GUILTY GA v Hannah Payne - Hanna Payne followed after, and murdered a man involved in a hit-and-run, Clayton Co., 7 May 2019

[iusedtofloat]

With the things the original judge said about the lawyer, even suggesting Hannah get a new one... Do you feel this may be grounds for an appeal based on ineffective counsel?

I'm looking at the interrogation video...

--she had only owned the gun a couple of weeks
--she bought it herself
--when asked how long she'd had the gun, she said something like, "not long enough"
--there was no formal training, but she'd been to the gun range; been around guns her whole life
--Herring kept trying to open the car door to get out, and she put her knee into it, so he couldn't, saying "you can't get out"
--throughout this whole thing, she speaks matter of factly, and as though she's expecting profuse praise from the detectives. She's soooo pleased with herself, it's sickening.

Chilling.

so weird, she screams "get out m*****f*****!" and then puts her knee into his door so he is trapped?! this girl don't have all the lights on upstairs

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

KENNETH HERRING is the man she was CONVICTED of KILLING.

Just want to keep his name out there. Hers is everywhere.

 

[RickshawFan]

so weird, she screams "get out m******advertiser censored****!" and then puts her knee into his door so he is trapped?! this girl don't have all the lights on upstairs

She got 8 years for the false imprisonment charge, so I guess putting her knee in the door (and thinking this was heroic, it seems) didn't work out so well for her.

But just seeing in the interrogation video and on the stand how pleased she is with herself is very unnerving.

 

[Cryptic]

very high potential Hannah could be nice to her neighbors, and have a dangerous savior complex.

Very well said and in my opinion, very accurate. Your observation could well be a pattern with vigilantes.

Recent cases of convicted vigilantes featured wanna 'be "good guys with steely eyes" asserting themselves as the protector of handicapped parking spaces, of public decency, and neighborhood security.

In all cases, the perpetrators had ordinary lives and ordinary professions prior to the vigilante murder (mechanics, tree trimmer, railroad, real estate- but not really, and a retired Police officer who was more of a balliff than a patrol officer).

Yet, as you stated, they also could well of had a hidden desire to be something greater than themselves. They then lose control of a situation that spirals out of control.

 

[arielilane]

ATLANTA (Court TV) — A Georgia prosecutor has offered a formal apology after she says she used artificial intelligence when she submitted briefs to the court that cited cases that don’t exist.

Prosecutor apologizes for fictitious cases cited by AI in Supreme Court brief

Deborah Leslie identified nine erroneous or fictitious citations in briefs and orders submitted by the State in Hannah Payne's case.

www.courttv.com

March 31, 2026

Payne is serving a life sentence plus 13 years for her conviction, but maintains that her attorney failed to adequately research the law. The Georgia Supreme Court said it would issue a ruling on her request for a new trial, but offered no time frame as to when it might publish its opinion.

 

[Cryptic]

The Georgia Supreme Court said it would issue a ruling on her request for a new trial, but offered no time frame as to when it might publish its opinion.

Wow, that is huge. The totality of US jurisprudence and the US Constitution favors the defendant.

Prosecutors citing precedent cases that never existed in course of a prosecution appear to deny a defendant due process.

I hope that the defendant receives a new trial (with the same guilty verdict, little sympathy for vigilantes) and that the prosecutor gets disbarred.

 

[Ladyotm]

ATLANTA (Court TV) — A Georgia prosecutor has offered a formal apology after she says she used artificial intelligence when she submitted briefs to the court that cited cases that don’t exist.

Prosecutor apologizes for fictitious cases cited by AI in Supreme Court brief

Deborah Leslie identified nine erroneous or fictitious citations in briefs and orders submitted by the State in Hannah Payne's case.

www.courttv.com

March 31, 2026

Payne is serving a life sentence plus 13 years for her conviction, but maintains that her attorney failed to adequately research the law. The Georgia Supreme Court said it would issue a ruling on her request for a new trial, but offered no time frame as to when it might publish its opinion.

This is ridiculous! Did she do this to provide fuel for an appeal for Hannah. This is not good. Hannah was wrong for what she did. It was heart wrenching watching the video and aftermath. KENNETH HERRING's family is my prayers tonight.