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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.
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.
March 16, 2018
Terri Sullivan, an emergency room nurse at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, testified that, when she learned Diane McIver had been shot, she was "suspicious there had been foul play."
March 15, 2018
Four nurses who were at Emory University Hospital's ER the night Diane McIver died recounted the behavior and statements made by Tex McIver when asked what had happened and how his wife was shot.
March 15, 2018
A memorial service for public interest lawyer Foster Corbin will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at A.S. Turner & Sons Funeral Home in Decatur.
March 14, 2018
The SEC accused the former executive of capitalizing on confidential company information to cash in his stock options in advance of Equifax’s public announcement of a massive data breach.
March 14, 2018
The SEC accused the former executive of capitalizing on confidential company information to cash in his stock options in advance of Equifax’s public announcement of a massive data breach.
March 13, 2018
Fulton County prosecutors contend that Tex McIver shot and killed his wife to maintain his diminishing wealth and secure his beloved ranch that he had mortgaged to her for a $350,000 loan he couldn't pay. Fisher Phillips executives detailed the extent of the salary cuts to a jury in McIver's ongoing murder trial.
March 13, 2018
A Fulton County prosecutor told a jury that Atlanta attorney Claud "Tex" McIver had lost his equity partnership, causing his income to plummet, and had mortgaged his beloved ranch to his wife when he killed her. His lawyers claim the shooting may have been prompted by a sleep disorder.
March 12, 2018
Opening statements are slated to begin Tueday after Fulton County prosecutors and Atlanta attorney Claud "Tex" McIver's defense team spent more than a week questioning prospective jurors.
March 08, 2018
Fulton County prosecutors have subpoenaed journalists from four news organizations that have covered the shooting death of Atlanta attorney Tex McIver's wife, Diane. But they have been circumspect about what it is they want to know.
March 06, 2018
As the murder trial of a former Fisher & Phillips partner gets underway, prosecutors want to introduce hearsay testimony that Diane McIver changed the terms of her will to her financially-strapped husband's detriment.
March 05, 2018
Questions for prospective jurors, who will determine the fate of former Fisher & Phillips partner Tex McIver, suggest narrative as his murder trial over the shooting death of his wife gets underway.
March 02, 2018
Attorney Claud "Tex" McIver and his lawyers say the 2016 shooting death of his wife Diane McIver was a tragic accident. Prosecutors are adamant that it was a case of malice murder.
March 01, 2018
Dr. Joseph Burton, once the state's premier medical examiner, faces new charges that he engaged in an opioid drug distribution conspiracy in return for sexual favors.
March 01, 2018
Equifax on Thursday expanded the number of consumers whose financial data and personal information have been compromised to a breathtaking 148 million.
February 28, 2018
Former Acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates and longtime civil rights activist Vernon Jordan Jr. of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld called for serious debate on gun control and urged their audience not to lose heart at the state of the nation.
February 27, 2018
The lawsuit claims Chief Superior Court Judge Brenda Weaver of the Appalachian Judicial Circuit sought their arrest and indictment after they tried to get records for her office's operating account.
February 26, 2018
Lawyers for the Air Force veteran accused of leaking a classified document are asking a judge to suppress comments she made to the FBI during a search of her home last year.
February 23, 2018
Fran Rogers, wife of Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr., says her husband's former housekeeper and the housekeeper's lawyers are defending themselves against criminal charges by falsely accusing her husband.
February 21, 2018
Lawyer defending Atlanta area attorneys David Cohen and John Butters and their former client—all of whom are facing criminal prosecution for violating the state's eavesdropping laws—want a jury to know about Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers' alleged prior bad acts.
February 15, 2018
Billie Winner-Davis says federal prosecutors in Augusta, Georgia, have unfairly distorted her daughter's words and military service to jail her without bond and convict her as a spy.
February 14, 2018
The SEC says Timothy Batchelor used more than $1 million of investor funds for personal expenses, including student loans, university courses and new vehicles.
February 12, 2018
The lawyers appointed to lead the litigation on behalf of consumers and financial institutions in the Equifax multidistrict litigation include a number of familiar faces who also served in leadership roles in the 2014 Home Depot data breach MDL.
