If you are unable to afford a lawyer, you can apply for a public defender. Georgia's Indigent Defense Act provides public defenders for indigent...

Your boyfriend could be prosecuted at least for statutory rape, perhaps additional crimes or even something more serious, depending on the...

There may be some options for your boyfriend. IF your boyfriend’s plea counsel gave him incorrect advice about the parole consequences of his plea,...

After what stage the case from a state supreme court can be forwarded to the US Supreme Court?

As a purely technical matter, you can Petition the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of a state’s...

Yes, sex with you biological or half sister is incest, which is a felony.

Can I (a 15-year-old turning 16 in April) legally date, hang out with, my 17-year-old (turning 18 in January) boyfriend?

To start, it depends on what you mean by dating. There is no law against the two of you spendings time together with your parents’ consent. The...

I'm not exactly clear on what you're saying. It seems, though, that your lawyer and the prosecutor agreed that your original sentence was void,...

That sounds dubious to me. You cannot be arraigned until you have been formally charged. And while some offense can be charged by citation...

I'm not clear what you’re saying. If two convictions merged, there is only one conviction on which the court could impose a sentence. That said, a...

If the prosecutor's office with authority to charge an offense has passed on it, the case is generally over because prosecutors have discretion...