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John McNeil, a Cobb County Ga., man who was convicted of killing a contractor in the driveway of his home, was released from jail today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. McNeil was convicted of murdering Brian Epp in December of 2005 but today he entered a guilty plea to a manslaughter charge to end an appeal pending before the […]

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Roland Martin talks with Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp about his new TV series on the I.D. Channel called “Injustice Files” which follows cold cases from the FBI’s “Civil Rights Initiative” including a look at how self-defense laws discriminate against African-Americans.

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WILSON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has died after years of fighting for her husband’s release from a Georgia prison because of the state’s “stand your ground” self-defense law. Tracy Dew said Sunday her sister Anita McNeil of Wilson died Saturday after breast cancer spread to her bones. Anita McNeil had spent weeks […]

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After serving nearly seven years of a lifetime sentence, supporters of John McNeil are hopeful he could be home by Thanksgiving following a judge’s ruling earlier this week that he was the victim of grossly inadequate counsel during his initial trial. Baldwin County Judge Hulane E. George cited a whole slew of errors and omissions […]

Question: If a man threatens you and your family, pulls a knife on your teenage son on your front lawn and then, after you fire a warning shot to get him to leave your property, he charges at you while reaching for a weapon, do you have the right to defend yourself?       Well, […]

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The NAACP has joined forces with the wife of a Georgia man now serving a lifetime sentence for a shooting they and several witnesses all agree he only committed after his family was attacked on their own property by a raging and threatening trespasser.   John McNeil has been jailed at the Macon State Prison […]

Stephanie Robinson provides her perspective on the John McNeil case out of Kennesaw, GA. John McNeil was imprisoned after shooting a white man on the shooter's property.