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2018 Georgia Code 15-7-42 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 7. State Courts of Counties, 15-7-1 through 15-7-85.

ARTICLE 3 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

15-7-42. Prosecution for misdemeanors; trials on merits conducted in open court; proceedings allowed in chambers.

  1. The prosecution of misdemeanors may proceed by accusation as provided in Code Section 17-7-71, citation or citation and arrest as provided for by law, or summons.
  2. All trials on the merits shall be conducted in open court and, so far as convenient, in a regular courtroom.
  3. All other proceedings, hearings, and acts not included in subsection (b) of this Code section may be done or conducted by a judge in chambers and in the absence of the clerk or other court officials. The judge of the court may hear motions and enter interlocutory orders, in all cases pending in the court over which he or she presides, in open court or in chambers.

(Code 1981, §15-7-42, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1419, § 2; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 15; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 2-2/SB 407.)

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, added subsection (a); designated the existing provisions as subsections (b) and (c); and, in subsection (c), inserted "not included in subsection (b) of this Code section" in the middle of the first sentence and inserted "or she" near the end of the last sentence.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

When defendant not entitled to be present.

- Court was unaware of any authority to support a right of a defendant to be present when a judge commits the judge's decision to writing or instructs counsel to prepare an order; state court practice and procedure permits the judge to hear motions, enter interlocutory orders, and perform judicial acts and conduct proceedings, other than trials on the merits, in chambers. Pfeiffer v. State, 173 Ga. App. 374, 326 S.E.2d 562 (1985).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 20 Am. Jur. 2d, Courts, §§ 16, 19.

C.J.S.

- 21 C.J.S., Courts, § 166 et seq.

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