Legal Opinion
D. B. v. Clarke County Board of Education
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 23, 1996No. A95A2247PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Judge.
In this case of first impression in Georgia, we are called upon to decide whether a 12-year-old student may lawfully be expelled permanently from a county’s public schools.
The facts are not in dispute. D. B. was found in possession of a knife on school property after a fight in which she stabbed another student. After an administrative disciplinary hearing, D. B. was expelled permanently from all public schools in Clarke County. Be cause the audiotape of the disciplinary hearing was undecipherable, the Clarke County Board of Education did not review the record of that hearing.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Plyler v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- McDaniel v. ThomasSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
- Bedingfield v. ParkersonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1956
- Keever v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
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3Cited by14 opinions
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