Katheryn Tucker

February 27, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The man known as “the stocking strangler” is scheduled to die by lethal injection for the 1977 rapes and murders of Florence Scheible, 89, Martha Thurmond, 70, and Kathleen Woodruff, 74.

By Katheryn Tucker

2 minute read

February 27, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Pam Bettis is a former law enforcement officer, prosecutor and a founding partner of the Bettis & Howard law firm in McDonough.

By Katheryn Tucker

2 minute read

February 23, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, now a partner with Smith, Gambrell & Russell, took issue with the look-alike nature of Gov. Nathan Deal's appointments to the state's highest court while speaking on a panel addressing the judicial system at the State Bar of Georgia.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

February 23, 2018 | Daily Report Online

“If the events of the last year have taught people anything, it's that you've got to deal with this stuff in real time,” said SunTrust GC Ellen Fitzsimmons.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

February 22, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Hines sounded a list of concerns that need addressing in the future. But he said he's an optimist and believes the state's new leaders will make progress on those problems.

By Katheryn Tucker

7 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington filed a motion for a preliminary injunction filed late Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia seeking an expedited hearing to provide for a remedy before the 2018 elections.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Report Online

The report, called “A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt,” documents arrests over private debt in 25 states and Puerto Rico.

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Chief Justice P. Harris Hines plans to talk about “great change and great promise” throughout state government in 2018, including in the judicial branch with the election of new judges and a new Supreme Court justice.

By Katheryn Tucker

2 minute read

February 21, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Following a one-day bench trial, Judge Kelly Brooks set damages for $5.97 million for wrongful death and $510,000 for suffering before the mother died at a Waycross hospital a few hours after being shot in the community of Hickox, 4 miles from Nahunta (pop. 1,000).

By Katheryn Tucker

4 minute read

February 16, 2018 | Daily Report Online

It's the end of the line for the group that Gov. Nathan Deal picked in 2011 and charged with turning around the alarming increase in prison population and costs in Georgia. The council's term will end even before the governor's in January 2019.

By Katheryn Tucker

6 minute read