Photo: bluraz – stock.adobe.com Speedy Trial Deadlines Remain on Pause in Metro Atlanta's Fulton, DeKalb and Cobb Counties
The Statewide Judicial Emergency expired June 30 but individual circuits have the discretion to retain suspended deadlines. Three metro circuits will continue to toll speedy trial deadlines, while others have opted to keep them in place.
July 08, 2021 at 06:07 PM
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Criminal Law
The statewide Judicial Emergency now-retired Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton enacted expired June 30 but, with concern about the spread of new and particularly contagious COVID-19 variants growing, several metro Atlanta area courts have pushed back the dates by which criminal cases involving defendants who have filed speedy trial demands must be tried.
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