July 18, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Ga. Death Row Inmate Says Prosecutor Hid Plea Deal With Key Witness, Tainting His TrialHoping for a new trial, lawyers for the condemned man say they have evidence that the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case made a previously undisclosed deal with the only eyewitness to the crime.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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July 17, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Federal Lawsuit Alleges Delayed Elections for Ga. PSC Are UnconstitutionalGeorgia lawmakers this year added an extra two years to the current terms of commissioners on the all-Republican body. Each will eventually revert to six-year terms.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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July 16, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Ga. Court of Appeals Won't Hear Arguments on Fani Willis' Role in Georgia Trump Case Until After ElectionThe appeal is to be decided by a three-judge panel of the intermediate appeals court, which will then have until mid-March to rule.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press
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July 16, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Judge Removed From Long-Running Gang and Racketeering Case Against Rapper Young Thug and OthersLawyers for Young Thug and a co-defendant had motioned for Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville's recusal, saying he met with prosecutors and a prosecution witness at which defendants and defense attorneys were not present.
By The Associated Press
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July 03, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Georgia Election Workers Who Won $148M Judgment Against Giuliani Want His Bankruptcy Case Thrown OutCreditors, including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against the disbarred former New York mayor and adviser to former Presidential Donald Trump, are opposing his attempt to convert his bankruptcy into a liquidation.
By Dave Collins | The Associated Press
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July 02, 2024 | Daily Report Online
High Court Passes on Case of Georgia Man on Death Row Who Says Black Jurors Were Wrongly PurgedThe condemned man's lawyers say the prosecutor in his case violated the Batson rule and ranted against it when trial attorneys raised concerns during jury selection that he was striking Black jurors because of their race.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press
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July 02, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Atlanta City Council Approves Settlement of $2M for Students Pulled From Car During 2020 ProtestsThe City Council on Monday voted 13-1 to approve the payment to settle a federal lawsuit filed in June 2021 argued that police had no justification for pulling two students from their car and shocking them.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press
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July 01, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Rapper Young Thug's Trial on Hold as Defense Tries to Get Fulton Judge Removed From CaseLawyers for the rapper and several other defendants had filed motions seeking the recusal of Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville after he held a meeting with prosecutors and a prosecution witness at which defendants and defense attorneys were not present.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press
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July 01, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Judge Temporarily Blocks Georgia Law That Limits People or Groups to Posting 3 Bonds a YearThe judge stalled the law for 14 days and directing lawyers to present arguments on whether it should be stayed until a lawsuit over the measure is resolved.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press
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June 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Ga. Court of Appeals Says Woman Who Argues Mental Illness Caused Crash Can Use Insanity DefenseThat the woman caused the fatal DeKalb County crash was not in dispute, but defense lawyers and prosecutors disagreed on what arguments should be allowed at trial.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press
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