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IN THE MATTER OF JUDGE NO. 1035

45077.

257 Ga. 479 (1987)

361 S.E.2d 157

IN THE MATTER OF: INQUIRY CONCERNING A JUDGE NO. 1035.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Taylor Phillips, for Judicial Qualifications Commission.

Hamilton Lokey, W. Franklin Freeman, Jr., M. T. Simmons, Jr., for Spear.

PER CURIAM.

The Judicial Qualifications Commission was furnished with information that respondent Judge J. Ben Spear had: (a) frequently sought to induce state troopers to give "help" on traffic citations by voiding or reducing the citations before they were recorded in the court records; (b) "taken care" of several DUI charges against his son-in-law; (c) threatened and sought to intimidate state troopers when they did not...

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