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Father of Georgia school shooting suspect pleads not guilty to all charges

JURIST

In October, a Georgia grand jury charged Gray and his son over a school shooting at Appalachee High School in September. After that shooting, Michigan also adopted a safe storage law criminalizing failure to safely store firearms when a child is likely to be present. Georgia does not require safe storage.

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Philadelphia district attorney sues Elon Musk for PAC money giveaways for illegal lottery

JURIST

Krasner noted in his press statement that the “civil action neither precludes nor requires potential future action under Pennsylvania criminal law.” The program is only available to voters in certain swing states, including Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.

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Double jeopardy clause bars Georgia from retrying man acquitted by reason of insanity

SCOTUSBlog

Share So what would you expect if a state supreme court wrote an opinion directly inconsistent with “perhaps the most fundamental rule” of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in the area, an opinion that would get a failing grade in any law school course on criminal law? Not surprisingly, Jackson was having none of this.

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Double jeopardy claim after inconsistent acquittal comes before the court

SCOTUSBlog

Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. Because that is what happened here, he says, the decision of the Georgia Supreme Court should be reversed. Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. The facts are simple.

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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

Vigilante Justice Firearm Laws. The law professors detail that the small arms race arises from three main “troubling” legal implications, and it’s looking at the examples of Wisconsin and Georgia’s laws that “exemplify this perilous confluence.”.

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Most U.S. Prosecutors ‘Routinely’ Support Harsh Punishments: Study

The Crime Report

American prosecutors act as “active lobbyists who routinely support making the criminal law harsher,” said the report, noting that more than 22,000 criminal law and criminal justice bills were introduced in state legislatures during the four-year period under review.

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Four US states remove ‘slavery loopholes’ on Election Day, Louisiana retains provision

JURIST

According to a June report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Georgia, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas also require some incarcerated persons to work for no pay. .” Because 61 percent of voters said they did not support the amendment, the slavery loophole will remain in Louisiana.

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