Though they weren’t able to participate in deliberation, the two alternate jurors are always a good thing to have for Senior U.S. District Judge William C. O’Kelley O’Kelley presided over the case involving Nikki Autry, a former Habersham County Sheriff’s Office deputy who was accused of misleading a judge for a “no-knock” warrant. She was acquitted on all charges Friday. The trial took the entire course of the week from 9 a.m. Monday’s jury selection to a verdict returning before 5 p.m. Friday.
You Heard it here: Judge values the alternates
