A third-year Georgia State University College of Law student, who was instrumental in getting charges dropped against a man wrongly held for a crime, died in a car accident last week.

Georgia State Law sent a letter to the community on Sunday, saying “It is with unimaginable sadness that I share that third-year law student Alex Patafio (J.D. ’23) was killed in a tragic automobile accident” on Oct. 7.

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