March 18, 1998

Chief Judge Marvin W. Sorrells

Alcovy Judicial Circuit

Post Office Box 805

Monroe, Georgia 30655-0805

RE:	A98A0637 . In the Interest of D.M.C. , a child

Dear Judge Sorrells :

Enclosed please find the opinion in the above matter you sent to me. I have had the opinion conformed to the format and style used by this Court and required by the reporter's office. Please review the opinion and make any changes you deem appropriate and return it to me. If you are satisfied with the opinion as it is, please initial the concur column and circulate it to Chief Judges James and McWhorter for them to concur or dissent. Each should initial the appropriate column.

Additionally, please notice a publish or not publish block. As the author, if you wish the opinion published, please initial publish. If you do not wish the opinion published and the other two judges on the panel wish it published, they should initial publish and it will be published.

Finally, on page 7 of the opinion you have left blank a space before months. Please let me know what word or words you want placed in that blank. I am assuming it will be a time frame that is consistent with when the opinion is released. Let us assume the opinion will be issued on April 15th for purposes of completing that blank.

Again, I want to thank you and the other judges for agreeing to assist the Court in this matter. If you have any questions about the opinion or what I have put in this letter, please feel free to contact me. After the last judge has initialed the opinion

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March 18, 1998

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and returned it to you, please send it to me so that I may have it disseminated to counsel and the trial judge and to the reporter's office if it is to be published. Should there be a dissent in the matter, please let me know and I shall contact four other superior court judges to whom to circulate the case.

Sincerely,

William L. Martin, III

Administrator/Clerk

Court of Appeals of Georgia

WLM , III/ld

Enclosure

cc:	Chief Judge Robert J. James

Chief Judge T. Penn McWhorter