Kate Brumback

July 13, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for a Georgia inmate scheduled to die this week are asking the state parole board to consider his extremely violent childhood and his transformation over more than three decades on death row.

By Kate Brumback

8 minute read

July 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The judge in a dispute over the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize and traveling Bible has ruled the Bible belongs to the civil rights icon's estate, which is controlled by two sons who had proposed selling it.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

4 minute read

June 23, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The U.S. Supreme Court has said death row prisoners must have "rational understanding" that they are about to be executed and why, but lawyers for a condemned Alabama inmate say stroke-induced dementia has left their client unable to pass that test.

By Kate Brumback

6 minute read

May 26, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A 2012 Georgia law banning abortions after 20 weeks quietly took effect nearly six months ago with no fanfare or resistance—until lawyers for three obstetricians who had challenged the measure realized what had happened.

By KATE BRUMBACK | The Associated Press

9 minute read

May 04, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Alleged members of the Gangster Disciples, including high-ranking leaders and an Atlanta-area police officer who prosecutors say claimed to be a hit man for the gang, have been charged with racketeering in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

By Kate Brumback

5 minute read

April 27, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A group of young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and who have been granted temporary permission to stay is asking a judge to order the Georgia university system to allow them to pay in-state tuition.

By Kate Brumback

4 minute read

April 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online

A 17-page questionnaire filled out Tuesday by potential jurors for the trial of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die asks whether they have ever left a child in a hot car, how much they have seen about the case in the news media and their social media habits.

By Kate Brumback

7 minute read

April 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The judge overseeing the trial of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his son in a hot SUV to die heard on Monday from about a dozen potential jurors who said they had scheduling conflicts. Two were excused.

By Kate Brumback

10 minute read

March 09, 2016 | Daily Report Online

Immigrant rights attorneys on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging the Georgia university system's policy of denying in-state tuition to students brought to the country illegally as children but who have been granted temporary permission to stay.

By Kate Brumback

4 minute read

February 12, 2016 | Daily Report Online

The state of Georgia has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former transgender inmate whose case drew the attention of the Justice Department after she complained prison officials didn't provide adequate treatment for her gender identity condition.

By Kate Brumback

3 minute read