August 28, 2013, the Judicial Qualifications Commission rendered Formal Advisory Opinion No. 239, which concerns Canon 2 (A) of the former Code of Judicial Conduct. In pertinent part, Canon 2 (A) provides that "[j]udges shall respect and comply with the law,"1 and Opinion No. 239 concerns the obligation of judges...

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