Georgia’s highest court says the prosecution of a white former Atlanta-area police officer who shot an unarmed, naked, mentally ill black veteran may go forward.
The Georgia Supreme Court rejected arguments by Robert Olsen’s attorneys that the charges against him should be dismissed because the principle of grand jury secrecy had been violated by the presence of extra, unnecessary people during the grand jury proceedings.
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