[quote][b]H.A.W.[/b] - Getting upset over the Sheriff checking footage of the courthouse security cameras is ridiculous considering security of the courthouse is a duty mandated upon the Sheriff by state law.
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Not really. The courthouse "belongs" to the county commissioners. They could hire county police or private security to provide security if they chose to do so.

The security cameras belong to the county commissioners.

[quote][b]SilencedBlue15[/b] - @The Oracle of the Athens Banner Herald: Please direct me to the law or laws regulating the service of criminal subpoena's specifically.
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As a general rule there is no difference is serving a subpoena for a civil or criminal matter. The clerk of the court in which the matter is pending issues the subpoena (the judge can too of course, but typically does not). I don't have time to look up the specific statutes right now, but a brief search should turn them up. The clerk's office can probably point you in the right direction.

The due process issue arises because the ADDA is essentially functioning as a private corporation enforcing the parking regulations through a contract with the city. The ADDA is using the police power of the state to enforce what is essentially a private debt.

The ADDA is acting as judge, jury and executioner when it comes to booting. Citizens are being deprived of their property with no recourse. The citizens are being deprived of their property because of debt owed to a quasi-public corporation. This is why the conduct of the ADDA is suspect on due process grounds. You can be hauling a trunk load of cocaine, and if your automobile is seized by the police, you still have the opportunity to go to court and contest the seizure.

The red light cameras faced the same dilemma. Depspite all the hoopla, the cameras are operted by a private corporation, and the "fines" are a private debt to that corporation. The "criminal" can entirely blow them off with no consequences.

[quote][b]SilencedBlue15[/b] - @STATE OF DENIAL: OCGA 9-11-4
In part:
"Process shall be served by the sheriff of the county where the action is brought or where the defendant is found, or by his deputy, or by the marshal or sheriff of the court, or by his deputy, or by any citizen of the United States specially appointed by the court for that purpose or by someone who is not a party and is not younger than 18 years of age and has been appointed as a permanent process server by the court in which the action is brought. Where the service of process is made outside of the United States, after an order of publication, it may be served either by any citizen of the United States or by any resident of the country, territory, colony, or province who is specially appointed by the court for that purpose. When service is to be made within this state, the person making such service shall make the service within five (5) days from the time of receiving the summons and complaint; but failure to make service within the five-day period will not invalidate a later service."
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Service of "process" is not the same as service of a subpoena.

[quote][b]STATE OF DENIAL[/b] - served on the officer."
ANYONE
Will Registered Mail or Certified Mail work for service.
Need answer PDQ.
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Yes.

Anyone over the age of 18 can serve a subpoena, they just have to make a return and file it with the court.

What gets tricky is that there are certain costs that have to be tendered at the time of service if the witness lives outside the county where he is to appear.

As far as serving the PD, a person can designate another person to receive service. Subpoenas for ACCPD are left with a clerical person, and the service is valid, and recognized by the courts. The alternative is to disclose the officer's work schedule, or home address, which the PD does not want to do. If is very rare for an ACCPD officer to not show up in court if he or she has been subpoenaed. That includes civil matters, where the PD has no direct interest.

[quote][b]STATE OF DENIAL[/b] - served on the officer."
ANYONE
Will Registered Mail or Certified Mail work for service.
Need answer PDQ.
Tks[/quote]

Yes.

Anyone over the age of 18 can serve a subpoena, they just have to make a return and file it with the court.

What gets tricky is that there are certain costs that have to be tendered at the time of service if the witness lives outside the county where he is to appear.

As far as serving the PD, a person can designate another person to receive service. Subpoenas for ACCPD are left with a clerical person, and the service is valid, and recognized by the courts. The alternative is to disclose the officer's work schedule, or home address, which the PD does not want to do. If is very rare for an ACCPD officer to not show up in court if he or she has been subpoenaed. That includes civil matters, where the PD has no direct interest.

When did Hawthorne get on the East Side? We have Cedar Shoals Drive, and that's enough, thank you very much.

[quote][b]CharlotteLadyGardner[/b] - I can't see a 90 year old man and two women in their 60s moving a stump large enough to block a door. [/quote]

Agreed. Having moved more than my fair share of stumps, I'm saying he had some other equipment.

[quote]class the friend immediately confronted him with an accusation he had stoles money from his car,[/quote]

I'd slap the living whatever out of any friend who accused me of "stoles" anything.

And yet, if you want to establish a feral cat colony, full of disease ridden vermin, you don't have to let the neighbors know at all.

oh, the irony.

I wonder how many of inspections of feral cat colonies the county has conducted since the ordinance was passed.

[quote] Authorities have said Crozier was riding with his lights and siren on when he crashed into a vehicle [\quote]

I don't think so. Boy, is the AP getting bad about publishing correct information. I suppose the ABH just blindly slaps it up.

[quote] prole violation [/quote]

What's that? He didn't unite and throw off his shackles?

