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Judge Is Accused of Threading Ethics Loophole

By Ben Diamond

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | July 8, 2004

In a sign of just how aggressive the campaigning has become for Georgia's courts, a candidate for Fulton County Superior Court has accused one of his opponents -- Atlanta's former chief Municipal Court judge, no less -- of skirting the city's ethics laws in his bid for the bench.

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