On March 21, 2014 attorney Pope Langdale presented a speech entitled Valdosta Victories – A Look Back at Three Important Legal Cases that Shaped the Valdosta-Lowndes County Community at a Georgia Legal History Foundation seminar in Albany, Georgia. The speech detailed three of the most noteworthy criminal trials that have ever occurred in Valdosta over the last fifty years including: United States v. Eddie Ray Crockett, Jr. and Jewell L. Futch, State of Georgia v. Keller Wilcox, and State of Georgia v. Maurice Cassotta.
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