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DeKalb judge recalls representing Nichols
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When DeKalb County Recorders Court Judge R. Joy Walker first heard Nichols’ name on the morning news, she said to herself, “how do I know that name? I know that name.”
Moments later, when Nichols’ picture flashed on the TV screen, she remembered.
“When I saw him, I said, ‘Oh my God, I represented him,’” said Wlker, chief judge of the court that handles traffic and county ordinance violations.
Walker, a former public defender, represented Nichols while he was on probation from 1996 to 1999 for felony drug charges in Cobb County. When he was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana, she represented him at his probation revocation hearing.
“He was very respectable to me,” Walker said.
She said Nichols had a girlfriend at the time. “She was a very nice young lady, very respectable,” Walker said. The judge refused to revoke Nichols’ probation based on flimsy evidence, according to Walker.
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