On behalf of Frye Law Group, LLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Juvenile Crimes
In the 2012 case of Miller v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to sentence juvenile offenders to mandatory life sentences without the possibility of patrol. Such sentences, the court held, constitute cruel and unusual punishment. One reason is...
On behalf of Frye Law Group, LLC | Mar 18, 2019 | Sex Crimes
The Georgia Supreme Court recently issued a unanimous ruling that a law that required lifetime GPS monitoring of certain convicted sex offenders is unconstitutional. The high court ruled that the law violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches...
On behalf of Frye Law Group, LLC | Mar 12, 2019 | Criminal Defense
A pair of experiments presented at the recent annual meeting of the prestigious American Academy of Forensic Sciences demonstrated what could be serious limitations in crime scene DNA. We tend to think of DNA as being transferred to objects only after significant...
