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The trial was initially held in Cobb County, Georgia. After nearly three weeks of jury selection, Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark, granted a defense motion for a change of venue, and the trial was moved to Brunswick in Glynn County. [24] Staley determined that the local media attention had impacted the Cobb County's prospective jurors. [25]
In 2005, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a pardon saying a verdict of manslaughter would have been more appropriate. The first individual electrocuted for a crime and sentenced to death (in Georgia) was Howard Henson, a black male, for rape and robbery; by electrocution on September 13, 1924, in DeKalb County.
Georgia v. Smith was a court case held in 2007 resulting in the conviction of Joseph and Sonya Smith for child abuse and murder following the death of one of their sons, Josef Smith, from "acute and chronic" corporal punishment.
Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia, and is a core county of the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north-central portion of the state. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 766,149.
Julia Lynn Turner [1] (née Womack; July 13, 1968 – August 30, 2010 [2]) was an American woman who was convicted in the poisoning deaths of her two husbands.. Turner's first husband, Glenn Turner, died after allegedly being sick with the flu in 1995.
Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, conviction, and unsuccessful appeals attracted national attention.
She worked for Fulton County for 17 years, [6] specializing in major crimes homicide and RICO prosecution. [3] Since September 2019, Dunikoski works as a senior assistant district attorney in Cobb County, Georgia. [7] [3] She heads the appeals section. [6] [3] In 2021, Dunikoski was a prosecutor for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery case.
The Dawson Five were defendants in a criminal court case in Dawson, Georgia, where they were charged with the murder of a white customer in a roadside convenience store.. The five young black men, one of whom was a juvenile, became known as "The Dawson Five": Roosevelt Watson, Henderson Watson, J. D. Davenport, Johnnie B. Jackson, and George P