SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
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.
JURIST
OCTOBER 28, 2024
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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SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
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.
Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 21, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 4, 2021
In the meantime, in Georgia, Terresha Lucas, 30, is charged with eight counts of making terroristic threats. In a release posted on Facebook , the Douglasville Police Department in Georgia alleged that she left “racially-charged” notes in mailboxes in December posing as a KKK member.
The Crime Report
MARCH 18, 2022
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.”.
The Crime Report
JUNE 7, 2021
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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