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This page presents links to various articles published about court cases in which our attorneys have provided representation, as well as published articles written by our attorneys and other newspaper articles in which our attorneys are mentioned.|
MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT
Case confirms no one can be trusted, says attorney
After a long-time employee of Hemlocks Landscaping, Inc. embezzled the company out of over a quarter-million dollars during a two-year period, owner Ross Fletcher said he learned an "expensive lesson."
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PHONE SCAM
ETS Phone Scam Case
Defense Attorney Edwin Marger pointed out to the jury that Edwards' company, ETS Payphones, was a grand business venture that failed dramatically. "Mr. Edwards is a dreamer and maybe even a fool, but is no crook", said Marger. He believed that he could become the biggest phone company in the United States and
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TEN COMMANDMENTS
A gift to the people of Pickens County
Amid nationwide controversy over displaying the Ten Commandments in a public courthouse, a downtown Jasper building owner has opted for the legal way to accomplish the same objective.
On the side of the Main Street building that contains the law offices of Edwin Marger is a seven by seven foot ... click
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INVESTMENT FRAUD
Chief Deputy Sheriff to help in the Two Million Dollar missing monies case
Edwin Marger and Michel Puglise, attorneys for Fulton County Chief Deputy Sheriff, Caudell Jones at a press conference called by Marger, at this office in Jasper, allowed the reporters present to question Jones about
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FEDERAL LAWSUIT
Columbian War on Drugs Attacked
Edwin Marger and Bob Barr, attorneys for the parents of three "civilians fighting the military's battles", filed suit against Northrop Grumman and several other corporations, on their behalf for the death of their sons. The three were killed when the plane that they were
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AIRPORT ADVISORY CHAIRMAN
Airport advisory chairman says airport-tech park a solid plan
When the county asked local attorney Ed Marger to serve as the chairman of the Airport Advisory Committee, they found someone with a lifetime of aviation experience, but may be getting more than they bargained for.
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MURDER TRIAL
Informant: 'Reward on My Head'
Cross-examining Vines yesterday, defense attorney Edwin Marger attacked the informant's credibility.
In an earlier hearing, Vines had testified that Miller forced to throw Gamboa down the mine twice, because the victim's foot got caught on a root the first time. But this week
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DRUG TRIAL
Government painted as drug boss
Edwin Marger, an Atlanta lawyer defending the Lukefahr brothers and noted for defense work in drug cases, paced before the jury box as he delivered his opening statement. He said the government lured his clients into the drug smuggling operation.
He said he would show that Bobby Vines
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MURDER TRIAL
Lawyer Loses First Case
"It’s the first one in 30 years!" Edwin Marger said in utter disbelief.
"It’s the first murder trial I’ve been retained for in 30 years that I’ve lost."
It was Thursday. An Ashe County Superior Court jury had just returned a guilty verdict against Marger’s client, Paul Wilson Bare. Convicted of kidnapping and murdering Lonnie Marshall Gamboa, Bare will
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MURDER TRIAL
Mistrial on Tokars Murder
In an almost unbelievable happening, the jury in the Curtis Rower case was hung. Edwin Marger, the attorney for Rower who was being tried for the murder of Sarah Tokars, told the press that it was obvious that the jury foreman believed that the shooting was an accident.
Rower, tried for murdering the wife of a prominent attorney and ex-judge had offered the District
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MURDER TRIAL
Rural Athens murder case taken by attorney Marger
A Florida attorney with a distinctive courtroom record, who briefly was a Columbus resident, has entered a notorious Georgia murder case which is scheduled to come up Monday in Jackson County Superior Court.
However, the state of Georgia, which has tried to hold a teenage boy in jail for seven months awaiting trial, probably won’t be ready
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ARTICLE By: Diane Marger Moore Indiana's Corpus Delicti Rule The doctrine of corpus delicti is the requirement that the state prove that a crime has been committed prior to allowing a confession to be admitted into evidence. This doctrine can be traced back nearly 100 years in Indiana jurisprudence. Most other states and many other countries historically required a showing ... click
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DRUG TRIAL
5 Acquitted in Drug Conspiracy Case
WerBell, son of a cavalry colonel in the Russian Imperial Army, long has been known as a colorful purveyor of guns to anti-communist forces throughout the Caribbean and other foreign ports.
"He would never get involved in a conspiracy to import marijuana," said WerBell’s lawyer, Edwin Marger. "Guns, revolutions, maybe even assassinations, but he’s not being tried on that ..."
