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2003 Annual Report: Georgia Courts
Judicial Council of Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts
2003 Annual Report: Georgia Courts July 1, 2002 -- June 30, 2003
Table of Contents
Judicial Council of Georgia ................................................................................ 1 Supreme Court ......................................................................................................2 Court of Appeals...................................................................................................4 SuperiorCourt .......................................................................................................7 State Court......................................................................................................... 11 Juvenile Court.................................................................................................... 17 Probate Court .....................................................................................................24 Magistrate Court .................................................................................................30 Municipal Court..................................................................................................40 Serving the Courts ..............................................................................................45 Judicial Appointments and Elections.................................................................47
Published by the Judicial Council of Georgia and the Administrative Office of the Courts in compliance with OCGA 15-5-24 and by Order of the Supreme Court of Georgia dated June
12, 1978. All rights reserved.
Director, David L. Ratley Assistant Director for Communications, Billie Bolton
Editor, Ashley G. Stollar
Judicial Council of Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts 244 Washington Street, SW Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30334 404-656-5171 www.georgiacourts.org
The Georgia Court System
(showing appellate routes)
Capital felonies. Constitutional issues. Title to land. Wills, equity, and divorce.
Supreme Court
7 justices. Jurisdiction: Appellate jurisdiction over cases of constitu-
tional issue, title to land, validity of and construction of wills, habeas corpus, extraordinary remedies, convictions of capital felonies, equity, divorce, alimony, election contest. Certified questions and certiorari from Court of Appeals.
Court of Appeals
12 judges (4 divisions). Jurisdiction: Appellate jurisdiction over lower courts in cases in which Supreme Court has no exclusive appellate jurisdiction.
Counties with population over 96,000 where probate judge is attorney practicing at least seven years. Jury trials.
Superior Court
49 circuits, 188 judges. Jurisdiction (general): Civil law actions, misdemeanors, and other
cases. Exclusive jurisdiction over cases of divorce,
title to land, equity. Exclusive felony jurisdiction. Jury trials.
State Court
70 courts, 109 judges.
Jurisdiction (limited)
Civil law actions except cases within the exclusive jurisdiction of superior court.
Misdemeanors, traffic, felony preliminaries.
Jury trials.
Juvenile Court
159 courts, 120 judges and associate judges.
Jurisdiction (limited):
Deprived, unruly, delinquent juveniles.
Juvenile traffic. No jury trials
Probate Court
159 courts, 159 judges.
Jurisdiction (limited): Exclusive jurisdiction in pro-
bate of wills, administration of estates, appointment of guardians, involuntary hospitalizations, marriage licenses. Traffic in some counties. Truancy in some counties. Hold courts of inquiry. Search warrants and arrest warrants in certain cases. Some misdemeanors.
Magistrate Court
159 courts, 159 chief magistrates; 341 magistrates.
Jurisdiction (limited): Search and arrest warrants,
felony and misdemeanor preliminaries, misdemeanor bad check violations, county ordinances. Civil claims of $15,000 or less, dispossessories, distress warrants. No jury trials.
Municipal Courts
374 courts active, 382 judges.
Jurisdiction (limited)
Ordinance violations, traffic, criminal preliminaries.
No jury trials.
County Recorder's Court
4 courts, 20 judges.
Jurisdiction (limited): County ordinances, criminal
warrants, and preliminaries. No jury trials
Civil Court
2 courts, 5 judges.
Jurisdiction (limited): Warrants. Misdemeanor and
felony preliminaries. Civil tort and contract cases
under $7,500 for Bibb County; under $25,000 for Richmond County. Jury trials.
Municipal Court
1 court in Columbus 1 judge
Jurisdiction (limited): Civil law and landlord-
tenant cases (civil) under $7,500. Misdemeanor guilty pleas and preliminary hearings. Warrants. Jury trials in civil cases.
As of July 2003.
JUDIC
Judicial Council of Georgia
IAL COUNCIL OF GE
June 2003
ORGIA
1973
Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher Supreme Court
Presiding Justice Leah Ward Sears Supreme Court
Chief Judge J.D. Smith Court of Appeals
Judge Michael L. Karpf First District Administrative Judge Savannah
Judge A. Wallace Cato Second District Administrative Judge Bainbridge
Presiding Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr. Court of Appeals
Judge G. Bryant Culpepper Third District Administrative Judge Macon
Judge Martha C. Christian
Council of Superior Court Judges
Judge Linda Warren Hunter
Macon
Fourth District Administrative Judge
Judge H. Gibbs Flanders
Decatur
Council of Superior Court Judges
Judge Elizabeth E. Long
Dublin
Fifth District Administrative Judge
Judge Edward E. Carriere
Atlanta
Council of State Court Judges
Judge William H. Craig
Decatur
Sixth District Administrative Judge
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Judge John F. Salter, Sr.
McDonough
Council of State Court Judges Albany
Judge George Kreeger Seventh District Administrative Judge
Judge Peggy H. Walker
Marietta
Council of Juvenile Court Judges Douglasville
Judge Phillip R. West Eighth District Administrative Judge
Judge Robin S. Nash
Eastman
Council of Juvenile Court Judges
Judge Fred A. Bishop, Jr.
Decatur
Ninth District Administrative Judge
Judge W. Marion Guess, Jr.
Lawrenceville
Council of Probate Court Judges
Judge Marvin W. Sorrells
Decatur
Tenth District Administrative Judge
Judge Susan Tate
Monroe
Council of Probate Court Judges
Athens
Judge Jerry Day Council of Magistrate Court Judges LaFayette
Judge Haynes Henton Townsend Council of Magistrate Court Judges Dalton
SUPREM
Supreme Court
E COURT OF
GEORGIA
The Supreme Court of Georgia, the state's highest court, is composed of a Chief Justice, a Presiding Justice, and five Justices. The
court's primary function is to review decisions made by
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the lower courts or its subordinate agencies. Decisions made by the Supreme Court may be appealed to the
US Supreme Court only if they involve federal consti-
tutional law.
Supreme Court: Cases Filed
2
E COURT OF
Filings
2001
2002
SUPREM
GEORGIA
1845
Direct Appeals Petitions for Certiorari Certified Questions Applications for Appeal
Habeas Corpus Discretionary Interlocutory Interim Review Attorney Disciplinaries Judicial Qualifications Bar Admissions Original Petitions Emergency Motions
498
512
591
596
3
4
327
315
251
237
39
40
0
5
121
161
0
1
12
8
1
2
13
8
Total
1856
1889
Supreme Court: Cases Disposed
E COURT OF
Dispositions
2001
2002
SUPREM
GEORGIA
By Opinion
356
356
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Affirmed without Opinion Stricken from Docket
10
10
11
3
Allowed Withdrawn
30
15
Transferred to Court of Appeals 109
83
Appeals Dismissed
87
54
Petition for Certiorari
Granted
37
43
Denied
500
677
Other
40
50
Habeas Corpus Applications
Granted
17
37
Denied
219
278
Dismissed
90
62
Other
2
15
Discretionary Applications
Granted
34
30
3
Denied
136
156
Transferred to Court of Appeals 20
19
Other
44
36
Interlocutory Applications
Granted
5
4
Denied
19
12
Transferred to Court of Appeals 6
23
Other
1
6
Interim Review
Granted
2
3
Denied
2
4
Extraordinary Motions
Granted
3
2
Denied
7
4
Attorney Discipline
56
58
Bar Admissions
0
4
Judicial Qualifications
0
0
Total
1,914
2,044
Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals, made up of twelve judges, has constitutional jurisdiction over appeals from superior, state, and juvenile courts in all cases where exclusive jurisdiction is not reserved to the Supreme Court of Georgia. Each case appealed to the court is heard by a panel of three judges. The Chief Judge of the court appoints a Presiding Judge to head each panel and assigns two other judges to the panels each year. If a judge of a panel dissents, the case is assigned to a larger panel for decision.
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Court of Appeals: Cases Filed
Filings
2001
2002
Direct Appeals
2,544
Discretionary Applications 413
Interlocutory Applications 356
Total
3,313
2,479 435 346
3,260
Court of Appeals: Cases Disposed
Dispositions
2001
2002
Direct Appeals By Opinion Non-Published Opinion Rule 36 Order Total
1,448 410 60 592
2,510
1,540 263 643 155
2,601
Discretionary Applications
Granted
101
77
Denied
232
227
Dismissed
75
84
Transferred
37
23
Withdrawn
0
0
Other Total
6
4
451
416
5
Interlocutory Applications
Granted
104
94
Denied
203
227
Dismissed
37
37
Transferred
7
8
Withdrawn
0
0
Other
3
4
Total
354
370
Total
3,315
3,387
Judicial Circuits and Districts
DADE
CATOOSA
Conasauga
FANNIN
TOWNS UNION
RABUN
WALKER
Lookout Mountain
CHATTOOGA
WHITFIELD MURRAY
Cherokee
GORDON
Appalachian
9 GILMER
WHITE
Enotah
LUMPKIN
HABERSHAM
Mountain STEPHENS
PICKENS
DAWSON North-
FRANKLIN BANKS
HART
Georgia Judicial Districts
Circuit Boundary
County Boundary
0
50
miles
FLOYD
Rome
7
BARTOW
CHEROKEE
Blue Ridge
FORSYTH
BellForsyth
eastern
HALL JACKSON
Northern
MADISON
ELBERT
FULTON
Piedmont
Tallapoosa
POLK
Paulding
10 HARALSON PAULDING
Cobb
COBB
Gwinnett GWINNETT
Stone
BARROW
CLARKE OGLETHORPE
Western
WALTON OCONEE
WILKES
5 4 CARROLL
DDOoUugGlLaAsS
Mtn.
DEKALB
CCltLaoAYynTO-N
FAYETTE
HENRY
Atlanta
ROCKDALE
NEWTON
MORGAN
GREENE
Toombs
TAL
I
AF
ERRO WARREN
Flint
MCDUFFIE
LINCOLN COLUMBIA RICHMOND
HEARD
COWETA
Griffin
SPALDING
BUTTS
JASPER
PUTNAM
HANCOCK
GLASCOCK
Augusta
6
MERIWETHER
Coweta
TROUP
6
PIKE LAMAR MONROE
Towaliga
Ocmulgee BALDWIN JONES
JEFFERSON WASHINGTON
BURKE
HARRIS
TALBOT
Chattahoochee
MUSCOGEE
MARION
UPSON CRAWFORD
BIBB
WILKINSON
JOHNSON
Middle
JENKINS
TAYLOR
Macon
PEACH
TWIGGS
Dublin
HOUSTON BLECKLEY
LAURENS
8
EMANUEL
TREUTLEN
CANDLER
SCREVEN
Ogeechee
BULLOCH
EFFINGHAM
CHATTAHOOCHEE
3
MACON
Houston
MONTGOMERY
SCHLEY
STEWART
Southwestern
WEBSTER
SUMTER
DOOLY
PULASKI
CRISP
Cordele
WILCOX
DODGE
WHEELER
Oconee
TELFAIR
TOOMBS
EVANS
Atlantic
TATTNALL
Eastern
BRYAN CHATHAM
LIBERTY
QUITMAN
TERRELL
LEE
RANDOLPH
CLAY Pataula
CALHOUN
DOUGHERTY
Dougherty
EARLY MILLER
BAKER
2
MITCHELL
SEMINOLE
South Georgia
DECATUR
GRADY
TURNER
BEN HILL
Brunswick
JEFF DAVIS
APPLING
WORTH
IRWIN
Tifton TIFT
COFFEE
COLQUITT
BERRIEN ATKINSON
Alapaha
COOK LANIER
BACON
PIERCE
WARE
Waycross
LONG
1
WAYNE
McINTOSH
BRANTLEY
GLYNN
Southern
CLINCH
CHARLTON
CAMDEN
THOMAS
BROOKS
LOWNDES
ECHOLS
Superior Courts
The 159 superior courts are general jurisdiction trial courts exercising both civil and criminal jurisdiction. Superior court judges hear all felony cases, as well as, divorce cases and other civil matters. The superior courts are organized into 49 judicial circuits created by act of the General Assembly. The number of superior court judges per circuit is also determined by the state Legislature. Circuits are made up of one or more counties. Superior court judges are constitutional officers who are elected to four-year terms in circuit-wide nonpartisan elections. Superior court judges who have retired and taken senior status may hear cases as assigned in any circuit at the request of a local judge or the governor.
