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
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Wooden pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court and served an eight-year sentence. The stranger just happened to be a plain-clothes officer who knew of Wooden’s felony convictions. To qualify as an armed career criminal, a defendant must have three prior “violent felony” or “serious drug offense” convictions.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 27, 2022
Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. After Holt , Georgia corrections allowed all inmates to grow half-inch beards. In Smith v.
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.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 29, 2021
Former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money. Facts of the Case. Unbeknownst to Van Buren, his actions were part of a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation.
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