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CONSPIRACY TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE
Miami Lawyer Acquitted In Loan File Destruction
U. S. District Judge Charles A. Moye, Jr., granted the defense motion in the seventh day of a jury trial on charges that Haft conspired to obstruct a criminal investigation.
Edwin Marger, Haft’s attorney, said he made the motion for acquittal on grounds that the government had presented no evidence that Haft had done anything wrong.
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DRUG TRIAL
WerBell Attorneys Drafting Defense
The masterminds behind his defense are Atlanta Attorneys Ed Marger and Col. (Ret.) Reid Kennedy, two nationally known attorneys known for their courtroom expertise and irrefutable knowledge of the law.
"Mitch just isn’t a loner. He doesn’t work like that and never has," says Ed Marger, an unflappable defense lawyer with a keen understanding of the inner workings of the federal bureaucracy.
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GUN-RUNNING TRIAL
U.S. Drops Gun-Running Charges
A gun-running complaint against a Haitian was dropped by federal authorities here Wednesday at the request of the U.S. State Department.
Dr. Carlos Mevs, the Haitian, had been picked up by customs officials in Fort Lauderdale Sept. 21 at the international airport as some $100,000 worth of guns and ammunition were being loaded aboard a twin-engine plane.
Edwin Marger, Miami Beach attorney for Dr. Mevs
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CHALLENGE OF COUNTY ORDINANCE
New beer/wine package ordinance challenged
Gilmer County’s revised beer/wine package license ordinance with its 10-mile distance restriction is under challenge. Six licensees have joined forces and are being represented by high powered Atlanta lawyer, Ed Marger.
The attorney spoke genially of "property rights" at last Thursday’s Commission Board meeting, as he proposed changes in the ordinance, and announced that he represented
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MURDER TRIAL
Tokars saga nearing end
A reported plea negotiation between Cobb County prosecutors and lawyers for Curtis Rower could bring to an end today the 4 1/2-year-old murder case pending against the man accused of killing Sara Tokars with a single shotgun blast on Nov. 29, 1992 -- a crime ordered by her prominent husband.
Rowers lead defense counsel, Edwin Marger, said only: "We’ve been offering a plea agreement for five years. I don’t know what will happen,
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MURDER TRIAL
Jury acquits Vick of killing mother
Norman Vick was judged innocent Thursday for the alleged poisoning-murder of his 82-year-old mother as the three-day trial held in the district courtroom of the Walker County Courthouse ended.
In the final day of testimony defense Thursday, counsel Ed Marger presented two physicians to counter the state’s medical witnesses.
Dr. Yale Kaplan, chief toxicologist of the state examiner’s office in Baltimore, Md.,
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CUBANS TREAT CAPTAIN
Cubans treat captain of boat, return $10,000
A Florida boat captain and his wife were wined and dined in Havana, after the Cuban government agreed to return $10,000. The captain had paid it to a salvage company to rescue his boat when it ran aground during the "Freedom Flotilla."
The Jensens were flown to Havana on Monday by an Atlanta based lawyer, Edwin Marger, whom the Cuban government had asked
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DRUG TRIAL
Defense raises old limits on military in drug case
Defense attorneys in a drug-smuggling case being argued in federal court in Raleigh have raised two pre-trial arguments based on old but valid laws rarely cited in criminal cases.
"This case has issues in it that must go to the U. S. Supreme Court - issues that are fundamental to the judicial system," said Edwin Marger of Atlanta, part of the 10-man defense team called by some, "the F. Lee Bailey of Atlanta."
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MURDER TRIAL
Colville murder trial delayed again ...
Miami attorney Edwin A. Marger, who is a former Columbus resident, informed both Hancock and Donahoo that the missing witness was only one of two available to the district attorney. Marger argued that Dr. Herman D. Jones, "is in partial retirement, but should be available" to testify.
Dr. Jones is director of the State Crime Lab. He was a microanalylist formerly employed in the lab, who now is working in Ohio and
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MURDER TRIAL
Brutal murders linked to espionage, Mafia
"In addition to any possible world in which Mr. Bratt lives, the vidence will show a very ‘other’ world out there -- one of espionage and counter-espionage, terrorism and high technology." -- Edwin Marger, Defense attorney click
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ROBBERY TRIAL
2 Are Accused in Robbery ...
The prosecution filled two tables with 50 items of evidence presented in the trial of two young out-of-state men accused of robbing coin containers of telephone booths.
Almost every item met protest -- some bitter -- from the battery of attorneys defending Pittine and Cook.
