Archive for November, 2009
The Supreme Court of Georgia recently held that the state’s failure to disclose a co-defendant’s changed sentence from the plea agreement, which allowed the co-defendant to potentially reduce his sentence after testifying against the defendant, robbed the defendant of his right to impeach the co-defendant by showing a motivation to lie.
In State v. Gonnella, the defendant, Gonnella, was convicted of felony murder but acquitted of malice murder. On the night in question, Gonnella and his friend Evans drove to an ...
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The Court of Appeals ruled earlier this month that an officer lacked probable cause to make a search incident to arrest, since the arrest was supported entirely by a third party’s statement that the suspect placed something in his pocket. The Court reasoned that there must generally be some evidence directly linking the suspect to the suspected criminal activity to support probable cause.
In Lawrence v. State, the defendant, Jack Lawrence was convicted of cocaine possession after a traffic stop. ...
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The manager of the Atlanta strip club Body Tap, Frederick Richardson, was arrested for manslaughter in connection with the death of A.J. Jewell in October. Richardson’s attorney asked the judge this week to dismiss the charge after an autopsy revealed that Richardson may not have been the primary actor in causing Jewell’s death
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
Jewell is best known for being the former fiancé of Kandi Buress, a member of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta”. ...
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A Massachusetts man was recently charged with having images of child pornography on his computer. After spending $250,000 on legal fees and computer experts, he was able to show that a computer virus was responsible for the images. Computer experts warn that this may not be an isolated incident.
ABC News has the story.
In the case above, it was revealed that a virus programmed the man’s computer to visit up to 40 child pornography websites every minute. ...
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