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Lawrenceville man who strangled ex-girlfriend and burned her body, gets life sentenced
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA – A Lawrenceville man will spend life in prison for fatally choking his ex-girlfriend then burning her body in a car. Jahir Sagahon, 32, pled guilty to malice murder for the March 2023 strangling death of 28-year-old Rubi Maldonado-Nava. “This defendant took a mother away from her child,” District Attorney Patsy Austin-Gatson said. …
‘It’s a mess:’ Chief justice asks lawmakers to fix criminal court rules
The way convicted criminals must bring claims of incompetence against their lawyers is “a mess” created by decades of Georgia Supreme Court rulings, its top judge says in urging state lawmakers to fix the problem. Chief Justice Nels Peterson said Tuesday that Georgia has made itself an outlier in the procedure for claiming a criminal …