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Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges (www.theguardian.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35871278

Georgia prosecutors are facing what one expert called “probably the highest-profile failure of using conspiracy charges to indict a protest movement” in US history, after a two-year attempt to prosecute a criminal conspiracy in connection with opposition to the police training center known as Cop City.

Fulton county superior court Judge Kevin Farmer announced his decision to dismiss charges against the case’s 61 defendants during hearings this week on a handful of defense attorney motions.

After an hour-plus of discussion in this week’s hearing, Farmer came back from a break and used only 18 words to stymie the state’s prosecution, nearly three years after arrests: “At this time I do not find the attorney general had the authority to bring this Rico case.”

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[–] DecaturNature@yall.theatl.social 0 points 1 year ago

It sounds like a procedural technicality. I'd bet that the governor would have signed off on it if he had been asked. So no vindication for the defendants, but I'm sure they're happy to have the charges dropped.