GREGORY CHANDLER--ELDER ABUSE RESEARCH

I often hear arbitration cases in the State of Georgia.  I came across an interesting case recently.  The case is Lester v. State, 2011 WL 3307127 (Ga. App.)

In this case the evidence was sufficient to support convictions for family violence battery, criminal trespass, and abuse of an elder person, even though the 87-year-old victim testified
at trial that the injury to her arm was caused when the defendant attempted to catch her as she fell. 

The victim's neighbor, the police, and the victim's daughter all testified that the victim initially told them the defendant grabbed her arm, twisted it with both hands, pushed her down
poured bleach on her mattress, and threatened to burn her house down.  Further tesitmony was that the police officer and the neighbor noticed a strong order of bleach when they entered the victim's home. 


GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law