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The state Supreme Court’s chief justice says the question is whether the courts need legislative help to reconcile health and safety guidelines for juries with pent-up speedy trial demands that have been tolled since March By R. Robin McDonald | September 23, 2020 The Judicial…

by Mike Petchenik – DeKalb County WSBTV Originally published on WSBTV.com For the first time in several months, some metro municipal courts are back open for business, but with a different look due to the pandemic. In Dunwoody, officials told Channel 2′s Mike Petchenik they…

The Southern Center for Human Rights and newly formed Atlanta Justice Lawyers are coordinating to recruit and train lawyers to assist demonstrators arrested protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. by Greg Land, Law.com Daily Report Online Lawrence Zimmerman was already outraged by the…

By VIRGINIA PRESCOTT & PRIA MAHADEVAN & CHASE MCGEE • MAY 15, 2020 This is a transcript of the GPB program “On Second Thought” which originally aired on May 15, 2020. Click here to listen to the original broadcast. While segments of Georgia’s economy have…

By Bill Rankin, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Originally published on ajc.com As a teenager at Valdosta High School, Joyette Holmes didn’t obsess about the latest hit music, hot movies or the school’s ever-stellar football team. She did watch “Law & Order,” though, and dreamed of becoming…

After Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by two white men on a quiet residential road in coastal Georgia, a prosecutor cited a Civil War era state law to justify the killing. The same law was invoked last year in suburban Atlanta after a white woman…

By Katheryn Tucker, Law.com Daily Report online Originally published on Law.com Daily Report Online Judge C. LaTain “Tain” Kell of the Cobb Superior Court called his intermediate drug court to order Wednesday sitting at the bench in an empty courtroom wearing latex gloves. The session…

By R. Robin McDonald and Angela Morris, Law.com Daily Report Online One day before alarms over COVID-19’s spread prompted the chief judge of Georgia’s largest judicial circuit to curtail court operations, Atlanta attorney Georgia Lord sent him an urgent message. Lord was worried. Fulton County’s…

The following is a an article about Lawrence Zimmerman, written by Greg Land, published on January 21, 2020 on the Law.com website. New GACDL Head Says Legal Reforms Made Georgia “Better,” but Work Still Remains The mission of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers…

Leanna Harris, the mother of a toddler killed in a hot car tragedy, is feeling intense public scrutiny and judgment. DEFENSE EXPERTS urge cautious comments over complete silence KATHERYN HAYES TUCKER [email protected] HELPING HIS CLIENT avoid criminal charges is the task of the attorney just…

PROSECUTOR WITHHELD knowledge that alleged victim recanted key testimony in child molestation case GREG LAND | [email protected] A NEW TRIAL has been ordered for a man convicted of aggravated child molestation after his defense attorneys told the judge they’d overheard the prosecutor confide to a…

KATHERYN HAYES TUCKER A Jamaican-born Lawrenceville resident who was banished from a neighboring county for speeding has won a partial reversal of his sentence. Ricardo Riley was stopped for speeding last year in the Walton County town of Loganville, 19 miles from his home. The…

Is It Illegal to Eat and Drive in Georgia? News story written by Katheryn Hayes Tucker and published January 29, 2015 in the Daily Report Burger Consumption, Distracted Driving and the Police Criminal defense attorney Lawrence Zimmerman said he is representing Madison Turner, the Alabama…

Katheryn Hayes Tucker [email protected] Anonymous Tips, Drugs in Car Aren’t Enough for Home Search, Panel Says Anonymous Tips are not adequate reasons to have “probable cause” to search a residence, per a Georgia Court of Appeals judge. The Georgia Court of Appeals has thrown out…

Katheryn Hayes Tucker [email protected] Federal Judge Gives Prisoners a Heads Up On a Quicker Chance at Freedom A Federal Appeals court judge has sent a message to more than 100 prisoners who could be eligible to go free sooner because they were sentenced under a law…

Items of Interest in the Legal Field This page provides links to news clips about or featuring attorney Lawrence Zimmerman, and links to announcements, opinion articles and position statements for legal matters in the news. WSBTV – Leanna Harris LeAnna Harris Polygraph Leanna Harris Defense…