TORPY: The case that helped kill Buckhead’s party, 25 years after Ray Lewis

The murder case against NFL phenom Ray Lewis was the Trial of the Century — that is, when this century was just a few months old.

Twenty-five years ago this month, a raucous legal drama played out in a Fulton County courtroom and on Court TV. It ended with the prosecution imploding and the families of two dead men sobbing and saying justice was blind.

The deceased, Richard Lollar and Jacinth Baker, both natives of Akron, Ohio, were drawn to the star-studded party atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan. 31, 2000, just hours after the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta…

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