Shanelle Booker has been named the acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, becoming the first Black prosecutor and first woman to hold the top federal attorney’s position in ...

“I’ve lived the experience of a Black woman who is attacked and over-sexualized,” the prosecutor ... up in a state appeals court fight, the Georgia district attorney who brought the case ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black ...

The court rejected a request to review whether a Georgia prosecutor improperly struck Black and female jurors from a panel that convicted and sentenced to death a Black man for murdering a white ...

From left to right, Acting U.S. Attorney Shanelle Booker and former U.S. Attorney Peter Leary. Leary resigned from his position on Jan. 11, 2025, which led Booker to take on the position the ...