A prominent Georgia defense attorney who often provided legal analysis for news organizations covering high-profile cases drowned over the weekend while swimming near his coastal home, a coroner says.
, Glynn County Coroner Marc Neu said. Father and son were swept into open waters by powerful rip currents, Neu toldPate’s son swam back to shore unharmed, but a rescue crew had to pull Pate from the water. Despite attempts to revive him, the coroner said, Pate was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Pate was a native of Dublin, Georgia, who graduated from the University of Georgia’s law school in 1994. He specialized in criminal defense, handling cases in both state and federal courts, and was a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project. Jason Sheffield, a metro Atlanta trial lawyer and president of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, called Pate “a larger-than-life person and attorney.”
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