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By Everett Catts | September 29, 2023
The Bondurant Mixson & Elmore and Caplan Cobb firms were among those honored at the ACLU of Georgia's 60th anniversary celebration Thursday, and attorney Mel Hewitt received the 2023 Georgia Crime Victim Services Collaborative and Innovative Project Award from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) for his work with Marsy's Law for Georgia.
By Marianna Wharry | September 28, 2023
"[T]he Supreme Court held that Washington's mandatory 'Three Strikes' law may be applied to childhood offenses, and that crimes committed by a child may count as automatic 'strikes' toward a life without parole sentence," Jan Trasen, of the Washington Appellate Project, said in statement. "This disregards evidence-based [Washington state] precedent that 'children are different' from adults, and that they must be sentenced differently. As the dissenting justices said, 'A juvenile charged and sentenced in adult court does not magically become an adult because of the venue in which the case is resolved. … Children are different and age matters.'"
By Alex Anteau | September 27, 2023
"In more than 15 years of criminal defense practice across four states, I have never encountered this kind of attempt by a prosecutor to communicate with a represented person or to undermine the attorney-client relationship," defense counsel said.
By The Associated Press | September 27, 2023
The Floyd County judge dismissed the case at the request of the district attorney, who decided not to bring Joey Watkins to trial again after his initial conviction was vacated. The Georgia Innocence Project and other attorneys waged a lengthy fight to overturn the conviction.
By Morgan Lee | The Associated Press | September 27, 2023
Abdul-Ghani's mother, Hakima Ramzi, recounted her love and devotion to a cheerful son who lived with severe developmental disabilities and frequent seizures—and her shock when husband, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, and his sibling accused her of casting spells on the boy.
By Morgan Lee | The Associated Press | September 25, 2023
The boy, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, was reported missing by his mother in Georgia in December 2017. Around that time, authorities say, the boy's father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, set out with relatives and a cache of guns on a car journey to rural Alabama and then to New Mexico to start over on a parcel of high-desert scrubland near a tiny, crossroads town.
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By Paul Shechtman | September 25, 2023
Veteran criminal defense attorney Paul Shechtman presents four hypothetical cases for application of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling affirming a holding by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the admission of a nontestifying codefendant's confession did not infringe upon the defendant's rights under the Sixth Amendment.
By Emily Saul | September 25, 2023
In a first-of-its-kind ruling for New York State that has already been cited by another judge, Acting Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun found LCN and FST technologies meet the Frye standard and can be admitted at trial.
By Mark Sherman | The Associated Press | September 25, 2023
Federal courts across the country disagree about whether the word, as it is used in a bipartisan 2018 criminal justice overhaul, indeed means "and" or whether it means "or." Even an appellate panel that upheld a longer sentence called the structure of the provision "perplexing."
By Sudhin Thanawala | The Associated Press | September 25, 2023
"I was confused and I was angry because I didn't know what was going on," Randal Quran Reid told The Associated Press of his stay in a Georgia jail. "They couldn't give me any information outside of, 'You've got to wait for Louisiana to come take you,' and there was no timeline on that."
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