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Daily Report reporter R. Robin McDonald's journalism career includes stints as a staff writer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Wichita Eagle, and The Anniston Star and as a trial tracker at CourtTV and CNN. She is the author of two true crime books -- Black Widow: The True Story of the Hilley Poisonings and Secrets Never Lie: The Death of Sara Tokars. A Duke University graduate, she has won more than 50 news awards and is a five-time Pulitzer nominee.
August 15, 2018
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp pushed back Tuesday against a pending motion in federal court in Atlanta to junk the state's computerized voting.
August 10, 2018
Freeman Mathis & Gary attorneys defending Clayton County, Georgia, in a discrimination fight over sexual orientation say the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit got it right in a finding that discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation is not prohibited under federal law.
August 10, 2018
A federal case in Atlanta overseeing a push for paper ballots in the November election includes an affidavit from a Maryland election judge, who said the switch to paper ballots there made the elections easier to conduct.
August 08, 2018
Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks is expected to plead guilty at an Aug. 13 hearing, federal prosecutors say.
August 06, 2018
Colorado-based Coalition for Good Governance and voters from four Georgia counties claim the state's voting infrastructure is too old and too vulnerable to trust.
August 03, 2018
Prime Healthcare, the nation's fifth-largest hospital chain, has agreed to settle a federal whistleblower case filed by a nurse in one of the company's California hospitals.
August 03, 2018
Richard Thompson's bond was revoked after a former girlfriend, who had accused him of aggravated stalking in 2017, filed a new aggravated stalking charge against him and after he put a gun to his head during a traffic stop.
August 02, 2018
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said Diane McIver’s last conscious act became one of the driving forces behind his office’s successful murder prosecution.
July 31, 2018
After threatening to kill himself, Richard S. Thompson, who resigned in 2004 as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia after abusing his authority, has been jailed on a second felony aggravated stalking charge. Thompson also faces revocation of his bond on a pending stalking charge after he allegedly resumed stalking his former girlfriend last week.
July 30, 2018
The judge's order also includes words that the agencies are required to search for.
July 27, 2018
The state Judicial Qualifications Commission has issued a formal advisory opinion warning judges that while the Code of Judicial Conduct cannot bar their spouses from hosting political events and fundraisers, if spouses decline to opt for another venue, judges can't be affiliated with the event or even show up.
July 27, 2018
Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford recused himself from all criminal and civil forfeiture cases the day after Griffin Circuit District Attorney Ben Coker asked the Georgia Attorney General’s Office to appoint a prosecutor to review possible improprieties.
July 26, 2018
Superior Court Judge Robert "Mack" Crawford of the Griffin Judicial Circuit is under investigation for directed a court clerk in a handwritten note to pay him more than $15,000 from the court registry.
July 24, 2018
The state Judicial Qualifications Commission accused Griffin Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Mack Crawford of violating the state judicial ethics code when he gave a court clerk a note ordering her to write him a check for more than $15,000 from the court registry.
July 24, 2018
A federal jury in Atlanta convicted the men in February of multiple fraud charges in connection with separate schemes to manipulate the stock market.
July 23, 2018
Federal prosecutors say the employee used his knowledge of the hack to make $75,000 off Equifax stock before the hack became public.
July 19, 2018
The indictment of 12 Russian military officers on charges that they interfered with the U.S. 2016 presidential election contends that one of the states they targeted was Georgia.
July 17, 2018
Last year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia and parent company Anthem Insurance Cos. rolled out a new policy that included refusals claims based on emergency room visits if the insurers later deemed them non-emergencies. Medical associations have been fighting the policy as dangerous and a violation of federal law ever since. On Tuesday, two groups—the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Medical Association of Georgia—sued to block the policy.
July 17, 2018
When a Jackson County couple challenged the county's decision to boost the the tax assessment on their home by $534, they appealed. Three law firms, six years and a jury trial later, they won. The county had to pay the legal bill.
July 13, 2018
The founder of Suwanee-based real estate investment and advisory firm Capital Investment International Inc. pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge accusing her of embezzling $22 million from investors, according to the U.S. attorney in Atlanta.
July 13, 2018
The political career of former U.S. Rep. and attorney Pat Swindall, 67, fell nearly as fast as he rose to national prominance as Georgia turned from a Democratic to a Republican-dominated state. But he was never able to escape the political controversies that always seemed to dog him.
July 12, 2018
A federal lawsuit claims that the former band director of South Gwinnett High School in Snellville had a track record of sexually inappropriate conduct before he was hired by the Gwinett school district, where he allegedly assaulted multiple female band students.
