HOLMES: It's 25 minutes past the hour now on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Ex-convicts, that's the Georgia governor's solution to the shortage of farm workers. A tough law that goes into effect July 1st might create a shortage of immigrant workers, so Governor Nathan Deal wants Agriculture and Correction officials to connect unemployed probationers with farm jobs. Even on one survey found farmers say they are getting only 30 to 50 percent of the workers they need. Not all farmers are sold on the idea of hiring people on probation.</s>R.T. STANLEY, VIDALIA ONION GROWER: It's</s>HOLMES: Well, the Pew Hispanic Research Center recently estimated that there are about 425,000 illegal immigrants in the State of Georgia. Well, the defense taking new swings at the prosecution's case in the murder trial of Casey Anthony. But that's the drama inside. This is the drama outside the courtroom. A mini brawl breaks out because these folks want to get a seat inside. But now, there are some new seating rules. That story next.
Hiring Probationers on the Farm