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Corrections
Monday, April 21, 2008
An April 21 story, “11th Circuit hears appeal in 1998 school bus stop felony murder case,” mistakenly reported that a felony murder conviction of a 15-year-old carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison or the death penalty. Defendant Jonathan Miller received a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. According to a brief by state Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker in this case, Miller was too young when he committed the crime to be eligible for life without parole or the death penalty.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The April 16 article on John C. Childs, the chief counsel for litigation at Georgia-Pacific LLC, misstated the number of employees at the company. The correct number is 50,000.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The April 16 article, “11th Circuit tackles trademarks, Internet” misstated where an article about Internet trademark law appeared. Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law, by Eric Goldman, appeared in the Emory Law Journal—not the Emory Law Review. The complete citation is Eric Goldman, Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law, 54 Emory Law Journal 507 (2005).
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
The April 10 story, “Prosecutors to appeal judge's acquittals in murder case,” erroneously reported that Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. provided a letter from a court observer to the Daily Report. The letter was provided to the newspaper by its writer, Lu Ann Brinkley.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
An April 8 “At Issue” article, “McCain bid revives 'natural' question,” mistakenly left out the word “effective” from a law that could relate to Sen. John McCain's qualifications to be president given his 1936 birth in the Panama Canal Zone. The story should have said that S. 2416 stated, “Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this Act, whose father or mother or both at the time of birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States is declared to be a citizen of the United States.”
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Monday, April 07, 2008
A graphic in the April 7 Daily Report Dozen misstated that Steven F. White left Hunton & Williams for private practice in Jonesboro. He now practices at Nelson Mullins.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Because of erroneous information provided by Morris, Manning & Martin, the April 7 story about the firm in the Daily Report Dozen ranking misstated the name of a client the firm represented in a tender offer by Ericsson for Tandberg Television. Morris, Manning's client is Tandberg Television ASA, not Oslo Stock Exchange.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
In an April 3 story about former President Carter hinting at support for Barack Obama, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Georgia Democratic superdelegate Richard Ray is a former congressman. The Richard Ray who is a superdelegate is not the former congressman.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
The Legal Times article “Climate Work Heating Up” misstated Kenneth Berlin's former post at the Justice Department. He served as a section chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
An article in the April 2 Daily Report, “Verdicts & Settlements,” should have said that a suit stemming from a motorcycle accident and adjudicated before DeKalb State Court Judge Edward E. Carriere was privately mediated and that Carriere has yet to sign the settlement order. The case is Kendrick v. Wakeman, No. 07A7268-6.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
The April 1 story “High court looks at sentence reviews” misstated the roles of two of the lawyers in the case. Bruce M. Edenfield represents the Sentence Review Panel, which appealed an order allowing district attorneys to challenge its decisions. In this case, Edenfield is not a special assistant attorney general. Also, Senior Assistant Attorney General Joseph J. Drolet represents the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Department of Corrections.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
A March 28 story, “One more to run for appeal court,” misstated that the law firm Web site of state Sen. Michael Meyer von Bremen says he is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. While the site used to make that statement, it no longer does. Meyer von Bremen has said he no longer does enough plaintiffs' work to be in the organization.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
A March 27 story, “Suit: Firm failed to make good on 'no win, no pay' loan,” about a law firm that borrowed money to finance its cases, inaccurately reported a statement of Roger Shields, executive director of the American Legal Finance Association. Shields did not say that non-recourse funding for law firms represents about 1 percent of the business conducted by the members of his organization. He said that the legal financing industry funds about 1 percent or less of all personal injury suits in the U.S.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
A March 26 editor's note to a book excerpt by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin S. Arrington Sr. incorrectly said that Arrington and U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper became the first black graduates of Emory University law school in 1967. The school has confirmed that Theodore Edward Smith, who in 1963 became the school's first black student, graduated in 1965.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
In a March 18 story about the sentencing of a daughter of Atlanta's mayor, The Associated Press incorrectly characterized the charge against her. Kai Franklin Graham pleaded guilty to illegally structuring a financial transaction, not money laundering.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
The March 14 “Verdicts and Settlements” column misstated that a defendant offered $1,875,000 to settle a suit over a car accident before the trial. Defendant Danielle Driscoll, represented by Carrie L. Christie and Heather S. Robinson, offered to pay plaintiff William Matthew Powers $875,000 to settle the case before the trial, said Powers' lawyer Michael L. Werner. As the jury was deliberating, the parties settled for $1,285,000.
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