Freeman v. Brandau

Phipps, Judge.

On March 11, 2005, Julie Ann Brandau was fatally shot while working as a court reporter in the courtroom of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes. Gertrude Brandau, as executrix of the estate of Julie Ann Brandau, and Christina E. Scholte, individually as the daughter of Julie Ann Brandau and as her sole surviving heir at law (collectively, the Brandau plaintiffs), sued Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman and eight employees of the sheriffs department, alleging that their negligence had allowed an inmate to escape custody, obtain a gun, enter Judge Barnes’s courtroom…