Difference between revisions of "Georgia Ethics Code Does Not Apply To Fulton Judges"

2. On October 21, 2022, Judge Leftridge's staff attorney informed the parties through email that there would not be a court reporter for the jury trial scheduled to take place on October 25, 2022 and that the Court would not delay the trial even if the parties could not secure their own court reporter. On '''October 24, 2022''', Jackson filed for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy resulting in an automatic stay of the eviction case.

3. After the Bankruptcy stay was lifted, Paramount filed a motion for an immediate writ of possession ("eviction") and for the release of all funds that were in the Registry of the Court, which was estimated to be just over $115,000. Judge Leftridge's staff attorney informed the parties on December 21, 2022 at 11:03 AM that the Court was going to issue an order on Paramount's motion, which had only been filed the evening before, December 20, 2022. On '''December 22, 2022''', the parties were served an order signed by Judge Leftridge for an immediate writ of possession against Jackson, the release of the more than $115,000 held in the Registry to Paramount and ordering Jackson to pay $30,000.00 more into the Registry of the Court no later than December 31, 2022. Counsel for Jackson had emailed the Judge's staff attorney earlier that morning only to receive an auto-reply stating that she was on vacation.

5. The writ of possession ordering that Jackson be evicted from the Property did not include his fiance and children. However, on '''January 12, 2023''', the Fulton County Sheriff Deputies used that writ of possession to remove everyone from the Property including Jackson's fiance and children.

7. On '''February 13, 2023''', Judge Richardson voluntarily recused herself from the Quiet Title case but did NOT recuse herself from the eviction case. The Quiet Title case was re-assigned to Judge Krause upon Judge Richardson's recusal.  

9. On '''February 17, 2023''', Judge Richardson denied all three pending motions to recuse Judge Leftridge and the eviction case was then assigned back to Judge Leftridge. Judge Krause then transferred the Quiet Title action to Judge Leftridge on February 24, 2023.

10. On '''March 2, 2023''', Jackson's counsel motioned to recuse Judge Leftridge from the Quiet Title action. Before Judge Leftridge signed the reassignment order as required by law, she set a hearing on the McCrackens' motion trying to stay the appointment of a special master. That hearing was set to take place on '''March 10, 2023''' before the Honorable Judge Alford Dempsey. However, on March 9, 2023, the Court canceled that hearing in light of the pending resusal motion against Judge Leftridge.

Based on the above, the actions (or inactions) taken (or not taken) by the Fulton County Superior Court judges and their subordinates are consistent with gaining and maintaining the most control over the outcome of the case, which is inconsistent with their duty to remain neutral and impartial. If they were neutral and impartial, they would have no interest in preventing a special master from taking jurisdiction over the matter. But they are certainly fighting hard to keep a special master from reviewing the case, VERY hard.