Ex-Justice Challenges AG, Seeks Cop Review Group

0:00Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice, J. Mitchell, jumped on the shoot-me-stray podcast with Aaron Cody Smith, the ex-maugumri cop locked up. After a 2016 shooting, Mitchell ripped into the current Attorney General's office for fumbling prosecutions and officer-involved cases like Smith. Smith got hit with murder charges after killing Greg Gunn on February 25, but a jury convicted him of manslaughter in November 2000. In 19, slapping him with a 14-year sentence in January 2020, fast-forward, and things shifted big time. In December 2022, the court reviewed Smith's case, and Mitchell dropped a special opinion questioning how any fair jury could, convict. He basically laid out a roadmap for relief, calling the whole thing shaky from the jump. Folks reacted strong. Mitchell's words sparked real doubt about the conviction's fairness. Smith filed more partitions, putting pressure on the system, and it highlighted how the AG's office often digs in to uphold verdicts instead of rethinking them early.

1:05Then boom, Attorney General Steve Marshall's team took over and cut a plea deal, springing Smith-free in February 2024. Mitchell confirmed Marshall even tipped him off, crediting that opinion for the move, though he hated Smith pleading guilty to a felony just to walk. Mitchell's gunning for AG now, facing Marshall's top deputy in the May Republican primary, he bows to form a cop-led group for quick reviews on these shootings, slamming the current crew for ignoring the issue until it's too late, pushing for. Early intervention to get it right from the start. From your city, powered by AI, this is Birmingham News Today.