Legal Opinion
In re C. P.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 5, 2001No. S01A0748PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Benham, Justice.
C. P., age 14, is the subject of a petition filed in juvenile court alleging C. P. is a delinquent/unruly child1 because C. P. is unmarried and engaged in an act of sexual intercourse in a stall in a restroom in a local high school. C. P. sought to quash the petition on two grounds: that the petition failed to set out a specific violation of Georgia law in that the fornication statute underlying the petition, OCGA § 16-6-18, *600is an unconstitutional violation of a citizen’s “liberty of privacy” (1983 Ga. Const., Art. I, Sec. I, Par. I); and that it is unconstitutional to use as…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Pavesich v. New England Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
- Powell v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998
- Miller v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
- Howard v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2000
- Wylie v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Johnson v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2005
- In re J. M.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2003
- In Re CPSupreme Court of Georgia · 2001
- In Re JMSupreme Court of Georgia · 2003