July 10, 2018
Now that Atlanta attorney Claud "Tex" McIver has begun serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Diane, the court-appointed executrix of Diane McIver's estate, in tandem with Tex McIver's lawyers, have decided to sell the 80-acre property near Lake Oconee, although who will ultimately get the proceeds remains in dispute.
June 28, 2018
Rising star Britt Grant, on track to become the newest member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, has been added to Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court candidates. The list includes Grant mentor Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington and her fellow Georgia Supreme Court Justice, Keith Blackwell.
June 28, 2018
As president of the American Bar Association from 2016-2017, Linda Klein took on the Trump administration, the U.S. Justice Department and foreign nations, calling on them to uphold justice and defend the rule of law.
June 28, 2018
Federal authorities contend that an Equifax software engineering manager, who has since been fired, learned of Equifax's massive 2017 data breach before it went public. Federal prosecutors in Atlanta contend he then bought Equifax put options—and sold them at a profit when news of the data breach went public and Equifax's stock price plummeted.
June 27, 2018
The 5-4 decision appears to be a win for Florida, which claims Georgia is overusing water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin.
June 26, 2018
A U.S. Air Force veteran and NSA contractor accused of leaking information on Russia's attempts to hack into state election systems in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking information the government claimed was critical to the national defense to an online news magazine.
June 25, 2018
Just nine days after Atlanta police obtained a felony warrant charging attorney Lindsey Brunswick Kamin with false imprisonment, allegedly for refusing to open the security gate of her home so police detectives who were working a neighborhood yard damage case could drive away, Fulton County prosecutors dismissed the charge.
June 25, 2018
Atlanta attorney Loren Collins created a spoof Trump Hotel website aimed at "tender age" detention centers, saying they should go down as President Donald Trump's historical legacy.
June 21, 2018
The mother of U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner says her daughter intends to enter a guilty plea next week after more than a year in jail without bond.
June 21, 2018
Attorney Antonio Mari told a colleague Wednesday morning that he was afraid of a client's ex-husband and had bought a gun.
June 20, 2018
The Federal Circuit gave new impetus to a long-running battle between Atlanta's The Coca-Cola Co. and rival Royal Crown Cola/Dr. Pepper Snapple over the use of the word Zero in no-calorie sports and soft drinks.
June 19, 2018
The Campaign for Accountability sought to review communications between the Consumer Credit Research Foundation and Jennifer Lewis Priestley, a KSU professor hired to research the effects of payday loans on consumer finances.
June 18, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court overrode recommendations to suspend the bar license of Athens attorney Gary Coulter, choosing instead to disbar him over multiple ethics infractions.
June 14, 2018
Atlanta police detectives were looking for the suspect driver of a pickup truck who had rolled through neighborhood lawns when they showed up at the home of two Atlanta attorneys.
June 13, 2018
A three-judge panel of the Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a Fulton County trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit against Dentons that claimed the firm unjustly enriched itself by accepting more than $1.3 million in legal fees from the trusts of Atlanta industrialist and philanthropist Walter Bunzl to defend the embattled trustee against a suit by Bunzl heirs.
June 11, 2018
Lawyers for three Atlanta residents who rely on wheelchairs to get around say the City of Atlanta has violated the terms of a 2009 settlement with the Justice Department that required the city to repair deteriorating sidewalks.
June 11, 2018
Less than 24 hours after a billboard supporting Reality Winner debuted in Augusta, U.S. District Chief Judge Randal Hall issued an order warning lawyers for both sides that he will hold them in contempt if they speak publicly about the case.
June 08, 2018
Texas-based Exclusive Legal Marketing has been barred in three states from deceptive trade practices that channel prospective clients to other firms.
June 06, 2018
The panel verbally brawled in concurring opinions over the credibility of state witnesses.
June 04, 2018
Lamar, Archer & Cofrin was pursuing more than $104,000 in legal fees a former client had discharged in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
June 04, 2018
Atlanta attorney Claud "Tex" McIver petitioned the Supreme Court of Georgia to voluntarily suspend his bar license until after a motion for a new trial and his appeal of a murder conviction are decided.
May 31, 2018
William Leonard, who served as director of the U.S. Information Security Oversight Office under President George W. Bush, is slated to testify on behalf of U.S. Air Force veteran Reality Winner, whom the U.S. Justice Department has accused of espionage over the alleged leak of a document detailing Russian efforts to hack into state election systems in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
May 30, 2018
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta sought a 33-month prison term, calling Janet West’s actions the epitome of “corporate greed.”
