Friday, March 12, 2010

Georgia court bars release of crime scene photographs

CNN had this story yesterday telling about DeKalb County, Georgia, Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey's, having issued a temporary order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from releasing "any and all photographs, visual images or depictions of Meredith Emerson which show Emerson in an unclothed or dismembered state." Ms. Emerson was murdered in January 2008, her admitted killer given a life sentence in exchange for leading investigators to her body in the north Georgia mountains.

The judge's order, the article continued, came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed "The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act," which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor.

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