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2018 Georgia Code 17-20-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 17-20-1 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 17-20-1

TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 20. Identification Procedures for Live Lineups, Photo Lineups, and Showups, 17-20-1 through 17-20-3.

ARTICLE 2 MISDEMEANOR CASES

17-20-1. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the term:

  1. "Fillers" means individuals who are not suspects.
  2. "Law enforcement agency" means a governmental unit of one or more individuals employed full time or part time by the state, a state agency or department, or a political subdivision which performs as its principal function activities relating to preventing and detecting crime and enforcing state laws or local ordinances, employees of which unit are authorized to make arrests for crimes while acting within the scope of their authority.
  3. "Live lineup" means an identification procedure in which a suspect and fillers are displayed in person to a witness.
  4. "Photo lineup" means an identification procedure in which a photograph of a suspect and photographs of fillers are displayed to a witness, either in hard copy form or via computer.
  5. "Showup" means an identification procedure in which a witness is presented with a single individual.
  6. "Suspect" means the individual believed by law enforcement to be the possible perpetrator of an alleged crime.
  7. "Witness" means an individual who observes an alleged crime.

(Code 1981, §17-20-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1046, § 4/SB 94.)

Law reviews.

- For article on the 2015 enactment of this chapter, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 79 (2015). For annual survey on criminal law, see 68 Mercer L. Rev. 93 (2016).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Criminal defendant's age or height as factor in determination of whether circumstances of witness's identification of defendant in photographic array shown by police to witness were impermissibly suggestive as matter of federal constitutional law, 102 A.L.R.6th 365.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 17-20-1 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 4

Eleby v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2024-06-11

Snippet: 5 We note that, with the adoption of OCGA §§ 17-20-1 through 17-20-3, “the Georgia General Assembly

Curry v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2019-02-04

Citation: 823 S.E.2d 758, 305 Ga. 73

Snippet: chapter in the Criminal Procedure Code, OCGA §§ 17-20-1 through 17-20-3, effective July 1, 2016, which

Smith v. Northside Hospital, Inc.

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2017-11-02

Citation: 302 Ga. 517, 807 S.E.2d 909

Snippet: of Ed. for City of Atlanta, *530214 Ga. App. 17, 20 (1) (a) (447 SE2d 78) (1994) (records of school bus

Arnold v. Richardson

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1968-03-07

Citation: 224 Ga. 181, 160 S.E.2d 809, 1968 Ga. LEXIS 705

Snippet: a decision.” Patterson v. Patterson, 208 Ga. 17, 20 (1) (64 SE2d 585). In the instant case the language