Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Cobb woman accused of vehicular homicide in the 2010 death of her son as he crossed Austell Road now faces four unrelated misdemeanor charges.
Raquel Nelson, who was launched into the national spotlight after her 4-year-old son was struck and killed while crossing Austell Road in 2010, was arrested Friday by Cobb police on four unrelated charges. The Marietta resident was taken into custody in the 200 block of Giibbs Street, jail records show. The four charges, all misdemeanors, are fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, affixing of materials which reduce light transmission through windows or windshield, speeding, and expired/no tag. She made her $1,300 bond Saturday, records show. Patch has contacted Cobb police about the arrest and will provide further details when they are available. The attorney who represented her in her son's death, Steven Sadow, said he was …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
But the prosecution tells the Court of Appeals that the Marietta mom, not a hit-and-run driver, deserves the blame for her son's jaywalking death on Austell Road.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Prosecutors passed on the chance to speak in court today about why Cobb County mom Raquel Nelson should be retried for vehicular homicide, but they made their case clear in a court filing, according to The Associated Press: Nelson, not hit-and-run driver Jerry Guy, was responsible for the death of her 4-year-old son, A.J. Newman, two years ago. "The officers determined that A.J. was killed because his mother walked with him into the roadway under unsafe conditions," reads the 29-page brief from the Cobb County Solicitor General’s Office to the Georgia Court of Appeals, according to the AP report. "Another driver could have just as easily been the one that hit A.J. In fact, there is evidence that another driver did almost hit the group …
Monday, April 16, 2012
On Tuesday, the woman dubbed the "jaywalking mom" will again appeal a judge's decision in an attempt to have charges of her 4-year-old son's jaywalking death dismissed.
Raquel Nelson, the woman charged with vehicular homicide in the hit-and-run death of her 4-year-old son, will appeal on Tuesday a judge’s decision not to throw out charges of vehicular manslaughter and crossing outside of a crosswalk, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In July, a jury convicted Nelson of second-degree vehicular homicide, reckless conduct and crossing a roadway outside of a crosswalk. Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley sentenced Nelson to a year of probation with the option for a retrial. Nelson chose to have a new trial. In October, Tanksley dismissed the reckless conduct charge, but denied a defense motion to dismiss the other two charges. Nelson’s attorney, Steve Sadow, will give oral arguments …
Saturday, November 19, 2011
The Marietta mom is scheduled for a second trial in her son's jaywalking death in Cobb County.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Raquel Nelson is making another bid to end her vehicular homicide case without a second trial. Nelson, the Marietta mom convicted this summer in the jaywalking death of her 4-year-old son in April 2010, is asking the Georgia Court of Appeals to review State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley’s refusal to dismiss that charge and a count of crossing outside a crosswalk last month, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Tanksley did dismiss a charge of reckless conduct against Nelson during pretrial motions from defense attorney Steven Sadow, who took on the case after the first trial. Tanksley oversaw Nelson’s first trial, at which she was convicted of all three misdemeanor charges. The judge spared the mother of two surviving girls any jail …
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
A Cobb County judge's decision Monday means the mother will face a retrial next week in her son's jaywalking death.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Raquel Nelson won't avoid a second trial on charges related to the jaywalking death of her 4-year-old son. Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley denied a defense motion Monday to dismiss the remaining two charges against Nelson, including second-degree vehicular homicide, The Associated Press reported in an article carried by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Nelson is scheduled for trial Oct. 25 on the vehicular homicide charge and crossing a road elsewhere than a crosswalk, both misdemeanors. Nelson was convicted in July on those charges and reckless conduct in the death of son A.J., who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in April 2010 as Nelson and her three children tried to cross darkened Austell Road from a Cobb Community …
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Marietta mother whose son was killed by a hit-and-run driver still faces a vehicular-homicide trial.
Raquel Nelson is one step closer to being cleared in the jaywalking death of her son. Cobb County State Court Judge Kathryn Tanksley dismissed one of three charges against the Marietta-area mother Wednesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Nelson no longer is charged with reckless conduct, but she still faces a second trial this month on two other misdemeanors—second-degree vehicular homicide and crossing a street elsewhere than a crosswalk—in the death of son A.J. on April 10, 2010. Chattahoochee Tech student Nelson, her two daughters and 4-year-old A.J. tried to cross Austell Road from a Cobb Community Transit stop to their apartment complex that evening, as did others who got off the same bus. A.J. darted from the median into …
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Raquel Nelson's new high-profile attorney says he wants his client's name cleared.
The attorney in the case of the mother convicted of reckless conduct after her child was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Austell Road said evidence in the original case is insufficient to warrant a new trial. High-profile attorney Steve Sadow has filed pleas in Cobb County State Court asking Judge Katherine Tanksley to declare his client not guilty before a scheduled new jury trial Oct. 25. The judge gave Raquel Nelson the option of a new trial after sentencing her July 26 to 40 hours of community service and 12 months' probation in the death of her child, A.J. A not-guilty verdict would clear her record. If the judge decides to continue with the second trial, Sadow has filed another motion challenging the charges that were brought …
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Over the last week, South Cobb Patch has received tons of emails from all over the country asking how to support Raquel Nelson. Well, here's how.
Raquel Nelson's story of being charged with vehicular homicide after her 4-year-old son was hit and killed last year when she was crossing the street with him and her other two children has made national and even international news, and people from all over have expressed outrage. Many have wanted to help, but were not sure how. These are just a handful of the many emails sent to South Cobb Patch about Nelson's case: Although Nelson has not yet officially announced whether she will have a new trial, her family is setting up a defense fund. Donations will be accepted at any Chase Bank across the nation starting Monday, said Nelson's aunt, Loretta Williams. Williams said the family will have more details once all the paperwork for the fund …
Janie Newton
5:38 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
This is in the story reported by the MDJ. A.J. was hit by a van driven by Jerry Guy of Marietta, who had been drinking earlier in the day while taking pain medication and was partially blind in one eye, according to court records. Guy pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run and was sentenced to six months in prison. He had two previous hit-and-run convictions from 1997, I am sorry but, no matter how you … more ›