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...
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,...
‘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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...