Without taking any action, a person who is placed on the Georgia Sex Offender Registry will be on that list for life. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (the “GBI“) maintains the list, and the GBI publishes that list making it available to the public and to other state’s law enforcement…
The Georgia Sex Offender Registry is a database that is maintained by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. (O.C.G.A. 42-1-12) While the Registry is useful for identifying the persons who are a continuing threat to minors, in many, many cases the Registry creates a lifelong stigma to persons who made a…
The criminal justice system penalties for driving under the influence increase for each consecutive conviction, and are covered in depth in the statute O.C.G.A. 40-6-391 (2016). These are just the penalties imposed by the criminal justice system, and are separate from the license suspension penalties that are imposed automatically by DDS…
The lead story on KPRC Channel 2 News in Houston was how Lindsay Urbani was attacked by a United Airlines Employee in one of many incidents that has troubled that airline. This case is still prelitigation negotiation, but Roy Yunker Law stands by her, and will ensure that it is not “business…
At what point is enough enough? At what point can you ask the court to release you from probation? Well, having successfully freed one of my clients today from the last few years of probation supervision in a 10 year sentence, I can at least give you some guidelines as to…
Actually, there are 20 different statutes that can be used to charge a person with theft in Georgia, but once you dig into the details of those 20 statutes, it makes Paul Simon’s 50 ways to leave your lover seem relatively unimaginative compared to the Georgia legislature. You would think…
If you do not have a court order legitimating the child, the only right the father has is the right to pay the mother child support. It does not matter if the administrative form that you signed at the hospital, or brought to the Office of Vital Records says that…
Don’t let an abusive landlord bully you into leaving the property you are renting before your right to occupy that property has expired! Your Rights as a Renter A renter who has paid his or her rent on a monthly basis must be given proper notice that the landlord wishes…
Despite recent changes in the law intended to expand the legal rights of grandparents to see their grandchildren, the law remains firmly on the side of the parents of those grandchildren. The most recent case that reaffirmed that unhappy legal status of grandparents came from the Georgia Supreme Court on…
In March, 2015, the Georgia Supreme Court came out with an opinion with major implications for drivers stopped and investigated for driving under the influence. In Williams v. The State of Georgia, the court held that the trial court was wrong to allow into evidence the results of a blood…