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SECTJON: Supreme Court Report

TITL I;: : Second Lives : for t hese f ormer. 'jusllces, retirement is no da y at the beach

AU'l'IIOR: Mark Walsh

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WHEN JUST I CE JOHN P.AUL STEVI~ NS s tepped down f rom t he U. S . Supreme Court last year, it marked the first Lime in 12 years thDt there have been at l east three r~t i r ed justices.

And going hack t o 199~ , when Justice Harry A. Blackmun r e t i red, there began a period o [ a l i ttle mo re than a yea r when [ivc e x - j ustices were stil l puttering around- - former Cl1ief Jus t i ce Warren E. Burger, and fo rmer Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr., William J . Urennan Jr . and Byron R. WhiLe .

Hut with a few except i ons , t hose j ustices we re l argely out of the spot l i ght in reti rement.

For the three current ex-justices, retirement has seen little in the way of shuffleboard, Mah jong or Caribbean cruises . I nstead, Justices Sandra Day O' Conno r, Da vid H. Souter and Stevens have been rewriti ng the book o n ret irement purs ui ts and e xpectations.

" Until now the re wa sn' t much post-judicial behavior" for reti r ed justices , says Linda Greenhouse , who covered the Supreme Court for t he New York Ti mes for some 30 years and is now a senior research scholar and Lecturer a t Ya le Law Scr1ool . " Those who weren ' t carried out were pre tty old a nd debilitated by the tim~ t hey left the court . Now we have th.is unusua l colle ction of e nergetic, very engaged indi viduals."

BHI::AKING 'I'HE MOLD Or TH E 1 0 3 FORMER JUSTICES, 49 REMA J NED ON TilE court until they died, and many left :n poor hea lth, Greenhouse notes . Olhers l eft for s pecific reasons . John Jay, r.he first ch ict justice , once cal l e d the pos t " i ntol erable)" and r.a n f or governor of New York . Pr e si dent Lyndon B. Johnson t a l ked JusLJce Arthur J . Goldberg into lea ving the court in 1965 to become United Nations a mbassador . Burger s tepped down after 1 / years to J ead the b i cent ennial ot the U. S . Const itut ion .

BUL few can recal 1 such a n outspoken t rio as these . For Stevens, 91 , a tw~-we ek pe r i od in May was emblematic . I n a May 2 speech in New York City, he critici z ed hJs ex-colle a gues for overturning a d amages awa rd for a man who spent 14 ye ars on death row because prosecutors fai led to turn over exculpatory evidence in a murder case . Referring t o a March 29 concu r rence by Justice Antonln Sca l ia in Connick v . Thompson, Stevens s aid, " Justice Sca lia has either overlooked or chosen to ignore the fact tha t. bad tajth , knowing violations" of a rule requlrinq s uch d isclosures ot evi dence "may b e caused by improper superv i s i on" i n a prosecuto r 's off.icc .

The nexL da y, in another speech, the retired j ustice sai d he woul d have joined the l one dissent or Just ice Samuel A. Ali~o Jr . i n Snyder v . Phelps, where the court held t hat t he First Amendment shields members o r the We s tboro

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Baptist Church [rom tort liability for pjcke t inq t he funeral of an America n s erviceman .

"It miqht interest you to know Lhat if I wer.e s till a n actjve justice, I would ha ve jo.i ned [AU to's) powe rful d i ssent," sa i d Stevens . " To borrow Sam' s phrase, the Fi r sL Ame ndment d oes not t r-cmsfonn sol emn o ccasions J i ke funerals into ' free-fi re zones.' "

J u sL a few days later·, o n May 12 , St e ve ns we ighed in on the U.S . miss ion that ki l l ed Osama bin Laden . Speaking at a symposium a t Northwester n Un i versity Law School about h is 35- year Lenure , Steve ns noted t ha t t here had been " some d ebate about t he prop riety " o f the ki l l ing of bin Lade n by U. S. Navy Seal s.

"I mu s t say I wa s proud or the Sea ls," sai d Stevens, a Na vy codebrea ke r d uri n g WorL d War I I and the last veteran of t h a t wa r t o s erve on Ll1e h i gh court. "It was nol merely to do j ustice and a venge Sept . 11 .... I t was to remove an enemy who had been trying every day to attack lhe United SLates ."

" It seems clear t hat Justice Stevens wants to speak out o n issues that are qui t e imp ortant to h im," says Univfrslty o f C(.org .. a School of Law professor Diane Ma r ie Amann, a f orme r Steve ns c l e rk . "What ' s r('rnarkable i s that he has been spe aking t o groups that he never spoke to [while serving on t he court ] , and he ' s been putti ng together remarks that have been tailored to Lhe i nLcre s ts o f tha t g r oup."

She no tes t hat b esides his s p e ecl1es, which included one l ast fall addr essing the inte rnment of J a panese - Ame ricans d~ rin q World War I I, Stevens i s comp leli nq a b oo k abo ut t he fiv e c h i ef justices he has known ellher as a l a w c l erk o r a s a iustlcc.

Stevens Lold au thor n ill Ba rnhart i. n a recent interview i n The Atlantic t hat he had no desire to l inger on t he court beyond h is phys ical prime . Stevens recounte d that he h a d secretly a sked Souter a [ew years ago t o tell him when i t was t ime to g o . Wh en Souter reti red in 2009 , •• r knew r d i dn 't h ave any safely v <:t lve anymo r·e, " S t e vens said in the i n tcrview, addj ng that he decided he would retire (a t ter m ' s end) the day in January 2010 when h e fa l ter ed in delive ring h is d issent from Lhe bench in t h e campa ign- f i na nce case Citizens Un i ted v . Federal E l ection Commission .

O' Connor, 81 , h as been a ctive i n a r1umbe r of causes s ince she left t he bench in early 2 0 06, no tabl y h er campaigns Jn favor o f merit s election o f state cou rt j udges and work to improve civic educa tion . O ' Connor, who tra vels a nd s peaks fre quently at a wide varie ty o f events, has s ometimes ma de t art c omments on i ssues of Lh e d a y . La s t year, at a s ymp os ium at t h e College o f Wil l i a m & Mary law schoo l , O 'Connor sai d s he reqretted tha t some of h e r deci s ions on a bo r tion rights , c ampa i gn f i nance a nd race-conscious government p olicies were " b e ing d i smantle d " by Lh e current court .

" vlhat woul d you feel? " O ' Connor was quoted in USA Today . " 1 ' d be a l i ttle b iL di sappointed . lf you thin k you ' ve been he lpful a nd Lh cn iL 's d iSrn<:tntJ e d , yo u t h i nk, ' Oh , dear. ' BtJt life qoes on . I t' s not a lways posit'ive ."

Souter, who r etired in 2009 a nd will turn 72 in September , is less vis i ble Lh a n his f elJow ex- j ustices . But h8 ha s tw rd l y b een a rec l u se . Like O ' Connor, Souter h a s served by designation on t e deral appea ls cour t pane ls, a nd h e even wr ote the decision i n a cas e l ast yea r . (Ste vens has not yet s erve d on any appeals p a nels . )

The u s ua l ly medi a-shy Souter even g ave a n interview to 60 Minutes las t year, i n t ribute to Stevens .

In 2010, Souter d e livered a s peech at Ha rvard Unive r s ity's commencement that o ffered a cri t ique o~ origi nalisl i nte r pretaL ions of the Constit uti on, wh i c h the

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r etired justice cal l e d the " fair read ing mod el ." Several liberal commen t a tors l auded his d iscuss ion o f t he nee d f o r just i ces to q o beyond t h e pla in t ext t o ma ke c hoi c es a mo ng t he c ompeting value s i n the Constitution .

" 'l'he Const i t ution .i s a pantheon of values," Souter sa i d , "and a l ol o f hard c a ses a re ha rd b ecaus e t he Constit u t lon give s no s i mp le r u le o f d eci sion f or the c a s e s in \..Jhich one of the values is truly a t odds with a nother . "

Artemus Wa r d , a n a ssociate profe ssor of pol i t i cal sci enc e at North ern I l linois University who ha s written a bout tl1C timing of high c ourt r eti remen ts, believes all throe r etired just ices c hose to step down when t he y v iewed t he po l it ic al cond i t i o n s as favo rable for sulect ion o f t hei r successor s.

" This a lso means they c an be more a ctive in r e tireme nt," Wa r d s a ys . " And i n r e t ire ment , o ne a J s o wan t s to contj nue to spin Lhe rec o rd a nd i n f l uenc e a f avorabl e historica l judgment o n lone ' s tenure] . "

Am a nn and Gr e e nhou se agr ee t ha t many reti r ed just ice s have s oug ht to burnish t heir leg a cie s . The more active mode l s of ret ireme n t d i s p laye d by O ' Conno r a nd Ste vens, a nd t o a les ser e x tent b y Souter, c a n only help engage the publi c a bout the Sup r eme Court .

Amann , who i.s writing a book about Steve ns , doesn ' t c ons.der any ot the r e tired justices ' c ommen t s to ha ve c rossed a l i ne l nto o uLright c r itici s m of t he tr former c o l lcilg ues . " Each o f t hem t1a s c hose n a p a t h t hat i s e xt reme ly r e s p e c t ful of t he i r peErs on lhe c ourt," she says .

Greenhous e adds thil t with t he active p a ths c hosen b y cou r t ret i r e es , t he p ub l ic g e t s " the unconstr a ined bene l i t or t he ir e xperience a nd the y don ' t have to filter it t hrough the u s ual c onsLraints of si t t i ng judges . I just t h i n k tha t a dds somet h i ng t o the publ i c dis c ourse about the court . "

GRA PHIC : Photos 1 through 3, For mer Justices David Souter (left) , Sandra Day O' Connor and John Pa ul St e v e ns, s ince s tepping d own ! rom t he Sup r e me Cour t , h a ve s e r v ed o n [cd era l appeal s c ou r t p anels, gi ven interviews and made o p inionated speeches on recent dec i sions . LEIGII VOGEL/GETTY IMAGES FOR COLONlAL WILLIAMSBURG (TOP LEFT) , AP PHOTO/ MAN UEL KALCE CEN ETA (TOP RIGHT ) , AP PHOTO /JOSH REY NOLDS

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Cotton Board President and CEO, William A. "Bill" Gillon, has been elected to serve as the chairman of the board for Agricenter International. Gillon previously served on the volunteer board for five years and has held the positions of vice chairman and legal committee chair (attorney of record).

Other officers elected are vice chairman, Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press editor; secretary, Bill Mayfield, USDA, retired; and treasurer, Fletcher Maynard, SunTrust Bank, retired.

"We are extremely honored to have Bill as our chairman. His in-depth knowledge of agriculture and agricultural law and policy over the last 25 years will be an invaluable resource as we continue our work to meet the mission of our organization," said Agricenter President John Charles Wilson.

Based in Memphis, Agricenter International is a self-sustaining, not-for-profit organization that provides economic development and improved quality of life by facilitating agricultural research, educational programs, environmental conservation, natural area preservation and recreational opportunities.

Agricenter International is the world's largest urban farm and research test facility, managing approximately 1,000 acres of farmland lo·cated in the Shelby Farms area of Shelby County.

During his tenure on the board, Gillon helped finalize the application of the Shelby Farms Park master plan to the Agricenter property and has worked to adapt Agricenter operations to comply with the conservation easement that now governs development of the Shelby Farms area.

Gillon brings a lifetime of agricultural policy experience with him. Recently named president of the Memphis-based Cotton Board in October 2010, his work experience includes the USDA Office of General Counsel, senior counsel to the Senate Agriculture Committee, general counsel of the National Cotton Council of America, and private practice focusing on agricultural law and policy.

"Having Bill as our chairman further strengthens the working relationship we have with both the Cotton Board and Cotton Incorporated because of the cooperative research in which we continue partnering today," Wilson said.

Gillon holds a Ia\\ degree from the Uni\'ersity of Georgia and a BA fromMississippi State University. He was named the 2005 Alumnus of the Year and 2009 Alumni Fellow for the Mississippi State College of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Tennessee and Georgia bars. He currently serves as chairman of the Advisory Board for Mississippi State University College of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Shelby County Industrial Development Board. He and his wife Adrienne have two children and reside in Germantown, Tenn.

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Classifieds Jerry " Todd" Cowan, Board of Driver Services Columnists Cowan currently serves as the tax commissioner of Douglas County and has an extensive background in motor vehicle administration and information Editorials technology. He previously served on the American Association of Motor Feedback Vehicle Administrators, the International Standing Committee on Festivals Technology, and was the chairman of Georgia's Chief Information Officers Council. Cowan earned a bachelor's in Computer Science from the Fun Things University of West Georgia. He teaches Sunday school and is on the Douglas To Do County Boys & Girls Club board of directors. Cowan currently resides in Winston with his wife, Dorcas, and has four children. Governments Gwinnett Anthony W. Heath, Board of Driver Services Delegation Heath currently serves as the sheriff of Berrien County. He serves on the Training and Standards Committee for the Georgia Sheriffs Association and Letters is a board member for the Boys and Girls Club. Heath began working as a Museums policeman in 1997 and was selected for a vice presidential detail in 2002. He attended the 77th Trooper School in September of 200 I and served as a Performances trooper until he was elected to serve as sheriff in 2007. Heath and his wife, Iris, live in Nashville and have two children. Rezoning Sailing Terrell "Terry" Buford Cook, State Board ofNursing Home Administrators Sports (Reappointment) Cook is the administrator of McRae Manor Nursing Home in McRae. He Travel serves on the board of directors of the Georgia Health Care Association and UPCCA ofthe Merchants and Citizens Bank. He is active in the Rotary Club, Exchange Club and the McRae United Methodist Church. Cook earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law. He and his wife, Heather, live in McRae and have four children.

Martin Keith Glass, Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council Glass currently serves as the chief of police for the city of Monroe and on the executive board ofthe Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police. He is a former president of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia and served in the Georgia Army National Guard from 1974 until his retirement in 2005. He received the Legion of Merit Award and the Meritous Service Medal for his years of U.S. military service. Glass is a graduate of the U. S. Army Sergeants Major Academy and the Columbus State Law Enforcement Command

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College. He and his wife, Kathy, live in Monroe and have three daughters.

Homer " Buddy" DeLoach, Jekyll Island Authority (Reappointment) DeLoach is currently the owner of Martin Insurance Agency Inc. In previous years, he served on the state arbitration committee after being appointed by the Supreme Court. DeLoach is a former mayor of Hinesville and served in the Georgia House of Representatives for I 0 years. An Army veteran, DeLoach received the Department ofthe Army Patriotic Civilian Service Award; he was also named businessperson ofthe year by the Hinesville/Liberty County Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, Linda, are active members of the Hinesville United Methodist Church. Together they have one son and two grandchildren.

Mike Hodges, Jekylllsland State Park Authority (Reappointment) Hodges is the market president of Ameris Bank in Brunswick. He currently sits on the Jekyll island Authority where he serves as secretary and chairman of the Finance Committee. He also serves as the chairman of the Glynn Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority, a trustee of the College of Coastal Georgia Foundation and a board member of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Hodges earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware. He and his wife, Dana, reside in St. Simons Island and have two sons.

Albert F. Ike, Jekyll Island State Park Authority Ike retired as associate vice president for Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia in I 999 after 29 years of service. He had previously served on the Governor's Advisory Council on Coastal Zone Management, the Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission, the board of trustees of the Georgia Conservancy and the Athens-Clarke County Board of Zoning Appeals. Ike earned a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University, a master's from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He and his wife, Ruth, live in Athens and have two sons.

Laney Dixon "Dick" Childers, Stone Mountain Memorial Association Childers is an instructor for the Mike Cottrell School of Business at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega. He currently serves on the board of the North East Georgia History Center as treasurer and is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants. Childers retired from Brenau University as the vice president of Business and Finance in 2009. He received a bachelor's degree from Christian Brothers University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Mississippi. Childers and his wife, Elaine, have two children and one grandchild.

Randy Owens, Brain and Spinal injury Trust Fund Commission Owens is currently employed at Gainesville Internal Medicine. He serves as a board member of Challenged Child and Red Rabbit Transit and is an adviser to the North East Georgia Medical Center. He is the co-founder of Our Neighbor Inc., a nonprofit that serves the nceJs of those with limitations and enables them to be active in the community. Because of Owens' permanent

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injury that resulted from a car accident, Challenged Child and Friends was founded. He has been an advocate for young adults with disabilities ever since leaving high school.

Sandra Morris, Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (Reappointment) Morris retired as executive director of the Carrollton Housing Authority after 36 years of service. She currently serves as chairman of the Carroll County Boys & Girls Club, is a member of the Carrollton Rotary Club, is the owner of Grant $$$ For You and was elected to the Carroll County School Board District 2 in 20 I 0. Morris attended Bremen City Schools and Carroll Technical Institute. Morris and her husband, Richard, live in Temple and have two sons, Matt and Ryan.

Susan Radovich, Board of Behavioral llcalth and Developmental Disabilities (Reappointment) Radovich is a retired professor at Georgia Southern University and is currently serving as a board member of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. She serves as the chairman ofthe Community Service Board in Statesboro and is the president of the Sprig-Dig Garden Club. She is a past recipient of the Dean Day Smith Service to Mankind Award and has volunteered with developmentally delayed adults for the past 15 years. Radovich earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana University as well as a master's degree from Georgia Southern University. She and her husband, Frank, live in Statesboro and have two daughters, Amy and Amanda. Deirdre

Kathleen O' Brien, Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (Reappointment) O ' Brien is currently serving on the Board of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and is the executive director of the Arc of Georgia, a statewide disability advocacy organization. She received her master's in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. O'Brien and her husband, Randall, have two children, Connor and Clare.

David Johnson, Professional Standards Commission (Reappointment) Johnson is president of United Community Bank in Rome. He serves as vice chairman of the Floyd County Board of Education and was recently elected as president ofthe Georgia School Board Association. Johnson is on the Hospital Authority of Floyd County, the Development Authority of Floyd County and several other boards involving medical and educational interest. lie was recently named by Gov. Deal to serve on the Education Finance Study Commission. Johnson is a graduate of Berry College, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration. He and his wife, Cathy, have two children and one grandchild.

Julia C. Bernath, Georgia Professional Standards Commission (Reappointment) Bernath has served on the Fulton County Board of Education since 2000, serving as both president and vice president during her tenure. She currently

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serves as vice president of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and is past president of the Georgia School Boards Association. Bernath serves as vice chair for the Sandy Springs Education Force, is on the advisory board for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education and is on the board for the Georgia Music Educators Association. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, Regional Leadership Institute, Leadership Sandy Springs and Marcus Jewish Community Center's Erwin Zaban and Max Kuniansky Leadership Programs, as well as the Atlanta Jewish Federation's Linking Leadership to Community. Bernath graduated earning a bachelor's in Journalism, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia. She and husband, Terry, have three children and one brrandchild.

Penny L. Elkins, Georgia Professional Standards Commission (Reappointment) Elkins serves as the senior vice president for Enrollment Management at Mercer University in both Macon and Atlanta. She received a bachelor's and master's in Education at Mercer, an Ed.S. from Georgia College and her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Georgia State Un iversity. Her areas of research interest include cognition theory in leadership, transformational leadership, birth-to-5 education, women in leadership and community partnership development. Elkins lives in Dacula with her husband, Jason.

Adrian Epps, Professional Standards Commission (Reappointment) Epps is associate dean for the College of Science and Mathematics, director of the Advancing the Teaching Of Mathematics & Science (ATOMS) Center and assistant professor of educational leadership at Kennesaw State University. He currently serves on several educational advisory boards and committees. He served for more than 18 years in multiple administrative and teaching roles in the Atlanta Public Schools System; one of these jobs included teaching science for nine years at Frederick Douglass High School. Epps earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Emory University and a doctoral degree from Clark-Atlanta University. lie and his wife, Kathryn, have three children.

Tim Lowe, Board of Governors ofthe George L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Authority (Reappointment) Lowe is the CEO of Lowe Engineers LLC, which is based in Atlanta. He is active in community affairs and currently serves as chairman of the board of governors fo r the Georgia World Congress Center. He also chairs the Energy and Environment Committee of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and is vice president of the Buckhead Coalition. Lowe is a board member of Council for Quality Growth, Liveable Communities for Buckhead and Trust for Public Land. He is a graduate of Leadership Georgia, Leadership Atlanta, the Regional Leadership Institute, the Georgia Institute of Environmental Leadership and was selected by Georgia Trend as one of" I 00 Most InOuential Georgians" for 20 I 0. Lowe is a lite long resident of Atlanta and has three grown daughters.

Tazwell "Taz" L. Anderson Jr., Board of Governors of the George L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Authority (Reappointment)

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Anderson graduated from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology in 1961. He is a licensed real estate developer and technology inventor. He also holds five patents in the fields of advertising and location-based broadcasting. Anderson is a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame for Georgia Tech, Savannah, and the state of Georgia after participating in high school, college and professional football. Anderson is also a board member of the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award.

Tricia Pridemore, Board of Governors ofthe George L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center Authority Pridemore is a Marietta-based businesswoman with a background in technology companies. She serves on the WeiiStar Hospitals Foundation Board and the Republican Leadership for Georgia board of directors. Pridemore earned a bachelor's degree from Kennesaw State University. She and husband Michael are involved in many charitable organizations in Georgia.

John P. Webb Jr., Georgia Agricultural Exposition Authority (Reappointment) Webb is a retired master chief petty officer of the U.S. Navy with 30 years of service. He is also the retired deputy director of the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry. He became a certified fair executive in 1995 and served several years on the Speakers Bureau for the International Association of Fairs and Expositions. Webb is past president of the Georgia Association of Agricultural Fairs (GAAF) and currently serves as secretary/treasurer for that organization. He was named "Fairman of the Year" for the GAAF in 2006.

Jamie R. Pennington, Board of Community Health (Reappointment) After a distinguished career in investment banking, Pennington founded Flexible Executives, a nationally recognized executive consulting company. In 2007, she was named one ofthe top-40 executives under the age of40 in the state of Georgia by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Pennington has been pro1i.led in the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, CFO Magazine and other publications as an expert on providing low-cost solutions for growing businesses. She earned a degree from Vanderbilt University where she received the prestigious Founders Medal. Pennington lives in Atlanta with her husband and three young children.

John "Clay" Cox, Board of Community Health Cox is the president and CEO of Professional Probation Services Inc., which he founded in 1992. He was the 2002 Republican nominee for Congress from Georgia's 13th Congressional District and served three terms in the Georgia House of Representatives. He served as the House chief deputy whip, chairman of the Gwinnett County legislative delegation and chairman ofthe House I Iuman Relations and Aging Committee. Cox has been a member of the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce since 1992 and was a graduate of the inaugural class of the Georgia Legislative Leadership Institute in 2005. He is a graduate of Western Carolina University, where he earned a bachelor's in criminology. He was a three-year letterman in football and an

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All Southern Conference Scholar Athlete. He and his wife, Alisa, have been married 20 years and have two sons. They reside in Lilburn and attend Grace fellowship Church in Snellville.

Eric Johnson, Board of Economic Development Johnson is an architect and president of Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung International Inc. He received his master's degree in architecture from Tulane University and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American lns6tutc of Architects. Johnson served 17 years in the Georgia Legislature, in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was Senate Republican leader for four years and the president pro tern of the state Senate for six years. He served on Gov. Deal's transition team. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, the Georgia Health Sciences University's Planning and Development Committee, the Georgia Cities Foundation and the Union Mission. Johnson and his wife, Kathryn, live in Savannah and have two children.

Allen Gudcnrath, Board of Economic Development Gudenrath is employed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney where he holds the title of senior vice president- Wealth Management, financial adviser. He has worked with the same firm since 1985, serving both institutional and individual investors, fo undations and investment banking services. He earned an associate's degree from Reinhardt College and a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Georgia. Gudenrath was a recipient of the Frederick Kerr Service Award and is a J. W. Fanning Fellow Designee with Leadership Georgia. He and his wife, Lynda, have three children and expect their first grandchild in August.

Richard Kevin Jackson Sr. , Board of Economic Development Jackson is the president and owner of EnviroYac lloldings LLC in Savannah. He is the finance chairman for Congressman Jack Kingston's Capital Cabinet and currently serves on the Savannah Economic Development Authority Board. Jackson attended the University of Georgia, where he was a letterman on the 1980 national championship football team. He and his wife, Libby, live in Savannah and have three children.

Philip W. Tomlinson, Board of Economic Development Tomlinson is the chairman of the board and CEO of Total System Services Inc., or TSYS. Prior to beginning his career with TSYS, he spent fi ve years with GE Capital. Tomlinson has served as a director of Sy novus Financial Corp. since 2008. He is chairman of the Columbus State University Foundation board of trustees, and serves on the CSU Cunningham Center for Leadership Development Advisory Board. He also serves on the Georgia Cancer Coalition Board of Directors. Tomlinson was a 2008 recipient of the prestigious Turknett Leadership Character Award, presented by the Turknctt Leadership Group and Kennesaw State University. He was also recently awarded the Ernst and Young Lifetime Achievement Award at its 25th Entrepreneur of the Year Program.