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Superior Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
Circuit
Number of Judges
Total Criminal
Filed
Disposed
Alapaha
2
Alcovy
4
Appalachian
2
Atlanta
19
Atlantic
4
Augusta
7
Bell-Forsyth
2
Blue Ridge
2
Brunswick
4
Chattahoochee
6
Cherokee
3
Clayton
4
Cobb
9
Conasauga
4
Cordele
2
Coweta
5
Dougherty
3
Douglas
3
Dublin
2
Eastern
6
Enotah
2
Flint
2
Griffin
4
8 Gwinnett
8
Houston
2
Lookout Mountain 4
Macon
5
Middle
2
Mountain
2
Northeastern
4
Northern
3
Ocmulgee
5
Oconee
2
Ogeechee
3
Pataula
2
Paulding
2
Piedmont
3
Rockdale
2
Rome
4
South Georgia
2
Southern
4
Southwestern
3
Stone Mountain
10
Tallapoosa
2
Tifton
2
Toombs
2
Towaliga
2
Waycross
3
Western
3
Total
188
2,923 4,801 1,927 15,061 1,677 3,916
760 1,503 2,954 3,539 6,141
,807 6,123 2,174 1,788 3,263 2,850 2,087 1,836 4,075 1,307 1,107 2,735 5,212 1,810 1,721 3,603
992 1,332 1,870 1,725 4,060 1,314 1,690 1,380 1,121 2,004
757 3,373 1,214 3,373 1,965 6,420
952 696 1,330 1,103 1,968 1,359
131,698
2,923 4,802 2,141 17,251 1,789 4,305
760 1,645 3,154 4,081 6,141 3,100 8,387 2,174 1,843 3,791 3,063 2,087 1,936 4,075 1,391 1,314 2,752 5,546 1,958 1,721 3,983
992 1,457 2,024 1,803 4,306 1,341 1,750 1,434 1,269 2,139
810 3,722 1,300 3,701 2,024 8,817 1,030
765 1,397 1,276 2,114 1,359
108,255
Average per judge*
701
576
Unified Appeals Defendants Filed
1 3 0 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 8 1 2 2 1 0 5 0 4 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0
52
0
Felony
Filed
Disposed
994 1,576
703 11,104 1,146 1,093
468 784 1,459 2,365 1,168 1,863 3,748 1,164 652 2,616 1,522 1,479 735 2,747 577 869 1,906 3,346 992 980 1,452 809 601 1,421 830 1,511 613 1,177 732 390 1,092 492 1,288 758 2,461 669 4,179 335 368 349 596 1,125 1,139
72,443
994 1,576
832 13,294
1,245 1,420
468 923 1,642 2,876 1,168 2,156 6,012 1,164 692 3,131 1,735 1,479 812 2,747 651 1,071 1,923 3,680 1,118 980 1,811 809 711 1,567 902 1,732 623 1,237 786 483 1,214 545 1,502 844 2,779 707 6,576 391 437 401 740 1,255 1,139
84,980
385
452
Misdemeanor
Filed
Disposed
1,689 1,742
718 0
214 649
34 272 1,198 538 1,035
70 36 764 647 361
0 130 844
52 578
52 283
0 419 737 457
16 379 388 312 1,190 472
79 380 664 634
0 1,498
47 125 714
0 550 106 747 380 221 146
22,567
1,689 1,743
803 0
227 711 34 275 1,215 569 1,035 70 36 764 662 374
0 130 867
52 588
57 283
0 441 737 478
16 394 396 318 1,215 489
79 380 719 647
0 1,633
47 135 735
0 572 106 762 409 237 146
23,275
120
124
Superior Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
Probation Revocation
Cases Filed
Total Civil Cases Filed
General Civil
Cases Filed
Domestic Relations
Cases Filed
Total
Criminal & Civil Cases Filed
Circuit
239 1,480
506 3,955
313 2,174
258 447 296 636 3,938 873 2,338 246 488 286 1,328 470 256 1,274 150 185 546 1,861 399
0 1,693
167 351
60 581 1,358 229 434 268
65 276 265 586 409 787 582 2,240
67 222 234 127 619
74
36,636
2,237 5,685 2,613 16,251 3,462 9,268 2,002 2,773 4,664 7,895 4,422 4,880 10,587 4,276 2,405 7,007 3,548 2,781 2,791 3,752 2,294 3,951 5,147 14,243 3,136 4,598 5,860 2,703 2,396 4,366 3,385 4,395 2,884 3,545 1,814 3,084 2,044 2,123 4,365 1,766 7,859 3,828 14,230 2,151 2,906 2,524 2,444 4,261 3,249
224,850
998 2,344 1,252 3,685 1,092 2,304
575 530 1,484 2,262 2,418 722 2,464 1,607 922 1,629 1,319 1,424 839 1,779 893 1,241 1,583 4,268 660 1,269 1,281 828 692 1,535 1,085 1,707 896 804 755 1,506 836 635 1,709 599 2,058 1,489 2,222 1,075 894 653 1,129 1,332 1,089
68,372
1,239 3,341 1,361 12,566 2,370 6,964 1,427 2,243 3,180 5,633 2,004 4,158 8,123 2,669 1,483 5,378 2,229 1,357 1,952 1,973 1,401 2,710 3,564 9,975 2,476 3,329 4,579 1,875 1,704 2,831 2,300 2,688 1,988 2,741 1,059 1,578 1,208 1,488 2,656 1,167 5,801 2,339 12,008 1,076 2,012 1,871 1,315 2,929 2,160
156,478
5,160 10,486
4,540 31,312
5,139 13,184
2,762 4,276 7,618 11,434 10,563 7,687 16,710 6,450 4,193 10,270 6,398 4,868 4,627 7,827 3,601 5,058 7,882 19,455 4,946 6,319 9,463 3,695 3,728 6,236 5,110 8,455 4,198 5,235 3,194 4,205 4,048 2,880 7,738 2,980 11,232 5,793 20,650 3,103 3,602 3,854 3,547 6,229 4,608
356,548
Alapaha
Alcovy
Appalachian
Atlanta
Atlantic
Augusta
Bell-Forsyth
Blue Ridge
Brunswick
Chattahoochee
Cherokee
Clayton
Cobb
Conasauga
Cordele
Coweta
Dougherty
Douglas
Dublin
Eastern
Enotah
Flint
Griffin
Gwinnett
9
Houston
Lookout Mountain
Macon
Middle
Mountain
Northeastern
Northern
Ocmulgee
Oconee
Ogeechee
Pataula
Paulding
Piedmont
Rockdale
Rome
South Georgia
Southern
Southwestern
Stone Mountain
Tallapoosa
Tifton
Toombs
Towaliga
Waycross
Western
Total
195
1196
364
832
1,897
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State Courts
State courts are county courts that exercise limited jurisdiction. State court judges hear misdemeanors including traffic violations and author-
ized to hear applications for search and arrest warrants,
to issue such warrants and hold preliminary hearings in
criminal cases. These judges also hear civil matters not
reserved exclusively for the superior courts. The
General Assembly creates state courts by local legisla-
tion and establishes the number of judges and their sta-
tus as full-time or part-time. State court judges are
elected to four-year terms in countywide, non-partisan
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elections.
State Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002
(number of cases)
County Appling Bacon Baldwin Bibb Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Candler Carroll Chatham Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clayton Clinch Cobb
12 Coffee Colquitt Coweta Decatur DeKalb Dougherty Douglas Early Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans Fayette Forsyth Fulton Glynn Grady Gwinnett Habersham Hall Henry Houston
Tenant/Dispossessory
Open Filed Disposed
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
159
76
40
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
23
70
62
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
144
293
293
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
6
5
10
1
9
NA
18
21
0
0
0
0 16,075 16,026
4
109
108
0
0
0
2
7
6
7
2
1
34,398 16,320
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
5
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
384
0
0
21
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
3
71
64
3
12
11
0
43
45
0
15
26
0
33
32
All Other Civil
Open Filed Disposed
N/R
N/R
N/R
16
30
33
N/R
N/R
N/R
3,307 1,904 2,236
4
6
7
81
107
106
0
301
0
232
110
85
N/R
N/R
N/R
997
926
973
3,975 4,497 4,340
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,786 1,660 1,121
541
567
570
NA 6,679 6,632
2
25
23
0 13,895 5,216
53
195
108
195
161
190
1,359
934
794
260
135
126
17,150 12,018 89,734
102
819
811
74
382
216
3
50
39
15
128
83
67
93
95
141
86
55
35
61
54
0
701
250
N/R
N/R
N/R
0 45,447
0
232
465
233
N/R
N/R
N/R
6,620 10,689 10,080
147
188
154
799 1,638 1,980
782 1,168
964
973 1,350 1,339
*Serious Traffic
Open Filed Disposed
N/R
N/R
N/R
15
98
72
N/R
N/R
N/R
318
303
298
2,301 5,039 2,509
0
0
0
0
449
0
10
108
96
N/R
N/R
N/R
120
413
345
894 1,141
558
N/R
N/R
N/R
0 1,026
697
258
196
295
NA 1,655 1,580
4
24
20
0 2,807
0
86
350
237
38
150
40
192
488
331
65
111
141
2,824 2,273 3,891
0
0
0
52
758
252
1
37
35
20
50
126
70
207
252
0
0
0
38
60
67
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0 1,250
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
3,894 7,328 7,561
0
249
0
0
839
770
2,640 2,318 3,947
27
648
450
Non-Traffic Misdemeanors
Open
Filed Disposed
N/R
N/R
N/R
57
112
91
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,805 2,555 2,516
185
178
236
1,036
679
251
0
905
0
40
757
601
N/R
N/R
N/R
201
808
898
3,470 1,947 1,898
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,416 1,314 1,261
934 1,654 1,697
NA 17,338 16,405
6
254
248
0 5,980 5,893
40
143
53
152
762
638
1,151 1,447 1,398
234
682
735
8,893 9,600 4,778
400 2,828 2,389
156
708
598
12
187
159
316 1,566 1,206
195
721
606
194
132
62
96
54
66
0 1,061
693
N/R
N/R
N/R
0 10,673
0
1,103 12,066 10,523
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
337
432
0
3,372 5,344 8,423
0
315
0
177 2,127 2,134
State Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002
(number of cases)
Probation Revocations
All Other Traffic
Total
Open
Filed Disposed
Open Filed Disposed
Open Filed Disposed
County
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Appling
0
4
4
322 1,050
861
410 1,294 1,061
Bacon
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Baldwin
58
648
513
1,394 5,360 5,273
7,041 10,846 10,876
Bibb
3
36
21
0
0
0
2,493 5,259 2,773
Brooks
0
0
0
2
0
0
1,119
786
357
Bryan
0
120
0
0 8,329
0
0 10,104
0
Bulloch
0
41
41
253 2,214 2,231
558 3,300 3,116
Burke
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Candler
0
0
0
1,463 6,121 5,744
2,781 8,268 7,960
Carroll
251
1,323
612
4,040 1,594 1,853
12,774 10,795 9,554
Chatham
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Chattooga
0
0
0
2,345 15,866 15,817
5,548 19,872 18,901
Cherokee
417
654
616
195
0
70
2,355 3,072 3,257
Clarke
NA
4,394
0
NA 30,119 29,167
NA 60,203 53,805
Clayton
0
18
18
2
552
550
14
873
859
Clinch
0
5,745 4,282
0 122,656 125,201
0 167,158 156,618
Cobb
0
0
0
505 5,000 3,965
688 5,797 4,471
Coffee
13
2
139
97
252 1,998
897
639 3,210 1,862
Colquitt
82
326
326
5,526 8,996 8,193
8,312 12,198 11,048
Coweta
5
116
113
866 2,809 2,706
1,437 3,855 3,822
Decatur
1,904
1,904
0
0
0
0
65,169 42,115 98,403
DeKalb
0
0
0
0 5,742 5,530
502 9,389 8,730
Dougherty
43
1,067
902
1,997 10,350 10,039
2,322 13,266 12,008
Douglas
0
1
1
55
882
840
71 1,157 1,074
Early
2
138
126
0
0
0
353 1,885 1,543
Effingham
4
18
20
364 2,401 2,248
700 3,440 3,221
Elbert
0
0
0
2,979 2,615
364
3,314 2,833
481
Emanuel
0
4
4
847
820
841
1,016 1,004 1,037
Evans
0
0
0
0 6,231 4,628
0 7,993 5,571
Fayette
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Forsyth
0
497
0
0 50,863
0
0 109,114
0
Fulton
375
296
68
0
0
0
1,710 12,848 10,824
Glynn
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Grady
3
1,455 1,443
0
0
0
10,520 19,543 19,148
Gwinnett3
0
0
0
342 2,388 3,934
829 3,269 4,099
Habersham
0
0
0
777 9,403 9,056
4,948 17,267 20,274
Hall
0
1,647 1,647
1,334 18,576 16,085
4,756 24,039 22,669
Henry
0
290
290
0
0
0
1,177 4,448 4,245
Houston
State Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002
(number of cases)
