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W Thomas Kemp, III
Owner & Attorney at Law at Kemp Law Firm, L.L.C.
Atlanta, Georgia
W. Thomas Kemp III is a metro Atlanta area attorney who specializes in representing survivors and victims of serious bodily injury, wrongful death, and unsafe business premise matters and defending individuals accused of serious traffic offenses and felony and misdemeanor offenses.
Tom was admitted to practice law in the State of Georgia in 2000. He is also admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Court of Appeals of Georgia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ga., and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Ga.
Tom has devoted his career to criminal justice, both as a defense attorney and as a major felony prosecutor. As a defense attorney and former prosecutor, Tom successfully represented individuals in thousands of cases, including more than a hundred jury trials. Tom’s experience in knowing both sides of a criminal case is central to his continued success in representing his clients. Tom’s trial experience allows him to effectively represent his criminal defense clients in both pretrial and trial matters.
Tom is a legal scholar who served as a Guest Instructor, Guest Coach, and Guest Lecturer in trial techniques, trial advocacy, and trial practice at Emory University School of Law. Tom was a published author for the National Defense University, and served on numerous boards for community and educational organizations.
Tom graduated from Georgia Tech with degrees in International Affairs and Public Policy, and graduated from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University with his law degree. Tom is a member of the ANAK Society, Georgia Tech’s most prestigious honor society. Tom was chosen to compete in the National Criminal Procedure Competition with Moot Court and served as a Student Editor for the Journal of Southern Legal History while enrolled in law school.
Tom remains an active member of the United Methodist Church.
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Experience
Metropolitan Atlanta attorney specializing in representing the victims of automobile collisions and serious injuries and defending individuals charged with D.U.I. and other serious criminal offenses.- Metropolitan Atlanta attorney specializing in defending individuals charged with major felonies, violent crimes, drug offenses, and D.U.I., representing the victims of automobile incidents, and helping children and families in juvenile matters.
- Chief responsibility was to prosecute criminal offenders for felony offenses before the Superior Court of DeKalb County.
Education
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A Message from
Solicitor-General Donna Coleman-Stribling
Thank you for visiting the website of the DeKalb County Solicitor-General’s Office. This office is responsible for the prosecution of misdemeanor crimes and county ordinance violations which occur in DeKalb County. These misdemeanor crimes carry a maximum penalty of 12 months in jail. Examples of these misdemeanor crimes include DUIs, Domestic Violence, Battery, Stalking and Shoplifting.
As your Solicitor-General, I understand that these misdemeanor crimes affect our quality of life in DeKalb. It’s the side of the criminal justice system we are most likely to encounter and most likely to rely upon. It is the duty of this office to seek justice, protect victims’ rights, ensure fairness and promote public safety. I look forward to serving the citizens of DeKalb and I will make it my job to build a better, safer DeKalb.
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Nuisance Abatement
An important part of our Community Prosecution Program involves the filing of nuisance abatement actions to address nuisance properties – those properties known within the community to sustain criminal activities. While the criminal justice system addresses individual offenders who have committed crimes, nuisance abatement actions enable prosecutors to go after nuisance properties and their owners for allowing criminal activity to flourish. The Solicitor-General’s Office works with law enforcement and the community to identify problem areas through which we can utilize civil remedies against the property, its owners/occupants and other relevant parties.
While these cases can be time-consuming to investigate and litigate, they yield results.
These cases go a long way to making DeKalb safer because they disrupt criminal activity and force criminals to find a new place to do “business.” Law-abiding citizens enjoy a better quality-of-life and, eventually, improved property values. It is a multi-pronged effort involving police, prosecutors and the community working together so that the 700,000 citizens living in DeKalb can enjoy the quality-of-life they deserve and want despite these trying economic times.
In some cases, these nuisance properties violate County property codes, as either unsafe or unsightly locations. Often times, such properties that violate code have been reported to the DeKalb County Code Enforcement. The Office of the Office of the DeKalb Solicitor-General prosecutes code enforcement cases.
If you have a nuisance problem in your community and need to report an issue, please contact DeKalb County Code Enforcement at 404-687-3700 or log on to the Code Enforcement website.
If a code enforcement case is already filed in court and you have questions about it, contact Tom Kemp at wtkemp@dekalbcountyga.gov.
If you need assistance with a nuisance issue in your community, contact Community Prosecutor Claire Farley at acfarley@dekalbcountyga.gov. Also, you can reach the community prosecutors at (404) 371-2201 or emailsolicitorinfo@dekalbcountyga.gov.
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"Tom has devoted his career to criminal justice, both as a defense attorney and as a major felony prosecutor. As a defense attorney and former prosecutor, Tom successfully represented individuals in thousands of cases, including more than a hundred jury trials. Tom’s experience in knowing both sides of a criminal case is central to his continued success in representing his clients. Tom’s trial experience allows him to effectively represent
his criminal defense clients in both pretrial and trial matters."
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"These cases go a long way to making DeKalb safer because they disrupt criminal activity and force criminals to find a new place to do “business.” Law-abiding citizens enjoy a better quality-of-life and, eventually, improved property values. It is a multi-pronged effort involving police, prosecutors and the community working together so that the 700,000 citizens living in DeKalb can enjoy the quality-of-
life they deserve and want despite these trying economic times."
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"This thing you are wanting,
a non-criminal facts finding hearing justice..?
There's no mechanism for this!"
~(Public Defender Ingrid McGaughey)~
"Well then!
That is our problem...
isn't it."
~(Simply Jim)~
"Tom has devoted his career to criminal justice, both as a defense attorney and as a major felony prosecutor. As a defense attorney and former prosecutor, Tom successfully represented individuals in thousands of cases, including more than a hundred jury trials. Tom’s experience in knowing both sides of a criminal case is central to his continued success in representing his clients. Tom’s trial experience allows him to effectively represent
his criminal defense clients in both pretrial and trial matters."
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"These cases go a long way to making DeKalb safer because they disrupt criminal activity and force criminals to find a new place to do “business.” Law-abiding citizens enjoy a better quality-of-life and, eventually, improved property values. It is a multi-pronged effort involving police, prosecutors and the community working together so that the 700,000 citizens living in DeKalb can enjoy the quality-of-
life they deserve and want despite these trying economic times."
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Laws favor the cautious.
Who is it writing our laws?
Those having a surplus.
Those having a surplus are better able controlling their circumstances. Those without a surplus are controlled by those with that surplus. One is not always able exercising good judgement.
Which bring us to the question as to what do all our representatives both elected and non-elected have in common?
They
triangulate their good (gold) fortune
off
the congeniality bias (misfortunes) of their constituents.
Certainly not about to give that up!
"This thing you are wanting,
a non-criminal facts finding hearing justice..?
There's no mechanism for this!"
"Well then!
That is our problem...
isn't it."
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