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Timothy Pratt

Defense attorneys in Cop City case ‘frustrated’ after finally visiting forest

trees and broken graffitied concrete slabs
Part of the Atlanta forest that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, as it looked on 4 March 2023. Photograph: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

After months of stonewalling by Georgia prosecutors, defense attorneys were allowed on Tuesday to visit the forest at the center of the state’s criminal conspiracy case against a movement opposing the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City” – only to come away frustrated by how much things had changed on the ground.

The attorneys also found confusion about where arrests and alleged crimes occurred during the last two years, according to a handful who spoke to the Guardian.

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