On Monday, the Brunswick District Attorney’s Office intends to formally exonerate a man convicted in the 1985 murders of a couple inside their rural church. Dennis Perry’s convictions were overtur...
County may split from Georgia judicial circuit
Columbia County may split from Georgia judicial circuit after a Georgia judge has confirmed the constitutionality of a state law that will allow a county to break away into a new judicial circuit. The...
DNA evidence points to former suspect in 1985 church murders
One night in 1985, a white man walked into an African American church in southeast Georgia and fatally shot a beloved couple. For decades, DNA evidence found at the crime scene didn’t match that of ...
Juvenile Shackling Georgia Supreme Court rule doesn’t do enough
Children in shackles and black children in particular and in general claim public attention only for a short time, if at all. That alone might explain why it has taken nearly two years of pleading fro...
Kemp’s anti-gang bill amended after opposition
When Gov. Brian Kemp’s anti-gang bill dropped last week, criminal justice reform advocates were stunned. As initially written, HB 994 would’ve drastically increased the number of crimes for which ...
DNA analysis frees Georgia Man Wrongfully Convicted
After serving nearly 20 years for a rape he didn’t commit, Kerry Robinson walked out of a South Georgia prison Wednesday and hugged his relatives’ necks....
Cell Phone data helps solve Murder Case
With the help of Geo-fencing data and Google, a cellphone helps bring a murder case to a close....