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J. Comer Yates, Georgia Commission on Hearing Impaired and Deaf Persons (Reappointment) Yates has been the executive director of the Atlanta Speech School since 1998. He is the past president of Camp Twin Lakes and serves on the board of directors there. Yates also serves on the board of directors of the Southeast Region of the Anti-Defamation League, is a member of the Junior League of Atlanta Advisory Board and serves on the board of the Friends of the First Tee of East Lake. He is a member of the Downtown Atlanta Rotary Club and is chair of the Rotary Educational Foundation of Atlanta. Yates received the Distinguished Service Award from the Atlanta Bar Association along with the WXIA Community Service Award for work with students at Therrell High School. He earned a bachelor's degree and law degree from Emory University. He was a member ofthe Order of Coif, the Omicron Delta Kappa and the Order of the Barristers. He and his wife, Sa ll y, have two children.

David r. Meldrum, State Board of Dispensing Opticians (Reappointment) Meldrum is a Licensed Dispensing Optician and has been practicing in Georgia for 35 years. He is certified by the American Board of Opticianry and the National Contact Lens Examiners. Meldrum is also a master in ophthalmic optics. Meldrum is the current chairman of the American Board ofOpticianry, and he sits on the board of directors of the National Academy ofOpticianry as chairman of the Education Committee. His long-standing interest in opticians' continuing education spans a number of years, and he has even co-authored books on the subject.

Richard W. Riley, Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority Riley is a retired principal and executive vice president of Sawyer Riley Compton, an Atlanta advertising and public relations agency. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he served at his alma mater as an instructor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, as well as director to the Dean of External Affairs. Today, he devotes time to family, church and several nonprotlt organizations. Ri ley and his wife, Tena, reside in Gainesville. Together they have two children and four grandchildren.

Lori M. Smith, State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (Reappointment) Smith has worked as an audiologist at Audiological Consultants of Atlanta since 1999. As a founding member ofthe Georgia Academy of Audiology, she currently serves as the Continuing Education chair and the 2012 convention chair. She is also involved in her community by serving on the Little Nancy Creek Park Board. Smith graduated from the University of Florida, where she received a doctorate in Audiology. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband, Rick, and their three children.

James E. Radford, State Rehabilitation Council For more than 25 years, Radford has been a planner with the Workforce Development Division of the Atlanta Regional Commission. He is the lead staff person for the board's youth programs and for youth services planning. Prior to his current position, he taught English at Georgia Tech, worked in a

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local adult literacy program, worked for the migrant and seasonal farm workers employment and training program and directed the start-up of a similar farm worker program in South Carolina. Radford is a graduate of Rice University, the University of Texas and the University of North Carolina. He and his wife, Sharon, have two children and two grandchildren.

Dorothea D. Cadet, State Rehabilitation Council Cadet is employed by Chick-fil-A Inc. She serves on the Public Policy Committee of All About Developmental Disabilities (AADD) and is the president of the South Fulton Coalition for Understanding rnc. Cadet earned a bachelor's degree from Georgia State University and a master's degree from Luther Rice University. She has one adult son and lives in Union City.

Robin E. BIQunt, State Rehabilitation Council Blount has worked in the disability field since 1989. She began working at the Georgia Advocacy Office as a staff attorney, where she served people with disabilities. She currently is the education services director for Parent to Parent of Georgia, which serves families of children with disabilities and special health care needs birth through 26; she is responsible for oversight of the Parent Training and Information Center for the state. Blount earned her bachelor's in American Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and her J.D. at the University ofGeoTgia School on.a\\. She has dedicated her career to serving people with disabilities and their families. She is married with five children, one of whom has multiple disabilities.

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Carter will be representing the firm's long-standing clients in all aspects of civil litigation - from pre-trial settlement negotiations to trial.

Carter practiced with King & Spalding, LLP in Atlanta for three years. While ·with King & Spalding, Carter's practice focused on complex commercial litigation, including professional liability litigation, consumer class actions, and contract disputes in the financial services, real estate, construction, and defense industries.

Carter earned his Jaw degree, cumlaude , from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2008. He earned his undergraduate degrees in History and Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 2005, and is a 200 I graduate of Rome High School.

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Posted: 3:56a.m. Wednesday, July 6, 2011 WSB Legal Expert Ron Carlson on Anthony Verdict

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After Casey Anthony was cleared of murder by a jury in Florida, Newsffalk WSB caught up with legal expert and UGA law professor Ron Carlson.

News/Talk WSB: Despite nearly everyone thinking Casey Anthony was going down, are you surprised?

Ron Carlson: It absolutely does defy the imagination. The nation is in shock over this verdict and I'm sure the people are in Atlanta also. It is absolutely stunning. The last time I recall a verdict delivering a solar plexus punch to expectation as much as this was the first O.J. verdict 16 years ago.

WSB: What are some of the similarities between the Anthony and Simpson verdicts?

RC: The judges in both cases had to search for jurors that were relatively immune to information about the case. That made it difficult to find the kind of jurors they wanted. O.J.'s case was tried from January-October. The verdict came in in three hours. In this case also, we had a very rapid verdict. That suggested to me well before I heard it 'I think this one may go the same direction O.J.'s did' and it did.

WSB: What do you attribute the verdict?

RC: There will be a lot of soul-searching, who could the prosecuting have been improved? We had that before and we will have that with this one. Left unanswered is who killed the little girl? I think the prosecutors might have asked the jury in closing arguments 'If you consider finding her not guilty of this murder, please consider that you have to answer who killed this little child?' That is the big gorilla in the room.

WSB: But it is not up to Casey Anthony's defense to prove that.

RC: Here is a reflection on that. Everyone laughed at the defense attorney because of his potentially bizarre theories. Drowning in a swimming pool, trying to cover that up. He had the last laugh.

WSB: You think he threw just enough doubt to make it stick?

RC: He made what he was doing stick to the point that they had reasonable doubt. One thing the prosecution might have considered was expert testimony on whether a person who has been chloroformed can wake up and expire afterwards. Presenting the image that the youngster waking up in the trunk before she died. Trying to impart that kind of panic in the jury.

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PERRY- Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Houston Judicial Circuit chief assistant district attorney Amy ._. Iaine Snlith to fi ll the solicitor general vacancy in Houston County. The vacancy was created by the resignation of the Honorable Robert Tawse on June 30.

"With 14 years of experience in the Houston County Judicial Circuit, Ms. Smith possesses the qualifications needed to fill this important role," said Deal. "Along with her expertise, Smith also has the motivation to move Houston County's system forward."

Smith, 41, earned her bache lor's degree from Illinois State University and her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. She and her husband, Brian, have three children.

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UGA experts ava i l able t o of [er c omme n tary on the Casey An t hon y tria l and verdi c t

The foJlowing faculty e xpe rts from the Univers ity of Geor gia are avail able to discuss a wide range ot jssues rel a ted Lo the Casey Anthony trial and verdict . Their contact inf o r ma tion is include d for you r convenience . Please feel f r ee to contact UGA News Serv i ce aL 706 / 542-8083 or news @uga . edu shou l d you need a dditional assista nce.

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Carl s on can offe r commentary on the Casey Anthony case in general , as we ll as on the f ollowing t opics :

Th e »csi effect" a nd h ow t h i s could have i mpacted the j u rors ' wj J l ingncs s t o convi c t

Lessons f rom t he case : asking for t he dea th penalty may have been too much with no eye witness a nd no confess ion

Re a ctions by the defendant and her parents a fter the ve r d ict was d eliv ered

Wha t no w? Is the re s till t he p osslbllity tha t Casey wi l l have to serve s ome j a i l t.i.me?

A membe r of t he Ge orgia Law fac u lty since 1984, Carlson s p e cializes in the areas o f evidence , trjal practice a nd criminal procedure . He ha s writte n numerous books and a rticles in prominent law rev i ews on the s e t opics and a l s o h as l i t i g ated numerou s trial and appellate c ases, including arguing befo re the U. S . Sup r eme Cou r t. Add i tional inf o r mation o n Carlsorl is a v a ilable at www .la w.uga . edu/pc-ofile/r onal d - 1- car.l:'}_2.Q ·

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p ubli c opinion in such h i gh- profile c ase s . lloll a nder studies t he poli tical e ffect s of new media and has published e x tens ive ly on the ways people use talk r adi o , the Internet and t he ma instream p r ess . He worked a s a jour n a list at dail y newspa p e rs in Mi ssissippi, Louisi ana a nd Flor ida, e a rni ng a wa r ds for spot news c ove r a ge a nd investig a t ive r eport ing .

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Augusta. GA---Mrs. Carrie Moore Adamson. wife of the late Raymond J Adamson and honorary president of the Augusta Genealogical Society, entered into rest on July 6, 2011 at Kentwood nursing facility in Augusta, GA.

A memorial service will take place on Tuesday. July 12, at 11 a.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 3131 Walton Way Ext., Augusta. Visitation in the church parlor will follow the service. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery, at a later date.

A native of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania with Scotch-Irish paternal and German maternal lines to the colonial 18th century. Carrie was the daughter of Edward Parks Moore and Stella Narehood Moore. She attended Thompson College before her engagement to Raymond J. Adamson of Naugatuck, Connecticut. After their marriage in June. 1947, she resumed studies at the University of Connecticut and then accompanied Ray overseas to post-war Europe for 3 ~ years. Stationed in Germany, they made many lasting friendships among other army couples.

When Ray was commanding his men in the field (one of whom was a young recruit named Elvis Presley), Carrie organized her own research trips in Europe and enjoyed her interest in photography.

Remaining at Fort Knox, KY, while Ray was on assignment in Korea, Carrie coordinated "Destination Korea" which raised huge amounts of food and clothing for Korean orphanages. She was also society editor of the post newspaper and hosted a weekly radio show. Later, she spent one year in Japan in independent study of Japanese culture and history. Crossing the Pacific on a barge with a group of missionaries bound for Asia, she lodged with an organization under the leadership of an Irish nun known as "Sensei" who won international fame for her humanitarian work and for her conversion of some of the former Japanese war generals to Christianity.

Assignments on various posts in the states in Civil Affairs eventually led to Georgia, where the Adamson's became residents in 1964. Lt. Col. Adamson served in Vietnam and Carrie served as president of the Fort Gordon Officers Wives Club. After his last assignment at Fort Gordon. the couple made decisions to reside permanently in Augusta and to attend the University of Georgia. Ray earned his J D. degree from the UG School of Law. and Carrie graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Journalism and recognition by Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. She was president of the Augusta Friends of the Library and served on the commission for the 200th Celebration of the Founding of Augusta.

Known for her interest in history and genealogy, Carrie was a frequent speaker to civic

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and education organizations. Her greatest community impact, however, began in the summer of 1979 after speaking to a group at the Augusta Public Library. Enthusiasm for the channeling of genealogical interests led to the formation of the Augusta Genealogical Society w ith Carrie as chartering president and later as librarian and editor of the monthly newsletter Southern Echoes, the journal Ancestoring, and the Ancestoring Monograph Series, as well as a nationally publicized genealogy book, Genealogical Letters: When Your Ox Is In the Ditch. She also edited an acclaimed Summerville Cemetery (Augusta) book published by AGS in 1990. Speaking to groups throughout the Southeast, her lectures often emphasized migration patterns of the Scotch-I rish and other ethnic groups into the South. She was a lecturer in 1988 and 1992 at National Genealogical Society conferences.

A graduate of the National Institute on Genealogical Research, Washington, D.C., Carrie attended and lectured at Samford University Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research and was on faculty from 1990-2004.

Known locally as "the cemetery lady" for conducting innumerable tours of local cemeteries, especially Summerville and Magnolia, she was the recipient of a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History for research and interpretation of Augusta, Georgia cemeteries.

During the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Augusta Genealogical Society in 2004, a bronze plaque was unveiled at the entrance of the AGS library to name the building in honor of charter members# 1/1A Raymond and Carrie Adamson.

Carrie was honored in 2005 by the Georgia Humanities Council with the Governor's Award, the first presented in the field of genealogy, and in 2008 by the Georgia Archives for Lifetime Achievement. Archives Director David Carmichael called her "first and foremost a genealogist" during a long career of teaching thousands of researchers to locate their ancestors.

The AGS Adamson Library, 1109 Broad Street, is her legacy. Its founding is her gift to Augusta, her adopted Southern city. Many members of AGS became her extended family for several decades. She treasured her friends Elizabeth Swink and the late John Swink, Sarah Montgomery, Ruth Shaw, Jerry Scott, Octavia Garlington, Mae Rachels, Georgia Lane, Jean Smith and Janice Johnson.

She was reared as a Methodist but became a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Augusta in later years. She also made friends among the nursing staff at Kentwood in Augusta who provided excellent care and concern.

Carrie was preceded in death by her husband Raymond Adamson, her parents, and brothers Earl Edward "Bud" Moore, and Leonard Parks Moore.

Family members include cousins Martha Showden, Wilson Narehood, and Nancy Narehood Taylor, nieces Rhonda Moore Williams and Susan Moore Narehood, all of Pennsylvania, niece Gait Moore of New York, nephew Date Moore of New Hampshire, and Ray Adamson's niece Kathy Adamson Romaniello of Connecticut.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Augusta Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 3743 Augusta, GA 30914-3743 or to Covenant Presbyterian Church, 3131 Walton Way Ext., Augusta, GA 30909.

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A former Gwinnett County commissioner accused of taking up to $1 million in bribes from a developer to arrange land deals was handed a victory Thursday when the Georgia Court of Appeals dismissed his indictment.

The victory is likely to be short-lived, though, since Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter immediately pledged to seek a new indictment from another grand jury.

The court held that the special purpose grand jury did not have the legal authority to return the criminal indictment it handed down Oct. 8 against former commissioner Kevin Kenerly. The special purpose grand jury was impaneled only to investigate the acquisition of property by the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, the court said.

The grand jury was assembled Sept. 23, 2009, after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a series of stories about suspicious county land deals. The newspaper discovered commissioners may have paid well-connected developers millions of dollars more for their land than it was really worth.

Kenerly's indictment included one count of bribery and two counts of failing to disclose a financial interest in two properties he voted to rezone. Grand jurors said Kenerly "directly or indirectly" accepted or agreed to accept payments totaling $1 million as bribes for arranging for the county to buy real estate.

Kenerly's defense attorney, Pat McDonough, said Thursday his client is innocent. 'While we are certainly pleased with today's victory on a point of law, make no mistake that we are also ready to win this case on the facts."

Kenerly resigned from office in November, saying the charges had become a distraction for the county.

A grand jury could hand down a new indictment as early as Wednesday, but it is more likely to be July 20, Porter said. The citizen panel meets

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Porter said he was surprised by Thursday's ruling. He said he will ask the court to reconsider.

"It's an incorrect interpretation of the law," Porter said, although he said no case law is exactly on point. "Everybody knew we were making new law and it could go one way or the other. I just think it happened to go the wrong way."

If the Court of Appeals won't reconsider, Porter said he will appeal the case to the state Supreme Court.

Will Warrick, the vice-foreperson of the special purpose grand jury, said Thursday that he had no regrets.

"If it goes through due process all the way to that level of the courts and the indictment is dismissed, then justice has been done," Warrick said. "It's out of my hands. I did my job."

State law surrounding special grand1uries is still a work in progress and the boundaries of their powers are still being spelled out by the courts, said Ronald Carlson, a University of Georgia law professor: Carlson believes Porter was right in seeking indictments from the special purpose grand jury. He said the panels should be allowed to hand down indictments, because they are closest to the facts.

"It just makes for a much more efficient system if they can proceed with charges rather than having to do yet a second round of educating a new grand jury," Carlson said.

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Posted: 7:26PM Jul 7, 201 1 SMITH: Visit to small town renews hopeful feeling This being watermelon season , you probably agree that you can't stop after just one slice. You always want more, which is the way I feel emotionally about visiting the Hopeful General Store, run by Dennis White. There are plenty of watermelons at Dennis' place, by the way. Reporter: Loran Smith

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HOPEFUL Th is being watermelon season, you probably agree that you can't stop after just one slice. You always want more, which is the way I feel emotionally about visiting the Hopeful General Store, run by Dennis White. There are plenty of watermelons at Dennis' place, by the way.

·My first time here was unscheduled. It just looked like an interesting place, and it is. The first time I heard of Hopeful was from .a conversation from former Lt. Gov. George T. Smith , who enrolled in high school in Hopeful as a grown man. He had to quit . school as a boy to work on the farm, but wanted an education badly and signed up for high school classes at an age when ·most people were finishing. His classmates called him Grandpa.

'Wh ile that is another story, it is a reminder that the first thing a poor boy, or girl for that matter, needs to acquire an < education is a commitment. Appreciating the value of an education enhances opportunity, too. George T. Smith, who died at 92, didn't let the awkwardness of spending class with kids who were five and six years his junior keep him from a diploma which led to a law degree at the University of Georgia.

Later he was elected to the second-highest office in our state. Communities like Hopeful often are where you find

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'Overachievers, like George T. Smith, who do something good in life.

Wit h an appointment down the road from Hopeful, where Georgia highways 65 and 97 intersect, I left Thomasville, where I was anchored for a couple of days, so I could have breakfast at the Hopeful General Store.

Coffee clubs abound everywhere across this great country- often at an informal gathering spot where people poke fun at one another, small talk and gossip. At the Hopeful General Store they gather 'round in folding chairs in a semicircle and discourse on familiar topics. Weather (downcast with corn burning up in the fields and cotton having been replanted because of extremely dry conditions), politics Oaded views about the president and the governor), Georgia football (not giving up but frustrated that the Bulldogs haven't competed for a championship lately) and fishing. The latter, said Brady Clark "is about the only good news we've had lately." Brady has a reputation of finding fish no matter the conditions.

,A lively conversation ensued among Glenn Cox, Donald Shirah, Lee Kirbo, Earnest Flournoy and Scott Smith. Somebody knew about somebody somewhere nearby killing a big rattlesnake. Vince Smith, the father of running back Vince Smith Jr., who signed to play football at Michigan, walked by, causing this reaction from Donald Shirah: "How come y'all missed out on him?" I changed the subject.

Light-hearted banter was directed toward Glenn Cox, whose family all profess allegiance to the University of Georgia, but he :has a daughter at Florida.

"They are going to make a Gator out of you one of these days," Dennis laughed. Glenn shot back, "That'll never happen. I ain't switching."

The harvesting of sweet corn has just ended.

"We have some of the best," Dennis said. Sacking up a few roasting ears for a visitor, he said , "try this," and he handed over a half ear of fresh corn. Having grown up on a farm, I've tried many things in its raw state, but never uncooked corn on the cob. "That's the best way to eat it," said Dennis' son, D. J.

After taking a bite, it was convincing. Raw corn is very good. As I moved down highway 65 in the direction of Pelham, I munched on the sweet corn, refreshed and re-energized by good conversation with good folk who count their blessings and who are anxious, like folks all over this state, for the Bulldogs to return to the Georgia Dome.

Lora n Smith is co-host of "The Tailgate Show" for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.

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The governor said in a statement Wednesday that Houston Judicial Circuit chief assistant district attorney Amy Elaine Smith will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Robert Tawse on June 30.

The governor says Smith has 14 years of experience in the Houston County Judicial Circuit.

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Posted on Thu, Jul. 07, 2011 Deal names new solicitor general for Houston Co. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a new solicitor general for Houston County The governor said in a statement Wednesday that Houston Jud1c1al Circuit chief assistant district attorney fl{fly Ela1ne Sm1th will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Robert Tawse on June 30. T he governor says Smith has 14 years of experience in the Houston County Judicial Circuit. The 41 -year-old earned her bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and her law degree from the UM1ers1ty of Georg1a School of law

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Posted on Fri, Jul. 08, 20 11 Deal names prosecutor for state post in Houston BY BECKY PURSER WARNER ROBINS /Vny Sm1tfl, chief assostant district auorney lor Houston County, has been appointed by the governor to it li the Hooston County state solicitor post. " With 14 years of experience in the Houston County Judicial Circurt. Ms Smith possesses the qualifications needed to !ill this important role." said Gov. Nathan Deal in a statement released Wednesday. · Along woth her expertise, Smith also has the motovation to move Houston County's system forward." State Solicitor Rob Tawse, 67. who was elected in 201 0 to another four-year term. resigned June 30 due to health issues that he said were oncreasongty drawing hom away from a heavy casetoad He has held the post for 12 years. •rm e~ci ted and thrilled and honored and just ready to get started and continue to do some good work lor Houston County," Smith said Thursday. Smith, 41, a career prosecutor, hes served the last 14 years with the Houston County District Attorney's Off tee. She noted ol Tawse that she'll have some · big shoes to fill • A swearing-in date has not yet been set, but Sm~h said she expects it woll take place somehmo the week after next. Smith said she plans to take it one day at a time when she takes office, and she knows the State Solicitor's Ollice does good work She said her last day with the District Allorney's Office ts July 15 In her current posilton. she supervises a staff of about 25 people She was previously a senior assistant district auorney lor about 10 years. In a previous interview about her interest in the post. Smrth said, "I want to do it because I'm a caroer prosecutor that firmly believes that State Court has an important role in the judicial system." She noted tho Stale Soltcito( s Office is a " stopgap:· "It's the first place that people show up in the JUdicial system:· sho said. The solicitor's office has an opportunity to attempt to intervene at the misdemeanor level before crimes escalate into more serious offenses. Smith said Smith earned her bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and her law degree !rom the Unoversoty of G<>org~& School of Law, according to the governor's release. She and her husband. Warner Robins police Lt. Brian Smith. h ave three children. Smith and Warner Robins attorney Carl Veline Jr., 63. applied lor the governor's appoontment to fill the post. The term exptres Jan 1. 2013. To contact writer Becky Purser, call 256-9559.

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ATLANTA (AP)- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a new solicitor general for Houston County.

The governor said in a statement Wednesday that Houston Judicial Circuit chief assistant district attorney M1y Elaine Smith will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Robert Tawse on June 30.

The governor says Smith has 14 years of experience in the Houston County Judicial Circuit.

The 41-year-old earned her bachelor's degree from Illinois State University and her law degree from the University of Georg1a School of Law

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Natalie Marie Vickers o;f Newnan graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law on May 21, 2011, receiving a juris doctor degree. Vickers graduated in the top ten of her class in 2004 from East Coweta High School.

At ECHS, Vickers participated in many clubs and organizations. Much of her extra-curricular time was spent either dancing with Bettina Carroll's School of Dance or cheering for the East Coweta Indians. Vickers served as a captain of the Varsity Cheerleading Squad her senior year at ECHS.

After graduating from high school, Vickers moved to Athens to attend the University of Georgia for undergraduate studies. In the Summer of 2006 she was selected by UGA faculty to study abroad at the Oxford University in Oxford, England. While in Europe, Vickers was also able to travel to Ireland and France. In 2008 Vickers graduated from UGA ·with two degrees: A bachelor of arts in international affairs and a bachelor of arts in History.

Vickers placed in the top 15 percent of her 2008 undergraduate class at UGA. After completing her undergraduate studies, Vickers was accepted to the University of Georgia's School of Law.

During Law School, Vickers served as the 1L Class President for the Student Bar Association and as a Dean's Ambassador. In the summer of 2009, following her first year of Law School, Vickers travelled to Brazil for three months. Vickers participated in Georgia State University Law School's Study Abroad program in Rio de Janiero for six weeks. Following the study abroad, Vickers traveled to Recife, Pernambuco, in Northern Brazil to work for Siquiera Castro Advogados, which is the second largest law firm in Central and South America. Vickers was accepted for the position through UGA Law School's Global Internship Program. While at Siqueria Castro, Vickers attended trial and appellate level court proceedings and translated and re-drafted multi-million dollar international business contracts.

In Vickers' last year of Law School, she was selected to work with the United States Securities & Exchange Commission in their Atlanta Regional Office.

During her SEC placement, Vickers worked with a small team to bring eleven defendants, who had been involved in an international bank fraud scheme to justice.

Vickers plans to practice law north of Atlanta.

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Sharpsburg resident Alexandra Valentine has been awarded a $1,000 leadership scholarship from Chick-fil-A., Inc. Valentine was nominated by Mike Holmes, operator of the Peachtree City Chick-fil-A.

"The program recognizes employees who ha"e acquired the leadership qualities and skills necessary to be successful in life while provided an additional incentive for our employees to remain dedicated and work hard," said Holmes.

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Leslie Munoz of Newnan, daughter of C1audia Snyder, was named to the dean's list of Emory College, the undergraduate, liberal arts college of Emory University in Atlanta, for the 2011 spring semester. Students must be in the top 20 percent of Emory College or have approximately a 3.86 grade point average or higher to be named to the dean's list.

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The following students were named to the merit list of Oxford College, the two-year liberal arts division of Emory University located in Oxford, for the 2011 spring semester:

Zachary Vann of Newnan, son of Dr. David E. Vann and Dr. Jodi W. Vann.

Carrielee Crenshaw of Newnan, daughter of Melanie D. Crenshaw.

Students must earn a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the previous semester to be named to the merit list.

