Thursday Superior Court Judge Michael Clark ordered Barton Corbin to be present for an arraignment January 31st to formally enter a plea in the death of his wife, Jennifer Corbin, whose body was found December fourth at their home in Buford.
Corbin also has been ordered to be at a hearing next Friday that will address the decision by Superior Court Judge Melodie Snell Conner to step down from the case. The judge did NOT give a reason for her decision.
But in court papers Wednesday, Conner said she voluntarily recused herself because she took evidence on the case and granted an investigative warrant before a grand jury indicted Corbin on January fifth.
Corbin has been jailed in Augusta since December 22nd when he was charged in the 1990 death of a former dental school girlfriend, Dolly Hearn.
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