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…
Category Archives: Criminal Law
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…
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…
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…