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Public Integrity Lawyers Overseeing Drug Case Against Ga. Judge
By Leah Nylen | October 6, 2010 11:39 am

Two lawyers from the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section are handling the case against Georgia federal judge Jack T. Camp.

Camp, the former chief judge of the Northern District of Georgia who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan, was arrested last weekend on federal gun and drug charges. He allegedly sought to buy drugs for a stripper who was an FBI informant.

Deborah Sue Mayer and Tracee Joy Plowell from the Public Integrity Section are overseeing the case for the government. Mayer, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, has also worked on the probe of Nevada Republican Sen. Jon Ensign. Plowell previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Tennessee and in the Executive Office of United States Attorneys.

The judge’s former position has complicated the case. Chief Justice John Roberts appointed a Maryland federal judge, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, to oversee the trial after all the judges in the district recused themselves, according to the Fulton County Daily Report.

Camp is represented by William A. Morrison of Jones, Morrison and Womack PC.

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