February 12, 2018
Former Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan partner Bennett Kight's defense team wants to bar public scrutiny of records they claim shows their client's Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
February 08, 2018
A Chattanooga resident's federal suit against the City of Lookout Mountain, Georgia, over a new ordinance banning short-term vacation rentals reflects a growing national trend in litigation intended to address short-term online leasing.
February 07, 2018
Attorneys at an Athens firm with a growing national reputation as leaders in medical MDL are representing Candler County and the county hospital authority in their fight against drug manufacturers and distributors.
February 07, 2018
Members of the bar, including a former dean at Georgetown University's law school, partners at Atlanta's Holland & Knight and Smith, Gambrell & Russell, a former Baltimore city prosecutor and an advocate for the High Court of South Africa petitioned a federal judge for leniency for Atlanta's former chief procurement officer Adam Lorenzo Smith.
February 05, 2018
The judge ruled Bennett Kight is competent to face federal bank and wire fraud charges over allegations he stole at least $2 million from three trusts he managed for the heirs of Walter Bunzl.
February 02, 2018
After his presidential commission when Atlanta was steeped in snow, U.S. District Judge Mike Brown said he took his oath of office in a private ceremony attended only by the chief judge, Brown's wife, and his daughters.
February 01, 2018
The panel specifically called out Troutman Sanders attorney Brian P. Watt for convincing the district court to ignore the previous order.
January 31, 2018
Former NSA contractor Reality Winner's defense team had called her continued detention without bond "manifestly unjust."
January 26, 2018
Millard Farmer, who made his name as an aggressive death penalty combatant across the South, was found by a preponderance of the evidence to have violated Georgia's racketeering law with his legal tactics.
January 26, 2018
Executives of South Georgia's now-defunct Peanut Corp. of America were convicted of perpetuating and then covering up a 2008 nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds and killed nine.
January 25, 2018
An internal Justice Department memo that spells out specific, new criteria for federal prosecutors to use in determining whether to dismiss a whistleblower case may be more defense-oriented but, while a reason for caution, raises no immediate alarms.
January 24, 2018
The lawsuit claims the death of a stunt double on the set of "The Walking Dead" was the result of pressure on the series' production companies and staff to save money by "cutting corners" on safety.
January 23, 2018
Attorneys defending former Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan partner Bennett Kight say their client has dementia and is no longer competent to assist in his defense.
January 17, 2018
The snow, predictably, has shut everything down in metro Atlanta. Closed is the operative word for courts and law schools.
January 16, 2018
Virginia-based Bassett Mirror Co. has settled a whistleblower case brought by a Huntsville, Alabama, merchant who sold furniture online following a similar $15 million settlement by its co-defendant.
January 16, 2018
U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas Thrash Jr. has set up separate litigation tracks for 334 consumer suits and 62 suits by financial institutions against Equifax. Thrash also will preside over separate securities fraud claims against the Atlanta-based credit bureau.
January 11, 2018
U.S. District Senior Judge Charles Pannell Jr. said the 2014 warrantless, no-knock raid of a venue that Fulton County Deputy Devon Brown had rented in a south Atlanta strip mall for meetings of his motorcycle club “was unlawful from the start.” The judge also sanctioned the city and said Brown could seek punitive damages.
January 09, 2018
A Cobb County man was charged with trying to arrange for the murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend, an indictment that came near the 25th anniversary of another infamous murder-for-hire.
January 09, 2018
Randy Evans' nomination as ambassador to Luxembourg had been in limbo since Dec. 21 since its expiration at the end of the 2017 Congress. But not for long.
January 08, 2018
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit called "perturbing" the circumstances surrounding the criminal investigation and prosecution of the former general counsel and COO of Glock, Inc. but still decided to affirm the trial court's dismissal of the former Glock executive's malicious prosecution suit against the international gunmaker and its lawyers.
January 05, 2018
The White House has renominated two state Court of Appeals judges to posts on the Eleventh Circuit and Northern District of Georgia. Three other judicial nominations did not expire but were held over by the U.S. Senate for further consideration.
January 03, 2018
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's appointments include the first African-American woman to serve as district attorney in the Rockdale Judicial Circuit.
January 03, 2018
Nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Northern District of Georgia bench and Luxembourg ambassadorship are in limbo after the U.S. Senate failed to act on their pending confirmations—the result of a Senate rule that causes the nominations to expire once Congress adjourns.
