ATLANTA — Facing a murder trial for the second time in his wife’s 2016 shooting, Claud “Tex” McIver was denied bond Friday by a Fulton County judge who expressed concerns that McIver was a flight risk.
The 79-year-old former Atlanta attorney, who’s been in custody since 2018, had his murder conviction overturned in June by the Georgia Supreme Court. Clad in a blue Fulton County jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him, McIver returned to Judge Robert McBurney’s courtroom and took a seat alongside his attorneys.
McIver’s murder conviction was overturned on grounds jurors should have been allowed to consider convicting him of a lesser manslaughter charge in the deadly shooting of his wife Diane, 64.
