Testimony in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating trial was put on hold Wednesday when one of the defense lawyers in the case was briefly hospitalized.
Attorney Angela Johnson, who represents former Dunbar Elementary School teacher Pamela Cleveland, sought treatment after she suffered an asthma attack. The trial will resume Monday to give Johnson time to recover.
“We just got to go with the flow,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter said.
A dozen former APS educators are standing trial. They are charged with being part of a racketeering enterprise that conspired to inflate scores on standardized tests.
The trial will pick up with continued testimony from Decatur attorney Bob Wilson, one of three special investigators appointed by Gov. Sonny Perdue to look into the scandal. With help from dozens of GBI agents, Wilson, former Attorney General Mike Bowers and investigator Richard Hyde uncovered test-cheating across the school system.
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