July 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Judge Approves Referendum Sought by Slave Descendants to Challenge Rezoning of Sapelo Island CommunityThe McIntosh County Probate Court judge said in his written order that local election officials verified that referendum organizers had collected more than 1,800 petition signatures from the registered county voters
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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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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May 06, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Carr Says Savannah Overstepped in Outlawing Guns in Unlocked CarA lawsuit filed in Chatham Count Superior Court last week by a man described as frequent visitor to Savannah asks a judge to halt enforcement of the city's gun ordinance.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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March 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Update: Arbery's Killers Ask 11th Circuit to Overturn Hate Crime ConvictionsA panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.
By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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March 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online
McIntosh Judge Dismisses Suit by Ga. Slave Descendants, Cites Technical ErrorsThe judge didn't address the merits of the claims but agreed with county attorneys who said the suit clashed with a 2020 amendment to the state Constitution that weakened the broad immunity from lawsuits granted to state and local governments.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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February 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Family of Exonerated Black Man Killed by a Georgia Deputy Is Suing Him in Federal CourtThe civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick four months after the man was killed in a violent struggle that began after a Camden County sheriff's staff sergeant pulled him over for speeding on Interstate 95.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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February 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Attorneys for Georgia Slave Descendants Urge Judge Not to Throw Out Their Lawsuit Over Island ZoningThe residents' lawsuit accuses McIntosh County of violating Georgia laws governing zoning procedures and public meetings, as well as residents' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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February 15, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Conservative Group Tells Judge It Has No Evidence to Back Its Claims of Georgia Ballot StuffingIn their written response to a Fulton County Superior Court judge order requiring True the Vote to provide evidence it had collected, attorneys for the group said there were no names or other documentary evidence to share.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online
Eleventh Circuit Sets March Court Date to Hear Ahmaud Arbery's Killers' Appeals of Their Hate Crime ConvictionsArbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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December 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Attorneys for Family of Absolved Black Man Killed by Deputy Seeking $16M From Georgia SheriffCivil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels told reporters Tuesday that the sum represents $1 million for every year Leonard Cure spent imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction. He was killed just three years after Florida authorities set him free.
By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press
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