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The stretch of Deepstep Road in Washington County where Eurie Martin first encountered Washington County Sheriff's Deputies in 2017.

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Overwhelmed with mental health calls, six rural sheriffs make their own plan for better response

Despite limited state funding, sheriffs in central Georgia are planning a multi-county co-response program, the first of its kind in the region, to address what they call a crisis-level need.

September 13, 2023
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GPB Morning Headlines for October 28, 2021

What comes next is unclear after the declared mistrial in the murder trial of three former Washington County Sheriff’s deputies in connection to the 2017 tasing death of Eurie Martin. 

The World Series is now tied up after the Atlanta Braves fell to the Astros in Houston last night.

October 28, 2021
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  • GPB News Radio
A frame from dashboard video recorded by Washington County Sheriff's Deputies moments before they tased Eurie Lee Martin to death in 2017.

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GPB Morning Headlines for October 27, 2021

The trial of three former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies accused of murder in the death Eurie Martin, has ended in a mistrial after three days of deliberation.

Game One of the World Series belongs to the Atlanta Braves.

October 27, 2021
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Mistrial declared in case of 3 former sheriff's deputies accused of killing Black man

The murder trial of three former Washington County sheriff’s deputies in the death of Eurie Martin ended Tuesday in a mistrial after three days of deliberation.

October 26, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
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GPB Morning Headlines for October 26, 2021

The judge in the case of three former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies charged with murder has told the jury to keep trying to arrive at a verdict, even after the jury told him they cannot.

It's now week two of jury selection in the Glynn County trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger.

October 26, 2021
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Attorney and civil rights activist Francys Johnson, right, talks with Helen Gilbert, the sister of Eurie Martin, during a break in the closing arguments in the murder trial of the three former Washington County Sheriff's Deputies in whose custody Martin died in 2017.

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Jury deliberation begins Friday in Eurie Martin murder trial

Closing arguments have been made in the murder trial of three white former Washington County sheriff’s deputies connected to the death of Eurie Martin, a Black man, in 2017. 

October 21, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
Rhett Scott, left, lifts Eurie Martin's shirt in order to get skin only taser contact as Henry Lee Copeland, center right, and Michael Howell talk to Martin during the 2017 encounter where Martin died.

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Testimony ends in trial of officers charged with murder of Eurie Martin

Testimony is expected to wrap up today in the murder trial of three white former Georgia sheriff’s deputies in the 2017 stun gun death of Eurie Martin, a Black man.

October 21, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
A frame from dashboard video recorded by Washington County Sheriff's Deputies moments before they tased Eurie Lee Martin to death in 2017.

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GPB Morning Headlines for October 21, 2021

Testimony is expected to wrap up today in the murder trial of three white former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies accused of tasing Eurie Martin to death in 2017.

As jury selection continues in the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man jogging through their neighborhood last year, at least two possible jurors said they accessed information about Arbery's mental health after clicking instructions on the Glynn County Court's website.

 

October 21, 2021
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A frame from dashboard video recorded by Washington County Sheriff's Deputies moments before they electrocuted Eurie Lee Martin, center, to death in 2017.

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State rests its case against the three deputies charged with murder of Eurie Martin

On Monday, the state rested its felony murder case against three former Washington County Sheriff’s deputies in connection to the 2017 stun-gun death of Eurie Martin. 

October 19, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
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GPB Morning Headlines for October 19, 2021

The state rested its felony murder case against three former Washington County Sheriff’s deputies in connection to the 2017 tasing death of Eurie Martin. 

Attorneys will resume questioning potential jurors today in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery outside the port city of Brunswick in 2020.

October 19, 2021
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Opening arguments begin in trial of three former police officers charged in murder of Eurie Martin

Deputies electrocuted Martin for two minutes total with Tasers before he succumbed to heart failure. The local medical examiner called that a homicide. 

October 14, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
Eurie Martin in photo provided by his family.

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Judge Ends Immunity For Three Deputies Who Killed Eurie Lee Martin

The three former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies who killed Eurie Lee Martin in 2017 are no longer immune from prosecution and will likely to go to trial on murder charges sometime next year.

December 09, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
Eurie Lee Martin's sister Helen Gilbert, center, flanked by attorneys Francys Johnson, left, and Muwali Davis, right, during a press conference about the Georgia Supreme Court opinion on the immunity from prosecution granted to the former sheriff's deputies who killed Martin in 2017.

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'This story deserves attention': Family Of Black Man Killed By Police In 2017 Speaks

The Georgia Supreme Court says that a Superior Court judge was wrong in applying the state’s "stand your ground" law when he granted criminal immunity to three former Washington County sheriff’s deputies who tasered Eurie Martin to death in 2017.  

November 02, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
From left: Former Washington County deputies Michael Howell, Rhett Scott and Henry Copeland. The three Tased 58-year-old Eurie Martin to death in 2017.

Three Former Deputies Given Immunity, Heading Off Murder Trial

Three former Washington County sheriff’s deputies will not go on trial for murder next month as planned. That’s because the officers won immunity for...

November 26, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship

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