A district attorney has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to open a criminal probe of Murray County’s chief magistrate judge, who resigned Aug. 15 to end a state ethics investigation.
District Attorney Bert Poston of the Conasauga Circuit said Friday that he has asked the GBI to investigate former Chief Magistrate Bryant Cochran’s distribution of pre-signed, blank warrants to local law enforcement officers. In a statement Cochran released after Governor Nathan Deal accepted his resignation, the former judge said he accepted “full responsibility” for the pre-signed warrants.Poston would not comment on how many pre-signed warrants were issued or how they could affect cases his office handled.
Poston said he also asked the GBI to probe the Aug. 14 arrest of Murray County resident Angela Garmley, who had accused Cochran of soliciting sex from her in return for favorable judicial treatment.
Poston said
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