Former Chief Justice Sears On APS Cheating Trial
The jury will continue to deliberate in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating trial on Monday.
Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears says she thinks the jury will take its time deliberating and will probably dismiss the charges that there was a pattern of organized criminal activity, under a federal statute called RICO.
Sears spoke to Denis O’Hayer and Rose Scott on “A Closer Look” on Friday.
“Once they get rid of RICO, and I think they might, then they will go through all the other counts, which by the way would be easier to prove: I mean a theft is a theft,” Sears say. “You don’t have to show the enterprise and all this complicated stuff that you have to show for RICO, so they will probably walk it through.”
The defendants in the APS trial face charges including theft by taking, witness tampering and making false statements.
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