While there was a lot of talk and no action this week from Gadsden city leaders regarding the proposed Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant on Steele Station Road, there are now two pending legal actions regarding the plant.
In addition to the lawsuit filed by the firm of Knowles & Sullivan challenging the zoning of the proposed site on Gadsden Airport Authority property, an action filed last week challenges the City of Gadsden, Gadsden Water Works and Sewer Board and Gadsden-Etowah Industrial Development Authority, saying the organizations have failed to provide public records requested by Christie Knowles, who is representing Choice Fabricators Inc. and the nonprofit Advance Etowah.
ATLANTA — The evidence police typically obtain through no-knock search warrants aren’t worth the inherent risks of knocking unannounced on a citizen’s door in the middle of the night, a
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Georgia defense lawyer takes aim at no-knock search warrants
Dave Williams
ATLANTA The evidence police typically obtain through no-knock search warrants aren’t worth the inherent risks of knocking unannounced on a citizen’s door in the middle of the night, a criminal defense lawyer said Tuesday.
“No-knock warrants are almost exclusively used for drug cases. They’re never used for kidnapping, burglary, murder or theft,” Catherine Bernard, a partner with Atlanta’s Bernard & Johnson LLC, told members of a state Senate study committee. “[But] no-knock warrants are incredibly dangerous for everyone involved on both sides of the transaction.”
The Senate Study Committee on Law Enforcement Reform was formed this year as a follow-up to a hate crimes bill the General Assembly passed at the end of this year’s legislative session in June. Both the Senate panel and the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee held hearings during the summer and fall to consider potential reform
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