May 25, 2018
The court-appointed administrator of Diane McIver's estate has authorized the lawsuit against McIver's husband and the sole witness to the shooting.
May 24, 2018
A public interest law group has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the City of Doraville is relying on Municipal Court fines and fees generated by traffic tickets and city ordinance violations to unconstitutionally bolster city revenues.
May 23, 2018
Georgia law dictated McIver’s life sentence, foreclosing any discretion by Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert McBurney, except on the question of whether McIver could be eligible for parole.
May 22, 2018
Alston & Bird partner Paul Monnin has replaced Dentons counsel in representing former Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan partner Bennett Kight in a federal fraud case.
May 21, 2018
Last year, the executive director of the state judicial watchdog agency issued informal guidelines to a South Georgia magistrate judge restricting some of her activities as president of the State Bar of Georgia's Young Lawyers Division that might violate the state Code of Judicial Conduct.
May 18, 2018
Ken Hodges, a candidate in the only contested race for a slot on the state Court of Appeals, says he sees no conflict in simultaneously sitting on the state's second-highest court and serving as bar president.
May 17, 2018
Ken Shigley told a political forum he won a felony drug case against a student registering black voters, even though he believed the charge "smelled bad."
May 17, 2018
Ken Shigley told a political forum he once successfully prosecuted a student registering black voters on a felony drug charge, even though he believed the charge "smelled bad" and tried to lose the case.
May 17, 2018
Ken Shigley told a political forum he won a felony drug case against a student registering black voters, even though he believed the charge "smelled bad."
May 16, 2018
A public records fight over documents associated with Northside Hospital's $100 million acquisition of four private medical practices has pitted the hospital against a Jones Day partner who may be suing on behalf of an anonymous client.
May 14, 2018
Walter Jospin has landed at Finch McCranie, where he joins former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson and a roster of former federal prosecutors.
May 09, 2018
The team has petitioned Chief Judge Randal Hall of the Southern District of Georgia to reverse an April 28 decision blocking the subpoenas.
May 07, 2018
Three Georgia Court of Appeals judges, including the chief, joined with six state Supreme Court justices in a case asking them to reverse their appellate colleagues and restore immunity to the former chief judge of DeKalb County's problematic—and defunct—Recorders Court.
May 04, 2018
State Appeals Court candidate Ken Shigley has drawn the attention of the JQC for a press release touting his conservative Republican support while targeting his opponent "a lifelong Democrat" in what's supposed to be a nonpartisan race.
May 03, 2018
William G. Johnston presided over Griffin Municipal Court for seven years, “treating everyone with fairness and compassion,” the city manager said.
May 03, 2018
U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash issued a 34-page protective order in the Equifax data breach multidistrict litigation but warned lawyers and their clients that they should treat documents filed in the case as "presumptively public" and use their "best efforts" to limit confidential filings.
May 01, 2018
A Georgia man threatened to kill U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., for speaking out against neo-Nazis and then warned the staff of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., that he should be "hunted down" by "true patriots."
April 27, 2018
Lawyers took to social media to decry the verdict as inconsistent in acquitting former Fisher & Phillips partner Tex McIver of malice murder but convicting him of felony murder.
April 25, 2018
A manslaughter conviction could still have allowed Tex McIver to benefit from Diane McIver's death under Georgia law.
April 23, 2018
The jury also convicted McIver of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and influencing a witness.
April 23, 2018
The jury told the judge Monday that they cannot decide whether Tex McIver intended to kill his wife when he shot her.
April 20, 2018
Jurors deliberating the fate of former Fisher & Phillips partner Tex McIver said they were going home at 4 p.m., apparently changed their minds, then changed them back. At 4:10 p.m., the jury said, buh-bye.
April 19, 2018
A Fulton County jury posed 298 questions to witnesses testifying in the ongoing murder trial of Atlanta attorney and former Fisher & Phillips partner Tex McIver. They didn't stop, even after they began deliberating.
April 18, 2018
Fulton County Chief Judge Robert McBurney, at the urging of defense attorneys, said yes to the jury question.
April 17, 2018
Prosecutors battled with defense lawyers for more than five hours over whether Diane McIver's shooting was an accident or financially motivated.
April 16, 2018
Fulton County prosecutors on Monday called their own sleep expert to counter testimony by an neurologist called by the defense who said that Tex McIver could have experienced a "confusional arousal" that startled him awake and caused him to shoot his wife.
April 16, 2018
Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Robert McBurney told prosecutors in open court he had "independent information"' about a phone call his colleague, Judge Craig Schwall, had made to defendant Tex McIver, and that it "wasn't sinister."
