A law adding some thirty offenses, including eighteen misdemeanors, to the cash bail-only list is clearly unconstitutional and grossly unfair, according to court documents. The
The Georgia Supreme Court set aside the murder conviction of a man who left a toddler in a hot car in 2016, on the grounds
Georgia’s stalking law is unusually broad. Most states define stalking as a series of communications designed to harass or intimidate a person. Georgia’s anti-stalking law
Two Georgia siblings, who allegedly field fraudulent COVID unemployment benefits and PPP loan applications, will spend the next twenty-one months in federal prison. “Programs that
Few details were available after, according to investigators, a 15-year-old boy shot his 10-year-old female sibling. Troup County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a home
Few details were available after a car full of young people collided with a semi-truck that was parked on the shoulder. Responding troopers and officers
In 1989, almost a third of Americans said drug abuse was the country’s most serious problem. By 2004, that figure had plummeted to 1 percent.
Over the last twenty years, the traffic court process has probably changed more than any other part of the criminal law process, which is saying
The prosecution rate for hit-and-run offenders is very low. Only about 10 percent of these cases make it to court. However, that statistic is not
Lawmakers advanced a pair of eleventh-hour proposals which, advocates claim, would make it easier for people convicted of minor offenses to move on with their
