The Georgia Supreme Court has overturned an Augusta’s man murder conviction. In an opinion released Monday, the state’s highest court found Erick A. Williams Jr. was entitled to a new trial on charges that included murder for the July 18, 2010, fatal shooting of DeAngelo Hudgins, 24, and the wounding of Hudgins’ friend Albert Gilbert, military police officers assigned to Fort Gordon. read more

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