2021 Georgia Code
Title 15 - Courts
Chapter 12 - Juries
Article 4 - Grand Juries
Part 2 - Special Purpose Grand Juries
§ 15-12-102. Applicability of Part
This part shall apply only to all counties and consolidated city-county governments of this state. Except as otherwise provided by this part, Part 1 of this article shall apply to the grand juries authorized by this part.
(Code 1981, §15-12-102, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 186, § 5/HB 941.)
Editor's notes.- This Code section formerly pertained to the application of this part. The former Code section was based on Code 1933, § 59-601a, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 270, § 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 982, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 541, §§ 1, 2.
Law reviews.- For article on the 2016 enactment of this Code section, see 33 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 79 (2016).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Editor's notes.
- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions decided under former Code Section 15-12-102 are included in the annotations for this Code section.
Impact of special grand jury's overreach.
- Although the defendant established a violation of the impaneling order, which fixed the scope of the special purpose grand jury's investigative powers to county corruption, but not city, and it also constituted a violation of O.C.G.A. § 15-12-71 and former O.C.G.A. § 15-12-102, neither dismissal of the indictment nor suppression of the evidence was the proper remedy for the grand jury's overreach as no violation of the defendant's constitutional rights nor a structural defect in the grand jury process occurred. State v. Lampl, 296 Ga. 892, 770 S.E.2d 629 (2015);(decided under former O.C.G.A. § 15-12-102).
