Jail Release and DUI: A Closer Look
When it comes to DUI enforcement, peace officers are currently in catch-up mode. When football teams fall behind and must play catch-up, they play much more aggressively. They pass more on offense and blitz more on defense. Peace officers are in catch-up mode because the number of DUIs surged during and immediately after coronavirus lockdowns. […]
North Macon Teen Slain in Shooting
Few details were available after a 17-year-old Macon boy was shot and killed in a parking lot of a popular fitness center. A release from the Bibb County Sheriff’s office says it started with a call for a fight in the Planet Fitness parking lot on Tom Hill Sr. Blvd. While Deputies were on the […]
A Complete Guide to Domestic Battery in Cobb County
For defendants, a domestic disturbance call usually begins a downward spiral that begins with a Section 16-5-23 charge and often seems endless. Life moves so fast that a mandatory 24-hour jail hold, which applies in most cases, often has severe social, vocational, and other consequences. Unfortunately for defendants, that’s just the beginning. Almost as soon […]
Crime Suppression Team’ Nabs Drug Trafficking Suspect
After Bulloch County authorities executed a search warrant, they arrested a man and charged him with several drug trafficking-related offenses. On April 1, investigators located a trafficking amount of marijuana, THC products, Psilocybin edibles, firearms, and U.S. currency at a resident in Cottage Row in Statesboro. Investigators estimate the street value of the narcotics seized […]
Coweta County Accident Seriously Injures Eleven People
Area trauma centers were overwhelmed after a runaway Dodge pickup crossed the center line and caused two collisions that seriously injured eleven people. Investigators state that a black Dodge Ram, heading north and navigating a curve on Smokey Road, veered off its path. The driver, losing control of the vehicle, crossed into the oncoming lane, […]
Is Georgia Tough on Sex Offenders?
Remarkably, the answer to this question is “no,” at least comparatively speaking. The Peach State has very tough criminal laws in most areas, but sex crimes isn’t one of these areas. California was the first state to pass a yes means yes law. Generally, these laws make it much harder to establish consent, one of […]
Civil-Criminal Matters in Georgia, Part I
The different burdens of proof in civil and criminal court (more likely than not vs. beyond a reasonable doubt) are the most obvious difference between civil and criminal court. These forums also serve different purposes. Civil courts compensate victims and criminal courts punish offenders. Sometimes, matters overlap in criminal and civil court. The 1990s O.J. […]
The Georgia Three-Step
We admit this title is not quite as catchy as the Texas Two-Step. However, for over half of Georgia families, a divorce is, or at least should be, a three-step process. About 54 percent of households are headed by a single parent, the mom and/or dad has been married before, the parents are unmarried, some […]
Undocumented Immigrant Charged with UGA Slaying
Immigration and criminal law collided after an undocumented person from Venezuela with an extensive criminal history in the United States allegedly beat and killed a 22-year-old nursing student. In 2022, the 26-year-old suspect was apprehended illegally crossing the border and then immediately released. A few months later, he was arrested in New York City on […]
John Hinkley, Jr. Released from All Restrictions
More than forty years after his crime, the failed Presidential assassin is now free to pursue his dream of becoming a chart-topping folk singer. “I’m very sorry, I have tremendous remorse for what I did in 1981,” he said recently. Although doctors testified that he’s no longer a threat to himself or others, he still […]