[quote][b]webbty80[/b] - Ahhh yes another murder in Southwest DeKalb. The gangs,druggies, dealers, and the common thug could have done it.
Another interesting fact about Southwest DeKalb is the amount of convicted child molesters that are living in Southwest DeKalb .
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I grew up in that area, and it's not even close to Southwest Dekalb.

[quote][b]2dollar[/b] - Where on Barnett Shoals? That's a very long road that starts on Lexington and ends in Watkinsville. Inquiring minds want to know.
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What he said.

It's a long and winding road.

Just for the record, I've read the bill. IT DOES NOT EXEMPT SALES BETWEEN PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS.

Read the bill yourself. Sales between private individuals other than relatives HAVE TO GO through a FFL. AND the FFL must keep all of the information for both parties, PLUS the attorney general is given the authority to promulgate regualatuions. There is nothing in the bill that prohibits the AG from requiring the info be sent to him (central gun registry).

The AP keeps repeating this and the ABH keeps publishing it, even though it is patently untrue.

Seante Bill 629. Read it.

[quote]Currently, the checks are required only for sales through licensed gun dealers[/quote]

This is simply wrong.

In particluar, almost all so called "internet sales" are subject to background checks.

As are most sales at the much feared "gun shows."

Just to be clear, the vast majority of Herod's students, and almost all of Girtz's students could not carry guns under any circumstances.

Secondy, a licensed gun bearer can carry the weapon of his choice down Baldwin, Jackson, Lumpkin, Baxter, and other public streets. To criminalize a lawful licensed citizen because he steps off a public sidewalk onto campus is absurd.

Thirdly, a licensed person can carry a gun onto campus, as long as they secure it in their car, and can carry it on their person if they are engaged in certain school related activities (picking up and dropping of a student). Again, it's basically absurd to criminalize a law abiding license citizen for the simple act of stopping his vehicle and getting out.

[quote][b]The Peoples Elbow[/b] - @10-8 10-41: Case in point. Who is David Gilstrap?
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Oconee County deputy who was hit and killed while directing traffic for school.

[quote][b]skull[/b] - I wonder just how much info the bar's employees will volunteer, seeing as to how their employer is likely to be sued in the near future. Nevertheless,I hope they cooperate fully.
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Unlikely, as sthere is no Dram Shop law in Georgia.

In any event, a subpoena to testify before a grand jury has a wonderful capacity to focus the recollective facilities.

[quote][b]Tewise[/b] -
I thought you could kill as many coyotes as you wanted.
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24/7/365

One reason for reducing the number of doe days is that recent research has indicated that coyotes target fawns in the late spring. This has caused the recruitment rate in some areas to approach or drop below 1, meaning that a doe's offspring do not live to replace her in the herd, resulting in a decrease in the overall number in the herd.

Of course, at one tiome DNR assured us that coyotes would never have an impact on the deer herd.

[quote][b]whatsthepoint[/b] - Instead of reducing hunting days, why not cut the season bag limits. You could take 12 in 2012. Drop it to 8 and leave the season itself alone.
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ABH (Morris NEWS Service) has the story about as wrong as it can be.

What DNR is ACUTALLY proposing is to reduce the number of DOE DAYS by 25. The length of THE SEASON will remain the same as will the BAG LIMIT, which is currently a total of 12. In much of north and middle Georgia, every day of the season is a doe day, and this will be reduced by 25 days, from the end of Nov. until Christmas--bucks will still be legal to hunt these 25 days.. People old enough will remember that deer season had this schedule for years and years.

To "whats the point" -- Rules for deer hunting are set by both DNR and the legislature. The length of the season, and the total bag (12) are written into law by the legislature. DNR can administratively set number of days each sex may be hunted. So it would literally take an act of the legislature to shorten the season. DNR would probably like to reduce the overall limit, but does not have the authority to do so, so it is doing the best that it can within the powers granted to it.

Bet you never see a correction in the ABH.

BTW. the matter has not been settled and comments are being taken by DNR, which you can do electronically.

[quote]Currently, federal law does not enforce background checks for gun sales between private individuals, such as at gun shows, between friends, or between private citizens on the Internet.[/quote]

This statement is flat out wrong by not completely stating what is the law. At one time you would expect the ABH to publish a correction about something that is so blatantly wrong, but alas and alack, those days are gone. You can count on this misstatement in every article on the subject that is published in the near future.

Do what the principal at my high school used to do for me and my brother -- send us home and let our father deal with it.

I love Oconee Hills cemetery and all that, but for years, the Sexton has made a big deal of it being "private property", and running off any one who was a visitor.

So why is public money being spent on an "assessment" of private property, and what is being "assessed." It is after all, still an active cemetery.

I can point out several private but abandoned cemeteries in ACC that are much more in need of "assessment,"

[quote][b]CharlotteLadyGardner[/b] - Why didn't the owner call 911 ? [/quote]

Why didn't the owner load his shotgun?

Stupid is as stupid does.

Some people are just too f"ing dumb to have nice nice things.