A Fulton County judge declared a mistrial for one of the defendants indicted in a racketeering case tied to Atlanta public safety training center protests .
Ayla King is one of 61 defendants named in a 109-page indictment . The indictment alleges that King is one of the defendants who trespassed onto the property off Key Road and Constitution Road on March 5, 2024.
King had been granted her request for a speedy trial, which was scheduled to begin Monday.
A Fulton County judge declared a mistrial on Monday after the Court of Appeals declared that jury selection should have been open to the public and members of the media.
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King’s attorney, Suri Chadha Jimenez, objected to the mistrial and has filed his own motion to the Court of Appeals to prevent the mistrial.
“I filed an objection to the mistrial because we never asked for a mistrial. What we asked for was an acquittal, and if you’re not going to give me my acquittal, then you want that jury, because that’s the jury we picked,” Jimenez told Channel 2’s Michael Seiden.
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If the Court of Appeals denies his motion, then this trial could start back up again in September with jury selection.
Seiden also reached out to prosecutors for comment on this story, but he has not received a response.
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