DEKALB COUNTY v. ADAMS

No. S00A0517.

529 S.E.2d 610 (2000)

272 Ga. 401

DEKALB COUNTY v. ADAMS et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied May 26, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan A. Weintraub, Jeffrey L. Mann, Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, Harvey S. Gray, Atlanta, for appellant.

Cruser & Mitchell, William T. Mitchell, Cullen & Miller, Robert W. Cullen, Love & Willingham, Jonathan C. Peters, Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate, David F. Walbert, Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Michael B. Terry, Atlanta, Robert L. McGlasson, Decatur, for appellee.


HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In November 1998, Ernest Adams filed a pro se petition for mandamus against DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey seeking, inter alia, to compel the sheriff to improve medical and food service operations in the county jail. The trial judge to whom the case was assigned, Judge Hilton Fuller of the Superior Court of DeKalb County, appointed counsel for Adams. Counsel made an appearance on behalf of DeKalb County and the sheriff at a hearing in December...

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