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Georgia Supreme Court to stop hearing most murder cases by 2028
Georgia’s highest court announced that it will stop routinely hearing most murder case appeals starting July 2027. These conviction appeals, which currently make up over half of published cases, will be handled by the Georgia Court of Appeals instead. Chief Justice Nels Peterson called for this change to end a longstanding practice he argued was consuming too much judicial workload.
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