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9 Dec 2014, 4:28 am
The governor believes that Georgia will soon be recognized as the leading state for meaningful criminal justice reform. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 12:24 pm
State lawmakers are considering legislation to tighten eyewitness guidelines on the heels of several high-profile cases in Georgia, and elsewhere across the country, where prisoners have been cleared by DNA evidence. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 2:18 pm
No other state has such a law. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:20 am
Georgia native Michael Thornton was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $319,242 in restitution after pleading guilty to tax fraud. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 10:08 pm
Law EnforcementAny prisoner in jail for a year or longer will have to undergo a mandatory AIDS test. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 8:58 am
DeYoung is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. at the Georgia prison in Jackson. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 6:27 am
Moving forward, the court noted that “the state of Georgia’s abortion laws that were in effect prior to the passage of H.B. 481 remain in effect. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 5:28 pm
Parents in Georgia who are unable to pay child support have been invited to join a class-action lawsuit demanding the state pay for lawyers to represent them if they can't afford counsel. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 2:29 am
He was sentenced to the only punishment allowed by law: life in prison.The measure is ``grossly disproportionate'' because Georgia is the only state in the nation that imposes a life prison sentence for failing to register, said Robert Persse, a public defender who is Bradshaw's attorney. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 7:32 am
McClain was the third person executed in Georgia this year and the 45th put to death since 1983, when the state resumed executions after the U.S. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 2:05 am
The annual cost to fully incarcerate someone in Georgia’s juvenile detention system is $98,000 per bed, more than five times greater than adult prison system per person costs. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 7:52 am
Attorney General Asked to Investigate the Violations and, if Confirmed, Confiscate Illegal DrugsThe Georgia Department of Corrections has likely violated federal law by unlawfully importing sodium thiopental into the United States, according to new evidence uncovered by lawyers representing a death row prisoner in Georgia. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 8:31 am
In 2006, the Georgia Legislature amended the law to reduce the crime to a misdemeanor punishable by no more than a year in prison. [read post]
4 May 2012, 10:51 am
The Georgia bill is a significant step toward reforming its system and we hope the state will take up more reform next year. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 5:10 pm
The State of Georgia tonight executed repeat murderer Warren Lee Hill, whose lawyers claimed he was intellectually disabled (formerly called mentally retarded) and therefore ineligible for capital punishment.As the majority of the three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:04 am
"Prison Population Up, Despite Drop in 20 States," is the AP report, via the New York Times.The prison population in the United States edged up slightly last year, but the total number of inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York, Georgia and Michigan. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 8:32 pm
2-26-2008 Georgia:State prosecutors cannot obtain a sentence of life in prison without parole against someone who rapes a child unless they are seeking the death penalty, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.In a 4-3 opinion, the court said a Grady County judge lacked the authority to sentence Rodolfo Lopez Velazquez to life without parole for the June 2005 rape of a 7-year-old girl. [read post]
28 Jun 2009, 9:26 am
Prosecutors say he also transferred a state prison inmate to the county jail to be closer to his girlfriend after accepting money to do so. [read post]
10 Dec 2018, 4:55 am
The Georgia Supreme Court has disbarred a convicted attorney The United States attorney's Office for the District of Arizona reported On March 30 and 31, 2015, U.S. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 7:38 am
In 1991, he was convicted of the murder of a fellow prison inmate who had threatened him and was sentenced to death after his attorneys failed to uncover evidence — such as school test scores and the testimony of teachers — demonstrating that he has an intellectual disability.Although a state court judge considering that new evidence in 2002 found that Hill is intellectually disabled — a finding unchallenged by the government or reviewing courts — Hill has… [read post]
