On behalf of Jeffrey E. Johnston | Mar 27, 2019 | Criminal Defense, Firm News
A judge has ruled that police violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of rapper Jeffery Lamar Williams when they pulled his Mercedes-Benz Maybach over in October 2017. The March 21 ruling means that the drugs, cash and weapons allegedly found in the...
On behalf of Jeffrey E. Johnston | Mar 20, 2019 | Firm News, Personal Injury
Distracted driving can be dangerous on Georgia roads and others throughout the country. In the time it takes to read a single text message, a vehicle traveling at 55 miles per hour will cover the length of a football field. Further research indicates that drivers who...
On behalf of Jeffrey E. Johnston | Mar 19, 2019 | Firm News
Grandparents, babysitters, siblings and friends may remember the days when there weren’t any laws about how you transported your children in a vehicle.However, today, Georgia has very specific rules about how old a child must be before he or she can ditch a...
On behalf of Jeffrey E. Johnston | Mar 12, 2019 | Criminal Defense, Firm News
A report published in the academic peer-reviewed journal Crime & Delinquency suggests that a sharp rise in the number of young people taken into custody in Georgia and around the country is the result of more rigorous law enforcement. Researchers from the RAND...
On behalf of Jeffrey E. Johnston | Mar 7, 2019 | Criminal Defense, Firm News
A Georgia man has been taken into custody in connection with the murder of a 55-year-old woman. On Jan. 25, someone phoned the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office at around 7 a.m. with a report that a body was in the grass by a road. After investigators sent the...
