NEWS BRIEF: Chief judge quits amid unethical behavior probe
‘Probe’ is apparently disconcerting for Zimmerman
A municipal court chief judge in Alpharetta who was under an ethics investigation has announced his retirement. Barry Zimmerman will step down from the bench on July 1 “for personal reasons,” he wrote in a letter to the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission dated June 9.
The commission’s investigative panel found “reasonable cause” to believe Zimmerman had been “improperly involved” in several of his cases within the city court from which he should have recused himself. The panel reportedly also found that Zimmerman improperly represented an unnamed party in a personal matter under a different jurisdiction, while said party appeared before him in the Alpharetta court on a regular basis. appenmedia.com