Lawyers for former Atlanta police officer James Burns, who was re-indicted Wednesday on murder charges related his shooting of an unarmed man, lost a bid for their client to be bound by the same grand jury rules under which he was charged the first time.   

When Burns was first charged in 2016, officers facing grand juries over accusations related to their service were entitled to make an unchallenged statement to the panelists.

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