April 13, 2018
When Atlanta attorney Tex McIver was first arrested, he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. A county grand jury later elevated those charges to murder.
April 13, 2018
Claud "Tex" McIver did not take the stand as the defense wrapped up Friday.
April 12, 2018
Prosecution witnesses have testified that Annie Anderson, who was a massage therapist for Tex and Diane McIver, was frequently in McIver's company the week after his wife died.
April 11, 2018
Tex McIver's diagnoses came 16 months after he shot his wife, Diane.
April 10, 2018
After he was charged with felony involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct over the fatal shooting of his wife, Tex McIver told a longtime Atlanta media consultant that he could share a success bonus with the county district attorney.
April 09, 2018
Longtime political analyst and commentator Bill Crane testified Monday that Atlanta attorney Tex McIver told him Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall had called to warn him his arrest was imminent.
April 09, 2018
After a weeklong spring break hiatus, the murder trial of Atlanta attorney and former Fisher Phillips partner Tex McIver reopened with testimony about his demeanor when he was notified that his wife, Diane McIver, had died.
April 06, 2018
Fulton County prosecutors rested their case Friday against Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers' former housekeeper and her lawyers on criminal felony eavesdropping charges for a sex tape they made.
April 05, 2018
Waffle House Chairman Joe Rogers' testimony that he "had never pursued anyone in an unwanted fashion" opened the door to questions about an earlier harassment claim by another former housekeeper.
April 04, 2018
Joe Rogers Jr. testified during a criminal eavesdropping trial over a sex tape his housekeeper recorded of him in 2012.
April 03, 2018
The judge earlier in the day tossed out the conspiracy charge against the attorneys and their client.
April 02, 2018
Former Cobb County Assistant District Attorney John Butters and Marietta lawyer David Cohen are accused of violating Georgia's eavesdropping law by helping their client record a sexual encounter with a Waffle House executive.
March 30, 2018
Atlanta attorney Tex McIver's defense lawyer, Bruce Harvey, elicited testimony that an Atlanta homicide detective had suggested Diane McIver's shooting was an accident as Assistant District Attorney Clint Rucker questioned omissions in the police investigation.
March 30, 2018
Annie Anderson, a massage therapist and friend of Tex and Diane McIver, has surfaced in testimony by four witnesses as being in Tex McIver's company in the immediate aftermath of his wife's fatal shooting.
March 29, 2018
Atlanta attorney Tex McIver and his lawyers have always said the gun he was holding fired accidentally when his wife was shot.
March 28, 2018
Without cash infusions from his wife, Tex McIver's bank accounts would have been in the red when he shot and killed her, according to testimony Wednesday.
March 27, 2018
Tex McIver had mortgaged his interest in the couple's ranch to his wife on a $350,000 loan he had not repaid when he killed her.
March 26, 2018
The ex-wife of a Fulton County Superior Court judge, and Diane McIver's boss and mentor, said she adored the judge's son, who was her godson.
March 26, 2018
Fulton County Chief Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney told jurors at the beginning of the third week of testimony that judges are not exempt from jury duty.
March 23, 2018
A funeral director said that Atlanta attorney Tex McIver didn't pick up his wife's ashes for more than a month until after one of Diane McIver's former friends anonymously had paid the crematory bill.
March 23, 2018
Atlanta attorney Claud “Tex” McIver appeared far more interested in his reputation and his bank account than his wife’s shooting death, according to a longtime co-worker and friend of Diane McIver.
March 22, 2018
Jurors on Thursday listened to an audio recording of Tex McIver's first interview with detectives after he shot and killed his wife.
March 22, 2018
“What do I say? What’s the plan?
March 21, 2018
The husband of shooting witness Dani Jo Carter and a family friend testified that, after shooting his wife, Atlanta attorney Tex McIver feared Carter's actions would make him look guilty.
March 21, 2018
Dani Jo Carter, a longtime friend of shooting victim Diane McIver, testified Wednesday that she had witnessed a shoving match between Tex McIver and his wife months before he shot her.
March 20, 2018
Defense attorney Bruce Harvey began a cross-examination on Tuesday of Dani Jo Carter—the sole witness to the shooting.
March 20, 2018
Dani Jo Carter testified Tuesday that she still owed about $2,000 on a $15,000 loan from Diane McIver.
March 19, 2018
Dani Jo Carter, the only witness to the shooting of Atlanta attorney Tex McIver's wife, Diane, began testifying to open the third week of the murder trial Monday.
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