County Jackson Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Liberty Long Lowndes McIntosh Miller Mitchell Muscogee Pierce Putnam Richmond Rockdale Screven Spalding Stephens
14 Sumter Tattnall Thomas Tift Toombs Treutlen Troup Walker Ware Washington Wayne Worth Total
Tenant/Dispossessory
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
6
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
10
4
0
20
17
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
2
0
10
7
0
16
13
0
11
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
8
8
2
2
34,766 33,653 16,820
All Other Civil
Filed Disposed Open
0
275
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
4
32
27
0
0
0
37
19
16
516 1,041
591
18
18
17
9
20
11
41
105
64
0
0
0
25
62
37
0
0
0
627 1,529
902
625
747
540
48
75
103
0
471
212
284
407
438
221
213
125
12
106
57
0
248
230
30
168
130
5
125
92
0
31
29
464
402
421
87
365
218
440
191
349
123
67
93
23
150
50
105
67
30
43,692 114,349 133,429
*Serious Traffic
Filed Disposed Open
0 4,263
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
30
72
51
0
0
0
17
137
91
0
543
510
225
576
546
3
8
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
99
75
0
922
997
391 1,855 1,464
99
646
621
5
137
138
0
564
327
0
249
0
0
123
117
6
918
905
0
101
80
0
2
2
17
169
104
4
191
183
21
313
351
83
410
210
82
220
257
29
86
54
33
109
61
17
72
50
14,953 43,160 31,769
Non-Traffic Misdemeanors
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
248
544
176
N/R
N/R
N/R
77
257
217
1 4,440 3,946
27
286
231
0 3,879 3,758
0
0
0
52
117
65
17
352
335
292 3,420 3,128
33
218
185
0
0
0
736 5,208 4,472
512
665
851
5
392
386
0 2,091 1,596
247
808
478
271 1,544 1,061
36 2,513 2,351
0 1,500 1,325
763 4,225 3,579
0
455
298
0
234
234
759 1,458 1,553
147 1,074
608
502 1,012
978
276
549
494
105
388
319
35
350
297
31,119 123,308 99,377
State Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002
(number of cases)
Probation Revocations
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
593
528
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
37
37
0
0
0
0
0 1,353
19
276
278
0
51
51
0
0
0
24
24
24
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
45
0
0
109
109
0
27
27
0
21
21
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
570
570
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3,192 22,638 14,146
All Other Traffic
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
80 1,909 1,816
0
0
0
80 1,907 1,405
0 24,755 26,063
2,878 7,576 6,764
172 1,143
971
81 2,158 2,077
291 3,258 2,967
80 1,107 1,027
0 4,135 4,199
5,146 34,410 29,264
451 9,519 9,333
92 2,081 2,121
0 12,392 8,302
0
0
0
137 3,058 2,830
0
0
0
0 4,805 4,350
11,388 12,769 10,782
1 1,775 1,246
360 3,127 2,767
402 5,952 4,240
306 5,564 4,302
1,726 2,800 2,553
678 1,979 2,021
179 2,391 2,420
158 6,384 5,916
50,546 479,889 395,829
Total
Filed Disposed Open
0 4,538
0
248
544
176
N/R
N/R
N/R
192 2,278 2,118
1 4,440 3,946
161 2,349 1,743
517 30,812 31,451
3,121 8,170 7,327
236 1,290 1,054
139 2,615 2,476
583 6,678 6,095
162 1,523 1,361
0 5,057 5,196
6,900 43,002 37,455
1,708 11,863 11,627
150 2,756 2,816
0 15,518 10,437
555 1,488
940
629 4,938 4,133
54 3,541 3,315
0 6,709 5,992
12,181 17,289 14,615
23 2,562 1,771
364 3,604 3,234
1,646 8,125 6,565
623 7,413 5,338
2,750 4,793 4,707
1,106 2,681 2,662
340 3,046 2,858
323 6,875 6,295
178,268 816,997 691,370
County
Jackson
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jenkins
Liberty
Long
Lowndes
McIntosh
Miller
Mitchell
Muscogee
Pierce
Putnam
Richmond
Rockdale
Screven
Spalding
Stephens
Sumter
15
Tattnall
Thomas
Tift
Toombs
Treutlen
Troup
Walker
Ware
Washington
Wayne
Worth
Total
16
Juvenile Courts
Jurisdiction of the juvenile courts extends to delinquent and unruly children under 17 years of age and deprived and neglected children under 18
years of age. Juvenile court judges have jurisdiction
over minors who commit traffic violations or request
consent to marry or enlist in the armed forces.
Juvenile courts have concurrent jurisdiction with supe-
rior courts in child custody and child support cases and
in proceedings to terminate parental rights.
The purpose of juvenile courts is to protect the well-
being of children, provide guidance and control con-
ducive to child welfare and the best interest of the
state, and secure care for children who have been
17
removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect.
Juvenile court judges are appointed by the superior
court judges of the circuit to four-year terms.
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Delinquent
County
Filed Disposed Open
Appling
84
78
6
Atkinson
N/R
N/R
N/R
Bacon
72
60
13
Baker
1
1
0
Baldwin
356
224
132
Banks
N/R
N/R
N/R
Barrow
388
436
117
Bartow
564
611
362
Ben Hill
265
252
13
Berrien
168
105
63
Bibb
1,981 1,823
649
Bleckley
52
28
24
Brantley
N/R
N/R
N/R
Brooks
78
38
40
Bryan
N/R
N/R
N/R
Bulloch
N/R
N/R
N/R
Burke
171
191
67
Butts
254
86
168
Calhoun
14
14
0
Camden
354
294
287
Candler
N/R
N/R
N/R
Carroll
578
504
74
Catoosa
345
360
124
Charlton
90
44
74
Chatham
2,289 2,455 2111
18 Chattahoochee
13
10
3
Chattooga
65
19
46
Cherokee
577
523
332
Clarke
693
657 1140
Clay
19
18
1
Clayton
3,811 3,746
619
Clinch
64
58
6
Cobb
3,736 3,479
974
Coffee
290
170
120
Colquitt
289
276
13
Columbia
N/R
N/R
N/R
Cook
N/R
N/R
N/R
Coweta
530
457
930
Crawford
N/R
N/R
N/R
Crisp
254
273
1
Dade
82
56
26
Dawson
126
98
71
Decatur
149
136
13
DeKalb
4,355 4,236 7,274
Dodge
N/R
N/R
N/R
Dooly
43
35
8
Dougherty
1,102
868
234
Douglas
1,329
806
311
Early
139
135
4
Echols
3
2
14
Effingham
214
207
50
Elbert
N/R
N/R
N/R
Emanuel
46
2
43
Evans
93
85
9
Filed 40
N/R 21 6 47
N/R 116 302 26 39 366 28 N/R 28 N/R N/R 42 148 16 155 N/R 212 164 17 296
1 40 244 246
2 826
20 687
30 117 N/R N/R 102 N/R 51 48 54
2 1,573
N/R 43
209 358
9 0 79 N/R 30 15
Unruly Disposed
37 N/R
17 6
15 N/R 133 291
26 29 346 28 N/R 28 N/R N/R 41 77 16 132 N/R 212 173 12 410
0 17 236 225
2 933
19 650
20 109 N/R N/R
81 N/R
51 36 60
0 1,522
N/R 42
193 171
7 0 73 N/R 0 11
Open 3
N/R 7 0
32 N/R
18 223
0 10 63
0 N/R
0 N/R N/R
9 71
0 102 N/R
0 29 24 733
1 23 109 516
0 152
1 146
10 8
N/R N/R 188 N/R
0 12 27
2 2,323
N/R 1
16 138
2 2 9 N/R 30 1
Termination of Parental Rights
Filed Disposed Open
7
7
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
2
1
1
0
0
0
198
184
14
N/R
N/R
N/R
37
20
29
11
9
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
7
4
2
0
2
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
1
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
0
2
10
8
2
0
0
0
7
8
2
N/R
N/R
N/R
8
8
0
9
15
5
0
0
0
22
29
35
15
6
9
3
1
2
13
12
21
59
32
90
1
0
1
22
23
5
5
3
2
70
0
0
0
0
0
15
5
7
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
22
11
37
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
5
1
4
4
0
73
67
6
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
26
10
16
27
20
2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
4
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
5
5
0
Filed 32
N/R 13 24 0
N/R 186 317
45 17 1,345
5 N/R
83 N/R N/R
50 194
6 45 N/R 267 128 43 720
3 97 439 394 10 1,581 11 1,512 40 167 N/R N/R 478 N/R 145 55 37 82 1,802 N/R 32 191 465 20
2 5 N/R 34 53
Deprived
Disposed Open
27
5
N/R
N/R
0
13
15
9
0
0
N/R
N/R
152
92
309
203
9
36
0
0
1,322
268
2
3
N/R
N/R
83
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
9
50
15
179
6
0
48
31
N/R
N/R
237
30
110
107
42
15
559 1,494
0
3
46
51
383
181
196
701
5
5
1,709
245
9
2
1,442
387
4
36
54
109
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
307
590
N/R
N/R
158
13
45
10
34
29
64
18
1,606 4,936
N/R
N/R
26
6
145
46
418
119
19
1
1
23
6
14
N/R
N/R
2
31
28
12
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Filed 23
N/R 13 0 88
N/R 53
286 4
23 206
17 N/R
35 N/R N/R
22 45
5 37 N/R 208 154 22 606
2 89 530 200
9 333
19 1,855
128 89
N/R N/R 250 N/R
28 63 34 36 560 N/R 13 148 159
8 7 106 N/R 0 22
Traffic Disposed
18 N/R
5 0 39 N/R 62 207 4 19 197 12 N/R 34 N/R N/R 18 22 5 26 N/R 208 144 9 653 2 63 504 173 9 369 18 1,831 68 81 N/R N/R 240 N/R 28 61 32 35 425 N/R 13 132 123 7 1 102 N/R 0 16
Open 5
N/R 8 0
49 N/R
4 276
0 4 37 5 N/R 1 N/R N/R 4 23 0 29 N/R 0 48 19 697 0 26 165 160 0 267 1 416 60 8 N/R N/R 294 N/R 0 2 13 1 1,028 N/R 0 16 18 1 14 5 N/R 0 2
Special Proceedings
Filed Disposed Open
1
1
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
1
1
0
14
14
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
15
11
9
36
32
97
0
0
0
0
0
0
56
38
59
1
0
1
N/R
N/R
N/R
6
6
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
53
46
52
N/R
N/R
N/R
55
55
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
124
99
290
0
0
0
41
22
19
34
17
34
42
28
149
0
0
0
134
104
57
3
3
0
66
65
26
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
20
8
188
N/R
N/R
N/R
3
5
0
6
3
3
7
7
8
3
2
1
152
112
648
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
67
55
12
8
3
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
2
0
2
5
6
0
Filed 187 N/R 121
32 703 N/R 795 1,516 340 247 3,961 105 N/R 231 N/R N/R 286 651
41 651 N/R 1,328 800 172 4,057
34 335 1,837 1,634
41 6,707
122 7,926
488 677 N/R N/R 1,402 N/R 481 255 260 276 8,515 N/R 131 1,743 2,346 178
12 404 N/R 112 193
Total
Disposed Open
168
19
N/R
N/R
83
42
23
9
476
227
N/R
N/R
814
269
1,459 1,166
291
49
153
77
3,733 1,080
70
35
N/R
N/R
190
41
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
259
132
208
443
41
0
554
503
N/R
N/R
1,224
104
802
313
107
132
4,205 5,360
18
16
168
167
1,675
842
1,311 2,756
34
7
6,884 1,345
110
12
7,467 1,949
262
226
525
145
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,104 2,227
N/R
N/R
515
14
201
54
236
149
241
35
7,968 16,215
N/R
N/R
116
15
1,403
340
1,541
590
169
9
5
53
392
78
N/R
N/R
4
106
151
24
County
Appling
Atkinson
Bacon
Baker
Baldwin
Banks
Barrow
Bartow
Ben Hill
Berrien
Bibb
Bleckley
Brantley
Brooks
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke
Butts
Calhoun
Camden
Candler
Carroll
Catoosa
Charlton
Chatham
Chattahoochee
19
Chattooga
Cherokee
Clarke
Clay
Clayton
Clinch
Cobb
Coffee
Colquitt
Columbia
Cook
Coweta
Crawford
Crisp
Dade
Dawson
Decatur
DeKalb
Dodge
Dooly
Dougherty
Douglas
Early
Echols
Effingham
Elbert
Emanuel
Evans
County Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper
20 Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Filed 128 577 705 357 162 5,336 173
7 672 277 103
48 2,265
177 855 N/R 188
