Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 30, 2024

Georgia , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Georgia can’t retry a defendant acquitted of murder by reason of insanity. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial. In McElrath v.

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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. The post SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Graham after Graham invoked the clause to decline to testify on the Georgia allegations of election interference. However, I am not confident that the claim would bar the subpoena in its entirety. While he can try to raise other privileges, Smith can seek his testimony on the non-legislative matters.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 11, 2023

The case involved an African-American defendant, Warren McCleskey, who was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and one count of murder in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. Both felony murder and the killing of an officer are commonly used as aggravating circumstances in capital cases.

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