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The following area residents received a degree from Emory University in Atlanta, at its 166th commencement ceremony on May 9, 2011:

Zachary Chahalis of Newnan, son of James Chahalis of Newnan, and Linda Chahali s of Newnan, received an associate in arts from Oxford College of Emory University.

Leslie Munoz of Newnan, daughter of Claudia Snyder, received a bachelor of arts from Emory College of Emory University.

Ryan Murray of Newnan, son of Jennie Strickland Murray of Newnan, and Patrick Murray of San Francisco, Calif., received a bachelor of science from Emory College of Emory University.

Carrielee Crenshaw of Newnan, daughter of Melanie Crenshaw, received an associate in arts from Oxford College of Emory University.

Matthew Cauthen of Newnan received a master of business administration from the Goizueta Business Schoo] of Emory University.

Daisy Lee of Senoia, daughter of Gary Lee and Lesley Lee, received a bachelor of arts from Emory College of Emory University.

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Kati Miller of Senoia, daughter of Michael Jeffrey Miller and Gertrude Carroll Miller, received a bachelor of arts from Emory College of Emory University.

Rachael Maynard of Senoia received a master of public health from the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.

BriHanna McDaniel of Fairburn, daughter of Franklin McDaniel and Brillabeth Hilliary McDaniel, received a bachelor of arts from Emory College of Emory University.

Jonielle Turner of Fairburn received a doctor of law from the School of Law of Emory University.

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By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

2:39p.m. Friday, July 8, 2011

The armed robbery was 32 years ago, and the man accused of it has been in prison all that time for killing a 72-year-old man while running from police.

Still, Cobb County's district attorney says it's time Raymond Franklin face the charges that he used a shotgun to steal money and a 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle on Jan. 7, 1979 . DA Pat l-Ie ad says it's irrelevant that Franklin already is in prison for the unrelated killing of Claude Collie.

Head reopened the long-closed case five days before Franklin was to have been paroled after 28 years in prison because, the prosecutor said, there are some people who should never leave prison and Franklin is one of them.

"Why not now?" l-lead said of his decision to take the armed robbery charge to trial. "It's been on the dead docket all this time. I've got all the witnesses [ready to testify]."

So on Monday, Franklin will go on trial in Cobb County in connection with a theft, armed robbery and aggravated assault committed 10 days before Collie was killed in his home.

"l's a fairly unusual step to, after 30 years, bring up charges that have languished that long," University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson said. "All over the state they [prosecutors] will take cases off the table, but this [Franklin case] is not due to any new discovery [of evidence or a witness]. This is simply to ensure that this person stays in jail."

There will be no jury. Franklin has asked Cobb Judge Lark Ingram to decide the case because of the complicated legal questions that will be more central to this case than the question of Franklin's guilt or innocence.

"One of the largest issues that's going to be addressed ... will be how much credit he would get for the time served in prison since 1979," said Jason Swindle, who is representing Franklin. ''I'm going to e!ll'loy every legal tool I have to make sure he gets out of prison at some point. Mr. Franklin has truly, truly been rehabilitated."

Since the Georgia Supreme Court has already said Franklin's right to a speedy trial was abused, Swindle said he will argue Monday that the passage of time violates Franklin's ri ght to due process and that it's too late to try the charges.

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But John Marshall Law School professor Michael Mears pointed out that the statute of limitations shouldn't be an issue because Franklin was indicted in 1979; that stopped the legal clock. But the decision to try the armed robbery charge "runs counter to the intent of the [dead docket] procedures," Mears said.

Collie's daughter declined to comment before the trial, but in 2007, when the armed robbery case was revived, she was adamant Franklin should never be free.

Convicting him of armed robbery should ensure he will stay in prison for many more years, Gladys Collie told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution four years ago.

''That boy is mean," she said. "I don't think he's reformed. I think if he gets out, he'll kill again."

Court Administrator Tom Charron, the district attorney in 1979, remembers the crime well.

"It took the whole county by storm because there was a manhunt," Charron said.

Franklin, in jail just on charges, was one of four inmates shackled and chained together and taken to a local dentist's office for treatment the morning of Jan. 17, 1979. Before he could be put back in leg irons, Franklin grabbed a deputy's revolver and escaped, taking a 24-year-old dental hygienist hostage.

Moments later, Franklin knocked on Collie's door, demanding the key to the car in the driveway.

Collie slammed the door and Franklin shot twice. One bullet passed through the door, striking Collie. Franklin claimed it was an accident, that he never intended to kill Collie.

A jury saw it differently, saying Franklin should die.

In 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court threw out that conviction. Franklin was convicted a second time, but that jury said his punishment should be life in prison.

Crime had been Franklin's life for many years before he killed Collie, according to records. He was convicted at 14 for stealing a ca r and at 16 for drug possession. He pleaded guilty at age 17 to robbery by snatch. His next crime was burglary, and he pleaded guilty to that, too.

But Franklin's file also shows he tried to improve himself once in prison. He received his GED, then two two-year college degrees and certificates for classes in various trades.

Franklin was eligible for parole in 1986, the year after his second trial, but he was turned down 12 times until the Parole Board tentatively agreed to release him in the fall of 2006.

Franklin was in a halfway house in Macon and working for a moving company in October 2006 when he was notified five days before he was to be paroled that he would return to prison. Head had put a "hold" on his release and notified the Parole Board that there was a case pending against Franklin.

Franklin and his attorney insist that the Raymond Franklin of 1979 -- the 21-year-old killer- is gone.

"Back in the '70s, there's no question he was extremely violent," said Swindle, his attorney.

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At 53, Franklin says he's rehabilitated, noting that at the halfway house he lived and worked in a free world for months.

"My conduct 32 years ago is inexcusable," Franklin said in a letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But the Parole Board had decided I was ready for release."

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By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

9:10a.m. Saturday, July 9. 2011

The Atlanta schools cheating case is now in the hands of three local district attorneys, who must decide whether the scandal is also criminal.

District attorneys in Fulton, DeKalb and Douglas counties said they are reviewing the voluminous report by state investigators and will decide whether to seek indictments.

Douglas County DA David McDade said Friday he expects it will take prosecutors a considerable amount of time to reach decisions. He noted that the GBI's investigative file in the case amasses 120 volumes.

As prosecutors consider their options, scores of current and former APS educators and administrators, some at the highest levels of the system, are left wondering whether police officers will knock on their doors.

"I'm sure there are a lot of people who have great concern right now," said Ron Carlson, a University of Georgia criminal law professor. "Some of the allegations in this report are gravely serious."

Among the potential charges: giving false statements to investigators or altering public documents, which are felonies with penalties of up to 10 years in prison. School officials who submitted test scores they knew to be false also face possible felony charges and up to five years in prison.

Anyone who destroyed documents or instructed subordinates not to cooperate could be charged with obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor.

The report says 178 educators, including 38 principals, participated in cheating on standardized tests. It also accuses top administrators of destroying or altering complaints about misconduct and trying to hinder the investigation.

When former Gov. Sonny Perdue launched the probe last August, he stressed that teachers who cheated but were honest with investigators should not be criminally prosecuted. Gov. Nathan Deal restated that directive after he took office, the report says.

The report says investigators obtained confessions from 82 educators. Some of the remaining 96 refused to answer questions, asserting their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Others lied, the report alleges

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In some sections, the investigative report reads like a criminal indictment. Some administrators "aided and abetted" cheating, it says. It also notes that educators, at the behest of investigators, wore hidden recording devices and recorded phone calls with others suspected of wrongdoing.

J. Tom Morgan, a former district attorney, said he has never seen an executive agency issue a report like the one released to the public in the APS case that names individuals and accuses them of crimes without having first been approved by a grand jury.

"It puts the DAs in an awkward position," he said, noting the local prosecutors did not oversee the investigation and must now deal with immunity agreements granted to witnesses that they did not approve.

Morgan, who represented APS, said he was not speaking on behalf of the system.

Already, some implicated in the investigation have criticized the report's findings. Former Superintendent Beverly Hall said through her lawyer that no evidence shows she knew widespread cheating occurred. The report says Hall knew or should have known cheating was widespread in the district.

Three teachers from Finch Elementary also denounced the report's assertion that they changed test answers.

"We are shocked and enraged that the system and politicians are trying to make the teachers scapegoats for a systemic problem that has pervaded [APS] for years," teachers Sharona Thomas Wilson, Tyrone Shorter and Joya Florence said in a statement. "We cannot sit back and be slandered in reports when we did nothing wrong. We will fight to clear our names."

Atlanta defense attorney Bruce Harvey, who represents six APS educators, criticized investigators for disclosing the names of those who exercised their Fifth Amendment rights. "That's the touchstone of a witch hunt, not an investigation," Harvey said.

Former Venetian Hills Elementary principal Clarietta Davis was one of six principals who declined to answer questions. The report said Davis cheated and directed others to cheat on tests from 2004 to 2009.

The report lists 20 questions Davis refused to answer, such as whether she pressured teachers to cheat and whether she received bonus money from APS based on test scores she knew were false. Davis "categorically denies" wrongdoing, Harvey, her attorney, said.

The report notes that an educator's refusal to answer questions is an implied admission in a civil proceeding, such as when the state Professional Standards Commission decides whether to suspend or revoke an educator's license. It cannot, however, be used to imply guilt in a criminal case.

Of the three DAs, Fulton District Attorney Paul Howard has, by far, the most to consider. The investigative report - compiled by former state Attorney General Mike Bowers, former DeKalb DA Bob Wilson and investigator Richard Hyde - alleges cheating in 40 schools in Fulton and misconduct at APS headquarters.

In November, Howard designated Bowers and Wilson as special assistant DAs. On Tuesday, hours after

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they stood next to Deal at the governor's news conference on the report, Bowers and Wilson briefed Howard on their findings .

Howard said a member of his senior staff is now reviewing the case, and once that is completed, "we will make an announcement at that time."

McDade, the Douglas County DA, said he has reviewed the report, which alleges four teachers at Gideons Elementary took students' answer sheets to a teacher's Douglasville horne. Over a weekend, the teachers allegedly held a "changing party" to correct wrong answers.

The special investigators granted immunity to the Gideons teachers in exchange for their testimony, so they cannot be prosecuted, McDade said Friday . "So our focus is on the administrators or supervisors of those teachers."

Cheating also occurred in at least four APS schools - East Lake Elementary, Whitefoord Elementary, Coan Middle and Toomer Elementary- in DeKalb, the report said.

In 2009, the DeKalb DA' s office obtained a conviction against former principal James Berry of DeKalb's Atherton Elementary School for falsifying a state document in a test-cheating case. He received two years on probation and was ordered to pay a $1 ,000 fine.

Prosecutors decided not to indict assistant principal Doretha Alexander, who was also implicated, after she agreed to serve 40 hours of community service at a food bank. They no longer work for the school system.

Atlanta lawyer Don Samuel, who represented Alexander, said APS efll)loyees facing possible criminal charges should consider damage control if they think there is considerable evidence against them. This includes agreeing to cooperate or cutting a deal.

"Losing their license is one thing," he said. "Facing a criminal prosecution is quite another."

Staff writer Alan Judd contributed to this article.

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Posted on Sunday, July 10,2011 11:16:34 AM by barmag25

The Atlanta schools cheating case is now in the hands of three local district attorneys, who must decide whether the scandal is also criminal.

District attorneys in Fulton, DeKalb and Douglas counties said they are reviewing the voluminous report by state investigators and will decide whether to seek indictments.

Douglas County DA David McDade said Friday he expects it will take prosecutors a considerable amount of time to reach decisions. He noted that the GBI 's investigative file in the case amasses 120 volumes.

" I' m sure there arc a Jot of people who have great concern right now," said Ron Carlson, a University of Georgia criminal law professor. "Some or the allegations in this r,.;port arc gravel) serious:·

Among the potential charges: giving 1~llse statements to investigators or altering public documents, which are felonies with penalties of up to I 0 years in prison. School officials who submitted test scores they knew to be false also face possible felony charges and up to five years in prison.

Anyone who destroyed documents or instructed subordinates not to cooperate could be charged with obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor.

lbe report says 178 educators, including 38 principals, participated in cheating on standardized tests. It also accuses top administrators of destroying or altering complaints about misconduct and trying to hinder the investigation.

When former Gov. Sonny Perdue launched the probe last Aut,IUst, he stressed that teachers who cheated but were honest with investigators should not be criminally prosecuted. Gov. Nathan Deal restated that directive after he took office, the report says.

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Mrs. Carrie Moor e ~d ams on , wife o f the l ate Rc.tymond J . Adamson and honorary president of the AugusLa Genealogical Society, entered i nto rest on July 6 , 201 1 at Ke ntwood Nursing Facili ty, in Augusta, GA .

A memo rial service will take p lace on Tuesday, July 12 , at 11 a.m. at Covena nt Presbyterian Church , 3131 Walton Way Ext ., Au qusta. Visitation in the church parlor will follow the service . Interment will be i n Arlington National Cemete r y , a t a l ater date .

A native of Clearf ield County, Pennsylvania with Scotch- Irish paterna l and German maternal lines to the colonial 18th century, Carrie was the daughter of Edward Parks Moo re and St e l la Narehood Moore . She attended Thompson Col l ege b e for e her engagement to Raymond J . Adamson of Naugatuck, Co nnecticuL . After thei r marriage in June, 1947 , she resumed studies at the University of Conne cticut a nd then accompanied Ray overseas to post- war ~urope f or 3 years . Sta tioned i n Germany, they made many las ting friendships among other a rmy coupl es .

When Ray was c ommanding his men in the fi e l d (one or whom was a young recruit named ~lv is Presley } , Ca r r ie organi%ed h er own rese a rcl1 tri ps i n Eu rope and enjoye d her interest in photography .

Rema ining a l. Fort Kno x , KY, wh t le Ray was on assignmen t in Kore a , Carrie coordinated " Dest ination Korea '' wh ich raised huge amounLs o f r o od a nd c l othing for Korean orphana ges . She was also sociely editor o f the post newspaper and hosted a weekly r adio sho w. Later, she spent one year in J apan in indepe ndent study o f Jap a nese culture and h i s tory . Crossi ng the Paci fic on a barqe wi th a group of missionar i es bound for Asia, she lodged wit h an organiza t ion under t he leade rship of an Irish nun known as "Sensei " who won international fame for her humanitarian work a nd for h er conversion of some of the former J apanese wa r generals t o ChrJ stia nity .

Assignments on va rious posts in the states in Civil Affairs eventually led to Ge orgia, where the Adamson' s bec ame r esidents in 1964 . l. L. Col . Adamson s erved in Vietnam a nd Carr i e s erved a s presidenl o f t he For t Go r don Ofticers Wives Club . After his l ast assignment a t Forl Gordon, the couple made d e cisions t o resid e pPrmanently in Augusta and to a tend the University of Georgia . Ray earned h is J . D. degree from the UGA School of Law , and Carr ie graduate d s umma cum l a ude with a B.A. i n Journal ism and recogn ition by Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi . She wa s president of the Augusta Fr iends of the Library and served on the commiss ion fo r the 200th Ce lebration of t he Founding o f Augusta .

Kn o wn for her i nterest i n his tory and genealogy, Carri e was a frequent speaker to c ivic and education organizations. Her greatest community impa ct , however, bega n in Lhe summer o f 1979 a fter s peaking to a group at Lhe Augusl.a Public Library. ~nthusi asm for Lh e channeling o f genealogical interests l ed to

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the ( o rma t i on ot the Auqusta Geneal o gl c ~ l Soclety wi th Carr ie as charte rinq presiden t and l ater as J jbrarian and edi t or o f t he month l y news l etter Southern Echo e s , t he journal Ancestoring, and the Ancestoring Monograph Series, as wel l as a natjonal l y publicized gen e a logy book, Ge nealogical Letters : When Your Ox Is I n the Ditch . S he a lso edited an acclaimed Summe rville Cemetery (Auqusta ) b ook publishe d by AGS in 1 990 . Speaki ng to qroups thro ughout t he Southeast , her l ectu r e s often e mp hasized migra t i on pat t erns o f the Scot ch-Ir i sh and o t her ethnic g roups i n to the Sou t h . She was a lecturer Jn 1 988 a nd 1992 a t Nationa l Genealogical Soci e t y c onferences .

A grad uate o f the Nationa l Inst i tute on Geneal o gica l Research , Washington , o . C., Carr i e attend ed and lectured a t Samf ord University 1 nstitute o f Geneal o gy and Hist o rical Research and was on f aculty from 1 990-2004 .

Known locally as "the c emetery lady" f o r conducting i nnumerable tours of loc a l cemete r ies, e spec ia l ly Sun® e cville a nd Magnoli a , she was the r ecip i e nt of a Cert i f icate o f Commenda tion Cr.om t he Ameri c a n Association for State and Loc al History fo r research and inte rpretation of Auqus ta, Georgia c e meteri e s .

During t h e 2~th annjve rsary of the foundi n g of Lhe Augusta Genealog i cal Society in 2004 , a b ron ze p l a q ue wa s unve iled at the e ntrance of the AGS library to name the building i n honor of charter members # l / 1A Raymond and Carrie Adamso n .

Ca rrie was h onored in ?.00~ by lhe Georgia Huma nit i es Council wit h t he Gove rnor 's Awa rd, the fi r st presented in t he field o f gene alogy, and i n 2 008 by t h e Georgia Archives f or Lifetime Achieve me nt . Archives Di rector David Car·michael calle d her " f i rst a nd toremost a genealogist" during a long caree r of teachi ng thousands of resea r c he r s to locat e their ancestors .

The AGS Adamson Library, 110 9 Broad Street, is her legacy . Its f ounding i s h e r gift to Aug usta , h er adopted Southern c ity . Many me mbers o f AGS became her extended f ami ly for sev eral d ecades . She t r easured her friends £1jzabet h Swink and the lal e John Swi n k, Sarah Montgome ry, Ruth S haw, Jerry Scott , Octavia Ga rlingt on, Mae Rache l s, Georgia Lane , Jean Smi t h and J~n i ce Johnson.

She wa s reared a s a Method i st but beca me a member o f Cov ena nt Presb yterian Church in Auq usLa i n late.r years . She als o ma de f r i e nds among t he nursi ng s taff at Ke n t wood in Augusta who provided e xcel l ent care and concern .

Carrie was p rece d ed jn death by her husb and Raymond Adamson , her parents, and bro t hers Earl ~:dwar d " Bud" IIIJoo re, a nd Leonard Parks Moor e .

Family me mbers i n clud e cousins Martha Showden , Wi lson Narehood, and Nancy Narehood Ta ylo r , n ieces Rl1o nda Moo re Wil l iams and Susan M oo~e Nare hood , all o[ Pen nsyl vania, ni ece Gail Mo ore of Ne w Yo r k , nephe w Da le Mo o re or Ne w Hampshi re , and Ra y Ad amson ' s njece Kat h y Ada mso n Roma niel lo o f Connecticut .

I n 1 ieu o f f lowers, memori a l s m9y be made t o the Augusta Genealogi c al Soci e ty, P . O . Box 3743 Augusta, GA 30914 - 37 43 or to Covenant Pr esbyterian Church, 3131 Walton Wa y Ext ., Augusta , GA 30909 .

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By Bob Coxe

Atlanta, GA- The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments in a ase involving a UGA law student who got cited for a loud party.

Tuesday, justices take up the case of lan Grady, who hired a live band in 2009 to celebrate his law school acceptance. He lived in a downtown apartment over the Wild Wing Cafe.

Even though no one complained, Athens-Clarke County Police cited him for violating an ordinance that bans any noise you can hear from over 100 feet away at night--300 feet away in daylight hours.

Grady was fined $350, which was reportedly twice the amount for first-time noise ordinance violators.

His lawyer argues the ordinance is unconstitutional because it violates his free speech rights. He also notes, "Downtown Athens is not a sheep meadow."

Lawyers for the city and county defend the ordinance as a way to protect the rights of others.

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U.S. Supreme Court's ruling gives muscle to Confrontation Clause by Kimberly Atkins Dolan Media Newswires

BOSTON, MA--The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Confrontation Clause bars admission of laboratory reports such as blood-alcohol content tests through the in-court testimony of an analyst who did not personally perform the test was viewed as a major victory by some defense attorneys.

But others say it's a limited win from a Court that routinely makes it harder for criminal defendants to prevail.

"It's supposed to be hard to convict somebody. The Framers of the Constitution made it that way," said Edward J. Blum, a Los Angeles defense attorney. "They created a huge burden [for prosecutors] to overcome to get to a guilty verdict."

In a 5-4 ruling that relied heavily on the Court's 2009 decision in Melende7.-Diaz v. Massachusetts -which held that the Confrontation Clause requires lab technicians who prepare forensic reports used in criminal trials to be available for cross-examination Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority that the Confrontation Clause "does not tolerate dispensing with confrontation simply because the court believes that questioning one witness about another's testimonial statements provides a fair enough opportunity for cross-examination."

'Bipolar' on constitutional protections?

The ruling in Bullcoming v. New Mexico was hailed by some defense attorneys as a key protection of the "core ri ght of the accused in the American criminal justice system: the right to conti"ont the specific witnesses against him or her," as Barbara E. Bergman, a past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a co-author of NACDL's amicus brief, said in a statement after the decision.

But other defense attorneys said that the split decision, tempered by the Court's myriad rulings against defendants in Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule cases, doesn't feel like a slam dunk win.

"Bullcoming makes the Court seem rather bipolar when you consider the Davis [v. U.S.] case," said Blum, who focuses on DUI and DWI cases. In Davis, the Court held that while genera11y police cannot search a vehicle incident to an occupant's arrest after the arrestee has been secured and can't reach the vehicle, evidence from such a search is admissible where the police officer relied in "good faith" on existing precedent at the time.

That ruling is one of several in recent years where the Court ruled against defendants in search and seizure cases, leading to the assertion by some defense attorneys that the justices were chipping away at the Fourth Amendment.

"But the opposite is happening in Bullcoming" and Melendez-Diaz, Blum said. "In these cases the Court is saying: 'We are going to increase [defendants'] Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause rights by saying that the prosecutor can't get a substitute" analyst to testify at trial.

The dissenting justices echoed criticisms by prosecutors who say that requiring the exact technician who performed BAC tests to appear in court would essentially hamstring prosecutors in cases where departments are too understaffed or busy to make every lab analyst available to testify.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored the dissent, noted that in many cases that means DUI defendants will simply walk.

"If the defense raises an objection and the analyst is tied up in another court proceeding; or on leave; or absent; or delayed in transit; or no longer employed; or ill; or no longer living, the defense gets a windfall," he wrote.

But Blum said that the Fourth Amendment losses for defendants at the Court outweigh any benefit they receive in the Sixth Amendment cases.

Further, the latest ruling shows that the Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence is still hard to predict.

The justices handed down "Melendez-Diazjust two years earlier," noted Uni\ersity of Georgia School of Law professor Erica J. Hashimoto, speaking at a recent Supreme Court discussion in Washington hosted by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. "Based on that case, Bullcoming should have been a very easy decision. But it wasn't. It was 5-4."

Sotomayor the new swing vote?

There is one thing that experts agree on: In criminal procedure cases, the justice to watch on the often divided Court is Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Sotomayor wrote a concurring opinion in the case, in part "to emphasize the limited reach of the Court's opinion." In her concurrence, Sotomayor suggested that her vote could have been different in any oftour circumstances: if prosecutors offered an alternative purpose fo r the BAC report, such as a claim that it was necessary to administer the defendant medical treatment; if a supervisor, reviewer, or someone else with a personal connection to the test had been offered as a witness; if an expert witness was asked for his independent opinion about underlying testimonial reports that were not themselves admitted into evidence; or if the state sought to introduce only machine-generated results, such as a printout from a gas chromatograph, as opposed to a report that included personal observations ofthe preparer.

Sotomayor, a former New York City prosecutor, also penned the opinion in Michigan v. Bryant, which held that a murder defendant's Confrontation Clause rights were not violated by the admission at trial of incriminating statements made by a shooting victim before his death.

This makes her the justice to watch in criminal procedure cases.

"What is becoming clear ... is that Justice Sotomaxor is emerging as the swing vote" in criminal cases, said Hashimoto.

Sotomayor's careful, qualified support ofthejudgment in Bullcoming, along with her examination of the reliability of the statement at issue in Bryant, reveal a pragmatism to her approach that differs from that of other justices, said Katherine M. Sullivan, a partner in the New York office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

"She spent a lot of time as a prosecutor," Sullivan noted. "That may be one of the reasons."

More cases carving out the Confrontation Clause's protections and limitations are likely forthcoming, particularly given Sotomayor's qualifying concurrence.

"The Supreme Court will probably almost immediately accept cert [in a easel that raises one of the questions that Justice Sotomayor said they didn't decide," Hashimoto predicted.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that t he Confron t ation Clause bars admission of labora t ory reports such as blood-a l cohol content t ests t h r ough t he in-court testimony of an analyst who did not persona l l y perform the test was viewed as a ma jor victory by some defense a t torneys.

But others say it 's a l imited win from a Court t h at routinely makes i t harder for criminal def endants to p revai l .

