The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week that criminal indictments against two lawyers must be dismissed, putting to rest a case that the state’s criminal defense bar worried could threaten the livelihoods — and liberty — of lawyers whose clients are ultimately convicted. The lawyers were accused of stealing from the estate of a murder victim by accepting legal fees from his wife, who first inherited her husband’s estate but ultimately pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot.

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