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Mika Seay, charged with criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder, domestic battery and commission of a felony with a firearm, was found not guilty in Baxter County Circuit Court Wednesday.
The case was unusual in that the victim, 33-year-old Stephen Loosey, claims he was shot accidentally through his own negligence, while the state charged the 37-year-old Seay, the victim’s ex-wife, with intentionally pulling the trigger.
Circuit Judge John Putman presided over the non-jury trial. After both sides rested Wednesday, Judge Putman wasted little time in ruling on the case.
In his opening statement Tuesday, Deputy Prosecutor Kerry Chism said the court would basically hear two versions of the events leading to the shooting on May 23 last year one from Seay and Loosey and one from two eyewitnesses who were at the scene.
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. â Alpharetta is jousting with a perennial pest that has plagued it since moving into the new City Hall in 2014 â an audio-visual system that goes on the fritz at inopportune times.
Streaming service has become all the more valuable during the coronavirus pandemic when social distance guidelines limit the number of people who can attend City Council and other governmental meetings. Alpharetta City Council meetings regularly drew between two and three dozen followers when officials switched to Zoom meetings at the height of the pandemic last year.
The latest malfunction occurred March 1 when the City Council convened for a meeting that included approving almost half a million dollars for design work on the Encore Greenway connection and empowering the city to pursue eminent domain for close to a dozen parcels along McGinnis Ferry Road.