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The DeKalb County District Attorney is responsible for overseeing the prosecution of felony offenses filed in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, (Georgia) including: murder, drug and sex offenses, child and elder abuse, theft, and corruption.
The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known as senior status , or declined to serve as chief judge.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia (in case citations, S.D. Ga.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
The term originated in England; it was recorded in the form "doggette" in 1485, and later also as doket, dogget(t), docquett, docquet, and docket. [4] The derivation and original sense are obscure, although it has been suggested that it derives from the verb "to dock", in the sense of cutting short (e.g. the tail of a dog or horse); [4] a long document summarised has been docked, or docket ...
Before becoming DA, Boston served as DeKalb County's Solicitor-General, a position Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, appointed her to fill in January 2011. [5] Boston started her career as a defense attorney. She was the first woman ever appointed to serve as municipal court judge for the City of Dunwoody. [3]
A judge upheld the disqualification of a candidate who had had planned to run against the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s 2020 Georgia election interference case. Tiffani ...
She began her legal career as an assistant district attorney in Tarrant County, Texas, from 1995 to 1996. She served as an assistant solicitor general in the Office of the DeKalb County, Georgia, Solicitor General, from 1997 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002, she was a senior assistant district attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
Giuliani faces another contempt hearing Jan. 10 in federal court in Washington, D.C., over the defamation case because of allegations he has continued to make additional claims against Freeman and ...