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O.C.G.A. § 19-13-6 — Penalties | Georgia Code

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TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 13. Family Violence, 19-13-1 through 19-13-56.

ARTICLE 1 GRANTING OF RELIEF BY SUPERIOR COURTS

19-13-6. Penalties.

A violation of an order issued pursuant to this article may be punished by an action for contempt or criminally punished as provided in Article 7 of Chapter 5 of Title 16.

(Code 1981, §19-13-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 905, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 652, § 3.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Double jeopardy.

- State may not prosecute a defendant for aggravated stalking based upon the same set of facts previously used to prosecute the same defendant for a violation of a domestic violence order. Kinney v. State, 223 Ga. App. 418, 477 S.E.2d 843 (1996).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 28 C.J.S., Domestic Abuse and Violence, § 37 et seq.

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