Torpy: something’s missing at APS trial

It’s sort of like going to see a star in a Broadway play but instead getting stuck with the stand-in. The five-years-in-the-making Atlanta Public Schools cheating trial opened this week without former Superintendent Beverly Hall.

Hall is very sick with breast cancer, which leaves her underlings to face trial in a case in which her name is sure to be invoked repeatedly as the supposed ringleader of the alleged plot.

What effect that will have on jurors remains to be seen, but most legal eagles seem to think it won’t make prosecutors’ jobs any easier.