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Georgia Crimes and Defenses is a landmark treatise on substantive criminal law in Georgia, combining several practical resources for criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, and judges. The 500-page volume analyzes the elements of over 100 crimes in the Georgia code including – homicides, assaults, kidnapping, thefts, controlled substance offenses, motor vehicle offenses, property crimes, sex offenses, computer offenses and more. The Treatise provides insight into possible defenses, lesser included offenses, and a catalogue of hundreds of appellate decisions that hold that insufficient evidence supported the conviction in the most frequently prosecuted offenses.
Publisher: Matthew Bender
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The latest 2026 edition of Georgia Crimes and Defenses examines the state of Georgia’s entire substantive criminal law in one easy-to-use treatise. This treatise summarizes all Georgia criminal offenses and provides in-depth analysis of the caselaw interpreting those crimes. Full treatment is also given to the defenses often raised in criminal cases.
Georgia Crimes and Defenses focuses primarily on the Georgia Criminal Code (Title 16) and those defenses that can be raised. The texts of that statute are reproduced in its entirety, explaining the exact wording and nature of the law highlighting significant changes made by recent legislation. This also includes discussion and summary of important cases concerning the applicability of the law as well as the construction or constitutionality of the statute.
With references to leading and related cases, and authoritative guidance on the substantive law, Georgia Crimes and Defenses provides all analytical content that makes a treatise valuable and easy to use. This treatise covers both the elements of substantive criminal law as well as the defenses that will negate any of these necessary elements which must be met for a criminal prosecution in Georgia. Each chapter combines authoritative legal analysis with an expert author’s practical insights, distilled from years of litigation practice and judicial service.
The previous edition's ISBN is 9798341703896.
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