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Judge Shows Burglar Some Georgia Justice

By Eric Lipman

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Yesterday, the WSJ Law Blog linked out to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the state of Georgia's seemingly league-leading run of recent scandalous behavior on the part of its jurists. The article references, among others, the judge caught having sex with a public defender in a parked car, and the one who "inappropriately touched a prosecutor and investigator after they sat in his lap posing for a photo." Georgia needed some good news about its judges. So this morning, we bring you Judge Carlisle Overstreet (no, that's not him in drag pictured left, though knowing Georgia judges ... ). Last Friday at around 4 a.m., Judge Overstreet shot and killed an unarmed burglar in his home. The dead burglar, John Howard Jr. (ironically nicknamed "Killa," according to the Augusta Chronicle), was one of two men who broke into the judge's house in the wee hours. The other, William Omar Jacobs, turned himself in and was denied bond. Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength (competition for yesterday's judge named Lex) said that Overstreet did exactly the right thing: "If somebody breaks into your home, we expect and hope that what Judge Overstreet did this morning would be done by any other citizen."...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 24, 2010 (boomark / email).