FAUST TRIAL VERDICT REACHED: Jury Decides 25-Year Cold Case

Twenty-five years. That's how long the Baker family waited for this moment. Tara Baker was a 23-year-old UGA law student when she was sexually assaulted, stabbed, strangled, and left in a burning house on the day before her 24th birthday. January 19, 2001. For a quarter century, no one was held accountable. Then DNA evidence led to Edrick Faust's arrest in 2024, and this trial became the final chapter in a case that hung over Athens, Georgia like a ghost. After nine days of testimony, a defense forced to rest without calling a single witness, and closing arguments where both sides laid it all on the line, the jury sent a note to the judge. They had a verdict. Watch the judge warn the courtroom gallery before the jury is even brought in. Watch the foreperson read 12 counts. And watch every single juror answer the same three questions when the defense requests polling. ⏰ KEY MOMENTS 00:06 - Jury sends note: verdict reached 00:28 - Judge warns courtroom audience about decorum 02:21 - Foreperson instructed to publish the verdict 02:53 - Verdict reading begins, count by count 04:56 - Defense requests jury be polled 05:15 - Each juror is asked three questions 07:19 - Judge thanks and releases the jury FULL VERDICTION BREAKDOWN : https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/des... CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/ga-... 📖 CASE BACKGROUND Tara Louise Baker was a first-year UGA law student from East Point, Georgia. On January 18, 2001, she was last seen at the law library and called a friend around 9:46 p.m. saying she planned to leave around 10. That was the last time anyone heard from her. The next morning, firefighters found Baker's body inside her burning off-campus apartment on Fawn Drive in Athens. She had been beaten, stabbed, strangled, and sexually assaulted. The fire was intentionally set. The only item taken was her laptop. She was one day from turning 24. The case went cold for 23 years. In 2023, the Coleman-Baker Act, named in part for Tara, created a GBI Cold Case Unit. That unit matched DNA from Baker's autopsy to Faust through the FBI's national database. Faust lived in Baker's neighborhood but was never a suspect. Investigators say they did not know each other.Defense attorney Ahmad R. Crews has challenged the DNA evidence and stated he believes Faust will be acquitted. 📂 PLAYLISTS & RESOURCES 🌐 Website: https://justiceisaprocess.com LIVE BROADCAST:    • LIVE BROADCAST: GA v. Edrick Faust   NO BREAKS EDITION:    • NO BREAKS EDITION: GA v. Edrick Faust   PODCAST:    • PODCAST: GA v. Edrick Faust   KEY MOMENTS AND TESTIMONY:    • Key Moments and Testimony: GA v. Edrick Faust   ► Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   ⚖️ ABOUT JUSTICE IS A PROCESS This channel continues the work of Steven M. Askin, a criminal defense attorney who was disbarred in 1998 for refusing to violate attorney-client privilege, then criminally convicted in 2010 for teaching people their constitutional rights from a coffee shop in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He passed away in February 2024, but not before he and I started this channel together. I am Steven M. Askin II. I am not an attorney. I am a watchdog. I cover criminal trials to educate the public about due process, the presumption of innocence, and constitutional protections. Every video on this channel is part of building the machine the system feared my father would create: a public trained to watch, question, and demand accountability. This is not entertainment. This is education. This is oversight. This is Justice Is A Process. ⚖️ FAIR USE & EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. § 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. No copyright infringement is intended. All video content is used for transformative educational purposes with added legal analysis and commentary. #GeorgiaTrial #TrueCrime #ColdCase #UGA