The court-appointed receiver liquidated Pinecrest Holdings’ remaining assets, and the proceeds went toward restitution.
Hattie Greene’s forty-two Cypress Creek acres returned to her estate, administered by grandson Marcus, Jaylen’s uncle. Georgia Power renegotiated its fifteen-acre easement with the estate and paid $251,000, held in trust for Hattie’s descendants.
Jaylen’s college tuition at Fort Valley State, all four years of it, was paid out of that trust.
Pell County also settled the civil rights claims brought by Voss’s arrest victims. Deacon Earl Simmons received $185,000. Rufus Tate, who had died of natural causes before the trial, had his claim settled through his estate for $140,000, which went to his granddaughter. Terrence Holloway got back his daughter’s tuition money plus a settlement of $95,000.
And there was me.
Savannah civil-rights attorney Denise Okafor, my law-school friend, said the video, fracture, and conviction made my false-arrest and excessive-force case exceptionally strong.
