Cynthia Becker Mello[3] (born February 26, 1957) is a former Georgia Superior Court Judge on the DeKalb Superior Court, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, from 2000 until March 1, 2015.
[4] She presided over several high-profile cases, including the criminal trial of former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey[5] and the release of exonerated Clarence Harrison.
[6] Becker announced her resignation from the DeKalb County Superior Court in November, 2014, citing her engagement to be married,[8] under the cloud of a Georgia Judicial Qualification Commission investigation into her handling of a case where she rejected a witness' testimony in a public corruption case.
[9] In August, 2015, a Cobb County, Georgia grand jury indicted Becker on charges that she lied to the state judicial watchdog agency about her handling of that case.
[10] The charges were dismissed a few days later[11] and the prosecutor was scolded for seeking the indictment.