By Jason Grant | November 16, 2017
The defendant Joseph Tigano III, convicted in 2015 of operating a marijuana farm and sentenced to 20 years, was released Wednesday night from federal prison after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a terse order on Wednesday afternoon dismissing the indictment against him.
By R. Robin McDonald | November 15, 2017
The Supreme Court of Georgia rejects motions for reconsideration, sticking with its decisions to reinstate criminal charges against two metro Atlanta lawyers and their client and letting the lawyers' disqualification stand in the Waffle House sex tape saga.
By Greg Land | November 14, 2017
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has replaced Interim Municipal Public Defender Rosalie Joy with Kenneth Days III, who has served as the office's managing attorney since 2008. Civil rights groups and attorneys have decried what they said was an effort to oust Joy by some Municipal Court judges angered by her efforts to keep indigent defendants out of jail.
By R. Robin McDonald | November 13, 2017
Eight attorneys representing metro Atlanta lawyers David Cohen, John Butters and client Mye Brindle are facing off against Fulton County's district attorney and two Marietta lawyers representing Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers Jr. in a tangle of criminal and civil litigation centering on a five-year-old covert sex tape.
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By Zack Needles | November 9, 2017
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether H. William DeWeese's conviction should be overturned because his trial counsel failed to preserve for appeal what DeWeese said was exculpatory testimony by 14 "mantra" witnesses who were barred from testifying at trial.
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By Gary Toman | November 9, 2017
The remarks of Gary Toman, a partner at Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, at the unveiling of a portrait of Senior Judge Lanier Anderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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By Max Mitchell | November 8, 2017
With nearly 75 percent of the vote, District Attorney-elect Larry Krasner easily won the race to become Philadelphia's next top prosecutor, but what comes next might be the more difficult part.
By Greg Land | November 7, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a portion of the state's gang statute, and the Georgia Court of Appeals turned down prosecutors' requests to allow hearsay from a child's doctor in a child molestation case where the mother and alleged victim left the country.
By Katheryn Tucker | November 2, 2017
They were 20 and 21 and just returned from Iraq and Korea when they were arrested for a crime their lawyer said they knew nothing about and were nowhere near. They're now in their mid-40s.
By R. Robin McDonald | November 2, 2017
The Supreme Court of Georgia has reinstated felony charges accusing metro Atlanta lawyers David Cohen and John Butters and their client of violating the state's eavesdropping law in connection with the secret recording of the chief executive of Waffle House on a sex tape.
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