A superior court judge has asked the State Bar of Georgia to drop bar complaints he made against the Coweta Circuit district attorney and two prosecutors and promised to dismiss criminal contempt charges against them.

In a Sept. 12 letter to grievance counsel Adrienne Nash at the State Bar of Georgia, Superior Court Judge John Simpson, chief judge of the Coweta Judicial Circuit, said he wished to withdraw complaints he filed against Circuit District Attorney Herb Cranford and two of his assistant district attorneys, Lara Myers and Matthew Swope.