McLAUGHLIN v. PAYNE

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• distinguishing between absolute disqualification of elected district attorney and disqualification of elected district attorney from serving as an advocate at trial because he was appearing as a witness
• noting the “conflict inherent in counsel’s dual role as advocate and witness”; that “an attorney [would] act as both witness and advocate is a circumstance to be avoided”
• distinguishing between absolute disqualification of elected district attorney and disqualification of elected district attorney from serving as an advocate at trial because he was appearing as a witness
• affirming grant of habeas relief where the district attorney had testified as a fact witness in the criminal trial after identifying himself as the district attorney and the examining prosecuting attorney as his assistant
• “Under our State Constitution, ‘[i]t shall be the duty of the district attorney to rep- resent the state in all criminal cases in the superior court of such district attorney’s circuit[.]’ ”
• “Under our State Constitution, ‘[i]t shall be the duty of the district attorney to represent the state in all criminal cases in the superior court of such district attorney’s circuit. . . .’” (quoting Ga. Const. of 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VIII, Par. I (d)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).