Frank W. Sonny Seiler (born February 20, 1933) is a prominent trial attorney from Savannah, Georgia. He is also famous as the owner of the University of Georgia live mascot Uga, a series of successively numbered English bulldogs. Contents [hideshow] 1. Education 2. Trial of Jim Williams Education Seiler graduated from the Porter Military Academy, now the exclusive Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, SC, in 1950. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia (1956 and 1957), where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, Gridiron Secret Society, and a founder of the university's Order of the Greek Horsemen.Trial of Jim Williams James Jim Williams was arrested in 1981 for the shooting death of Danny Hansford, with whom he had a sexual relationship. After the subsequent four trials, Williams was finally acquitted by a jury in Augusta, Georgia in 1989.Bobby Lee Cook defended Williams during the first trial. Williams was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He appealed, posting a $200,000 bond. Cook subsequently received, anonymously, a copy of the police report showing that the arresting officer had contradicted himself. The judgment was overturned and a new trial was ordered.Sonny Seiler assumed Williams's defense at the second trial and decided to have Williams openly bring up his sexuality. Little else differed from the first trial. The Georgia Supreme Court overturned the conviction saying the sheriff should not have been allowed to testify as an expert, and that the prosecutor waited until his closing argument to demonstrate some evidence. Show less «