" I t's s upposed to be hard to convict s omebod y . The Framers of t he Constit ution made i t t hat way,'' sai d Edwar d J. Bl um, a Los Angeles d efense attorney. "They crea t e d a huge burden [ f or prosecutors ] to overcome to get to a guilty v e r d ict. "

In a 5-4 r uli ng that relied heavi ly on the Court's 2009 decisi on i n Melendez-Diaz v . Massachusetts - which hel d t hat the Confront a t ion Cla use requi r es lab technici ans who prepar e f orensic reports u sed in criminal trials t o be available for cross-examination - Jus t ice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the majority tha t the Confr ontat ion Clause "does not tolerat e d i spensing wit h conf rontation simpl y because t he court bel ieves that quest ioning one wi t ness about another ' s t estimoni al st at ements provi des a fair enough oppor tunity for cross-examina t ion . "

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' Bip ola r ' on c onstitutional protecti ons?

The r u ling i n Bu l l c oming v . New Me xico was h ailed by s ome d efense a ttorneys as a key protection o f t he " cor e right o f the a ccused in t he Ameri can crimi na l justice s y stem: the r i ght t o con fro n t t he s p e c i f i c witnesse s a ga ins t h l m o r her, " a s Barbara E . !3ergman, a past President o f t he National Asso ciat i on o f Crimina l Defens e Lawyers and a c o - author of NACDL' s amic u s bri e f , said in a s tateme nt atter the d e c ision .

But ot h er de fense a t t o r neys sa id t hat the spl i t deci sio n , tempere d by t he Court ' s myriad r ulings a gainst d efendants in Four th Amendment e x clusionary rule cases , doesn ' t f eel like a sla m dunk win .

" Bull coming makes the Court s eem rather bip ola r when you c ons i d er· t. he OcJv :i s [v . U. S . ] case, " said Blum, who focuses on DUI a nd DWI cases .

I n Davis , t he Court h eld t hat whi le ge n eral l y p ollee cannot search a vehicle incid ent to a n o c cupa nt ' s ar rest afte r t he arr e s tee has bee n secu red a nd c a n ' t reach t h e vehi c l e , evidence f rom s uch a s e arch i s admissi b l e wher e t he police orticer relied in " good fai Lh " o n existi ng precedent at t he Lime .

That r ul i ng i s one o f s e v e ral i n r e cen t ye ars wh ere the Court rule d a g a i n st d e f e nda nts i n s earch ond s eizure cases , lea d i n g t o t he a ssertion by some de fense a ttorne ys that the iust ices were chipping av1ay al the Fourth Amen dment .

" But Lhe o pposi te i s happen i ng in Bull coming " a nd Me l e ndez-Dia z , Blum said . " 1 n these cases the Court i s say i ng : ' We are going to i ncrease [ d e fendants ' ] S ixth Ame ndment Confrontallon Clause riqhls b y s a ying that t he prosecutor can ' t g et a s ubstitute" analys t to tes tify at. trial .

The d issenting j u s tic es echoed criticisms by p rosecuto r s who s a y t ha t requiring t he e x a c t t ech n ician who p e r f orme d BAC t ests to a ppe a r in court wo u l d e ssentiaJly h cJ ms tring prosecut o rs in c ases where departme nts a re t oo understaffed o r busy to make eve ry l ab a nalyst a vailabl e to testify .

J ustic e Anthony Ke n nedy, who au t ho red t h e d issent , noted t hat in many cases that mea n s DUI d efendant s wi l l s imply wa l k .

'' I f the de f ens e raises an o bjection a nd the a nalyst i s tied up in another court p r oceeding ; or on l eave; or abse r1t ; or de l a yed in transit ; or no l onger emplo ye d ; or i l l ; or no longer l i ving , t he defens e get s i1 windfal l ," he wr ote .

Out Blum said that the Fourth Amendment losses for d e fendants at Lhe Court outwei gh any b enet i t they rece i ve in t he Sixt h Amendment cases .

Fu rther, Lhe l cJ tesL ruling shows lhat t he Court ' s Si x t h Ame ndment iurisprudence is sti l l h a rd to p redi c t .

The justi ces ha nd ed d own "Mel e ndez-Diaz just two yea r s earl i er , " note d Un j v ers i ty of Ge o r gia School o [ Law profe s sor F:ri ca J. Hashimo t o , speaking a t a r ecent Su p reme Court dis c ussion in Was h ing ton hosted b y the American Cons' i t ut ion Society for l aw a nd Pol ·cy . " B~~ed on hat ca ~ c , Bullcoming s hould have b een a very easy d ec t sion . But it wasn ' t . It was 5-4. "

Sotoma yor t h e new swi ng vote?

The r e is one t hing Lha t experts agre e on : t n crimina l p rocedure cases, t he j u s Li ce t o wa t c h o n t he o ften d i v i d e d Cour t i s Justice So n ia So t omayo r .

Sot oma yor wrote a concurring opinion in the c a se, i n p<:HL " t o e mphasize Lhe limited reach of the Court ' s opinion. "

I n h er con c u r rence, So toma yor suggested Lhat h er vote c ould h a ve b oen

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d iffere nt i.n any o f f our c i rcumstances : if prosecutors offe red a n a l terna tive purpose f or the Bl\C report , such as a c la.Lm that i t was necessary to a dmini ster the defendant med i cal t reatment ; if a supervisor, r e vi ewer, o r someone else with a personal connection to the test had been offered as c1 vd tness; if an expert wi tness was asked Fur his independenl opinion about underlyi ng t estimoni a l r eports that were not themselves a dmitted into evidence ; or j f the stale sought to introduce only machine-generated resul t s, such as a printout trom a qas chromatogrc1ph, as opposed to a report t hat i nc luded personal observations of the preparer .

Sotomayor, a (orme r New York City prosecutor, also penned the opinion in Michigan v . Bryant, which hel d tha t a mu rder d efendant ' s Confrontal ion Cl ause rights were no t viol ated by t he admission at trial of incriminating statements made by a shooting victim before his death .

This makes her the justice to watch in criminal procedure cases .

" WhaL is b ecomi ng c lear ... i s l:hat J ustice Sotoma yor is e me rging as t he swi ng vote" in c r 1min a J cases , s aid Hashimoto .

Sotomayor ' s careful , qualified support of the judgment in Bullcoming, along with her examination of the r eliability of the statement at i ssue in Bryant, reveal a pragmatism to h er a pproach Lhat differs trom t hat of o ther justices, said Ka therine M. Sull ivan, a partner in t he New York office of Quinn Emanuel Ur quhart & Sullivan .

" She spent a lot of time as a prosecutor," Sullivan noted . " That may be one of t he reasons . "

More cases carving out the Confrontation Clause ' s protections and l imi tations are likely f orthcoming, particula rLy given Sotomayor's qualifying concurrence .

'"rhe Supreme Court will probably almos t immediately accept cert [in c1 case) thaL raises one of the q uestions t hat Justice Sotomayor said they didn ' t decide ," Hashimo lo p redicted .

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"They are message he wjlJ bring to our sum Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Hart County, while gaining valu ally, students were required to write providing feedback that's going to mer graduates." portions of Louisiana, Mississippi able experience in working with and audio record a narrative, telling help the historical society grow, Lockhart has served as the See COMMENCEMENT on page 4 older ci tizens. the story ofth e person interviewed which is one of the priorities of For the 18 months,_students in their own words. Some of the the community." in Stacey Kolomer's "Working audio clips from the interviews Kolomer and her class have wjth O lder Adults" course have were used in a podcast of a walk been working wjth llka McCon SCHOOL OF LAW been traveling to Hart County to ing tour ofdowntown Hartwell. A nell, an Archway Partnership conduct interviews with elderly mini-documentary on the history professional for Hart County. Cur Law prof appointed. inaugural , residents. 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"I really like the idea that "Many of the interviewees works cooperatively to address pointed the _inaugural holder of to the firm, its the students are getting what they are from rural Georgia and have those community priorities. the Alex vV. Smith Professorship clients and the need out of it and meeting the had a very different upbringing," Interviewing Hartwell's elderly in Law, established in memory community. objectives of the course, but more she added. "It gives our students residents was a very moving experi of Alexander Wyly Smith ill, a " Profes importantly, it is contributing to the opportunity to connect with ence, according to Katie Crosby. well-known At! an ta a ttom cy, civic sor Appel has the community and something that strangers, which is really important "It was fascinating to hear sto leader and philanthropistwho died Peter Appel an excellent is community driven. . " in social work. 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Georgia Criminal Appellate Law Blog Offering Insight on the Practice of Appellate Law and Commentary from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Search Go New UGA Law Review Article Takes Georgia to Task for the Way We Handle lAC Claims

By Scott Key on July 11th, 20 11

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'Jtifl"'~'', . -.'· ' . . • a returned from vacation pleased to find in my in basket at the office a copy of Ryan C. Tuck's article from the Georgia La\\ Re\ iC\\ on the confusing state of the law as it relates to ineffective assistance of counsel in Georgia. ·n1e article is titled " Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Blues: Navigating the Muddy Waters of Georgia Law After 20 I 0 State Supreme Court Decisions." This article is as good as its title is clever. The article centers on where the law in Georgia is after Garland and Moody.

And the news is not particularly good. And why am I excited about a law review article on a case I lost (sort of) and that demonstrates some issues with how we handle lAC claims in Georgia?

The reason is that maybe things will change. The way we do things in Georgia makes it tough to be a criminal appellate lawyer, disincentives trial lawyers from preserving issues for appeal, and needlessly separates the appeal from the trial in a way that interferes with attorney-client relationships and in a way that probably hurts the client in the long run. And this article give me some hope that the legislature will move Georgia to a system of handling lAC claims more akin to the majority rule.

Mr. Tuck picks up in a familiar place to me. Jim Bonner's_ _a rticle in the 1\Q.pellate Review, the Georgia Appellate Practice Section's Newsletter covered some of the same ground.

What's Wrong Now?

Under Georgia law, new counsel must raise ineffective assistance of counsel at the earliest possible moment, or he waives it. As claims go, lAC not really good. It's rarely successful. 1 have litigated it more times than I can remember, and it's worked on appeal exactly one time (it's worked a few more

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times at the trial level, but generally with a wink and a nod as part of negotiations).

The problem is that clients think that it will work for them, and they pressure new counsel to raise it. There are many reasons why it should rarely be raised. For one, there rarely is a good claim. Secondly, it has a way of becoming the focus of the appeal. Third, even when it docsn ' t it can be a big distraction from other real issues of merit. Fourth, analysis under the second prong of Stickland, invites trial courts to weigh in on how strong the evidence was against the defendant at trial. Such carefu l scrutiny of how good the State's case was can have a spillover effect to other issues in the case making it that much easier to proclaim that other errors were harmless.

Pressures from the client and systemic pressures (raise it or waive it) can create a real conflict with the lawyer's ethical obligations not to raise frivolous claims under R!,!lc 3.1 of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct. To quote Mr. Tuck's article,

By creating pressures for new appellate counsel to raise lAC claims against trial counsel, critics contend that Georgia's approach contravenes this warning from Strickland [that there will be two trials. In the first, the defendant is tried. In the second, the lawyer is, as Mr. Tuck puts it "tried for lAC."] and institutionalizes a level of antagonism between defendants and their attorneys that can be damaging to overall standards of representation. As one critic asserted, "[ilt causes hell for attorney-client relations if both know from the beginning that they will end up on opposite sides.

And from my experience, this issue marks the place where things can go bad between the attorney and the client. I don't raise lAC unless I see at least a colorable issue and if it won't hurt other claims by serving as a distraction and if the second prong won't spill over into the harm analysis of other issues.

Where Should We Go From Here?

W c should require that lAC claims be held until collateral proceedings and take them out of the direct appeal except in the rare case when it can be resolved from the record itself. And, the failure to raise it should not act as a waiver of the issue. It would better the system and make it easier to practice criminal appellate law. And, above all, it would protect the clients from going for a low percentage issue at the cost of other issues of merit, which provide a better chance of success even if they don't quite understand those issues.

Tags: Garland, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Moody, Ryan C. Tuck, Strickland, l JGA Law Rc\iC\\ Georgia Criminal Appellate Law Blog J. Scott Key, P. C. 70 Macon Street P.O. Box 2696 McDonough, GA 30253

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print Women lawyers' local chapter will ~old first meeti!!_g today __ by Helen McCoy/Douglas County Sentinel Staff Writer 07.12.11 - 11 :57 pm Local attorney Lois Gerstenberger will head the local chapter of a women's lawyer group which will hold its inaugural meeting today.

The Douglas-Paulding chapter of the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GA WL) will meet at noon at Sam & Rosco's restaurant on Douglas Boulevard.

The cost for lunch is $15 for members and $20 for non-members.

"GAWL is the premier organization for women lawyers for any needs they have - networking, educational and business," Gerstenberger said. "I'm very pleased they arc coming to the west side."

lbe statewide bar organization celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2008 and has played a decisive role in the legal history of the state, according to the GAWL website. During the last Georgia General Assembly, GA WL sponsored House Bill 200 - the Freedom from Human Trafficking Act - which was passed by the House on March 2 and the Senate on March 29. The bill, which seeks to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children, was signed by Gov. Nathan Deal on May 3.

A graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, Gerstenberger has been an attorney since 1982, starting as a criminal prosecutor before establishing her private law practice in 1994. She is also solicitor for the Douglasville Municipal Court

ller office is located across from the Douglas County Courthouse, where she specializes in family law (child custody, divorce and adoptions) and provides legal services in business and elder law, according to her website.

The chapter's vice president. Talia J. Nurse, earned her law degree from the University of Georgia where she ranked nationally in the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, according to her listing on the GAWL website. She began her career as an associate in Atlanta's premier law firms and is now a sole practioner who practices in the areas of family law, commercial litigation, personal injury litigation and landlord tenant law.

The local chapter is seeking members and is open to all female attorneys, said Gerstenberger.

"I want to encourage all women lawyers throughout Douglas, Paulding and Carroll to join," she said.

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By Andria Simmons The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

4:52 p.m. Tuesday. July 12, 2011

Special purpose grand juries -- investigative citizen panels armed with the power to subpoena records and question witnesses -- may become all bark and no bite if a recent Court of Appeals ruling stands.

The Appeals Court of Georgia dismissed the indictment of former Gwinnett County Commissioner Kevin Kenerly on July 6, finding the panel that investigated suspicious county park land purchases for more than a year did not have the authority to indict him. Kenerly had been charged with bribery for allegedly accepting payments totaling $1 mllion from a developer as well as two counts of failing to disclose a financial interest in properties he voted to rezone.

Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter is concerned about that precedent. He plans to ask the court to reconsider and to appeal to the state Supreme Court if it will not.

"That decision could be used to entirely dismantle the special grand jury process," said Porter. "I think it has major impact. I think the decision as it stands deprives prosecutors of a valuable tool."

Kenerly's attorney, Pat McDonough, disagrees. He likened special grand juries to being investigative bodies like the police, GBI or FBI , agencies which do not have the right to indict their own cases either.

"Though the bar is extremely low for an indictment and only the state is allowed to present evidence, even hearsay evidence, at the very least the grand jury should be irllJartial," McDonough said.

Special purpose grand juries are rarely formed in Georgia. Typically they are impaneled at the request of prosecutors to wade through large, convoluted cases involving public corruption. Unlike regular grand juries, they can focus on one issue without a time constraint. By contrast, regular grand juries are convened for six months and hand down indictments on hundreds of cases.

In issuing its decision, the Appeals Court of Georgia essentially stated it cannot assume special grand jury members have the power to indict just because regular grand juries can. Nowhere in state law is that authority specifically granted to them.

Porter disagrees with that logic, though, and points out there are other common practices for special purpose grand juries that are derived from how regular grand juries operate. For example, the law doesn't say they should select a foreperson, that they should be paid for their time, or that they should meet in secret -- all things that regular grand juries do and special grand juries have historically done.

Not all prosecutors are upset. Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head, who chairs the Prosecuting

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Attorneys Council of Georgia, said the court's decision was not troubling to him.

"I do not see it as a major problem," Head said.

Only one special grand jury has ever been i!ll>aneled since the Cobb Judicial Circuit was created in 1953 and that panel did not hand down indictments, Head said. Neither did either of the two special purpose grand juries impaneled in Gwinnett County in the late 1980s.

Prosecutors can take special grand jury findings and present them to a regular grand jury, something which Porter has said he plans to do as early as July 20.

Ron Carlson, a University of Georgia criminal law professor, said he is glad this case in front of the courts. He believes special grand juries should be able to issue indictments because they are closer to the facts. He said if the appellate courts do not grant them the power to indict, state legislators should pass a law that allows it.

"We need clarification on the powers and boundaries of these special grand juries," Carlson said. 'We need to know as a society how to use them."

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UGA law school student's party lands in Supreme Court

Atlanta Business Chronicle - by Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor

Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 4:57am EDT

The Georgia Supreme Court will decide if a party to celebrate a Georgia student's acceptance to law school violated the Athens-Clarke County noise ordinance. A lawyer representing student Ian Grady said since no one complained about the sound coming from the student's apartment in downtown Athens, police should not have ticketed him. Such a citation, he says, violates his right to free speech guaranteed in the Georgia Constitution, reports the Athens Banner-Herald.

The lawyer said since no one filed a complaint about that specific party, which occurred in 2009 and included a live band; it must not have bothered anyone. A police officer issued a $350 citation at about 3:30 a.m.

A lawyer arguing in defense of the ordinance said the citation issued by a police officer was indeed based on complaints - 3,500 made each year to the city about noise.

The Athens-Clarke County noise ordinance bars noise that can be heard across property lines, or 100 feet away, from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and midnight to 7 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays, the newspaper reported.

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New Survey Ranks Law Schools Based on Whose Grads Live the Luxe Life; U of Texas Tops the List

Posted Jul 13, 2011 6:24 PM COT By Martha Neil

A new National Jurist law school survey gets right to the nitty-gritty.

Rather than seeking to determine which institutions are most respected, prestigious or elite, it focuses on which law school graduates live most luxuriously, reports the Careerist. Thus, since it takes not only income but what it describes as "standard of living" into account, institutions outside expensive major cities get a boost.

At the top of the list is the University of Texas, where law grads "take home a net of $101 ,308 after debt and taxes, and modifying for cost of living adjustments," says the National Jurist. "More than half of the schools in the study netted less than half of that amount, with six lower than $25,000."

At the bottom of the list is New York University School of Law, which ranks sixth in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Also on the National Jurist's top 10 list are the University of Georgia, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina, Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis and Duke.

Hat tip: Am Law Daily.

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By Tracy Agnew

Published 11:54pm Fnday, July 15, 2011

Robert Sandwich has prosecuted criminals in more than half the Commonwealth's Attorney's offices in Hampton Roads, but now he's trying out the view from the other side of the courtroom.

Bob Sandwich, a former prosecutor in the Suffolk Commonwealth's Attorney's office, recently switched employers to Stallings and Bischoff, a firm that does criminal defense work.

Sandwich recently moved from his desk in the office of Suffolk top prosecutor C. Phillips Ferguson across the street to the offices of Stallings & Bischoff, where he'll do primarily criminal defense work.

"I felt like it was a good opportunity for me," Sandwich said, explaining the somewhat unconventional move.

Sandwich said he got to help a lot of people in his role as a prosecutor, but there were always people he couldn't help- people who needed help with divorces, civil litigation and more.

"I wanted to expand my ability to assist people in everyday things," Sandwich said .

Sandwich was born in Atlanta and raised in southwest Georgia. He did a stint in the U.S. Navy, which first brought him to Hampton Roads, and graduated from University of Georgia law school

After law school, he took the bar exam in Virginia, widely regarded as one of the hardest bar exams to pass.

"I kind of took that as a challenge," he said.

He soon took a position at a personal injury firm in Richmond. He then served two years in Norfolk and two years in Portsmouth, both in the Commonwealth's Attorney's offices.

He then moved back to Georgia to help care for his ailing mother while working at a District Attorney's office. After her death, he moved back to Virginia and got a job in the Virginia Beach prosecutor's office in 2005. In 2007, he moved to the Suffolk office.

"Suffolk was by far my favorite place,· he said, adding that he had enjoyed ·a really good working relationship" with all the attorneys in the office.

Ferguson gave him the opportunity to handle some of the most serious cases in the office, including assisting on a couple of murder cases - one of which had gone without an arrest for more than a decade.

"I really enjoyed those cases," Sandwich said. "They're old cases, and they're harder to prove."

But in the end. the Suffolk prosecutor's office has a lot of experience, Sandwich said. To him, that meant little opportunity for advancement.

"It was a tough decision," he said. "There were a lot of good people in that office."

With his knowledge of how the office works, Sandwich believes he'll be able to help his clients better than someone who has never worked there. He will mostly handle criminal defense, domestic relations, traffic court and civil litigation.

"Every case is different," Sandwich said.

Contact him at 935-9065.

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By Jan Skutch Cre ated 201 1-07- 16 00:13 Summary: Savannah attorney Gregory V. "Greg" Sapp was named the new Chatham County State Court judge Friday, filling the vacancy left by retirement to senior-judge status of Ronald Ginsberg May 31 . Gov.

Savannah attorney Gregory V. "Greg" Sapp was named the new Chatham County State Court judge Friday, filling the vacancy left by retirement to senior-judge status of Ronald Ginsberg May 31 .

Gov. Nathan Deal, who made the appointment, said Friday it will take effect upon swearing in, which should occur within the next few weeks.

"I w as surprised ," Sapp said when Deal informed him. "It's certainly humbling to be selected out of that group."

He called the other candidates well-qualified , intelligent attorneys.

Sapp will join Chief Judge H. Gregory Fowler and Judge Hermann Coolidge on the bench.

Sapp, a 49-year-old Savannah native, has practiced law in Savannah since earning his law degree from the University of Georgia law school in 1986. Since 1998, Sapp has been principal in the Sapp Law Group, a general practice firm where he emphasizes civil litigation.

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"I w ill be working on a transition plan," he said of closing his law practice. That plan will include client contacts, but assured th at "all of the clients will be adequately taken care of."

He is a Republican and has served on the Savannah-Chatham school board representing the 4th district since 2005. Sapp said he will resign from the school board shortly before his swearing-in.

He is also the incoming president of the Savannah Bar Association , a position he plans to retain.

He was selected from a list of five candidates sent to Deal by his Judicial Nominating Commission. Ten applicants were considered by the commission. Deal interviewed the finalists Monday.

Savannah attorney Patrick O'Connor, a member of the nominating commission, said Friday the selection was "an excel1ent choice."

"This is not surprising, given that there were actually more qualified applicants than there were available spots on the shortlist," he said.

Sapp earned his undergraduate degree in history and political science from the Un iversity of Georgia in 1983.

He is married to Theresa Eubanks Sapp, whom he met in Athens during his freshman year. They will celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary on Thursday.

They are parents of two children, James, a rising high school senior at Savannah Arts Academy, and Jessica, a May graduate of Berry College who was married last Saturday.

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DALTON, Ga.- The Dalton Police Department may be violating a U.S. Supreme Court ruling if it holds police roadblocks to address specific criminal activity, according to a Georgia law professor and several lawyers. However, Dalton police said they are familiar with the Supreme Court ruling, and the road blocks held in recent weeks are primarily for traffic safety and not to address criminal activity. The checkpoints are held in accordance with any Supreme Court ruling, Chief Jason Parker said . Dalton police sent out several news releases in June after meeting with local Hispanics about complaints that police roadblocks target them in an effort to arrest illegal immigrants. The department held 38 roadblocks this year through June, according to the Governor's Office of Highway Safety website. One news release, sent out June 29, says police plan to conduct roadblocks in various parts of the city "as part of the department's district plans to address traffic ~~ Whitfield County on Facebook and crime problems within the city." Like "In addition to typical traffic concerns in the area of Shugart Road and the Bypass, other checks are possible in the northwest section to address burglary and shoplifting issues," the news release goes on to say. "One issue being reported in the w est district is the theft of copper wire being stolen from buildings. The district action plan in the east district also includes concentrated patrols, including road ch ecks if manpower allows, in the northeast area of the city to address burglaries Glen Jo n Kristi Doug which have been reported over the past several weeks." A 2000 Supreme Court ruling, City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, says that police may I) Facebook social pl!gi1 not operate a police checkpoint program in which the primary purpose is to detect evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing. Supreme Court Rulings "We decline to suspend the usual requirement of individualized suspicion where the police seek to employ a checkpoint primarily for the ordinary enterprise of The Fourth Amendment requires that investigating crimes," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in the ruling. "We cannot searches and seizures be reasonable. The sanct ion stops justified only by the generalized and ever-present possibility that Supreme Court has found in various interrogation and inspection may reveal that any given motorist has committed rulings that a search or seizure is ordinarily some crime." unreasonable in the absence of individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, Donald E. Wilkes Jr, a professor of law at the University of Georgia School of Law except in limited circumstances in which who has taught criminal procedure for 40 years, said if Dalton police hold the usual rule does not apply.

