John McNeil's Wife, NAACP to Discuss Next Steps in Case
The NAACP has scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. today in Virginia, site of the group's national board meeting.
Anita McNeil, the wife of a Kennesaw man convicted of killing an armed trespasser in 2005, is expected to join the NAACP this afternoon when leaders of the organization outline "next steps to secure" her husband's release. The nation's oldest civil rights organization made the announcement Thursday, one day after Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said he would ask the state's highest court to reject a ruling that could have freed John McNeil. McNeil is serving life in prison for aggravated assault and felony murder in the Dec. 6, 2005, shooting death of Brian Epp. Olens had 30 days from the date of Baldwin County Superior Court Judge Hulane E. George's Sept. 25 ruling to respond. If Olens had done nothing, McNeil could have been retried …
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8:04 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens fighting to keep Prison profit up by an unjust appeal in Baldwin County, Why it is Olsens's actions are wrong: a) McNeil's a warning shot should have been sufficient for his son's assailant to change his behavior immediately. b) it did not properly inform the jury of its option to acquit. c) McNeil was on his property when the assailant was shot fatally d) a … more ›