Judge Wendy Shoob said she has a right to express her opinion on mandatory sentences and had a duty to tell Fulton County Superior Court jurors that if they convicted a defendant of armed robbery, she’d have to sentence him to life.
As “the judge of the law and the facts under the Georgia Constitution,” wrote Shoob in a March 26 order denying prosecutors’ motions that she step off the case, “the jury should be informed when their verdict automatically imposes, by law, a mandatory sentence.”
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