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roadblocks to "address burglaries" as the news release says, they may be violating the 2000 ruling . The court has also found that the only constitutionally allowed roadblocks are "If that is what they are doing, it seems to me to clearly violate Edmond," Wilkes those carried out pursuant to a plan said. "The question in the Edmond's case was if roadblocks can be held for the containing explicit, neutral limitations on purpose of catching people who might have drugs in their car. And they [the the conduct of the individual officers Supreme Court] found that it was not justified for general crime reasons." executing the roadblock. COURT RULINGS • United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 1976: The Court upheld brief, suspicionless The first thing to remember about Supreme Court rulings on roadblocks is that all seizures at a fixed checkpoint designed to ruling s have found that a police roadblock is a search and seizure under the intercept illegal aliens. The lawsuit brought Fourth Amendment and must be reasonable, Wilkes said . Fourth Amendment challenges to stops at "To st op people's cars is a seizure," he said. two permanent immigration checkpoints located on major U.S. highways less than A search and seizure ordinarily is unreasonable, except in cases of individual 1 00 miles from the Mexican border. The suspicion of wrongdoing. However, several Supreme Court rulings have found that court response noted at the outset the such seizures at police checkpoints are legal for certain reasons. particular context in which the constitutional question arose, describing in In United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, ruled in 1976, the Supreme Court found that some detail the "formidable law Border Patrol checkpoints, held close to the U.S. border, were permissible to enforcement problems" posed by the intercept illegal aliens and to protect the integrity of the border. northbound tide of illegal entrants into the United States. Although the stops in A more recent ruling, the Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz from 1990, Martinez-Fuerte did not occur at the border addressed the issue of sobriety checkpoints. The immediate hazard posed by the itself, the checkpoints were located near presence of drunken drivers was enough reason to allow police to hold roadblocks, the border and served a border control the ruling found . function made necessary by the difficulty A previous ruling, 1979's Delaware v. Prouse, suggested that a similar type of of guarding the border's entire length. roadblock with the purpose of verifying driver's licenses and vehicle registrations • Delaware v. Prouse, 1979: In this would be permissible. lawsuit, the Court invalidated a But in the Edmond case, O'Connor writes, "In none of these cases, however, did discretionary, suspicion less stop for a spot we indicate approval of a checkpoint program whose primary purpose was to check of a motorist's driver's license and detect evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing. vehicle registration . The officer's conduct in that case was unconstitutional primarily on "If we were to rest the case at this high level of generality, there would be little account of his exercise of "standard less check on the ability of the authorities to construct roadblocks for almost any and unconstrained discretion." However, conceivable law enforcement purpose," she added. "Without drawing the line at the Court has also suggested that a similar roadb locks designed primarily to serve the general interest in crime control, the roadblock to verify drivers' licenses and Fourth Amendment would do little to prevent such intrusions from becoming a registrations would be permissible to serve routine part of American life." a highway safety interest. DALTON ROADBLOCKS • Michigan Department of State Police v.

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The recent roadblocks held in Dalton did not have the primary purpose of Sitz, 1990: The Court evaluated the· detecting criminal wrongdoing and were held very differently than those in the constitutionality of a Michigan highway Edmond case, Parker said. sobriety checkpoint program aimed at removing drunk drivers from the road. This In the Edmond case, police stopped cars to look for illegal drugs. After a car was checkpoint program was clearly aimed at stopped, an officer asked for a license and registration while a narcotics-detection reducing the immediate hazard posed by dog walked around the outside of each vehicle. the presence of drunk drivers on the Parker said his officers conduct their checkpoints in accordance with all Supreme highways, and there was an obvious Court rulings. People who are stopped are never asked about a particular crime in connection between the imperative of the area. Unless police have reasonable suspicion to ask additional questions, highway safety and the law enforcement drivers are asked only for their license, registration and insurance, he said. practice at issue. The gravity of the drunk driving problem and the magnitude of the The recent news releases may sound like police are holding roadblocks to target State's interest in getting drunk drivers off criminal activity, but only if someone is not aware of the police department's entire the road weighed heavily in the Court's checkpoint program, Parker said. The primary purpose of the program is traffic determination that the program was safety, although the high visibility of police in the area may serve as a crime constitutional. deterrent. • City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 2000: "Some people could read it to mean that, but our checkpoints actually differ from The Court considered the constitutionality the w ay they were held in the Edmond case," Parker said. "Those cases were of a highway checkpoint program whose totally contrary to what we do." primary purpose is the discovery and interdiction of illegal narcotics. Because Several lawyers who were asked about the Dalton news releases disagreed with the Court found the primary purpose was Parker. to uncover evidence of ordinary criminal wrongdoing, the program contravenes the "It is certainly skirting the edge of the law," said Charles Kuck, an Atlanta attorney Fourth Amendment. According to the who represents several Hispanics who were stopped in Dalton roadblocks. "I would ru ling, "our checkpoint cases have think it likely borders on unconstitutional. If I had a client who was stopped and recognized only limited exceptions to the charged with a crime, I'd be filing a Fourth Amendment lawsuit." general rule that a seizure must be Karen Wilkes, the daughter of Donald Wilkes and a lawyer in Rome, Ga., used accompanied by some measure of stronger language. individualized suspicion." The court declined to suspend the usual requirement "I have absolutely no hesitation to say what you described is illegal," she said . "The of individualized suspicion where the police whole point of roadblocks is for road safety, not to target criminal activity." seek to employ a checkpoint primarily for the ordinary enterprise of investigating But Parker said that is not what has happened in Dalton. crimes and said they could not sanction stops justified only by the generalized and "The police should not and could not just throw out the dragnet for any type of ever-present possibility that interrogation crime," he said. "We are aware of the constitutional rulings on checkpoints." and inspection may reveal that any given motorist has committed some crime. Sources: Supreme Court ru lings and the University of Tennessee's Municipal

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Mukunda Lakshamanarao Loc-o August 3, 1946- July 9, 2011 - Mukunda Lakshamanarao, known as "Mac" to his friends, was raised in Bangalore, India, and he emigrated to the United States in 1990. His proudest accomplishments were raising his son, Shreyas Mukund, and becoming a citizen of the United States in 1998. His life-long pursuit of knowledge and perfection began before he enrolled in primary school, studying Sanskrit until he mastered the written language. He studied ancient religious texts as an adolescent and as a man. Mukunda obtained an extensive secular education as well. In 1967, he was the valedictorian of his class at St. Joseph's College of Political Science at Bangalore University, simultaneously earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics as well. While working as a bank manager in the Syndicate Bank of India in Bangalore, Mac earned a law degree (an LLB) from the University of Bangalore. Due to his continual pursuit of education and knowledge, his studies did not end in India. Mukunda obtained his Diploma in Paralegal Arts and Sciences in 1993, and he obtained his Master of Laws Degree at the U11·vers1ty of Georg.a School of Law in 1997. While studying banking law under his colleague and friend, Professor Emeritus Walter Ray Phillips, Mukunda was recognized in 1996 as a member of Who's Who Among American Law Students and the National Dean's List. Professionally, Mukunda put his extensive education and experience to work for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation upon the completion of his studies here in Athens. Civically, Mukunda freely contributed to the Athens Regional Medical Center Auxiliary for many years. Furthermore, he volunteered at two venues of the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996, earning a commendation for his efforts in the XXVI Olympiad. Mukunda has now joined his father, T. N. Lakshman Rao; his mother, Kapla Bai; his elder brother, T. L. Raghavendra Rao; and his younger brother, T. L. Sarvothama Rao. He is survived by his sisters, T. L. Tunga Bai, T. L. Naramada Bai, T. L. Indira Bai, and Charumathi T. L. Mac is also survived by his life partner, Swarnalathala Mukund. Friends, family and colleagues are invited to attend a celebration of this devout Hindu's life at 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 22, 2011, at the Healing Arts Center, 834 Prince Avenue, Athens, (706) 613-1142. Vegetarian refreshments will be provided. All of Mac's friends and colleagues are welcome, from the University of Georg ia School of Law, the FDIC, the ARMC Auxiliary, the Athens Regional Library and the UGA Main Library, to the friends he made during his walks in Athens.

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,.•. ~:_+-:r I " r~ . -<-~l, l. ~·~~ f aculty member Dan T . Coenen has been named t he school's n e w associate dean for faculty d evelopment . I n this role, he will work c l osely with the l aw s ct1ool' s faculty, especially its junior professors, to expand and promote scholarly acti vities .

Georgia Law De an Rebecca Hanner White said, " I am so pleased Dan will be serving as a ssociate dean for faculty dcve lopment . Da n i s one of our f inest schol ars , and r a mdelightcd our junior faculty will be working wi. th and l earning from Dan in h is capaci ty as associate dean ."

Coenen , wh o also holds t he Ha rmon w. Ca l dwel l Chair i n Cons t itutional Law , began leaching al Georgia Law in 1987 and has rece ived numerous honors for his work both in and out of the class room. In 2005, he was named a Unive rsity Professor , a LL t le awarded to only one UGA facul ty member a year . He also is the recipient o f the Josiah Meigs Award, the university's highest honor for excellence in t eaching.

Specializ ing in the areas of contracts and constitutional l aw, Coenen ' s scholarshi p includ es The Story of The Federali s t : How llamilton and Madison Reconceive d America, in addition to numer·ous articles appearing in such prest i gious journals as 'l'he Yale Law Journa l , the Duke Law Journal a nd t he Michigan Law Rev i ew .

Before joining the law s chool faculty, Coene n served as a j udicial clerk for U. S . Supreme Court Jus t ·ice llarry 1\. Blac km un and for Chie f Judge Cl.ement F. HaynsworLh Jr . of the U . S . Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit . lie also practiced l a w at the f irm Robjnson, Bradshaw and Hinson in Charlotte, N.C., where he later b e came a partner .

Coenen earne d his bachel or ' s degree from Lhe Ur1iversit y of Wi sconsin and his l a w d egree f rom Cornell University, where he served as editor-in-chi ef o f the Cornell Law Review.

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By STAFF REPORTS Alhens Banner-Herald Published Monday, July 18, 2011

The University of Georgia today named School of Law faculty member Dan T Coenen associate dean for faculty development.

Coenen will work with law school faculty, especially its junior professors. to expand and promote scholarly activtties.

· Dan is one of our finest scholars, and I am delighted our jumor faculty will be working with and learntng from Dan in his capacity as associate dean: law Dean Rebecca Hanner White said in a news release.

Coenen. who holds the Harmon W . Caldwell Chair in Constitutional Law, began teachtng at UGA in 1987, specializing in contracts and constilu1ional law.

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Q: I was driving behind a dump truck and it says they are not responsible for broken windshields. Is that true?

-- Judy Wooten, Canton

A: Assuming there is no special Georgia statute addressing this issue (Q&A on the News did not find one in state law and state officials could not confirm one), then the dump truck owner cannot avoid liability simply by announcing that he is not liable for ha rm done by his truck, Michael L. Wells, the Marion and W. Colquitt Carter Chair in Tort and Insurance Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, told Q&A on the News. "On the other hand, whether he is liable or not, and the amount of his liability, depends on the circumstances, and whether he acted reasonably in those circumstances, and whether the driver of the car behind acted reasonably," he wrote in an email. Thomas A Eaton, J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the UGA School of Law, agreed with Wells' assessment. "The unilateral declaration of dump truck owner that he is not liable, does not make it so," he wrote. "On the other hand, the fact that a windshield is damaged does not automatically render the dump truck owner responsible for the damage. The car driver must prove that the dump truck driver was negligent [failed to use reasonable care] and that negligence was the cause of the damage to the windshield."

Lori Johnston wrote this column. Do you have a question about the news? We'll try to get the answer. Call404-222-2002 or email [email protected] (include name, phone and city).

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l. aw graduates' of the Ur11 versity ofGcorgra are set for a cushy lifestyle, according to recent ranking.~ by The f\l:.ttjonnl JurisJ.

UGA came in at No. 2 in the magazine's rankings of the standard ofliving experienced by graduates of 50 law schools. In craning its rankings, the magazine for law students considered median starting st~ larie s. average debt payments. cstrmated federal and state taxes. and cost of living adjustments for the regions where graduates took jobs.

Another Georgia sc hool , Emory University, came in at No. 12. The University of Texas, in Austin. was at the top of the list. New York University took the bottom spot.

"Grimy streets. infermr l subways, whopping taxes. and relentless competition- New York is a tough place to eke out a living," l!J.g_(:(trccrjst 's Viy ia C.h.li!:! wrote in posting on the survey last wcck. making the reasonable assumption that most NYU grads end up in New York and most UT grads stay in Texas.

A fellow NYU Law alumna like Chen, I agree that it 's difficult to improve on one 's college lifestyle as a newly-minted New York lawyer. Even sharing tiny apanments and eating many dinners on the client dime (while slaving over a brief or document review. of course). many New York big firm associates find themselves with lillie cash to show for their toil (what with all the retail therapy re4uired to cope with the pressure). And the ramen-eating travails of Legal Aid law y~rs holed up in llarlem studios is simply unmentionabk.

ll must be said. however. that new NYU graduates might be in a beltcr financial way if they had downed more ramen and fewer $9 cocklltils while they wert still racking up all those student loans. Perhaps the question is not whether it is bcltcr to be ferried around the City that Never Sleeps in a Dial Car or cozying up with your bri.;f' draft by the pool in Midtown Atlanta, but whether it's bcltcr to live it up when you arc young and beautiful or save up tor your grown up life.

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Atlanta's ethics officer says she's leaving City Hall for a clerk job across the street at the Georgia Supreme Court.

Ginny Looney, who became the city's inaugural officer in 2003 and was reappointed to a second term two years ago, told the Board of Ethics the news last Friday and notified Mayor Kasim Reed and the Atlanta City Council today.

In a letter to city officials obtained by CL, Looney said t he job has been "challenging, engaging, satis fying, and never dull." She's accomplished all she intended, she writes, and the time has come for "someone with fresh energy to work in the position." Her new j ob at the state Supreme Court offers her the chance to "influence important legal issues and policies" and "leaves time at the end of t he work day for family and friends. "I feel fortunate I am in good health and can make the change at this time," she says.

Wh ile at City Hall, Looney developed the city's web- based disclosure filing sys tem and helped craft policies regarding gifts, travel and ca mpaign donation solicitations. In addition

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to setting up the city's 24 / 7 ethics hotline , she also improved the city' s financial disclosure fil ing rate from a ho- hum 77 percent in 2002 to 98 percent in 201 0. By her own estimates, she advises city officials nearly three to four times each week on ethical issues and has helped the Board of Ethics issue nearly 40 formal advisories - all on a very lean budget.

Prior to joining the city, the University-of Georgia law school graduate worked for more than 10 years as a clerk to Chief justice Norman Fletcher of the Georgia Supreme Court. She also worked several years with private firms as a litigation assistant and associate. Before becoming a lawyer she worked as a reporter, university researcher, and project director for the Alabama and Georgia Civil Li berties Unions.

The Board of Ethics is expected to announce the formation of a search committee at its meeting this evening. Her successor, who's expected to be selected before the end of the year, must be an Atlanta resident, active member of the Georgia Bar Association and have five years experience in the the practice of law.

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If citizens of Atlanta were asked, what percent would know there is an Ethics Office in the city?

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Robert Baue r , Br·a i n a nd Spi naJ I njury Trust Fund Commi ssi on

Bau er is cha ir o f t he DeparLment of Psycho l ogy and Counselin g a t Valdost a StaLe University . He is a forme r Pea ce Corps volunteer . Ba uer is also a membe r of the state board of directors for GeorqLa Fa mily Connection, chair or t he Lowndes/ValdosLa Commission f or Chil dren and Yo u th, and a board member o f J:: l d erho s tel , I nc ., an internati onal educat ional program f or person s 60 ye ars of age and older. . He and his wi fe , Anunciac i o n , resi d e i n Va l dost a .

Curtis llarr i s Cu .rt. Collier , Ci vi 1 War Conunl ssio n

Collier is in f i e ld sales for Henry Schein Medical , covering the territory of Athens a nd Lhe ma j ority of northeas t Georgia f or almost 11 yea rs . lie ser ves on t he Vestry of Emmanuel C:piscopal Church in At he n s and i s a l i f e member o f t he Sons of Confederate Ve terans Historical Soc i ety (NaLional and Georgia) . Collier e arned a bac hel or 's d eg r e e from the Uni.versity of Georgia in 1 991 . lie and h i s wife, Georgia , have two chil d r en .

Da v i d Blanton Dove , Civil War Commission

Dove is currently e nrolled in the UnJversity o f Geo rgia School of Law, Class or 2014 . ~ re viou s l y, h e worked f o r Congressman Paul Broun, Secretary o f State ilria n Kemp, a nd most r ecently for Gov . Deal as cou nLy and local go ve rnment affairs l iai son . He i s a member of the Georgia Histori c a l Society, t he Georg ia Trus t f o r Historic P reservation, and t he Athens- Clarke Heritage Foundation . Dove earned a bachelor's de gree from Lhe Univer sity of Georgia .

J a me s Trlpp Mitchell , Board o f PrivaLe De t e ctive and Se cur ity Agencies (Reappoi nLment)

Mitchel l ' s c areer spans many years of exp eri ence in p ubl ic law e n f orce ment, security consulting and priva te inve sti gation . After g radua ting trom the pol l ee aca d emy , he began his career as a pol ice off i cer where he serv e d as a patrol officer, f i eld training officer a nd as a deteccive . Mi tche ll later became a crimi na l investiga to.r with the State Court Pr o s ecutor ' s Office and was eventua lly promoted to chief investigator . He i s a past pres ident of t he Georgia Association of Prof essional Priva t e Investi ga tors and served that associ ati on in various a reas . He is a Ccrt if l ed Prote<.:t ion Professional (CPP) b y the 1\merican Societ y for Indu stri a l Security . As a certi f i ed trai ninq instructor, he teaches a t severa l regional p o lice academies and is an adjunct college i nstruc t or in criminal justice . He and h i s wite , Trish, l ive in Vi l la Rica a nd have o ne s on, Avery . Alexander Al ex Gross, Compo s ite Medica l Board (Reappointment)

Gross i s reap poin Led t he Georgi a Composi t e Medical Boa r d, having served as

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its i mmedj ate past chajrman. He currentl y serves a s a n associate protessor of Dermatology as well as Pub] ic HealLh and ~amily Medicine at Emory University . He is also the medical di rector of Lhe Georg ia Dermato l ogy Center i n Cu~ning . Gross re<.:ei ved hl s bachelor ' s degree i.n biolog y from Emory University and his medical d egree from t he Unive rsity of South Plorida College o f Med icine . He is a fellow of the American Academy o f Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surger y and the American College of Laser Med icine and Surqery.

Thomas R. Dirksen, Hjstori<.:al Reco rds Advisory Board (Reappoint ment}

Dirksen retired as Associate Dean Emeritus from the Medical College of Georgia where he taught and conducte d researc h for over three decades . He has published more than 150 scientifi c papers, abst racts and book cha pter s . He has held various offices and s erved on numerous co~n jttees wiLh t he I nLernationa1 a nd the American Associations of Dental Resear<.:h , the funerican Association ot DenLal Schools , t he Am erican Dental Association, the American Associa t jon for t he Advanc e ment of Science (elected fellow) and t he National Lnstitutes o f Health . Dj r ksen wa s recently acknowledged lor his 40 years of service to the Augusta Richmond County Library, havinq served as president of the board of trustees and the ~riend s ot the Augusta Library for severa l terms. He is a member and has served as p r esident of t he AuqusLa Genealogical Societ y . He earne d a b achelor ' s degree from Bradley Un iversit y, received a master ' s and Ph. D. (Biochemistry) f rom the University of Roches tee, and completed a residency in Pediatric Dentistry at the Eastman De ntal Dispensary. He and his wife, Jean, 1 i ve in Augusta . They have six c t1i l dren and 13 grandchi ldren .

Kaye Lanning Minchew, HisLorical Records Advisory Hoard (Reapp ointment )

Minchew has s erved as d irector or the Troup County Archives since 1985 a nd also serves a s d i r ccLor of Legac y Mu se um on Main, bolh locate d on Main Str eet in LaGrange . The Troup County Archives received the Council r~ xemp lar y Service Awa r d from the Society ot Amer-ican Archivists i n 2009 . She has been a member of the Georgia Histori<.:al Records Advisory Boa rd since 1993 . She received gradua te degre es in ttistory and l ibrary science trom Lhe Unive rsit y of No r th Caroli na in Chape l Hi l l . She is married to Gregory , an engineer . The c ouple resides in LaGrange.

P . Toby Graha m, Historical Records Adv isory Bo ard (ReappointmenL )

Grah a m is deputy universi Ly librari an and di rector or the Hargrett Ra re Book and Manuscript Li brary at Lhe University of Georgia. He also serves as d i rector of the Digital Library of Georgia, a collaborative initiative led by GALILEO and t he UGA Libraries to digit ize and provide online access to key resources on Georgia h istory and life. Graham earned a Ph . D. i n library science and master's degrees in history and library s cience from Lhe Unive rsit y of Alabama . He and his wife, Suzanne, have two children and reside in Athens .

Jami l S . Zainaldin, Hislorical Records Advisory Board (Reappointment)

Zainaldin is president of the Georgia Humanities Council . He attended Warner Robins High Schoo] , received his bachelor ' s degr ee from the University of Vi rginia and hi s Ph . D. in American History from Lhe Un iversity of Chicago . Zainald i n i s a mem ber o t the Georgia Associatjon ot Hi storians and ~riends of lhe Georgia Archives . He has taugh t and published works abou t American h i story; he i s co- founder of the a ward- wi.nninq New Georqi a ~ncyclopedia . He also serves on state ar1d national educational boards . Zainaldin promotes history educalion as important for char acter deve l opmen t a nd civic va lues . He a nd h i s wife, Inqr.id, have Lhrec c hildr en and t hree grandchildren. The couple resides in Dunwoody .

Shecyl 1:3. Vogl, llistorical Records Advisory Board ( Reappointment )

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Vogt is the d irector o f the Richard B. Russell Library for po l it ic~l research and studies . She i.s a fellow of the Socie ty of American Archivists and a member of the Academy of Certifi ed Archivists . She serves as president of the n ssociation of Centers f or the Study of Congress a nd holds an appointment to the Adv iso r y Committ ee on the Records of Congress . Vogt was named t he Sco ne Foundation ' s 2004 Archivist o f the Year . She is also a fel low of t he Society o f Georgia Archivists, ser ved as soci ety president in 1983 , and was editor of ils p rofessional journal Provenance for 10 y e ars . She car.ned a bachelor ' s degree, t wo master' s degrees and an educ a t jon s pec i alis t d egree from the University ot Georgi a . Vogt and her husband, John, have two c h i 1 d ren and resi de ·in Athens .

Sheil a Studdard, Historical Records Advisory Board

Studdard is t.he clerk of superior , state and magistrate courts for Fayette County . Prior to b eing elected in 2000, Studdard WilS an Atlanta police o f ficer with 10 years of service . Currently serving as ch~irman , she was appointe d to the Superior Court Clerks' Retirement ~und in ~006 . She was instrumental i n p assing the e nabling e f' i ling and eRecord i ng leg islat.ion i n t. he 2009 Ge neral Assembly. Studdard earned a bachelor ' s degree f r om Mercer Univers ity and a master 's degree from Georgia State University. She is a 2006 graduate of the Coverdell Leadership Institute . She and her husba nd, Davi d , have three children a nd o ne grandchi ld and reside j n Fayetteville .

Carey Willi ams, Hi slorical Records Ad visory Board

Williams has b een the editor of The Herald J ourna l in Greensboro since 1969 . The p ape r has b een in f ami ly for more t han 100 years . He is also edltor o f the Crawfordville newspaper . He attended Ge orgia Mili tary College and the Un i versity of Georgia. Carey and his wife have one daughter and one son who they lost to ALS at t he age of 39 . They reside in Greensboro .

Janice N. Wittschiebe , State Board of Architects and Interlor Designers

Wittschiebc i s currently serving as t r easurer on the board of the Georgia St~ te American I nstitute o r Arctd tects where she hus been a board membe r s ince 2009 and member since 197 6 . She c urrently serves on the b o a rd of d irectors for the Georgia 1'ech Foundation and the Georgia Tech Athlelic Board . Previously she served us advisory board member to Tech 's president, board of trustees member and president of Lhe Georgia Tech Alumni Association . Wi ttschlebe has also served as an advi s ory b o ard member to Vice Chancell or Bi l l Chat ham and is c urrentl y working wiLh the Georgia State Investment.. Commission on the Sta te Construct ion Manual . She earned her bachelor ' s and master ' s degrees from the Georgia InsLitut e of Technology a nd is a member of Rota r y nt..lanta. She currently resides in Atlanta .

