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"Lawyers ask for review of ex-judge Camp's rulings, sentences"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the headline of this new article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Here are excerpts: Before he was sentenced for crimes he committed with a stripper, Jack Camp made a striking disclosure: The former federal judge revealed he has long suffered from a misdiagnosed bipolar disorder and brain damage from an accident more than a decade earlier. The revelations have lawyers wondering whether justice was meted out by an impaired jurist. ?Every case he handled from the time he was misdiagnosed, or before, depending on when he was affected by these conditions, should be re-evaluated,? said Marcia Shein, a Decatur appellate lawyer. ?The question is: Did these conditions affect his ability to be an objective judge making fair decisions?? U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 23, 2011 (boomark / email).

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