The defense of insanity in Georgia is defined by the Georgia Code as: “A person shall not be found guilty of a crime if, at the time of the act, omission, or negligence constituting the crime, the person did not have mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong in relation to such act, ...

Adrienne Satterly has been accused of setting her house on fire and consequently burning 20 other houses in Paulding County. Satterly is facing fourteen counts of first-degree arson. According to the reports, Satterly had just lost her house in a recent divorce, and her response was to set a larg...

Cobb County deputies are on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver who hit a 6-year-old boy, Jack Ford. On Sunday, Jack was walking across the crosswalk behind his family in Marietta. The driver allegedly illegally passed the stopped traffic on the wrong side of the road and hit him in the crosswal...

Residents in a Hall County neighborhood made an to authorities this weekend when they noticed one of their neighbors behaving abnormally. An ambulance came for Wendall Gregory Armour, taking him to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for a psychological evaluation according to Hall County deputies. ...

Last week, Christian Hobby pled guilty to aggravated assault, aggravated battery, felony obstruction, aggravated assault on a peace officer, misdemeanor obstruction, giving false information, aggravated stalking, and child cruelty. These convictions came a year after the charges he received last ...

A top-rated Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyer is well-experienced in utilizing the strategy of lesser included offenses in Georgia. This means that the attorney will prove that the defendant or charged person should be convicted of a lesser included offense. If proven successfully, the outcome is a...

An unidentified woman matched with a man on Tinder last week. She usually checks her online dating app matches by doing a light online search. She did the same with him only to find that he was wanted in the state of Texas for kidnapping his daughter. The woman just happened to be at a restaurant...

On Monday, a carjacker hopped out of a cargo space in an SUV while a woman was driving. He then proceeded to push her out of her own vehicle and steal the SUV. Before the incident, the woman, Martha Cargill, reportedly left her home in Decatur and dropped her daughter off at school. She, then, go...

Timothy Burnette, a former Oconee High School custodian, was arrested on January 11 after police were notified of the crimes reported by school officials. Burnette was allegedly filming high school girls while they were changing in the locker room with his cell phone. On Wednesday, he was indicte...

Adrien Broner, a word-title holding, professional boxer was arrested at Lenox Mall in Atlanta on Monday. A woman reported that she was “inappropriately groped” by a man; police later identified him as Broner. Broner was arrested on a sexual battery charge and taken to Fulton County jail. He was r...

Rule 22 was originally written in 1985 - it has finally been updated. The amended Rule 22 will go into effect on May 1 of this year. The Georgia Supreme Court approved of changes to Rule 22 that are the products of years of study, debate, and discussion. The revision is a result of technological,...

A woman in Fayette County woke up to a man in her kitchen at 11:15pm on January 25th. He was allegedly snacking on peanuts and cakes. He then proceeded to thank her for keeping him warm and walked out of her house. She noticed that all the lights were on in her home and a pair of muddy slippers w...

UGA business student, Michael Williams, hacked into one of his professors accounts to change his grades. Williams is not only a student at UGA but also an employee for UGAs technology services. Warrants were obtained against Williams earlier this week, and he surrendered on Wednesday.  Accordi...

Recently, Ive written blogs about certain crimes where people are being charged with offenses involving their conduct with law enforcement officers. These are known as crimes against public administration in Georgia. Lets focus on a few of them. Obstruction  This is a charge Ive written a lo...

Last April, a traffic stop in Gwinnett County of Demetrius Hollins, 21-year-old African American man, led to the arrest of two Gwinnett County Police Officers. The arrest was videoed and posted on social media, and as a result, the two arresting officers were arrested. The videos show Master Offi...

The case is now in the hands of the Athens-Clarke County Juvenile Court as of last Friday afternoon. A sexual encounter, between a 16-year-old male student and a 15-year-old female student, was recorded on a surveillance video in a school stairwell at Clarke Central High School. Although the enco...

Yesterday, I wrote about an arrest of two people charged with fifteen counts of identity fraud in Hoschton, Georgia. As a result of the steady increase of identity theft and fraud in Georgia, Id like to focus on the differences between identity fraud in Georgia and aggravated identity fraud in G...

Tiffany Allen and Antonio Sanders were charged with sixteen counts of theft by receiving, fifteen counts of identity fraud, six counts of theft by taking, one count of third-degree forgery, and one count of giving a false statement to law enforcement after stealing mail from mailboxes last week i...

The Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Camilla, Georgia was set on fire last Tuesday morning. There is estimated to be more than $100,000 in damages as a result of the fire. Two days later, Kentrez Gardner confessed to setting the fire and has been charged with first-degree arson and burglar...

Cobb County attorney, Richard Merritt, was disbarred this last week after admitting to pocketing $75,000 of his clients settlement suit. He was arrested later in the week on separate charges including felony elder abuse, theft, exploitation, and check fraud. The Cobb County Sheriffs Office and...

The Lawrenceville police found Eugene Singletary unresponsive and wounded on the pavement of the Villa Inns parking lot on January 22, 2018. They transported him to a nearby hospital, but his gunshot wound proved to be fatal. Kelly Sanders was arrested the next day on charges of felony murder, t...

First things first - lets do a quick run through on probation. Probation in Georgia is an alternative for convicted people to satisfy a jail or prison sentence out of custody meaning outside of jail or prison. These include misdemeanor and felony convictions. Probation sentences can last anywher...

In January 2018, citizens watched Georgia lose to Alabama in the National Championship, multiple snow days, and numerous criminal incidents. Some of the events include:  On January 9th, 2018, a Gilmer County Sheriffs deputy was arrested on rape charges. Sergeant Greg McClure faces sodomy and ag...

Last Friday morning around 2:30 AM, Georgia State Troopers clocked a white BMW speeding at 107MPH on Interstate 85 South. The officer began to pull the car over, but that started a high-speed chase. The BMW took the 17th Street exit into Midtown Atlanta and continued south on Northside Drive. Aft...

According to an Alpharetta police report from January 15, 2018, Kimberly Harvey allegedly shoplifted from stores in North Point Mall, and when asked to stop repeatedly by police, she kept walking away. Harvey is a 24-year-old woman from Stone Mountain. She led the Alpharetta cops on a short chase...