Felony Georgia Legal Statute 
JURIST
MAY 10, 2021
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Monday signed a bill that repeals an 1863 civil war-era statute , one year after Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot. He was shot while running through his neighborhood on the Georgia coast in February 2020 after the men claimed they thought he was a burglar.
JURIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On January 7, he sent a text message to a relative in Georgia that included a threat directed towards Speaker Pelosi.
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JURIST
JANUARY 12, 2024
The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. Watts had initially been charged with felony abuse of a corpse in October after Warren County police found the remains of her pregnancy in her toilet and trash.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Animal Legal Defense Fund.
The Crime Report
JULY 22, 2021
In a forthcoming paper in the Georgia State University Law Review, Thea Johnson argues that lying is at the heart of a plea bargaining process that “allows defendants the opportunity to negotiate fair resolutions to their cases in the face of a deeply unfair system.”.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” A debtor would beg to differ.”).
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 19, 2024
All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. Certain statutes permit the payment of “a reasonable attorney’s fee” to “the prevailing party” in litigation: 42 U.S.C. Next up is Lackey v.
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