Georgia judge flubs verdict reading, tells defendant he is guilty
A Judge of the County of Fulton spoke badly by reading the verdict of an accused in a hearing room in Georgia on Friday, telling him that he was guilty when the jury deemed him not guilty.
Alton Oliver was tried during the murder in 2022 of an assistant to the County of Fulton and faced six counts, including three of murders, reported the subsidiary of NBC Wxia of Atlanta.
The video in the interior of the courtroom shows the moment when the judge accidentally declared to Oliver that he was guilty.
After confirming with the jury that the documents were correct, the judge read the verdict: “We, the jury, consider the guilty defendant of the six charges.”
Oliver and his legal team sat in silence, but the people in the courtroom began to question the judge’s reading in question auditable, which prompted him to dismiss the newspaper.
“Didn’t I say” No “? The judge asked the room, to which a number of people responded “no”.
He apologized, then reread the declaration, this time correctly. The people in the courtroom laughed and applauded.
After learning that he had been acquitted, Oliver kissed his defense team, shows the video.
Earlier in the week, Oliver testified that he had acted in self -defense when he killed deputy James Thomas after Thomas has led several times by Oliver and made unwanted sexual advances, Wxia reported.
