July 2015

Out-of-court statements admissible to show reasonable grounds to believe suspect had been lawfully arrested for DUI.

Petitioner challenged the suspension of his driver’s license because the stop of his vehicle was unsupported by in-court testimony.  The arresting officer’s testimony regarding the statements of the stopping officer, Petitioner argued, was hearsay, and therefore inadmissible to support the validity of the stop.   However, the Court concluded that even assuming that the validity of […]

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Former county commissioner’s retirement benefits reduced for public employment related crime.

A former county commissioner‘s retirement benefits were reduced after pleading guilty to accepting a bribe and violating his oath of office.  Pursuant to Georgia law, the former commissioner’s benefits were reduced by an amount to three times the economic impact of his abuse of governmental office.

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Nursing Home Medicaid resource limit must be raised to allow for maintenance of community spouse.

The State is required pursuant to the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act to increase the resource limit for nursing home Medicaid where doing so would enable a nursing home resident’s non-institutionalized (or “community”) spouse to meet a monthly maintenance needs allowance, the amount of income necessary to assure that the community spouse had sufficient income available

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