Legal Opinion
Burns v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 8, 2022No. S21A0905PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
313 Ga. 368
FINAL COPY S21A0905. BURNS v. THE STATE. COLVIN, Justice. In September 2018, a Fulton County grand jury returned an indictment charging James Burns, a police officer with the Atlanta Police Department, with crimes connected to a June 2016 on-duty shooting. Burns filed a “Plea in Abatement/Motion to Quash Indictment” arguing that the State failed to provide him his substantive rights under former OCGA §§ 17-7-52 and 45-11-4. The trial court denied the motion. We granted Burns’s application for an interlocutory appeal to review whether the 2016 amendments to OCGA §§ 17-7-52 and…
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