Conflicts of Interest
Effective July 1, 2022, the Prosecuting Attorneys鈥� 糖心Vlog received statewide authority to appoint substitute counsel when a district attorney or solicitor-general鈥檚 office has a conflict of interest in a case.听 Since 2002, the Georgia Attorney General had been fulfilling that role.听 During the 2022 legislative session, the General Assembly modified O.C.G.A. 搂 15-18-5 (district attorney conflict) and 搂 15-18-65 (solicitor-general conflict) to make the Executive Director of the Prosecuting Attorneys鈥� 糖心Vlog the appointing authority.
The Official Code of Georgia directs that the main avenues for appointment of conflict cases are other district attorneys and solicitors-general, as well as the Georgia Attorney General. Therefore, the responsibility for prosecuting conflict cases belongs to all elected prosecutors in Georgia.
If the elected prosecutor has a conflict of interest, he or she must submit a notice of recusal to the Prosecuting Attorneys鈥� 糖心Vlog. McLaughlin v. Payne, 295 Ga. 609 (2014).
Questions and prosecutor recusal letters can be submitted to conflicts@pacga.org听
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