Edwin Marger, Florida lawyer, is assisted by George C. Eppinger, former district attorney and John McD. Sharpe Jr. for the defense.
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FIGHT TO REMAIN A CROWN COLONY
Let us be British - isle in sun
In these days when black is beautiful and all that was British is not, it is refreshing to encounter the efforts of the people of the Bahamian Island of Abaco to retain their loyalty to the crown.
Yesterday American lawyer Edwin Marger arrived in London to fight the rearguard action on behalf of the 6,200 inhabitants -- less than half are white -- of the island to remain a Colony
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LUNCH WITH AFGHAN KING
Prominent Georgians Invited To Lunch With Afghan King
The man who would be king of Afghanistan plans to have lunch with some prominent Georgians Thursday at the Commerce Club and explain the situation in that Soviet-occupied nation.
The luncheon is sponsored by Atlanta attorney Edwin Marger on behalf of Hassan Murrani, who claims to be descended from a long line of
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INVASION OF PRIVACY
Defendants Go on Trial For Invasion of Privacy
The trial of four defendants, charged with unlawful eavesdropping and surveillance, or invasion of privacy, began Monday morning at 9 a.m. at the Carroll County courthouse.
The defendants are: Dr. Jack Birge, represented by Al Horn and Jim Jenkins of Atlanta and Doug Vassy of Carrollton; Barbara Almon, represented by Glenn Zell of Atlanta; and Reginald Max Goldsmith and Dennis George Key, represented by Ed Marger, also
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
FHP, Riggio settle
Three weeks ago, Knight, the Director of the Florida Highway Patrol, removed Riggio from troop command in Panama City and ordered her demoted, suspended and transferred on charges that she was creating a hostile work environment.
"Capt. Riggio is completely satisfied, "said Riggio’s attorney, Ed Marger. "She’s a captain again and she’s on the promotion list for major. She feels like she’s been treated fairly."
Knight originally recommended
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STATE BAR APPOINTMENT
Marger appointed to State Bar Board
Jasper Attorney Ed Marger said he will use his appointment to the governing body of the state Bar association to strike a balance between professional treatment of the public by lawyers and ethical treatment of lawyers by the Bar.
Marger’s term to the 150 member Board of Governor’s of the state Bar, representing the Appalachian Circuit, will run for two years. Marger
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DRUG TRIAL
Taylor trial continues
Several federal agents from the Pennsylvania State Police Dept. testified for the state prosecutor yesterday, entering taped conversations between Taylor and themselves as evidence.
Defense Attorney Edwin Marger told the court at the onset yesterday that Taylor admits to the charges and to all the conversations that were taped.
Marger said his client intends to show signs of entrapment by narcotics agents, adding that State Prosecutor
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FIGHT TO REMAIN A CROWN COLONY
U.S. Lawyer Joins Abaco Cause
A lawyer of international reknown has joined in efforts to keep a part of the Bahama Island a British crown colony when independence is granted the island group July 10.
Edwin Marger, whose globetrotting past activities include serving as a lobbyist for the Dominican Republic, maintains offices both in Atlanta and Miami.
Marger now is on his second visit to London to plead the cause
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THEFT TRIAL
Attorney Argues Lane 'Used' Construction Company Head
In opening remarks before an eight-woman, four-man jury, Atlanta lawyer Edwin Marger said that after Lane took over the library project he was paid $34,000 in "retainage" money to be used to pay creditors on the project. But, added Marger, Lane "did not use the money for that purpose."
Marger’s clients, Stephen Hancock, 33, and Alan Robbins, 32, are charged with theft by deception of
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DRUG TRIAL
U.S. trial starts in 'Sky Caine' case
Hicks will apparently be a key government witness and defense lawyer Edwin Marger of Atlanta wasted no time in attacking Hicks’ credibility. In his opening statement, Marger characterized Hicks as a cocaine addict who was paid $50,000 by the government during the course of the investigation.
Marger said Greenburg knew Hicks only by the name of Mitch Aspra and "had no reason to question whether Aspra was
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ZONING VIOLATIONS
No prosecution, at present, for zoning violations
This tentative accord came after more than two hours of conference that included Van Ovost, attorney Edwin Marger, who represented Van Ovost, Gary Ament, area development coordinator for the county, Charles B. "Chuck" McDermott, who is a county building and zoning inspector; Fire Marshall Walter Wile and Lt. Murray "Lucky" Noyes, a fire prevention inspector, Assistant County
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