Andrew Fleischman

Andrew Fleischman

March 07, 2022 | Daily Report Online

This Is the Year for a Wrongful Conviction Compensation Law

But often left by the wayside are those people who have been wronged by the law itself—those who find themselves arrested, or even convicted, of crimes they did not commit and who, for decades, have simply been released without compensation.

By Andrew Fleischman

4 minute read

June 22, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Ga. Needs a Better Process for Compensating the Wrongfully Convicted

"If we want to be a state where justice is done, we must do more than simply release the wrongfully convicted," an appellate lawyer writes.

By Andrew Fleischman

5 minute read

March 08, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Georgia's Murder Laws Are a Mess

As if all this weren't bad enough, the sole exception we make to this broad rule, under which intent is never required to prove a murder, is almost exclusively for men who murder their wives and girlfriends out of sexual jealousy.

By Andrew Fleischman

4 minute read

January 05, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Trump's Phone Call Was Neither a Secret Nor a Crime

Just as many crimes are not immoral, many immoral things are not crimes.

By Andrew Fleischman

6 minute read

December 02, 2020 | Daily Report Online

Why Georgia's 'Kraken' Lawsuit Is Doomed 

Millions of people followed the law and voted. And now, these suits seek to strip those people of their right to vote without a shred of due process and to nullify the results of the election and declare the loser the winner.

By Andrew Fleischman

5 minute read

May 10, 2019 | Daily Report Online

Abortion Ban's 'Personhood' Problem Leads to Murky Prosecutorial Discretion

Prosecutors aren't angels, and a promise to use a statute responsibly isn't as reassuring as a textual basis to restrict the state's power to prosecute.

By Andrew Fleischman

6 minute read