Rache l L . Will is , Board of Trustees of the 1'eachcr Re t i rement SysLem of Georgia

After graduating from Smith College i n 2004 , Wi llis joined t he f ield of education as a Teach for America c orps member . After t eaching second through fourth grade in the system, she wa s named Lhe 2009-2010 Atlanta Public Schools Elementary 'l'eacher of the Year . The following year Willis was honored nationally as ~ Milken Educator Awa r d recip ient . The Milken Fam i ly Foundation honors early and mid-career teachers fo r what they have achi eved a nd t he promis e they possess in impacti ng educalion i n Lhe future . She recently received her Ed . M. in Education Leadership from Columbia University Teacher·s College . Currently, she teaches t hird g rade at Morn i ngs i de Elementary in nLlanta and serves on Gov. Deal ' s Edu ca~ ion nctvisory Uoard .

Pam Will i ams, Professional Standards Commission

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and the AdvancEd Council and is a me mber of the boa r d of direcLors for the Georgia ParLne r s hip for Excelle n ce i n Education . In h er 21sL year a s an educat o r , s he currently teaches American government a nd e conomics at Appl i ng County High School . Williams ea r ned a bachelor ' s degre e f rom Brewton Par ke r Col lege and b oth master ' s and educ a tion speciali st d e grees from Georgia SouLhern Universit y . She i s a Nati o na l Boa r d Cerlifled t each e r and is curr e n t l y p ursul ng a d oct o r a l dcq.r e e i. n curr icu l um, .i nstruction <:1 nd a ssessme n t f rom Wolden Univ e r sit y . She is also a n act i ve member of Lhe Professi onal A~soci at i o n of Georgia Educa t o r s . W illiam ~ LS Lhe mo t her of t h r ee c h i l d r e n and resi des in Baxley .

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Garrett i s a foundi ng membe r of the law firm Turner, Bachman and Garr ett LLC and Georg ia360 Publ ic Affairs . He lea ds Lhe Sout h e ast office of the St evens a nd Schreite r Gr oup, a national me d i a a d vertising f i rm . Ga rrett currentl y s e r ves o n Lhe b oar d s of t he Cobb Chamb er o f Co mmerce, t he Cour1c il for Quality Growt h a nd Lhe Georgi a chopte r· of t h e J uven i l e Diabetes Re s earch ~ · oun da t ion . He p rev j o usl y serv e d as u. s. Scr1. Johnny Isa k so n '~ chief ot sta f f, whe re he worke d as t he chief p o l itical str ategist f or Isaks on ' s success f u l U.S. Senate campa i gns in 2004 and 2010 . Garrett ' s othe r p o l i t i cal clicr1ts have included : Georg i a Att o r ney General Sam OJens, Secretary o f Sta te Brian Kemp a nd t h e Georqia Rep ub lic a n Party . From 1996 through 1998 , h e s erved as a lega l a nd policy adviser t o Chairman Johnny Isakson and the Ge orgia State Board of Education . Garrett i s a Phi Beta Kappa graduate o( the University o[ Georgia . He graduated ma g na c um laude from tbs University of Georgia School of ~aw l n 1995 , where he serv ed as an edi tor f or Lhe Georgia Law Re vi e w and was i nduct ed i nto the Order o f t he Coif . Garr e t t a nd h is wi f e , Le e , ha ve three c h i ldre n . Th e fami ly res i des i n Ma r iet t a .

Chri s t y C . McGill , Profession a l SLandards Commi ssi on

McGi ll h as been a teacher in Gwinnett CounLy for n i ne years and cur r ent ly Leaches ki n dergarten at Dacula Eleme ntary School . She q raduaLed from Georgi a State University in the winter o f 200?. and received a bachelor ' s degree i n the field o f ear l y childhood educa t i on . McGill returned to Georgia SLate Un i v e rsity a [ew year s lat e r and recei v ed bot h a master ' s and specia list degree in e arly child hood educ ation . In addition , she received her Te ach er SupporL Spe cial i st e ndo rseme nt thr o ugh Gwi nn e t t County a nd has been ~ra i n e d i n me n Lorln g t eache r s . Du ring her car eer , McGil l has ha d the o pporLunity t o s uper v ise a Georgia St ate Univers i t y studen t Leacher , c oord i na t e Dacula El e me ntary ' s t h ree day summer p r e- kinderg a rte n program a nd s e r ve a s grade lev e l c h a i r for two consecu t ive years . She was also named a Teacher or Lhe Yea r f inali st a t Dacula Elementa r y for the 2008- 2009 academic s c hool year . She curre ntly s erves on her school 's literacy Learn , a s well as the Gove rnor ' s Teacher Advis o r y Board for the s t a te of Georgia . She resides in Groy~on .

Jerry Wi l l is, Board of Cor r ect i ons

Wi l l i s ser v e d 28 years j n marit i me safety f o r the Coast Guard . He was forme r ly c aptai n o f t he port f or Sava nna h and Brunswick a nd has forme r ly s e r ved o n the Gove r nor ' s Office o f Con s ume r s Affa l r s and t he Board o f Pub l i c Sa fet y . His va r ious o t h er d uty stations inc l ud e Jacksonvil l e , New Orleans, St . Lou i s , Singap o r e a nd Washington . Wi l l is s e r ved detached duly to t h e U. S . Army in t h e Republic of Viet nam and lia i son to t he U. S . Maritime Admi nistraLion . !lis f inal assignment in 1996 was director of the Coast Guar-d Olympic Task Force a nd chairman of the Savannah Federa l/Sta te Olympic Securicy Force . After r e t iring, he worked as a maritime security c onsultant in Louisi a na and Nigeria . Wi l lis a nd his wife, Debra , have tour child r e n a nd two grandchildren and live in Pe r r y .

Donal d W. Ve n n , 1 I , Board of Pub l ic Heal th

Ve nn i s a ret i r ed col o nel who ret i r e d as t he Ch i e f o f St a ff o f t he Georgi a

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Army National Guard i n 2005. He s erved as deputy director of the Georgia Office of Homeland Securi ty from 2006 to ~00 8 . He currently s erves as assistant adjutant g e nera] o f operat i ons f or the Georg i a Department o f Defense . Venn received a master ' s in Education in 1976 from Acmstrong Sta Le Coll ege. He and his wife, Ca cole, have two son~ and three grandchildren and r eside in Kennesaw .

J ames M. Smith , Board of l>ublic Heal th

Smith is a n adjunct professor ot environmental and occupationa l health at ~mo ry Un i ve rsity's Rollins School of Publ LC Heal t h and a c onsultant in t he fiel d of b i ophysics . He worked for the u.s. Ce nters for Di sease Control and Pre vention for 22 years and retired in 2006 as a ssociate director for radiation in CDC ' s Center for Environmental Health . Prior to CDC , Smith was an associate research professor a t the Un iversity o r Utah School of Medicine . He i s a pa st recipient of several f e d eral c areer awards; among them i s the U. S . Public lle a l t h Service Superior Service Award . He is a graduate of West Vi rginia University , where he also earned master ' s and doctor a Le degrees i n physics . He and his wife, June, resi d e in Braselton and have three c hildren a nd f ive grandch ildren .

Cynthia F . Greene , Board of Public Health

Gr eene i s a cur rent p a rtner a L Benne tt FamJ l y Dentistry in Gainesville. I n !!all County, she se rves i n the Junior Le ague, is an active board member of Teen Pregnancy Preventi on and volunteers at the Good News Clinic to help provide denLa l care t o the unders e rved . Greene i s a member of the Ge orgia Dental Association, American Dental Ass ociation and t he Academy of Gene ra l De n t istry . She earned a bachelor ' s degree from the University o f Georgia Honors Progr am in mLcrobiology and a Doctor o[ Dental Medicine from the Univers it.y of Florida . Greene and he r hus band, John, ha ve two daugh t e r s , Bailey a nd earl y .

J ames w. Curran, Board of Public Hea lth

Curran has been d ean a nd prof e ssor o f epi d emio logy at the Rol l ins School of Publi c Health since 1995 . l n 2009, t he deanshi p of the school was endowed in his honor and he holds the position a s the f irst James w. Curran Dean of Publi c Healt h . Si nce 1997 , he ha s a lso served a s p rinci pal i nvestigator and co- d i r ector ot t h e Emory Center for AIDS Research . Cur ran has been t he a uthor of mo re than 260 scientific publications . He serves on numerous local and national nonprofit boards and committees . Curran has also served as cha ir of the Association of Schoo ls ot Publ ic Hca l l.h a nd currcnt.ly se r·ves on the execut ive c ommittee . He ca1ne to Emory from the Centers r or Di~ease Control and Prevention , whe re he served for more than two decades . From 1981 to 1995, he wa s a leader of the CDC 's HJV research and prevention effor ts . Curran and his wife, Juanita, have two adult c h il d r en a nd have lived J n At l anta s ince 1978 .

Phillip L . Williams, Board of Public Health

Wi l lJams is t he f ound i ng d ean of t he Colleqe ot Public Hea lth a t t he University of Georgi a , and he holds the Georgia Powe r Professorshi p of Environmental Health Science in the college's Department of Environmenta l Health Science . He has aut hored more than 100 s cientific publications , including two tex t books on t oxico logy . Prior to his tenure a t UGA , wh ich began i n 1993 , Dr. Willia ms was v i ce president of the ~nv ir onmen ta l Heal th Division of A.T . Kearney, a s enior research scienList with the Georgia Tech Research TnstituLe and the l. ndust ri a l hyqi en.i. s t wi t. h the US DOL/OSIIA . Wil l ioms earned a bachelor ' s degree [rom Georgia State Univers lty and a doctoral degree f rom t he Georgi a Institute of Technology . He and his wife , Theda , have two children and two grandchildren . The couple r esides in Wa tkinsville .

Kathryn K. Cheek , Board of Public Health

Cheek is t h e cur.·rent president of the Geor qia chapter of the 1\merican Academy of Pedi atric s . She h as practiced p rimary care pedia trics in Co lumb us for t he

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past 25 years, serving on mu l tiple local and s La te boards throughout he r career . Cheek earned a bachel or's degree from the UniversJLy of Norlh Carolina and both a master ' s degree in health education and an M. D. f rom the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University . She and her hus band, Ben, have three children . The family resides in Columbus .

Gary D. Ne lson, Board of Public Heal th

Nelson has served as president of Healthcare Georgia . Foundation since its inception in 200?. . Prior to joining the foundation , Dr . Nelson was program d ire ctor for the Cali f ornia Wel l ness Foundation . Nelson p reviously served as the associate d i rector for evaluation and c hief of t he Heal Lh Promotion and Training Branch i n t he Di v is i o n of Cancer Prevent i on and Cont rol a t t he Centers for Disease Cont rol and Prevention . Nelson has held academic appointments at t he Universi ty of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Nebraska , and he currently holds adjunc t appointme nts at 8mory University and Georgia Southern University . He is cur ren Lly a member o f t he Am erican Public Heal t h Associat ion and t he Georgia Public He a l t h Associat ion. Ne l son r esi d es i n Smyr n a and has four chil dre n .

Mitch Rodriguez , Board of Publ ic Health

Rodriguez cu rrent ly serves as Reqiona1 Neonata l Medical Di rector for Lhe Macon region. He Ls a fel low of the Ameri can Academy of PcdiaLr.ics, member of t he Medical Association of Georqia, cllnical associat e proCessor of Pedi a trics at Mercer Medical School and is a practjcing neonatologist in Ma con . Be s erves as chairman of Lhe board aL Mount de Sales, Macon . Rodriguez earned his med i cal deg ree f rom UnJversidad Nordestana in Lhe Dominican Republic and an MBA from Kennesaw Sla te Universlly. He and hls wi fe have t wo children . The fam i ly resides ln Macon .

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President 1st Vice-President "!rlli Vice-President Pamela Calloway Gilda Gonzales James W. Head Oakland, CA ··July 25, 2011 · · The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners has three new officers. The Port Board approved a resolution officially ratifying the election of new officers July 21, 2011. The Port Board elected Commissioner Pamela Calloway to serve as president of the board. Commissioner Gilda Gonzales was elected to serve as 1st vice president (1st VP) and the out-going Board President, Commissioner James W. Head, was elected 2nd VP. Board members recognized outgoing President Head for his service. Head stated, "I am appreciative of the opportunity to have served as President of this highly effective board and to work with the wortd class Port of Oakland staff. lam excited about what we have been able to accomplish during this past fiscal year including a major trade mission with Oakland Mayor Quan to China promoting US exports, bringing in new flights to Oakland International Airport, and bringing on board a new investor to revitalize Jack London Square." After the ratification of the election, President Calloway said, "I value the strong and effective leadership of my predecessor, Commissioner James Head. He led the Port through the first year of our 5-year strategic plan with great integrity, transparency and accountability. I look forward to continuing these standards of excellence as we aggressively pursue inclusive economic development for the Port-city of Oakland to produce more jobs for Oakland and the region.·

President Calloway- Ms. Pamela Calloway, principal of Calloway a Associates, is an attorney with expertise in developing and implementing creative private-public partnerships and initiatives for investment in workforce and economic development to meet business needs through governmental relations, human resources development and strategic planning. Previously, Ms. Calloway served as Vice-President and Director of the California Office for Public/Private Ventures (P/PV). P/PV, a social policy think tank with offices in Philadelphia, New York City and Oakland, tackles critical challenges facing low-income communities by seeking out and designing innovative programs, rigorously testing them and promoting solutions proven to work. Prior to work at P/PV, Ms. Calloway served as Chief of Staff for the Workforce Investment Board in San Francisco and as President of the Private Industry Council there. She is a graduate of Fisk University (BA) and Georgetown University Law Center (JD).

1st VP Gonzales - Ms. Gilda Gonzales is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Unity Council and has a significant history of public service. During her fourteen·year career with the City of Oakland, she gained experience ~n municipal financing and budgeting, public policy, economic development and government relations. She served in many capacities from Budget Analyst, Special Assistant to the Finance Agency Director, Intergovernmental Affairs Director, and Chief of Staff to former City Manager Robert Bobb and former Mayor Jerry Brown. In 2004, Ms. Gonzales was named the Chief Executive Officer for the Unity Council. The Unity Council is a non-profit community development corporation committed to enriching the quality of life of families and individuals primarily in the Fruitvale District of Oakland.

2nd VP Head Mr. James W. Head is Vice President of Programs at The San Francisco Foundation and has over 25 years of experience in the field of community and economic development. Mr. Head served as President of the National Economic Development and Law Center for 17 years before coming to the Foundation. A lawyer by training, Mr. Head has significant nonprofit management, programmatic, and legal experience and has worked on nonprofit legal issues, nonprofit finance issues, as a consultant to foundations, financial institutions, business, government, and as a professor of law. Mr. Head's community service is extensive having been a member of numerous Foundation Advisory Boards, including the Open Society Foundation of New York, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation of Michigan, and the Columbian Foundation of San Francisco. Head received his Juris Doctorate from t he University of Georgia School of Law and has bar memberships in Georgia, Florida, and California.

About the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners The Port of Oakland is governed by a seven-member Board of Port Commissioners. The Board oversees the use of income from Port properties, approximately 16,000 acres stretching from the borders of Emeryville in the north to San. Leandro in the south. The commissioners are nominated by the Mayor of Oakland and appointed

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by the Oakland City Council. They are residents of the City of Oakland and serve staggered four-year terms without compensation. Their responsibilities are vast and require a great deal of their time, all donated to the Port.

About the Port of Oakland: The Port of Oakland oversees the Oakland seaport, Oakland International Airport and 20 miles of waterfront. The Oakland seaport is the fifth busiest container port in tne U.S.; Oakland International Airport offers over 300 daily passenger and cargo flights; and the Port's real estate includes commercial developments such as Jack London Square and hundreds of acres of public parks and conservation areas. The Port of Oakland was established in 1927 and is an independent department of the City of Oakland. Web sites: portof.oSJkland.~q_m and oi!.~.!Mdai!J1Q!J.com . Visit us on facebook.

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By Walter c. Jones Morris News Sci"Vke Monday, July 25, 2011 ATLANTA--- University of Georgia coaches and former athletes were the main draw at a luncheon Monday held by the Athletic Association as a stepped-up effort to recruit blacks as early as elementary school. Boosting minority enrollment has long been a goal of the state's flagship university, and on Monday admissions officials announced that they will admit the school's largest class of blacks and Hispanics when the next semester starts. The gathering was at Paschal's restaurant, once the spot where civil rights leaders met to plan strategy. Sprinkled among the 150 guests were former UGA athletes. Sten· .Jones, a federal judge from Athens and a UGA La w School graduate, urged the athletes to use their star power to motivate elementary students. Donald Hartry, an AT&T executive and one-time UGA basketball star, said the off-the-field success of former players is one way to demonstrate the value of a UCA degree. "When you go out and say you're a University of Georgia graduate in this state, you'll get somebody's attention," he said. "Vlhen you put your resume up on the table, at least you'll gel an interview." UGA head football coach Mark Richt said he gives that message to his players, urging them to participate in community-service projects throughout the year, and even two over the summer. The projects build morale and instill dedication, he said. Hamilton Homes Elementary School Principal Renee Pryor, of East Point, Ga., applauded the focus on younger students. "You need to start in elementary school. In many cases, high school is too late," she said. Riehl offered to play host once a month to field trips. Others offered suggestions from having the Alumni Association supply career-day speakers in the classrooms of teachers trained at UCA to urging undergraduates to serve as recruiters on their trips home. The varied recruitment avenues already employed are gradually paying off, according to Nancy McDuff, the assistant \~Ce president of admissions. Preliminary figures show that the university will admit the largest group of black and Hispanic freshmen this fall, 450 blacks and 350 Hispanics. "It takes years of efforts by many people," she said.

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ATLANTA -- University of Georgia coaches and star athletes headlined a luncheon the UGA Athletic Association hosted Monday to encourage youth leaders to help recruit minority students to the state's flagship university.

Boosting minority enrollment has long been a goal of the university, and on Monday, admissions officials announced that the incoming group of freshman has more black and Hispanic students than any class before .

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Guests at the luncheon included elementary school principals, youth counselors, ministers, business leaders and officials from the DeKalb Photos by David Tulis/Staff Police Athletic League. Georgia football coach Mark Richt, left, and U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones, second from left, 'We wanted to get a diverse group here that can participate in a panel discussion with former University impact children," said Carla Green Williams, of Georgia standout players during a gathering hosted executive associate athletic director. by the UGA Athletic Association on Monday at Paschal's in Atlanta for the inaugural "Engaging The gathering was at Paschal's restaurant, once Tomorrow's Bulldogs" program. the spot where civil rights leaders met to plan strategy, and was timed to send the message just as school starts.

Sprinkled among the 150 invitees were former UGA athletes, some of whom had professional careers after they moved on from the university.

U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones, a former Athens judge and a UGA Law School graduate, urged the athletes to use their star power to motivate elementary school students.

"You have to get attention. You all can get attention as athletes," Jones said. "It takes a team approach."

Donald Hartry, an AT&T executive and one-time UGA basketball star, said the off-the-field success of former players can show the value of a UGA degree.

'When you go out and say you're a University of Georgia graduate in this state, you'll get somebody's attention," Hartry said. 'When you put your r?sum? up on the table, at least you'll get an interview."

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Georgia head football coach Mark Richt said he gives that message to his players, encouraging them to participate in coi'TVTJJnity service projects throughout the year, and even two over the summer. The projects build morale and instill dedication, he said.

"Just a couple of weeks ago, and I don't know if y'all saw the picture in the Athens Banner-Herald," Richt said, adding that the photo showed his players visiting a wheelchair-bound child at Camp Sunshine. "If you saw his face, you saw how blessed he was."

Richt asked his staff to get a copy of the photo and post it in the locker room as a reminder to his players.

Renee Pryor, principal of Hamilton Homes Elementary School in East Point, applauded the focus on younger students.

"You need to start in elementary school. In many cases, high school is too late," Pryor said.

University officials are getting results from a variety of recruitment techniques, according to Nancy McDuff, UGA's assistant vice president of admissions. Preliminary figures show the university will admit the largest group of black freshmen and Hispanic freshmen this fall, 450 blacks and 350 Hispanics.

"It takes years of efforts by many people," she said.

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Halley said committee leaders serve at the pleasure of the president and "there's nothing specific we can point to " as to why Cooper and Spalla were told to leave.

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Posted: 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 26,2011 Obama May Use Constitutional Power On Debt Ceiling

By Bob Coxe Will there be a deal on the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2nd deadline?

Atlanta, GA- Could President Obama t_) Yes bypass Congress, and raise the debt limit by invoking an obscure part of the Constitution? ' No Former President Clinton recently said that if Vote See results he were still in office, he'd use Section 4 of the 14th Amendment and ''force the courts to Yes stop me."

No That Amendment was passed right after the Civil War.

'There was the debt of the Uraited States, there was the debt of the Confederacy, and it was repudiating the debt of the Confederacy while confirming the debt of the United States," explains University of Georgta law professor Tim Meyer.

Meyer tells WSB's Bob Coxe the Amendment is aimed mainly at Congress, and as far as he knows, no President has ever invoked it. If it were invoked, he says it probably wouldn't help.

"Interest rates would probably go way, way up," he says- which is probably what also would happen in a default.

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About Us Business Pcacbtr~:~: Comcrs ! N<>rcrl•ss/ l krkck~ Lakc/Du luth Calendar Ch urches Deal appoints five to public defender standards Classical council Gov. Arts Ctassifieds fULANTA. Ga., (July 27m 20 II)- Nath an Deal today tapped live new members who v.~lljoin the Georgia Public L)efender Standards Coundl. The Columnists Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is a nine-member independent Editorials agency with in the executive branch of the slate government whose mission is Feedback to ensure that clients receive adequate and ethical lega l representation. Festivals OQDna Avans Seagra' cs Fun Things Seagraves has worked as a public defender in Georgia for 24 years. To Do Seagraves received her Jaw degn:c from the Un iversity of Georgia School of I aw and \\1!ntto work with the Legal Aid Otlicc in Athens as an assistant Governments public defender. From there. she moved to the Fulton County Public De lender's Olfice and and then served as the public defender lor Jackson Gwinnett and narrow counties. Seagraves was appointed circuit pub lic defender lor Delegation the Piedmont Circuit when the Georgia Public De lender Standards Council Letters was created. She has tried hundreds of criminal cases. She is interested in Muse ums indigent defense policy. having served as vice president and Indigent Defense Committee member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Dclcnsc Attorneys. president of the Piedmont Bar Association and sec retary of the Performances Georgia Association of Circuit Public L>elt:ndcrs. She and her husband, Re zoning Brian. live in Athens and have one son. Sailing G.S. ''Gator" Hodges Sports I lodges WdS elected to the Buns County Commission in 2008. He works for Travel CSX Transportation. Previously, Hodges served the public for I0 years as a police officer with the Bry

Lamar Paris Paris is serving his third term as Union County's sole commissioner. Paris graduated lrom the University of Georgia with a bachelors in Business Administration. He is the Immediate State l'ast Presiden t of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia. l'aris serves on several local and regional hoards and committees. He has also served on the Georgia EPD Watershed Committee and the Senate Local Sa les Tax Study Committee and is currently a member of the St<~tC Regional Water Council. Paris is a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church of Union County. He and his wife. Dinah. have one daughter. Jessica, who also graduated from the University of Georgia.

Ron Cross Cross, of Evans, chairs the Columbia County Commission. He graduated high school in Greenville and Anderson Junior College in Anderson, S.C., and he attended Furman University. lie moved to Augusta in 1967 to begin work lor Smi th and Coleman Mechanical Engineers. then became the chief engineer for the Medical College of Georgia. Cross has worked in both residential and commercial construction. In 1982. he started CCI Construction Corporation, a commercial. industrial and institutional

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construction company. Cross worked at CCI Construction until he was elected to office in 2002. He is currently serving his third term as chairman. Cross has been active in several state and regional initiatives, including: the CSRA Regional Transportation Roundtable Executive Committee a~ chairman. the Association County Commissioners of Georgia Board of Managers. the Savannah-Upper Ogccchee Regjonal Water Planning Council as chairman, the Governor's Wutcr Contingency Planning Task Force, the Governor's Energy Council and th e Clarks llilll'artncrship. Cross and his family arc members of Wesley United Methodist Church in Evans.

David Sims Sims is a grad uate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. where he served as president of the Student Bar Association. He practiced law in Savannah for 20 years. handing both civil and criminal cases. There, he was president of the Trial Lav.'Yers Club and president of the Savannah Bar As~ociation. Sims worked for 13 years as a claims cou nsel for Nation wide Insurance in Atlanta before he retired. lie is currently of counsel with the Atlanta law lirm of Insley and Ra~:e and has ernt:ritus status with the State Bar of Georgia and in Vinings.

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In summer 1964, as a 16-year-old boy in rural Georgia. I watched my father, Clete D. Johnson, aggressively prosecute Ku Klux Klansmen for the cold-blooded murder of a black man, U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Lerruel Penn. My father was hardly progressive on racial issues at this time, but violent racists had senselessly murdered a dedicated public servant, and he knew right from wrong.

He stepped boldly into the turrull of the posi-Ctvil Rights Act South.

