The Supreme Court of Georgia upheld a judge’s decision to admit conversations the defendant had with an attorney who he was trying to hire. Rogers v. State, S11A0659. While in jail awaiting trial, Rogers placed a telephone call to his girlfriend. The girlfriend then created a three-way call to an attorney. During the conversation Rogers made statements that were introduced as evidence against him at trial.

A middle school student in Georgia was suspended after telling his teacher he accidentally brought a small knife to school.The 13-year-old boy is serving a four-day, in-school suspension because he found a small pocket knife inside this backpack that he got as a gift for Christmas.  His aunt bought the bag at a yard sale. The boy brought the knife to school by accident and reported it immediately to a teacher.   

A mother facing deportation feared she would be beaten or killed for trying to stop her daughter from genital mutilation in Senegal. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit directed the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider the mother’s application to stay in the United States.

MARQUEL’S PLEDGE is a community campaign to reduce celebratory gunfire in DeKalb County and throughout Georgia.  This initiative was conceived following the death of Marquel Peters on New Year's Day 2010.  As he sat next to his mother, 4-year-old Marquel Peters was struck and killed in church by a bullet believed to have been fired by a New Year’s Eve reveler.  The stray bullet came through the roof of the sanctuary of the Church of God of Prophecy and struck Marquel in the top of his head.

A defendant who at age 14 attacked and robbed a woman stealing her car and money from her purse claimed that the 30 year prison sentence without parole he received was cruel and unusual.  Middleton v. State, A11A1558.