Flanked by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and tearful members of a victim’s family, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. called a press conference Tuesday afternoon to push the Georgia Supreme Court to reconsider its “very bad opinion” freeing a murder defendant suspect because of procedural error by the trial judge.

Defendant Geary Otis, 64, was charged with stabbing 75-year-old Mary Oliver to death, and gravely wounding Emmanuel Surry Jr., 71.

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