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Primary area of interest Law360 (June 9, 2021, 3:55 PM EDT)
An order from the Georgia Supreme Court is lifting the Statewide Judicial Emergency that has been in place at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of June.
The Eleventh Circuit has dropped its face mask and social distancing requirements for court visitors who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, while planning to resume in-person hearings in June.
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May 11, 2021
According to the Supreme Court of Georgia, Chief Justice Harold D. Melton recently signed an order extending the Statewide Judicial Emergency for 30 days.
Under an order signed by Chief Justice Harold D. Melton, on Friday, May 14, deadlines will be reimposed on prosecutors for presenting cases to the grand jury involving detained adults and juveniles. The order is the 14th the Chief Justice has signed that extends for 30 days the Statewide Judicial Emergency he first declared in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
State law requires that any adult who is arrested for a crime and refused bail must have the charges presented to a grand jury within 90 days of the person’s confinement; for any juvenile charged with such a serious crime that the case is under the jurisdiction of a superior court rather than juvenile court, the deadline for presenting the case is 180 days from the juvenile’s detention. Throughout the pandemic, those deadlines