A former co-defendant of Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Schrader, whose trial for computer trespass ended in a hung jury earlier this year, has sued one of the judge’s electoral challengers over a campaign flyer labeling him a “convicted sex offender.”

Ed Kramer, a registered sex offender following his guilty plea to three counts of child molestation in 2013, said Suwanee solo Christa Kirk libeled him because he pleaded guilty under Georgia’s first offender statute, which allows a first-time defendant to enter a plea of no contest to criminal charges.