By KAITLYN ROSSWXIAATLANTA (CNN) – For the first time in Georgia’s history, a woman serving a life sentence is free because of a new state law designed to protect survivors of abuse. The judge was not allowed to consider any mitigating factors, automatic life sentence, no questions asked. “There’s another door that’s going to open – this door closes, another one will open, this door closes, this one will open. Doug Ammar, the executive director of the Georgia Justice Project, helped advocate for the law. Advocates believed hundreds of other incarcerated Georgians could be eligible for resentencing under the Survivor Justice Act, and other states are now watching Georgia as a potential model.