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Senate tweaks citizen’s arrest overhaul, moving it toward a final vote

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By Stanley Dunlap -March 29, 2021

The Georgia Senate Monday overwhelmingly supported an overhaul of the Civil War-era law cited as justification in last year’s killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.

The Senate voted 52-1 in favor of ending the law that gives ordinary residents the ability to a...

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