ATLANTA – A case dealing with racial ‘selective prosecution’ will be heard next week by the Georgia Supreme Court in Atlanta.

Deron Michael Wallace and Michael Pindling were convicted of the shooting death of Robert Daniel “Big Rob” Pett. Wallace is appealing that conviction in Lowndes County because a white woman involved in the incident was allowed to plead to a lesser charge.

Wallace is arguing that Kathryn Cortez was “selectively prosecuted” and convicted only of armed robbery because she was a white woman from Georgia while he was a black man from New York.

Cortez testified against Wallace and Pindling during the trial.

Pindling was identified as the shooter.

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