January 02, 2018
U.S. District Judge William Duffey Jr. will take senior status July 1, but a committee reporting to Georgia's U.S. senators is already searching for his replacement.
December 29, 2017
Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a former intern who orchestrated the arrest of citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale to the superior court bench in the circuit where Tisdale was prosecuted for filming a Republican political rally.
December 13, 2017
Nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth "Lisa" Branch appeared Wednesday at her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
December 12, 2017
After an 832-vote loss to Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta mayoral candidate Mary Norwood's lawyers are asking for a recount that includes hand counts of paper ballots, recanvassing electronic voting machine tallies, reconsideration of all provisional ballots and scrutiny of every voter certification form.
December 11, 2017
VOTERGA has asked Georgia's governor not to appoint attorney and part-time magistrate judge Clint Bearden to the superior court bench, citing his role in the arrest and prosecution of citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale.
December 11, 2017
Toyota is battling to limit potential damages in a wrongful death case filed 23 years after the automobile manufacturer settled a personal injury case based on the same catastrophic injury and product liability claims.
December 07, 2017
Hundreds of cases stemming from a massive hack of Atlanta-based Equifax that compromised the personal and financial data of more than 145 million people, will be consolidated in federal court in Atlanta and presided over by the district's chief judge.
December 06, 2017
First Amendment lawyers say that the conviction of Georgia citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale for misdemeanor resisting arrest, even though she was cleared of felony obstruction and criminal trespass, could embolden more prosecutions of journalists gathering the news.
December 01, 2017
Unlike President Donald Trump's former campaign manager and senior aide, who are under house arrest following their indictment on charges that they conspired against the U.S. and acted as unregistered foreign agents for a pro-Russian government in the Ukraine, accused media leaker Reality Winner must remain in jail until her trial next year.
November 30, 2017
A homeless indigent man was jailed for 72 days after being charged with holding a "homeless please help" sign on a public sidewalk in Atlanta simply because he couldn't afford to pay the $200 bail required to secure his release.
November 29, 2017
A former Fulton County detention officer has pleaded guilty to accepting more than $7,000 in bribes from a bonding agent with Roswell's AA OK Bonds to recommend defendants to her bonding company.
November 29, 2017
Veteran criminal defense lawyer Don Samuel of Atlanta's Garland, Samuel & Loeb said he happily joined the team defending Claud "Tex" McIver against charges that he murdered his wife.
November 17, 2017
A Macon judge has rejected claims by the state's former attorney general that an Atlanta lawyer who hires himself out as a special prosecutor is illegally taking contingency fees from civil asset forfeitures he arranges.
November 15, 2017
The Supreme Court of Georgia rejects motions for reconsideration, sticking with its decisions to reinstate criminal charges against two metro Atlanta lawyers and their client and letting the lawyers' disqualification stand in the Waffle House sex tape saga.
November 14, 2017
An Atlanta real estate brokerage and one of its top executives face claims that they unjustly enriched themselves and two Mattress Firm executives through a massive, long-running kickback scheme that allegedly defrauded Mattress Firm of millions.
November 14, 2017
Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby's order to lock down a county high school for four hours while every student was physically searched for drugs has resulted in his indictment, his suspension from office and a $3 million settlement.
November 13, 2017
Eight attorneys representing metro Atlanta lawyers David Cohen, John Butters and client Mye Brindle are facing off against Fulton County's district attorney and two Marietta lawyers representing Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers Jr. in a tangle of criminal and civil litigation centering on a five-year-old covert sex tape.
November 08, 2017
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan said that controlling access to the county jail's inmate surveillance system is "the sheriff's prerogative."
November 07, 2017
Atlanta's chief federal prosecutor announced a fourth guilty plea -- this one for obstructing justice -- in an ongoing public corruption probe at Atlanta City Hall.
November 06, 2017
In a one-line order, the state Supreme Court upheld the disqualification of John Butters and David Cohen as counsel for the housekeeper who made a secretly recorded sex tape of Waffle House's former CEO.
November 02, 2017
The Supreme Court of Georgia has reinstated felony charges accusing metro Atlanta lawyers David Cohen and John Butters and their client of violating the state's eavesdropping law in connection with the secret recording of the chief executive of Waffle House on a sex tape.
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