HB 87 - Law enforcement officers; arrest; revise certain provisions

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Current Status

01/16/09 - House Second Readers

First Reader Summary

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 17 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to arrest by law enforcement officers generally, so as to revise certain provisions relating to the duty of an arresting officer to take an arrested person before a judicial officer and the lack of a right of the accused to select a judicial officer before whom he or she shall be tried; to provide that a custodian of the arrested person may perform such duty; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Status History

Bill History
DateAction
01/15/2009House First Readers
01/16/2009House Second Readers

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