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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Now Playing Synopsis: Writer/director Shola Lynch follows up her 2004 documentary Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed with this film centered on the struggle of educator and activist Angela Davis, an outspoken UCLA professor whose affiliation with the Communist Party and the Black Panthers landed her on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list while challenging our perceptions of political freedom in America. From her early years as a student in the U.S. and abroad to her highly publicized arrest and trial following the brazen hostage-taking and murder of Marin County judge Harold Haley in California, Lynch's film leaves no stone unturned as it explores every remarkable detail of Davis' life, and allows her to tell her own stories through a series of intimate interviews. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Angela Davis Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

New year brings tighter abortion restrictions, tax changes in Georgia

...unlikely to live. The law also would permit abortions to protect the life or health of the mother.However, a Fulton County judge has temporarily blocked the law from taking effect Jan. 1. Superior Court Judge Doris Downs is expected to rule sometime...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-12-29/new-year-brings-tighter-
Former lawmaker says abortion stance was worth cost

...thought to become able to feel pain ? was to have gone into effect at the start of the year. Last month, a Fulton County judge temporarily halted it while she considers the merits of a constitutional challenge filed by the American Civil Liberties...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-01-22/former-lawmaker-says-abo
Georgia man might go free after 2006 conviction

...wife and NAACP leaders in Georgia and North Carolina waged a public relations campaign for his freedom after a Baldwin County judge ruled he was entitled to a new trial.On Tuesday, McNeil entered a guilty plea to a manslaughter charge to end an...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-02-12/ga-man-may-go-free-aft
Judge's decision brings to light problems in Georgia Capital Defender program

...The fanfare that met its creation soon withered as legislative funding dwindled.In 2007, for example, Fay ette County Judge Johnnie Caldwell removed capital defenders from a death penalty case when they said they weren't prepared because...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-07-14/judges-decision-brings
Rants & Raves

...all. Please look into a mirror before you go outside.I THINK SCOTT DEAN is innocent. I am a native of Columbia County. Judge Blanchard should have given him a new trial.I WATCHED THE BET Awards and I was so disappointed in the terrible language...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-07-16/rants-and-raves
Officers suspended after traffic stop with judge

...pay for their actions at a traffic checkpoint where a local judge was stopped.Officials say officers stopped Bibb County Judge Howard Simms on Sept. 22 for a license check during an operation they called "Rolling Thunder." Sheriff's reports...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-10-05/officers-suspended-aft
Across Georgia

...for their actions at a traffic checkpoint where a judge was stopped.Sheriff's officials say officers stopped Bibb County Judge Howard Simms on Sept. 22 for a license check during an operation they called "Rolling Thunder." Police reports show...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-10-05/across-georgia
AG to appeal release of man in self-defense shooting case

...the release of a Cobb County man convicted of murder because of what the judge said were errors at his trial.Baldwin County Judge Hulane George ruled last month that legal mistakes at trial unfairly undercut John McNeil's argument that the killing...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-10-17/ag-appeal-release-man-
Lawsuit seeks runoff in U.S. House District 7

...District, and the attorney general's office believes the court will do just that.Soon after the filing in Horry County, Judge Larry Hyman Jr. ordered election officials not to calibrate voting machines for the runoff or distribute runoff materials...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-06-15/lawsuit-seeks-runoff-us-house-distr