Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley notified Gov. Kemp that he will step down from the Eastern Judicial Circuit on Sept. 1, 2026.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley, who handled the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial, is joining an Atlanta litigation firm as its first Savannah-based attorney.

The case merits a hate crime charge, lawyers representing Arbery’s family have maintained. Civil rights attorneys S. Lee Merritt and Ben Crump have been calling for the Department of Justice to get ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The judge who oversaw the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in southeast Georgia is resigning and reportedly taking a job at an Atlanta law firm. Superior Court Judge ...

Law360 (August 4, 2026, 4:23 PM EDT) -- The Georgia state judge who presided over the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in 2021 will soon step down after more than 14 years on the bench to return to private ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia’s attorney general asked the U.S. Department of Justice on Sunday to investigate the handling of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Authorities say Arbery, a black man, died at the ...

Georgia's attorney general has requested that the U.S. Department of Justice conduct an investigation into the handling of the Ahmaud Arbery case."We are committed to a complete and transparent review ...

A federal judge closed his courtroom to the public Friday to hear attorneys debate whether "racially insensitive" text messages should be allowed as evidence in the hate crimes trial of three white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) — The judge who presided over the Ahmaud Arbery case is stepping down from the bench, he said Monday in ...