An Atlanta woman who violently beat her 11-year-old stepdaughter to death nine years ago is challenging her life sentence on the grounds that she was denied access to a lawyer when arrested.
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A Henry County judge found Charlott Lynette Reaves guilty of felony murder, aggravated battery and child cruelty in the 2003 murder of Joella Reaves. Along with the child’s father, Rodney Reaves, she hog-tied the girl, starved and beat her to death with an umbrella in 2003. Both were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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During a state Supreme Court hearing Monday, Reaves’ lawyer argued that officers didn’t allow her to speak with an attorney and failed to read her her rights upon arrest. “When Henry County police first talked to Reaves … they did so for 14 minutes without reading her her rights,” Franklin Hogue told the presiding judges. He also claimed that Reaves repeatedly asked for an attorney during her interrogation.
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