59 88 N/R 1,352 1,928 30 N/R 73 82 N/R 46 N/R 73 129 32 N/R 259 720 N/R N/R N/R 97 86 92 11 143 82 146 38 N/R 202 N/R 97 318 2,079 686 138
Delinquent
Disposed Open
97
31
610
173
680
26
365
162
142
20
3,337 1,999
143
61
7
0
545
50
226
51
100
3
30
18
2,000 1,183
168
9
882
289
N/R
N/R
177
11
41
18
66
22
N/R
N/R
1,086
266
1,799
114
9
21
N/R
N/R
54
19
79
3
N/R
N/R
46
0
N/R
N/R
57
16
88
41
17
25
N/R
N/R
216
43
314
406
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
90
7
84
2
79
44
8
3
139
16
105
24
136
6
38
0
N/R
N/R
219
12
N/R
N/R
72
25
262
56
2,233
710
796
200
162
9
Filed 15
195 467 164
20 866
64 1
215 154
8 13 914 46 248 N/R 200 28 55 N/R 342 1,080 11 N/R 32 32 N/R 19 N/R 19 57 22 N/R 48 327 N/R N/R N/R 93 11 46
6 17 39 28
1 N/R
98 N/R
13 145 933 314
50
Unruly Disposed
13 196 452 124
0 567
39 1
159 140
8 10 946 46 279 N/R 187 19 48 N/R 282 1,036
3 N/R
21 32 N/R 19 N/R
8 25 18 N/R 40 231 N/R N/R N/R 18 11 35
2 17 36 27
1 N/R
84 N/R
7 125 828 346
47
Open 2
52 17 85
0 299
34 0
20 14
0 3 337 0 62 N/R 13 9 7 N/R 60 42 8 N/R 11 0 N/R 0 N/R 11 32 9 N/R 8 96 N/R N/R N/R 75 0 26 4 0 6 1 0 N/R 14 N/R 6 20 441 63 3
Termination of Parental Rights
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
8
6
1
36
23
15
5
14
3
6
0
0
361
196
165
0
1
0
2
2
0
21
21
0
10
7
3
0
0
0
4
4
0
41
20
22
1
1
0
41
39
13
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
1
0
3
3
0
15
9
6
N/R
N/R
N/R
39
25
14
0
0
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
7
6
1
2
2
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
0
1
N/R
N/R
N/R
9
7
2
9
9
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
1
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
11
10
1
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
2
2
1
1
1
0
2
2
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
2
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
8
4
4
28
27
1
0
0
0
2
3
1
1
1
0
Filed 68
336 719 110
71 3,403
71 0
114 339
52 49 1,075 83 443 N/R 47 52 37 N/R 666 683 28 N/R 51 19 N/R 29 N/R 57 108 28 N/R 17 179 N/R N/R N/R 60 22 49 12 73 195 72 31 N/R 21 N/R 84 253 721 379 53
Deprived Disposed
39 333 657
97 0
2,793 26 0
124 284
52 16 974 69 444 N/R 40 50 21 N/R 620 635
5 N/R
37 16 N/R 21 N/R 20 81 11 N/R 15 20 N/R N/R N/R 58 21 39
0 56 186 71 31 N/R 22 N/R 77 224 743 372 45
Open 29 73 64 63 0
610 49 0 19 55 0 33
443 14 33
N/R 7 2
16 N/R
46 45 23 N/R 14
3 N/R
8 N/R
37 27 17 N/R
2 159 N/R N/R N/R
2 1 47 0 18 5 1 0 N/R 1 N/R 7 29 280 49 8
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Traffic
Special Proceedings
Total
Filed Disposed Open
Filed Disposed Open
Filed Disposed Open
County
33
28
5
7
5
2
251
182
69
Fannin
505
494
38
35
30
8
1,656 1,669
345
Fayette
284
269
18
137
119
21
2348 2200
161
Floyd
149
149
24
28
34
6
813
783
343
Forsyth
11
0
0
3
0
0
273
142
20
Franklin
1,024
799
225
632
390
242
11,622 8,082 3,540
Fulton
29
20
11
16
10
7
353
239
162
Gilmer
2
2
0
0
0
0
12
12
0
Glascock
158
143
20
5
5
0
1,185
997
109
Glynn
195
188
7
0
0
0
975
845
130
Gordon
30
30
0
12
12
0
205
202
3
Grady
23
20
3
0
0
0
137
80
57
Greene
1,829
1,601
644
979
940
417
7,103 6,481 3,046
Gwinnett
26
21
5
0
0
0
333
305
28
Habersham
489
499
85
32
28
19
2,108 2,171
501
Hall
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Hancock
50
49
1
1
1
0
487
455
32
Haralson
33
30
3
7
7
0
182
150
32
Harris
16
5
11
14
11
3
225
160
65
Hart
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Heard
554
479
75
2
2
0
2,955 2,494
461
Henry
427
415
10
9
9
0
4,127 3,894
211
Houston
29
22
7
0
0
0
98
39
59
Irwin
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Jackson
23
20
3
1
0
1
187
138
49
Jasper
25
25
0
2
2
0
162
156
6
Jeff Davis
21
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Jefferson
10
10
0
8
7
1
113
103
10
Jenkins
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Johnson
67
47
20
77
72
5
302
211
91
Jones
13
9
4
2
0
2
318
212
106
Lamar
12
10
4
0
0
0
94
56
55
Lanier
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Laurens
89
80
9
12
12
0
426
364
62
Lee
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,226
565
661
Liberty
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Lincoln
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Long
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Lowndes
43
39
4
20
16
4
324
231
93
Lumpkin
20
20
0
19
19
0
158
155
3
Macon
23
21
7
0
0
0
212
176
124
Madison
13
6
7
0
0
0
42
16
14
Marion
42
42
2
3
6
0
279
262
36
McDuffie
45
43
5
9
8
0
372
380
41
McIntosh
35
34
1
73
72
1
355
341
10
Meriwether
28
24
4
16
16
0
116
112
4
Miller
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Mitchell
53
43
11
2
2
0
376
372
38
Monroe
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
Montgomery
46
34
12
0
0
0
248
194
54
Morgan
98
57
41
108
93
15
950
788
162
Murray
440
422
77
82
91
70
4,255 4,317 1,578
Muscogee
88
98
8
19
20
5
1,488 1,635
326
Newton
34
30
5
0
0
0
276
285
25
Oconee
22
County Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Total
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Filed 61
483 87
133 80 99
420 28 94 21 63 30
2,662 916 22 N/R 125 382 N/R 55 383 11 N/R 95 8 68 87 389 375 191 12 N/R 892 87 N/R N/R N/R 265 764 374 18 168 248 14 N/R N/R
1,146 45 45 41
N/R 58,729
Delinquent
Disposed Open
50
7
443
40
70
17
106
56
43
37
0
225
283
137
27
1
80
14
18
3
51
12
30
0
2,576
86
852
157
19
3
N/R
N/R
125
0
371
11
N/R
N/R
50
5
359
24
6
5
N/R
N/R
102
35
7
1
34
34
84
3
369
20
251
124
188
3
6
6
N/R
N/R
817 1044
63
24
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
207
58
846
115
355
489
13
5
173
25
128
120
14
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,043
341
41
4
45
0
32
9
N/R
N/R
52,137 26,060
Filed 16
190 8
90 27
0 91
4 40
3 9 2 950 121 4 N/R 30 50 N/R 13 193 1 N/R 65 11 8 13 64 37 51 20 N/R 155 5 N/R N/R N/R 197 223 99 9 87 61 7 N/R N/R 275 0 4 21 N/R 17,565
Unruly Disposed
14 185
7 62 17
0 62
4 19
2 9 2 870 80 4 N/R 30 50 N/R 13 180 0 N/R 67 5 2 13 63 27 49 12 N/R 146 3 N/R N/R N/R 179 237 86 9 72 34 7 N/R N/R 251 0 4 19 N/R 15,915
Open 2 5 1
67 10
1 29
0 21
1 0 0 80 28 0 N/R 0 0 N/R 0 13 1 N/R 23 6 6 0 1 10 0 8 N/R 392 2 N/R N/R N/R 18 27 239 0 19 27 0 N/R N/R 61 0 0 3 N/R 8,032
Termination of Parental Rights
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
17
11
6
5
1
1
0
0
4
3
3
0
3
0
3
15
4
11
0
0
0
3
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
18
15
3
19
18
1
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
1
1
0
28
27
1
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
5
5
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
3
3
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
10
4
6
0
0
0
7
7
0
5
2
3
N/R
N/R
N/R
6
3
17
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
14
1
13
14
11
8
0
11
0
4
4
0
0
0
0
4
4
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
13
7
6
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
1,569 1,108
640
Filed 7
337 42 113 32
105 389
12 69
4 45 11 489 239
3 N/R
79 663 N/R
4 41 10 N/R 47
5 14 29 151 23 109 10 N/R 320 29 N/R N/R N/R 160 193 245 22 55 67
2 N/R N/R 351
24 43 58 N/R 26,785
Deprived
Disposed Open
6
3
314
23
18
24
68
114
5
27
0
228
209
180
7
5
62
7
4
0
18
27
11
0
447
42
176
51
3
0
N/R
N/R
79
0
660
3
N/R
N/R
4
0
40
1
0
10
N/R
N/R
48
15
3
4
9
5
25
4
125
26
10
18
89
3
3
7
N/R
N/R
250
438
13
16
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
114
46
174
43
212
294
19
3
28
49
2
65
2
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
366
87
22
2
35
8
37
21
N/R
N/R
22,814 14,341
Note: Jackson had total 672 cases filed. Counting system does not provide disposed or open numbers. No staff available to manually count.
Juvenile Court Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (number of children)
Filed 22
136 68 59 23 30
133 4
38 3
17 6
284 286
5 N/R
16 66 N/R
4 48
3 N/R
22 8
12 17 121 170 33 32 N/R 205 22 N/R N/R N/R 151 78 39
4 32 44
3 N/R N/R 508
7 21
4 N/R 16,462
Traffic Disposed
18 134
54 51 15
0 83
4 35
3 17
3 264 183
5 N/R
16 66 N/R
4 47
3 N/R
21 3 7
15 121 132
30 30 N/R 166 15 N/R N/R N/R 103 81 39
4 35 16
3 N/R N/R 512
7 19
1 N/R 14,757
Open 7 2 9
17 8
46 50
0 3 0 0 3 20 21 0 N/R 0 0 N/R 0 1 0 N/R 4 3 5 2 0 37 0 2 N/R 389 7 N/R N/R N/R 48 14 67 0 3 28 0 N/R N/R 37 0 2 3 N/R 5,960
Special Proceedings
Filed Disposed Open
0
0
0
0
0
0
23
1
20
7
5
6
0
0
0
3
0
6
14
4
10
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
2
2
0
0
0
155
145
10
17
15
4
3
3
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
0
0
0
2
2
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
11
11
0
63
63
0
0
0
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
2
1
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
2
0
4
4
0
4
3
1
6
3
0
8
6
2
N/R
N/R
N/R
21
14
74
1
1
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
25
23
2
8
4
7
2
2
109
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
455
423
131
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
2
6
N/R
N/R
N/R
4,183 3,525 2,881
Filed 106 1,163 233 402 165 240 1,062
50 244
31 138
50 4,558 1,598
37 N/R 251 1,191 N/R
87 733
25 N/R 234
33 103 150 739 609 397
87 N/R 1,599 144 N/R N/R N/R 812 1,280 759
57 344 424
27 N/R N/R 2748
76 115 132 N/R 125,252
Total
Disposed Open
88
19
1,087
76
151
72
292
264
83
82
0
509
645
417
43
7
198
46
27
4
97
41
47
3
4,317
241
1,324
262
34
3
N/R
N/R
251
0
1,176
15
N/R
N/R
82
5
694
39
9
16
N/R
N/R
242
78
19
14
52
51
141
9
686
53
423
190
366
6
59
28
N/R
N/R
1,396 2,354
95
49
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
627
185
1,353
214
705 1,198
49
8
309
97
184
240
27
0
N/R
N/R
N/R
N/R
2602
663
70
6
104
11
91
42
N/R
N/R
110,222 57,907
County Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Total
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Probate Courts
County probate courts exercise exclusive, original jurisdiction in the probate of wills, administration of estates, appointment of guardians
and involuntary hospitalization of incapacitated adults
and other individuals.
All probate court judges administer oaths of office
and issue marriage licenses. They may hold habeas cor-
pus hearings or preside over criminal preliminary hear-
ings. Unless a jury trial is requested, probate court
judges may also hear certain misdemeanors, traffic cases
and violations of state game and fish laws in counties
where there is no state court. When authorized by local
24
statute, probate judges serve as election supervisors and
make appointments to certain local public offices.
