Archive for June, 2010
A new Georgia sex offender law will allow many low level sex offenders to be taken off the registry much sooner than previously allowed. The new law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2010, has been hailed by proponents as a second chance for many of Georgia's 16,000 convicted sex offenders.
Until the passage of this new law, Georgia was widely criticized for having overly-harsh sex offender laws which primarily focused on punishment instead of protecting the public. The previous ...
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In Georgia and across the nation, federal and state governments have begun targeting pain management doctors for their practices in prescribing pain medication. The federal government alone has arrested over 450 pain doctors since 2004 for allegedly operating “pill mills.” Many doctors and pain patients argue that the government’s intrusion infringes on a doctor’s right to dispense legitimate and necessary medication.
The Rome News-Tribune has the story.
Prosecutors believe that many pain doctors care more about profit than the ...
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The Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed the long standing rule that an officer who conducts a traffic stop must have a particularized suspicion that an occupant of the vehicle poses a safety threat before the occupant can be patted-down. The Court went on to hold that this rule holds true even if the officer intends to search the vehicle.
In Molina v. State, a Gwinnett County case, an officer conducted a traffic stop of a pickup truck after noticing a broken ...
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