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Response filed to judges' request to remove restraining order on court

If the Richmond County State Court judges had held a private, for-profit...enforce their orders.Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Craig granted the restraining...amicus brief on behalf of the State Court judges. The brief contends the restraining...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-05-14/response-filed-judges-
Across the region

...with beating his father and seven others to death inside a mobile home nearly four years ago.Glynn County Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett said in an order Thursday he plans to begin the trial of Guy Heinze Jr. on Sept. 23, The Brunswick...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-10/across-region
Sanford, ex-wife settle trespass complaint

...he violated the agreement Feb. 3 and on other occasions.Under the consent order signed by both parties, a family court judge will withhold sentencing as long as Sanford abides by the provisions of their 2010 divorce decree that says neither...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-08/sanford-ex-wife-settle-trespa
Across Georgia

...indictment against a metro Atlanta woman accused of arranging for her husband to be killed.A DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Tuesday dismissed four charges of making false statements against Andrea Sneiderman. Her attorneys argued 13 of the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-01/across-georgia
Security checkpoints catching more artfully concealed weapons

...were installed after the 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Former Richmond County Superior Court Judge Duncan Wheale pushed the move to install checkpoints at which guards patrol for knives, tools, firearms, chemicals...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-29/security-checkpoints-catching
Counties, agencies start adjusting to juvenile justice changes

...percent.A workshop was held Tuesday about how counties can get the grants. It was attended by more than 200 Juve nile Court judges, social workers and representatives of mental health agencies."The state has wasted no time in issuing the guidelines...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-28/counties-agencies-star
Georgia sheriff's indictment raises legal questions

...challenging that decision and trying to compel the governor to form a review commission, but a Fulton County Superior Court judge on Monday dismissed that case. Buckman's lawyer has said he plans to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-05-04/georgia-sheriffs-indic
Judge orders separate lawyers in Atlanta cheating case

...the case involving a cheating scandal in the At lanta public schools, a judge said Thursday.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter, at a hearing for lawyers who have been representing more than one client in the case, said he was acting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-02/judge-orders-separate-lawyers
Judges say probation restraining order crippling their court

...private probation company, the State Court judges contend the order signed by Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Craig on April 9 "has...the four Richmond County State Court judges, private attorneys Jim Wall and...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-30/judges-say-probation-r
Bond granted to former hospital worker accused of molestation

...dusk-to-dawn curfew. He must stay away from children and off all campuses of Geor gia Regents University, Su perior Court Judge J. David Roper ordered.Edwards turned himself in March 28 after a Richmond Coun ty grand jury returned a six-count...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-04/bond-granted-former-ho