Probate Court Civil Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
County Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans
Letters of
No Administration
Administration Necessary
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
42
2
13
0
39
8
69
7
24
4
0
0
118
21
5
0
20
0
26
10
18
5
54
12
72
4
0
0
0
0
10
3
0
2
95
12
5
2
0
0
187
47
8
0
40
2
63
31
13
1
6
2
145
30
3
0
246
47
23
5
17
7
0
0
0
0
48
8
21
1
0
0
6
0
0
0
35
1
1,372
116
0
0
0
0
92
5
58
23
3
2
3
0
31
47
12
2
19
15
20
0
Probate
Common
Solemn
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
1
96
0
21
25
90
46
159
3
46
0
0
13
444
5
27
0
32
5
44
2
42
5
129
0
47
0
0
0
0
1
13
6
0
0
285
1
27
0
0
34
613
0
9
25
78
4
256
1
68
0
9
4
305
0
17
13
940
2
84
1
93
0
0
0
0
0
208
2
31
0
0
0
30
0
0
1
63
201
1,889
0
0
0
0
12
277
0
182
0
10
6
5
17
59
1
51
2
50
2
31
Guardianship 0 0 0 0
39 11 68 113 17 0 154 3 16 26 36 73 1 0 0 13 5 145 7 0 611 18 28 110 26 3 342 7 553 53 36 0 0 113 5 0 33 0 36 2,759 0 0 189 55 7 10 62 29 32 19
Twelve Months Support
0 0 1 0 4 13 11 13 0 0 69 1 5 3 6 6 12 0 0 1 0 13 0 0 121 7 1 25 9 0 35 0 63 4 5 0 0 29 8 0 0 0 1 190 0 0 11 11 1 0 39 9 5 3
Involuntary Hospitalization
0 0 0 0 186 2 25 90 0 0 0 8 0 0 12 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66 0 25 56 1 0 49 5 118 0 11 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 26 511 0 0 184 0 0 3 3 17 26 13
Writs of Habeas Corpus
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Licenses
Marriage
Pistol
0
0
0
0
27
24
0
0
273
300
42
100
305
358
547
718
172
102
0
0
1,320
800
79
91
119
141
88
59
109
283
332
260
109
170
0
0
0
0
263
84
17
11
609
695
517
63
0
0
1,916
1,112
31
37
99
157
803
834
232
150
14
32
1,647
1,275
60
37
4,460
2,503
363
276
415
162
0
0
0
0
491
686
61
103
0
0
72
133
0
0
212
133
4,223
3,033
0
0
0
0
759
629
754
726
12
37
35
26
205
364
100
153
164
234
68
98
25
26
County Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee
Probate Court Civil Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
No Letters of Administration Administration Necessary
19
4
42
9
0
0
29
3
16
3
737
195
0
0
0
0
75
5
38
1
21
2
18
6
254
23
29
3
115
1
0
0
44
2
0
0
20
4
19
1
72
12
87
12
0
0
44
2
11
2
11
0
2
5
8
2
3
1
21
0
15
6
0
0
25
34
9
1
95
1
0
0
7
1
77
7
31
1
11
1
0
0
10
2
31
1
13
1
21
6
1
6
22
4
0
0
0
0
6
3
11
2
168
10
0
0
16
5
Probate
Common
Solemn
0
73
2
205
0
0
49
178
1
66
54
1,649
0
0
0
0
11
196
4
121
1
44
12
59
10
713
31
85
6
368
0
0
47
42
0
0
0
76
0
26
11
206
7
287
0
0
3
78
2
25
0
13
2
59
0
28
0
3
1
75
0
43
0
0
0
113
1
22
1
126
0
0
0
13
94
176
1
61
0
18
0
0
0
17
0
72
0
0
1
70
0
18
78
0
0
0
0
0
1
28
0
30
21
587
0
0
2
9
Guardianship 54 97 0 84 20
1,820 0 0
103 35 16 34
887 57
205 0
47 0
20 18 192 135
0 65 21
4 6 8 2 51 17 0 30 20 383 0 22 96 45 8 0 3 44 5 30 5 26 0 0 22 13 141 0 29
Twelve Months Support
10 50
0 8 3 106 0 0 39 3 4 1 88 6 29 0 11 0 9 3 51 24 0 19 5 1 8 1 0 3 4 0 4 0 20 0 1 16 3 1 0 1 12 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 4 79 0 5
Involuntary Hospitalization
9 0 0 3 8 9 0 0 39 0 27 10 11 17 80 0 29 0 7 38 31 31 0 21 11 0 11 8 4 9 19 0 19 0 12 0 2 9 15 3 0 3 11 15 0 4 0 0 0 6 15 113 0 1
Writs of Habeas Corpus
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Licenses
Marriage
Pistol
103
271
588
687
0
0
668
791
75
163
5,431
1,805
0
0
0
0
812
518
285
336
163
111
123
104
4,692
3,118
240
270
873
797
0
0
125
298
0
0
120
223
41
121
885
1,010
913
946
0
0
208
388
57
120
134
97
109
99
57
97
23
20
142
211
96
164
0
0
365
285
191
209
457
162
0
0
50
53
889
439
169
202
70
81
0
0
51
59
150
159
60
88
109
200
31
61
153
116
0
0
0
0
74
63
164
133
1,154
710
0
0
148
204
County Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Total
Probate Court Civil Caseload Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
No
Letters of Administration
Administration Necessary
13
2
54
9
9
0
0
0
0
0
15
3
34
3
5
7
34
0
0
0
6
12
8
2
149
28
51
7
0
0
25
1
8
10
59
7
25
1
5
0
28
8
8
0
0
0
20
2
14
0
25
1
0
0
48
5
45
6
31
5
10
2
1
0
44
14
7
2
0
0
11
2
43
5
41
6
45
9
62
14
0
0
3
2
0
0
0
0
3
2
23
1
86
5
0
0
21
2
24
3
26
4
6,564
1,066
Probate
Common
Solemn
0
35
1
137
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
33
41
83
0
24
0
73
0
0
1
46
30
0
27
339
4
169
0
0
2
54
0
33
3
159
5
85
0
16
0
95
0
21
0
0
42
0
25
8
2
40
0
0
30
96
40
71
2
62
0
41
10
0
1
143
1
38
0
0
11
12
126
0
5
165
11
148
3
199
0
0
3
51
0
0
0
0
21
0
1
71
0
248
0
0
2
43
2
29
3
56
1,367
15,861
Guardianship 25 62 5 0 0 28 44 2 30 0 14 10
132 161
0 17
4 137
35 5
25 9 0
26 14 23
0 45 39 32 15
2 62 26
0 12 15 64 78 39
0 30
0 0 0 9 41 0 15 14 43 12,172
Twelve Months Support
1 14
0 0 0 6 7 0 7 0 0 1 112 36 0 4 0 26 5 0 6 1 0 4 0 3 0 4 1 1 2 0 16 3 0 0 2 11 22 29 0 1 0 0 0 5 9 0 2 4 6 1,722
Involuntary Hospitalization
9 0 0 0 0 18 43 0 9 0 13 0 131 12 0 1 0 19 8 2 16 0 0 0 16 0 0 210 24 5 0 1 68 14 0 0 9 32 69 3 0 14 0 0 0 21 27 0 15 11 24 2,996
Writs of Habeas Corpus
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54
Licenses
Marriage
Pistol
66
158
537
691
46
48
0
0
0
0
92
151
207
267
63
71
119
165
0
0
117
160
37
74
1,028
1,049
543
526
0
0
92
101
321
81
479
471
129
212
30
35
287
177
24
32
0
0
133
111
58
62
79
74
0
0
384
181
382
157
207
184
55
126
53
37
275
320
69
58
0
0
68
89
184
152
101
394
165
394
365
193
0
0
141
141
0
0
0
0
50
32
210
203
538
474
0
0
50
75
61
93
97
153
51,314
41,350
27
28
Probate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
County
Filed
Atkinson
0
Baker
0
Banks
82
Barrow
0
Bartow
0
Ben Hill
4
Berrien
0
Bleckley
0
Brantley
19
Butts
0
Calhoun
0
Camden
0
Catoosa
0
Charlton
0
Chattahoochee 0
Clay
74
Columbia
0
Cook
0
Crawford
65
Crisp
0
Dade
0
Dawson
0
Dodge
0
Dooly
0
Douglas
0
Echols
0
Fannin
151
Floyd
0
Franklin
0
Gilmer
0
Glascock
0
Gordon
68
Grady
30
Greene
57
Hancock
0
Haralson
0
Harris
0
Hart
164
Heard
34
Henry
0
Irwin
0
Jasper
373
Johnson
21
Jones
86
Lamar
341
Lanier
0
Laurens
45
Lee
0
Lincoln
0
Lumpkin
8
Macon
0
Madison
0
MISDEMEANOR Disposed by:
Guilty Plea 0 0
30 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2,257 0
32 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
133 0 0 0 0
61 29 40
0 0 0 19 11 77 0 35 8 38 89 0 36 0 0 2 402 0
Cash Bond 0 0
43 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
74 1,858
0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 124 21 34 0 334 8 55 211 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Non-Trial 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 5 0 7 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 4 0
21 11 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
Bench Trial
Acquitted Convicted
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
141
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
3
12
0
0
0
0
0
23
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Filed 0 0
995 3,572 9,824 1,759
0 1,905 1,763
0 0 1,031 1,768 0 4,992 714 0 0 864 0 4,455 0 0 0 0 1,514 1,123 0 1,665 0 0 5,207 19 4,496 0 1,135 0 861 660 0 0 1,375 408 2,887 2,295 0 10,040 1,975 0 2,894 922 0
TRAFFIC Disposed by:
Guilty Plea 0 0
627 683 8,164 1,078
0 0 686 0 0 269 849 0 13 31 2,141 0 400 0 3,848 0 0 0 0 401 914 0 691 0 0 4,760 14 270 0 1,830 0 468 120 0 0 142 377 627 607 0 9,222 1,935 0 1,558 1,354 0
Cash Bond 0 0
263 0
602 212
0 1,876
663 0 0
591 705
0 107 621 1,737
0 339
0 0 0 0 0 0 766 0 0 1,424 0 0 275 0 3,602 0 88 0 281 375 8 0 1,202 377 1,812 1,619 0 105 212 0 800 0 0
Non-Trial 0 0
64 106 1,028
17 0 0
414 0 0
171 214
0 62 26
0 0 11 0 607 0 0 0 0 256 139 0 86 0 0 246 1 22 0 251 0 69 88 0 0 31 10 321 14 0 289 387 0 131 24 0
Bench Trial
Acquitted Convicted
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
88
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
27
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
117
0
0
0
0
25
30
0
0
60
87
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
15
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
46
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
75
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
17
2
19
6
30
0
0
0
0
34
50
0
0
3
10
0
0
0
0
Note: All quarters for all counties not reported
Probate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002 (docket entries)
County Marion McDuffie Meriwether Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pike Polk Pulaski Quitman Rabun Randolph Schley Seminole Stewart Talbot Taliaferro Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Towns Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walton Warren Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Total
Filed 0
1,526 94 0 0 89
3,777 0 0
40 63
0 0 12 75 0 0 0 0 0 66 0 0 0 20 1 0 26 111 0 0 1 0 335 0 0 56 0 0 0 73 25 8,012
MISDEMEANOR Disposed by:
Guilty Plea 0
480 91 0 0 30
3,334 0 8 2
41 0 0 8
50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 0 0
31 95
0 0 2 0 140 0 0 45 0 0 0 25 1 5,448
Cash Bond 0
936 0 0 0
41 346
0 0 36 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 144 0 0 3 0 0 0 60 17 2,577
Non-Trial 0
94 11 0 0 18 97 0 2 13 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 374
Bench Trial
Acquitted Convicted
0
0
4
11
0
1
0
0
0
0
6
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
8
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
33
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
108
Filed 995 4,276 2,188
0 0 4,391 3,777 0 0 1,880 5,468 1,211 0 1,346 4,639 1,070 0 0 1,574 0 857 0 2,406 0 3,529 1,892 0 189 410 2,005 0 550 0 6,369 0 0 806 1,370 8,564 0 1,325 600 136,805
TRAFFIC
Disposed by: Bench Trial
Guilty Plea Cash Bond Non-Trial Acquitted Convicted
237
750
133
0
0
1,288 2,352
219
3
20
2,097
0
41
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
924 3,280
187
46
22
3,334
346
97
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
655 2,675
242
0
0
116 1,289
370
3
8
3,448
486
222
0
153
65
944
17
91
94
0
0
0
0
0
902
523
81
0
0
4,013
5
123
62
52
819
177
74
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,535 1,535
39
39 1,540
0
0
0
0
0
45
803
7
17
16
0 2,000
0
0
0
362 1,959
85
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3,015
31
103
0
17
1,173
0
214
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
343
19
31
3
0
488 1,010
57
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
266
61
17
0
0
696 2,972
203
0
3
3,002 2,117
928
8
69
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
710
39
8
0
0
1,159
18
94
0
7
6,669
392 1,503
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
539
598
65
0
9
53
327
165
0
0
79,891 45,633 10,410
387 2,541
Note: All quarters for all counties not reported
29
Magistrate Courts
Magistrate court jurisdiction includes: civil claims of $15,000 or less; certain minor criminal offenses; distress warrants and dis-
possessory writs; county ordinance violations; deposit
account fraud (bad checks); preliminary hearings; and
summonses, arrest and search warrants. A chief magis-
trate, who may be assisted by one or more magistrates,
presides over each of Georgia's 159 magistrate courts.
