LZSCHR, Volunteer Lawyers Team Up to Represent Jailed Protesters
The Southern Center for Human Rights and newly formed Atlanta Justice Lawyers are coordinating to recruit and train lawyers to assist demonstrators arrested protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. by Greg Land, Law.com Daily Report Online Lawrence Zimmerman...
Coronavirus Is Complicating Georgia’s Justice System — With Or Without National Attention
By VIRGINIA PRESCOTT & PRIA MAHADEVAN & CHASE MCGEE • MAY 15, 2020 This is a transcript of the GPB program “On Second Thought” which originally aired on May 15, 2020. Click here to listen to the original broadcast. While...
‘She’s ready.’ Cobb DA trying Arbery case known for integrity, compassion
By Bill Rankin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Originally published on ajc.com As a teenager at Valdosta High School, Joyette Holmes didn’t obsess about the latest hit music, hot movies or the school’s ever-stellar football team. She did watch “Law & Order,”...
The Citizen’s Arrest Law Cited in Arbery’s Killing Dates Back to the Civil War
After Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by two white men on a quiet residential road in coastal Georgia, a prosecutor cited a Civil War era state law to justify the killing. The same law was invoked last year in suburban...
‘We’re Trying Something New Here Today’: How Courts Are Staying Connected in the Coronavirus Crisis
By Katheryn Tucker, Law.com Daily Report online Originally published on Law.com Daily Report Online Judge C. LaTain “Tain” Kell of the Cobb Superior Court called his intermediate drug court to order Wednesday sitting at the bench in an empty courtroom...
Health & Habeas: A Constitutional Crisis Is Quietly Brewing Amid Coronavirus Chaos
By R. Robin McDonald and Angela Morris, Law.com Daily Report Online One day before alarms over COVID-19’s spread prompted the chief judge of Georgia’s largest judicial circuit to curtail court operations, Atlanta attorney Georgia Lord sent him an urgent message....
Leanna Harris Now a ‘Target’ in Public Eye Say Lawyers
Leanna Harris, the mother of a toddler killed in a hot car tragedy, is feeling intense public scrutiny and judgment. DEFENSE EXPERTS urge cautious comments over complete silence KATHERYN HAYES TUCKER ktucker@alm.com HELPING HIS CLIENT avoid criminal charges is the...
New Trial in Tainted Conviction
PROSECUTOR WITHHELD knowledge that alleged victim recanted key testimony in child molestation case GREG LAND | gland@alm.com A NEW TRIAL has been ordered for a man convicted of aggravated child molestation after his defense attorneys told the judge they’d overheard...
Judge Vacates Driver’s Banishment for Speeding
KATHERYN HAYES TUCKER A Jamaican-born Lawrenceville resident who was banished from a neighboring county for speeding has won a partial reversal of his sentence. Ricardo Riley was stopped for speeding last year in the Walton County town of Loganville, 19 ...
Driver Cited for Eating Burger Orders Up a Lawyer
Is It Illegal to Eat and Drive in Georgia? News story written by Katheryn Hayes Tucker and published January 29, 2015 in the Daily Report Burger Consumption, Distracted Driving and the Police Criminal defense attorney Lawrence Zimmerman said he is...
Anonymous Tips Do Not Justify a “Probable Cause” Search
Katheryn Hayes Tucker ktucker@alm.com Anonymous Tips, Drugs in Car Aren’t Enough for Home Search, Panel Says Anonymous Tips are not adequate reasons to have “probable cause” to search a residence, per a Georgia Court of Appeals judge. The Georgia Court...
Unconstitutional! Supreme Court Ruling Helps Prisoners
Katheryn Hayes Tucker ktucker@alm.com Federal Judge Gives Prisoners a Heads Up On a Quicker Chance at Freedom A Federal Appeals court judge has sent a message to more than 100 prisoners who could be eligible to go free sooner because...