The former Georgia prosecutor indicted on misconduct charges for using her position to help the men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death was booked into jail on Wednesday, Sept. 8, then released.
Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson was released on her own recognizance and did not have to pay bond after her turning herself in to the Glynn County jail in the morning.
Johnson, 49, was indicted by a Glynn County grand jury on Sept. 2 on a felony count of violating her oath of office and on a misdemeanor count of hindering a law enforcement office.
IMHO, certain professions should face tougher sentences. Prosecutors are definitely ones I would put into that. I also put my old profession of teacher there as well. This would only be for crimes directly related to the jobs.