TRUTH HUNTER
INVESTIGATIONS
Fulton County, Georgia
Reduction to Probation, Credit for Time Served
Investigation
Homicide Investigation & Gang Expert Consult
Year
2025
Location
Fulton County, Georgia
Retained By
Scott Smith, Peach State Law
Objective
Conduct a comprehensive homicide investigation focused on self-defense. Contest the State’s criminal street gang theory and claimed identifiers. Analyze cell phone extractions and social media. Provide gang expert consulting.
The Work
Behind the
Record.
How Did Truth Hunter Investigations Play a Part?
The charging document was built to overwhelm: malice murder, eight felony murder counts, aggravated assault, a firearm count, eleven Street Gang Act counts, and tampering with evidence. Quantity is not proof. The investigative job was to determine what the State could actually establish on the homicide and whether any of the gang counts had the statutory nexus Georgia law requires.
The homicide investigation was conducted as a self-defense case. Cell phone extractions and social media were reviewed for communications, timing, and whether the digital record supported membership, direction, or a connection between an alleged gang and the charged acts. Claimed identifiers were separated from verified gang evidence.
Gang expert consulting was provided to counsel throughout the case so the gang overlay could be litigated or negotiated from facts rather than from the face of the indictment.
Charges: Malice Murder, Felony Murder (8 counts), Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, Violation of the Criminal Street Gang Act (11 counts), Tampering with Evidence.
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