State v. Wooten

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit convicted Kenneth R. Wooten in April 1997 of four counts of child molestation. The Court of Appeals for the State of Georgia reversed his conviction based on our decision in Cuzzort v. State1 that the system for *530assigning cases in that circuit violated state law.2 We granted the writ of certiorari to consider whether Wooten’s conviction should be reversed because the district attorney called the case for trial and assigned it to a judge. Because we hold that the case assignment system is not unconstitutional and it is…