A judge has declared a mistrial in the Fulton County case against three men charged with the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Bre’Asia Powell at a post-graduation party outside Mays High School.
The decision comes four days and 13 witnesses into the trial, after the defense received a large amount of new evidence from the state mid-trial. The materials include a 118-page police report, ballistics information, and cell phone data.
Defense attorney Miguel Cossio compared the volume of new evidence to the index of the Encyclopedia Britannica. “It is an enormous feat to try to look over something this massive, especially trying to connect all of the dots and all of the other evidence that’s been produced,” Cossio said…