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Savannah Morning News
October 24, 2017
This letter is written in response to the Sunday, Oct. 22, editorial titled “Keep the Sheriff in the loop.” The editorial mentions the fact Sheriff John T. Wilcher stated he will not allow the new staff of Centurion Healthcare to operate at the jail without the Chatham County Sheriff's Office first conducting aÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
October 23, 2017
Savannah City Alderman Van Johnson proposes to reduce penalties for misdemeanor marijuana possession offenses. (“Savannah alderman wants to relax pot penalties” Morning News, October 16, 2017). The central reason for the proposal, according to the article, that it's “a way to spare many youngÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
September 25, 2017
The City Council is scheduled this week to consider renaming the Talmadge Bridge, and I hope I'm not too late to enter the discussion with a proposal that the bridge be named in honor of Mark MacPhail. Mark MacPhail was a father of two small children and a former Army Ranger when, as a SavannahÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
August 19, 2017
The monuments should come down. My great-great grandfather was a brigadier general in the Confederate army who was wounded at Antietam and served as quartermaster general of the Confederacy. I am a sixth-generation Savannahian, and proud of my Southern heritage. But this is about monuments,ÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
July 13, 2017
Tom Barton's op-ed column of last Sunday, concerning the events of July 4th at City Market, cannot go unanswered. (“Mayor Eddie DeLoach on the hot seat over crime” July 9, ). It is an outrage. I will mention only briefly his cynicism in encouraging the foolish notion that a mayor can have any direct effect onÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
June 10, 2016
I write to urge a more sharply focused attention to the threat of climate change in the Coastal Empire. A group of citizens recently met to discuss the issue, as was reported by the Morning News (“As sea level rises, so does Chatham County's response,” May 14). Hyperbole can be fatal to credibility.
Savannah Morning News
February 25, 2016
... the political benefits of victimhood, the movement's leaders follow the example of the wiser members of their own community, focus on the primary threat to black lives — other black men — and change their name to Black Crime Matters. Spencer Lawton Jr. served as Chatham County district attorney fromÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
December 28, 2015
When District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. was sworn into office in January 1981 by Chatham County Superior Court Judge George E. Oliver, Kirkland, who had shared office space with Lawton in private practice, became his chief assistant. As such, Kirkland was at the Mercer House, Williams' home at 429ÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
August 8, 2015
As a veteran district attorney, Spencer Lawton Jr. was tepid to the concept of accountability courts, which he saw as a social scheme markedly different from his role of ... Chatham County Superior Court Judge James F. Bass Jr. established the first such court here in 2001, targeting offenders in a drug court.
Savannah Morning News
April 13, 2014
The Chatham Area Transit board has been cool to a proposal by Chatham County Commissioner Helen Stone to put a small memorial to slain Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail at the county-owned Joe Murray Rivers Intermodal Transit Center on West Oglethrope Avenue. The officer was murdered inÃÂ ...
Online Athens
October 30, 2013
Then-chief assistant district attorney for Chatham County, David Lock helped to prosecute Williams, and he is now an assistant district attorney in the Western Judicial Circuit, which includes Clarke and Oconee counties. ... “I assisted (District Attorney Spencer) Lawton in the third and fourth trials of the case.
CNN (blog)
September 20, 2011
For the Georgia prosecutor who put Troy Davis on trial in 1991 for killing a cop and won a conviction, there were two cases being fought. "There is the legal case, the case in court, and the public relations case," Spencer Lawton, the former Chatham County prosecutor, said. "We have consistently won theÃÂ ...
CNN
September 17, 2011
In a 2008 statement, then-Chatham County District Attorney Spencer Lawton described how Davis was at a pool party in Savannah when he shot another man, Michael Cooper, in the face. Davis was then driven to a nearby convenience store, where he pistol-whipped a homeless man, Larry Young, who'dÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
September 4, 2010
The allegations have come from short-term employees hired after Chisolm took office - recruited in at least one instance by Chisolm himself - as well as hold-overs from his predecessor, Spencer Lawton Jr. One federal court lawsuit has been filed against Chisolm and Chatham County accusing him of ageÃÂ ...
Online Athens
July 18, 2009
No one had told Scott or Echols that Spencer Lawton, the Chatham County district attorney who had convicted them and still was in office in 2005, had sent a ... Echols since has sued Lawton, claiming the prosecutor violated his constitutional rights when he lobbied the lawmakers against compensation.
Savannah Morning News
September 13, 2017
An Isle of Hope home in the 100 block of Parkersburg Road narrowly missed a tree that fell after the rain from Hurricane Irma stopped on ...
Savannah Morning News
August 19, 2017
Spencer Lawton, former Chatham County district attorney and great-great-grandson of Brig. Gen. Alexander R. Lawton, wrote the above before ...
Savannah Morning News
July 12, 2017
Tom Barton's op-ed column of last Sunday, concerning the events of July 4th at City Market, cannot go unanswered. (“Mayor Eddie DeLoach on ...
Savannah Morning News
June 10, 2016
A group of citizens recently met to discuss the issue, as was reported by the Morning News (“As sea level rises, so does Chatham County's ...
Savannah Morning News
February 25, 2016
Black Crime Matters: The Savannah NAACP thought so when, in the mid-eighties, under the leadership of Curtis Cooper and with the support ...
Savannah Morning News
December 28, 2015
Now, Dep Kirkland, a former Chatham County chief assistant district ... When District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. was sworn into office in ...
Savannah Morning News
August 31, 2015
Spencer Lawton served as district attorney in Chatham County from 1981 to 2008 and on the Savannah-Chatham County school board from ...
