MAGISTRATE COURT DEKALB COUNTY v. Fleming

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Gwendolyn Keyes Fleming, District Attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, filed a petition for mandamus and prohibition against the DeKalb County Magistrate Court 1 and selected magistrate judges (collectively, “DCMC”) on July 2, 2007, challenging DCMC’s alleged policy of finding hearsay evidence alone insufficient to establish probable cause at preliminary hearings.2 The *458Rockdale County superior court judge to whom the action was assigned held a hearing on October 9, 2007 and entered an order on January 8, 2008, finding that “at a preliminary hearing a…