Burney gets technicality, no change in prison time

A Jones County man serving a sentence of life without parole plus 30 years was in Superior Court last week asking for his sentence to be vacated and for a new trial.

The result of his Aug. 22 Writ of Mandamus motion was not what Terrence Sanchez Burney had hoped, but he did win a small victory on a technicality.

Burney appeared in the courtroom via Zoom from Valdosta State Prison, where he has resid…