The Georgia Supreme Court said a Fulton County judge went a bit overboard when she slammed a murder defendant with 13 counts of criminal contempt in response to a “profanity-laced tirade” in her courtroom—one count for each obscene word the man said.
Fulton County Magistrate Judge Karen Woodson—who retired in 2019—sentenced Sylvester Taylor to 230 days in jail, to be served after he either bonded out of jail or his underlying charges, which include murder and attempted rape, are resolved.
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