Paul Howard and Wendy Shoob shared an office decades ago when they worked together as trial prosecutors at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.

Now, Howard is Fulton’s longtime district attorney and Shoob is a Superior Court judge. And they’re no longer office mates, they’re embittered adversaries.

For much of this year, the former colleagues have been at loggerheads over how criminal cases have been handled in Shoob’s courtroom.

Shoob recently found one of Howard’s top sex-crimes prosecutors in contempt of court. Howard in turn filed an ethics complaint against Shoob and filed emergency court motions seeking to stop Shoob from taking action in a number of cases.

Goodness, somebody bang the gavel!

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