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Georgia Court of Appeals upholds Scott Dean conviction

...committed similar acts in 1984 when he was 14 years old.The court also dismissed Dean's claim that it was error that the trial judge would not allow the defense to present evidence that the girl had previously made a false allegation against someone...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-05-08/georgia-court-appeals-
Sumter hospital guilty of submitting $39 million in false Medicare claims

...damages for hiring the doctors for an outpatient surgery center so they would, in turn, refer more patients.The trial judge let the jury's referral finding stand but later ruled he had wrongly excluded some testimony and ordered a new trial...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-09/sumter-hospital-guilty-submit
Superior Court jury to hear Grovetown BB gun case

...guilty Tuesday in Grovetown Municipal Court to the charge of discharging a firearm within the city and requested a jury trial.Judge Travers Chance agreed to transfer the case to the Columbia County Superior Court, where it can be heard by a jury...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-01-22/superior-court-jury-he
Oversentenced? Perhaps

...Davis' sentence cruel and unusual, and they ultimately found a way to overturn the sentence: They ruled that the trial judge erred by using Davis' federal conviction to conclude he is a career criminal.Basically, the prosecutors failed in...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2012-12-29/oversentenced-perhaps
Burke County death row inmate Willie Palmer back in court

...a 2000 Augusta aggravated assault conviction."The trial judge crossed the line when he questioned defendant's experts...high court stated. "In each of those instances, the trial judge effectively disparage defendant's psychiatric defense...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-01-06/burke-county-death-row
SC court overturns death sentence

...their client's testimony might harm their case, a trial judge should have allowed Raymondeze Rivera, 34, to speak...Burns' death, including conversations he had with the trial judge about his right to testify on his own behalf.The judge...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-02-13/sc-court-overturns-death-sentence
Blood of missing SC boy found in mom's trunk, police say

...that Jennings made to police during their investigation. He also asked that the judge bar television cameras from the trial.Judge Knox McMahon said he would rule on the requests later.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-07-31/blood-missing-sc-boy-f
Judge overturns Horry County man's death sentence

...represent himself at trial. Culbertson did agree with Winkler that his original attorneys were wrong not to object when the trial judge didn't tell jurors what would happen if they remained deadlocked."The judge refused to answer the question both...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-08-20/judge-overturns-horry-county-
Judge appoints private counsel for Kelvin Johnson trial

...will appoint private counsel to handle the case."I am going to make sure that the Supreme Court is aware of what trial judges, district attorneys and defendants are having to put up with and encounter with regard to the Capital Defender Office...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-07-10/judge-appoints-private
Families often victims in death penalty case delays

...after the most recent request for delay, "I am going to make sure that the (Georgia) Supreme Court is aware of what trial judges, district attorneys and defendants are having to put up with and encounter with regard to the Capital Defender Office...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-08-05/families-often-victims