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High-profile Atlanta lawyer dies in drowning accident

Page Pate was swimming at St Simons Island when he was swept into open water by rip current

Graeme Massie
Thursday 15 September 2022 01:21 BST
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Atlanta defence attorney Page Pate dies at 55

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A high-profile Atlanta lawyer drowned while swimming off the Georgia coast with his teenage son.

Page Pate, 55, died on Sunday while swimming in an inlet on St Simons Island where his family has a home.

Pate and his son were swept into open waters by strong rip currents, according to Glynn County Coroner Marc Neu.

His son managed to make it back to shore but a rescue crew had to pull Pate from the water. Despite attempts to revive him, he was later pronounced dead at the Southeast Georgia Health System’s Brunswick hospital

Pate worked for more than 25 years as a trial lawyer and split his time between offices in Atlanta and Brunswick, Georgia.

He was also known as a legal expert on national news and radio stations and covered a string of high-profile cases.

“Though he was a formidable, sometimes intimidating, attorney in the courtroom, Page had an easy smile, an earnest laugh, and a great sense of humor,” Pate’s law firm, Pate, Johnson and Church, said in a statement.

Pate was a founding member of the Georgia Innocence Project.

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