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The trial began on September 29, 2014, presided over by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter. It was the longest criminal trial in Georgia history, lasting eight months. [10] The lead prosecutor was Fani Willis. [11] Before the end of the trial, the superintendent at the center of the scandal, Beverly Hall, died of breast cancer ...
Selman v. Cobb County School District, 449 F.3d 1320 (11th Cir. 2006), was a United States court case in Cobb County, Georgia involving a sticker placed in public school biology textbooks. The sticker was a disclaimer stating that "Evolution is a theory, not a fact, concerning the origin of living things."
The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.
A Georgia Senate committee says more cooperation among county officials would improve conditions in Fulton County's jail, but it also called on the city of Atlanta to hand over all of its former ...
Judicial misconduct occurs when a judge acts in ways that are considered unethical or otherwise violate the judge's obligations of impartial conduct.. Actions that can be classified as judicial misconduct include: conduct prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts (as an extreme example: "falsification of facts" at summary judgment); using the ...
County commissioners in May voted to end a search for a project manager to oversee the building of a new jail at an estimated cost of $1.7 billion, news outlets reported.
The Fulton County Jail, also referred to as Rice Street, [1] is a prison in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built to hold up to 1,125 prisoners in 1989 but now houses over 3,000. [ 2 ] The US Department of Justice found in 2024 that conditions in the jail were unconstitutionally "inhumane, violent and hazardous".
Hobbs, who is from North Carolina, had been booked into the Camden County jail in coastal Georgia on Sept. 3 on traffic violation and drug possession charges. Security video from that night shows ...