Most chief magistrates are elected in partisan, coun-
tywide elections to four-year terms. In some counties,
the chief magistrate is appointed by the superior court
judges. Terms for other magistrate judges run concur-
rently with that of the chief magistrate who appointed
30
them.
Magistrate Court Civil Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County
Filed
Appling
1,260
Atkinson
341
Bacon
472
Baker
0
Baldwin
2,686
Banks
296
Barrow
913
Bartow
1,750
Ben Hill
938
Berrien
595
Bibb
3,841
Bleckley
622
Brantley
496
Brooks
654
Bryan
0
Bulloch
1,511
Burke
729
Butts
143
Calhoun
0
Camden
1,019
Candler
314
Carroll
2,183
Catoosa
791
Charlton
244
Chatham
5,249
Chattahoochee 41
Chattooga
537
Cherokee 1,855
Clarke
1,886
Clay
68
Clayton
2,593
Clinch
241
Cobb
5,095
Coffee
2,171
Colquitt
1,758
Columbia
562
Cook
607
Coweta
1,144
Crawford
285
Crisp
1,271
Dade
230
Dawson
452
Decatur
1,165
DeKalb
5,302
Dodge
838
Dooly
698
Dougherty 4,155
Douglas
1,039
Early
79
Echols
38
Effingham
606
Elbert
615
Emanuel
1,084
Evans
571
Claims Cases Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
1,159
101
72
4
448
24
0
0
1,352
230
268
20
708
205
1,005
378
877
61
377
20
4,026
357
597
25
73
54
626
28
0
0
1,134
377
31
0
0
100
0
0
852
167
42
33
1,697
486
299
142
238
16
3,665
754
14
6
312
49
541
561
732
415
46
9
1,313
290
193
48
3,662
714
1,695
125
0
244
258
157
586
21
709
163
223
28
958
125
100
19
82
132
1,036
129
1,422 1,408
349
50
42
2
2,515
647
910
115
65
14
1
0
350
102
379
45
923
101
518
46
Dispossessories and Distress Warrants
Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
86
71
15
38
7
3
23
18
5
0
0
0
580
393
85
112
110
3
1,085
895
90
1,593 1,297
241
559
529
30
125
100
6
1,611 1,573
251
60
55
5
80
3
11
112
102
10
0
0
0
1,560 1,170
390
181
4
0
131
0
91
0
0
0
751
625
126
68
25
0
1,303
752
551
1,017
756
194
68
58
4
7,241 2,356
766
20
10
7
222
196
21
2,025 1,637
542
1,705
29
295
17
15
2
15,488 13,430
148
33
22
11
3,406 4,014
330
260
240
25
528
0
60
341
84
48
154
145
9
996
939
134
81
71
24
411
357
7
52
21
18
218
30
61
330
323
7
1,193
0
0
66
0
0
44
2
0
5,055 3,537
955
2,159 2,130
124
12
10
2
4
0
0
285
216
56
231
119
23
155
80
65
60
40
13
Filed 92 80 96 0
1,585 62
132 397 602 205 2,069
93 67 27
0 553 243
55 0
258 114 409 157 105 2,154 14 145 267 772 14 418 75 765 932 752 120 116 251 56 542 28 51 393
0 216 332 1,778 152
10 1
124 173 394 235
Garnishments Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
92
0
23
0
96
0
0
0
0
0
62
0
129
3
254
7
585
17
104
0
1,926
21
92
1
16
2
27
0
0
0
549
4
105
0
0
0
0
0
247
11
55
0
408
1
156
1
60
0
1,690
6
9
0
136
1
207
5
0
26
8
0
345
16
75
0
134
37
984
3
0
4
86
0
116
0
93
4
51
1
349
10
14
0
0
0
391
2
0
0
160
18
100
1
1,430
35
78
0
10
0
0
0
0
0
60
1
315
0
132
2
Foreclosures and Attachments Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
33
29
3
11
0
0
7
7
0
0
0
0
78
11
10
20
20
0
264
261
3
141
72
14
18
11
7
8
8
0
138
219
15
8
6
2
35
2
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
68
56
12
97
0
0
9
0
2
0
0
0
38
31
7
19
6
3
104
89
15
64
62
2
57
10
0
58
22
4
31
35
34
1
36
23
3
903
730
33
128
0
13
2
1
1
287
107
7
28
18
0
3,699 3,668
10
49
41
3
108
0
94
13
0
0
9
7
1
49
39
2
22
20
1
105
70
7
0
0
0
10
0
1
100
99
1
5,878
0
0
19
0
0
4
0
0
348
193
42
419
421
2
3
3
0
0
0
0
56
44
8
57
30
2
0
0
0
13
0
0
32
Magistrate Court Civil Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee
Filed 512 709 1,959 1,075 341 7,932 774
0 435 1,044 1,330 562 7,719 188 2,504 542 398 336 784 236 1,340 1,975 384 813 509 815 921 314
70 520 573 130 1,885 702 1,373
0 163 2,626
0 762
0 222 657 228
0 120 1,302 866
0 456 347 2,240 1,730
0
Claims Cases Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
371
78
588
93
1,550
113
341
704
7
3
0 4,770
613
65
0
0
265
170
626
343
662
41
463
118
3,026 4,341
27
12
2,216 1,029
477
65
185
107
166
180
699
53
88
80
902
165
1,660
455
338
46
1003
145
226
31
745
59
846
75
266
13
40
16
254
54
109
32
1
0
1,639
309
458
49
806
184
0
0
13
0
1,560
155
0
0
1215
55
0
0
203
19
566
91
157
23
0
0
51
23
326
76
471
127
0
0
276
73
311
36
437
69
824
183
0
0
Dispossessories and Distress Warrants
Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
94
80
13
919
781
62
2,069 1,988
79
602
56
531
77
0
1
45,197
0 14,796
207
154
49
0
0
0
345
282
63
664
408
192
212
14
2
114
74
19
16,370 11,325 2,906
55
6
8
1,763 1,658
473
25
22
3
341
148
109
89
68
21
181
171
10
98
56
41
2,006
520
71
1,787 1,537
282
97
91
6
637
560
6
97
62
31
139
125
12
114
114
0
19
18
1
12
10
1
128
79
27
205
33
10
44
0
1
533
446
87
411
168
38
1,145
439
110
0
0
0
93
12
0
2,263 1,059
49
0
0
0
176
362
7
0
0
0
19
16
3
473
428
7
46
35
6
0
0
0
28
0
8
314
4
8
187
163
24
0
0
0
138
115
19
145
128
17
239
77
19
1,685 1,049
432
0
0
0
Filed 48
136 594
29 103
0 132
0 0 305 197 163 1,533 50 731 128 69 195 185 29 195 811 114 167 149 257 274 122 13 78 133 19 719 180 288 0 9 1,038 0 195 0 80 319 51 0 32 490 269 0 268 85 636 503 0
Garnishments Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
43
0
120
0
343
21
29
29
0
0
0
0
111
1
0
0
0
0
290
11
4
0
145
3
1,251
23
0
0
191
34
126
2
67
0
63
0
184
1
21
0
34
0
1041
16
112
2
175
0
54
0
257
2
274
0
58
1
6
0
58
0
11
0
0
0
697
22
1
1
101
4
0
0
0
0
597
2
0
0
331
0
0
0
80
0
312
0
35
0
0
0
0
0
137
2
269
0
0
0
85
1
0
0
51
0
192
3
0
0
Foreclosures and Attachments Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
37
36
0
168
0
3
70
69
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
45
0
0
33
21
18
24
1
1
9
8
1
2,224 2,030
138
6
0
0
250
201
15
25
24
1
9
8
1
7
5
2
44
40
4
15
12
4
303
1
0
278
259
39
6
6
1
347
350
46
12
7
4
22
19
4
73
73
0
6
6
0
3
0
2
3
3
0
18
3
0
3
0
0
63
40
23
26
9
3
182
124
54
0
0
0
4
0
0
279
279
0
0
0
0
58
78
4
0
0
0
6
6
0
0
0
0
6
2
0
0
0
0
4
0
2
33
2
4
49
49
0
0
0
0
17
13
3
9
7
2
208
3
0
89
46
15
0
0
0
Magistrate Court Civil Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County
Filed
Oglethorpe 261
Paulding
966
Peach
574
Pickens
623
Pierce
0
Pike
323
Polk
423
Pulaski
409
Putnam
1,185
Quitman
0
Rabun
769
Randolph
377
Richmond 5,369
Rockdale 1,564
Schley
211
Screven
0
Seminole
261
Spalding
1,201
Stephens
0
Stewart
0
Sumter
2,760
Talbot
105
Taliaferro
0
Tattnall
1,511
Taylor
51
Telfair
236
Terrell
430
Thomas
2,467
Tift
1,729
Toombs
0
Towns
134
Treutlen
112
Troup
3,026
Turner
0
Twiggs
332
Union
280
Upson
1,214
Walker
0
Walton
1,155
Ware
1,558
Warren
166
Washington 1,411
Wayne
923
Webster
0
Wheeler
86
White
400
Whitfield
3,112
Wilcox
0
Wilkes
416
Wilkinson
464
Worth
0
Total
156,150
Claims Cases Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
381
25
1,211
124
420
79
430
44
0
0
222
27
0
0
1
0
167
85
0
0
530
106
270
8
3,763 1,195
929
313
126
5
0
0
77
184
1,360
547
0
0
0
0
3,228
80
101
4
0
0
1,430
81
48
3
0
0
0
13
1,828
209
1,566
163
0
0
103
14
84
0
1,975
252
0
0
93
30
108
42
893
174
0
0
770
277
867
145
155
11
1,201
105
322
199
0
0
91
14
363
50
2,641
471
0
0
325
60
451
13
0
0
96,083 29,427
Dispossessories and Distress Warrants
Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
63
39
17
1,077
884
162
169
94
43
231
167
31
0
0
0
96
65
13
120
0
0
61
0
0
162
28
13
0
0
0
56
5
40
56
56
0
5,327 3,951
554
2,414 1,846
668
19
15
2
0
0
0
55
15
40
3,322 3,358
339
0
0
0
0
0
0
658
598
27
19
15
0
0
0
0
48
5
34
10
10
0
27
0
0
107
0
6
617
0
107
992
924
68
0
0
0
49
35
10
17
12
0
2,117 1,764
129
0
0
0
70
44
6
72
13
13
365
312
17
0
0
0
1,598 1,258
178
566
474
75
56
15
1
113
80
10
234
144
38
0
0
0
30
9
1
247
230
15
1,444 1,207
237
0
0
0
47
47
0
31
31
0
0
0
0
159,701 81,476 29,384
Filed 20 70
831 49 0 46 50 98
424 0
307 89
1,857 325 63 0 36 424 0 0 831 2 0 58 9 75 108 785
1,021 0
16 17 1,222
0 51 47 356
0 266 712
46 450 336
0 65 69 2,072
0 86 126
0 44,385
Garnishments Disposed by:
Non-Trial Trial
10
0
59
0
133
4
8
0
0
0
37
0
0
0
0
0
93
1
0
0
225
0
89
0
1,005
10
314
2
12
0
0
0
36
0
358
7
0
0
0
0
447
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
9
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1,009
12
0
0
8
0
10
0
603
7
0
0
16
0
27
1
320
2
0
0
241
0
513
52
0
0
273
0
206
7
0
0
65
0
73
0
2,054
18
0
0
86
0
126
0
0
0
28,416
544
Foreclosures and Attachments Disposed by:
Filed Non-Trial Trial
20
9
6
133
118
3
38
22
5
12
10
1
0
0
0
18
11
3
11
0
0
7
0
0
28
11
0
0
0
0
9
2
1
4
4
0
230
30
0
51
16
26
3
3
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
117
54
9
0
0
0
0
0
0
106
68
4
5
3
0
0
0
0
127
89
25
1
1
0
11
0
0
31
0
0
0
0
0
93
18
75
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
2
0
162
112
9
0
0
0
10
5
0
12
5
3
13
11
1
0
0
0
75
67
3
140
45
6
0
0
0
58
17
6
42
32
4
0
0
0
6
1
0
43
44
2
23
21
2
0
0
0
3
3
0
6
6
0
0
0
0
20,389 11,152
925
Note: All quarters for all counties not reported
33
34
Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans
Felony Arrest
386 327 474
0 1,149
237 1,376 2,297
609 510 2,234 370 410 271
0 1,983
488 165
0 939 183 1,500 1,029 286 668
28 364 2,049 1,806
57 3,490
185 6,777
851 626 466 409 1,274 194 862 253 391 619 7,699 262 319 2,120 2,060
97 58 454 539 426 98
Warrants Issued
Misdemeanor Arrest
Good Behavior
336 83
336 0
1,402 383
2,186 3,528
845 602 1,901 218 240 328
0 1,983 1,023
86 0
677 298 1,379 2,001 188 2,203
54 985 2,226 3,548
54 9,868
155 6,723
473 919 443 583 891 103 582 613 544 751 11,834 1075 129 3,888 2,635
86 62 1,418 1046 262 102
34 3
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
32 0 4 0 0
24 0 0 0 2 1
40 1 3
1,137 1
21 60 93
0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 13 0 1 6 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 0 0 0 18
Search Warrant
11 7 50 0 38 13 49 174 31 22 232 23 13 15 0 43 41 9 0 61 6 85 20 17 1 5 21 270 172 0 212 9 664 37 39 52 21 45 9 42 3 31 50 531 8 15 197 44 1 3 55 72 49 15
Warrant Application
321 70 89 0 0 26 98
181 42 52
555 40 0
180 0
125 0
39 0
13 37 329 4,361 60 944 25
0 399 728
0 1,593
124 496
0 0 127 124 196 75 23 0 173 0 14,879 47 14 2,115 98 0 6 200 62 468 82
Hearings
First Appearance/Bond
Commitment
459 135
61 0 0
102 1,807 2,233
812 0
2,766 326 259 545 0 540 192 246 0
1,285 239
2,848 1,282
403 0
49 293 1,698 6,437
47 6,718
214 10,159
964 1,414
67 294 952 178 1,058
0 426 306 13,315
0 222 5,633 2,684
22 39 257 510 476 98
