7 Important Supreme Court Cases That Started in Georgia
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
Supreme Court decisions have reshaped American society for hundreds of years, setting then-revolutionary precedent in the areas of racial and gender quality, the death penalty and more.
Many of the court's landmark cases have their roots in Georgia — indeed, last week the court heard the case of a Rome man, convicted of sexual assault and murder in 1986, who argued that the prosecution was discriminatory in removing all of the prospective black jurors from his trial.
