Hicks v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Pursuant to our grant of an interlocutory appeal, Brett Ferrell Hicks appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to enforce the assignment of his case to the superior court judge to which the case was assigned originally. Stated directly, Hicks attacks the practice in Cobb County of assigning cases brought by the Marietta, Smyrna, Cobb Drug Task Force (“MCS”), regardless of the case assignment to a particular Cobb Superior Court Judge under Uniform Superior Court Rule 3.1, to the Chief Judge of the Cobb Magistrate Court (“the Chief Magistrate”) for disposition.…