(The Center Square) – Decatur, Georgia, police visited the home of Municipal Court Chief Judge Rhathelia Stroud on the same day a disputed will is dated that gave her control over her dying brother’s estate, but the department says no bodycam footage of the visit exists.
Department policy says officers must activate their body-worn cameras on “all calls for service.” A family member challenging the will’s validity, claiming “forgery,” says any footage showing the state of her father on his deathbed that day would be vital to her case in DeKalb County Probate Court.
“That would be proof in and of itself right there,” the judge’s niece, Gemina Stroud, told The Center Square. “You would be able to see his frail face. You would be able to see how he was on that Friday … I just don’t think he was of a sound mind.”…