Russ Bynum

September 16, 2024 | Daily Report Online

District attorneys "have a huge amount of discretion to make decisions about what cases to pursue," criminal defense attorney Don Samuel said. "The notion that we're going to start prosecuting DAs for prosecuting or not prosecuting strikes me as really being on the edge of propriety."

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

6 minute read

September 05, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Chatham County Superior Court Judge Benjamin Karpf didn't rule Wednesday on a Jesup man's motion to halt enforcement of a Savannah ordinance while considering his underlying lawsuit that seeks to have it thrown out permanently.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

July 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The McIntosh County Probate Court judge said in his written order that local election officials verified that referendum organizers had collected more than 1,800 petition signatures from the registered county voters

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

July 18, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Hoping for a new trial, lawyers for the condemned man say they have evidence that the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case made a previously undisclosed deal with the only eyewitness to the crime.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

5 minute read

May 06, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A lawsuit filed in Chatham Count Superior Court last week by a man described as frequent visitor to Savannah asks a judge to halt enforcement of the city's gun ordinance.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

March 27, 2024 | Daily Report Online

A panel heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that followed a national outcry over the Black man's killing. The appellants' lawyers argued that evidence of past racist comments they made didn't prove a racist intent to harm.

By Kate Brumback and Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

5 minute read

March 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The judge didn't address the merits of the claims but agreed with county attorneys who said the suit clashed with a 2020 amendment to the state Constitution that weakened the broad immunity from lawsuits granted to state and local governments.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

February 28, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Brunswick four months after the man was killed in a violent struggle that began after a Camden County sheriff's staff sergeant pulled him over for speeding on Interstate 95.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

February 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The residents' lawsuit accuses McIntosh County of violating Georgia laws governing zoning procedures and public meetings, as well as residents' constitutional rights to due process and equal protection.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read

February 15, 2024 | Daily Report Online

In their written response to a Fulton County Superior Court judge order requiring True the Vote to provide evidence it had collected, attorneys for the group said there were no names or other documentary evidence to share.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

4 minute read