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Assistant Solicitor General

This position is responsible for prosecuting criminal cases occurring in the city. An incumbent in this position may be designated "Senior Assistant Solicitor General."

Responsibilities include:

• Preparing and trying misdemeanor criminal cases in state court; serving as lead counsel for the state.
• Reviewing misdemeanor criminal cases bound over to State Court to assess the proper criminal charge if any and to determine what sentence recommendation to make; interviewing witnesses as necessary.
• Docketing cases with not guilty pleas to the trial docket; sending trial notices and other discovery and motions to defense attorneys or defendants.
• Giving legal advice and providing training for police officers, etc. regarding Georgia criminal law and procedures; training law enforcement recruits in the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases.
• Prosecuting criminal cases; negotiating pleas by reviewing charges, police reports, and criminal records.
• Preparing and making recommendations for arraignment dockets and jail plea dockets.
• Preparing written reports, motions, briefs, orders, letters, and other documents.
• Interpreting and communicating complicated policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Reading, analyzing, and interpreting Georgia statutes and regulations; researching legal issues; gathering, analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence and other information.
• Arraigning criminal defendants and negotiating open cases with defendants; negotiating cases with the Public Defender's office.
• Participating in training to stay current in criminal law.
• Appearing at arraignments to facilitate the movement of cases; sending trial notices, subpoenas, and discovery; preparing pre-trial motions.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities required include:

• Knowledge of alternative sentencing practices.
• Knowledge of procedural law.
• Knowledge of Georgia criminal statutes, laws of criminal procedure, and laws of evidence.
• Skill in negotiating plea bargains and explaining the law and procedures to victims of crimes and witnesses.
• Skill in problem solving, organization, writing, and research.
• Skill in anticipating defense objections and pre-trial issues.
• Skill in the operation of computers and various software and standard office equipment.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.

Minimum educational and training requirements include:

A law degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association is required. Experience sufficient to thoroughly understand the work of subordinate positions and to be able to answer questions and resolve problems, usually associated with one to three years' experience or service. Must be an active member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Physical requirements include:

• Balancing maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Crouching bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
• Pushing use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
• Reaching extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.