Attorneys for the City of Savannah and the family of a man killed by a Savannah Police officer are accusing each other of misrepresenting the facts and potentially tainting a jury pool in a federal lawsuit.
The family of Saudi Lee and their attorneys, William Claiborne and David Utter, hosted a press conference last month to release body-camera footage from Lee’s death. Former SPD officer Ernest Ferguson fatally shot Lee on June 24, 2022, and has since been indicted and sued related to the incident.
In a filing last week, an attorney hired by the city says the press conference and statements Claiborne made were an attempt to taint a future jury pool and asked a federal judge to sanction the lawyers…