A Georgia state judicial discipline panel is deciding whether to recommend removing a state appeals court judge or let him return to the bench.
Local news outlets report closing arguments were presented Thursday, ending a seven-day hearing on whether suspended Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Christian Coomer committed 36 counts of judicial misconduct between 2015 and 2019.
Commission Director Chuck Boring said the former state lawmaker should be removed from the bench because he borrowed more than $360,000 from a client on terms favorable to Coomer and wrote a will for the client making himself the beneficiary.
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