In re Gwinnett County Grand Jury Proceedings

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

This action was brought by Randolph Simpson, the Gwinnett County Coroner, to expunge a paragraph of the General Presentments of the March Term, 1985, Gwinnett County Grand Jury. The grand jury’s General Presentments were divided into reports from thirteen different committees, investigating thirteen departments of the county. The committee report on the Coroner’s Office recommended the “establishment of a Code of Ethics for elected County Officials, to insure that when an elected official’s conduct is improper, that there is a method and procedure for reprimand.”…