Murder suspect receives new representation

The Pike County Journal-Reporter

Jamie Weis

Murder suspect receives new representation

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Rachel McDaniel

in Crime and Arrests

Friday, August 13. 2010

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Judge Tommy Hankinson honored a request from the Georgia Public Defenders Standards Council to be released from representing accused killer Jamie Weis in court Friday, Aug. 13.

Two of the lawyers who were asked to represent Weis by the Public Defenders council have since become unable to provide representation. Tamara Jacobs Bell lost her battle with cancer last week and Weis' other attorney has been hospitalized for the past several weeks.

Weis then met with attorneys to discuss financial aspects of his trial. Weis is accused of murdering elderly neighbor Catherine King during a burglary at her Williamson home in February 2006. He has been locked in jail almost four years without standing trial because Georgia is seeking the death penalty for him yet cannot afford to pay for his defense. Weis has been housed in the Pike County jail during that time.

For more, read the Wednesday, Aug. 18 print/eEdition of The Pike County Journal-Reporter.

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#1 Anonymous on 08/13/10 at 07:12 PM

Uhh, the state pay for HIS defense?? I thought he was suppose to pay for this himself??
If he was a VICTIM, I bet he would have to pay himself. sheesh, the system is shot

#2 fat bass tard on 08/14/10 at 07:16 AM

i think once weis is convicted, since he's been forced to spend all this time waiting on trial, they should hang him immediately. that way he won't have to suffer the additional indignity of having to wait on death row to be executed.

#2.1 Sheila Tolley on 08/14/10 at 01:20 PM

Damn good idea!

#2.2 Sheila Tolley on 08/14/10 at 04:08 PM

You know, fat bass tard, since we have outsourced everything in America....I think we should outsource our high-level criminals. What do you think? It takes years to get them to trial anyway. I bet there are countries who would board them for much, much less than us taxpayers contribute in the USA?

#2.2.1 fat bass tard on 08/16/10 at 10:02 AM

how about one of those that as soon as he's convicted they shoot him in the head and bill the family for the bullet?

#2.2.1.1 Anonymous on 09/05/10 at 10:20 AM

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE A BAPTIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#3 Sheila Tolley on 08/14/10 at 08:42 AM

The taxpayers continue to feed the Devil himself.

#4 Sheila Tolley on 08/14/10 at 08:20 PM

Can't this devil be put in the cell with that Clark Bird woman in B'ville?

#5 Reasonable Man on 08/16/10 at 11:33 AM

One of the best lines from the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is applicable here: "DON'T SHOOT, LET 'EM BURN!!"

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