Georgia’s highest court on Monday ruled that it lacks authority to hear a pretrial appeal from a man charged with killing a high school teacher whose disappearance remained a mystery for more than a decade.
The state Supreme Court in March delayed Ryan Duke’s murder trial so it could consider whether it had jurisdiction to hear his emergency pretrial appeal. In a unanimous opinion, the high court concluded it does not.
Jury selection had been scheduled to begin April 1 in Duke’s trial. He’s charged with murder in the death of teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead in rural Irwin County.
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