·Gentlemen. have the courage!" he thundered to the all-white jury. pounding the lectern w~h his fist. as I watched in awe from the courthouse pews. "Have the courage to do what's right:

Sadly, the jury acquitted Penn's killers. II was a scene that I will never forget, and on one summer night nearly 30 years later. my father's unheeded challenge to the jury changed the course of my life and that of my family.

On Aug. 5, 1993, I was seven months into my freshman term as a member of Congress representtng the mostly rural dtstrict tn which I had grown up. I was, and still am, a fiscally conservative Democrat who had run on a delicti reduction platform in the elections of 1992. The summer of 1993 had built to a political crescendo surrounding the deficit reduction vote on President Clinton's first budget.

I generally supported Clinton's budget plan - both Its spe nding cuts and its nearly equal amount of tax increases, most of which fell on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. Bull was skeptical about the deal because I wanted stricter controls on the rising costs of health care and fewer taxes on the middle class. I naively beli eved that we could do better if this bill fa iled and allowed us to start over.

Like many other skeptics. I spent the entire day in tense discussions with House leadership and with Vice President AJ Gore and President Bill Clinton It was a frantic full court press, but I ultimately told leadership, the Whtte House. and the press that I would vote ·no: and walked to the House to vote.

However. as I listened to Newt Gingrich and Dtck Armey cast inflammatory and outrageous predictions about the potential economic effects if the budget passed, my narvete faded. I realized there would not be an opportunity to craft a better deficit reduction deal.

For Gingrich, this fight had nothing to do with reducing the national defictt; it was all about crippling President Clinton and gaining control of the House.

Thts realization brought me face to face with another fact: The reasons I had given everyone for my · no· vote were baseless.

My 19-year-old son, who was interning in Washington that summer. sat in the House gallery to watch the historic proceedings that night. Thinking of him watching me, I heard my father's challenge from 29 years earlier.

I decided I had no choice but to put the interests of my son's generation ahead of my own political survival.

A House page brought me a note that President Clinton wanted to speak with me again. I went to a cloakroom phone and told him that if he committed to fight for caps on entitlement growth and to make further discretionary spending cuts. I would support the package. Clinton agreed to the commitment, and I added my vote to support the only deficit reduction package that had any realistic chance to prevail. The budget passed by one vote.

Republican opponents and talk radio branded me (along with a handful of other representatives who decided at the last minute to vote •yes') as the ' deciding vote· for Clinton's "liberal tax-and-spend plan: We all got our heads handed to us in the 1994 election.

After the difficult loss. two good things happened. First. Clinton kept butldtng on the 1993 down payment on deficit reduction. Second, by the end of the 1990s with the economy rising at record levels. our national budget boasted huge surpluses for the first time in decades.

Unfortunately, the irresponsibility of the early 2000s wasted our surplus and plunged us into an abyss of debt.

Then the financial crisis and the Great Recesston deepened the abyss by causing tax revenues to plummet and requiring vast emergency spending to prevent a second Great Depression.

We now are in a debt crisis far worse than the one we climbed out of in the 1990s.

Anyone who can do simple arithmetic knows the elements of the problem: Our discretionary spending (both domestic and defense) is too high. our tax revenues are too low, and our entitlement programs are headed toward onsolvency. Solutions are politically difficult, but they are blindingly obvious.

President Ba rack Obama knows this. So does the Senate's bipartisan Gang of Six - a group that includes U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who has shown tremendous leadership and strength on this issue. It appears that House Speaker John Boehner knows it too, ahhough the most radical wing of the House Republican caucus clearly hamstrings hos deal-making.

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We need statesmen to summon the- courage to save this country from catastrophe. For members of Congress. this moment should not be a political game. It is a test of their integrity, and of their awareness that the1r children- all of our children - are watching.

For their sake, let's hope that Congress has the courage to do what's right.

C. Donald Johnson represented Georgia's 1Olh Congressional District from 1993 to 1995. He is now director of the Dean Rusk Center of International Law and Policy at the University of Georgia School of Law.

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Posted on Wed, Jul. 27 , 2011 USC chooses new site for law school By WAYNE WASHINGTON wwashington@thestate. com The University of South Carolina has decided to build a new home for its beleaguered law school downtown, dominating a block between Senate and Gervais streets. The new building will have 186,000 square feet and cost $75 million, said Rob Wilcox, the new law school dean, who expects to oversee the move from the school's current Main Street building. USC has most of the money for the new building but needs to raise an additional $25 million before it can go to the state Budget and Control Board to request permission to start construction. Former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster has been hired by I USC as a $191 ,000-a-year consultant to help the law ! !University of South Carolina school raise that final $25 million. USC had considered refurbishing its Main Street law I school building, which has been plagued by roof problems. But that possibility was shelved once estimates for that work crossed the $60 million threshold. "Retrofitting a building of this type was not going to be easy," said Wilcox, who took over as dean July 1. "It was going to end up costing well over $60 million." The new building will take up most of the block between Senate and Gervais, and Bull and Pickens streets, sitting where USC's campus police headquarters now are located. It would be built behind the Horry-Guignard House and adjacent to the Taylor Mansion, whose new wings would be removed -Kim Kim Foster-Tobin /[email protected] to make way for the law school facility. Both the campus police and the Workshop Theater would need MCMASTER GETS $191,000 CONTRACT to find new homes. Former S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster is USC bought the Senate Street site about a decade 1 being paid an annual contract of $191 ,000 to help ago. It has spent about $6 million so far in its efforts IUSC's law school raise money for its new building. to get a new law school facility. Wilcox said having a law school at Senate and Bull would be a plus for i McMaster, a Republican who unsuccessfully students, citing its site at the geographic epicenter of : sought the GOP's gubernatorial nomination last

the city's legal community. It is not far from the state 'j. year, has been w orking for USC since February, Supreme Court building, the National Advocacy initially earning $7,500 a month in consulting fees. Center, the state Capitol and area law firms. "The law I But since the July 1 start of the state's new fiscal school needs to be integrated into the profession." Iyear, McMaster has been working on what

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USC also expects to refurbish the Dunbar Funeral Margaret Lamb, USC's director of media relations, Home building on Gervais Street to house a training described as "an annual contract." facility for the law school's Children's Law Center. The funeral home building is across the street from part of "It's a finite contract," Lamb said. the law school building site. McMaster, who received his undergraduate and Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, a graduate of USC's law degrees from USC, is expected to help the law law school, had suggested housing the law school in school raise $25 million that it needs to construct a the former SCANA building downtown. But Wilcox new building. said that building was not ideal; the high-rise structure would limit interaction between students and faculty. "Henry McMaster makes things happen," Lamb said. "He's got boundless energy, devotion to the The Main Street building has been a drag on USC's university, and he's got great contacts in the legal law school, which has fared poorly in national community." rankings, Wilcox says. The new dean hopes getting new, upgraded facilities will be a part of turning Wayne Washington around that reputation.

"The building is an important part," Wilcox said. "But our mission is not to build a building." Wilcox said the law school, which has been trying to raise money for new facilities for almost a decade, needs to revamp its curriculum to produce lawyers who require less seasoning once hired. To meet that goal, Wilcox said the school will focus more on helping students improve their skills in interviewing clients, understanding complicated challenges that require creative solutions and working as part of a legal team. The law school also will put more emphasis on producing lawyers in children's, environmental and small business law. Wilcox said the law school expects to add 10 new faculty members over the next four to five years, beginning with four new faculty members who will be hired to begin work in fall 2012. Producing lawyers who are better equipped to compete in a changing legal environment - and improving the reputation of the law school won't be a snap, Wilcox said. But, he added, "We can see the finish line. " "The University of North Carolina, the University of Georgia and the University of Florida, they all have excellent law schools. I want to be in the same league as them," Wilcox said. "That's ambitious, but it's realistic. There's no reason why we can't get there."

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The Warren Jeffs trial took an interesting, if not entirety unexpected. tum on Thursday when the 55-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints fired his seasoned defense team and asked for permission to represent himself.

Be·fore granting the request. 51st District Court Judge Barbara Wa~her, as she is required to do by law, warned Jeffs of the risks involved and personally discouraged it, saying she had never seen a defendant successfully self-represent in her 30 years of licensed law practice.

"You have a right to represent yourself," Walther said to Jeffs. "You need to understand the substantial risk you are assuming."

Jeffs told Walther he had made the decision to self-represent · only recently."

Jeffs' former attorneys declined to say whether they were privy to his plans, but that they fully support his decision to represent himself because it is his legal right as long as he does so knowingly and intelligently. Law also requires that it be done before the jury is sworn in. which was the case.

"It's absolutely his right, it's his choice and I support it,' said Deric Walpole, Jeffs' former lead counseL "It's always preferable to have an experienced counsel at the defense table, but it's not necessary and 11 can be done or the law wouldn't allow for it·

After granting Jeffs request. Walther said she wanted the seven attorneys who had been representing him to act as standby counsel and at least one of them to remam in the court room at all times in case he reconsiders what she described as an · unw1se decision.·

Wa lpole, who stayed in the courtroom for the duration of Thursday's trial, said he would stick around and ' be ready to go at a moment's notice."

The right to self-representation is not only explicitly provided for in both the state and U.S . Constitutions. but is well established 1n case law. In 1975, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Faretta v. Ca lifo rnia that criminal defendants have a constitut1onal right to self-representation in state criminal trials.

Jeffs is by no means the only high-profile cnminal defendant who has sought to invoke his nght to so-called "prose· representation, but many of the handful of infamous cases in which that has occurred-wh1ch involve mostly murder charges- have ended e1ther in convictions or the defendants rehiring their attorneys after realizing how difficult 11 is to argue a case with no legal expert1se.

One of the more recent high-profile cases of self-representation was in 2003 when, according to various archived media reports, John Allen Muhammad. the "Beltway Sniper," fired his legal counsel and was given permission to represent himself. but called h1s attorneys back after makmg his opening statement. Muhammad was found guilty and executed in November 2009. Other notable criminal defendants who attempted to represent themselves include serial killer Ted Bundy, who also was convicted and executed.

Some statiStiCS. however, suggest that the conv1clion rates of self-represented felony defendants who end up at trial are not that different from those who retain legal counsel.

A 2007 Stuc(y by fhe Umvers1ty of Georg1a School of Law analyzmg data from felony

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court cases from 1998 to 2003 shows that "the data that mdicate that pro se felony defendants 1n state courts are conv1cted at cates equ1valent to or lower than the conv•chon rates of represented felony defendants • The state of Texas doesn't keep comprehensive data on the percentage of criminal defendants who are allowed to self represent or related conviction rates.

Either way, ·1rs a common belief that it's a bad idea: said Patrick Metze, the director of c ri minal chnics for the Texas Tech School of Law, of self-representation

Metze, who is following the Jeffs trial. predicts Jeffs may rehire his attorneys once he realizes he is in over his head. Metze said the basic proceedings of a trial, everything from the rules of evidence to the way witnesses are called and what they can and can't be asked. are tricky and could cause someone who 1s unfamiliar with them to gel frustrated and give up.

"I would be surprised if he did the whole trial himself," he said. ·1would think that, at some point, he would bail and decide that he did need the help, because 1t's going to get real complicated real fast.'

As far as Walther's decision to allow Jeffs to represent himself. Metze said most judges would allow for it as long as the defendant communicates that they are aware of the risks and doing it willingly. However, Metze said he would be shocked if Jeffs is successful and that the judge may require him to bring back his legal counsel if she becomes impatient and feels the trial is being obstructed.

"I would say it would be very surprising if he were successful; it would be very surprising to me if he completed the job, even: Metze said. "I think he'll find it's not nearly going to be as much fun as he thinks. He's not going to enjoy it . . And at some point. the judge may have had enough •

On Thursday afternoon as the gui~ -i nnocence phase of the trial got under way, Jeffs sat s ilently as the judge offered him the opportunity to make an opening statement. He remained silent while the prosecution made an opening statement and began building its case. After about an hour, the Judge called for a short break so Walpole could advise him about the •perils' of remaining silent.

During the break. Walpole could be seen bent over Jeffs' table, talking intently into his ear. II was not clear whether Jeffs was responding. Special Prosecutor Eric Nichols then called several witnesses and entered one exhibit after another as Jeffs sat stoically without speaking, entering no objections and "signifying by silence: as Walther put it. his waiver of cross-examination of witnesses.

AI the end of the day's proceedings. Jeffs again asked for more time to draft motions and prepare his case. a request Walther denied.

The trial will resume at 9 a.m. today.

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I n summer 1964 , as a 16-year-old boy i n rura l Georg La , I wa tched my father, Clet e D. J o hnson, a g g ressive ly prosec ute Ku Kl ux Klansmen for the col d-bloode d murde r of a black man , U. S. Army Reserve Lt . Col . Lemuel Penn. My f athe r was h a rdly progr e ssive on racial i ssues at thi s time , but violent r ac lsts had senselessly mu rde r ed a dedicated public s ervant, a nd he knew r ight from wrong .

lie stepped bol d l y i nto t h e tumul t of t he post- Civ i l Rights Act So u t h:

"Gentlemen, ha ve the courage ' " he thundered to the all-whi.te jury , pounding the l ect e rn with h i s f ist, as I watched in awe from the courthouse p e ws . " Have t he c ourage t o do whDt ' s right ."

Sad l y, the j ury acquitted Pe nn ' s ki l l ers . It wa s a scene that I will never f orget, a nd on o n e summe r night n early 30 years l a ter, my father's unhe eded cha l l enge to t he j ury change d t he course o f my life a nd t ha t of my fami l y .

On Aug . 5, 1993 , I was seven month s i nto my freshman t e rm a s a member of Congress r epresenting the most l y r ura l district in whic h l had grown up. I was , and still am, a f i sci:llly conserva tive DemocraL who had run on a deficit reduct i on pla tform in the e l e ctions o f 1 992 . The summe r o f 1 9 93 had b u i lt to a po l i t i cal crescendo s urrounding the d e ficit reduc t i on vote on Preside nt Clinton ' s f i r s t b udget .

L generally s upported Clinton ' s b udget plan --- b o th i ts s pending c uts and i t s nearly e qual amount o f tax incre ases, mo s t of whi c h fell on the we althiest 2 percent of Ameri cans . 8ut I was skeptical abo ut the dea l because I wa nt ed s tricter contr ols on the rising c osts o f health care and f ewer taxes on the middle c l a ss . I naively believed that we c o u l d do better if thi s b i l l failed and a l lowed us to s t art over .

Like ma ny othe r skep t i cs, I spe 11L the e ntire day i n tense discussions wilh House l eader ship a nd with Vice Presi dent A1 Go re a nd Pres i dent Bill Clin t o n . I t was a frantic f u l l court. p ress , but I ulti ma tely t o l d leadersh i p, t he White House, and the press that I wo u l d v ote " no," a nd walked to t he House t o vote .

Howe v er, as I lisLened to Ne wt Gingri ch and D)ck Ar me y cast infl amma t o ry and outrageous pred i ctions about t he p oten t ial economi c effects i f the b udqet passed, my n a ivete f Dded . 1 r eali zed there wo u l d not b e an opportunity to cra f t a better d efi c i t r educti on dea l .

For Gingrich, th i s f i g ht had noth i ng t o do wit h reducing the nationa l de[jcit; i t was a ll about crippling Presi de n t Clinton a nd gaining c o n t rol o f t he Hous e . This r ealization brought me face to face with another fact: The r easons I had given everyo ne f or my "no" vote were baseless .

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My 19- year-old s on, who was i nterning in Washington that summer, sat i n the House gallery to wa tch the historic proceed ings t hat night . Thinking of h i m watching me , J heard my father's chal lenge from 29 years earli er .

I decided I hud no choice but to put the i nterests o f my son ' s qeneraLion ahead of my own political survival.

A House page brought me a note that President Clinton wanted to speak with me again . I went to a c loakroom phone and told him that it he committed to fight for caps on entit l ement growth and to make fur t her discretiona ry spend i ng cuts , J wo uld support t h e p ackage . Cl inton agreed t o the corruni tment, and I a dded my vote t o support the only deficit reduction package that had any realistic chance to prevail. The budget passed by one vote .

Republican opponents and talk radio branded me (along with a handful of other representatives who decided a t t he la::;t minute to vote "yes" ) as the "deciding vote" for Clinton 's "liberal tax- and-spend p l a n." We all got our heads h a nded to us in t he 1 994 elec t i on.

Aft er the difficult loss , two good things happened. fi rst , Clinton kept building on the 1993 down payment on deficit reduction . Second, by Lhe end of the 1990s with the economy rising at record l evels, our national budget boasted huge surpluses for the first time in decades .

Un fortunately, t he i rresponsibil ity or the ear ly 2000s wasted our surplus and plunge d us into an abyss of debt.

Then the financial crisis and the Great Recession deepened the abyss by causing tax revenues to plummet and requiring vast emergency spending to prevent a second CreaL Depression .

We now are i n a debt crisis f ar worse than t he one we c l imbed out o f i n t he 1990s .

Anyone who can do simple a rithmetic knows the elements o f t he probl em : Our discretionary spending (both domestic and defense) is too high, our tax revenues are too low, and our entitlement programs are headed toward insolvency . Solutions are politically difficult , but they are blindjngly obvious .

President Barac k Ob ama knows this . So does Lhe Senate ' s bipartisan Gang of Six --- a group that includes U. S. Sen . Saxby Chambliss, who has shown tremendous leadership and strength on this issue. tt appears that House Speaker John Boehner knows it too , although the mos t radical wing of the House Republican caucus clearly hamstrings his deal - making .

We need statesmen to summon the courage to save this country from catastrophe . ~or members of Congress , Lhis moment shoul d not be a polit i cal game . It i s a tesL of t h eir int egrity, and of t h e i r awareness t hat their chil d ren - -- a ll of our children - -- arc wa t c h i ng.

For their sake, let ' s hope that Congress has the courage to do what ' s r i ght .

C . Donald Johnson represented Georqia ' s lOth Congress i onal District from 1993 to 1995 . He is now d irector of the Dean Rusk Center of Inte rnational Law and Pol icy a t the Un i versi ty of Georgia School of Law .

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Gov . Nat han Deal Leday tapped fi ve new members who will join the Georgia PubJjc Defender Standards Council . The Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is a nine-member independent age ncy with) n the executi ve branch of the s taLe government whose mission ls to ensure t hat clients receive adequate a nd ethical leg a l represen La Lion .

Seagraves has worke d as a public defender in Georgia for 24 years . Sea graves r eceived her L,.-, •J•·-1r<:!e frc-m fhe Univ<"'rsi.ty o f Geon:lia Scb.ool or Law and went. Lo work wi th the Legal Aid Office in ALhens as a n assistant public d efender . From there, she moved to the Fulton County Public Defender's Office and and t hen served as the public defender for Jackson and Barrow counties . Seagraves was appointed circuit public defender for the PiedmonL Circuit. when the Georgia Public De fender Standards Counci l was created . She h as trjed hundreds of c riminal cases. She is interested in ind i gent d efense policy, having served as vice president and I ndigent Defense Commi t tee member of the Ge orgia Association o f Criminal De fense Attorneys, president of the Piedmont Bar Association and secretary of the Georgia Association of Circuit Public Defenders. She and her husband, Bria n , l ive in Athens and have one son .

G. S . Gator Hodges

Hodges was elecLed t o the Butts County Commission in 2008 . He works for CSX Transportation . Previously, Hodges served the public for 10 years as a police o f f icer with Lhe Bryan County Sheriff ' s Depar tment and the Henry County Poli ce Department . He grew up i n Hinesville and grad uated from Bradwell Institute. He a t t ended Geor g ia Southern Un i ver s i ty, where he stud i ed Criminal Justice . He is a graduate o f t he 2007 Leadership ButLs County course a nd was the chairpers on of the 2009 class. He is also a g raduaLc of the Georgia Academy for Economic Development . Hodges was appoinLed by the Georgia Speaker of the House to the Middle Ocmu lgee Water Council . He a lso i s t he chairma n of t.he Subcommittee on Economi c Development fo r the Association County Commi s s ioners of Georgia and ts currently i n t h e Leadership Georgia Cl ass o f 20 10 . Mos L recent ly, Hodges was n a med by Georgia Trend Magazine to its "'1 0 Under tlO " list in October of 2010. Hodges lives i n the SLark communj ty 1-1ith his wife , Keri, and their son, Noah . Hodges is an active member of Rock Spri ngs Congregat ional Methodist Church i n Milner .

Lamar Paris

Paris is serving hls thi rd term as Un i on County ' s sole corrunissioner. Paris graduated from the UniversiLy o f Georgia with a bachelor's in Business Administration . He is Lhe Immed j a t c State Past Presiden t of the Associ a t i on

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County Commissioners of Georgia . Paris serves on several local and regional boards and committees . He has also served on the Georgia EPD Watershed Committee and the Senate Local SaJes Tax Study Committee and i s currently a member of the Stale Regional Water Council . Paris is a lifelong me mber of the First Un ite d Methodist Church of Union County . He and his wife, Di nah, have o ne daught er, Jessica, who a lso graduated from t he Un iversity of Georgi a.

Ron Cr oss

Cross, of Evans , chairs the Columbia County Commission . He graduated high school in Greenville and Anderson Junior College in Anderson , S . C . , and he attended Furman University . He moved to Augusta in 1967 to begin work for Smith and Coleman Mechanical Engineers, then became the chief engineer for the Medical College of Georg1a . Cross h as worked in both residential and commercial construction . In 1982, he started CCI Construction Corporation , a commerci a l , industrial and irtstitutional construction company . Cross worked at CC I Construction until he was elected to office ln 2002 . He is currentl.y serving h is third t e rm as chairman . Cross has been active in sever a l state and r~gi onal initiat ives, i ncluding : t he CSRA Reg ional Transportation Roundtable Executive Cormni ttee as chairman, the Associat i on County Commi ssioners of Georg i a Board o f Managers , the Savannah-Uppe r Oqeechee Regional WaLer Planning Council as chairman, the Governor ' s Water Continqency Planning Task Force, the Governor ' s Energy Council and Lhc Clarks Hill ParLnership . Cross and his family are members of Wesley United MeLhodist Church in Evans .

David Sims

Sims i s a graduate of the Wa l ter F . George School of Law at Me rcer University, where he served as president of the Student Bar Association . He practiced l aw in Savannah for 20 years , handling bot h c ivil and c riminal cases. There, he was president of t he Trial Lawyers Club and p r esident of Lh e Savannah Bar Associat ion . Sims wo r·ked for 1 3 years as a c lalms counsel for Na tionwide Insurance i n AtlanLa before he r eti red . He is currenLly of counsel wi th the Atlanta law firm of Insley and Race and has emerjtus status with the Sta te Bar of Geor.g1a a nd in Vinings .

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Thursday, July 28, 20 11 Deal appoints his lawyer to Fulton seat Todd Markle initially hadn't applied but got permission from JNC to be considered just before it was slated to interview candidates By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter

Like his three predecessors, Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday named his executive counsel to a judgeship--in this case tapping D. Todd Markle to be the next judge on the Fulton County Superior Court.

Markle's appointment was noteworthy because he didn't apply for the job until about a month after the deadline for nominations to be made to Deal's Judicial Nominating Commission.

Email correspondence shows Markle asked the INC's co-chairmen for permission to file a late application a few days before the commission was slated to interview 14 candidates who had been culled from the overall list of 3 1 nominees. They granted Markle's request nine minutes later.

According to the vacancy notice posted on the JNC's website, nominations were due June 17, and the commission's application packet was due to be returned by interested nominees July I.

But Markle, who focused on insurance defense law before becoming Deal's executive counsel at the beginning of this year, wasn't on the list of nominees released by the JNC in June or on the list of 14 candidates the JNC earlier this month said were slated to be interviewed by the commission.

After that list of interviewees had been released, Markle wrote to JNC Co-chairmen Miller P. "Pete" Robinson and J. Randolph Evans and asked if they would consider his application for the Fulton opening.

"I have expressed an interest in applying for the vacancy on the Fulton Superior Court and requested the permission of Governor Deal," Markle wrote in his email sent at 11 :32 a.m. on July 15, the Friday before JNC interviews were scheduled to take place. "Earlier today, Governor Deal gave me his permission."

At 11 :41 a.m., Evans emailed a response to Markle on behalf of himself and Robinson, saying Markle had permission to apply late, having until 10 a.m. the following Monday to submit his application.

Robinson said Wednesday that a JNC subcommittee recommended that Markle be added to the list of candidates to be interviewed by the JNC on July 19.

"We thought that was an appropriate request, particularly given his knowledge of the process," said Robinson, who heads Troutman Sanders Strategies, a lobbying arm of the law firm in which he is a partner. He noted that Gov. Sonny Perdue's JNC had put Markle on a short list for an opening on the

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Fulton State Court bench last year and that Markle was well known to Deal's nominating commission because he had helped put the group together.

According to Evans, the commission routinely grants extensions upon request. "There's no extraordinary relief or anything out of the ordinary being done here," said Evans, a partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge.

As announced on the JNC's website, the commission sent a list of three recommended names to Deal: Markle, Casey Gilson partner Joyce Gist Lewis and Fulton Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert D. Wolf. Deal spokesman Brian Robinson (no relation to the JNC co-chairman) said the governor interviewed the three finalists on Monday.

