DeKalb Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey issued an order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from releasing "any and all photographs, visual images or depictions of Meredith Emerson which show Emerson in an unclothed or dismembered state."
Emerson's family sought the order after learning of the request for copies of crime scene photos of the 24-year-old, attorney Lindsay Haigh said. Emerson's admitted killer, Gary Michael Hilton, received a life sentence in exchange for leading investigators to her body in the north Georgia mountains on January 7, 2008, six days after Emerson disappeared.
The judge's order came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed "The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act," which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor.
I fail to understand why Hustler even wants these photographs. There is no reason to have them except for salacious reasons.
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Askin' ain't gettin', Phil:
Lawyers for imprisoned music producer Phil Spector urged a state appellate court this week to throw out his second-degree murder conviction for killing actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra mansion.
In papers filed Wednesday, attorneys for the music legend cited several arguments as to why justices from the 2nd District Court of Appeal should grant the 70-year-old a new trial, but they focused heavily on a judge’s decision to allow testimony from five women who said Spector menaced them with firearms in the decades leading up to Clarkson’s shooting.
Those accounts, which portrayed Spector as a violent misogynist, became “the heart of the state’s case, the sine qua non of its efforts to gain a conviction” and amounted to impermissible character testimony, the lawyers wrote.
Naturally this is routine in murder cases. No doubt the request will be denied.
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There was quite a brawl in a Detroit courtroom today:
A murderer and her supporters battled in a Detroit courtroom this morning as she was ordered to serve more than 22 years in prison for giving her teenage son a gun that he used to kill another teen at a recreation center.
Tarranisha Davis “basically just went ballistic,” said Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Ryan who presided over her trial with her son and co-defendant Tremain.
The woman “was punching yelling and screaming” as court security officers and Detroit policemen who were in the courtroom tried to control her, Ryan said.
“Then these other people jumped over the railing and start fighting, too,” Ryan said. “It spilled into the hallway.”
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