Nichols lawyers renew effort to boot Bodiford
Defense attorneys for accused Fulton County Courthouse shooter Brian Nichols have filed new arguments seeking to have the trial judge removed, basing their bid upon evidence presented at a hearing last week in DeKalb County.
The lawyers say testimony about conversations between Cobb County Superior Court Judge James G. Bodiford and the jurist who appointed him to the Nichols case, Coweta Circuit Chief Judge A. Qullian Baldwin Jr., confirm that they discussed issues of cost and delay in the trial prior to Bodiford’s February appointment.
They added that a letter from Bodiford to Baldwin concerning Bodiford’s intent to meet with another judge to discuss “the present posture of the case” provides even more evidence of potential bias. That judge, former Council of Superior Court Judges President Arch W. McGarity, was quoted in various media outlets expressing concerns about how the case was being handled. McGarity, according to Nichols’ lawyers, “has been vocal and hostile in his comments regarding the defense team, defense spending and trial delay in the Nichols case.”
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