A four-year legal ordeal is over for a dozen defendants accused of improper handling of absentee ballots—a felony—in South Georgia’s Brooks County.
The state dropped the remaining charges against the “Quitman 12″ in December, following the acquittal in September of the first defendant to go to trial, Lula Smart. Her acquittal came after two mistrials.
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