Publication Date: 2022-02-07
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Colvin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. Benjamin Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Mark Patrick Higgins, Jr., Herbert McIntosh Poston, Jr., (Conasauga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Dalton, for appellee; Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Kimberly A. Dymecki, Peachtree Corners, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (Paulding County Public Defender's Office), Dallas, for Amicus Appellant; Omeeka P. Loggins, (Augusta-Richmond County Solicitor General's Office), Augusta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., Gilbert Alexander Crosby, (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Neutral Amicus; Andrew Alan Pinson, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
Case Number: S21G0370
Court determines that evidence of a defendant's refusal to submit a urine sample is inadmissible because admission violates the right against compelled self-incrimination