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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 15. COURTS · Chapter 11. JUVENILE CODE · Article 6. DELINQUENCY · Part 8. PREADJUDICATION PROCEDURES

15-11-542. Motion to compel discovery; limitations; sanctions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    If a request for discovery is refused, application may be made to the court for a written order granting discovery.#

  2. (b)

    Motions to compel discovery shall certify that a request for discovery was made and was refused.#

  3. (c)

    An order granting discovery shall require reciprocal discovery.#

  4. (d)

    The court may deny, in whole or in part, or otherwise limit or set conditions concerning discovery upon sufficient showing by a person or entity to whom a request for discovery is made that disclosure of the information would:#

    1. (1)

      Jeopardize the safety of a party, witness, or confidential informant;#

    2. (2)

      Create a substantial threat of physical or economic harm to a witness or other person;#

    3. (3)

      Endanger the existence of physical evidence;#

    4. (4)

      Disclose privileged information; or#

    5. (5)

      Impede the criminal prosecution of a child who is being prosecuted as an adult or the prosecution of an adult charged with an offense arising from the same transaction or occurrence.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 15-11-542, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 294, § 1-1/HB 242.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t15-ch1-11a-(v13)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V13, 2020 edition, pages 1231 to 1232; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1f1f034443c3.