{"id":11053,"date":"2023-06-27T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2023-06-27T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:30:29","slug":"he-spent-a-decade-in-jail-without-being-convicted-now-his-lawyer-says-his-case-should-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"He Spent a Decade in Jail Without Being Convicted. Now His Lawyer Says His Case Should Be Dismissed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Maurice Jimmerson has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/04\/27\/this-georgia-man-has-been-jailed-for-10-years-without-a-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">behind bars<\/a>&nbsp;for 10 years but hasn&#8217;t been convicted of a crime. Due to a series of bureaucratic holdups, Jimmerson has been held in a Dougherty County, Georgia, jail since he was charged with murder in 2013\u2014a crime for which two of his codefendants have already been acquitted. Making matters worse, Jimmerson recently spent eight months without any lawyer at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After local journalists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2023\/04\/26\/georgia-man-behind-bars-10-years-still-waiting-his-day-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uncovered<\/a>&nbsp;Jimmerson&#8217;s case in April, an Atlanta criminal defense attorney stepped in to represent Jimmerson pro bono\u2014and he&#8217;s motioned to dismiss the charges altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"39IrrVZiwE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/02\/he-spent-a-decade-in-jail-without-being-convicted-now-his-lawyer-says-his-case-should-be-dismissed\/\">He Spent a Decade in Jail Without Being Convicted. 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Due to a series of bureaucratic holdups, Jimmerson has been held in a Dougherty County, Georgia, jail since he was charged with murder in 2013\u2014a crime for which two of his codefendants have already been acquitted. Making matters worse, Jimmerson recently spent eight months without any lawyer at all.<br \/>\nAfter local journalists uncovered Jimmerson&#8217;s case in April, an Atlanta criminal defense attorney stepped in to represent Jimmerson pro bono\u2014and he&#8217;s motioned to dismiss the charges altogether.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,280,1213],"class_list":["post-11053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11054,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}