Monday, February 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The law in Georgia allows parents to provide alcohol to their kids as long as it is done indside their own home. See O.C.G.A. 3-3-23(c). Many parents have heard of this ... Read more..Saturday, February 25th, 2006 Posted in podcasts, Case Law Updates | No Comments »
Palma v. State is a case that came out of the Georgia Supreme Court recently. It says that a defense lawyer can argue punishment in closing argument in the context ... Read more..Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
CNN.com - Robbers take $43M in England heist - Feb 22, 2006 CNN reports that Robbers took $43,000,000.00 from a security company. I asked my last armed robbery client, why in ... Read more..Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 Posted in Search & Seizure | No Comments »
   This officer has just “seized†the citizen. In Johnson v. State, 231 Ga. App. 273, (1998), an officer aproached the defendant and asked for identificaiton. The defendant responded, “Do I have ... Read more..Monday, February 20th, 2006 Posted in DUI discussion | No Comments »
According to Lawrence Taylor's DUI Blog, smokers can register higher on the breath testing machines like Georgia's Intoxilizer 5000. Breath machines are actually designed to report the presence of any compound ... Read more..Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 Posted in podcasts, Case Law Updates | No Comments »
On November 21, 2005, the Georgia Supreme Court handed down the opinion on Ramos v. Terry, Case No. S05A1123 which discusses the requirements for qualified interpreters for non-english speaking defendants. ... Read more..Monday, February 13th, 2006 Posted in Case Law Updates | No Comments »
Ramos v. Terry, Case No. S05A1123 (November 21, 2005). Ramos claimed he had been denied a fair habeas hearing due to the inadequacies of the interpreter used at his hearing. The ... Read more..Saturday, February 11th, 2006 Posted in DUI discussion | No Comments »
CNN.com - Georgia hopes drunk drivers will see the signs - Feb 11, 2006  It's a powerful message isn't it. This program raised one of the surcharges on DUI fines by one ... Read more..Saturday, February 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
U.S. skeleton star banned from Olympics - Bobsled, luge, skeleton - MSNBC.com Criminal defense lawyers are used to seeing this kind of thing.  Good ideas that are taken to the extreme can cause ... Read more..Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 Posted in Jury Charges, DUI discussion | No Comments »
DUI Charges. Click the link to download my Requests to Charge that I used in a recent DUI refusal case. Read more..Friday, February 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 10 Comments »
Yesterday, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a version of the new sex offender bill designed to make Georgia's laws the toughest in the Nation. The new bill puts 25 ... Read more..Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 Posted in Trial Tactics | 8 Comments »
Few topics are discussed among lawyers more. Should you put your client on the stand or not? Sometimes it's just not an option for any number of reasons. Maybe your ... Read more..