An attorney for a sheriff’s deputy who shot to death the pastor of a Baptist church while working an undercover drug investigation says he will ask a federal judge to set aside a $2.3 million verdict that a jury awarded to the pastor’s widow.
Terry Williams of Buford’s Williams, Morris & Waymire said that if U.S. District Judge Richard Story, who presided over the civil rights trial last month, affirms the jury verdict, he will take the case to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
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