Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 8. TRIAL · Article 3. CONDUCT OF PROCEEDINGS

17-8-53. Exclusion of public from courtroom when evidence vulgar or obscene.

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During a trial in a court of any case in which the evidence is vulgar and obscene or relates to the improper acts of the sexes, and tends to debauch the morals of the young, the presiding judge shall have the right in his discretion and on his own motion, or on motion of a party or his attorney, to hear and try the case after clearing the courtroom of all or any portion of the audience.

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

Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 111, § 1; Ga. L. 1895, p. 49, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 5296; Civil Code 1910, § 5885; Code 1933, § 81-1006.

Cross references

Corresponding provision relating to civil procedure, § 9-10-3. Exclusion of public from hearings involving determination of delinquency, deprivation, or unruliness of minors, § 15-11-700.

Law reviews

For review of 1996 legislation relating to filming or videotaping in the courtroom, see 13 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 83 (1996).

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