Savannah Morning News
August 8, 2015
As a veteran district attorney, Spencer Lawton Jr. was tepid to the concept of ... Enlisted by Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny Haas ...
Savannah Morning News
April 13, 2014
The Chatham Area Transit board has been cool to a proposal by Chatham County Commissioner Helen Stone to put a small memorial to slain ...
CNN (blog)
September 20, 2011
"There is the legal case, the case in court, and the public relations case," Spencer Lawton, the former Chatham County prosecutor, said.
Savannah Morning News
August 20, 2017
Spencer Lawton, former Chatham County district attorney and great-great-grandson of Brig. Gen. Alexander R. Lawton, wrote the above beforeÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
July 17, 2017
I'd like to comment on District Attorney Spencer Lawton's response to Editorial Page Editor Tom Barton's op-ed concerning the violence at CityÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
July 12, 2017
Tom Barton's op-ed column of last Sunday, concerning the events of July 4th at City Market, cannot go unanswered. (“Mayor Eddie DeLoach onÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
June 24, 2017
By way of full disclosure, the writer of this story, Ann Woolner, is married to former district attorney, Spencer Lawton. A case filed against LawtonÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
June 10, 2016
A group of citizens recently met to discuss the issue, as was reported by the Morning News (“As sea level rises, so does Chatham County'sÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
February 25, 2016
Black Crime Matters: The Savannah NAACP thought so when, in the mid-eighties, under the leadership of Curtis Cooper and with the supportÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
December 28, 2015
Now, Dep Kirkland, a former Chatham County chief assistant district ... When District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. was sworn into office inÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
August 31, 2015
Spencer Lawton served as district attorney in Chatham County from 1981 to 2008 and on the Savannah-Chatham County school board fromÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
August 8, 2015
As a veteran district attorney, Spencer Lawton Jr. was tepid to the concept of ... Enlisted by Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny HaasÃÂ ...
Savannah Morning News
April 13, 2014
The Chatham Area Transit board has been cool to a proposal by Chatham County Commissioner Helen Stone to put a small memorial to slainÃÂ ...
CNN (blog)
September 20, 2011
"There is the legal case, the case in court, and the public relations case," Spencer Lawton, the former Chatham County prosecutor, said.
Savannah Morning News
January 27, 2017
It will be her second "retirement" from a position at the courthouse after serving with Karpf and retired District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. "I'm tired," she said. "I have a lot of other things I want to do." But her connection with Karpf long ...
Savannah Morning News
November 4, 2016
The six Chatham County schools in question rank in the bottom 6% of Georgia's public schools. It is these six schools, and only these, that the amendment proposes to address.
Savannah Morning News
November 3, 2016
The children of Chatham County who've been through the torment of sexual or physical abuse are losing a longtime friend.
Savannah Morning News
August 19, 2016
"He was a good man and a benefactor to the children who had been abandoned by their fathers," said retired District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr., who hired Lowe in 1995. "David Lowe was a godsend." Lowe died Thursday at Candler Hospital. He was 58.
Savannah Morning News
July 30, 2016
Jodi and her fiancee are just two of the 1,800 people representing themselves in Chatham County courts who have sought help at the Family Law Resource Center since January.
Savannah Morning News
July 15, 2016
Within the space of 10 days, the husband (Bill) of the subject of a criminal investigation (Hillary) has a coincidental "primarily social" private meeting with the chief prosecutor (Attorney General Lynch). Having been caught at it, the Attorney ...
Savannah Morning News
July 14, 2016
Within the space of 10 days, the husband (Bill) of the subject of a criminal investigation (Hillary) has a coincidental "primarily social" private meeting with the chief prosecutor (Attorney General Lynch). Having been caught at it, the Attorney ...
Savannah Morning News
June 10, 2016
A group of citizens recently met to discuss the issue, as was reported by the Morning News ("As sea level rises, so does Chatham County's response," May 14). Hyperbole can be fatal to credibility. Facts enhance it. There seemed to be a disconnect at ...
Savannah Tribune
May 11, 2016
In 1993, he became the Chief Judge of the State Court before being elevated by Governor Zell Miller in May 1995 to the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit (Chatham County). For the last five years, Judge Morse has also served as the ... He ...
Savannah Tribune
March 23, 2016
Judge John E. Morse Jr. Judge John E. (Pancho) Morse, Jr. recently announced his re-election campaign to the Superior Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit (Chatham County). Judge Morse is a native Savannahian born and raised in the ... He then worked ...
Savannah Morning News (blog)
March 8, 2016
Kirkland, who now lives in Los Angeles, was a young lawyer when he joined new Chatham County District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. as his chief assistant. He was at Williams' Mercer House early May 2, 1981, after Williams shot and killed Danny Hansford.
Savannah Morning News
February 25, 2016
Black Crime Matters: The Savannah NAACP thought so when, in the mid-eighties, under the leadership of Curtis Cooper and with the support of black clergy, they initiated a "Stop Black On Black Crime" campaign, complete with bumper stickers.
Savannah Morning News
February 18, 2016
He deserved the death penalty for his heinous crime, which veteran prosecutor Greg McConnell called "one of the most gruesome, horrible murders that has ever occurred in Chatham County." Indeed, then-District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. sought the ...
Bluffton Today
February 17, 2016
31, 1982, to find her mother's nearly decapitated, lifeless body on her bedroom floor. Janice Terrell West, 35-year-old mother of two, had been raped, sodomized and murdered in her Cottonvale Road home in what veteran prosecutor Greg McConnell calls ...
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