37 1 1 0
51 8
197 476
0 0 805 21 11 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 347 175 2 1,137 50 192 44 334 0 2,703 0 5,030 29 707 35 0 274 2 1 0 73 0 11,090 0 16 315 623 0 0 0 0 11 0
Good Behavior
0 1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 4 0 0 24 0 0 0 2 3 139 1 1 1,013 1 21 0 30 0 0 3 737 0 209 0 0 0 11 13 0 1 6 0 0 0 71 0 0 4 17 0 0 18
Filed
7 0 0 0 0 4 351 725 0 0 0 0 373 4 0 170 449 84 0 65 0 391 478 49 0 41 0 454 0 0 1,393 0 4,842 6 7 283 1 199 0 21 0 11 531 349 0 0 307 221 0 16 364 51 149 84
Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
Ordinance Violations
Misdemeanors
Total Criminal & Civil
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Filed
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Warrants and Filings
Hearings and Dispositions
4
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
61
290
12
655
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
28
57
0
4
0
0
0
170
441
21
0
32
0
0
0
65
0
0
289
102
396
82
31
0
0
0
24
14
0
0
219
168
0
0
0
0
1,262
241
0
0
2,173
394
0
6
0
0
72
397
1
0
62
198
0
0
11
2
0
0
0
6
420
36
0
87
0
0
0
0
77
104
206
15
0
0
8
4
229
117
22
43
89
58
16
68
658 217
0 0 1,353 0 0 849 566 0 1,660 297 238 0 0 0 61 0 0 1,314 0 597 471 111 610 0 482 1,090 1,364 0 0 104 1,141 1,593 554 172 0 651 113 1,033 167 0 197 649 536 215 1,413 0 0 0 1,418 0 302 128
231 89 0 0 0 0 0
187 123
0 1,141
123 19 0 0 0 25 0 0
1,110 0
519 380
81 1,064
8 228 435 789
0 0 104 0 547 0 117 0 585 79 644 132 0 193 0 275 0 1,527 0 0 0 0 0 253 10
343
2,903
2,868
26
1,107
431
0
1,468
759
0
0
0
197
8,871
2,329
0
1,127
626
0
6,356
4,747
38
11,454
7,050
1
4,168
3,095
0
2,070
667
0
13,718
13,687
174
1,691
1,467
43
1,956
587
0
1,411
1,531
0
0
0
0
7,895
4,551
0
3,312
819
0
682
510
0
0
0
204
5,124
4,745
0
1,003
443
61
7,991
8,633
91
6,029
8,380
0
1,128
964
28
19,321
13,449
2
239
254
167
2,813
1,642
126
11,199
7,345
18
11,474
9,846
0
212
129
0
33,749
28,173
0
833
812
0
33,112
31,558
677
6,372
5,339
0
5,291
2,732
25
2,452
1,473
0
1,900
1,304
267
5,501
4,617
10
873
774
5
4,882
3,640
0
1,346
304
0
1,709
985
0
4,142
2,949
444
33,435
42,645
331
3,020
1,230
0
1756
399
0
19,280
19,196
0
8,729
7,406
0
288
126
0
186
62
0
4,780
1,596
0
2,784
1,296
2
2,821
2,841
18
1,324
1,061
County
Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Echols Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans
35
Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County
Felony Arrest
36
Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee
485 1,176
740 1,073
250 13,938
532 0
479 1,354
463 438 6,673 181 1,998
4 523 184 376 252 1,068 2,543 117 1,107 170 347 357 302
58 331 476
71 1,174
488 1,560
0 158 2,843 437 245
0 64 398 149
0 104 463 299
0 340 122
0 1,029
0
Warrants Issued
Misdemeanor Arrest
Good Behavior
491
0
1,265
1
1,221
4
1,238
5
172
0
0
0
678
0
0
0
724
223
1,312
0
699
2
391
32
8,030
0
141
0
1,875
79
16
4
432
106
620
31
106
0
258
4
1,343
0
3,669
1
181
0
1,569
0
299
0
174
9
299
0
252
0
65
18
297
10
187
1
65
3
1,475
6
325
11
1,935
9
0
0
232
0
4,490
0
424
2
394
5
0
0
91
0
910
0
131
0
0
0
161
0
698
1
417
11
0
0
217
33
237
0
0
0
2,455
0
0
0
Search Warrant
22 53 102 68 12 260 42
0 18 65 72 14 446
2 260
0 39
9 40 16 48 131 10 87 25 12
7 15
1 44 37
7 35 16 76
0 7 154 34 8 0 5 16 11 0 0 57 23 0 11 11 0 40 0
Warrant Application
84 188 943 421
55 0
156 0 0
281 76 21
437 63
1,107 0
159 142
0 79 1,380 502 52 68 85 159 79
9 15 96 101
9 484 101 293
0 8 1 54 65 0 23 8 13 0 17 54 156 0 162 37 0 869 0
Hearings
First Appearance/Bond
Commitment
243 1,871 1,838 1,500
234 26,284
286 0
108 645 592 641 4,500 152 9,358
16 275 217 409 158 1,985 2,997 223 1,457 144 424 323
30 12 79 631 65 2,649 520 1,697
0 158 5,558 584 249
0 148
14 93
0 77 368 319
0 286 281
0 660
0
5 169
69 25
0 0 0 0 215 29 1 321 7,241 36 1,530 3 0 324 127 3 642 501 0 334 3 9 0 0 1 24 26 1 19 98 0 0 0 26 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 92 0 426 0 0 211 0
Good Behavior
0 1 29 5 0 0 0 0 220 0 2 14 3,018 0 79 4 82 31 0 0 394 1 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 10 0 1 10 28 8 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 29 0 0 0 0
Filed
2 0 1,093 173 11 50,863 6 0 114 364 440 5 0 1 994 0 113 12 36 135 508 0 12 60 487 0 278 99 27 0 5 104 666 145 25 0 76 65 17 1 0 0 48 0 0 0 44 56 0 75 81 0 261 0
Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
Ordinance Violations
Misdemeanors
Total Criminal & Civil
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Filed
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Warrants and Filings
Hearings and Dispositions
2
0
0
0
906
97
28
144
1
0
0
38,153
6
0
0
0
5
109
290
69
232
48
1
0
0
0
0
1
451
157
0
0
36
64
2
32
18
17
85
7
358
81
0
0
6
6
21
19
226
102
0
0
0
278
76
23
17
2
0
0
0
1
1
1
449
217
181
28
18
4
0
0
0
0
0
65
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
23
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
19
22
42
14
0
0
55
10
66
15
0
0
202
118
0
0
398 214 1,417
0 216
0 320
0 416 619 231
38 893 250 741
24 255 147 251
56 444 419
0 0 112 437 181 0 3 0 204 49 727 727 0 0 232 1,640 142 0 0 0 113 0 0 0 888 0 0 112 237 0 1491 0
229 468 1,099
0 85
0 122
0 184 521
0 41 550 92 516 24 106 75 112 60 415 1,048
0 0 21 74 0 0 0 0 25 1 446 160 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 243 0 0 42 148 0 693 0
3
2,089
1,187
2
4,641
4,346
118
9,269
9,262
0
4,263
3,813
0
1,188
386
0
118,190
84,003
0
2,692
1,564
0
0
0
232
2,799
1,853
76
5,760
3,820
0
3,670
1,676
1
1,766
1,871
21
43,888
40,807
47
874
444
52
11,195
19,067
0
768
767
0
2,285
1,347
66
1,630
1,394
20
2,003
1,865
9
1,099
703
1
7,255
6,949
9
11,614
10,347
0
921
889
0
4,787
4,184
0
1,860
996
267
2,212
2,165
181
2,504
2,243
0
1,129
501
2
270
127
0
1,411
684
1
1,839
983
0
495
81
281
7,283
7,818
18
3,031
1,861
0
6,593
3,842
0
0
0
0
974
191
0
15,398
9,426
0
1,056
713
0
1,844
2,367
0
0
0
0
487
498
0
2,934
1,462
0
622
364
0
0
0
0
449
178
11
4,290
1,277
0
2,177
1,728
0
0
0
0
1,667
1,595
89
1,274
1,137
0
3,323
656
51
9,283
5,548
0
0
0
County
Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glascock Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee
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Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
County
Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tatnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Total
Felony Arrest
307 913
84 380
0 186
41 201 406
0 0 120 4,325 1,237 14 0 0 2,598 0 0 754 4 0 412 14 274 305 982 897 0 161 71 1,965 0 143 228 685 185 1,930 1,541 11 586 777 0 170 478 1,669 0 47 169 0 125,933
Warrants Issued
Misdemeanor Arrest
Good Behavior
194 1587
127 618
0 191
43 119 684
0 0 140 8,390 1,798 61 0 0 5,156 0 0 1,562 39 0 308 66 73 246 1,787 748 0 229 110 1,648 0 189 279 435 192 2,378 1,677 112 942 1217 0 106 580 1,996 0 85 193 0 153,244
10 0
18 0 0
20 0 0 1 0
22 0 0
49 0 0 0
61 0 0 0 4 0 0 11 0 0 1 0 0 8
17 0 0
17 0 8 0
59 80
0 0 1 0 0 19 4 0 0 0 0 2,565
Search Warrant
14 29 32 50
0 15
0 5 22 0 0 12 33 43 2 0 1 130 0 0 37 2 0 12 2 0 4 79 54 0 5 0 75 0 16 20 65 9 54 68 6 46 22 0 0 40 60 0 5 12 0 7,182
Warrant Application
67 24 89 51
0 89 132 15 71
0 0 0 925 369 40 0 0 368 0 0 3 46 0 68 6 34 3 324 280 0 38 16 138 0 147 36 97 67 233 503 22 90 321 0 0 114 645 0 0 77 0 44,276
Hearings
First Appearance/Bond
Commitment
442 265 288 256
0 228
0 229 323
0 0 185 1,452 1,772 59 0 155 4,780 0 0 2,105 31 0 363 4 279 411 1,480 929 0 116 0 1,762 0 238 307 721 637 700 2,028 0 423 259 0 0 345 2,386 0 56 69 0 168,511
7 0 41 0 0 13 0 0 13 0 0 135 952 832 59 0 0 2,033 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 521 0 70 5 188 0 607 64 0 24 3 0 0 95 11 0 0 0 0 43,066
Good Behavior
3 0 19 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 22 0 0 95 0 0 0 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 0 0 6 4 0 0 17 1 1 0 13 68 0 0 1 0 0 31 6 0 0 0 0 6,751
Filed
157 136
10 0 0
48 97
6 34
0 64
0 3,161
428 13 0 35
312 0 0
55 0 0 3 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0
113 0
51 78 327 15 188 78 32
0 47
0 22 11 234
0 42
4 0 75,792
Magistrate Court Criminal Caseload for Calendar Year 2002
Ordinance Violations
Misdemeanors
Total Criminal & Civil
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Filed
Disposed by:
Non-Trial
Trial
Warrants and Filings
Hearings and Dispositions
21 130
7 0 0 26 0 0 1 0 18 0 2,649 394 12 0 23 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42 0 13 22 237 11 134 53 31 0 28 0 12 3 145 0 42 0 0 14,085
135 0
10 0 0
12 29
0 33
0 24
0 295
49 1 0
12 314
0 0 25 0 0 1 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 67 0 36 10 113 9 46 28 0 0 17 0 0 7 89 0 30 4 0 44,762
32 580 230 478
0 73
0 0 0 0 157 100 255 903 0 0 90 1,607 0 0 0 0 0 460 0 185 122 1,770 0 0 0 24 283 0 78 132 557 62 1,051 1,500 31 226 133 0 0 480 562 0 0 0 0 49,129
2 228 149 284
0 55
0 0 0 0 50 57 173 760 0 0 90 702 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 735 0 0 7 6 40 0 36 27 349 0 493 747 0 164 115 0 0 303 497 0 0 0 0 24,762
32 0
55 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
107 34 1 51 0 0 0
829 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
48 121
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 56 8 0 46 0 0 0 32 65 0 0 0 0 6,348
1,078 5,491 2,113 2,441
0 1,016
785 906 2,946
0 1,384
898 28,947
8,812 386 0 480
14,928 0 0
6,763 180 0
2,939 164 881
1,360 8,490 5534
0 602 372 10,611
0 957 1,148 4,025 933 8,754 7,920 460 3,832 3,732
0 585 2,367 11,176
0 731 1005
0 794,470
1,196 3,208 1,458 1,282
0 808 161 245 842
0 1,130
838 16,955
8,317 334 0 634
15,144 0 0
6,631 202 0
2,096 96
313 488 4,807 5044
0 339 134 7,421
0 751 621 3,441 1,032 5,076 5,676 235 2,439 1,696
0 193 1,707 10,495
0 649 777
0 629,968
County
Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tatnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Total
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Municipal Courts
Approximately 400 local courts are also part of the Georgia court system. These special courts and courts serving incorporated municipalities operate under various names with varying jurisdictions.
