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Byline: Bill Rankin A lawsuit filed by a woman against an Atlanta police officer who arrested her while she was feeding the homeless can go to trial, the federal appeals [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Valdosta litigator will chair the state panel that investigates allegations of judicial misconduct. Pope Langdale, who specializes in wrongful death and personal injury cases, was elected [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin For months, the 39-year-old woman with bipolar disorder sat alone staring at the four walls of her cell at the south Fulton County jail that houses mentally [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Georgia sperm bank has prevailed before the Georgia Court of Appeals in a case in which a couple sued the company for not divulging that one [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Court of Appeals has thrown out illegal gambling convictions against a Middle Georgia restaurateur, even though authorities already shut down his business. Last year, a [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A lawsuit filed by College Park against Clayton County involving airport alcohol sales tax revenue can proceed toward trial, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday. The case [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the state of Georgia can sue someone for publishing the annotated version of its legal code without [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The U.S. Justice Department has weighed in on a lawsuit alleging deplorable conditions for mentally ill female inmates at a south Fulton County jail. In a court [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A lawyer for a former East Point police officer Wednesday told the Georgia Supreme Court her client was wrongly convicted of murder for repeatedly tasing a handcuffed [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a closely watched case in which a Stockbridge man is challenging a warrantless search by police of his [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The sentence being offered to Deandre Tucker was unusual, to the point of shocking: 85 years on probation followed by 20 years of incarceration. This meant Tucker, [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A federal judge has dismissed civil rights claims against DeKalb County filed by the family of a naked, unarmed man who was shot and killed by a [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday allowed Ryan Alexander Duke's trial for the alleged murder of a South Georgia beauty queen to go forward. In a unanimous [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A man convicted of killing of an off-duty state prison guard in Milledgeville is to be executed June 20, the state Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. Marion [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder charge against a man who allegedly injected a fatal dose of heroin into another man's arm. The case [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin While the new Georgia and Alabama abortion-ban statutes have striking differences, they also have one thing very much in common:Challenges against both will land at the federal [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A judge running for a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court may have inadvertently run afoul of judicial ethics rules by expressing support for DeKalb County's district [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin There has been widespread speculation and confusion as to what punishment awaits someone who violates the strict six-week abortion ban recently signed by Gov. Brian Kemp. Could [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin ROME -- State capital defenders on Monday asked a judge to dismiss a murder case because Floyd County prosecutors illegally assembled an all-white jury to put a [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin It has taken nearly 14 years for Tara Grinstead's alleged killer to stand trial. Yet Tuesday's hearing before the state's highest court suggested the South Georgia beauty [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin When Phillip Evans visited the Atlanta Botanical Garden with his family in October 2014, his holstered handgun was in plain view. Upon seeing it, a Botanical Garden [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The recent trial that sent a Gwinnett County woman to death row for the starvation of her stepdaughter was extremely disturbing, with ghastly autopsy photos documenting the [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Gwinnett County jury on Tuesday handed down Georgia's first death sentence in more than five years to a woman convicted of murdering her stepdaughter. After two [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin It will likely go down as one of the least-surprising verdicts in the history of Georgia jurisprudence. After deliberating just short of three hours, a Gwinnett County [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin It's just a matter of time before Gov. Brian Kemp signs into law a Georgia bill that essentially bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. It's also [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Tiffany Moss on Friday continued to do absolutely nothing to defend herself as she represents herself as her own lawyer while facing a death penalty prosecution. After [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin After seeing their former client remain silent throughout her death penalty trial, doing nothing to defend herself as she acts as her own lawyer, two capital public [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin When Eman Moss took the witness stand Thursday, he glanced over at his wife, Tiffany Moss. Eman Moss was wearing a green prison jumpsuit, his hands and [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Gwinnett County woman facing the death penalty and representing herself at trial was finally given the chance on Wednesday to tell her side of the story. [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The death penalty trial of Tiffany Moss begins in earnest this morning with opening statements by the prosecution and the defense. A looming question is what exactly [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a metro Atlanta case as it weighs whether gay, lesbian and transgender workers are protected under federal anti-discrimination [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin It was the kind of question no one could imagine. 'So if in this case, and this is an if, you were picked for the jury and [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A state judicial watchdog panel this week recommended that Superior Court Judge Mack Crawford of the Griffin Judicial Circuit be removed from office for the alleged theft [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Gwinnett County woman Monday became the second person in decades to face a death-penalty trial in Georgia acting as her own attorney. Jury selection got underway [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin She's produced no list of witnesses she plans to call at trial. She has yet to look over the boxes of discovery turned over to her by [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Gainesville man who sits on death row for the 1994 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her friend is set to be the first person executed [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Mentally ill women are being held in isolation at a jail in south Fulton County under horrific conditions that increase their risk of serious psychological harm and [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A civil rights lawsuit can go forward against a former Cobb County police officer who shot an unarmed teenager as he was running away, a federal judge [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin President Donald Trump has announced his intention to nominate a former federal prosecutor to sit as a judge on the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. Steven Grimberg, [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The federal appeals court in Atlanta on Monday handed the Kardashian sisters a legal victory in a longstanding trademark dispute involving a line of cosmetic products. Kroma [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Thursday to halt the upcoming murder trial of Ryan Alexander Duke for the 2005 killing of a South Georgia beauty queen. Duke [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Two years and four months after Justin Ross Harris was convicted in the sensational hot-car murder trial, his appeal still has a ways to go, his new [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Lawyers for a man charged with killing a South Georgia beauty queen are asking the Georgia Supreme Court to delay his trial in the 14-year-old case. The [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Georgia Supreme Court justices on Tuesday talked about passing joints to one another down the bench, handing out marijuana brownies and even lacing a beer with drugs. [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin TheU.S.SupremeCourtonMonday declined to hear an appeal by Georgia inmate Keith Tharpe who contends a juror's racist views helped send Tharpe to death row. Georgia can now set [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin A Henry County landlord cannot be held liable for vicious attacks on a woman by pit bulls that had escaped the fenced-in backyard of his rental property, [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday tossed out some reportedly incriminating evidence against Henry County foster parents charged with murdering a 2-year-old child in their care. The [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Judges in Atlanta's Municipal Court are imposing illegal sentences on indigent offenders, telling them they'll have to spend time in jail if they can't pay their fines, [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin Just six days after a Texas baseball fan fell over a railing to his death in 2011, an insurance broker for Major League Baseball sent the league [...]

Byline: Bill Rankin The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law requiring dangerous sexual predators who have completed their sentences to wear electronic monitors for the rest of [...]