"Todd Markle is a highly qualified applicant, he had a great interview with the JNC members and with the governor, and he had a sterling application," said the governor's spokesman. "He, in fact, was on the shortlist for a state court judgeship last year under Gov. Perdue, so his qualifications were well known before this administration took office. So, we think he'll be a great judge. He's got a great background, a great temperament, and he'll serve the people of Fulton County well."

Markle couldn't be reached for comment on Wednesday.

The governor's spokesman said \\'. Ryan league. who has been deputy executive counsel under both Perdue and Deal, will move up to the executive counsel position. ·reague, who received his law degree from the L'ni\ersit: or Gcorgi_a, in previous jobs clerked for I I th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J.L. Edmondson, worked as an associate at McKenna Long, and served as general counsel to Freedom's Watch, a Washington-based issue-advocacy organization.

The governor's spokesman said Markle will remain Deal's designee to the Special Council on Criminal Justice Reform, a 13-member panel of lawmakers, attorneys and judges studying how to reduce the state's prison population, but it will be up to the council to decide whether Markle continues to chair that group.

Markle, 46, has known Deal a long time. He worked in the 1980s as a summer clerk for Deal's law firm, Deal and Jarrard, when Deal was practicing in Gainesville. Markle decided to join an Atlanta firm when he began his legal career in earnest after law school but has said he continued to follow Deal's career with interest.

When Deal ran for governor, Markle was on his fulton steering committee, contributed $8,600 to the campaign and was involved in fundraisers and other campaign events. But Markle has said that in helping the campaign he wasn't aiming for a job.

A native of Birmingham, Ala., Markle began his college education at Shorter College in Rome. According to a questionnaire he submitted to the JNC when it was vetting candidates for the Fulton State opening last year, Markle played on the tennis team before transferring to the University of Georgia. He went on to receive his law degree from Mercer University. ·

J lis first job as a lawyer was as an associate at the midsizcd Atlanta civil litigation firm Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers. He left for a few years to follow a partner with whom he was working but returned to the firm until he left again to form the partnership of Miller & Markle in 1996. He later worked as a solo practitioner before joining Mabry & McClelland in 2009.

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Markle told the JNC in questionnaires that far and away the most significant case that he has handled was one that stemmed from his work as chairman of his neighborhood association's zoning committee. His client in that case was sued by a developer for speaking out against a zoning request. The Court of Appeals' 1997 decision favoring Markle's client was the first time the court had been called on to consider a new state law designed to prevent one side of a public debate from suing to stop the other side from speaking out.

Lewis, one of the two other candidates Deal interviewed for Johnson's seat on the Superior Court, said she didn't have concerns about the fairness of the process. "I met with the governor on Monday," said Lewis, who handles commercial litigation and liability defense work. "He was very nice and gracious, and I'm sure my qualifications were considered in making his decisions."

Previous governors have appointed their executive counsels to the bench: Gov. Zell Miller appointed Cynthia D. Wright to the Fulton Superior Court bench, Gov. Roy Barnes tapped Penny Brown Reynolds for Fulton State Court, and Gov. Sonny Perdue named Harold D. Melton to a seat on the state Supreme Court. In appointing Reynolds, Barnes bypassed the JNC altogether, his aides saying at the time that Barnes knew he wanted to appoint Reynolds and didn't want to go through the motions of soliciting other nominees just for appearances.

In 2005, Perdue appointed Ralph F. "Rusty" Simpson to the Tift County Superior Court even though Simpson hadn't been nominated for the JNC's consideration for that post, and the JNC hadn't completed its process. That appointment came shortly after Perdue passed over Simpson on the JNC short list for a Supreme Court vacancy, appointing Melton instead. Simpson lost the election that followed.

Deal's JNC last month was criticized by Tom Barton, the editorial page editor of the Savannah Morning News, after it extended its application deadlines for an opening on the Chatham County Superior Court. The editor suggested the JNC's extension raised questions about whether the appointment was "fixed."

The commission chairs responded in a letter to the editor, saying that the deadline had been extended because a JNC meeting had been postponed due to scheduling problems, so additional time was available to consider more nominees. They denied any "nefarious motive" in the extension.

The lawyer who Barton's column suggested was the beneficiary of the extension, Kimberly Cofer Harris, made the JNC's shortlist but was not appointed by Deal.

Michael J. Bowers, who chaired Perdue's JNC, said on occasion his JNC allowed extensions. "The main thing was that they got to the interview and there was time for the commission to review their package," said Bowers.

Markle will replace Michael D. Johnson, who resigned last month.

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Retired Chatham County State Court ,Judge David R. Elmore was remembered Thursday as a caring, family loving man who took care of business. "lie was certainly a man of quiet dignity and presence, and he was devoted to his family," said Chatham County Superior Court Judge Michael Karpf, a State Court judge from 1989-1993. Elmore, 91, died Wednesday night at Buckingham South. Karpf said Elmore was a "wonderful man. He was a very caring person, considerate of people, patie nt and fair." "lie showed that through his years on Recorder's Court and later in State Court." Karpf was a Recorder's Court judge from 1979-1988. Retired Chatham County Superior Court Judge James W. Head, who Elmore joined as the second State Court judge in 1969, praised Elmore as a "very fine person in his practice of Jaw and judge of Recorder's Court for many years." While on the State Court bench, Elmore was "always there.• "He did a good job. He carried the workload he was required to carry," Head said. "We had a good relationship, and we got things done." Rlmore retired as State Court chief judge in December 1988, ending a 40-year law career. The native Savannahian began his law practice in 1948 after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War ll, then attending the UnfYersily ol Ge01:g.ia h1" s('hool. In June 1969, he left private practice to fill the Savannah Recorder's Court post left vacant by the death of Henry Brennan. After twice winning re-election, he ran for a new, second judgeship in State Court and won. When then-chief judge Head moved to Superior Court, Elmore assumed State Court's administrative duties as well.

Once a leader in the local Republican party, he abandoned the GOP when he sought the State Court post in 1976. It was nul practical to run countywide as a Republican in those days, he explained. Funeral arrangements

- Visitation: 3-5 p.m. Sunday at Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors, Hodgson Chapel - Graveside services 10 a.m. Monday in the Greenwich Section of Bonaventure Cemetery. - Remembrances: First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave, Savannah, GA 31405 or Hospice of Savannah Inc., P.O. Box 13190, Sava nnah, GA 31416

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Friday, July 29, 2011 Misunderstanding prompts reversal II th Circuit: Judge failed to correct prose defendant's confusion as to whether he could test~fy on his own behalf By Alyson M. Palmer, Staff Reporter

A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed drug convictions of a Savannah doctor because the judge who tried the case didn't correct the doctor's obvious confusion about whether he could testify on his own behalf.

The basis for the reversal was a colloquy between Hung Thien Ly, who lost his bid for court appointed counsel and represented himself at trial, and U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr.

"Now, do you understand that you have an absolute right to testify in your own behalf?" Moore asked in an exchange typical of the repetitive colloquy.

"Yeah, I know," Ly responded, "but without counsel, Your Ilonor, I can't testify.''

"So it is your personal decision not to testify in this case?" Moore asked again.

"Because I don't have counsel who can ask me questions," Ly replied.

The July 20 decision is a win for Ly, who has been serving a sentence of more than eight years for illegitimately dispensing controlled substances. But even though the II th Circuit decision favored Ly, a Georgia law professor fears it could lead district court judges to give pro se defendants even Jess information about the right to testify than Moore gave Ly.

Ly, whose appellate brief says he left Vietnam as a teenager in 1975 before becoming a United States citizen, was indicted in 2007 on 129 counts of dispensing certain drugs by means of illegitimate prescriptions. According to a government brief in the case, I ,y prescribed the painkiller Lorcet, the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and in some cases the muscle relaxant Soma over and over again with little variance among patients and without doing any physical examination on repeated return visits for refills. The brief says Ly began purchasing the drugs directly from pharmaceutical companies and distributing them to his patients himself after four local pharmacists stopped filling Ly's prescriptions because they thought his practices were suspicious.

Ly, whose brief says he attended medical school at the University of North Carolina, claimed he was indigent and asked for a lawyer, but the district court wouldn't give him one.

According to the government's appellate brief, Ly argued that he didn't have enough money for a lawyer because he owed his wife for paying ofT his student loans. I le said that his wife's net worth of more than $1 million was solely attributable to her income as a pharmacist.

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U.S. Magistrate Judge G.R. Smith called Ly's claim about his wife's income a "fish story." Moore, the district court judge, agreed that Ly shouldn't get free counsel, and Ly went to trial unrepresented and was convicted.

Ly is now represented by New York attorney Raymond R. Granger and Washington lawyer Mary Baluss. Granger said extended family who learned of Ly's legal problems only after Ly was convicted hired him.

According to Ly's appellate brief, when Ly was representing himself at the August 2008 trial, he said in his opening statement that he was a "compassionate doctor" who examined his patients the first time he saw them but couldn't refuse them help if they lied about their pain.

The brief said six of Ly's 11 patients who testified for the government had prior convictions, two were promised letters in support of parole in return for their testimony, and more than one of the patients admitted they had lied to the defendant doctor.

Ly tried to call some of his other patients to show his normal prescription practices were good, but Moore barred that testimony. When Ly told Moore he had no other witnesses to call, the judge asked Ly if he planned to testify.

The 11th Circuit opinion by Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat says it's clear from the colloquy between Moore and Ly that followed that Ly was unaware that he could testify even if he didn't have a lawyer to ask him questions. But, as Tjoflat explained, "the district court did nothing to correct Ly's misunderstanding."

Ly didn't testify and rested his case. The jury convicted him on all counts and Moore sentenced him to 97 months in prison and imposed a $200,000 fine.

On appeal, Ly's lawyers challenged the denial of appointed trial counsel and allegedly inflammatory remarks made during the government's closing statement.

The panel of Tjoflat, 11th Circuit Judge Charles R. Wilson and visiting 1Oth Circuit Senior Judge Stephanie K. Seymour said Ly 's argument that he was denied his right to testify was sufficient to dispose of the appeal.

Tjoflat said the question posed by Ly's case was one of fust impression for the court. When a defendant is represented by counsel at trial, ljoflat explained, it's the lawyer's responsibility to advise him on his right to testify.

If a defendant wants to argue on appeal that his decision on that point wasn't knowing and intelligent, Tjoflat wrote, he can argue his counsel was ineffective. But the panel concluded that, even though he had no lawyer at trial, Ly still could get his convictions tossed based on Moore's fa ilure to correct his confusion.

The court rejected the idea that the trial judge must obtain some sort of knowing and intelligent waiver of a defendant's right to testify, such as by those colloquies required when defendants say they want to forgo counsel or plead b'llilty. In those instances, wrote Tjoflat, there is a clear default: If the judge is unsatisfied that a defendant is knowingly and intelligently giving up his right to counsel, for example, he appoints a lawyer.

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There is no default in the right to testify context: A judge could not force a defendant to testify, Tjoflat wrote. Moreover, he said, a mandatory colloquy could lead a judge to imply what his opinion or preference on the question of testifying was.

On other hand, wrote Tjoflat, the government's position that Moore had no duty to correct Ly's misunderstanding ignores both the fundamental nature of a defendant's right to testify and the extra protections courts afford pro se litigants. Tjot1at said the case fell within a narrow set of circumstances that triggers a district court judge's duty to discuss the right to testify with a defendant.

"The ways in which a district court could 'know' that a defendant is not intelligently or knowingly exercising his right to testify need not be set out here," wrote Tjoflat. "In Ly's case, the district court clearly knew that Ly did not understand that he could testify in narrative form, and that this misunderstanding drove his decision not to testify. The court knew this because it initiated the colloquy during which Ly's misunderstanding became apparent. And by not correcting Ly's misunderstanding, the court reinforced Ly's mistaken view."

"We stress that our holding is limited to instances in which the district court begins a colloquy regarding the defendant's right to testify," Tjotlat added. "This area of the law is not well laid, and we should proceed with caution. "

Granger, who argued at the 11th Circuit for Ly, facing off against Assistant U.S. Attorney James C. Stuchell, said his client and his family were "deeply appreciative" for the reversal. But, he said, "the decision is potentially problematic in that it leaves open the possibility that there will be pro se defendants out there who will not be making knowing and intelligent waivers of their right to testify, and the trial court will never know," he said.

Ly is more educated than the average pro se defendant and yet still misunderstood the procedure for testifying pro se, noted Granger. Granger said another pro se defendant might think he could testify only by asking himself questions- a procedure Granger said was allowed in some jurisdictions- and decide not to testify on the ground that would appear awkward to the jury. "What the circuit is saying here is unless there's an atfrrmative expression of misunderstanding, there's no need to inquire," said Granger.

Erica J. Hashimoto. a Ia\\ professor at the l 1niversit) of Georgia who has written about pro se defendants, expressed similar concerns.

"I understand the court's concern about not wanting the district court to be too intrusive on the defendant's thinking about not wanting to testify," she said. But, she said, "one unintended consequence is that you may have district courts with pro se defendants just not saying anything .... If they never get asked the question at all, we'll never know if they knew they had the right to testify." She suggested the Court of Appeals could have required district judges to inform defendants they have the right to testify or not, without requiring some sort of waiver.

The U.S. attorney's ofli ce in Savannah declined to comment on the opinion. But, assuming the decision is not vacated on further appellate review, prosecutors could elect to retry Ly. A footnote to the 11th Circuit opinion noted Ly had argued on appeal that Moore shouldn't have considered the assets of Ly's wife in determining whether Ly were eligible for appointed counsel because Georgia law prohibits him from accessing those funds, a point he did not raise before Moore. Tjoflat wrote that while the panel expressed no opinion on the validity of that argument, it "assume [dJ that the district

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court will consider this point should the Government proceed to re-try Ly."

One of Ly's appellate briefs noted that if the appeals court reversed his conviction on other grounds, it need not rule on his argument about Moore's refusal to give him a free lawyer, because Ly's extended family will provide funds for a lawyer on retrial.

The case is United Slates v. Ly, No. 09- I 25 I 5.

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McDade to head state DA group by Helen McCoy/Douglas------~ County Sentinel~--~ ------07.30.11-ll:SSpm Douglas Count) District Attorne) David McDade as elected Tuesday as president of the Georgia District Attorne) s Association.

The association represents all 49 elected district attorneys in the state and their staff and has over ll 00 members, according to a press release from McDade's office.

His election came during the annual meeting of the association held at Jekyll Island Sunday through Wednesday.

McDade called it a "tremendous amount of responsibility."

"My primary goal is to make certain that the program continues to have a voice at the state capital in shaping legislation on behalf of victims of crime. That's my main agenda." McDade said.

His recent appointment by Gov. Nathan Deal to a state council on criminal justice reform puts McDade in a unique position to effect change.

"I think it's fair to say that our voice is going to be heard in the process," he said of the governor's appointment.

The panel has already met several times over the summer to evaluate the entire criminal justice system statewide, which Deal hopes will uncover new approaches to make Georgia communities safer while increasing offender accountability, improving rehabilitation etTorts and lowering costs, Deal said in an earlier statement.

McDade's focus remains on victims' rights, he said.

"Public safety is my number one goal," he said. "A wide range of issues will be looked at, including the cost of incarceration and the whole Department of Corrections.

"My goal is to protect victims, and I'm not going

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to sacrifice that. I have Gov. Deal's assurance that he will back me up on that."

McDade has served as a prosecutor in Douglas County since his graduation form the UniH:rsit) of Georgia School of Law in 198J.

An assistant district attorney from 1982 to 1985, he was named to the position of

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chief assistant district attorney and served in that role for five years.

He was elected as district attorney for the county in 1990 and is serving his sixth consecutive term in office, making him the third longest-serving district attorney among active district attorneys in the state.

McDade has held several positions in the association, including secretary treasurer and vice president. For eight years, he has served as chairman of of the Legislative Affairs Coi11ITlittee, which has championed reforms in Georgia law on victims' rights reform.

McDade was named Prosecutor of the Year in 201 0 by the Georgia Arson Control Board, the first prosecutor to receive the honor, for his efforts in the prosecution of arson-related crime.

Other honors include: recipient of the President's Award by district attorneys association in 2007; District Attorney of the Year by the association for his work in death penalty cases and legislative accomplishments (2005); the Eagle Award from the Governor's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council for his work in victims' rights; and Assistant District Attorney of the Year ( 1987).

McDade has also been an instructor and adviser for the Prosecuting Attorney's Council.

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prml ~cDade to head state DA group by llclcn McCoy/ Douglas County Sentinel 07.30. 11 - 11:55 pm Douglas County District Attorney nm iJ 1\.kDadc was elected Tuesday as president of the Georgia District Attomc:ys Association.

The: association represc:nts all 49 elected district attorneys in the state and their stafT and has over 1100 members. accon.ling to a press release from McDadc:'s oflicc.

His election came during the annual met:t ing of the association held at Jekyll Island Sunday through Wednesday.

McDade called it a ''tremendous amount of responsibility.''

" My prirrmry goal is to make certain that the program continues to have a voice at the state capital in shaping legislation on behalf of victims of crime. 'Ilutt 's my main agc:nda.'' McDade said.

I lis rt:cent appointment by Gov. Nat han Dc:al to a state council on criminal justice reform puL~ McDade in a unique position to cflect change.

" I think it's fair to say that our voice is going to be heard in the process," he said of the governor's appointment.

The panel has already met several times over the surruner to evaluate the entire criminul justice system statewide, which Deal hopes will uncover new approaches to make Georgia communities safer while increasing offender accountability, improving rehabilitation efforts and lowering costs, Deal said in an earlier statement.

McDade's focus remains on victims' rights. he said.

"Public safety is my number one goal." he said. " A wide range of issues will be looked at. includilg the cost of incurccration and the whole IJepartrncnt of Corrections.

"My goal is to protect victims. and I'm not going

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to sa(.;rilice that. I have Gov. Deal's assurance that he will back me up on that."

McDade has served as a prosecutor in Douglas County since his graduation ffirrn the llni\crsit) of Georgi]! School of I ;Jw in 198 1.

An assistant district attorney from 1982 to 1985, he was named to the position of chief assistant district attorney and served in that role for live years.

lie was elected as district attomcy for the county in 1990 and is serving his sixth consecutive term in oflice. making h im the third longest-serving district attorney among active district attorneys in the state.

McDade has held several positions in the ;;~ssociation, including secretary treasurer and vice president. For eight years. he has served as chairman of of the Legislative Affairs Committee, which hus championed reforms in Georgia law on victims' rights reform.

McDade was named Prosecutor of the Year in 20 I 0 by the Georgia Arson Control Board, the first prosecutor to receive the honor. for his efforts in the prosecution of arson-related crime.

Other honors include: recipient of the President's A\\"dTd by district attorneys association in 2007: District Attorney o f the Year by the association for his work in death penalty cases and legislative r his work in victims' rights: and Assistant District Attorney of the Year ( 19&7).

McDade has also been an instructor 11nd adviser for the Prosecuting Attorney's

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2 of2 8/ 1/201 18:37 AM Dally resigns as husband runs for mayor- WaltonTribune.com: News http:/ /waltontribune.com/news/articlc _ Oce2c71c-ba 11-11 c0-b94a-OO ...

Wa_ Lto YL T 11 bu. Y\ e_ Dally resigns as husband runs for mayor By Stephen Milligan I Posted: Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:00 am

SOCIAL CIRCLE- The city appointed a new municipal court judge at a special called meeting Thursday.

Following the resignation of judge Rebecca Dally, the city council voted unanimously to appoint Jeff Foster to the position.

Dally, who has served as municipal court judge since I 989. said she decided to resign after her husband Hal announced his candidacy for mayor.

"If he is elected in November, I will have a legal conllict of interest serving as judge lor the same municipality. and I would have been required to resign the judgeship at that time anyway," Dally said. "When Hal first considered offering himself as a candidate for mayor. he discussed this with me. Without hesitation I assured him that it would be much easier for the city to replace me as a municipal court judge than it would to find a more capable or qualilled mayor than him."

Rather than wait for the election results, when ifher husband won she would have to resign to avoid the conflict of interests, Dally said she chose to resign now in order to assist her husband in his campaign.

''The Canons of Judicial Conduct do not allow a judge to publicly endorse a candidate for public office." Dally said. " I lal and I have been married for 31 years. Anyone who knows us will tell you that there is no way he could run for publ.ic olllce without me as head cheerleader."

Dally said she would miss working with the people at court and presiding over cases, but would continue in her private law practice and remain involved in other community organizations.

"I appreciate the opportunity to serve Social Circle for 22 years," Dally said. "It has been a great honor for me.''

Dally formally tendered her resignation July 22, two days aner her husband announced his run for the mayoral oftlce. in order to finish court the prior two days. He will face Councilman David Keener and Hosea Jackson in the mayoral contest. Mayor Jim Burgess. who has said he will not run for re-election, said he chose to call a meeting and appoint a new judge quickly in order to avoid a backlog of cases.

Foster. a graduate of lhc Uuivcrsit ~ of Georgia School of Law and a former assistant district attorney in Walton and Newton counties. has previously served as a municipal court judge in Monroe in 2006. He currently works at a law oftlce in Monroe.

The city also appointed a new city solicitor, David Boyle, in a 4-0 vote.

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HIRES AND PROMOTIONS Brent E. Herrin D.M.D. New job title: Pediatric dentist Company: Dentistry for children and adolescents

Related work experience: I Ie previously worked at All American Smile Center and McKinney Dentist.com. t:ducation: Certificate in pediatric dentistry from Baylor College of Dentistry; D.M.D. awarded from Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry; B.S. from University of Georgia.

Allan C. Calis New job title: Associate in lhe Specialty Litigation Group Company: HunterMaclean Related work experience: Galis served as an associate at a Brunswick law firm where he practiced corporate, trust and estate law. His work included corporate planning, formation, structuring, governance, transactions and counseling, as well a tax planning, probate and trust administration. Galis is also a registered mediator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.

Education: Galis gmduated from the University of Georgia School of La}'_ He earned a B.A. in philosophy in 2006 from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.

Lori A. Trefts M.D. Company: Southeast Georgia Physicians Associates-Neuro-sciences Related work experience: Trefts is board certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, wa an assistant instructor in the Department of Neurology at Wake forest University Baptist Medical Center and most recently was a neurologist with Riverside Medical Group, Hampton Road Neurology, in Newport News, Va. Education: Trefts graduated with a dual undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Southwest Baptist Universit: in Bolivar, Mo., and got her medical degree at St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed her internal medicine internship at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis, and her neurology residency and a fellowship in clinical multiple sclerosis at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. HONORS AND AWARDS Friedman named to Super Lawyers Honor/Award: Stanley II. Friedman, with the law firm Friedman and Martin, has been named by Georgia Super Lawyers Maga:tine as one of the top attorneys in Georgia for 2011. Background: Each year, no more than five percent of the total lawyers in Georgia receive this honor. The selections are made by the research team at Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business. Each year, lhe research team undertakes a multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers magazines and in leading city and regional magazines acros the country. Thacher named honorary chairman

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Honor/Award: Jane Vaden Thacher, president and dealer-operator for Vaden Automotive Group, has been selected the 2 0 11 Honorary Chair for the Savannah Walk to End Alzheimer's. The Savannah Walk to End Alzheimer's will step off Oct. 1 from Johnson Square. For more information, call 912-920-2231 or alz.org/georgiawalk.org. Andrews recognized by GABWA Honor/Award: Wanda Andrews has received the Bensonetta Tipton Lane Award for Commit-ment to the Family. The award was presented by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys. Andrews was recognized for her commitment t the safety of women and children in their homes to be free from domestic violence. Background: Andrews is the senior staff attorney at Georgia Legal Services. Farmer, Beare honored as top sales associates

Honor/Award: Steffany Far mer and Jane Beare of Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners ranked as Top 10 sales associates for the second quarter of 2011 in Georgia for the Coldwell Banker fra nchise system.

Farmer ranked No. 1 in selling units; No. 2 for both total units and adjusted gross commission; and No. 3 for listing units during the 2nd .quarter of 2011 in Georgia for the Coldwell Banker franchise system. Beare ranked No. 7 for selling units and No. 9 for adjusted gross commission. Williams achieves certification Honor/Award: Damon Williams, Sun City Hilton Head's assistant executive director, has achieved his landscape industry certified manager certificate from the Professional ~nd care Network (PLANET). This certification covers all aspects of the landscaping industry, including strategic planning, leadership, marketing, financial management and production operations/ horticul ture. Hurst chosen for May's Stay Real Star Honor/Award: Betty Hurst of Rincon has received Holiday Inn Express Savannah North's May Stay Real Star. She began her career at the Holiday Inn Express Savannah North almost 12 years ago in housekeeping. Rubnitz becomes Aetna council member

Honor/Award: David Rubnitz of Rubnitz & Eben-concepts has earned recognition as a member of the Chairman's Council for Ae tna. The Chairman's Council is the highest recognition given by Aetna and allows Rubnitz's office access to special service representatives for his claims and service issues. Savannah Morning News

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