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jgo

(870 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 08:49 AM Mar 2023

Bill on prosecutor oversight moves forward at Georgia General Assembly

Source: Yahoo News

A Georgia House bill introduced to bring new oversight of local prosecutors moved forward on Monday, joining a similar Senate bill that passed last week. Both bills were backed by Athens area Republicans.

Rep. Houston Gaines, R-Athens, co-sponsored House bill 231 on prosecutorial oversight. Both the House and the Senate bills would create a commission overseeing prosecutors with the ability to discipline local prosecutors, including for "willful and persistent failure to perform his or her duties" in the words of the House bill. The Senate bill, SB 92, contains similar language and was co-sponsored by Sen. Bill Cowsert, R-Athens.


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NYC Liberal

(20,132 posts)
10. Jury nullification won't help if the Republicans use this to stop the prosecution of someone
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 01:43 AM
Mar 2023

who should be prosecuted. (a.k.a., the Orange Menace).

It would only help in the opposite case, if Republicans wanted to prosecute someone who shouldn’t be.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
5. In Israel people march in the streets for weeks when democracy is under such direct assault.
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 10:38 AM
Mar 2023

Many other nations as well. Don’t see it happening here!?

MayReasonRule

(1,460 posts)
6. The Fulton Grand Jury term starts tomorrow...
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 10:58 AM
Mar 2023

So technically we could see charges maybe as soon as this week or next week, though I'm definitely not gonna' hold my breath in anticipation.

It's beyond crazy that we still don’t have charges.

It’s been YEARS.

If nothing changes, indictments have always and will always be 6 months away, meaning that the president is de facto above the law.

It's Georgia, you can sit in jail for years without charges.
In practice, the District Attorney's offices typically indict people faster, but they're not forced to. And there can still be a significant lag time between getting arrested on the charge and actually getting indicted. It can take months to years.

One way to speed up the case after you've been indicted is to file a motion for a speedy trial. This is kind of a high risk maneuver because once you file a motion for speedy trial, then usually prosecutors won't negotiate any type of plea agreement after that. They're ready to go to trial, right? That's what they have their eyes set on. But, it also forces the issue, you've gotta be tried within two terms of court of when you file that motion.

Long and short of it is, it's far past time to make the entire republican party illegal, just as Germany with the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

May reason rule.

Ford_Prefect

(7,817 posts)
7. Separation of Powers and Prior Restraint have no meaning under GA constitution???
Tue Mar 7, 2023, 12:16 PM
Mar 2023

IMO it seems that GA is trying hard to catch up to FLA in the race to the Neo-Fascist New Age.

onenote

(42,374 posts)
9. Here's a link to the bill.
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 12:29 AM
Mar 2023
https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/63985

This is the Georgia House bill. The Georgia Senate bill is quite similar.

One difference -- under the House bill, a complaint against a district attorney cannot be filed prior to April 1, 2024. Under the Senate version, the earliest a complaint can be filed is July 1, 2024.

Why the delay? In part because once the bill is signed into law there are a number of steps related to its implementation, including (1 ) the appointment by the State Supreme court of the members of the new Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission, which will consist of a five-person investigative panel and a three person hearing panel and which is supposed to occur by October 1, 2023, and ( 2) the promulgation by the two panels of standards of conduct and rules for the commission's governance, which will not take effect until reviewed and adopted by the State Supreme Court.
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