David Garrow: Battery case against ex-law prof nears conclusion
A former Emory law professor accused of assaulting a staff member will resolve his three-year legal battle in the coming weeks, according to his attorneys.
David Garrow, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., was charged with simple battery in 2002, after then-Law School Senior Manager of Operations Gloria Mann filed criminal and civil charges against Garrow, saying he grabbed her wrists, pushed and verbally assaulted her.
Garrow went on voluntary leave in 2002 and officially resigned on Aug. 31 of this year. He has since joined the faculty at Homerton College, University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and moved there with his wife in September.
Jeff Brickman, an attorney who represents Garrow in the criminal trial, declined to give details about the case, except to say that the legal teams hope to resolve the charges within the coming weeks.
“The case is currently pending in the DeKalb County solicitor’s office, and we have been in negotiations with them in an effort to resolve this case in a manner satisfactory to both parties,” he said.
Keith Lindsay, Garrow’s attorney for the civil trial, said the civil charges also should be resolved soon, though he declined to give any further details about the nature of a resolution.
Mann no longer works at the university, and neither she nor her attorneys could be reached for comment.
Garrow would not comment on the case’s anticipated conclusion. But he said any parallels between the start of his position at Cambridge and the end of his legal entanglement in the United States are coincidental.
“It’s just the happenstance of the timing,” he said in an interview with the Wheel.
Garrow said he did not discuss the case with his new employers but that he “knew the appropriate human resources officials were aware of it.”
Garrow’s official resignation from Emory resolves a three-year question about the university’s relationship with its prize-winning former professor.
Though Garrow went on voluntary leave from the university and moved to Ohio soon after being charged with assaulting Mann, he continued to publish articles in which he was listed as an Emory faculty member.
The university issued a statement about Garrow’s status in late 2004, which said only that “Garrow is on voluntary leave for an indefinite period of time.”
Garrow said he originally left Atlanta to be with his wife, who had accepted a position at Ohio State University. He said he pursued the Cambridge job after his wife was offered a position there.
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David Garrow, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., was charged with simple battery in 2002, after then-Law School Senior Manager of Operations Gloria Mann filed criminal and civil charges against Garrow, saying he grabbed her wrists, pushed and verbally assaulted her.
Garrow went on voluntary leave in 2002 and officially resigned on Aug. 31 of this year. He has since joined the faculty at Homerton College, University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and moved there with his wife in September.
Jeff Brickman, an attorney who represents Garrow in the criminal trial, declined to give details about the case, except to say that the legal teams hope to resolve the charges within the coming weeks.
“The case is currently pending in the DeKalb County solicitor’s office, and we have been in negotiations with them in an effort to resolve this case in a manner satisfactory to both parties,” he said.
Keith Lindsay, Garrow’s attorney for the civil trial, said the civil charges also should be resolved soon, though he declined to give any further details about the nature of a resolution.
Mann no longer works at the university, and neither she nor her attorneys could be reached for comment.
Garrow would not comment on the case’s anticipated conclusion. But he said any parallels between the start of his position at Cambridge and the end of his legal entanglement in the United States are coincidental.
“It’s just the happenstance of the timing,” he said in an interview with the Wheel.
Garrow said he did not discuss the case with his new employers but that he “knew the appropriate human resources officials were aware of it.”
Garrow’s official resignation from Emory resolves a three-year question about the university’s relationship with its prize-winning former professor.
Though Garrow went on voluntary leave from the university and moved to Ohio soon after being charged with assaulting Mann, he continued to publish articles in which he was listed as an Emory faculty member.
The university issued a statement about Garrow’s status in late 2004, which said only that “Garrow is on voluntary leave for an indefinite period of time.”
Garrow said he originally left Atlanta to be with his wife, who had accepted a position at Ohio State University. He said he pursued the Cambridge job after his wife was offered a position there.