Courts of incorporated municipalities try municipal ordinance violations, issue criminal warrants, conduct preliminary hearings, and may have concurrent jurisdiction over shoplifting cases and cases involving possession of one ounce or less of marijuana.
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Municipal Court Caseload for Calendar Year 2002*
Number
Sessions
Traffic
Prehearings
Ordinance
Other
City
of Judges
Per Month
Albany
2
400
44,000
0
0
0
Americus
1
4
3,000
0
2,000
0
Ashburn
1
2
750
0
10
0
Baconton
1
n/a
0
0
0
0
Ballground
1
1
0
0
0
0
Baxley
1
2
1,200
0
500
300
Berkeley Lake
4
5
7,500
0
106
0
Berlin
1
2
500
0
26
0
Blakely
1
2
50
0
4
0
Bowdon
1
1
150
0
30
0
Bremen
1
1
1,800
0
60
0
Broxton
1
1
540
0
96
0
Brunswick
1
4
4,000
0
400
0
Buena Vista
1
1
482
0
93
0
Buford
4
5
7,500
0
106
0
Camilla
1
2
2,000
0
400
0
Canton
1
2
Cave Spring
1
15
14,503
0
930
0
Cedartown
1
2
700
0
0
250
Centerville
1
2
1,200
0
20
0
Chamblee
2
3
5,000-7,000
0
300-500
0
Cochran
1
30
0
0
10
Collins
1
1
375
0
77
0
Comer
1
1
15
0
1
0
Commerce
1
2
3,081
0
67
0
41
Concord
1
20
240
0
5
0
Conyers
1
5
6,000
0
0
0
Covington
1
1,960
0
115
285
Cumming
1
2
1,000
0
30
70
Dallas
1
1
500
50
60
0
Dalton
1
15-20
23,606
0
3235
0
Darien
1
12
300
0
5
0
Doerun
1
2
500
0
26
0
Dublin
1
1
2,985
0
815
796
Duluth
4
5
8,389
0
0
0
Eastman
1
1
600
0
100
0
Eatonton
1
1
600
0
50
0
Elberton
1
2
1,360
0
632
154
Ellijay
1
**
320
0
22
0
Fayetteville
1
4
Fitzgerald
1
2
1,000
0
50
0
Folkston
1
1
60
0
15
0
Fort Oglethorpe
2
2
3,100
0
1100
0
Georgetown
1
1
200
0
5
0
Griffin
1
1
0
0
200
0
Grovetown
1
2
1,017
0
126
0
Hamilton
1
1
150
0
10
0
Hawkinsville
1
30
0
0
10
Hazelhurst
1
2
Hiawassee
1
1
31
0
0
0
Hiram
1
1
495
10
140
0
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City
Holly Springs Homeland Jasper Jeffersonville Jesup Jonesboro LaFayette Lakeland Leary Leesburg Lincolnton Locust Grove Loganville Ludowici Lumber City Madison Marshallville McDonough McRae Milan Molena Moultrie Mount Vernon Mountain Park Nelson Newington Newnan Newton Norcross Norman Park Ocilla Oliver Peachtree City Pearson Pelham Perry Porterdale Reidsville Richmond Hill Ringgold Rochelle Rocky Ford Rome Rutledge Sandersville Smithville Smyrna Snellville Social Circle Sparta Springfield
Municipal Court Caseload for Calendar Year 2002*
Number of Judges
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 1
Sessions Per Month
2 ***
2 1 2 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 2
4 1 1 20 4 1 1 1 *** 4 1 4-5 2 2 *** 4 1 2 2 815 1 100 2-3 2 0 1 1 2 1 10 4 1 1 2
Traffic
1,200 213 700
2,985 2,682 5,200 1,317
48 500 800 170 2,247 3,800 1,275 400
150 6,600
758 400 240 1,200 100
10 200 146 4,327 400 4,000-5,000 500 647 146
720 1,700 3,723
0 375 2,900 600-800 108
0 50-100
75 1,692
290 18,000 10,500
600 25
2,403
Prehearings
0 0 0 0 0 0 n/a 0 0 65 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 36 0 2 0 600 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 160 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30-40 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ordinance
25 4 2
815 298 200 124
24 15 20 30
0 24 100 10 100 60 300 109 10
5 0 25 30 20 5 174 15 500 26 67 5
120 400 436
72 77 100 20-30
3 0 10 1 20-30 14 0 500 25 2 3
Other
0 0 0 796 0 0 n/a 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 200 0 30 98 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 9
0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82 0 0 0 1 0
Municipal Court Caseload for Calendar Year 2002*
City
Stapleton Stockbridge Stone Mountain Sugar Hill Summerville Suwanee Sylvania Thomson Tifton Trenton Tunnel Hill Twin City Ty Ty Tyrone Varnell Vidalia Walnut Grove White White Plains Willacoochee Woodville
Number of Judges
1 1 3 4 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Sessions Per Month
1 4 8 5 2 5 + 1
2 2 1 0 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Traffic
30 6,600
0 8,389 1,136 8,389
900 550 4,800 210 1,385 611
0 1,250
30 1,200
120 360 120 710 120
Prehearings
0 36 100
0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ordinance
10 300
0 0 384 0 60 4 40 42 25 67 0 40 1 120 3 25 0 120 0
Athens-Clarke
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DeKalb Recorder's Court 19
20
25,000
137,687
0
400
0
0
Other
0 30
0 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 120 0 0 0 0 0
0 19314
*Data is shown for those cities whose caseload information was sent to the AOC. **Court meets every 3 weeks *** Court meets once every other month + Court meets every 2months Court meets 6 days a week
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Serving the Courts
Judicial Council of Georgia
The Judicial Council is the state-level judicial agency charged with developing policies for administering and improving the courts. The
state legislature created the Judicial Council in 1973;
in 1978 the council officially became an administrative
arm of the Supreme Court of Georgia. The council
considers requests for new judgeships and oversees the
activities of the Administrative Office of the Courts
and the Board of Court Reporting.
Twenty-four representatives of the appellate and trial
courts make up the Judicial Council. The chief justice
and presiding justice of the Supreme Court act as the
chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively. The
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chief judge and another judge of the Court of Appeals;
the presidents and presidents-elect of the superior,
state, juvenile, probate and magistrate court councils;
and the 10 superior court district administrative judges
complete council membership.
Members of the Judicial Council met on August 29,
2002, to discuss issues such as recommendations for
judgeships, budget concerns, and other matters. The
Council's December 4, 2002, meeting involved legisla-
tive agendas and budget requests for the upcoming
General Assembly session. The last meeting of FY
2003 was held on June 11, 2003, where budget matters
were discussed.
Serving the Courts
Judgeships -- On July 1, 2002, the Paulding Judicial
Circuit, created by the General Assembly, began opera-
tion. The new circuit, made up of Paulding County,
leaves the Tallapoosa Circuit with two counties:
Haralson and Polk. Each of these circuits is assigned
two superior court judgeships. Also on July 1, the
Alcovy Circuit gained a fourth superior court judgeship
per legislation passed during the 2002 session of the
General Assembly.
The Judicial Council approved recommendation of
new judgeships in the Gwinnett and Cherokee Judicial
Circuits at its meeting on August 29, 2002. The
Council's recommendation was forwarded to the gover-
nor and the legislature for consideration during the
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2003 session. However, the enabling legislation failed
and no new superior court judgeships were created.
Serving the Courts
Administrative Office of the Courts
The Administrative Office of the Courts provides support services to judges and other court personnel in each class of court: appel-
late, superior, state, juvenile, probate, magistrate and
municipal. The agency documents caseload informa-
tion annually for the courts, provides information tech-
nology support, promotes the work of judges' councils,
coordinates annual judicial branch appropriations
requests, and assists with funding for drug courts and
similar efforts. Publications produced by the AOC keep
the judiciary and the public up-to-date on activities
and issues affecting court administration. The AOC
operates under the direction of the Judicial Council of
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Georgia, a policy-making body chaired by the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. The office is a
liaison to other state and national judicial agencies.
Serving the Courts
Commission on Indigent Defense -- The commission presented its final report to the Supreme Court on December 12, 2002. The report recommends that the state assume full responsibility for providing legal representation to indigents. A new public defender system, based in the 49 judicial circuits, would be administered by a board representative of all areas of the state and made up of people with expertise in the area of indigent defense. The board would establish and enforce caseload standards for operation of local indigent defense programs.
Georgia Public Defender Standards Council -- The
Georgia General Assembly passed a bill creating a new
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statewide public defender system during the 2003 leg-
islative session. Governor Perdue signed the measure
into law on May 22, 2003. The new system, supported
by the Chief Justice, is similar to the recommendations
made by the Commission on Indigent Defense. A cir-
cuit public defender will be hired in each of the 49
judicial circuits to be funded by the General Assembly.
Details of the funding mechanism are still to be deter-
mined by the legislature.
Judicial Appointments and Elections
July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003
Superior Courts: Appointments Judge M. Gino Brogdon, Sr., Atlanta Circuit, 7/09/02 Judge Horace Johnson, Alcovy Circuit, 9/03/02 Judge Tonny S. Beavers, Paulding Circuit, 9/12/02 Judge Joseph H. Booth, Piedmont Circuit, 1/01/03 Judge Tommy Hankinson, Griffin Circuit, 1/01/0 Judge Roxann Gray Daniel, Chattahoochee Circuit, 1/03/03
Superior Courts: Elected Judge Steve Boswell, Clayton Circuit, 1/01/03 Judge Tommy Wilson, Towaliga Circuit, 1/01/03 Judge David Sweat, Western Circuit, 1/01/03
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State Courts: Appointments Judge Diane E. Bessen, Fulton County, 7/19/02 Judge John Holland, Turner County, 10/00/02 Judge E. Preston Johnson, Appling County, 1/01/03 Judge Kathryn Tanksley, Cobb County, 1/01/03 Judge Janis Gordon, DeKalb County, 1/01/03 Judge Ronald Thompson, Effingham County, 1/01/03 Judge Philip C. Smith, Forsyth County, 1/01/03 Judge John Bass, Grady County, 1/01/03 Judge Troy Chafin, Henry County, 1/01/03
List of Illustrations
Cover Turner County Courthouse; Oglethorpe County Courthouse; Wilkes County Courthouse; Bacon County Courthouse; and Murray County Courthouse
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Atkinson County Courthouse; Dooly County Courthouse;
Ware County Courthouse; Pike County Courthouse; and
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White County Courthouse.
Page 44 Lincoln County Courthouse; Jones County Courthouse; Tattnall County Courthouse; Stewart County Courthouse; and Evans County Courthouse.
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