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2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Georgia

As a result of the backlog, most judges failed to comply with statutory terms for case review, which could be subject to judicial discipline, thus allegedly ...

Criminal conduct | Judicial ethics and discipline

In some cases, no hearings were set, hearings were continued without resolution for months at a time, trials and hearings were completed but no ...

Judicial Order by the Supreme Court of Georgia Declaring a ...

conduct non-essential, in-person judicial proceedings, but only if in ... clearing the backlog of cases, judges could begin to reinstitute.

Solving a Sixth Amendment Crisis: The Case for Resource Parity in ...

Id.; Georgia State University Law Review, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Legal. Defense of Indigents: Create the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council to Set. State- ...

FILED IN OFFICE - Fulton County Superior Court

Jury, “Exhibit B”. While Georgia law authorizes special purpose grand juries to conduct both ... The District Attorney for the Atlanta Judicial Circuit submitted ...

White Paper: State Judicial Conduct Commissions—The Challenge ...

However, in two of these states—Georgia and Montana—the senate has final confirmation power over every seat. ... case processing times and ...

Over v. State :: 2010 :: Court of Appeals of Georgia Decisions

"The inability of courts to provide a prompt trial has contributed to a large backlog of cases in urban courts which, among other things, enables defendants to ...

Candidate Q&A - State Court of DeKalb County - Decaturish

Since my tenure with the Supreme Court of Georgia ended, my entire career has been focused on litigating cases in state courts. How many ...

Accused of Misusing State Computers, Georgia Ethics Chief Is ...

... Georgia Ethics Chief Is Suspended. Stefan ... legal fees to $3 million. After years of inaction, a backlog of more than 150 cases was finally ...

Boom or Bust: Ensuring the Georgia State-wide Business Court ...

This Note explores the issues that business courts are intended to resolve and ultimately argues that the Georgia General Assembly should amend the. Georgia ...

Qlfipnso - DeKalb County Probate Court

with the Judicial Council of Georgia and other judicial ... substantial backlogs of unindicted and untried criminal cases, deadlines for jury ...

Section 5: Appeals, Court of - Georgia General Assembly

III, in all cases not reserved to the Supreme Court of Georgia or conferred on other courts by law. Program Overview. Performance Measures: FY ...

Federal judge sanctions Chatham DA over efforts to evade deposition

Like many other DAs in Georgia, she has struggled to cope with the mountainous backlog of cases caused by the judicial shutdown during the Covid ...

CRITICIZING JUDGES: A LAWYER'S PROFESSIONAL ...

23, 2021) (describing the procedure for filing an ethical complaint against a judge in Georgia). 14 See GA. CODE OF JUD. CONDUCT r. 2.11(A)(1) (2021) (requiring ...

Georgia -- Brief in Opposition - Supreme Court

(“In most cases, comity and respect for federalism compel [this Court] to defer to the decisions of state courts on issues of state law”— a ...

Boggs: Progress to clear Georgia case backlogs 'has not been easy'

(The Center Square) — The number of pending serious violent felony cases in Georgia has decreased, while jury trials have increased, ...

Resource Guide on Strengthening Judicial Integrity and Capacity

cases. at the time, the court suffered a relatively large backlog of cases. the process began in 2005 with an external review of the court's case management.

An Ethics Guide for Part-Time Lawyer Judges - NCSC

A client asks Judge Perry to defend him in a criminal case in a court other than one in which he serves. May he take the case? Yes. No. 7. Karen Berg suggests ...

The Fulton County Disqualification Allegations: Myths, Facts and ...

... backlog of cases across Georgia's legal system. For this reason, officials in Fulton County launched Project ORCA to clear the backlog. In ...

09/30/2024—Chief Justice Announces Statewide Judicial Emergency

Atlanta, September 30, 2024—Supreme Court of Georgia Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs today has issued a statewide judicial emergency order, ...