About GLU
Welcome to Georgia Law Update. This site has been developed for the benefit of lawyers, law students, judges and anyone who is interested in Georgia criminal cases.
Georgia Law Update is a subscription website,
featuring the most
current analytical research on Georgia criminal case law available
anywhere. Georgia Law Update is written
by Judge Ben W.
Studdard of the State Court of Henry County, Georgia. Judge Studdard
reviews new decisions from the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia
Court of Appeals daily and each week adds them to his copyrighted
outline of Georgia criminal law.
Each concise case note features the central holding of the decision,
usually in an exact quote, with sufficient context to allow comparison
to other cases. Judge Studdard then adds appropriate
cross-references to other cases on the same subject, often cases
that aren’t referenced in the decisions themselves. Where appropriate,
he adds his own personal commentary. Judge Studdard also includes
pertinent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and Eleventh Circuit,
particularly in the areas of Search and Seizure and other constitutional
issues.
When you purchase an
annual subscription, you'll have access to our digest in digital format
for your reference 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The format of the
website allows you to copy and paste the case note directly into a
Microsoft Word or WordPerfect document, for easy inclusion in your brief
or order.
Georgia Law Update is updated 50 weeks per year so that
you are provided with the very latest reference materials – usually with
notes on all decisions issued through the previous Friday. It is an
extensive collection comprised of over 1600 pages of information.
It is indexed using over 1000 categorized chapters and subchapters,
designed to be intuitive for the user to locate. Navigation between
pages is easy, using the index shown on the left side of the browser
window. With just a few minutes reviewing our FAQ page and studying the
19 major subject-headings of the index, the user should be able to
quickly locate the most recent cases on any subject.
Georgia Law
Update includes cases decided since 1999, with thousands of
references to prior case law.
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for your use.
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Preface
from our Author
Georgia Law Update grew out
of annual presentations on new criminal case law to my
colleagues on the State Court bench in Georgia. Collecting
those materials, I have attempted to create a survey of
Georgia criminal law since 1999 which deals with all issues of
criminal law – substance, procedure, evidence, and
constitutional issues –
in the trial court.
My goal is to report any significant holding of every reported
criminal case from the Georgia Court of Appeals and Supreme
Court and, where applicable, the federal courts. I attempt to
concisely state those holdings, with any relevant facts, where
possible quoting from the case. The user can thus know that
the case has been accurately reported, and may be able to use
those quotes in orders, motions or briefs.
I try to make
appropriate cross-references and comparisons to cases on
related subjects (including cases which may not reference one
another.)
Issues which arise solely on appeal or on petition for habeas
corpus are beyond the scope of this work. Issues unique
to juvenile proceedings currently are beyond the scope, as are
forfeiture proceedings related to criminal prosecutions.
I am grateful to my colleagues for their kind encouragement in
this undertaking, as well as their helpful suggestions and
comments.
I am most grateful, however, to my wife Sherri for
her unfailing love and support.
---Ben W. Studdard
III, Chief Judge,
State
Court of Henry County, Georgia
Updated Weekly